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THE SEMI-WEEKIY TRIBUNE IIlA L. IMRI2, TubliBlier , Terms: $1.25 In Advance. NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES I j CONDENSED i i .... . j , : A Boiling Down of the More Impor ; (ant Events Here and There rTTTrTyTTTfTitl Foreign. "Convincing ovldenco" la tho vor diet of tho papors of London on tlio brief summary of Cominandor Poary'B voyago to tho north polo, published this morning. "Thoro Is no possibility f doubt with regard to this narrative," comments tho Westminster Qazotto, which adds: "Peary has nctually reached tho polo nnd ho scorns to havo taken tho usual precautions of having all bis work vcrlflod as ho advanced." Professor Holm of tho technical University of Drosdon is understood to havo received a tolcgram from Herbert L. Drldgtnen, secretary of tho Peary Arctic club, to tho effect that Oommandor Peary Is bringing homo thorough proofs to rofuto Dr. Cook's narrntlvc. Poary also has with him another wltnoss who will testify that Cook did not mako tho )ong Journoy described nnd that hts scientific equipment did not cpntaln an nrtinclal horizon with which to tako boarlngs. W. W. RubsoII, Am6rlcan minister, received from tho Vcnozuela foroign ofneo a chock for $59,375, which Is to bo paid to tho Now York nnd Veno zuola company. A cabio message, nsklng Amorican support for tho Swedish strlkors, was recolvod in Now York by C. E. Tholln nnd John Snudorgron, two of tholr delegates who arrived on August 24, General. Ilnrrlman, tho great railroad builder nnd financier, died at his homo nt Anion on tho 0th after a long Illness, "So far nn I am concerned, lot tho war go on." This was tho laughing roply of Becrotary of tho Interior Hnlllngcr when pressed for an ex pression of opinion aa to how long ho thought tho controversy in Wash ington regarding tho conservation policy of tho Interior department would continue Gonornl Jnmos Shnckolford, a horo of tho Mexican war and prominent in tho south, died at his summer cot tago In Port Huron, Mich. ur. v. is.. I'oarsonB announced a gift of $100,000 to tho Uoroa, Ky., college providing tho trustcos of that Institution ralso $100,000 moro, Tho long ponding controversy bo tweon tho Southern Pacific Railroad company and tho govornmont of tho United States relative to tho right of tho road to select Indemnity lnnda within tho limits of tho old Atlantic nnd Pacific railroad grant will bo de termined by the supremo court of tho United Statos It a suit tiled by tho railroad company in that court re ccutly roaches n final iasuo thoro. Cook, tho explorer, says: "Lot skopMcs who dlubllovo go to tlfo north pole. Thoro they will find a small brass tubo which I burled under tho ting. That tubo contains a short stutc ment about my trip, I couldn't lonvo my visiting card bocauso I didn't hap' pon to havo ono with mo." Tho intorstnto commorco commla Olon Is to tako nn early appeal from Uo ruling In tho Missouri rato casa Thoro iss political unrest In tho northwest ovor tho now tariff law. Governmental oxpondlturos nro still running higher than receipts. Mrs. Morrlnm Colbort Hurrls, wife of Bishop Harris of tho MothodUt Episcopal cjmrch, dlod at hor homo Jn Toklo. Tho Htntonvont Is credited to Santn Fo official that his road will build no moro lines in Oklahoma un in tuo Btnto jaws uro rovisod so as to make it possible. Tho Btnto department is watching political events In Moxlco with some concorn. King Frcdorlck of Donmnrk is bollovor in Dr. Cook's claim that ho discovered tho north polo. Prealdont Taft is expected to talk en tho subsidy In his Journey through the west. Tho Coponhngou correspondent of tho Dally Tologrnph statos that a lot ter was rocqlvcd thoro from n Danish lady nt Jacobshnven, Grceland, In which tho writer says it was known thero on August 14 that Pcnry had reached tho pole. Tho yoar book of tho Young Mon's Christian association of North Amor- lea, Just Issuod, shows that tho or ganization now inciuuea i.uh asso ciations, with 460,927 membership a gain of 105,000 in twolvo mouths. Thomas S. Pholps, Jr., commandant at tho Maro Island navy yard, ro celved hiB commission ns a rear ad inlrul. Tho enptuin'a Hug, formerly uaod by tho coinmnudant, was huulod down and that of admiral was raised on the receiving Hhlp independence At Monroo, la., nineteen persons narrowly escaped death in tho burn Jug of a boarding houso, Many guests woro forced to Jump from tho upper windows nnd two were seriously to Jured, Dr. Cook roceivod the news ot Pxitt' ry's discovery of tho iolo, and said ue was giau to near it. . Tho funeral of Hnrrluai t"; ihco on Sundny, Icing marked by a sltnplo service. At tho houso sorvlccs took plnco at 10 o'clock, at tho Episcopal church later nnd bttrlnl took placo at 3 p. in. Tho body rcatB in a gravo cut out of solid rock. United Statos War votorans, In on camnmcnt at Tacomn. Wash., tabled a i resolution authorizing camps to onroll Q. A. 11. nnd Confederate Veterans as Honorary members. , Double tho amount of corn was ex ported from tho United States in . August ovor that month a year ago, I while less than one-half the ninount of ' wheat and a littlo moro than one-halt i tho amount of wheat flour was ex ported last month over August a year I ago. 'Good progress Is bolng mado on tho Panama canal and four sections of It havo been fllnlshcd," said Colonel Goethals, chlof englnoor in chargo of tho construction of tho canal, up on his. arlval In Washington. Lieutenant Benjamin D. Foulols of tho signal corps, has been detailed to reprosont tho war department at tho international aeronautical conforonco to bo held nt Nancy, Franco, Septora bor 18-24. Ho will sail for Europe on September 8. Ilogln II. Post, governor of Porto Rico, announced that ho had sent his resignation to President Taft. It Is roportcd in Porto Itlco that tho president linn not selected Governor Post's successor. Tho awnraof tho contracts for tho two men American drendnaughts of 20,000 tons each, tho battleships' Wy oming nnd Arkansas which nro ex poctod to be announced soon. Lord Norlhcllfto, owner of tho Lon don Tlmos, In nn intorviow at Wlnnl pog, Man., predicted war botweon Qormany and Gront Rrltnln. Ho said In tho Krupp gun works alone, ono hundred thousand men nro working night and day and on Sunday's pro- pnrlng for war. Tho National Geographical society recoived a tologram from Poary and sent him congratulations. Washington. Tho president hn approved tho sontonco ot dismissal imposed by a general court-martial appointed by him at Denver, Colo., in tho case of First Lloutonant Clarcnco 8. Nottlos, U. S. A. (retired). According to tho nwr departments announcement, Lloutonant Nottlcs wnB convicted of neglect to pay many prlvnto debts, making falsostatomontB, otc. 'Aptitude" ns a characteristic ot fitness for a nnval careor was made tho subject of observation during tho rocont practtco cruiso of tho naval cadots. As a consoquenco, Captain Iiowyer, tho head ot tho Annapolis academy, acting on tho reports of his subordinates, has found It nccossnry to roport flvo midshipmen for separa tion from the service on aqcount of Inaptitude Roar Admiral W. S. Cowles, chlof of tho bureau ot equipment of tho navy oxproBsod his delight ovor tho Poary announcement. "It was my under standing," said Admiral CowIcb, "that when ho left hero It was his hopo to roach tho polo about this time. Pcnry Is n most dosorvlng officer. Ho has nursucd his mtrnoao undor all sorts of ndvorso conditions. To onablo postmasters ot the third and fourth classos to attond tho con vontlon of tho Nntionnl Longuo of Postmasters of tho United Statos, to bo hold at Syracuse, N. Y., Octobor C, 7. nnd 8. Postmaster Gonornl Hitch cock has granted thorn leaves of ab- sonco for as many days ns may bo nocossary, provided tho amount doos not oxceed fifteen. Tho buronu of tho consus nnnouncod that approximately threo thousand tomporary dorks would bo nppolntod In connoctlon with tho work of taking tho thirteenth decennial consus. Tho first examination will bo hold through out tho United States on Octobor 3, noxt. Blank application forms nnd clrculnr of Instructions, tho bureau announces, may bo obtained nftor 8op- tombor 10 by addressing tho civil Bor- vlco commission, Washington, D. C Former Prosldont RoobovoU lino roquosted that tho Unltod States government send n supply of black bass to British .East Africa, to bo do posttod in Lake Nalvasha. Mr. Rooso volt's roquost was mnde In a per sonal lottor to Commissioner Goorgo M. BoworB of tho bureau of fisheries and It will bo compiled with If pos slblo. "Havo won out at last; tho polo Is ours," was tho laconic mossago that reached tho National Geographical socloty from Commnndor Robort IS, Poary an a roport to tho socloty which contributed to tho Pcnry ox pcdltlon. Tho mossngo was dated at Indian Hnrbor, via Capo Ray. Personal. Govornor Shallonbergor delivered an address at tho closing session of the Nobrnska pioneers' mooting. George II. Roblusou won tho big auto Bpood event at Bowel!, Mass., by making 54.2 miles an hour for six hours. That rheumatism and nothing olso is tho malady from which Associate Justlco William H. Moody of tho United Statos supremo court Is suffer lug was tho statcmont made a fow days ago. Waltor K. Androwe, agod 60 years ot tho Williams Typowrlter con pnny, dlod at his home in Shelton, Conn. Lldjl Joassu, tho crown prlnco ot Abyssinia, has Invited Theodoro Roose velt to a groat elephant hunt, pronjs tng to bent up a white elephant for him to kill. Anita Stowart, the rich American girl whoso mother is nllogod to havo advanced 11,000,000 bo that she might become tho bride ot Prince Miguel of Bragauza, no's been cre ated a princoss In her own right by the emporor ot Austria. III , NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FM VARIOUS SECTIONS. , j ' ALL SUBJECTS TOUGHED UPON Religious, Soolal, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. Tho Labor day picnic in Lincoln wns doclared off on account of rain. Rainy weather very much interfered with nttondanco at the state fair. Govornor Shallonbergor has ap pointed from Nobraska 12G delegates to tho dry farming congress that moots in Ralolgh, N. 0 November 4. Miss Louise Moars, professor of geography at tho Peru Normal school, has returned to Nebraska from n sum mer In Minnesota, whoro she has bcon studying geology at tho unlvorslty and tho St. Croix Interstate park. At Sidnoy Sheriff McDnnlcl arrested ,eo Welhn on tho strongth of a tele gram recolvod from Sheriff John D. Miller of Nollgh, Neb. Welhn Is wanted for disposing of mortgngod property. Jasof .Unreal, aged about GO, a pros perous farmer and an old resident, liv ing two miles southwest of Llnwood, committed suicide by hanging him self to a tree nonr his home. No cause for tho doed is known. Notwithstanding tho lnrgo amount of money on hand tho first of tho month, State Treasurer Brian does not desiro any more state depositories nnd last woek turned down the ap plication of one bank that had writ ten to tho govornor regarding tho mnttor. An accident resulting in tho death of Harry Paulson, tho 15-year-old stepson of Honry Burgard, occurred on tho Inttcr's farm, two miles north of Bloomfleld. Mr. Burgard and tho boy wore stretching a wlro fence when tho wlro suddenly broke, strik ing tho young man on tho head. Tho soventh annual stato conven tion of tho Nebraska rural carrlera was hold at Columbus, tho following offlcors being elected: J. II. Talbot of Tablo Rock, prosident; II. B. Rood of Columbus, vlco president; C. A. Martin or Cheney, secretary; F. W. Whcolor of Hastings, treasurer. Dele gates to tho national convention at Rochester, N. Y.: C. B. Barber of Stromsburg, Nob.; C. A. Martin of Chenoy nnd O. J. Blookman of Coznd. B. F. Blytho of Ellis has Hied a damago suit against tho Rock Island railroad In tho sum of $1,742.40. Plaintiff states that on July 4 he de livered ninoty-olght head ot cattlo. to the company to bo shipped to tho Chicago' stock yards which did not reach their destination until July 8, consuming twonty-rour Hours' moro tlmo than was noccssary, and owing to the natural shrlnkago and lowor market asks Judgment In tho nbovo sum. Auditor Barton has recoived infor mation that the Fraternal Order of Owls of Indiana Is organizing lodges In Nebraska without first having ap plied to tho Insurance department for a ltccnso or permit Should tho com puny not do an Insurance business it docs not roqulro tho llconso and nolthor would there bo any state su pervision of Its affairs. Mr. Barton lias received n lottor from tho lnsur nnco department ot Indiana that the company Is not licensed by that de partment. Chicago dispatch: At the summor convocation of the University of Chi cago last wcok thoro wcro 207 gnadu ntcB and, fourteen associates, mostly toachors from out ot town who took a summer post-graduato course Among them woro John Wlblo Raum gardner (Ed. B.), Alliance; Arthur Howard Sutherland (Ph. D.), Grace Abbott (Ph. M.), John Martin Fred, crick Houman (S. B,), ot Grand Is lunu; Emma May Miller (two year certificate), Lincoln; Fred Williams Ganrde (S. B.), Mlndon. J, W. O'Brlon, stato fish commls slonpr, sayB a Nebraska City dispatch, has been horo several times with his car and each tlmo secured a carload of boss ranging from two to six inch es in length from tho ponds on tho oast sldo ot tho river. Thero are mil lions of theso game fish ovor there, and slnco tho river has bocome low they have been loft in tho ponds, and as tho water 1b shallow thoro Is no troublo In gotting all ot tho game fish needed. Mnny ot thorn hnve been taken to Omaha and othor points, whoro thoy were placed In lakes. With all tho pomp and solemnity that attends n royal funeral, or man wno lias spout a lire in many different countries, a memorial cere mony was hold over tho grave of Ma jor Frank North nonr Columbus. The chief flguro In the proceeding was Colonel William F. Cody, for many years a friend and partnor ot tho dead man. Twenty-flvo different na tlonnlltlcs marched from tho grounds whoro Colonel Codys' Wild West show was holding forth to tho cemetery. Tho annual mooting of Nebraska plonoors closed with a series of speeches at tho Btato farm, chlof of which was an address by Govornor Shallonbergor and a dlnnor, sorved nlBO nt tho farm. About 1G0 plonoers and frlonds nttondod tho meeting. Northwestern Dotoctlvos Stowart of Omaha nnd Lawrenco of Chicago on- terod tho homo of Mrs. Mary Alshire In Norfolk and found $600 worth ot morchandlso alleged to have been stolon from Northwestern freight cars. William Alshire, her son, lod tho detectives upstairs and escaped through a window. NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. Items of Interest Taken From Herd and There Over the State. County Attorney John L. Cloary of Hall county has filed a Information In tho county court charging Ernest E. Stout with tho murder In tho first degree of Josoph 13. Richcson. Reports from eight threshing out fits from the onco supposed arid lands of western Nebraska nro most flatter ing and Indlcato the largest harvest over gathered there. Tho farm home ot R. H. Thomas, ono mllo east of Itldlanoln, with nil contonts, was burned. It wns a sod and frame structuro, and wns one of tho Ycry earliest houses In this coun ty. It wan an old landmark. No one was nt homo but two small children. J. W. Bergman, tho postmaster nt Odessa, lino boen In quarantlno bo causo his son Is afflicted with spinal monlngltls. Tho stato board of hoalth has required this to bo dono owing to the epidemic now spreading over tho state. Bon Cartney committed nulcldo at Tlldon by hanging himself. Ho aroso at tho usual hour to do his chores. His father soon became alarmed at his long absenco nnd went in search of him and found him dangling from a ropo, lifo bolng extinct. Mary Braboc, wlfo of Josoph Bra- bee, a Bohemian farmer, living near Barneston, who tried to hang him self bo mo time ago, nnd who was dis charged after nn examination by tho insanity commission, hns filed suit for divorce against her husband. Sho charges him with oxtromo cruelty. Ono of tho highest prices over paid for a farm in tho vicinity of Lawronco was paid last wek, when tho farm owned by Nick Brom was sold by Hilton & nlmnn to Joe Thlor, a local farmer, for $125 per aero. This Is an olghty-acro tract, with only fair Im provements, and Is considered a ro markablo prlco, as corn Is a short crop this year In that part of tho country. In Its reprint of nowa published in tho York Republican thirty years ago corn was worth 20 conts a bushel nnd hogs about tho same as cattlo, then worth $2.50 per hundred. C. C. Cobb, tho pioneer morchnnt, was advertising as n leader ton pounds of sugar for $1. A comparison of prlccB recolvod now showB hogs worth $8, cattlo $7.50, corn 57 cents nnd wheat nearly $5. August Wcllcnsclk, a young man residing with his fnther near Talmago, mot with an accident which resulted In his death, Ho was In tho loft throwing down somo hay and throw down tho fork and tho handle stood up straight. Ho Jumped out of tho loft, tho handle struck him In tho stomach and was forced Into his bowols. J. W. O'Brlon, stato fish commission er, has been nt Nobraska City, several times recontly with his car and each tlmo secured a carload of bass, rang ing from two to six inches In length, from tho ponds on tho east Bide of tho river. Thero nro millions of those gamo fish and slnco tho river has be- como low thoy havo been left In tho ponds and are easily secured. Tho dry spoil has been broken In Dixon county by a splendid rain. Thorp Is great fear of frost, as tho drop In tomporaturo has been ns groat as It has boon sudden. Many claim that thero was frost Sunday morning, but as yet thero has been no Injury in this mannor. Corn Is in first-class condl tion, not having been Injured by tho dry weather In that section. B. S. Peterson, an osteopathic doc tor of Koarnoy, was returning from an onrly call near Odessa and was riding a motorcycle Railroad graders near that town had placed a barb wlro fence across tho road to corral tholr horses and Peterson ran into it nt full speed. Ho was thrown off nnd turning a somersault ho lighted on tho back of his neck on tho wlro, cut ting a deop gash. William D. Tully, administrator, and Flora Tully, noxt of kin, have filed a petition In tho office of Clork Lang' man of tho district court of Hall conn ty, suing tho Grand Island Telephone company, tho Grand Island Electric company nnd the Fairmont Creamery company for damages In tho amount of $13,732 on account ot tho death of. Stowart Tully, who was killed by a llvo wlro noar tho Fairmont cream ery's plant somo wooks ago. Nearly BOO Seventh Day Adventists from ovor the stato aro In Hastings for tho thirty-fourth annual Nebraska camp mooting of tholr denomination. The conferenco headquarters of tho Adventists 'for Nobraska aro located thore and tho last three annual camp meetings havo bean hold In Hastings Tho main assembles nro conducted in n largo tent with a seating capacity ot 2,000, and it Is flllod almost to Its limit for each session. Directors of tho winter wheat grow ors branch of tho American Socloty of Equity, says a Hastings dispatch, are working on n plan by which thoy hopo to induce nil fnrmors In tholr pool to Bell through their agency onco a month direct to millers and manu facturors. Thoy say that thoy aro now concerned altogether in tho mannor of marketing tho product rather than In obtaining a fixed prlco. Thoy deny that farmers In tho poo! havo agreed to hold tholr wheat for any particular prlco. Chase county Is no more a part ot tho great American desert only by location. It will havo moro than the avorago crop of small grain, and tho yield of corn this yoar will avorago as much It not moro than 1908. Land buyers from nil ovor eastern Nobraska, western Iowa and northern Missouri are Investigating and all find It to be worthy of a higher rating than is generally given. Tho Stanton county fair dates have boon set for Soptombor 14 to 17. Somo entries for horse races havo boon made, but not as many as in other years. E RESPONDENTS 8AY THERE 19 MISJOINDER IN ACTION. BIG COON SHOW IN JANUARY Next Annual Exhibit Expected to Be the Largest and Best Ever Held at the State Capital. Tho' brief of the respondent in tho suit wheroln tho nttornoy goneral is Bcoking to havo tho supremo court dcclaro Unconstitutional tho law which created tho now Stato Normal board, has been filed by Clark & Al len of Lincoln and W. D. Oldham of Kearney. In his suit tho nttornoy gonornl declares tho law creating tho board unconstitutional and tho ap pointment of Colonel Thomas J. Ma jors to momborship on tho board Il legal because Colonol Majors was a member ot tho legislature which en acted the bill and was still a mom- ber nt tho time of his appolntmont Tho respondents contend that tho petition of tho nttornoy goneral docs not stato a cause of action and that there is a misjoinder of causes of ac tion. In a discussion of tho question of a misjoinder of action tho brief nays tho foundation ot tho causo of ac tion against all of tho defendants Is that tho act of tho legislature Is In valid. Tho foundntlon for tho causo of action against Colonel Majors is that tho act 1b invalid. If tho causo of action against tho respondents Jointly is sustained, tho brief says, it destroys tho foundation for tho causo of action against Majors. If the net Is unconstitutional thero is no office then tho respondent, Majors, cannot bo charged with holding offlco In vio lation ot tho statute To provo tho violation of section 13, artlclo III, of the constitution it must bo proven thoro Is nn appointive offlco In exist ence which a member of tho legis lature 1b holding by appointment Big Corn Shaw In January. Tho Nobraskn Stato Corn Improv ors association mot nt tho fair grounds and decided to hold tho noxt annual corn show In tho Auditorium in Lincoln January 17 to 22, 1910. Tho Commercial club of Lincoln has given Its consent that tho associa tion uso tho Auditorium during that week. Tho show is to consist of se nior and Junior departments, as tho Stato Boys' and Girls' association will hold their annual show In connection. A sot of rules was drawn up at the mooting and adopted and also a new scoro card which will bo published later. It was decided to hold tho first annual banauot of tho nssocta. tlon on Mondny evening, January 17, nt which a speaker of national repu tation Is to be present It was voted to hold tho regular meetings ot tho association on Mondays nnd Tuesdays of organized agriculture weeks in. stond,of Thursdayo and "Fridays, as heretofore. Tho association voted $50 to tho support of tho premium list for tho Junior class. This, in addition to tho $200 offered by tho stato board of agrlculturo, will make an attractive list for tho Juniors. Owing to tho ro cont appropriation of $2,000 by tho stato legislature the association will bo In a much bettor position this year to make a crcdltablo showing. A corn Bhow hnB beon held In Lincoln evory year since tho organization of tho improvers In 1902, oxcopt tho year 1908, when tho association lent Its support to tho Omaha show and did not hold tho rogulnr event hero. Get Pay for Coal. The Union Fuel company of Lin coln will shortly got its money for a car of coal It said It delivered to tho Lincoln asylum last March. Book keeper Felix Nowton Insisted to the board that the coa! had not been ro- colvod nt tho Institution,, so tho bonrd refuBod to order tho warrant Issued. Recently tho voucher wns received at tho stato house, signed and approved by Superintendent Woodard, loss somo $2.50 which Now ton Insisted on deducting. Nowton wns at the stato houso and he still insisted that the coal had not boen delivered. Tho coal company filed statements from tho railroad com pany that tho coal had been delivered, Lincoln Man Medal Winner. Ensign Robort Carlisle Glffcn ot tho United States navy, son of Dr. E. R Glffen, arrived In Lincoln to await orders. Ensign Glffon is a stalwart youth and hns made a good record. Ho was on board tho Virginia. which accompanied tho United States fleet around tho world. At the recout national shoot at Camp Perry, O., ho wns a momber of tho rifle team representing tho navy that won first place Ho was third In tho Individual shooting and fourth in long range shooting. Ho won tho dlstlna tlon of having a perfect scoro in tho skirmish run in tho national match In which his team was tho winner. Wettern Real Estate High. A. S. Fielding, who rocontly re turned from a vlBlt to Portland, Ore., Soattlo, Spokane and Tacomn, Wash., says that prices on real estate aro higher in every way In those cities than they aro In Lincoln. In mak ing this stntomont he makes every allowance for the difference In size and population botweon this nnd ev ery city ho visited, but ovon by com pnrlson tho western flguros soar far above thoso of Nebraska. Every city in tho stato ot Washington bears evl donees of great prosperity. NORMAL GAS Late primary vote. Two Counties Fall to Indicate Num ber Cact. Tho total vote of the stato east at the lalo primary was 93,374. This total docs not includo Morrll and Val ley counties, which, though reporting, failed to Indlcato tho total voto case. The following shows tho official totals as tar as the board figured: Supreme Judge. Jntncs n. Dean (dcin.) 2I.28S U. V. Good (dcm.) 21.500 John J. Sulllnn (Jem.) 22,000 James It, Dean (pop.) 2,84l 1J. P. Qood (dod.I 1.860 John J. Hulllvnn (pop.) 2, 915 Francis O. llamer (rep.) 16.594 Edward It. Duffle (rep.) 12,280 John O. YeLscr (rep.)....,......,.. 10,178 namuei ji. seagwicK (rep.)...,,... xz.ttt K. C. Calkins (rep.) 13,855 John 13. Barnes (rep.) 21,487 Jacob Fnwcett (rep.) 16.961 Josenh n Cobbev (ren.l 15.616 A. G. WolfonbarRcr (pro.),... 340 it. u. oiapie (pro.)...,... . . Reoents State University. . Charles T. Knapp Mom.) 22,795 Charles S. Allen (rep,),, 40,927 W. Q. Whltmore (rcp ).. .'. 0,398 D. C. Cole (pop.)..... 2,966 Regent to Fill Vacancy. Iturvey E. Newbrnnch (dem.)...... 22,432 Frank L. Holler (rep.) 42,246 Much Cash In Treasury. At tho closo of buslnoss on tho last day of August, according to tho rec ords of the offlco of tho stato treasur er, ho had in his vault cash to tho amount of $42,97G.GG, cash Items which were represented by Fromont bonds to tho amount ot $27,000 and.cheoks to tho amount of $108,299.48. The stato depositories were carrying all tho money thoy aro entitled to carry undor tho bonds thoy have given. Included in this amount In tho vault was a government warrant to tho amount of $10,000. Soptombor 1 tho troaBuror paid $40, 000 for North Platto "bonds and bought $05,000 Elgin bonds, which reduced his holdings by that amount. Tho offlco of tho secretary of stato was a revenue getter this last month, thoro having been paid Into tho of flco a total of $130,G37.60. This sum was divided as follows: Artlclos of incorporation, $120,005.25; notary com missions, $G2; motor vehicles llconso, $832.10; brands recorded, $10.50; cer tificates and transcripts, $50.50; cor poration permits, $9,020.25. This does not includo soveral thousand dollars paid to tho offlco undor protest In Horticultural Hall. Tho exhibits of fruit In horticultural hall at tho stato fair wcro fully as good this year as In tho past. Tho fruit was noticeably clean, freo from work of Insects and fungus diseases. Tho applo show was particularly at tractlvo and as largo or largor than ovor before. Saline, Washington nnd Johnson counties wore roprosontcd by fine oxhlblts in the county colloctlvo class, premiums bolng awarded in tho order named. Individual collections woro largo und nttractlvo, first pre mium being awarded E. F. Stophens;. Northwestern Does Well. Tho annual roport of the Northwest ern railroad, filed with tho state rail way commission, shows a good in crease in tho amount ot business dono In tho yenr 1909, compared with tho yoar 1908-1907, notwithstanding both passenger nnd freight rateB woro re duced by tho legislature of 1907. Op erating exponses for 1909 woro moro than in 1908 and less than In 1907 per mile, but In tho nggrogato wero greater than for either 1907 or 1908 Tho great Increase In 1909 Is shown In the numbor of passengers carried ono mile. Stock Subscription Refunded. Tho railway commission has ordered the Miller Telophone company to pay to Mrs. L. A. Northrup what money sho had paid for stock and dismissed the case, Mrs. Northrup complained that, though a stockholder In tho com pany, she wob refused sorvlco. At a hearing held at Miller It was brought, out that after paying $20 Into a mutual fund for the construction of tho lino, oach stockholder was assessed $10 and later $0, but tho complainant had failed to pay tho assessment. Dr. Peters Reslgnes Dr. A. T. Peters, head ot tho de partment ot animal pathology at the state agricultural college, has tendered his resignation, effective January 1, 1910. Ho has been offered, the direc torship of tho Illinois state biological laboratory ut Springfield. Harlan Man Pardoned, Govornor Shallonbergor has com muted the sontonco ot Oliver Stephens of Harlan county to expire November 23, this year. Stophens was originally Bent to tho Btato prison for two years for stabbing a neighbor In a fight, but tho supremo court out tho sontonco In two and tho govornor did tho samo thing to tho romaintng year. Dr. A. T. Peters Resigns. Dr. A. T. Potors, professor of ani mal pathology nt tho university farm hns resigned his position to tako ef fect January 1, and has acceptod a position ns diroctor of tho state bio logical laboratory at Springfield, III. Tho complaint of W. F. Dlors ngalnst tho 'Missouri Pacific to forco that road to Install a telophone at tho station nt Louisville has been dUmUsod by the state railway commission. Insurance Men Worried. Insurance mon are worried somo what over tho Intimation from tho auditor's offlco that nil examinations of Insurance companies may bo pub lished In full nfter a fow months. Auditor Barton has said nothing In re gard to this, but tho rumor has gono forth and somo credit is being given it Somo ot tho local agontsSay that such publication would lnjuro their business and would glvo competitors unfair advantages. They also assert that bank statements are not mado public. ,