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Moro or Less Concerned.
Washington.
Democrat look for an extra session
of congress nml nro making prepara
tions accordingly.
The scnato defeated tho resolution
proposing an nniendmont to tho con
stitution to provide tliat sonntors bo
elected by direct voto of tho people
Representative 8. C. Smith hnH ro
fdgnod n a mombor of tho monetary
commission and Representative J, P.
McLachllh of California', who was not
re-elected to tho houso, has been ap
pointed to succeed him,
Secretary of tho Interior Dalllngor
fixed, until further notice, at $2 por
ncro tho chargo for operating and
maintenance by tho government of
lands norvod by tho Okanogan irriga
tion project, Washington.
Tho mints will stop making gold
coins uh soon ns Prosldont Tnft
signs tho bill which congress has
passed permitting tho secretary of
tho treasury to Issue gold certificates
Against gold bullion and forolgn gold
coin,
Represontatlvo Chnrlea F. Soott of
Kunons attacked tho initiative, refe
rendum and recall as revolutionary
and subversive to our present-form of
government in n speech In the house.
Ills nttltudo cm thoso questions cost
mm ronomlnatlon last fall.
Tho houso passed n bill by Ropro-
contntlvo Burko of South Dakota,
chairman of tho commlttco on Indian
affairs, giving tho interior department
general authority to dispose of loft-
over lands In any Indian reservation
previously thrown opon to entry.
The house special commlttco Ap
pointed to investigate Senator Gora'u
charges of attempted bribery In con
nection with J. W. McMurray'B Indian
land contrdcta finds that Jako L. Ham-
on did muko an Improper proposal to
Senator Qoro concerning tho con
tracts. The hoiino commlttco on territories
unanimously approved tho constitu
tion of tho rtdw stato of Now Moxlco
nnd recommondod Its approval by tho
houso, Tho commlttco doclaros it han
found tho document "to bo republican
In form hut It makes no distinction
on civil or political rights on account
of raco or color and that It Is not ro-
pugnant to tho constitution of tho
United States or tho declaration of
indopondonco."
General.
Tho Minnesota Iioubo han passed u
bill nbolluhtng capital punishment
Tho sonato voted to seat Lorlmor
by 40 to 10 and tho strugglo is ondod.
Dr. Vnsquoz Gomez says ho has ro
celvod ovorturos for poaco from tho
Diaz government.
Forty ono alleged momborfl of tho
Camorra will noon be tried by tho
Italian government
Mrs, Mnldwln Drummond was rob
bed of 139.000 worth of Jowols on
board nn Atlantic llnor.
"William II. Lewis, a nogro, has
been nominated by tho prosldont to bo
assistant nttornoy gonoral.
presidential sunrago for women
was voted down by tho Kansas houso
in commlttoo of tho whole.
Hungnrlan postolllco records show
that $37,000,000 was sent to that
country during 1010 by Austro-Huuga
Thins living in America.
Tho government of Ilnytl has ad
vised tho Amorlqan stato department
that tho revolution In that country Is
ondod mid thoMlvos of foreigners nro
cocuro,
Tho Alabnmu liouso haa passed tho
Smith bill rogulntlng tho snlo of
liquor, said to bo tho most drastic
menBuro on tho subject ovor enacted
In any Btnto.
Gonernl health In tho Philippines Is
tho best In ton, years nnd government
authorities nro confluent improved
ennltary conditions havo removed
dangor of plaguo.
Ono of tho blggoat fish houses In
Chicago hns cut tho prlco of fresh fish
moro than llfty per cent. Unproco
dented catches In tho big lakes of
iCannda Is given as tho reason.
Tho contract onterod Into by Max-
lino Fornnndoz, representing Costa
Itlen. and Minor C. Keith, vice pros!
dent of the United Fruit company, for
tho refunding of tho forolgn dobt of
Cos4i Rica hiiB boon upprovod by con
Kress, Tho contract provIdoB for a
refunding scheme.
Tho Bupromo court of Nebraska do
elded that Thomas Johnson now at
tho stato penitentiary must hang.
Tho attorney gonoral, by a houso
resolution, haB been asked what
steps are being taken in tho coffee
trust Inquiry.
A bill providing for tho gradual
nbolshmont of convict contract labor
system in MUsourl was passed by tho
etato senate.
Mayor J. M". Edwards of Porum,
Okln., has boon convicted of forglyg
& deed to olghty Ucres of Jand, nml
has been sentenced to seven years In
the pnlUntlary,
Flro destroyed $100,000 worth of
property nt Mitchell, Ind.
A apoclaj houso domtnlttco inado an
ndvorso report on bonding companies.
Tho Kansas Bcnato voted to estab
lish n state school for mines at Weir,
Ohcrokeo county.
Tho federal grand Jury in New
York hns onterod Into an Investiga
tion of tho "beef trust"
Arizona's constitution waB nfflrmod
by 7C.12 of tho total vote, accord
ing to tho official canvass.
Governor Morris of Montana has
approved tho bill providing tho com
mission form of government for clt-
Ics.
Charles E. Morrlam was nomi
nated by republicans and Carter Har
rison by domoorats for mayor of Chi
cago.
Tho Montana scnato -voted unanl-
hously to pass a bill providing tho
commission form of government for
municipalities.
Tho fcdoral circuit court of appeals
nt Richmond, Va lias decided that
electricity is morchandlso when gen
erated and sold.
Kansas City owners of tho Luck
Tlgor mino in Honorn, Moxlco, havo
been advised thnt tho rebels havo
solzod tho property.
.Tudgo Advocate. Crowdor has do-
elded tho war department Is nt lib
erty to accept tho brooding horses
Riven by August I3elmont,
Thirteen Kansas City physicians
havo been arrested on fodornl Indict
ments for spreading Improper propos
als In advertising lltoraturo.
President Tnft has accepted an In
vitation to attend Balllo P. Waggon
or'B nnnunl children's plcnlo In Atch
ison, Kann., next September.
Tho English cabinet is reported 1J
tho Times to havo agreed on reten
tion of Irish mombcrn in tho Imper
ial parliament, but In reduced num
bers, Two hundred women, most of thorn
accompanied by their husbnndfl, at
tended a boxing match In Syracuse,
N. Y., given for tho benefit of n hos
pital. Two hundred citizens of El Pnso
havo petitioned President Taft and
congress that tho United States tako
no stops to lntorforo In tho Mexican
revolution.
Tho Kansas houso hnas passed n
resolution that names of candidates
for United States senator shall not
bo placed on tho ballot at primary
elections.
Tho Interstate cqmmorco commis
sion wants congress to rollovo It from
any connection with mediation nnd
arbitration proceedings undor tho
Erdman net.
After spondlng nearly six years In
tho federal prison nt Leavenworth,
Frank G. Illgolow, tho Mllwaukoo
bnnker, was roloasod, according to
authorltatlvo- voportti.
Tho PInkortonB say that "Old Hill"
Minor, second only to Josso James' In
notoriety ns n bandit, Is ono of tho
men nrrostod for tho rocont Gaines-
vlllo, Ga., train robbery.
Fifty thousand buslnoss men of
Georgia nnd nearby Btatos have been
InvJtod by tolophono to nttond tho
Southern Commercial Congress In At
lanta, Ga., March 8 to 10.
Prosldont Dnvld It. Kerr of West
minster collogd, Fulton, Mo., has ton
dored his resignation. Ho hns boon
offorod tho prosldonoy of Whltworth
collogo at Tncoma, Wash.
Tho houso npprovod a bill to pro-
vldo for tho erection of a monument
ovor tho gravo of ProBldont John Ty
lor at Richmond, Vn. Tho limit of ox-
ponso In tho bill Is $10,000.
Socrotnry of Commerce Nagcl will
lnvostlgato tho chargo that IlguroB of
'tho department of statistics havo
boon distorted to show othor than tho
truo Btnto of oxnorta and Imports.
Tho MUsourl sonnlo has passed a
bill requiring mall order Iioubob to
tako out a llconso to do buslnoss in
the stnto for which tho feo shall bo
1 to 5 per cent of tho uggrogate
Bales.
Dr. Theobald Smith, professor of
comparative pathology at Harvard
ii, . i,i .. , if i,,i
plaguo starts In tho west it might bo
spread to tho. oast through tho mo-
dtum of milk.
Tho MUpourl sonato passod a bill
submitting to tho people at a special
election to bo called by Gov. Had-
ley, u proposition to voto $3,000,000
bonds for rebuilding tho burned capl
tol at .Tofforson City
Colonel Pollakoff, administrator of
tho" commissary department of tho
Moscow military district, was sen
tenced to five years Imprisonment on
conviction of having demanded and
rccelvod bribes from contractors.
Tho main building of Mount St.
Mary'a collogo, a largo and woll
equipped Roman Catholic Institution
on Watohuug mountain, nonr Plain-
field. N. J., was burned Thursday, on.
tailing n loss of moro thnn $200,000.
Personal.
Tho sonato failed to ratify tho now
Jnpanoso trade and commerce treaty,
Tho earl of Dudley will retire ni
governor gonoral of Australia In Juno
H, II. Flsk has tondorod his reslg
nation as superintendent of Haskol1
lnstltuto, tho 1 mil an school at Law
ronce, Kas.
Ex-Mayor Dunno of Chicago wnntt
nn odlclal count of tho Into primaries
Henry L. Myers has been chosor
Benotor from Montana, succeeding
Senator Cartor.
A comploto' reorganization of the
domocrntte party In Pennsylvania has
boon decided upon.
Senator Hoyburn complained thnt
tho forestry sorvlco was costing toe
much money for tho good It does.
Charles Foster, a gamo wnrdon
was found dead with a bullet wound
through his stomach at tho foot ot
Turkey mountain, four miles south
of Tulsa, Okla.
ALMOST
UNANIMOUS
OLLIS YARD8 BILL PAS8ES SEN
ATE 25 TO 3.
NAYS ARE FROM DOUGLAS
Threo Representatives Hand In Writ-
ten Explanations for Their Oppo
sition .to the Bill.
Tho OIHs stock yards bill, ob ap
proved by tho eenato commlttco of
tho whole, passed tho sonato by &
voto of 25 to 3, tho only dissenting
votes coming from tho members from
Dauglag county Tanner, Horton and
Reagan. These threo handed up
written explanations of their votos
declaring that the bill was a blow
at a great Nobrnska Industry and
cortaln to work harm and oxponso
both 'to tho stock yards and shlppors.
Albert, who has tried to chango tho
bill In tho committee meetings to
mako it n less specific measure, vot
ed for it with tho explanation thnt
ho did not approvo of this particular
bill, but It scorned to bo tho best that
could bo agreed upon.
Tho voto was 25 ayos and 3 nays.
Thoso absent woro Imrtos, Placok
and Smith of Fillmore. Cordeal and
Volpp wcro paired.
Carrying Concealed Weapons.
Carrying conccnled weapons will
become a felony under a bill by Slide
makor which was recommended for
passago by tho liouso commlttco of
tho whole. At the present tlmo It Is
a misdemeanor, punlahnblo by a
maximum flno of 9100 or a Jnll sen
tence. Undor tho Shoemaker law u
maximum ponnlty of two years In' tho
penitentiary could bo imposed. A
caltiso Is added to tho bill permitting
any honostly employed citizen to car
ry a weapon for eolf-protectlon.
Pure Seed Measure.
With laws on tho statuto books
povldlng for puro foods, pure drugs
and puro paints, tho farmer mombors
of the legislature nro now -seeking a
law which will guarantoo them pure
seeds. Tho bill making this provision
Is houso roll No. 219, by Hardin nnd
Sanborn. It provides that seeds must
not only bo freo, nccordlng to a speci
fied standard, from wood Seeds, but
that thoy must show a certain test
of power to germinate.
Last Chance For Dills.
Thlrty-slx now bills wero introduc
ed in tho sonato March 1st tho last
day on which bills may boMntroduc-
od. Tho total number this year is
390. Two yoara ago 407 bills woro
introduced In tho unnor liouso. In tho
houso on tho last, day for bills 100
now moasurcs woro Introduced, mak
ing n total of 703, or 125 moro than
at tho session two years ago.
More Time for Settlers.
A letter wa received by tho sennto
from R. A. P,alllngor, secretary of tho
lntorlor, stating thnt tho resolution
recommending nn extension of tlmo
to settlors In tho North Plntto district
for payment on tholr land would ro
colvo his best attention. It is undor
stood that Bnlllngor has assured con
grousmou that tho extension of tlmo
will bo granted.
Holmes Has Another Bill.
nccnuso tho first .bill calling for
tho purchase of additional lands for
tho Nobraska school for tho deaf at
Omaha and appropriating somo $G2,
000 thorofor. did not spocify whoro
tho iand to bo purchased was to bo
located, HolmcB of Douglas has in-
(reduced another measure In which
tho necessary changes uro made.
State Board of. Control.
Tho sonato passed liouso Roll No
81 on third reading attor extended
debnto which soomod to portend tho
dofoat of tho monsuro nt ono tlmo.
Irho bill provides for n stnto bonrd ol
control for dopondent, jiogloqted chil
dren. It will not lntorforo with es
tablished private and bonovolent as
sociations or homes, ,
Anti-Treat Bill Advanced.
Tho EvniiB nntl-treut bill, which
makes a snloon keeper llablo for vi
olation of tho existing stnto law
which prohibits treating at a bar was
recommended for third reading In tho
liouso. Tho bill puts a heavy re
sponsibility upon n saloon keopor or
his employes to prevent any sort of
treating.
Change In Election Hours.
Tho bill to set tho hours of elec
tion at from 8 o'clock In tho morning
to 9 o'clock nt night wa3 recommend
ed for passago by tho houso. Tho
chango was made to pormlt tho farm
era as well as mn.iy worklngmon a
ciinnco to voto without losing nny
tlmo from tholr work.
Mortgage Exemption.
Tho stato sonato passed Sonata
Fllo No, 271, by Aubrey Smith, which
oxomptB all mortgagos on real estate
property from taxation. There woro
a number of mombors who woro not
qulto suro that tho bill would hotter
tho condition of tho men who borrow
money, but as thoy bolloved In tho
purposo of tho measure, thoy Woro
willing to tako a chance. A clerical
error Jn tho bill wns corrected during
tho third reading by unanimous con
sent Tho voto was 27 to 1, Cox ol
THE OLLIQ MEASURE.
Stock Yards Bill Placed on General
File.
Tho 0111b stock yards bill as It was
amended in conference was put on
general file by the sonato and unloss
somo senators chango tholr votes,
will bo passed. Tho Taylor-Dolezal
bill was similarly placed by tho
houso. Toxt of tho 01113 mcasuro fol
lows: "S, F. 11C. A bill for an act defin
ing stock yards, providing for tho
regulation and control of tho samo,
giving tho stnto hallway commission
Jurisdiction to regulato tho service,
tolls and charges thereof and provid
ing penalties, and to declare such
stock yards common carriers nnd re
pealing sections 3167-a and 31C7-b of
Cobbey's Annotated StatutOB of No
braika for 1909."
"Section 1. Tho terms stock yards
as used herein shall moan nnd em
brace all corporations, Individuals, as
sociations of individuals, tholr les
sees, trustees or receivers (appointed
by any court of lawful authority what
soever) that now or hereafter may
own, operate, manago or control any
yards and pens, railroad tracks,,
switches, engines or other motive)
powor, for tho purpose of handling
llvo stock In transit and for salo and
all stock yards aro hereby declared
to be common carriers.
"Sec. 2. Tho stato railway com
mission shall havo power to lssuo or
ders regulating sorvlco and charges
of all kinds at all stock yards, and
tho samo shall bo enforced In tho
snmo manner and under ttfo samo
penalties ns orders regulating com
mon carriers, provided, that whore
no othor penalty Is provided by law
for n violation of any such order, It
shall bo punlshablo by 'a ponalty of
not less than $100, nor moro than
$600 and whero tho violation Is a con
tinuing ono, each day thereof shall
conslltuto a separnto offense.
Caring for Stock.
"Section 3. Every stock yards shall
handle, unload and yard all cars of
llvo stock arriving betweon tho hours
of C o'clock a. m, and 6 o'clock p. in.
and deliver Into yards usod by com
mission Company, when so requested,
within two hours nftor tho llnnl do
livery of tho snmo at the tracks of
said stock yards by tho connecting
railroad, oxcopt in cases of unavold
nJblo delay or unusual circumstances.
For each half hour's dolay In hand
ling and unloading llvo stock boyond
tho period proscribed herein any
suoh stock yard shall forfeit and pay
to tho shlppor of said live stock or
his agent ns demurrago, within 24
hours' after unloading said llvo stock,
tho sum of $6 for each car of llvo
stock so delayed. Said payment to
be mado by mailing draft or certified
chock to agent or ownor. Provided,
that If any part of tho forfeitures de
scribed in this Boction shall bo col
lected by a suit at law an nttornoy's
feo of $5 por car shall bo allowed the
plaintiff by tho court, but not exceed
ing $15 on any ono shipment
"Sec. 4. Every stock yard shall
keep a record showing tho tlmo of
delivery and turning over at tho yard
of satd stock to tho commission firm,,
agent or ownor.
"Sec. 5. Every Btock yard shall
furnish scalo facilities sufficient to
weigh nil llvo stock without unreas
onable dolay. It shall furnish ynrd
ago to handlo nil llvo stock in ynrds
and no chargo shall bo mado for yard
ago whero yards aro not furnished.
"Sec. C. That soctlous 31C7-a and
31C7-b of Cobbey's Annotated Stat
utes of Nebraska for 1900 bo and tho
samo aro hereby ropenled."
Bill to Increase Salaries.
iTlio sonato placed on third reading
Volpp's bill Increasing tho salary of
stato officers and Tanner's bill pro
viding for n; bipartisan publication of
constitutional amendments. Tho
"Volpp bill, as amended, provides that
tho govornor shall roccivo $7',&uu a
yoar, tho auditor, treasurer and nt
tornoy gonoral, $4,500, and tho other
stato olllcors, $3,500 por annum.
Deficiencies and Claims.
Tho deficiencies and claims bills
Wero among the Inst batch Introduced
In tho houso. Tho latter carries a to
tal of $5G,0GG,75, as against $179,542
two years ago. A few small deficien
cies, have beou taken care of In sop
nrato bills'.
The Measure Postponed.
Robert .Smith, clerk of tho district
court In Douglas county, npp'earod be
fore tho liouso commlttoo on Judlclnry
and succeeded In gottlng postponed
indefinitely a bill changing tho feo
system for court clerks.
The Albert BUI Defeated.
Tho Albort bill placing all' public
sorvlco corporations under tho con
trol of tho Btnto rallwny commission
was killed In tho sonato by a votot of
Oft -i-i '
, Memorial to Congress.
Tho houso adoptod a resolution, In
troduced by Dushoo, memorializing
congress to pass tho pending bill ex
tending to Bottlers In tho government
reclamation district n longer tlmo to
pay for tholr water rights.
New Capital Removal Bill.
Among tho now bills In tho sonato
tho last day for introducing thorn
wns a now capital removal Nblll of
forod by Bodlnaon of Buffalo, Buhr
man of allll and Tlbbots ot Adams
ropresontlng rospoctlvoly the claims
of Kearney, Grand Island nnd Hast
Ings. Tho bill provides that the quos
tlon of removal shall bo submitted
to tho poople at tho next eloctlon. It
tho proposition of relocating gets
majority of tlio votes caBt, tho capi
tal gobs to thq city receiving the ma
jority of the votes.
THE EXTRA SESSION
PRESIDENT 8URPRI8E3 MANY BY
ISSUING A CALL.
THOUGHT IT WOULD NOT GOME
rhough Chief Executive Threatened
an Extra Session Some Senators
Did Not Look For It.
)
Washington. Notwithstanding tho
posltlvcnoss with which President
Tnft had repeatedly said, in all but
direct nnd official language, that un
less congress should enact legislation
to put into operation the Canadian
reciprocity agreement, ho would sum
mon nn extra session to resume con
sideration of tho Btibject his fulfill
ment of that threat within two hours
of adjournment wbb an actual suiy"
prlso to many mombors of that body.
It was ospoclnlly so In tho sonato.
As lnto as nn hour beforo final ad
journment Saturday, leading sena
tors and others about tho capltol mado
bets there would bo no extra sosslon.
Pressure nothing less than tro
mendous had boon brought to bear
upon members of congress to pre
vent tho calling of tho extra sosslon.
Until tho last moment rumors wero
Incessant that a way would bo found
to avoid It
One of tho most persistent was that
Micro wcro in progress negotiations
between the president and the Cana
dian government looking to tho with
drawal of tho agreement by ono" par
ty or tho other so as to glvo excuse
for withholding tho special call.
Anothr rumor was that there was
an understanding between tho presi
dent and tho republican leaders In
congress that ono or more, of tho ap
propriation bills, preferably tho gen
eral dellcloncy bill, was to bo "lost
in tho shufllo," so that the special
session would bo unavoidable.
Still another was that the loaders
had determined to hold up somo ap
propriation In which tho White
House was especially interested, and
at tho last momont mako Its passago
conditional upon tho abandonment
of tho extra session projects. Tho
blockado of the appropriation bills In
tho filibusters In both houses yester
day tended to glvo color td' these
stories.
Somo got so far as to say that if
cortaln senators had believed tho
president would nctunlly mako good
his threat they would havo mado
strenuous efforts to pass the reci
procity bill. Whatever may bo tho de
gree or absence of truth In any of
thoso stories, thoro enn be no doubt
that tho lssuo of tho president's
oxtra session proclamation mot scant
welcome at tho hands of tnoso mom-
bers of congress who after tho stress
of tho past sosslon will barely have
tlmo to go homo for a brlot respite
and to adjust tholr affairs for anothor
session, which many think will ex
tend far Into tho summer. Thero aro
thoso who bellovo It will bo so long
as to leave oply a "constructive
re
bo
0088," beforo tho regular session
gins in Decombcr.
CONGRESS AT AN END.
Sixty-First Adjourns Without Acting
on Big Measures.
Washington. The Sixty-first con
gross, heedlc&s 'of oho of tho most Im
portant legislative tasks Bet beforo it,
came to. an end shortly aftor noon
Saturday. Within tho hodr following
President Tnft had Issued a proclama
tlon calling tho now congress to moot
In extraordinary session at noon on
Tiiosday, April 4. Ho wlllthen sub
mit for ratification to a houso over
whelmlngly democratic, tho reciproci
ty ngreemont with Canada.
Bin Fire at Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Minn. Ono of tho
most disastrous urea this city has
ovor,known destroyed on Sunday the
Syndlcnto block on Nicollet avonuo,
betweon Fifth and Sixth streets. Tho
total loss Is cstlmatod at $1,000,000,
Mrs. Schuyler Colfax Dead. .
South Rend, Ind. Mrs. Ellon Wado
Colfax, 73 years old, widow of VIco
President Colfax, died hero Sundny
after an Illness of soveral months
Sh'o wns a nlcco of Senator Den Wndo
ot Ohio.
Extra Session Date.
Washington. It was nt tho request
of the 'democrats of tho house and
tho sonato that the prosldont fixed
tho date for tho boglnnlng ot tho
extra session at April 4.
Reign of Terror In Haytl.
Capo Haytlon, Hriytl. This city
is
experiencing n rolgn of terror ap
proaching that of 1908 whon citizens
suspooted of disloyalty to President
Alexis wero tnkon from their homes
at night and shot
Lorlmer Welcomed Home.
Chicago. Admirers of Senator Wll
Ham Lorlmer to tho number of sev
eral thousand, groetod him hero Sun
day upon his return from Washing
ton. Two hundred nnd fifty automo
biles, forming a parade with two
bands, escorted tho senator from the
station to his residence, whero an
enthusiastic recoptlon followed. Sen
ator Larimer was accompanied by for
mer Judgo Ifanea and llvo dotectlves
who mot him at Fort Wayno, Ind. Ho
was given a noisy welcome by a great
crowd.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEP.
News Notes of Interest from Various?
Sections. "" .
Tho revival' meetings at Table Rock
closed with ovor thirty conversions.
Over 100 laymen of tho Methodist
church attended tho recent convention.
In Grand Island.
Thero Is a movement in Lincoln te
close the poBtofilca on Sunday. There
is somo opposition to tho Innovation.
Superintendent of Schools aHrrlsot
Jefferson county attended the meet-
ln of national superintendents at
Mobllo, Ala.
Tho Midwest hospital, which has.
icen conducted In Hoidrego for sev
eral years, Is to bo changed into &
rooming house.
Oscar Grlssom of Beatrice pleaded.
guilty in pollco court to tho charge
of wlfo beating nnd was sentenced,
to sixty days In the county Jail.
At Beatrlco tho 8-year-old son or
William Malwald was run over by a.
wagon loaded with oats nnd probably
fatally Injured. Ho Is paralyzed from,
tho waist down.
Miss Hattlo Woodbury, tho eldest
daughter of George E. Woodbury, who
lived with her parents in St Paul was
found dead in bed, bIio having died
during" the night.
Tho pollco have decided to Btop
gambling In Nebraska City and with
thnt end in view they arrested Fred
McLaughlan, Pnul Holsncr and th&
colored porter at the Grand hotel.
Thoy rounded up threo strangers after
wards shooting craps and tho lattor
woro given ten minutes In which to
leavo tho city, and tho first threo aro
to bo held fqr trial.
Five now damage suits against tho-
Burlington, growing out of tho flood.
of July C, 1908-, havo been Instituted
In district court of Lancaster county
by proporty owners whoso holdings
were sltunted in tho inundated dis
trict and who allege that the realty
was damaged and their personnl pro
perty and growing crops were de
strqyed by tho overflow.
A serious lire occurred at Crete. It
started In a hnv shed and in n mo
mont half a block, Including a Fair
mont station and Radamakor's lum
ber shed on Twolfth and Now Hamp
shire street, was a mass of flames. A
hard wind fnnncd the blaze and many
residences wero In danger until tho
llamos woro held under control by tho
firemen with threo etreamB of water.
Tho fire la believed to havo been
started by somo school boys smok
ing near several tons of baled hay.
Tho convention ot Royal Nolghbors
closed nt Kearney when after a
stormy session Mrs. W. F. Morrill,
representing tho Omaha Commercial
cldb and tho Douglas county delega
tions, won tho fight for tho next tri
ennial state convention which will bo
held In tho state metropolis. Mrs.
Kato Remington, of Omaha, was en
dorsed almost unnnlmously for tho
election to tho supremo board of man
agers to bo hold In Denver.
Mrs. H. H. Hoer of Wymore, whoso
husband Is in tho county Jail at Ma
rysvlllo, Kan., awaiting trlnl on tho
chargo of belrg implicated In the
Hanover, Kan., bank robbery, reple
vied tho autotnobllo which sho
claims belongs to her and In which
tho bank robbers are supposed to
have made their escapo. The coroner
so;no time ago attempted to replevin
tlio enr from Sheriff Schick, but
failed.
Deputy Stato Veterinarian Bostrom
has Issued notico relating to the re
moval 6f quarantine from several
counties in th'o western part of tho
state. Tho notico reads: "Whereas it
part ot tho stato ot Nebraska has
been placed undor quarantine for cat-
tlo scabies by tho federal government
and whereas tho honorable secretary
of agriculture and tho chief of tho
bureau of animal Industry havo de
cided to remove on January 15, 1910,
said federal quarantlno from tho
counties of Custer, Dawson and. Boyd,
nnd on August 1, 1910, tho counties
of Hayes, Hitchcock, Chase and Dun
dy, wo also approvo of removal ot
quarantlno from said counties."
Miss Hazel Robinson and Miss
Mao Brennan of Hastings were qulto
badly hurt by being run ovor by an
auto which was driven by L, Phillips,
formerly ot Sutton but now of Has
tings. Tho young women were cross
ing tho intersection nt Hastings avo
nuo and Second street whon tho ac
cident happened.
Tho majority of wide-awake corn
growers realize tho advantnge of test
ing tho germination of their seed corn
boforo planting. Tho "ear to row"
mothod of Improving corn- has em
phasized tho need of selecting seed
corn on the ear. Although the appa
ratus required for testing tho germi
nation of enr corn need not zo expens
ive, still It la belloved that there aro
ma'ny who hesitate to undertake this
work through fear that It will involvo
tho expenditure ot much tlmo and la
bor, To satisfy this demand and to
arouso a greater Interest In corn im
provement, the Nobrnska Seed La
boratory has arranged to make slnglo
oar germination tests of seod corn for
Nobrnska farmers, Not moro than
fifty tests, however, can bo mado for
ono person.
Dr. Phillip Bartholomew of Blue
Hill was bound ovor by Judge But
ton for trlnl In tho district court of
Adams county on tho chargo of as
saulting Miss Elaine Hyatt of Hast
ings with felonious Intent Bond wns
fixed' at $3,000 and sureties wero
quickly furnished.
Tho suit brought against tho Union
Pacific for violating tho anti-pass law
bill, Issuing a pass to Dr. F. A. Gra
ham,! district surgeon at Lincoln, was
reversed by the supremo court on tho
solo ground that tho state failed to
provo that tho offense was committed
In Lancaster county.
Hamilton voting no.
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