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W. W. SANDERS, Prop.
NEMAHA,
NEBRASKA
Grunt opportunities exist In Spain
for American farm Implements.
Among Mowers tho chrysanthemum
Ik said to II vo tlio longest after being
cut.
Germnny sends 2U.000.000 feathers a
year to Midland for millinery pur
poses. rerhaps London did not care for
"The College Widow" because it had
never met her.
Every father of seven or more chil
dren Is practically exempt from taxa
tion in France.
With a big deficit In her budget
Jailan Is not yearning for war at the
present moment.
HnlHiill lsihard manfoTdll. A face
like his would have been tho death
of an ordinary man long ago.
Tho collection or anthropoid apes In
the Regent's Park Hardens, London, is
the llncst ever brought together.
A lecturer assorts that American
babies cry because they are overfed.
How In tho world did ho over Hnd out?
Ogden Armour carries only $2.50
Willi him when he is In Hut-ope. Ho
doesn't want to bo tempted to over
tip tho waiters.
A Columbus, O., man saved ills life
by clinging to a mule's tall. Tho grave
yards aro full of men who tried, this
method and failed.
Ono firm of lour men having their
headquarters near the Illinois river
gather $100,000 worth of pelts every
year, which aro sent to Europe.
A Philadelphia, doctor says now
that It Is whiskered men that make
kissing dangerous. lie must have a
friend In tho safety razor business.
Cuba exported $l,s:i0,02:i worth of
tobacco, $9G5,:$10 worth of cigars, $24,
284 worth of cigarettes and $11,555
worth of cut tobacco in March, 1908.
Thcro arc 300 paint factories in this
country, making over 100,000,000 gal
lons of paint a year and tho business
demand is increasing faster than the
facilities.
If tho matter were to be put to a
votes of males between. 10 and 20, tho
schools would' bo closed and nil mathe
matical problems would bo worked out
on score enrds.
Tho 'symptoms aro that tho print
paper and wood pulp schedule will
have to wait and take its chances
with tho others. Mennwhilo it will
remnin sacrosanct.
Depositors of a busted Japaneso
bank havo formally requested tho
president to commit suicide, whereas
In this country tho depositors aro ex
pected to do that.
It is reported that a well-known
football player Is suffering from tho
effects of overstudy. This sounds ex
tremely like a story that can bo cor
rectly classed with tho nature fakes.
Gold has been discovered In tho
Philippines. Thoso islands may yet
pay handsomely. Alaska was long
called "Seward's Folly." But It Is ono
of tho finest Investments any country
ever mado.
A young man in Now York was ar
rested for kissing girls on tho street,
but explained ho kissed them because
seeing so mnny pretty girls sot him
crazy. What a wave of osculation
would strike Baltimore, exclaims tho
Baltimore American, if tho number of
pretty girls turned mascullno headB
llko that.
Franco 1b confronting a serious prob
lem In tho excess of the death rate
over tho birth rate. It Is moro than
a national It Is a world tragedy for
a nation so conspicuous in history
and in romance, in poetry and gallant
achievement as France to bo com
pelled to face, even remotely, the pros
pect of dying out.
A foreign nobleman who has been
visiting in this country says that
American girls aro foolish to marry
for titles, as tho titled husbands are
no good and do not represent tho best
of their class. He need not bo giving
this out for information, after tho ti
tled fortuno hunters themselves havo
been doing everything in their power
to publish broadcast tho samo knowl
edge. A new German law provides that
tho Gorman language shall bo used at
all public meetings in all parts of
tho empire. This Is part of tho sys
tematic effort to bring about tho Gor
manlzatlon of Alsaco, Germnn Poland
and tho Danish districts of Schleswig
Holstein. Tho number of people af
fected is nbout 4,500,000. Language
is tho mightiest implement of con
quest.
NEBRASKA NEWS
GRAND ISLAND MAN A SUICIDE
AT COUNCIL BLUFFS.
ACCUSED OF DIAMOND THEFT
Was Engaged to be Married to
Iowa Young Woman Next Month
Employer Confident of
His Innocence.
Robert. TJrown, son of E. R. Brown
of Grand Island, Neb., who lias been a
resident of Council Bluffs for nearly
a year, committed suicide Thursday.
It has not, been determined whether
Brown was driven to tho act through
ovor-FonsIllvoness or fear or exposure
of tho alleged theft of two diamonds
of the value of $150. His employer
's firm In believing Brown guiltless.
Last .December Homer Scarr, a bank
clerk, had two diamonds stolen from
!i!s loom. Blown ni the time roomed
across tho hall. Scarr scouted the
idea that Brown had taken the stones
and would not consent to an inquiry
with liim as the suspected person.
Brown was engaged to bo married
next month to Miss Margaret Coylo of
Council Bluffs. Recently Miss Coylo
was' given a diamond by Brown and
Brown was seen wearing another
stone. Scarr's father and tho chief
.... ;y;..s?s.
CHURCH AT LOUISVILLE TIPPED
of police quetsioucd Brown about, tho
diamonds, Brown declaring his mother
had given them to him. Brown con
sented to bring tho stone he had at
his room to the station for examina
tion. After an hour's wait tho chief
telephoned Brown's rooming bouse,
when tho discovery of Brown's sui
cide waB made. Tho affair lias cre
ated a sensation. Brown was an ex
emplary young man and had made
many friends. Ho was 20 years old.
INCREASE IN LAND VALUES.
$6,000,000 Boost Reported in Red Wil
low County.
Tho predicted boosting of tho as
sessed valuation of tho state which
Ii was thought would be caused large
3y through tho increased valuation of
real estate is borne out by a report
of the county clerk of Red Willow
county to Secretary of State .lunkin.
Tho report shows that real estate in
Red Willow county was last year
listed at $4,444,150 full value and this
year it was increased to $10,300,000.
From overy quarter comes reports of
a large increase in real estate. Othor
properly is also supposed to show an
increase, but tlio greatest is looked
for In real estate for the reason that
tills is the first revaluation of land
since tho ei-.iotmont of tho general
revenue law. This law provides for
nlufiip: land every four yeas, while
personal property is listed each year.
When the present revonuo law first
went Into effect it was said real es
tato was not valued at Its actual
worth. The railroad tax commission
ers have since used this statement as
an argument In favor of the lowering
of their taxes or an lncroaso in land
values. This year tho new county
assessors wore cautioned by the state
board to assess all property at its full
value and the results are now up
1 earing. The total assessed value of
ail tho property in Nebraska last year
was $329,413,349. Beforo tlio county as
sessors went, to work It was predicted
that this would bo Increased tills year
to $:!50,000,000. Tho state board will
oot tjiko up the work or equalizing
between counties and clauses of prop
erty in counties until It complotes tlio
raluatlon of railroad property and
also adjusts values of railroad prop
erty In towns under tlio terminal tax
law.
Paid Inheritance Tax.
Tho estato of tlio lato Ford Lewis
of Beatrice Thursday paid tlio sum of
$1,440.05 into the county tres.sury un
der tho inlierltanco tax law. This is
tho first of tho cases settleil which
were recently begun against tho es
tates by tlio county attorney.
FALLS UPON CIRCULAR SAW.
Fllley Man' so B?.dly Cut He Cannot
Live.
Willlain Kay, a young man who has
been working on the farm of Charles
Hagerman, about two miles south ol
Fllley, was fatally injured about five
o'clock Thursday afternoon while
working around a sawmill. Kay was
helping saw cottonwood lumber and
was struck by the log carrier while
near the machine. He wns thrown
upon the swiftly revolving saw, light
ing upon it on ills left shoulder. He
was unable to save himself, though
tho machine was stopped as quickly
as possible. His left arm was almost
severed from his body and a deep
gash was cut In liis hack, through
which his heart and lungs were plain
ly visible. Kay is 24 years of age
and has been working for Mr. Hager
man for some time. His mother liven
in Colorado. He is a grandson of Mr
and Mrs. William Smith of Fllley.
PARSONAGES NOT TAXABLE.
If Owned by Church and Not Rented
for Profit.
Parsonages owned by church or
ganizations and not rented for profit
arc exempt from taxation. This Is
the decision of the state board of
equalization and taxation. Under the
recent law property used exclusively
for religious purposes is exempt
from taxation. In some counties
parsonages aro not occupied and in
many Instances assessors have taxed
them, but there has been no uniform
ity throughout the state. As the tax
ation of property has been completed
s A.
OVER BY RECENT CYCLONE.
by county assessors this ruling comes
too late to be applied -by the asses
sors this year, but it is supposed the
state board can strike out all such
property when It revlevs tlio work
of assessors. Under tho old revenue
law many disputes and several suits
were instituted to settle the right of
churches to have property that was
used as a parsonage exempted from
taxation. In some cases the churches
rented residences from private par
ties and then asked for exemption.
Under the ruling mado by the state
board all this is cleared up, though
there is nothing to prevent persons
from appealing to the courts. Tho
state board rules that parsonages
owned by a church organization,
who! her vacant or occupied by a pas
tor, and not rented to 'other persons
for profit, are exempt from taxation.
NEBRASKA MAN IS PROMOTED
John R. Berg Given Place of Respon
sibility at Washington.
In t ho reorganization of the govern
ment, printing ofllco at Washington
by Public Printer Leach, John R.
Berg of Nebraska gets a good place
Mr. Berg, formerly chief of the Con
gressional Record division or the
office, lias been promoted to tlio office
of superintendent of work. Ho will
have charge of the mechanical out
put of the big piintery. Mr. Berg
camo to Washington from Nebraska
City as compositor on the Congres
sional Record in 1SS3. We was with
in four years thereafter promoted to
proof reader, and in 1897 was made
assistant foreman of the Congres
sional Record division. In 1903 he
was made foreman, which position
he resigned to accept his promotion.
Test Free High School Law.
The free high school law passed
by tlio last legislature Is to bo the
subject or a combined attack from
seevral school, districts in Richardson
county for tlio purposo of testing the
validity or this act. For 12 years va
rious persons in tlu office of the state
.superintendent have tried to secure
tlio adoption of a valid freo high
school law, a law that will permit a
pupil living in a district whore there
is no high school to attend a high
school, tho cost of his tuition to be
paid by a county or district tax. Two
or three such laws havo been de
clared unconstitutional by the su
premo court. Sonator King of Polk
introduced S. F. 217 in tlio last leg
Isiaturo and it became a law. It pro
vides for tlio payment of 75 cents a
week by each non-resident pupil, the
district of his residence to raise the
money by taxation,
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From ail
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
efit of Our Readers.
Miscellaneous.
Caleb Powers, ex-secretary of state
of Kentucky, twice sentenced to death
for killing Gov. CJoobel at Frankfort
and .lames Howard, an alleged accom
plice, have been pardoned by Gov.
Willson. The case has attracted in
terest throughout the country and
thousands of petitions have been pre
sented to Gov. Willson asking that tho
men bo set free.
A Whitehead torpedo containing 220
pounds of gun cotton wns exploded
against tlio monitor Florida at James
town, Va. Tho vessel withstood tlio
explosion and the test was declared a
decided success by naval oHiccrs.
The conductors and motorinen on
the Joplin & Pittsburg railway havo
gone on a strike.
Twenty-seven persons were danger
ously Injured when a Missouri, Kansas
&. Texas passenger train plunged from
the track into from three to, live feet
of water near Clinton, Mo.
One person was killed outright and
three others probably fatally injured
when a "Roller Coaster" train Jumped
the track at a Denver pleasure resort.
In the Republican primary of South
Dakota Senntor Kittridge was defeated
for renomination by Gov. Crawford bj
2,700 majority.
In an explosion and fire which par
tially destroyed the packing plant of
Morris & Co. at Kansas City, one man
was killed outright and four others
Injured, one fatally. The monetary
loss will be upward of $200,000. The
firemen were handicapped by tho
flood waters of the Kaw river which
surrounded the buildings to a depth of
three feet.
The Lucitania clipped seven min
utes from the record of her sister ship,
the Mauretania, on her last trip from
Queenstown to New York. The time
was four days, 20 hours and eight
minutes.
Roy Skibbe. a 12-year-old boy, was
drowned in the flood at Topeka.
In the capitol graft cases at Harris
burg. Pa., the jury was ordered to
acquit ex-Treasurer Snyder, ex-Auditor
Mathlus and the ex-superintendent of
ground 6(1 buildings, Shumalter.
Chester" A. 6'Connell, a machinist,
was taken from a freight car at New
York crazed from want of food and
water. He had boarded the train at
Jacksonville, Fla., and had been locked
in for seven dnys.
By means of the vote of Senator
Foelker of Brooklyn, who was taken to
Albany from a sick bed, both of Gov.
Hughes' anti-race track gambling bills
were passed by the New York senate
by one vote. The bills will become a
law at once.
Tho president and Secretary Taft
have served notice on Panama that
the coming election must be conduct
ed fairly. If It Is otherwise the United
States will intervene.
As the result of the recent local op
tion elections held in Oregon 270 sa
loons havo been abolished.
Seven persons were injured at
Cleveland, O., when a charge of dyna
mite was exploded under a street car.
Thieves broke the display window in
the jewelry store of Hyman, Berg &.
Co. of Chicago and escaped with CO
gold watches and miscellaneous jew
elry valued at $15,000.
The jury in the case of Raymond
Hitchcock, tlio comedian, lias returned
a verdict at New York of acquittal. He
was charged with mistreating young
girls.
Twenty-two thousand visitors at
tended the Confederate reunion at Bir
mingham, Ala.
The Kaw river reached 28.5 feet
above low water mark at Kansns City
this year, just ono foot higher than the
flood of 1904.
At their annual convention In Mil
waukee there were 1,000 brewers pres
ent representing an aggregate capital
of $080,000,000 and giving employment
to 2,000,000 persons. Their annual out
put is 58,540,000 barrels of beer.
The flood conditions at Kansas City
wero worse this year than in 1904.
Business on the live stock exchnnge
wns entirely suspended owing to tho
yards being flooded.
R. P. Duncan, a leading attorney of
Stanberry, .Mo., apparently without
cause, shot down City Marshal Butler
in a crowd of 40 men. Butler will die.
Daniel F. Kollar, former captain in
tho United States army, has been con
victed of stealing blank checks D-om
tho quartermaster at Fort Sheridan.
A decrease of more than 22,000 in
the number of idle freight cars in tlio
latter half of May Is shown by a re
port of the American Railway associ
ation. In the local option election at El
dorado Springs, Mo., tho liquor ele
ment won by a piajoiity of 35.
Frank Good, a young former near
Peabody, Kan., killed his three moth-,
erless children and then committed,
suicide. Despondency over the death
of his wife who died last month is
given as the cause.
Rumors that Attorney General Bona
parte was to resign are positively de
nied at the White House.
The big rail mill of the United
States Steel corporation at Ensley,
Ala., lias resumed operations.
Dr. David Jayne Hill, the American
Ambassador to Germany was received
in audience by Emperor William at
Berlin and warmly greeted. Dr. Hill
succeeds Charlemagne Tower at Ber
lin. Senator Warner of Missouri is
slated by the Taft managers as chair-i
map of the committee to notify the!
secretary of war of his nomination.
William K. Vanderbilt's colt, North-!
east, won the Grand Prix race atl
Paris which is wortli tills year about.
$72,000.
The National Republican Committee-
lias decided a.l the contests submitted
to it, Involving 219 seats in the con
vention. Secretary Taft was given 21 G
delegates and Senator Foraker 3.
The Allison Glass works of Cen
tralia, III., employing 1100 men has
filed n petition in bankruptcy.
Heavy rains throughout central Kan
sas have caused the rivers to rise
again and another flood along tho Kaw
is predicted.
The Standard Oil company lias been
convicted of rebating in the federal
court at Rochester, N. Y. The maxi
mum fine that can be assessed is
$800,000.
W. B. Kirkpatrlck of Topeka has
been elected president of the Knights
and Ladies of Security. John B. Abra
hams of Topeka was elected secretary.
While attempting to save the lire of
ills mother Ben Bird, an 18-year-old
farmer boy living near Pittsburg, Kan.,
choked his father to death.
William Davis Ely; the oldest alum
nus of Yale and a member of the class
of 183(5, Is dead In Providence, R. I.,
aged 92 years.
' David Conway, a watchman at a
Frisco bridge near Muskogee, Olc, was
killed and robbed by four bandits who
escaped on a hand car.
Tho railroads have united for a fight
on two-cent passenger rates, not only
on the reasonableness of the rate but
on the power of states to enact and
inforce them, and Missouri has been
selected as the battle ground.
A registered mail pouch said to con
tain more than $50,000 disappeared re
cently at Kansas City while in transit
from Los Angeles, Cal., to New York.
While reluctantly admitting the dis
appearance tho pasta! authorities re
fuse to make public any of the details.
Edward VI L, king of England, and
Emperor Nicholas of Russia recently
held a notable conference at Reval,
Russia, which may have a far-reaching
effect on future world policies.
Eastern business men have appealed
to Secretary Taft to use his influence
with the Republican national conven
tion In favor of a declaration for a
credit currency.
Tho supremo court of Illinois has
disbarred George J. Monroe, Frederick
Kingsland and Daniel Webber, attor
neys of Chicago, for- unprofessional
conduct.
The steel trust lias announced a re
duction in tho price of finished prod
ucts in the form of billets, bars, plates,
structural Iron, merchant pipe and
wire nails.
The National Federation of Millers
held their annual convention in De
troit recently.
Tho corporation commission of Ok
lahoma announce that a reduction ol
from 25 to 40 per cent in express rates
is soon to be made in that state.
The Harvester trust made a profit
of $11 ,22S.:S 1 7 during 1907.
Personal
Blind Tom, the famous negro mu
sician who has been exhibited through
out the world, is dead in Hoboken, N.
J. He was born a slave in Georgia
about 1850.
Frederick Arthur Stanley, earl ol
Derby, is dead In London. As Lord
Stanley lie was governor general of
Canada in 18SS-93.
Senator Bailey of Texas was oper
ated upon in Now York recently for
throat trouble. He is rapidly improv
ing. Petitions are being circulated in Illi
nois for the nomination on the Demo
cratic ticket of John Mitchell, former
head of the miners union, for the of
fice of governor.
Gov. Hughes of New York has em
phatically reiterated his former de
claration that under no circum
stances would he accept the nomina
tion for vice president from the Re
publican national convention.
David B. Hill, the New York Demo
cratic leader, has sailed tor Europe
on his iirst trip across the Atlantic.
Gov. Curtis Guild of Massachusetts
is an avowed candidate for the ofllco
of vico president on tho Republican
ticket. His name will bo presented to
tho Chicago convention by Senator
Lodge.
Col. John F. Flnerty, the leader of
the Fenian raid on Canada in the latte
60's, is dead in Chicago.