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CAPITAL CITY NEWS ITEM8 OF INTEREST AROUND THE STATE HOUSE. THE WORK OF THE LAW MAKERS Legislative Facta and Gossip Newo of the State Caplt I. Dr. Avery Acting Chancellor. Dr. Samuel Avery, head profeaaor of chomiatry waa unanlinoiiHly elected acting chancellor or the Unlvoruity of Nobraaka hy the hoard of rogonta thin week. Dr. Avery will begin lila dutioa January I, when Chancellor E. Hen Jam In Andrews' resignation taken effoct. Profeaaor Avory wan horn In 1805, at Lemolllo, IlllnolH. Fie took hlu drat degreo at Doane college, graduating from therein 1'887. He look hla H, S. dogreo at the University of Nebraska, graduating from there In 1807- In 1890 Profeaaor Avory took hla doetor'a degree at Heldlohorg. Profeaaor Avery's career haa not boon ono of apectacular, hut of aleady and conalatent progrcas. lie came di rectly to the University of Nobraaka after leaving Heldleherg aa an adjunct profeaaor of chemlalry. Ho waa hero until 1802, when he went to the Uni- Or. 8amuel Avery, Acting Chancellor. voralty of Idaho aa professor of chom latry and chomlat of the agricultural experiment atatlon. Ho was there un til 1891, when he returned to tho Uni versity of Nobraaka aa profeaaor of analytical and organic chemistry. In 1002 ho became professor of agricul tural chemistry and chemist nt tho "Uulvoralty of Nebraska experiment atatlon. In 1905 he became head pro fessor of chemistry In this unlvcralty, which poaltlon ho haa held evor alnco. ProrosBor Avory haa contributed considerable to modorn ehemlcal liter a tare. He la tho author of station bul letins on aromatic glutorlc aclda and tho constitution of parlB green, otc. Ho Is also tho Joint author of Nicholson and Avery'a "Exorclaoa In Ohomlstry." q Ib a member of tho American Chem ical society and the Gorman Chemical society of Berlin. Must Enlarge State House. Jf tho legislature adopt b tho recom mendation which State Land Commls Blonor II. W, Eaton will embody In his biennial report It will hustle and mako room for more state offlcors or ab!lsh some of tho stato departments which it haa created. Sovon judges of tho supreme court must be given olllco rooma In tho stato houao and there are nono to spare unless radical rearrangement of rooms Is made. Mr. Eaton recommends threo ways out of tho trouble. Ho will ask tho loglBlaturo to abolish somo of tho now dopartmonts It has eroatod or fit up tho basement for ofllco rooms, or move tho state library and tho department of Justice to tho proposed historical building across the Btreet from tho capltol grounds. Tho latter can bo dono If tho logls laturc makea appropriation for a his torical building largo enough to ac commodate both tho Hoclcty and the departments which It la proposed to hoiiBO in the building. No Banquet for Sheldon. Out of doferonco to tho vlowa of Governor Sheldon tho banquet to have heon given In hia honor January 5 In Lincoln, has been abandoned 'by the committee which haa been making ar rangements for the affair. Tho committee lusued the following statement: "In view of the fact that there seemed to he no lilting time for the proposed banquet prior to the In augural week of the In coming admin Iteration, Governor Sheldon thought II Inexpedient to Interrupt the uplrlt of that occaalou with a demoiiHtrallon more or lea aporenal to himself. Out of deference, therefore, to hla vlewa tho committee haa eiineellod all the banquet arrangements." Warden Beemer's Report. Warden Hoomer'a report of tho atate penltentlory for the paat two ycara ahowa that at present there aro 433 convlcta Incarcerated, of which 334 aro whlto ,and 89, or 21 per cont aro negroea. Tho census of 1000 ahowa that the white population of tho atalc la 1,050,520 and the n .gro populations ua 0,209, hut little moro than alx-tonths of one per cent, Thla Indicates that thirty-live tlmoa aa many negroea are In tho penitentiary aa there are whltca In proportion to tho population. The population of the state peniten tiary November 30, 1908, waa 433. Of thla number 33 1 were white, 89 colored, 9 Indiana and 1 Japaneae. Five wore women of which two were white and three were colored. Tho whlto con vlcta are one to each 3,710 of tho Btato; tho, colored convlcta are ono to each thirty-four of the colored population; Indians aro ono to each 309. Two of the prisoners arc aentenced to he hanged, thlrty-alx to life Imprlaon mont, thirty have aentonccB from fif teen to thirty years, and the remaind er threo months to fourteen yoara. Tho convicts earned during the paat two years for the state $71,323.81 which la paid Into tho state treasury. Cost of Maintaining Soldiers' Home. The per capita cost of maintaining tho Boldlera home at Grand Inland for tho year 1907, waa $198.00. according, to the report of Commandant D. W. Hoyt, and for tho year 1908, It was $100.49. Tho total value of producta ralaed on tho farm during the blennlum waa $20,571.14 of which there la now on hand products of the value of $2,308.10. At the close of the blennlum there arc In the homo 247 men and 112 women; thirty were absent on furlough. The not loss in membership during the past year was twenty-four. During tho pre vious year the not loss was thirty. In 1907 thore were forty-one deaths and In 1908 thore were fifty-two deaths. The population of the soldiers' home at Miirord, December 1, 1900, as shown hy tho biennial report filed with tho governor hy Joseph PreBsou, comman dant, Is 183. There were received dur ing the blenniuin 100; discharged and died 132; members December 1, 1908, 151 of -which 143 aro men and eight are women. Organization of New Legislature. As Is natural tho matter of the house speakership presents the most inter esting Held lor speculation. At least half a dozon candidates for the speak ership aro known and It is not unlikely that these will he added to, when tho mombers collect and tho real active canvass is made just previous to the opening of tho session. At tho present tlmo the leading can didates for tho palco are Ralph Clark of Richardson county, C. W. Pool of Johnson, II. R. Henry of Holt, A. H. Bowman or Nuckolls and W. J. Tay lor of Custer. It Is presumed that Douglas county will have a candldato and cither W. S. Shoemaker or W. S. Stoecker are picked for the candldatq to got tho support of tho delegation. For secretary of the senato four candidates have entered tho field, E. A. Walrath, editor of the Osceola Dem ocrat and socrotary of tho populist stato committee; W. H. Smith, editor of tho Seward Indopendcnt-Doniocrat; Davis of Ord and J. R. Hunter of Sioux county. Report of Hastings Asylum. Tho report of W. 13. Kerns, superin tendent of the llaallngsMnsano asylum, was filed with tho governor this week. This showB that on December 1, 190G, thero woro 972 patients In the hospital, 004 of whom woro mon and 308 woro women. During tho two years just ended 433 patients were admitted to tho asylum, 255 being men and 178 be ing women; 227 patients have been re turned in that tlmo from parolo; 170 havo boon discharged, 44 paroled, and 103 havo died. Thero Is a total of 1,045 patients now Incarcerated. The dally average nttowjinco has 'been 1,023 for tho entire blennlum. Tho average cost por year of maintenance foots up $150.83. Tho superintendent says that ho Is glad tho name of tho Institution was changed from "The Hospital for tho Incurable Insane," to "Tho Nebras ka Stato Hispital." Under tho now management fifty-throe counties aro now responsible to this Institution and tho remaining to the other hospitals for tho Insano. Reports of State Institutions. Reports from state institutions now on filo with the govornor bIiow thn( with two excoptlons tho seven Instltu tlons reporting cost loss por capita for tho six months onillng November 30, than for tho samo period in 1907. The two showing an Increase per capita coat over tho same porlod hit t year aro tho Industrial school for girls at Ge neva and the Institute for tho blind at Nobraaka City. Tho per capita coHt for tho six months ending No vember 30 for ouch year la as follows; 1907 1908 Asylum, Lincoln 92 55 $ R0.30 Holdlera' Homo. G. I. 107.55 103.71 Suldlora' Home, Mil ford 07.91 85.30 luM. for mind 137.31 141.23 Deaf and Dumb Ihat., SI. 21 83,311 lloja' Imlt. School... 110.95 117.01 UlrJa' Indt. School.,. 93.81 113.37 OF ITEMS OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE OVER THE 8TATE. THE PRESS, PULPIT AND PUBLIC What Is Going On Here and There That Is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Ne- braska. Rules Against Sales to Minors. According to the ruling of tho board of fire and police commlaslonors thore are no conditions under which a minor can buy Intoxicating liquor In South Omaha. It makes no difference If tho minor produces a written order from his parents the aaloonnian must refuse to produce the, boozo. This order was promulgated at tho meeting of tho board Friday evening and Is considered to bo one of tho best ord ors that the board has thus far given out. The order was brought about by the hearing of tho Unzlckcr case. It was charged that Unzieker sold liquor to a minor. The aaloonman produced evidence to show that tho goods had been sold on an order from tho par ents. Tho case was dismissed. Whittlesey in Bartcn's Place. F. C. Whittlesey has been appointed as grand recorder of tho Ancient Or der of United Workmen to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation of S. It. Barton, who has been olected au ditor of stato, the resignation to take effect January 1. It Is expected that he will be a candidate for election at the next biennial grand lodge session to be held in May. He mis for many years been a chief clerk In the grand recorder's office. It was rumored dur ing the campaign that A. Galusha. ex secrotary of state, would succeed to this position, but thero appears to have been no foundation for the rum or. Bankruptcy 'Proceedings. August Wagner of Columbus, ref eree in bankruptcy, held a session at Schuyler Wednesday In the matter of H U. Woods, bankrupt. Tho bankrupt himself and an officer of the First Na tional bank were examined In an ef fort to lessen the holdings of tho bank In his property and Increase tho fund for general creditors, and In this they mot with some success. Mr. Woods was formerly a building contractor and at one time did some work for tho state. More recently ho has been In the lumber and coal business until his creditors forced him into involun tary bankruptcy. Raisinq Money for Academy. Only $2,500 remains to be raised for tho purcnase of the abandoned convent property at Hastings for the Domini-1 can sisters, who proposo to establish ' an academy therein. Tho property was formerly used as a Catholic con vent. .After the convent was closed tho property was taken over by St. Louis investors on foreclosure pro ceedings and, although It cost upwards 1 00,000. it can now he bought for $S,000. The Dominican sisters will establish an academy if tho property Is deeded to them free of debt. Partners In Crime to Pm. Mrs. Matilda Rusor, and her para mour, John Slagle, hold on the charge of shooting Emll Rusor with intent to kill, pleaded guilty to the chargo be fore Judge Estolle in district court In session at Papilllon. Tho shooting occurred nearly two months ago on tho farm occupied by Rusor, south of Papilllon. Slagle worked for Ruser. Judge Estelle sentenced tho man to six yoars in tho penitentiary and tho woman to one year. Tho prisoners will remain in tho Douglas county jail until taken to Lincoln. Will Surrender Charter. At n meeting of tho members of Goorgo H. Thomas post. No. 171, G. A. R nt Ainsworth. Wednesday after noon, it was voted to surrender the charter as thero aro not enough mem bers left to fill the olllccs of the or ganization. A new organization was ofTected to look after tho needy sol diers and their families. Harsnberger & Jantze, a firm that 1 has been in tho automobile business at Aurora, havo rented tho east room of tho building occupied hy Perry Bradley's blacksmith shop, at Soward, and will open up an automobllo garage there as soon aa tho roadii got In con dition to move their machines. Man Killed at Grand Island. R It. Rhkey. n harbor, aged twon- two-year?, whose homo was at Joy, 1 i .,, down niul torrlbly man-, glnd and probably Instantly klllo.l in tho Vnlon Paolllo yards at Grand lal and ThurHduy iilgnt by passenger trulu No 11, going wost about 3s 15 a. m. NEWS NEBRASKA NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS. State News and Notes In Condense Form. Valentino wanta a humuno society. J. G. Burdick has sold his harness shop at Aurora to R. C. Machamer. Thero is a complaint throughout tho country over tho Bhortagc of eggs. Tho Wayno normal will open Its winter term on Monday, December 28. The big chicken show at Nebraska City will be pulled off December 22 24. The State bank of Bartloy has In creased its paid up cupital stock tq $10,000. Sportsmen who kill jack rabbits say that they arc very fat and makq fine eating. Ed Conkel nns sold his elchtv-ncro farm north of Sterling to Fred ben- son for $90 per acre. A $25,000 Bchool building will be erected at Gibbon. A man at Arling ton has the contract. The village streets at Llnwood are being nicely graded and put in good, condition for the winter. Tho county clerk of Cuming county issued fifty hunting licenses up to the first of the month, this fall. ; Meadow Grove appears qui to chesty over its citizen, W. H. Pringlc, wno Is one hundred and three years old. Joseph Ord was hurt near Auburn by trying to handle too many horses, at one time. Ho is about eighty years' old. Adam Bowers is making arrange ments on his Banner county ranch to feed 2,700 sheep, and he will boou shin them in. The total amount of farm mortgages filed in Gage county during the past month was $42,110. and those released footed up $59,438. Miss Dessie McCutchcon. formerly of Cambrlde. has been elected aunor-! intendent of tho Kit Carson county, Colorado schools. Mrs. P. J. Gllman has lived In North Platte for forty years, and on Thanksgiving the lady properly cele brated the event. L. S. Ncedham, of Wayne county, shipped Hvo cars of cattle to the Chi cago market and realized $7.25 per hundred for them. A detail of soldiers Is making head quarters at Murdock while preparing, a map of that section of tho country for government use. Charles W. Connor, a pioneer of Furnas county, died in the poor house at that place a few days ago. Ho was seventy-eight yoars old. The old street car rails must go at Beatrice. The council has ordered that they must bo torn out of tho, street and taken away for good. During the month of Novembcn thero were filed with the county clerk of Adams county mortgages amount ing to $18,45G.93 and 12,85S.0G were, released. Nebraska's alfalfa crop for 1908 Willi amount to 1,846,708 tons; tho tame hay cron will be 2,001,538 tons; wild' hay, 4.06G.40V tons; potatoes will pan.' out 8,531,022 bushels. ! ' v Averill. near Alexandria has had three artesian wells constructed for tho waterworks system. The threo wells have a combined flow of about' 275 gallons per minute. A fake ureek missionary has boon, working tho people around Murdock, during the pust week for money. Ills' true character was discovered, how ever, boforo ho had gleaned much "gelt." ,rho birthday box in the Presbyte rian church at Beatrice was robbed of Its contents ono night during tho week. Tho box had been closed forj nearly a year. Tho thief made quite; a good h.uil. Late Friday afternoon a deed was recorded at tho office of tho register; of deeds making tho second transfer! of tho Leavitt sugar factory since it went into the hands of the receiver. Tho consideration for tho factory and tho 197 3-4 acres of land was $320,000. It wns sold to Chester S. Moroy of. Denver. One afternoon recontly oighteen big strong mon with teams went into tho cornfield bolonglng to Evorett Petty, noar Ord, and bororo night the corn on forty acres was husked and in the, crib. Both Mr. and Mrs. Potty havo been sick for somo time. Tho act waa cortalnly a neighborly one, and was no doubt appreciated. At tho yoarly meeting tho farmors olovator company of St. Edwards, olected directors as follows: Dan Ca hill. Jerry Flahorty. Shell Clark, C. Goodman, John Zimmerman, J. L. T. Uurna and L. E. Andorson. Tho dt rectors olected Dan Cahiil president and Sholl Clark secretary. Goorgo. M. Thompson will remain as manager for nnothor year. Wrord waa received at Red Cloud of tho death of William Authwalt, which occurred at tho homo of his grand duughtor In Soattio, Wash. Mr. Outh wait movod to Wobstor county from unio in 187-1 and settled on what la now tho O. M, Plerco form. Ho moved i to Soattio about ton yoars ago. Tho body was takon to Rockaway, Ohio ! I' burial, Mr. OutUwalt was pant eighty-five years old. 1 BATTLE IS LIKELY DUTCH 8HIPS CLEARED FOR AC TION AND FORTS ARE READY GUSH PROBABLE AT ANY TIME President Castro Traverses Franc Under Strict Pledge to Avoid Publicity Ships Are Dis patched From Holland. The government of Tho Nether lands has no Intention of being negli gent In the matter of tho blockade of tho Venezulean coast, Inaugurated hy threo of Its warahlps last week. Tho battleship Jacob Van Heemskork and tho cruiser Gelderland left Willemstad, Friday at 11 o'clock for Venezulean waters. Thoy have been cleared for action. It is believed that tho warships will mako a demonstartion off La Gualra. Furthermore, thoy probably will begin seizing Venezulean merchant vossols, thus putting a stop to the trade be tween Venezulean ports. A clash between tho warships and tho costal forts of Vonezula Is likely to follow any radical action, because tho government at Caracas has ex pressed its Intention of firing on tho. Dutch ships at tho first "unfriendly, act." ' President Castro of Vonozuola, left for Paris Friday. His physicians are anxious that ho reach Berlin as soon as possible in order to undergo his operation, should specialists consider this necessary, conequently his tay in Paris will bo short. A private car was reserved for tho party. President Castro is accompanied by a special commissary of police. It was officially announced Friday that tho French government informed President Castro Thursday that he would be expelled from the country in case ho mado any "manifestation cal culated to disturb tho public order," gave interviews to journalists, or in any manner inaugurated a press cam paign against France, or In justifica tion of his own attitude or that of tho Venezuelan government. Ca3t.r0 gavo assurance that ho camo to Franco In the capacity of a prlvato citizen to un dergo an operation, and ho promised to adhere to tho wishes of the govern ment. Iowa Carries Away Trophy. Iowa student judges carried off the $1,000 trophy offered" by tho Western Grain Dealers' association In the na tional corn show competition, tho award heing mado Thursday night. Tho Iowa team consisted of Messrs. Schnaidt, Wood Hendricks, Qunifo and Murphy. Tho Kansas team was second and Missouri third. There aro now over a inlln of nrlzn exhibits strung out In tfco blc audi torlum gallery. in tho world a open classes tho awards were us follows: Fifty ears of corn of any variety: .lonnson county corn club, Franklin, Indiana. $515: second. Rav F. Bennett. lAmon, Iowa, $100; third, Sherman Township Corn club, Elliott, Iowa, $10; fourth, John Sandborg, Whiting, Iowa. $8: fifth. Loo Smith. DoSoto. Nebraska, $G; sixth, J. R. Crookshank, drowning, Missouri, $5. Five Negroes Slain by White Man. Without cause William Latura, al ready notorious, having killed and! wounded a scoro of peoplo, early Fri day entered a local dive at Momphls, Tenn., and, drawing a rovolvcr, shot down four negroes, fatally wounded 11 fifth and wounded two others. Latura, who was with companions at tho time,! began tho fray without warning or provocation. Ho stood at tho bar' drinking and turned and flrod. When 'every negro in tho place had fallen,1. ho put his pistol In his pocket aiuh left the place. Later he waa arrested.1 Pythians Will Build for Consumptives. Dr. G. G. McConneil, commander-in-! chief of tho Knights of Pythias, an i nounced Friday that it has been form ' ally decided that a sanitarium for. tuberculosis patients affiliated with. ,tho order shall be established In New; Mexico. Tho cottages and other build-! ing, when sulncient funds havo beeni collected from mombers of tho order,- will bo erected on a largo tract of land' near Laa Vegan donated for tho cause by Now Mexico lodges. 1 'Mrs. Rice to Make Home in Boston., Mrfi. Abblo Rico, whose atnrv of nl suicido pact was told during tho trial of Charlen Davis for tho murder of Dr. Ritalin In Omaha, Is to bocomo a rosldent of BoBton noxt spring. It haa boon learned that tho woman's husband, Irving Rico, already haa. started to furnish a homo Tor her tnoro. Nominations Confirmed. Tho nominations of Martin A. Kuapp of Now York, chairman nt tho Inter stato commerce commission, and Hor bort Livingstone StUterloo, of Now York, to bo aaalataut nocrotary of the navy, woro confirmed by tho aonuto Friday.
