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" .; 1ifn!i,rpl; 3F5 v 4 i The Commoner .VOLT&aO? JB NUMBEH 21 r jjjj "Wf 12 i. t? Bl4' Bft,. IT1? ft i ,'t ' it re :.S J wn ". 2?K K1i.o i iiwi WOOlf Jfe4rt toi i am nJii- i V ii trrfr'rr1 i ""- Dallas, Texas, was choson by tho Kllcs grand lodge, in session at Phil adelphia, as- tho lnoxt place of moot ing. ' , . Cablegrams say that during the past six months one million persons have diod in India of bubonic plague. " John II. Dankhead has been elect ed United States senator from Ala bama to succeed tho lato John T. Morgan. , Govornor. Davidson of Wisconsin has signodf'a two-cent faro bill. i. An Associated Press dispatch from Guthrie, Okfa., says: "The constitu tional convention adjourned until Soptoihber 16, tho day before the general state election. Nine changes were made in tho document to con form to tho suggestions of Attorney General Bonaparte, who averred the original document was not republi can in form, as provided for in tho enabling act. The constitution was signed by all tho members present and will bo filed tomorrow with tho secretary of state." Drr Edward J. Taylor, dean of the Hastings law college and otthq.uni 'vorsity of California, has boen chosen mayor of San Francisco. r : Tho , fifteenth national irrigation cbncress has been, called to meet at flScVniYiAnfo P.V. afmtnmVinr v2. . ;.! Lawrence Y. Sherman, lioutenant governor of Illinois, speaking before the Illinois state bar association at Galesburg criticised Mr. 'Roosevelt for liis efforts to invade, the rights of the states and the St. Loute Globe IDemocrdi; says that the denunciation was cheeped. . - - ease into tho state. If an interstate traveler demands that tho carrier bring him to Texas tho health officer will require that tho railroad notify tho authorities at destination, and the patlont will bo required to sub mit to an examination, and if not satisfactory tho patlont will bo sub ject to deportation." Tho New York World says: "Under the direction of Abraham L. Br langor who, with Marc Klaw, is the directing head of tho American the atrical syndicate, tho initial steps wore taken yosterday in tho forma tion of tho greatest amusement combination the world has ever known. $P!ie deal, when completed, will unite the theatrical Interests of America, Gormany, Austria, France and England." During tho progress of the Elks parade in Philadelphia there were 3,000 prostrations from heat. Senator Elkins of West Virginia suggests George B. Cortelyou as tho republican nomineo for president and Ba,ysvAiocan have tho New York dele gation. ;, ' -Several1 witnesses for the defense fn tho Haywood-Moyer trial at Boise, Idaho, wore arrested and will be tried for perjury. A Muskogee, I. T., dispatch to the Denver News s"ays: "An attempt by Henry T. Asp, a railroad attorney of Guthrie, to address the republican county convention here today cpn verted the meeting into a howling, fighting mob. Pistols were brand ished, knives flashed and chairs were wielded right and left, resulting in bruises and minor injuries to several person. Officers with drawn pistols, who threatened to shoot into the crowd if the fighting did not stop, '.failed to quell the disturbance. United States Deputy Marshal Bud Ledbetter appealed on the scene and practically took charge of the meet ing. Ledbetter, who is a democrat, saved Asp from being mofrbed and prevented bloodshed. Asp, pale and trembling, Was taken from the meet ing. Tho trouble started when the antl-Frantz and anti-statehood forces of which Asp is a member, attempted to addresB tho meeting before the organization was perfected. The Frantz forces were victorious in the tost vote for temporary chairman and the other element then subsid ed and quiet was restored." , justico, has been released from tfc federal prison at Fort Leavenworth. The telegraphers strike at San, Francisco has been settled. The men have returned to work and th differences will bo arbitrated. The New York appellate court In an opinion written by Justico Gay nor held that William R. Hearst is entitled to have the ballot boxes reopened and the ballots recounted in the New York mayoralty contest of 1906. The grand lodge of Elks, in ses sion at-Philadelphia, elected the fol lowing officers: 'Grand exalted ruler, John K. Tener of Charleroi, Pa.; grand treasurer, Edward Leech, New York; grand esteemed loyal knight, W. T. Leickie, Dowagiac, Mich.; grand esteemed lecturing knight, Bayard Gray of Frankfort, InL; grand esteemed leading knight, John D. Shea, Hartford, Conn.; grand sec retary, Fred Robinson, Dubuque, la.; grand trustees, Thomas B. Mills, Su perior, Wis., Thomas F. McNulty, Baltimore, and Charle C. Schmidt of Wheeling, W. V.; grand tyler,James Foley; grand inner guard, F. M. Taylor. During the sessions of the grand lodge it was decided to estab lish a flag day for Elks on Julie 14. A resolution was adopted calling for the appointment of a committee to devise ways and means to prosecute outside users of the Elks' emblems. A subsequent resolution calls for the appointment of a commission to con fer with congress to find means to prevent the use of the emblem. The Memphis lodge was authorized to prosecute the negro Elks of that city. In this connection a resolution was passed reprimanding the Newark, N. J., lodge for electing a man said to struct Qxe gram! ruler to .order tho Newark lodge N to lnyeatigate the man! antecedents and if it be found tthat ho is of negro extraction to o pungt nil name from the rolls. AN "SNOOT OF RAIN Few people have an adequate Idea of the amount of water that descends from tho clouds daring a rainstorm. We read In the weather bulletins that two or three inches of rain some times fall in a day, and that in our last rainy spell nearly five inches fell in forty-eight hours; but these fig ures really convey very little infor mation to our minds and give us no idea at all of the prodigality of na ture. An acre contains 6,272,640 square inches of surface, and an inch of rain means, therefore, the same number of cubic inches of water. A gallon contains 277.27 cubic inches of wa ter, and an inch of rainfall means 22,622 gallons to the acre, and, as a gallon of water weighs ten pounds, 'the rainfall on an acre is 226,220 pounds. Counting 2,000 pounds to the ton, an inch of rain means over 113 tons per acre. An acre is about half a St. Louis block, so that a rain fall of an inch means a downpour of about 226 tons of water on every city block. Multiply this by five, the number of inches of rainfall during the wet spell in the last week in May, and no one can wonder that the gutters were insufficient to carry off the water. The occasional overflow of a sewer in the lower part of town is regarded as a very 'remarkable thing, but the wonder really is that there is not an overflow every time it rains. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. An explosion of powder ocourrbd' on the battleship Georgia in ' Capo Cod Bay, Mass. Ten men were killed and sixteen wore injured. The national traveling men's pro tective association In session at De troit elected the following officers: President, Louis LaBeaume, of St. Louis; vice president, L. C. Qeeta, Des Moines; secretary treasurer, A. L. Sheetz, Omaha, Neb. The 1908 convention will be held at Lake Placid, N. 'Y. -William A. Paxton, a prominent citizen of Omaha, Neb,, died sud denly at his home. Heotor Henry Mallot, the novelist, died at Paris. A Raleigh, N. C, dispatch carried by the Associated Press says: "The Southern Railway company was to day fined $30,000 and Thomas J. Green, ticket agent of the company fined $5 in the state court here for selling railroad . tickets in excess of that provided by the recent state law for a uniform rate of two and a quar ter cents a mile in North Carolina. The court required Green to promise not to sell tickets at thev illegal rate. Green made the promise and paid the fine." Referring to the pending elections in tho Philippines the Minneapolis Journal says: "In the city of Ma nila, with a population of 220,000, only 7,300 persons, Including 800 Americans, have registered for the coming elections. That is one voter to every thirty of population, where as, tho proportion hero is about one to six. It Is estimated that of the 7,000,000 population of the islands, less than 60,000 will participate in the election of the first legislative assembly." 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THE PRIMARY PLEDGE I promise to attend all tho primaries of my party to be held between' now and the next Demociatic National Convention, unless unavoidably prevented, and to use my influence to secure a clear, honest and straight forward declaration of the 1 arty's position en every questiea Upon which the voters of the party desire to speak. ' - " Signed - - "- f. Street. ; ....Postofflce. & ,':v.7.S:t.. County Slate,.".. Voting Pred net or Vardii.;.... Fill out blank and mail to Commoner Office, Lincoln, Nebraska. l-t &aBjfa rttttffiii ""yy? .j&UtV6UiaaiJritt..;