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rrr::'rrt:'"ir?fi'sw!f'v ' h' Ml J: Id. . , . MS1 - The Commoner. VOLUME 12, NUMBER q An AflHociatcd Proas dispatch from Now York, dated February 8, aays: Charles W. Morse, bank wrecker caino back tonight to the scene of Ills former triumphs and his conviction, crumpled up in a wheel chair, silent and Impassive as a lay figure With a white-faced wife at his side, ho was pushed through tho curiotiB throngs at tho Pennsylvania station, lifted quickly into a taxicab and whisked away to his homo at 127 Fiftieth street, to remain for a week or ton days beforo starling for Bad Nauheim, Germany, where ho ox- expects to regain his health, whici physicians say prison life has suat tered. An Associated Press dispatch from Indianapolis, dated February 6, saytj: Union labor oflicials and agents, said to number between thirty and forty, whom tho government holds crimi nally responsible with the McNa maras and Ortio B McManigal for perpetrating more than one hundred explosions in cities from Massachu setts to California in tho last six years, including tho wreckage of the nnsususzz awi JS. Rssassxsszssis Thoro is no gift more appreciated by tho receiver, nor ono that better reflects tho tastes of tho givor, than good books. i no lnuuouco oi goou litoraturo can not bo measured It lives and grows, long aftor ma terial things aro for gotten. An idoal gift, for your friends, your relatives, or in your own homo, would bo a sot of Mr. Bryan's peecli and Lectures In two handy volumes. A now, completo edition, containing all of his most Important publlo uttorancos, from his flrHt entry Into publlo llfo up to tho prosont time. 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(If half leather edit ion 7s wanted: 'Vm'oV;' """' Los Angeles Times building, were indicted today Thirty-two indict ments were returned. Capiases for arrests have been issued and all the men indicted are to be taken in cus tody on a day secretly fixed by the government, known to be within a week. March 12 has been set for tho arraignment before Federal Judge A. B. Anderson in Indian apolis. The papers for tho arrests designate the amount of bond which the defendants may give in the federal districts in which they reside for their appearance here. The amounts of the bonds in the in dividual cases were not made known, but it was said in the aggregate they would total $300,000. debts, were arraigned by David Stan Jordan, president of Stanford uni versity, in an address to tho student body. President Jordan declared that a European war is not now im minent. ' He said that since the battle of Waterloo the Rothschilds have been the actual rulers of Europe and that it would be impossible ever to pay them off. Governor Aldrich of Nebraska has issued a statement favoring Theodore Roosevelt for tho republican nomination. leal Gift Book I nil a rfflr iTiM iHmfr rirraMUMKAltW lBw lWBfaKai mm Mt&mKAwii ftttw & unheal J k; Iri If? m&&& v SMmm tnmrmatm ill es fBgmamWBSmWKWmWi i nonornl .Tnmos R. Weaver diod at the home of relatives in Des Moines, la., February 6. He was eighty years old. He had been ill only a few days. General Weaver died at the home of his son. When the civil war began he enlisted in tho Second Iowa infantry and was rapidly promoted, through the battles of Fort Donalson, Shiloh and Cornith, in which he par ticipated, until he reached the post of colonel. Ho was breveted briga dier general in March, 18G4. Al though General Weaver held federal positions, he did not come into na tional prominence until after his" defeat as a republican candidate for governor of Iowa in 1875. his suc cessful opponent being Governor Samuel Kirkwood. Soon after he left the councils of the republican party and became ono of the leaders of the national party, better known as the "greenback" party, which in 1880 nominated him for president. In 1878, 1884 and 1886 he was in congress. Tn 1892 General Weaver was again nominated for president, tnis time by the people's party. Samuel Gomners. nresidmit-. nf fhA American federation of labor, made an unequivocal denial of any intent to disobey the injunction of the su preme court of the District of Colum bia when he took the stand in his own defense against the charge of contempt in connection with tho Bucks Stove and Range company boycott case. A press dispatch from Des Moines, la., says that indications that a vig orous contest for the Iowa delegation to tho national democratic conven tion at Baltimore will be waged be came certain when friends of Wood row Wilson opened his headquarters here. Adherents of Champ Clark al ready have opened headquarters. Earl Bronson of Spencer is in charge of the Wilson campaign. The total number of convicts in the Missouri penitentiary is. 2,378, an increase of fifteen over last week when the record was" broken. Four teen of the inmates are white women and sixteen negresses. Florida will send a full delegation to the Chicago convention instructed' for President Taft. An Associated Press dispatch from Chicago says: Eight governors ami delegates from twenty-eight states met here Feb. 10 and in an informal conference organized a permanent committee to push tho candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt for the republi can nomination for president. The governors, in an executive con ference by themselves, addressed a letter to Colonel Roosevelt, in which they eplained the purpose of the ?ee1ti?xslianTd expressed a desire that he left it become known that a de mand from the people that he accept the nomination would not be un heeded by him. The permanent organization of the committee which will carry the Roosevelt fight to the convention is Chairman Alaronio tt t n Vice chairman Edward 'jr. Brund age. 1UUU Secretary Edwin W. Sims. Treasurer Dwight Lawrence. An execujivp committee of seven members w,lll bo appointed later On roll call tho delegates from' tho different states told of work Xad? done toward promoting the former president's candidacy. Several ro ported complete organizations. Gov- .u, aumey or Missouri, Governor Osborne of Michigan and Former Governor Fort of New Jersey X ISSShSr f a gnSenyeariey Tho following is an Associated Press dispatch: Columbus, O., Feb. 8. After hearing an address at noon today by Governor Harmon, in which he took a strong position against in corporating a clause providing for statewide initiative and referendum in the new constitution, supporters of the proposed initiative and refer endum plank won a decisive victory in the constitutional convention a few hours later. The governor, in WftK'P'iOfS p !nnn or W0In,ln to nct iXS onr ,n" Wr"U formation reporter. All or spare time. No oxporlonco necessary. f&O to $300 por month. Nothing to 5eU. Rond stamp 'nr particu lars. SAI.KN ASSOCIATION, 739 Assocla tJoiiISIdj. INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA. SrtKcrttm' tftfwtising Bern. This department is for the benefit of Commoner subscribers, and a,, special rate of six cents a word per insertion tho lowest rate has been made for u cm, jvuuress an communications to Tho Commoner, Lincoln, Nebraska. pIip-ICE FARMS; must sell; write for list. T. A. Baggctt, Guthrie, Okla. QARAH E. DAVIDSON, Columbus, Chornlcnn Cn T.'nncno switches, women's hair.' I make hair "The unseen empire of Qnanco" in and0th n ?,VOr e affairs ofturoi? and the policy of rulers in continu- ing the practice of contracting war F Q SALE Fine farm, one mile from 1 Watson, Ark; 160, 100 cultivated; 25 per acre. For further information write J. S. Ross, Arkansas City. Ark. HO YOU want tho finest stock ranch in the state of Missouri? Tho best bargain In tho state for tho price Price means quick sale and first money eight thousand acres in ono solid body, nye miles long and two and one nalt miles wldo, all undor fence; about 8ix thousand acres can bo cultivated, remainder will make good pasture land: eltrhf. or nlnn linn.lU.rrd ntnnlC scales, three hundred acres of bottom land of which ono hundred fifty acres in clJltlvation--alfalta, corn, timothy and clover; 25 springs stream of water runs through ono ranch for ono ana ono half miles. This ranch is located in Christian county, Missouri, ;.,?il?"f2-urJthB of a mV frora a Ba J0ft town and thirty-four milea 5m, flno cJ,ty of Springfield a city of wy"5V0 thousand people. Load haa n?lJouna on tnls ranch and it Is Sftna s"0unod by load and Jacl mines Thoro is also forty abros of nnn$ay tnQ ranc" and almost nnv ?LC0rd oo0 and miningprops to Piayrf Jm lt at, fyp JrIco. Was over 5SSty whoJ?Bftna donors worth Of stocK I?!.o,.?k of t,"0 ranch ranQh last year. fsnT'1 AnA"? this ranch wh1Lwny Buirvrey from tho big dam on ot?J tiffirop ru,nB trough this ranch. I "M" ?toeJc ranch and oqnsidcr It ? t5tilrty .-5V0 dors nor acre but I an2 ?lnff U for $15 par acro-good ft wn i fnr Biin whch I can explain, it win take quick work at the prlcft. tjnt0 crwlro mo fr further inrorma- ddrOBB tho owner, A. J. Johni &!$?&$ SaVonal Bank Bnna" mm -'." Li F?.,P?'"YVTrW(i.