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Nebraska
HALL INSISTS UPON AUDIT
State Treasurer Demands that Nor
mal Board Look Over Claims
in Open Meeting.
BATCH OF THEM IS HELD UP
NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF
THE CEMENT MEN.
(TYom a Staff Correspondents
MNOOLN, -March S. (Special.) State
Treasurer Hall has refuse! to counter
sign certain warrants for the payment
of building claims drawn hy the State
Normal hoard bciiuso the claims were
not audited and allowed hy tlw boHrd In
an open meeting. There are about $10,030
worth of the warrants. j
The treasurer Is exlofltclo a member i
of the board. Members of the board say J
that thev do want In art tn 1 h f Y nunnA '
of a special meeting and claim that the
appointment of the state treasurer as
chairman of the hoard's auditing com
mittee satisfies the spirit of the law.
Follows Letter of Law.
Mr. Hall, however, Inslsfli on remain
ing alrlctly within the letter of the law.
Ita cays that a high as five members
of the- board have been In Lincoln at
tha same time recently and that a meet
ing might be called at one of these times
without Inconvenience. According to an
opinion furnished Treasurer Hall by At
torney General Reed, the former can
safely pay teachers' salaries without such
an audit In open meeting, the same hav-1
Ing been previously contracted by the
board.
G. F. LILLIE AGAIN PRESIDENT i IlEEfHLAY BY THE
i
Fremont Mn Re-Elected Head of
Mid-West Cement Users Association.
BUSINESS MENj MUST 'ACT
Must Take Hand in Direction of
Public Affairs. Says Wil
liam Hirth.
Live Stock Rate
Raises to East
Made by Roads
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
L.TNCOLN, March 6.-(Spec1al.)-Rate
raises on transportation of cattle, sheeps
and hog to Chicago and St. Louis mar
kets from Nebraska points were an
nounced to the State Railway commis
sion today. Unless the Interstate Com
merce commission holds them up they
will go into effect on April L
The increases are 2H cents a hundred
pounds on the three classes of stock an
on horses, which are also affected, from
to to $16 a car.
Secretary Allen of the commission at.
oice notified Chairman Clarke, who is in'
Chicago at the hearing in the western
advance rate cases, of the action. It is
probable that a protest will be filed at
onoe by the Nebraska commission.
TALKS AT COMMERCIAL CLUB
Notes from Beatrice
And Gage County
BEATRICE. Neb., March 5. (Special.)
H. P. Chamberlain of the Kirst Na
tional bank of Clarks, Neb., purchased
eight head of the race horses, sulkies,
etc. of L. N. and K. C. Miller at Wy
more, which were offered at that place
at auction sale to satisfy a mortgage
held bx the bank. Five head were taken
on a writ of replevin by William Dennis
of Seneca, Kan.K who held a claim of
$1,600 against the Millers. It Is said that
the attorneys for tho bank at Clarke
will attempt to replevin the stock from
Dennis. -
Heastcn brothers of Holmeville, who
recently disposed, of their lumber yard)
at that place, have decided to .locate at
Lincoln, where -the? will engage In the
automobile - business. .
Miss Esther gander, dislocated hr kneo
cap whllo playing basket ball at the high
school Wednesday evening.
Announcement was' received here Thurs
day evening from Lincoln of tho death
of Mrs. T. M. Trlplett. formerly of this
city. Dr. and Mrs. TrTplett fcft Beatrice
only a few months ago to make their
home In the capital city.
ST. EDWARD COMMERCIAL
CLUB HAS, A BANQUET
ST. EDWARD. Neb., March 5. (Spe
cial.) The annual banquet of the t. lOd
ward Commercial" club was held in the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows' dining
hall Wednesday evening, and despite the
storm and bad weather about seventy of
the business men attended. O. H. Flory
presided. ' Secretary FX E. Fellers re
viewed the work accomplished the last
ear, showing what can be done by a
gcod live club, and made same good sug
gestions for . the coming year.
Roy. R. F. Shacklock gave an excellent
talk on community interests, demonstrat
ing why the farmers and business men
should be more closely united. Mr. Jones,
president of the club at Albion, discussed
the good roads question. The principal
speaker. H. M. Bushnell of Lincoln, held
the crowM for an hour in 'his usual In
teresting and instructive talk to commer
cial clubs.
The banquet was served by the women
of toe Methodist episcopal church.
Joseph P, Butler, .
Omaha Pioneer, Dead
Joseph P. Butjr, one of Omaha's
pioneer contractors, died at 7:45 o'clock
last- night of d'sease Incident to old age,
at the home of his son, Daniel B. Butler,
3&20. California street, aged M years. He
had been in poor health for some time,
but his condition was not considered cri
tical until three weeks ago. after which
time he failed very rapidly. The funeral
will be from St. John's Collegiate Catho
lic church at o'clock Monday morning,
with interment In Holy Sepulchre.
Mr. Butler was born In Phulls county,
Tipperary, Ireland, aand came to the
United States when 17 years of age, set
tling In New York. . He was man-led
there fifty years ago and came to Omaha
thirty-one years aso. He is survived bv
three sons, Michael, now residing on the
Pacific coast, and Daniel B. -and Joseph
P., Jr., both of Omaha, and four daugh
ters. Bister Elizabeth of Mercy hospital,
Davenport, la., and Misses Helen. Nell
and Margaret of this city. Mrs. Butler
died four years ago.
"The time has arrived when business
men must tske a bigger hand In the di
rection of .public affairs," nll William
Klrth, president of the Association of
Commercial Clubs of Missouri, in his ad
dress af the public affairs luncheon at
the Commercial club at noon. He spoke
on "Trade Conditions: Present and Pros
pective." He reviewed the business situation for
twenty years or more In the country, the
greed that characterized some of the
business, and the reaction that set In
swinging the pendulum of public wrath
to another extreme. "Because a few
knaves here and there did certain things
some years ago for which they should
have been punished like any other vio
lator of the law," he said, ''we have a
state of affairs under which the average
business man is In serious doubt as to
whether he la an entirely respectable per
son." He declared the time had come when
business men must realise that from this
time forward their every act must be
above suspicion. He declared the railroad
question had suddenly become the great
Industrial problem In this country because
qf the war In Europe. Continuing on this
subject, he said:
"The European war has done two things
to the American railroad and other large
financial enterprises here: First, it has
Indefinitely closed to them the great
banking centers of Europe, which, during
the past have annually consumed many
hundreds of millions dollars worth of
American securities. Second, it means
that they must protect themselves against
an avalanche of foreign securities a con
dition which forced the closing - of the
New York Stock exchange."
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Mann Act Charge
xis Likely Against
Dead Girl's Employer
NEW YORK, March 5. Developments
In the "case of Lillian May Coo, the
Brooklyn girl whose body was found near
New' Haven, Conn., yesterday, are being
watched by the federal authorities, ac
cording to Samuel J. Reid, assistant
I'nlted States district attorney In Brook
lyn. If it is shown that Miss Cook was
taken from Brooklyn to New Hazen In
violation of the Mann white slave act
Mr. Reid declared that he will prosecute.
"We are seeking Information," Mr.
Reid said, "and shall act at once if any
thing that comes to us Justifies prosecu
tion." '
At the Fourth street house, Brooklyn,
which Is owned and maintained by Vln
ginlus Mayo, head of the Mayo Radiator
company of New Haven, under the rame
of James Dudley, the young oman occu
pant of the house, who Is k wn aa Mrs.
Dudley, declared that she had nothing
t say and no defense to make when In
formed of the revelation made by Mayo
of his dual life. It was In this house that
Miss Cook worked as a nurse to the two
Dudley children before going to New
Haven to take a "place, as stenographer
In Mayo's office. Mrs. Dudley said. "I
cennot'. help what the world thinks of
me and I will have to suffer in silence."
Miss Cook left the Dudley home two
years ago and retrained at home for a
year, when she was offered the plate "la
New Haven by Mayo.
Until yesterday, when Frank Cook and
his daughter Laura went to New Haven
tc investigate the disappearance of Miss
Cook, they were not aware that Mayo
and Dudley were the same person.
"I rever had a suspicion that Mayo
was the man Dudley I had known In
Brooklyn." Cook explained. "The Instant
Laura and I saw him we recognized him
as Dudley, the Brooklyn man, at whos
home Lillian had worked."
That he feared his daughter had ended
her life was explained by Cook, who said
her letters home hall been melancholy.
She was worrying about a business school
examination, he said,- at least that waa
the reason she gave In her letters.
"Tue finding of Lillian body has re.
Ilered us of a tremendous strain." Mr.
Cook said. "My wife has learned that
our little daughter is dead and Is com
pletely prostrated. I must suspend judg
ment until the finding of the autopsy.'"
Mr. Cook returned to New Haven last
night to claim the body of his daughter.
NEW HAVEN, March t-Corone Ell
Mix. investigating the circumstances
surrounding the suicide of Liilisn May
Cook, said today that as the result of a
report made to him by his physicians
he believed there waa "sufficient indica
tion to warrant prolonging the examina
tion beyond the mere tracing of the course
of the bullet and establishing the cause
of death."
Norfolk to Have
New Jitney Line
KORYLK, Neb.. March t. BDeclol
Telegram.) Norfolk is to have a Jitney
bus line April 1.. C. C. Btahl, a local
automobile dealer, will nut four eene-
clally coastructed aU-pasacncer pay-aa-
you-enter motor street car bito service
on that date.
CONCRETE SILOS ARE TRAISED
George V. Llllle of Fremont. M yester
day morning re-elected president ef the
Midwest Cenv-nt I'xcrs' association, and
FrsnK Wl.lppcrnirin if Omulin was re
e'ec, rerretiiry-trraiMire". C. J. Tracy
of Ixmip city whs elected n.t irsidct.
Directors chosen to serve three ytnrs
were 11. R. Park of Hrunlnc. Neb.: W. H.
Fe.rli of A'blon. Net... and - (leorne P.
Plecamnnn of Mason City, Ja. Directors
clett-d for the two-year term arc Jon
I.. Znldlerr St. Jowph, Mo.; Frank l-'.-cdor.
HIt.ix City, la. .and A. P. Youni:. Ne
lis.'n "It v. ,
The resolution were devoted to votes
of thHtiks to the men w'.io parlirlnnte.l In
the program, to those who exhibited at'
tho show, to the pres. and to all who
contributed to the miccc of the mw
rlailon and the cement show, which Is 10
continue until Futimlay nlht.
Pro?. L. W. f'hese of the University of
Nebraska poke on the concrete silo. He
declared that from the exnerlments that
luive letn made at the University of Ne
hras'a It has bean found that eonTvte
silo arc the best of silos and that from
tetn that have been conducted for four
year on the erfect of the silage arid.", fcn
:he material or the silo It could not be
determined that the acids had any etect
on tne concrete. He brought out tho f:ct
that spoilage of silage In the silo Is not
due so mtK'h to the kind of material of
hich the silo is made as to the condi
tions under which the silage was put up.
Talks of Better onert-te.
Prof. Clark E. Mickey of the University
of Nebraska spoke on better concrete. He
made a technical talk on the amount of
sand and cement to be used and rartlcu
larly on the method of filling In the void,
spaces In the stone with esnd and cement, '
thus making a solid block.
The guessing contest on the amount of
pressure required to crush a given conipnt
itone on exhibit at the Auditorium la to
be closed Saturday night. Pi1r.es are then
to oe awarded. The stone la belnir
crushed at tho State university by high
pressure machinery available there. A
110 prize Is to be given to the one guessing
nearest the number of pounds required
and a V prize to the second.
, v ..H,l'.vJmiio,li I m.
" f . ; i
ihsngos the system of such -work from
ccntrn'.lslng Into ide-spread work In the
f i"Ma end kitchens of the state.
The itnte tax commission has askeA
nn.l secured the presentation of the
pei pie of a constitutional amendment to
chance the whole system of taxation In
t'.l ow ing clnsslllcatlon of property by the
legislature and several enactments to as
lst them as far as possible under the
present . constitutional limitations. An
other constitutional question Is that of
holding a constitutional convention for
general revision, also one tor constitu
tional prohibition and equal suffrage.
Railway and Insurance cnmpaales have
not received the attention of former ses
sions and verr few acta affecting them
have bren even Introduced, snd a fewer
number enacted In penal aand court af
fs!n. Radical departures were in the abolish
ment of capital punishment In the state
annd In providing for a flve-alxth Jury
verdict In civil suits, presenting a hold
out by me man as In the past.
I
Dakota Legislature
Closing Its Session;
Pass Important Bills
PIERRE, S. D., March 8. (Special Tel
egram.) Whst ha been the most Im
portant legislation of the session of the
South Dakota legislature Just closing Jts
biennial session, depends upon the view
point of the Individual Interested. The
session has been a quiet one In every
way, and what Is probably the most
daring Innovation In Jaw making is the
enactment of a prlmar law and repealing
root and branch a law which was placed
upon ' the statutes book through the
medium of the initiative provision of the
state constitution.
While tho work of the session Itself
is completed the members have left a
mass of enactments upon the desk of the
governor which he han ten days to dis
pose of In some manner.
The session has not been called upon
to handle as many bills by over 300, as
at the session of two year ajro.
After the primary law, probably the
enactment of. tha most state-wide inter
est, la the bank guaranty, "which was
passed with very alight opposition. The
bankers themselves assisting In framing
the act. Beside the legislature enactd
In this line two different acts have been
presented through the Initiative to the
same effect.
The act of greatest Importance along
agricultural lines is tho approp:1atlon
of 156.000 to take full advantage of the
Smith-Lever fund of congress, which
GERMAN VICTORY POSTERS
DAMAGED; ANTWERP FINED
AMSTERDAM. (Via London) March t.
The municipality of Antwerp, accord
ing to the Handelsblat, haa been fined
M,or francs ($10,000) by the German au
thorities because posters announcing tha
German East Prussian victory were damaged.
Severe Rheumatic
Pains Disappear
Rheumatism depends on an acid in the
blood, which affects the muscles aad
Joints, producing inflammation, stiffness
and pain. This -acid gets Jnto the blood
through some defect in the dlgeatlva pro
cess. Hood's ' Sarsaparllla, the old-time blood
tonic, Is very successful In the treatment
of rheumatism. It ' acta directly, with
purifying effect, on the blood, and Im
proves the dlgestldn. - Don't suffer. Oet
Hood's today. Advertisement.
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Tuesday, feoolety Might will JEatk
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Initial Showing This Weukffi,
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Tonior. & Hilly Watson's Big Show
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Advanced Vaudeville
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Prices: rjiillery 10c'; Best Peats ?S-IO-7to
Saturday, BUUhee and Z real of,
HENRY MILLER In
"DADDY LONG-LEGS"
I'ik? (All 1'rtfurninnres) fiOc to $2
AUDITORIUM, March 2-6
THE ONLY
. Cement Show
West of the Mississippi River
Tli beet manufactured crmeiit pfodurta and
cement working machinery now on exhibition. ,
o renicnt products luanufaurer, -onUw4or,
denier, builder or ner an afford to ml It. It's an
education.
The best convention inKrani. Ker number of
rital Interest to uer and builder.
aluuhle pTtaea for the bet photograph of con
crete work don in ihe Ian three rears.
8om -thing atlning nil the time. ,
Now Going on at the
Auditorium, Omaha, Nebraska
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