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v. DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD. VOLUME XVII I DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1900. NUMBER 17. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH SUMMARY OF THE NEW5 CP THE WMOLB WORLD. 1LAND JURY CONVICTS M)H( RICH NFJIRASKANS MKIJ) GV1LTY OF FKAI D. CoMHpirncy to Obtain Vnliov fully ITfce Tracts of Iinnd In Vcnteni Nebraska Wua Charged May Moan lxmg Prison Terms. The trial In the federal district court ,-at Omaha of Bartlett Richards, presi dent; Will O. Comstock, vice presi dent; C. C. Jameson, secretary anil treasurer, and general manager of the Nebraska Land and Feeding company, 'controlling the 400,000-acre "Spado" ranch, and Aqutlla Trlplett, their agent, ended Thursday afternoon by the conviction of the four defendants on thirty-six counts of an indictment which charged conspiracy to defraud (the government of public lands and 'subornation of perjury. The Jury took tbut two hours to consider the evi dence. This trial began Nov. 19, and the Jury was completed two days later. 'The entire time of the court since then 'was devoted to hearing testimony for ithe government and the arguments of the attorneys, no witnesses being In troduced for the defense. The accusation against the officers of the Nebraska Land and Feeding company was that they attempted to secure title to vast tracts of land with in the "Spade" ranch enclosure in Cherry, Sheridan and Box Butte counties. Neb., by means of fraudulent homestead entries under the Klnkald law, which permitted the homestead ers to take up a section of land in the seml-arld districts. Scores of witness es were Introduced who swore that they filed on the lands at the solicita tion sf agents of the principal defend ants with the understanding that they would be paid all the way from $300 to $1,000 for their claims when title was secured and that all necessary Im provements should be made by the ompany. WUNTRY FACES ANARCHY. A Civil War Threatened In Venezuela " -When President Castro Kxptres, The latest Caracas advices Indicate President Castro Is much worse and It Is even claimed he cannot live more than a week longer. Should he die First Vice President Gomel will Im mediately assume the presidency, and be supported by a large section of the army. A very large element of the country, including Andinos, or moun taineer supporters of Castro, however, will be opposed to Gomez. Castro has been making strenuous efforts to com pose the differences between the Go mez party and the party had by Gen. Alcantra, president of the state of Am gua, but the endeavor has been a fail ure. Alcantru has a large army and considerable war material and is de termined not to recognize Gomez, but. raise a revolution for the purpose of obtaining the presidency. Meanwhile the rebel forces headed by den. Rafel Montllla, which recently captared Barquesmlto, 120 miles from Caracas, are dully Increasing hi strength. MONSTER CAR ORDER. Pennsylvania to Atld live TIiou-ujiu iu Its Equipment. The purchasing agent of the Penn sylvania railroad has Invited bids for the construction of 5,000 box cars. Their estimated cost Is $6,000,000. It Is not expected the cars woll be deliv ered before the latter part of next year. With the placing of this order the company will have ordered within the last two years nearly 60,040 addi. tional freight cars of various types. Curtis Jott Admit Guilt. Curtis Jett, of Cynthlana, Ky Thui-Kduy surprised the common wealth by confessing that he alone committed the murder of Town Mar shal Cockrlll, In Jackson, four years ago, for which he is now on trial. Jett had made a previous confession, Im plicating Judge Ilargls and Sheriff Kd Callu ban. Strike Settled. The strike at the General Electric works at Schenectady, N. Y., has been settled and the men returned to work Friday. The men waived the issue which cuused the strike, namely: Re instatement of thee discharged drafts men. Sioux City Live Stock Market. Thursday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow: Top beeves, $5.05. Top hogs, $6.20. Jeffries to Act as llerefoe. It hus been decided that James J. Jeffries ahull referee the Oani-Her-nan fight at Tonopah, Nev. The arti cles sf agreement gave the Casino Ath letic club the right of selection If the principals cannot agree. Rig Woolen Merger. A merger of the leading woolen mills of the south. Involving a capitali sation ot $1,250,000, has been effected. iThe combine will be known as the American Textile Woolens company. KPRKCKF.LS IS IinARD. Startling Story of Hmfs Method In Frisco. Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, of Han Francisco, announcod In court Tues day that he was through with delays and was ready for trial. This state ment came apparently as a surprise to Abraham Huef. Rudolph Sprockets was again on the stand Tuesday. Attorney Ach ques tioned him ut length concerning a street car system that Mr. Spreckels and his father contemplated building. The witness stated that he considered building a road because, as a citizen of San Francisco, he objected to seeing the streets of the city turned over to the United railroads or any other cor poration or person. "I wanted to prevent the city giving away a valunble franchise," said he; "we planned to build an opposition to block the scheme." " Ach attempted to get Spreckels to admit that he and his father were In terested In a water project, but Spreckels said they had no thought of asking for a water franchise. He testified during his examination that Abraham Huef had called on hlni at the time of the big municipal bond issue and asked him to form a syndi cate to take all the bond thus author ized. Spreckels was unable to set what guarantee there was that If a syndicate were formed it could secure the bonds, as under the law they must be put up at public auction and sold to the highest bidder. Ruef Informed Spreckels, according to his testimony on the stand, that this could be easily arranged, for he would have a general strike declared on the street railways and tie up the different lines. With San Francisco In this condition, relative to Its passenger transportation, he calculated, so Spreckels says, that no outside capital would bid on the city's bonds and thv syndicate would have a clear field. (iiHb'S ItODY IV HARREIi. Mystery in Murder Discovered Near Hazclton, Pa. The charred body of a young worn An was found Tuesday on the montatn between Hazelton and Ebervale, Pa. A slipper, combs and the frame of u woman's hat were picked up near the spot where the body lay. Under the body were three wire hoops such as are used on barrels. It is the belief of the police that the woman was mur dered and then placed in the barrel and burned. This theory is strength ened by the odor of kerosene near the place. The Identity of the woman has not been established. County Detective Jones said thatit was his opinion that the body found Is not that of a Hazelton woman, but that the girl was murdered elsewhere, the body placed In a barrel, sent hero and then burned. WORSE CURSE THAN SLAVERY. Wife of Senator Dubois .Makes Attack on Mormotiisiii. "Mormonism is a greater curse to the country thun was slavery," declar ed Mrs. Fred T. Dubois, wife of the Idaho senator. In an address ut the Waugh Methodist Episcopal church In Washington on "The Effect of Mor monlsin on Education." She said should President Roosevelt make a trip through southeastern Idaho he would no longer be willing to declare there is nothing to the Mormon ques tion. Six United States senators, she said, owe their election to the Influ ence of the Mormon church. She crit icised the attitude of Senator Proctor, of Vermont and Senator Hopkins, of Illinois, In the Smoot case. In closing her address the speaker said: "Mor mon children In Utah and Idaho spit upon the American flag." USED COUNTERFEIT LABELS. Now York Preparer of Meut Extraets Ih Arrested. John T. Walker, of New York, a preparer of meut extracts, wus arrest ed Monday by a secret service agent on the charge of having used counter felt United States meat Inspection la bels on his beef extract. The arrest was the first of the kind since the act providing that all meat or meat products must bear a label showing they huve been Inspected by government Inspectors went Into ef fect, July 1. Harry Thau- Trial Near. Harry K. Thaw will be tried before Justice Fitzgerald, of New York, Jan. 21 on the charge of murdering Stan ford White, according to an order signed by Justice Newburger Tues. day. Murderer of live to Bo Haiitted. Joda Hamilton, the young Missouri farmer who killed the Parsons fami ly of five In Texas county lust full, will be hanged next Friday, Gov. Folk having refused a respite. Rupture Not Feared. The Russo-Japunese negotiations, Mutus which last week was highly un satisfactory, have entered upon a fa vorable stage and a rupture Is no long, er anticipated. More KufTruglsls to Jail. Eleven more female suffragists of London Tuesday elected to spend Christmas In Jail rather than puy small fines for creating disturbances within the precincts of the house of com. mons Monday night. Kx-CoiigreKMinun Cochran Dead. Charles Fremont Cochran, of St. Joseph, Mo., who represented the Fourth district of Missouri In congress from 1896 to 1902, died at an early hour Tuesday morning. t" "DUMMY" WITHDRAWN. Publicity End tunefulness of Repiibllo Company. Testifying Wednesday In the suit brought by the state of Missouri against the Standard OH company, the Waters-Pierce Oil company and the Republic Oil company to atop them from doing business In Missouri C. L. Nichols, president of the Republic Oil company, declared that as a result of the disclosures made In the proceed ings the usefulness of the Republic Oil company an a supposed competitor of the Standard Oil company had end ed. The entire business of the com pany outside of Missouri, he said, had been turned over to the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. That portion In Missouri would also have been turn ed over, he added, had It not been for Injunctions which prevented such ac tion. Three ' witnesses were examined Wednesday at the continuation of the hearing which was begun Tuesday. Be sides Mr. Nichols, Walter C. Teagle, of the export department of the Stand ard Oil company, who was on the stand Tuesday, and William S. Heyer, of Baltimore, formerly manager at St. Ixuis of the Republic Oil company, gave testimony. SOME RIOTING IN FRANCE froojw Forced to Aid the Police at Nantes. Considerable rioting attended the evacuation of the episcopal palace and seminary In Paris Wednesday. Crowds of Catholic manifestants over came the police, who were compelled to draw revolvers to keep back the mob until rescued by troops. Several women were arrested for striking and biting soldiers. Reports received In Paris Wednes day by the minister of the interior show thirty-four ecclesiastical resi dences, occupied by archbishops or bishops, thus far to have been evacu ated under the provisions of ths church and state separation law. BISHOP M'CABK PASSES AWAY. Noted Methodist Divine Succumb to Apoplexy. Bishop Chas. C. McCabe, of the Methodist Episcopal church, died in a New York hospital early Wednesday. Death was due to apoplexy, with which the bishop was stricken several days ago while passing through the city on his way to his home in Phila delphia. Mrs. McCabe and the bish op's niece were at his bedside when the clergyman passed away. Bishop McCabe was a distinguished member o"f " the" Methodist Episcopal church. He was born at Athens, O. Oct. 11, 1836. -NEW AMERICAN PEERESS. Daughter of Pittsburg Millionaire Weds Ijord Kllciiboruugli. The newest American peeress is Hermione, daughter of the late E. W. H. Schenley, of Pittsburg, Pa., who was married in London Wednesday af ternoon to Lord Ellenborough, a retir ed commodore of the royal navy. The bride wore a robe of white velvet draped with gold lace and a white vel vet toque. The bridegroom, who had long been regarded us a confirmed bachelor, participated In naval opera tions In the Baltic so long ago. as tht Russian war of 185S. Conl for Kansas. The operating officials of the Chi cago, Rock Island and Pacific an nounced in Topeka Wednesday that the people along the line in the south western part of the state would not suffer on account of a coal famine, as the road had prepared for the emer. gency. Bunk Robber Sentenced. Josbph H. Kerns, captured at Great Bend, Kan., recently after holding up a local bank In daylight,- was ar raigned Wednesday, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the state peni tentiary for a term of twenty-one I years. Gold Find In Australia. Several big gold nuggets were dis covered recently near Tarnagullu, Aus tralia, and two were found Wednes day weighing respectively 967 and 373 ounces, the largest seen In Austral! In forty years. To Touch Journalism. At u meeting of the board of curu Iiivh ut Missouri university It was voted to establish a chuir of journalism in the university. The chair will be filled next September. New llurriiuuii Expreart Company. The Pucltlc Fruit Express, a cor poration with a capitalization of $12, 000,000, is to be formed by the Har rlman lines for the purpose of hand. ling their refrigerator car business. Big Pinning Mill Bums. The planing mill of the Chicago and Alton rullroud shops at Bloomlngton, III., were destroyed by fire Monday night. Loss, $150,000. Man Proven to Bo a Woman. N. Dereylun, who carne to Phoenix, Ariz., two months ago from Chicago ' of consumption. At the undertaking parlors It was discovered the deceased was a woman Rowe declares he had no knowledge of this before, Famous Editor Dead. John Armoy Knox, at one time widely known a the editor and pro prietor of the Texas Sittings,, died at his home in New York Wednesday of heart disease, STATE OF NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK I A CON DENSE!) FORM Farmer's lion Mysteriously Die E. 8. Woodruff, near Calloway, 1oso 150 Head Skunks Who Eat of the Carcasses Also Die. F3. S. Woodruff, one of the most sub stantial farmers and stockmen resid ing southwest or Calloway, has had the misfortune to lose about 150 head of hogs the Inst few weeks from a peculiar disease. A few weeks ago the animate commenced dying off, and al though everything was done that could be thought of to keep them from dying, ubout 1P0 head of them were hauled out and burled before the disease was gotten under control. Dur ing the cold snap of a few weeks ago somo of the dead animals were hauled out and left lying on the prairie until the weather moderated so that they could be burled. Afler the weather warmed up Mr. Woodruff went out to bury the dead, and upon reaching the place'was surprised to And fifteen dead skunks lying within a few feet from where they hud been eating the car casses of the dead hogs, "1 the ques tion now arises, what did 'life hogs die with that the flesh should be so poi sonous to the skunks? Mr. Woodruff states thut he was sure at all times that the hogs did not die from the effects of cholera, but that It had the appearand) of being a kind of lung trouble, and was pro nounced by him as being lung fever. Anyway. It seems strange that the flesh of the dead aniinuls should be so poisonous as to kill a skunk bo sud denly that It would not be able to get farther than a few feet after partak ing of the flesh of the dead hog. PLATTE HIVER ON RAMPAGE. Hall County l'nrinerH Driven Out of House by High Water. ThePlatte river was extraordinarily high for the last few days at and near Grand Island, and Tuesday morning had reached such a stage that farmers along the same are moving out of their homes, the stream being out of its banks. For several days they have been diligently at work moving their hay or stock. . One of the farmers, Julius Peters, who have lived on tht Platte for thirty years, states that he has never seen the river as high and cannot account for theunusualamount of water at this season of the year. The high water Is caused by a gorge of ice near the Donner farm, several miles down the river, which Is backing up the water and sending it out of Its banks fqr long stretches. THREE TAKE JEWELS. Oinnlia Pawnbroker Roblied by Three Men or $8, 0(H) Worth of Gems. Three men entered the pawn shop of Joseph Sonnenberg at Omaha, bound and gagged the proprietor, Mike Morrlsey, his clerk, and a cus tomer named Frank Swan, and filling a suit case with diumonds and Jewelry, escaped. As they went out of the alley their actions excited the suspicion of Sam uel Cross, a fireman, who tried to stop them, and an exchange of shots followed. Later one of the robbers, giving his name as Ed Elliott, of Den ver was captured by the police and part of the plunder recovered. The pawnbroker reports his loss at about $8,000. LOGAN LAMBERT CONVICTED. Former Illegal Liquor .Dculcr Found Guilty of AasNaidt. Logan Lambert, the ex-Homer sa loonkeeper and who only last summer was released from the Sioux Falls pen itentiary from serving a term therein for introducing liquor on the Winne bago Indian reservation, again has the penitentiary staring him In the face, for the Jury returned a verdict finding him guilty of assault with intent to commit great bodily Injury upon the person of Rev. Joseph Schell in Dukota City in April. 1905. The penalty Is from one to live years in the peniten tiary. laborers Strike anil Fialit. A strike and an attempted murder among railroud laborers at work on the Northwestern extension out from Bonesteel on the Rosebud reservation, have livened things up. Alio Gustas sen, a union man from Chicago, was cut In the throut with u ruzor and will probably die. He made an affidavit accusing a strunger in the gang, but some of his comrades profess to be lieve It was suicide. Nine hours In steud of ten huve been put into effect at 20 cents per hour und ninety of thu men quit work. lleiulee Returned for Trlul. Sheriff Greer returned to Wither from Wahpeton, N. l) with ex-County Judge 1 limine!- II, llendee, ugulnst whom has been made the charge of embezzling $8,385 belonging to the es tate of George Smith, deceased, under color of his office. Mr. llendee readi ly guve a $2,000 bond, with half a doz en old friends us sureties for his ap pearance for preliminary examination. OmaliH Murderer Appeals. An appeal brief for Juy o'llcutn, the Omaha boy murderer under si n tence of death for killing Nels I.aiiM ten, hus been Hied iu the supreme court by his attorney. New Catholic Parsonage. Work has started on the new Cutho llc parsonage and club limine at Beat rice. The congregation will also erect a new church the coming spring. The contemplated Improvements will cost In the neighborhood of $40,000. Wants $V000 for Husband's I. lie. Mrs. Alice Sullivan, of Plrttte Center, sues Louis Stone for $5,000 damage for the death of her husband, Dennis, alleging that Stone sold him liquoi which indirectly caused his deuth by a runaway team. CONVENTION OP SUPERVISORS. YoU to Hold Next Session In SoutK Omaha. The most enthusiastic opening ana alon ever held was the meeting of the State Association of County Supervis ors and County Commissioners held at the city hall In Kearney Tuesday even ing. There were three cities contesting for the honor of entertaining the as sociation next December. Invitations being extended by Norfolk, Broken Bow and South Omaha. On counting the ballots It was found that 9 votes hud been ca.t for Norfolk, 18 for Broken Bow and 30 for South Omaha. On motion the vote as made unani mous and South Omaha designated as the next place of meeting. The officers were all elected by ac clamation, the rules being suspended and the votes unanimous in each case. P. J. Kennedy, of York was re-elected president. The other officers were: A. F. Evans. Fremont, vice president: J. 11. Harding. Meadow Grove, secre tary; p. J. Traino", South Omaha, treasurer. MAN FROZEN TO DEATH. N'chmskun Wandered A way from Hit Home While Demented. Seott Ferguson, a Scotchman, mar ried about three years ago to a hair breed Indian woman, was round in a canon east of Chadron frozen to death. He had been noting queerly for some time and Sheriff Mote had in structed his brother-in-law to watch him. Friday night he took Ferguson up to his home, saying he positively refused to enter his home, saying that he did not live there. He then started to go east from Chadron, and his brother-in-law. unable to control him, had to let him go, and came back to Chadron and reported It. A searching party was organized at once. They hunted all day for him Saturday but could find no trace of him. Early Sun day morning they round his hat In a slaughter house and Monday after noon they found the body In the can on, partly covered with snow. A HEAD END COLLISION. An Accident on the. Elkhorn Line Near Alnsworth. There was a head end collision on the Fremont and Elkhorn line at S o'clock Thursday morning one mile west of Alnsworth. Otto Rankin, of Cody, engineer on No. 1182, the second header, was bad ly scalded, and C. M. Hoffman, of Chadron, fireman on No. 1823, head engine of the eastbound double head er, was badly cut on the head and feet and otherwise badly bruised. Engineer Thompson, of the head engine eastbound, stayed by his poat until within about 100 feet of where the collision occurred, when he jump ed and escapud with only a few scratches. ..The westbound train was In charge of Conductor Williams, with Griffith, engineer, and Mcars, fireman. All of the pnssengors escaped In Jury. ILL FATE FOLLOWS FAMILY. Young Nehrmduin Palls Into Tranco und Dies In Sleep. Delbert Lockwood, the Hon of one of the most prominent pioneer fami lies in Dixon county, died Monday af ter falling Into a trance Sunday. The young man, who wus 17 years old, went to sleep Sunday night at S o'clock and did not recover conscious ness before his death. He was the fourth In the family to l meet either a strange or violent death. ' An elder brother was killed In a 1 threshing machine accident, another 1 died suddenly In Colorado and a third disappeared suddenly some time ago and has never been heard from. Two other brothers have met with acci dents which nearly proved fatal. Thero were thirteen children In the family. SIXTEEN YEARS FOR MURDER. Frlu ClemrntH Sentenced for Killing Luke Goldio. Upon the convening of court In Pa pilllnn Wednesdny Fritz Clements waa sentenced to sixteen years In the peni tentiary for the killing of Luke G ol die iu August last, near the county line south of South Omaha, no part of said sixteen years to be a solitary con finement. The Indictment of the younger boys, Carl and Henry Clem ents wus nolled. The sentence of Ernest Clements, the oldest boy, found guilty of shoot ing with Intent to wound, lias not been pronounced yet. Railroad Fireman Held Up, Whl'e on his way to go on his run, F. M. Sklles, of Lincoln, fireman on the Burlington mail, wus held up by, three men In South Omaha. One men confronted him while another with a revolver approached from the Bide and advised Sklles to "hold on, you might have something that a fellow wants." Eleven dollars were taken from his pockets, $10 being overlooked. Like Runaway Match. A couple who were married by County Judge Stinson Monday aftei. noon ut Fremont, und who gave their mimes ns Jack Richards and Marjorla Morrison, of Omaha, are believed to have been Wells Abbott, a son of Chuuneoy Abbott, of Schuyler, and Maude Matliiessen, a Lin wood girl. Wife Such Liquor Dealers. Mrs. I.elu W'IImoii has Instituted suit for SI, 500 damages against H. I,. Har per, a drtiKl-'l.il, und J. V. Shuckelton, ji s:i loonkeepiT of I'eatrlee, for the sale of liquor lo her hiishund, William Wilson. Plaintiff alleges for that rea son he has failed to provide and prop erly care fur his family. 'Baling Much Hay. I'alli- machines ull over York coun ty are lmlly engaged In bulling al falfa, timothy und clover and prairie hay. While the local market Is good, nearly nil of this hay Is being ship ped to Kansas City und Omahu. X'vtU.n l'; l!!o Pays Part of Taxes. A cheek for $ J4.!.r.r..84 was received by County Treasurer Tronr.r at Kear ney from the Union Pacific Railroad company for Mio yeur 1006. The total tiino.int of th tux Is $37,1 12. 25, leav ing a balance of $12, 156. 64 unpaid. The winter course of the school of agriculture, University or Nebraska, opens Jan. 2, and continues until March 1. The announcement Just Is sued by the faculty says the course of fers an opportunity to obtain a mas tery of the principles or seed selection? a thorough knowledge or the crops which can be most profitably grown In Nebraska; an acquaintance with the methods or adding to and conserving the fertility of our farms; a knowl edge of how to deal successfully with the problem or soil mobiture; the learning necessary to him' who would succeed In making the proper choice of sires to head his herds, in the selec tion or profitable feeders, und who de sires to know the principles of stock feeding rnd stock breeding; how to prevent the outbreak of contagious diseases among farm animals; a train ing In the principles of the economlo production of milk, butter and cheese; a knowledge of the best methods of growing vegetables, small fruits, or chard products, and ornamental shrubs and grasses; a practical course In the adjustment, use and care of farm machinery; instruction in the care and management of poultry; practice In guiding small grain and Judging corn. A fee of $2 Is charged Tor the course. The famous Nebraska railroad ta cases which the railroads have been trying persistently to atave off will be argued before the United States su preme court at Washington Tuesday, Jan. 22. This date was agreed upon between Attorney General Norrls Brown, representing the stale, and Chas. J. Greene, special attorney for the Burlington, who was armed with written credentials authorizing him to act for John N. Baldwin, for the Union Pacific, as well. The day set Jan. 22 Is the date on which the leg islature will bullot for United States senator, an election In which Norrls I Brown, u the candidate Indorsed by the Republicans for that office, will be very much interested. Mr. Brown will be no longer attorney general at that time, but it is all fixed for him to ar gue1 the case In conjunction with At torney General Thompson and carry through as a volunteer the litigation he has begun as attorney general, rather than give the railroads excuse for another delay. Mr. Brown agreed to be In Washington Instead of at Lin coln on January 12, relying on the Republican members of the legislature to cast their votes for hint In hla ab sence according to the Republican, lomtnatlon. Miss Cora Garber, of the state land commissioner's office Is reported to ba a candidate for the position of private secretary to Gov.-elect Sheldon. It was asserted that she Is conducting an active campaign to that etid and has written to several men In Webster county asking for their Indorsements. Asked by a reporter whether or not she is seeking to obtain the appoint ment us private secretary to thG new governor. Miss Gather said: "I am not a candidate for anything." No governor of Nebraska within present remembrance has given the private secretaryship post to a woman. It la thought that Gov.-elect Sheldon will follow precedent In this regard. He has been In the south for three weeks, and no announcement of whom he has In view for the place Is forthcoming is yet, Gov. Mickey's second term In offlct resulted In a reduction of the average per capita coat of maintaining Inmates In the state Institutions from $94.84 during his first term to $84.78 during his second term. An exhaustive ro port, Just completed by Clerk C. C, Husted, of the governor's office, shows the cost of maintaining the 3,655 In mates of the state Institutions. The total per capita cost of maintenance at the penitentiary was $66.97, but aa the convicts earned for the state $50.99 each, the actual cost to the state ut that institution was $15.98, j I "I am against fuke charity and in favor of the real thing," says Chancel lor E. Benjamin Andrews, of the Uni versity of Nebrusku In an open letter telling why he refuses to subscribe to recent public appeals made by the Salvation army olllcors in Lincoln for money and provisions to give a Christ mas dinner to the poor. He says the so-called charity work of the Army iu Lincoln is vicious and pauperizing, calculated to make the work a plague. Gov. Mickey has written a letter to J. C. Stltt, of Norfolk, an architect, de claring thut he meant no Injustice to the architect und contractors on the west wing of the now Nebraska state Insane hospital there. He said the tunnels were crumbling and other work was bad. but he admits that the west wing was well built. The tun nel was built several years ago by oth er parties. The receipts from oil inspection fee during the year, which ended Nov. 30, according to Mr. Church's report, were $21,991.30. Expenditures for tht same period totaled $12,5311.49. Tho sum of $S,K!.4' was paid Into the treasury and $552.39 Is left on hand. November receipts were $2,530.40 and disbursements $1,095.73, giving a monthly balance of $1,434.67. Gov. Mickey has definitely refusec to commute the death sentence of Jay O'Heurn, the Omaha boy murderer, to life Imprisonment. O'rlearn's mother. In company with Or. F. M. SIsson, Methodist clergy mun from Omaha, culled upon the executive to press the reqoest for clemency, but Gov. Mickey told them thut he would do nothing In the cose until the courts are through with It, as O'Heurn's appeal la now pending In the supreme court and cannot be reached before the present governor's term explrea. WORK or CONGRESS In the Senate Wednesday resolutie were aureed to calling upon the Pre.iiJet for information regarding the soUii.1 r, Mexico of the fisliiun scliooner Kilo ?tearnes, and directing the Secretary C War to furnish information regarding al leged experience with cholera virus at Manila, resulting in ten or morn deaths. Senator Itnyner made a iKcrh upholding itntes' right doctrines, as involvd ia the Japanese question. Tim Senate ha fxecutive session ratified tho Algeeirm tranty on Morocco after Democrat ha4 impelled the adoption of a resolution disclaiming, tosponsibiJity for the pnrUl pntiou of flie United States in the pro gram arransd by the conference as to tb future of Vorocco. The House took wa the legislative, executive and judicial an propria! Ion bill by paragraphs and com pleted thirty-four panes of tho bill be fore adjournment. An amendment was. tdupted instructing the public printer to use the orthography generally reconixed! y the staudurd dictionaries.. In the Senate Thursday Senator Du bois of Idaho spoke in favor of tli.. urt teating of Reed Smoot. A bill was pasxed providing regulations for lishlng vesseU to prevent collisions at sen. Ia ;lie House a resolution favoring a return to tho old standard of spelling was. idopted. An agreement waa reached for a vote on an increase In the salaries or members of Congress, cabinet officers, etc., when the legislative appropriation bill, now uuder consideration. Is reported to the House from the committee of the whole. A resolution was adopted cilling n the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate the high prices of lumber, and another calling upon the Secretary or the Interior for a detailed description jf the coal lands withdrawn from p iblie ntry since July 1, 1900. After complet ing 145 pages of the bill it waa laid asida intil Friday. -: : ' The Seuate waa not in session Friday By a vote of 100 to 18S tha Hou-v m fused to increase from $3,000 to ,o0 the salaries ot Senators, members aa4 Jelegntes. Tho House, however, by aat. overwhelming vote, Increased the eateries . of tho Vice President, the Speaker at the House and members of the President cabinet to $12,000 each. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation MB was passed. Tht Senate was not in session Satur day. The House pussed 350 invalid pea-- . lion bills. An urgent deficiency appro priation bill carrying $5Sl,oOO for taa varioua departments of the government. Including $150,000 for mileage of aray officers, and $250,000 to carry oat tha pure food law, was passed. Sunday, Jam. 20, was set apart by the House to taka cognizance of the death ot the late Sea ator William B. Bate of Tennessee. Messages from the President on Pana ma, public lands and navy personnel WMS read in the Senate Monday. Resolution! were agreed to for a recess from Dee, 20 to Jan. 3, directing an Investlgatloa f the International Harvester GompanX Did ordering an Inquiry by the Judiciary committee as to the power of Congress to prevent interstate commerce in cbiloV made goods. Senators Wliyte and Ray aer presented resolutions to guard against Infringement of States' rights. In tba (louse the Indian appropriation bill occa pied all the time not tuken up with tb reading of the President's message1 Speaker Cannon announced the following: Miumittee assignments : Knox of Illinois, chairman, expenditures In the State De partment ; Nelson of Wisconsin, Pacifist railroads and expenditures ia the Stat- Department. In the Senate Tuesday many miua tills from the calendar were passed with out objection, among them one providing for a child labor investigation by th Department of Commerce and Labor an4 tue authorizing a loan of $1,000,000 t the Jamestown exposition. The urgent leficiency appropriation bill waa paseeaV K message from the President on the Jap anese qquestion was read. The India ppropriatiou bill was passed by ttsV I louse. District of Columbia businetW and the reading of the President's mes sage occupied the remainder of the sea ion. National Capital Notes. The Senate ratified a patent treaty rlth Guatemala. Representative Patterson, Ooverner flect of Tennessee, has resigned from Congress. Representative Lacoy of Iowa intro duced a bill to make $12 the minimum monthly pension to be paid veterans ot the Civil War. Trof. Henry Fairtiuld Osborn of Ne York has declined the position of secre tary of the Smithsouiau Institution be cause ot pressing literary labors. The Louisiana and Texas delegutiou are backing a bill appropriating $4, 000,000 for a canal from the Mississippi river to the mouth of the Rio Grande. O. K. Paddock, who was iudorsed by Paul Morton, was nominated for post muster at South Omaha, iu spite of tha fact that the entire Nebraska delegxtion, in Congress had united on K. L. How ; tor the place. The Senate confirmed the nominations j f John A. Mclllieniiy to bo civil servics ! commissioner, Messrs. I Iarlan, Chirk aul ! Clements to be interstate commerce com otissioners, and William Ilarrett Itidelj j to be comptroller ot the curreucy. j Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the Brit ' ish ambassador, discussed with Secretary Root the atrocities in the Congo, inti mating the possibility of some action bf , (ireat ltrltain. , j The appeal ot Albert T. Patrick, un der aeuteuce of death for the murder of William March Itice in New York, was dismissed in the 13urcme Court on ni tion of his counsel. t Warships equal in all respects to tUuaa built ia private yards may be constructed In government yards, says Rear Admiral W. L. Capitt, chief ot the construction bureau ot the navy, In his annual rrjortv