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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, VOLUME XV DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, APRIL 2 G. 1007. NUMBER 35. r; LATEST BY TELEGRAPH ClCUtARY OP THE NEWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. INSULT MARINE CORPS ALLEGED INSULT TO VKItXRM OF MARINE CORPS. Two Men Ejected from the IXHigres sional Library In Washington Al ios It Ym Because of the I'nb forms They Wore. As a result of the episode In the congressional library at Washington recently in which two members of the marina corps were ejected from, the building, Secretary Metcalf will order an Investigation. It is his intention to sue u re the testimony of both sides, and ha will appoint an officer from the advocate general's office to act In conjunction with an official librarian, having expressed the wish for a full linqulry Into all the facts. , It was claimed by the watchman jthat the marines were detected In the act of flirting, while the men charge hey were ejected because they were n uniform. The report of Private Elliott, now attached to the battleship Kansas and jwho with Corporal Frye was ordered Eram the building, has been received t the navy department Elliott sub stantiates all the statements of Frye, denying the allegation of improper conduct and insisting that they were put out of the building because of their uniforms. PLOT TO KILL A PRIJdCE. ! -j- (pour Anarchists Suspected of Ilavlug Planned to Slay Albert of Belgium. Four anarchists, suspected of hav ing planned to assassinate Prince Al bert of Belgium, were arrested Thurs day In a church which the prince In tended to visit. One of the anarchists iwas accidentally discovered In the confessional box by an attendant of the church. He was armed with a (dagger, loaded revolver and other weapons. Three other anarchists sim ilarly armed were arrested In the vi cinity of the church. Two of the lat Iter admitted they were French an iarchlsta. Authorities are convinced (the prisoners were engaged in a plot o assassinate the prince. -. ' ( Tke prince Is aT son of theTfate count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold and Is heir presumptive to the throna DEFY Pl'RH FOOD LAW. Injurious Preservative Said to.B In Use in Kansas. Dr. S. J. Crumblne, of Topeka, Kan., secretary of the board of health. announced Thursday that he had dis covered in use there a preservative for meats the manufacturers of which, he asserts, are openly defying the state land federal pure food laws. The pre servative .Is made In the east, and chemical tests show that It contains charcoal and pure sulphur, which. when burned, form a sulphur dioxide gas which is absorbed in the meat and has' the same effect as borax. The manufacturers in their circulars state that the preservative makes It possi ble for the butchers to evade the law, contending that the powder Itself doetr not touch the meat. DRAGGED TO THE SCAFFOLD. Alabama Man Hanged Vntler Traffic . Circumstances. Bob Watts, a young white man, was hanged in the jail yard at Gunters ivllle, Ala., Thursday under tragic cir cumstances. He had become possess ed of a knife, and resisted to the end. jAmmonla was thrown into his cell, land he thus was overcome and drag iged to the scaffold by force, coughing land moaning piteously. L Watts was hanged for the murder if Perd Winkles, an old confederate (soldier, whom he had robbed. Jury Is Vmtble to Agree. After twenty hours' deliberation the flury in the case of Bill Brltton, charg- ied with assassination of Town Mar shal Cockrlll, of Lexington, Ky., re ported a hopeless disagreement and i discharged Thursday. This was ne of the Breathitt county feud cases. Fire lu Xavy Yard. A three-story brick building occu pied as a pattern shop and storehouse at the navy yard at Klttery, Me., was pulned by fire recently. A large num ber of costly patterns, valuable brass lotting and other stores were either de stroyed or badly damaged. Unoffi cially the loss is estimated at 1150,000. , Sioux City Live Stock Market. Thursday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow: Top beeves, $5.56. Top hogs, $6.32 $300,000 lire in Pittsburg. The Zoeller Packing company's blant at Pittsburg, Pa., Including a Marehouse in which there were 600, kiounds of lard, was burned early Thursday. The loss is 1300,000, partly (Insured. Famous Californlun IH-ad. Dennis Kearney, who in the lute 70 headed the sand lot agitation against the Chinese in California, died recent y at his home in Alameda. I INSISTS ON WIDOWS SHARE. X egress Refuses $10,000 from Bores ford Estate.' ' Creditors of the estate of the lata Lord D. J. Peresford. of El Paso, Tex., who was killed In a train w eck in North Dakota In December, have flied an application In the district court for the appointment of an administrator or the win. 1 Among the plaintiffs is Flora Wolff, the negress, who claims to have been the common law wife of Beresford, and to whom he willed $19,000. The others are persons te whom Beresford was Indebted, whose claims a. New York lawyer, representing the Beres fords, attempted to discount. The es tate is valued at over $1,000,000 and consists of lands and cattle in Mexico 'and Canada. After bequeathing $10,000 to Flora Wolff the will left 'the remainder of the property to Bere'sford's two brothers. The Wolff 'woman declined to accept the amount ileft her, claiming a wife's share un der the laws of Mexico. ' 'Admiral Lord Beresford when at El Paso some weeks ago failed to VeactO a compromise with Flora Wolff and left the other claims to be adjust d by his attorney in New York. HELD FOR LAND FRAt'DS. Nnniber of Indictments Are Returned at Salt Lake. Indictments against the Utah Fuel company, of Salt Lake City, and six of Its employes have been returned by the United States grand Jury. The fraudulent acquisition of title to gov 'ernment coal lands is the offense 'charged. The jaame persons were In jdlcted last fall.' In'a demurrer they questioned the sufficiency of the -Indictments. Those now returned ara aald to be more specific and to replace the former presentments, which were, (dismissed on motion of the United jHtates district attorney. Bench war rants were issued and placed In the hands of the United States marshal for service on the fuel company, Hen ry F. Williams, " Its superintendent: iRobert Forester, filed engineer; Wlll ilam D. Foster, Forester's private sec retary; Qeorge A. Moore, sales agent; lElroy M. Clark. Denver, attorney, and lAlexander H. Cole, chief clerk of the .Denver office. The evidence on which the original indictments Were found tended to show that the defendants had induced i"dummy" locaters to take up land for 'the fuel company, a Gould corpora, 'tlon. - FIRE IN FRENCH IORT. Immense Damage Done In the City of . Toulon. .. ... - i ' A fire which broke out at the arsen ,al at Toulon, France, shortly after midnight Tuesday assumed alarming proportions. Private residences out islde the arsenal were threatened, Im Imense quantities of stores were burn ed, and damage amounting to many million francs was done. The wall of a storehouse fell In, burying many men, thirty of whom were taken to hospitals. The superintendent of dock yards says all the endangered men were res cued alive. Tuesday afternoon the fire was mastered, large bodies of soldiers and sailors having aided the arsenal em ployes In flghing flames. The building in which the commis sion of Inquiry appointed to Investi gate the explosion on iroard the bat tleship Iena has been holding sessions was burned ' FATALITY IN BALL GAME. Young South Dakota Student Dro Dead at Rockford, III. Earle Dales, son of Steve Dales, a .prominent business man of Mitchell, S. D., dropped dead Tuesday after jnoon while starting home from play ling baseball. Dales, who was attend ing business college at Rockford, 111., thad been at one of the parks practlc-. ing ball. When the game had ended he and others started for their home for supper. Dales had gone fifty yardt from the grounds when he fell and began screaming In pain. Before re 'llef could be afforded he had passed away. Dales was about 17 years ol age, and at the inquest the verdict wa death from heart trouble and over exertion. Coke Oven Workers Strike. About 800 men employed at tin Larimar coke ovens of the United States Steel corporation at Irwin, Pa., struck Monday for a 10 per cent in crease In wages. Two hundred oven were ready to be drawn, but they were left burning by the men. Beaten and Robbed. ' I. R. Tafllnger, agent In charge ol Southeast Junction, a small station on the Frisco, five miles from St. Louis, was attacked by two men Monday night, beaten Into insensibility with a club and robbed of a small sum o money. Increase Oil Trust AsHesament. The Kansas state board of rallroud assessors Tuesday raised the assessed valuation of the Standard Oil com pany's property In Kansas SO per cent over the value returned by the com. .pany of $3,727,000. Minnesota, to Cut Out Passes, I The Joint legislative committee oh free passes Tuesday afternoon agreed to recommend a bill providing that all free privileges on railroads, telegraph and telephone lines be prohibited af. ter Dec. 31 next. lrepare for Meeting of Kings. A squadron of torpedo boats left Naples Monday for Gaeta to be pres ent at the meeting of King Edward and King Victor Emmanuel. TO END CAR FAMINE. Railways Devise Plan for Prompt Service. Decisive action was taken In Chica go by the Amerloan 'Railway associa tion to remedy the car shortage which far several months has been causing K much worry among shippers throughout the country. The failure 3f some ' roads to furnish sufficient )uota of equipment for their own traffic and the failure to provide and enforce proper rules for the return of foreign cars of their own roads are re iponsible for the shortage, and to remedy the evil the association Wed nesday adopted a rule to be confirmed later by letter ballot of all the roads providing that any railroad which hereafter shall not promptly return to Its owner after unloading all cars consigned to It will be penalized $S for each car so misused, to be paid to the owner of the car. This penalty ;s in addition to the per diem charge 3f SO cents, which, after July 1. each road must pay for each car not its own which may be on Its lines. In order to make the new rule more effective the principle of publicity la to be Invoked through the Instrumen tality of the so-called car clearing house recently established In Chicago. Through the new rule the chairman of the clearing house Is now author ised to send to each of the members a statement comprising the informa tion already collected as to the car location, percentage of equipment on line of total owned and unfilled car orders. This, the association believes, will enable each n.llroad in the coun try to know exactly which lines are delinquent In the matter of furnishing adequate cars or fal-Ing. to return cars to their home lines. IS HELD FOR A DCAL MURDER. it. Joseph Druggist Accused of Horri ble Clime. Bert B. Bruce, a young druggist of St. Joseph Mo., has been Indicted on the charge of murdering James S. 3elf and Ernest Geisler, his wife's brother a'nd step father, respectively. Self dledXov. , 1805. and Geisler on April 4, 1906. both under auspi cious circumstances. Several grand lurles have Investigated the case, but not until now was there evidence strong enough to warrant prosecution. The lives of Self and Geisler were in sured In favor of Bruce's mother-in-law. The dead men's bodies were ex humed recently and analysed by ex perts. Gender's wife became very sick after her husband's death, and she was taken to a hospital, where she soon recovered. Mrs. Brue got a divorce from her "husband, ' charging him with attempting to kill her. Bruce Is in Jail. MURDER AT FORT DODGE. Insurance Man is Found Dead In an Alley. With his face buried to the ears in a pile of ashes the dead body Of O. H. McCaffery, agent of the American Life Insurance company, was found at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning In an al ley on Fifth street In Fort Dodge, la. He undoubtedly had been murdered, as there were at least ten abrasions on the skull, McCaffery Is known to have taken part In a drunken brawl in the neighborhood. He had been drinking heavily of late. Robbery was evidently the motive, as no money was found on his person. McCaffery was aged 4 5 and unmar ried. He has relatives at Maquaketa, la. Threaten Car Strike at Salt Lake. The street car situation at Salt Lake City, Utah following several days of negotiations between the Utah Light and Power company (a Harrlman cor poration) and Its 450 employes has reached an acute stage. The men ask for an Increase of 15 per cent In' wages. A Big Fire at Peoria. A fire Wednesday at Peoria, III., de stroyed the rectifying house of H. H Schufeldt & Co., and fanned by a fierce wind spread to the Godel pack ing houso and Union stock yards. The entire fire department was called out. The fire originated from burning brush. Three Women Killed. Three young women employed at IVheaton & Co., glasB factory at Mil- Ville, N. J., were killed by the collapse of a smoestack during a wind storm. which crashed through the room In which they were working. Sentenced to Hang for Assault. Buck High, a .20-year-old negro, who on March 26 criminally assaulted 4-year-old Mary Donnell, at McDon- ough, da., was Wednesday convicted and sentenced to be hanged May 29. Feared Tug Has Been Ixjst. The fishing tug Searchlight, from Harbor Beach, Mich., is missing and is believed to have sunk in Lake Mich, tgan with a crew of six men. Pope HecvHea O'Gormau. The pope Wednesday received Irt 'vate audience Bishop O'Gorman, of tux Falls. M lifting Boy Found. Harry Loup, II years old, who had been missing from Monmouth, III., for three years, was found at Tulsa, I. T., Wednesday. He was thought at that time to have been kidnaped. He says he ran away from home. Receiver Takes Over Oil Comiiuny J. C. O. Morse, the receiver of the Uncle Ham Oil company, has taken charge of the affairs at the company'r general offices In Kansas City, Kan Nebraska ij State News i I KIIC1DK AT GRAND ISLAND. Woman Hang Herself In Burn and In Pound by Her Daughter. Mrs. Mary Dell Palley. a woman of 60 years of age. committed suicide at Grand Island by hanging herself to the rafter in the barn, at the home of her daughter with whom she Is liv ing. Mrs. Bailey has for three years been an Invalid. Her huxbund left her some years ago. Her daughter, who was keeping house for a Mr. Kellogg, went to the city with Mr. Kellogg to attend to some shopping. They reside In West Grand Island. When the daughter and Mr,, Kellogg returned home Miss Bailey went Into the house, but not finding her mother there went out to the bam. near which Mr. Kel logg was unhitching the horse. Going Into the barn she was startled to see her mother hanging to a clothes line fastened to the rafter. The body was at once cut down and. It being warm a doctor was summoned, but life had become extinct. Owing to her III health and helplessness, the woman had several times threatened to end It all, but the daughter did not think the declared Intention would ever be carried out and especially did not look for it at present, her mother having given no recent Indication of contem plating such an act. Coroner Sutherland was summoned and investigated the matter, but found no Inquest to be necessary. Besides the daughter the woman had two sons, remuenis or me city. 1 , "Li D" PI T ON TEK A M K IL Even Drug Stores and Restaurants to tie lonetl HunilH). Mayor J. A. Slnghaus, of Tekamali In taking up the reins of tmvpiun.nt has outlined his policy by declaring that there will be a strict enforcement or the Sunday' closing law, and not even drug stores or restaurants wnj be permitted to open. Mayor Slng hous represents the temperance ele ment and promises to keep close tab on the Illicit sale of Intoxicants. Tekamah citlsens are looking for ward to belne- the best Simrfnv i,.h,.,.i town In Nebraska the coming . year. The new appointees are H. E. Stum bugh, marshal; M. 8. McQrew, water commissioner; J. H. Crom, street com missioner; Dr. M. J. Gllkeraon, chair man board of health. SEARCHES FOR TWO til It IX. Children Found Late at Night and Explain St'liool una Ii-kiMnn "Two Upland girls, about 14 years jia, caused considerable' excitement recently by attempting to run away. When they were missed, at 8 o'clock, a general alarm was given, as It was discovered they had taken along most of their surplus clothing. The neigh boring towns were called un hv tola. phone and four livery rigs were sent out in as many directions. It was sup posed they had run away with sonw young men. About 11 o'clock one of the parties who drove out discovered them in the hills about six miles south of town and brought them back. On being Interrogated no Infor mation whatever could be gleaned as to their intentions In running away, except that they had not been getting along well at school. Farmer Injured by Bull. E. E. Greer, one of the well known Furnas county stock raisers, who re sides one-half mile north of Cam bridge, was found Sunday morning in a state of unconsciousness lying in his cattle yard, w here he had been caring for his stock. Dr. E. L. Meyers was Immediately called and found Mr. Greer seriously injured about the spine, causing paralysis of the lower limbs. Teacher Has Smallpox. A telephone message from Overton, from Dr. Boardman, states that one of the teachers In the primary grades of the Overton public school,, who had not been feeling well for a few days, was found to have smallpox. She had attended church three times Sunday and also taught her grade Monday. There Is considerable excitement over the matter. Marital Troubles Multiply. Mrs. Mary McAllister McNamara has filed a petition for divorce from William C. McNamara at Dakota City. About seven years ago McNamara's first wife secured a divorce from him and almost immediately McNamara Mary McAllister were married. They have three children. McNamara as one time was a prominent contractor In City, la. Doctor Takes laudanum. Dr. Stewart, of Cedar Bluffs, took the contents of a bottle of laudanum and for a time his life was despaired of. A physician from Fremont was summoned, who made the trip to that place in an automobile in record time, and by the energetic use of a stomach pump and othvr remedies tucceeded In bringing him out. Singular Accident to Boy. A singular accident happened to Raymond Decker,, a boy, at Waterloo Monday afternoon. He was along the track and In sport picked up a large stone and hurled it at a paxslng train The stone rebounded and struck the boy lu the mouth and knocked him senseless across the rails of the other track. Teachers to Have Gala Week. The citlsens of Niobrara, In the ab sence of a hall of any size to accom modate the crowds that will attend the teachers' Institute the first week In August, propose to hire a large tent and make a gala week of the occaMon. Corn Mills In Kbiihjim. The corn mills located at Blue Uap (1ds, Kan., belonging to Ed Miller, of Beatrice, were destroyed by fire re cently. I,oss. $12,000, with Insurance of $4,000. The origin of the fire 1st unknown. HOMER'S MYSTEItlOUS VTEUU. Package, Likely Containing Io4non, round In Water. The mystery of a package whlcl Mra Ed Norrls, of Homer, found : her 'well on the morning of April 1 still remains unsolved. The Not rises refuse to drink any of the water from the welt,, and suspect that Someone tried ' to poison them. The package was turned over to Dr. Nina M. Smith and later to W. A. Burke, .who said, tha stuff looked like corrosive sublimate, a deadly poison. When Mrs. Norrls pull ed It out of the well the subatanc was wrapped in a woolen cloth. At first she thought someone had been playing an April fool Joke, but later she came to take a .more serious view of the matter. As yet no expert analy sis of the package has been made to determine the exact nature of the al leged poison. The finding Vf the mysterious pack age in the well has recalled tne find Ing of a package of money . In the same well about eight or nine yean ago. Norrls found a $10 bill attach ed to a bucket which he had drawn from the well. Later he found a $S bill attached to another bucket. He told friends of the queer conlncldence with the result that officials of the Homer bank, which had been robbed of $1.1100 a few years previous, made an investigation and found about $1 20" in the well. Legal proceedings followed, and the bank managed to recover about $1,200. The discolored silver dollars which had been taken from the well were circulated In Ho mer and vicinity, and for some time residents of Homer every once In a while would handle the dollars, which they recognised at once as a part of 'ne stolen money. GRAIN MEN WILL ASK DAMAGES Suits to Be Instituted Against Roads an uufe-oiiie. of liar shortage. Another meetlna of the srsln deal era In this business along the Una of tne Missouri Pacific was held In Ne braska City Saturday afternoon and permanent organisation was perfected by the election of President W. B Banning of Union. Vice President E. A. Duff of Nebraska City, Secretary and Treasurer A. B. Wilson of Ne braska City, directors, the above nam ed officers and D. Smith, of Eimwood, and A. J. Denton, of Nebraska City. -The association Is to be known a the Grain Dealers' Protective aesocia tlon, with headquarters In Nebraskr City, and It Is for the mutual benefit and protection of Its members and to put a stop to unjust weights at termi nal and other discriminations tr which the grain men of that territory have been subjected In the past. Tht committee to which was referred thi legal phase of the association made r partial report and will make a fullai one at another meeting to be callec shortly. . . The association retained altorneyr Pltxer and Hayward to look after tin matter of what rights they have b bring suits for losses sustained In thr PHSt by reason of the shortaae of csi- and unjust discrimination at termlna points. A number of suits will be In stltuted as soon as the papers can bi prepared and the data secured or which to base them. The araln mot have kept away from the old associa tlon as far as possible, for thry feai anti-trust laws and will not have any thing to do with regulatlna of nrleet und the things of that kind. WOMAN HLl'FPS THIEVES. Holds Three Captives In llcr Stow I mil Police Arrive. Plucky Mrs. Robert C'rawt. nf Nnr. folk, widow of a prominent North western conductor. Droved mora thnn a match for three hobo thieves in hei dpeartment store when she aelxart three pairs of trousers that one trami naa lucaea under his coat, and then, grasping an empty revolver from be hind the counter, lined tha tramrm nr against the wall, and with the harm less barrel leveled at their heads held them captives until the Dollce arrived In court they were convicted and sent to tne county Jail for thirty days. Mall Box Looted. A bold robbery occurred at Pipihk Junction Thursday night, when some one stole a mull pouch from one of the trucks. It was found the next morninir under a i II road brldaa north of the station by Mr. Fisher. It had been cut open from one end in tha other and the letters were blowing over the farm. New Paier at Lincoln. George W. Kemis. Jr.. a well known York boy. has launched tha "8 light" at Lincoln. Mr. Bemta is one of the best newspaper writers In the state and his many friends are hon. Ing the "Searchlight" will be a suc cess. Girl Burned to Death. Miss Anna Lynch, of Yankton. 8. V., a nurse In the Norfolk Insane hos pital, was fatally burned at the Insti tution recently and died later. While heating paraffin for use In polishing the floors, by means of an alcohol lamp, her clothing caught fire and burned entirely off. Oakland Teachers. The board of education im l-t. ed teachers for the Oakland nubile schools as follows: Superintendent. W. H. Myers: first assistant. Aim D. Erlckson; teachers In the grades, Jeannette Nelson. Emma O. Unnn Ida M. Sallander, Lela C. Huston, Jean Jacobs; music, Daisy C. Johnson. Wyiiiorc Saloon Fight Ends. The fight which has been In pro gress at Wymore against five saloons ended recently. The saloon men agreed lo obey the laws regulating thi vale of liquors and lo leadverllse and make new application for licenses. The remonstrances were then withdrawn. Death from T plioil-Pneuinoiila. William wutterman. the eldest ann of Henry Wattermnn, died at the fam ily home east of West Point with ty- pnoiu-piieumonla. The deceased was 80 years of age and leuves u wMnu and two children, one of whom is only i uiiys old. YoiU College PiiHlilng to Hie Front. York collide Is fust puxhlna to tho front us'oiie of the li udlng educational aytitutlniiH of the west, and the en. ollinent thlH term of over 800 Is th Judge Hamer, of Kearney, was In tha. office of Secretary Junkln a day IT two ago looking up the bill vetoed by Gov. Sheldon appropriating $11. 000 for an addition to the Kearney normal school. It Is understood some of the people la Kearney who are throwing fits over the veto have It In mind to take the matter Into court on the theory that the governor failed to take action on the measure until af. ter the five days allowed him by the constitution to act on measure. If this were true the bill would have be. Dome a law without action by the gov. rnor. According to the legislative record the five daya after adjournment would have been up at midnight Wed ncsday. According to the time this bill reached the governor this would have been the time. Wednesday, be fore midnight. Gov. Sheldon called up Secretary of State Junkln to coma down town and accept several meas ures which he had acted upon, among them being the Kearney normal school appropriation. Mr. Junkin did . not come down, but the numbers of the bills were given to him and accepted, though the bills did not actually reach him until the next morning. e e f Two young women, heretofore high, ly respected, who have been employed at the store of Rudge A Guensel for some years, were caught pilfering from their employers Saturday and several dollars' worth of silks and laces was recovered in their rooma Both young women were discharged but-will not be prosecuted. Inasmuch aa from -four to six- young" women have been caught stealing in this store annually, the firm notified all eta ployes they would be placed under bonds, the firm to pay the cost of the bond and hereafter an employe caught stealing would be turned over to the tender mercies of the bonding com pany and prosecuted to the limit of the law. Pilfering among employes baa been going on to such an extent In Lincoln tbat . this firm last year brought In several detectives and placed them In the store with the re sult that several old and trusted em ployes were discharged. Other stores took up the plan with the same result . e e . Around the hotel arid at the state house everybody is now alternating "dry" talk with "pie" talk, though the latter la causing the most concern, aa the anti-dry people have discovered they can get relief at Havelock, and the street car ride .there la moat de lightful, but they , can only .guess on the "pie" matter, and no one haa been able to say whether the guess Is worth anything. The serious Illness of hit mother haa kept Gov. Sheldon away from his office a great portion of the last few days and when he la there hi Is too busy with other matters to pay any attention to callers after "pie," while the two plums to be distributed by the two senators la causing a whole lot of people to loae a lot of sleep. e . A fact which is not generally knowr, Is that county assessors are to be elected this fall In every county In the state. When the biennial election lawi were enacted two years ago, among other terms of county officers extend ed was that of county assessor, which was lengthened .one year. This would make the selection of these officers occur In 1908. All of the biennial election laws, except this one, were knocked out by the supreme court, end this one was not tested. The re cent legislature, however, enacted a law which tequlres the assessors to b elected this fall. e e e Reports havs been received at th office of Secretary Bennett, of the state board of assessment, that certain parties down In Saline county havs sold farms for which a part payment has been made and a contract ooveri the Indebtedness. This contract th owner refused to turn In to the as sessor to be listed as property. Tht secretary holds the contract Is an item of credit and should be assessed thi same as any other credit, and has so notified the county assessor of Sa line county. e The total appropriations made by the last legislature and approved b the governor. Including the 1-mlll levy for the state university (estimated) amounts to $4,004,730.32. Including what tho 1-mill levy for the university will produce the governor estimated the receipts for the blennlum to bi $4,122,370. This will leave a margin for the state of $117,64". e Representative Marshall Harrison, of Otoe county, one of the wheel horses of the recent legislature, was In Uncolii recently en route home after a trip out in the state on busi ness. Inasmuch as Mr. Harrison voted aye on all platform measures and a good many more equally as good, h shows no bad effects of his contact with his constituents. According to the report of Insur ance Deputy Pierce, which has Just been received from the printer, Ne braska Insurance companies did a good business last year, only one writ ing a less amount of risks than thi year before. e e Attorney General Thompson recom mended to County Attorney Roach, ol North .Platte, Lincoln county, that hi begin prosecution of the Union Paclflt vKallroad company for violation of tht 2-cent passenger fare law. e Attorney General Thompson filed In the supreme court formal objections to the report of Referee Post recom mending that the suit against all but two of the Lumber Dealers' associa tion not guilty of attempting to re strain trade. The attorney general also asked for thirty days In which to brief the case of the staiv. The ob jections of the attorney general were to the part of the findings of the referee relating to the statement that the association was not guilty as association. SOLDIERS' A HO SAILORS' ABT. Bfllltary Salon la farts t Exhibit . Their Work. Paris Is to have a salon mllltalre, r military picture exhibition, which. It Is said, will awnken both surprise and admiration. It Is a strictly official affair. It Is to be held . In tho Grand Palais, whore the regular annual eahm displays take plnce". The , houorary presidents or the innnngement are Gen eral Plquart. the minister of war ; Gas ton Thompson, the minister of marine, and it. Dugurdln-Benumeta, who Is un dersecretary to M. Brland In charge of the fine arts section of the department of education. The hanging committee received more than 800 exhibits oil painting, . water colors, sculpture, engraving ami other art products. F.douard petal lie, the great pointer of war pictures, who Is said to lie the moving spirit in the exhibition, expresses nmasement tt the grent merit of the work In a majority of en sea. A large majority of the ob jects sent In will lie In the display. The contributors rangedrom sublieu tenants to generals. In the marine sec tion captains lu the navy have sent sea pieces itud midshipmen studies of exotic life and scenery reproduced fron 'nature tu Africa and Indo-Chlna. Gen eral Michel, the commander of the Sec ond army corps, is represented by a pen and Ink drawing of the barrack at Nancy and their picturesque sur roundings. Colonel Renault of the In- , funtry, who exhibited a portrait of Minister Barthon, Is to have one of. Geueral Brugele In the military exhi bition. Naval Lieutenant Lacoze' con tributes a water color, "Summer Eveu Ing In Brittany;" Naval Captain Laii-' .Iry, an oll palntIiig,',',Xear'Cl"erbourg;' " Colonel Inspector La pain, a picture "Ruins of Chevreuse," and Army Chap lain Levegue, studies from still life. Those who have seen the collection say that the cavalry artists seem to run to water colors, the artillery to palutlng In oils, the engineers to sculp ture.. The , Infantry are at -borne la every part of the work, Including burnt wood and nilnlnture painting. , In the sculpture section the work of two offi cers who have some celebrity In art circles Is described as specially good. , They ore Captains AllouarU audi Jacques Froniont-Meurlce of the re-. serve staff. , ; Simultaneously with the exhibition' there Will be a "memorial" display of works by artists who have served la ; of Melhsouler, who served as lieutenant ' colonel In 1870, nud of Detallle, who , was an ordnnnco office on tho. ataff a a a. ' f t r wa. t.iii.inf 'i' wa as uwut ' IffOT A SQUASX SEAL. Mrslcaa Ulves Vmmam ( Hla Criev. ' aare Against American Partner. In looking up some mining claims In Mexico,, pi found myself making Inqui ries of a nutlve named Don Estatso says a contributor to the Baltimore American: Ills greeting was anything but cordial, and bo answered di que ries In a way that gavu me no Informa tion. J was rather surprised at this, and a few days later expressed my- " v - - " .! J , UVU. AAV WUIUU b see through It, but suld he would find oubttvhy things were thu& In a couple of weeks he enmo, to me und said : . "Senor, I know why Don Estanso gave you such coldness." "Well?" "A year ago ho was in th mine busi ness with one of your countrymen. At tbat time he was In love with Ameri cans. Together they did business much business. It was pleasant be tween them. They were like sisters. If one said so thou the other suld so. Nothing was the trouble for a long. Jong time." "And then there was trouble, eh?" "There was. My good and tfneere- friend, Don Kstnnso, he saw a chance. "Chanee for what?" "To beat that American out of thou sands of dollars many thousands. He Improved that . chance and did beat him.", "And Is thut why h'e is down on Americans 'how?" "Ah, no. When your eurupatrlot he-1 beeu bou ten be went to. the courts. He . said It was it swindle. He called for justice." "And did he get It?" Xot at u 11 ; but what did be do? In. stead of leaving the case to the Judge. whom my friend could have bribed for $5,000, he demanded a jury, and It cost my friend four times that sum to keep what he bud swindled. It wus a very -bad policyvery bad. It gives my country men the idea that you will not give what you call a square deal." Dll Huuk tu Dim of .1 .k. Moor and Morocco are words un known to the iieople of that troubled land. These people know themselves as Arabs and descendants of those valiant upholders of the Prophet's green standard who swept like a flood across .or:n .rrica at tne time or th heglra. The Morocco of the present day they found jiossessed by a sturdy race who claimed descent from the peo- : pie who were cast out of Canaan by . Joshua, the son of Nun. Their coun try, so far us Its plain were concern ed, was taken iroin tueui by the Arabs, and their fighting etretigth was made to serve the Arab cause In the con quest of Spain. They themselves grad ually took to the mountains, to h Great Atlas, Here they have remain ed ever since, speak lug their own lan- ' gunge, maintaining their own customs and racial attributes and obstinately refusing to lit- absorbed by the Arul dwellers on tho plains. These people are the Berbers; tlair tongue is called Bhilhab. largest in Its h'ttoiy.