AKOTA '-COUNTY HERALD. Stat His Soc VOLUME XVI DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, APRIL a, 1908. N UMBER 31 i ? CURRENT HAPPENINGS FAITHFUL CHRONICLE OP ALL IMPORTANT ITEMS. nntnirn -ru-wisr t i mrr t n VAJUlii JIUUJ1 liATl JiJCi DYNAMITER KILLS DETECl IVE WOUNDS OTHERS. Conviction or IC. F. McDonald, of Tern Iluute, Intl., for Destruction or HulldlngH at Sanfortl Comes at End or SeiMatloi.nl Trial. Found guilty. of va charge of arson Henry F. McDonald, In the circuit rourt room at Torre Haute, Ind., "hursday, shot and klllrd Detective " William A. Dwyer, seriously wounded j other officers and. was hiroself serlous- , ' ly wounded. The shooting followed "the announcement 'of the verdict rf the Jury before which McDonald had '(been tried on charges of dynamiting IjBtores and churches In Sanford last ( When the Jury reported Its verdict McDonald Jumped to his feet and drew , a revolver, lie fired at Prosecuting Attorney James A. Cooper but missed. Tlr. Cooper dodged and, McDonald di rected his fite at the fifflcers seated j around the tuble. Without an opportunity to defend himself Detective Dwyer was" shot down. Almost In an Instant police of- b licers onddeputy sheriffs in the court ' 1 TOOT11 dl'ew their rAVrtlippa nn1 t fire on McDonald. The convicted man fell with huir a dozen bullets In his 1 iX21' "9 ' i , "1," twTlv ' t-- fflr-rJ '"jJtVnafcuia of mSgaalne? coucnlng the body. 4. iirvey v. Jones; superintendent of polrtfe, was shot in the side. Deputy Sheriff Ira Wcllmnn sustained a wound .11) th? chin. Sylvester , Doyle court bailiff, was shot in the leg. Another ' ,ruck by: lander. ' Tne snoo,'"ff "as the result of a sensational trinl which was bitterly contested. McDonald was Kfiojyn to a baa man, but he had been per l7.Vted his Jihcrtv rlittfMfy tim n't.. hf.Vted his liberty during the trial. The police department has been active In the case and several officers were in the court room to hoar ttje verdict. - OfTicers hud expected some denlon elration, but they wcre not expectirtf such action. vjon McDonald drew his revolver ha aimed at Mr. Cooper. The prosecirt-,1. tipped his chair. back. .wards th fist shot went wild and, the second, fcujict struck the table at tviiich Mr. Ooorper hud beejl seated. "Before IXrtexttve Dwyer had time to move the third bullet killed him. Hy this time the police, and deputy sheriffs began firing. I HHS I IKK LIPH tS IX PKltlli. J Dauglitcr (,f Koi Ueleller Is Thrcat ine1. The Chicago Inter-Oeean Thursday tnornlng snys: Mis. Harold McCor-iC-inick, daughter o John D. Uockcfel v ler. Is vcigiug .in nervous brea'kdown .and has picpared to depart hastily Crom ttm city as a" result of a series or ihr..ali nltiK loiters received by her which have led her to believe that her Ufa and tin lives of her children aid i.t peril. mtrw Ouards have been placed about the ' McCo,,ick (.. nl JMK.vue Place and Lake Shore .l.K. Servants and coachmen, working in relays, watch pedestrians and no one is permitted vt enter the grounds without being . .utli.liied As soon iy. Mrs. McCormlck will .leave for her father's lw.m- i. Cleveland. i,t the dale or her depart, ure Is Willi held. 1 To Probe lux ftmik Theft. When It impaneled on April IS the Cited .states grand jury will be 4i.sk ed by lhevdi,ectors or the First Na tlonaf cunk of Salt Ike City, Utah to li.vestigutu the then in January of v reserve chest that Institution. of lh to Aid Iler Sister. M.irle Lehman ,.f st. I.ouls, Mo committed suicide Wednesday and Investigation proved the motive wa leave $1,000 lire Insurance to i helpless, invalid shier, Mugglo, "t' J!). -r'"-y.,-- " geiJ Milchell Will Be Edito John Mitcliell, retlied prf tthe Culled Mine Workers o announced Thursday that I he will devote his attenth aident oT t America. J the future 1oi labor a.lish ln In. p.'U" i u lili h he will cs dla nupolls. -ft& N oi l bel li iiieir c DKidend. A (lUiirterly ,.lvld nd of 1 per cent vvs di-chtrefl Thu- 'lay by the dlrec- f is of tile Nortf eoioruny. This ' 'tircvlou tiuartf ein pacific Railroad unchanged from the Ji:t Citfv l.lvc Slock Munrket. iVursduy'r quotations on the filoux City live st beeves, $6.' ock mcikct follow: Top tf- Top hogs. $5.80. I0ni A disc Tor to Ciet More Puy, atch from Berlin that because of his large family and the A co of living, the kaiser is his salary raised. It rw,u- Increase to havr 3.9:iO, 000 a year tliio I'lans cv I' iilienllnry.' " ie t)hlo hi-nale has passed the bill Idlng f.,r the appointment of a c,'n imlttee to prepare plans and pro 'e id with the construction of a new ,S0fi,0L0 tinU-i:ti.;iT, TO RVN DISTTLLIXU SCHOOL. Wilson Orders riant for Agricultural Department: A denatured alcohol school, giving A preliminary demonstration of what Uenatured alcohol la, how It la made bind from what products. Is about to be established .In the department i.f agriculture at Washington In accord ance with orders first Issued by" Sec retary James Wilson. Dr. H. W. Wl Jy, chief chettilst of the department, has been assigned1 to the Job, which tneans that It will be well done. He has been directed to purchase vat, worms, engine! and other machin ery necessary In the equipment of a denatured alcohol Institution, and get It In running order as soon as possi ble. Secretary Wilson plans to dlsilll 'denatured alcohol right In his depart ment for the benefit of farmers and fathers Interested who visit Washing ton. Experts will be on duty to ex plain distilling methods, to show Just what products may be utilized in mak- g denatured alcohol and othervi.- elucidate tly- advantages that will ac crue to the farmer who takes advan tage of the law permitting denatured alcohol to be made free of tax. There Is a strong probability that a government school of denatured alco-jhol-wlll be established at the corn exposition to be held In Omaha In De cember. Secretary Wilson will au thorize such an exposition if he Is em powered to do so by congress. Funds are available for such purposes, but Secretary Wilson is disinclined to act without an express legislative author ization. i V TO "TEST ANTI-PASS LAW.' feature RarrlnS Exchange or Advcr Jnff JMorv rwU nU Court. Testimony by several advertising I CJ"'n(0 I auverusing space lor rail ' 'ii'ffltf tronannilall.ti. ...lit. 1 1. ni- I . . ' muwii twin imc V.IIICIliJO. Indianapolis and Louisville rahva was taken at Chicago WanesdiC? be fore a special coTuTulssioner appointed by the United States circuit court. All the witnesses testified that the rates jfor advertising are subject to frequeyft jyarlation. and this, the attorney;, for ife? eovermnent claim, Is the r pnlnl at issue. It Is charged that the rail road is violating the UPrstate com. fierce law by Its tra- -- .,,, tUa j magazines, the ctentIon beng that ' L v-"ttl"J" A Wiagazlne rates makes the placing a flxQd va,Ue upo)1 R1)(., advertising Impossible, and that there jfore 'the granting of, railroad tickets I exchange for It form's a discrimlna- tion In violation of the Interstate com- mcrce law. The testimony taken .Wednesday will be used in drawing up 'a statement of facts upon which legal 'arguments will be based In a suit for Injunction which the government has Instituted against the railway com jPany In an effort to restrain It from continuing the practice of paying for advertising with transportation. ItAILROADS LOWICR KATES. Tennessee Lines Put On a 2-Cent Fare Will Continue yeur. The Southern railway and Its nlliAr lines Wednesday put on a 2 -'".-( rate in Tennessee. The rate con tlnue in operation for on' If it will prove profit--.tf4 " i T vllle and NashV , T' oLo,,ls 'if le, and Nashville Chattanooga .,, e. ... , c''1'"k. T" w d ' f' -uIs Vaihoada began W'(1Suaj fMachlng coupons to an ticket9 6ol(J ,n the w) i( h will give to evr',y purchaser the right of a rebate for the difference between :the old r?;te and the .southern rail jways rale prov(ed the Unlted Stales suprerr4e coflrt upnold!J the Alabama rate. ' A S 4nnnnibiil;st Is Freed. ' Rosa Vreemttn, aged 20, a victim, of mnan Jhullsm and epilepsy-, was ac quitted, of th8 charge of fcurglary In Judge f Brcntano's court at Chlcr e1 esday by virtue ef his afflictloi,. 're Tnan was accuse) of Yveuking in to the home of Fred IfX.lger and at te king Folger when Ihe latter sur ' 4sed the intruder in his kitchen. Hrerery Strike Ends. , 'Representatives of t wenty-fmr breweries In .St, Louis and vicinity and of the brewery workers' unions have -signed nev contracts, endlngShe strike of 3,500 brewery workers, whkh lias been on for more than threo weeks. The strjkers will be put to work under the settlement, as soon as possible. Ls Anarchy in Iluyii? A dispatch received in Paris Wed tiesday from I'ort' an Prince, llayti, says the situation there Is extremely grave, that complete anarchy prevails, and that the American wurshlps are preparing to land troops. Ten Mm Are Over-onie. Ten men were overcome by gas In the Cudahy Packing company's plant at (.South Omaha Wednesday when a tank of ammonia gas exploded. Eight ere taken to a hospital In a serious condition. Riders Xuw Illou 'p ionmtoew. In Anderson county, y., one night ecently night riders dynumiu-d the tomatot bed of James Phillips. Phil lips had destroyed a tobacco bed on the spot and had put up a sign to that effect. Railroad Khnpu Reopen. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas uilway shops at Kedalla, Mo., which rinsed recently, reopened Wednesday with a force cf 600 men. rhief rest ix miner. 250,000 llitumlnotift Coal Diciicn Q"1' Work. Two hundred and fifty thousand picks dropped from the hands of as many bituminous conl miners of the United States Tuesday evening, not to be used again until a wage, settle ment has been reached and a scale adopted btween the members of the United Mine 'Workers of America and the coal operators of the various Melds. The situation, however, does not In dicate a prolonged strike. An open winter and industrial depression have left a large stock of coal on hand, and the differences between miners and operators are very slight. It Is practicably agreed that the present scale will be continued, but some pol itics, with the change In the national officers of the miners' orsanizntlon and local differences between operators and miners, have resulted In tempo rary suspension of work until a nev wage scale is agreed to'elther by dls-'j trlcts or Individual mines. I'n'J) lyi years ago the bituminous coal naming Scale uis based on the agreement reached in the central competitive Held, eonsfi-tlng of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and western Pennsyl vania, and considered as a unit. This unit system was broken two years ago when President .Mitt hell signed a scaie with Pittsburg operators, who agreed to pay the scale demanded after the operators of, the other three states hud refused, and the miners won their fight In consequence. Operators signed the scale Individually through out the country. Simp that time the miners have tried to get back the unit rule, or Interstate agreement, but the operators of western Pei'!'ylvnnl;i, Ohio and TTiinois. aTlor negotiations' lusting all the present winter, have re fused to meet in Interstate convention Willi IllM ItllllMI-U it . -v& . STRUCK nv OWX TOJrpEDo. ' Acci(,!ht lo ilie iVilHbdioiu Is to llu lllt(SllIIC(l. As the result of being struck by a Whitehead torpedo. Hied from one of her own lubes, the torpudoboat lilake ly, which has bceij engaged In target practice oft Pensarnhi, Fla , has a large, Jagged holL. Just below her wa ter lino on her port side. The torpedo was a "blank." The Plakely lias been put in dry dock and n hoard of inquiry named to conduct an Investigation In to the accident. It 1$ suld the toriiedobnat was on the target range, about four miles from the navy yard, engaged in prac tice. A Whitehead torpedo had hen prepared for u range of 4.000 yards and fired. It had cn!y gone about 100 yards when it suddenly swerwd and after making" n (Complete circle, came directly toward the Blakely, striking the vessel on the port shite below the water line. Mattresses and bedding were used to stop the inrush or water arid the vessel headed for tlu . , , niivy yaru. iv new; Army rol"; England. Volunteers Arc Displaced hy Recently Created Ot-;aiiU:itlon. ,Vilh the slrok of luljliiniit Tues day Great Tirlluln's volunteer army became a thing or Die past after un existence of forty-nine years and a territorial army, Introduced by War Sccretaiy Ralilane, lelKns in its stead. The volnrdeer lorces throughout Ihe country relegated their "last po.t" at th'ir resperilve heaihiuartera by rniiVrs and older festivities. TBe festivities took on somewhat ol A sad character, owing to the dlsap-j penrance of the old association. Most of the gat lici luffs were, attend ed by vclynna and rileiids fit the serv ice, who exchanged old memories Ti'lnight MrucK. Iliere were nir ring seines as to who would bo tlw lirst to enlist hi thu wow body. fnSny bnuflteils thus lieiog recruited. In some cases practically Ihe 'Mmle regiments went Into Ihe new scrviei Ate Fee: wuiis $i otio. Because he was diselved into eating goose eggs, thinking lliey were chick en eggs. Solomon Carter, of Kokomo, Ind., has filed suit for tt.000 diimages against David Harris. (Jailer bus an antipathy for geese and geese eggs, and lie alleges Ihe ergs wem lepie sented as lien fruit He alleges neiv. ous shock and permanent illsabilitln arising from the deception Aids Iic.iih wiili I'.ullet. Just at the hour licn slut knew her husband tvas being IoachiI into a crave in Cleveland. . Mis Kll.abelh lOnz. of Di'iivei. Colo., ngi-d VS, Hbot In-rseir tliroutili ihe load, baiiin rown uuiy of uuitlng tor iIcmIIi The suicide occurred u the home of her Mill. May Hay Knilroail l.in. A resolution culling on the Domin ion government to ucipiiic all lailioud ! i in h in Nova Scotia .und add them to Ihe Intercolonial system as branches has been unanimously pUMsed by Die provincial legislatoie of Nova Scotia. Anna Gould Is 111. Madame Gould is ill with bronchitis and stomach trouble in the apartments of her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Mm fee. ln the Jlotti St. Regis at New Yoik. Madame Gould was said to be to a eiy nervous condition Tuesday. American Singer Honored. MIho Geraldine Furrur, the Amerl rini hlnger, hti'i been', nominated as "imperial court -biser" thy .the rmpe lor of Ceruiai y. I ( li Nebraska ji State News jj I r.VTIIKIl imoWNK, NAY KM SOX. Morris tin Istonw n, of Omaha, Palls -Into Cistern with Child. Morris Chrlstensen, 1325 South Twenty-fifth street, Omaha, was drown ed Sunday in u cistern In the back yard. Into which he fell while he had his 2-year-u!d son, Willie, In his uvivs. The child was saved by the hcr.dsm of the father, who rtoort in seven feet of wuser. and ty stretching Ids arms I to their hlghert managed to keep the boy above the water until assistance arilved. ., It y;Q short'y befoie 3 o'clock when the Sunday afternoon quiet of the neighborhood wns broken i:y a wom an's screams and Mrs. Chrlstensen was seen by neighbors running from the house! Fhe rushed to the home of W. A. Uoettsclt, across the street, und though her licllenuni had rendered her speechhs-, Ooettsche; with; L. W. Klpperle and II. S. Jennlng.'. Xollowed her In a mini run back to the houses. She pointed to thy cistern. v . Looking down tlicy saw two humaii hands reaching out of the blacky wute: upholding a little child' In a l ed coal. A ladder was quickly secured. It was too short to rench to the bottom of the cistern. So two of the men held it while dorttsche climbed down and rescued the baby. The moment this burden was removed the hands seemed to close and sank beneath the water. Several minutes were consumed In grappling for the body. Finally It. was brought to Vjc surface. Hut ev-i ery sign of jjf t'is go net" r';!J "ST ' DAMAGE Tl PRAIUli: FIRF. Tlie Kuiihigtoii ltoad Is Caus'.n Con siderable Iaiss. The Burlington railroad Is causing great damage by fire around Mullen and In the section of the sandhills country. Nearly one-half the land along the right of wuy has been burn ed over. A blaze that started at Kel bo burned a strip of country eight miles wide south to the Dismal river, nearly thirty miles long. Despite the hard fighting of the citizens In that lo cality the llames swept "merrily on; leaving destruction, misery and home less homesteaders In Its wake. Quite a number of stock Is reported J.o have perished, but the heaviest loss to one man befell a new "Klnkaidar" by' the name of Nelson, who lost his honie, wo cows,- chickens, a set of harness, hay all he had on earth except his tamlly and two h.orses. There is. a strotlg bearing tovf&rd erlmlnftl t-ure-lessness on the part o(.tv railroad In stringing out jhoe fires amthere Is aso grelt VlSed for the strong arm of the law to bear down heavily on this class qf transgressors. POSTOFFICK AT VALLEY ROBBED Safe frnekers rr lifth Time Take W luit Is in the Sure iiicris For the fifth time, safe crrtcKCrs robbed the safe In the Valley post ofllee. Postmaster MoiiH Johnson says they were lild for Ihelr trouble for the first lime, but he would mu,He no statement of the amount ff his loss, until he could make an examina tion of the safe. x Word wu received the Omaha postollice shortly befc,re n,,,,,) 0r the robbery of the pftolnce at Valley and Postofllce Inot,,, Frank Frrty ser wont at un to Valley to investi gate. Valley tne Omaha dis trict, whicjrt l under charge tff Mr. Frftyser. Mr Thompson, of the Fre mont tfls!tr,ct, was also In Omaha Mo'.iday rooming and has gone to Yftlley o assist Inspector Frayser In 'ferreahig out tine robbery. Sin:LIK)X llAt'K FRO.M EAST. Pleased -villi Results of Ills Trip to the Nalional t'apltul. Gov. Sheldon has returned from Washington more thn pleased with lils efforts to obtain niodillcatlons In ihe government cattle quarantine Coy. erlng Nebraska. He will soon issue u proclamation to take the place of the one Issued several monlhs ago, but there will be little difference between the two documents. The dividing line between the western division, which Is to remain under quarantine, iiiu: the eastern division is thu same as thut outlined by State Veterinarian McKIni and Gov. Sheldon after they had ob tained reports from counties in regard to the existence of scabies in cuttle Curland lhl for SIicmiiIux. The verdict or the coroner's Jury ,n I'roken How on the body or John iui dei'Hon, who vas shot and Insluitl killed curly Saturday evening; . by James Garland, Is in part as rollows: "That said John Sanderson came to his death by, reason of two Kiinsli it wounds Inflicted on him by James Garland with a rcvo'.vii, and that said shooting Vas feloniously done.'' New llcuil for Reenter KcimiIs, Pror. William Thel'reu, ol the r.'ieul fy of the West Pidnt hluh school, lias been elected 'to the pi 'incipalshlp of tbe.Meemrr public schools. Mr. i'hels si n Is a graduate of the West Point high school und the the state univer sity. II'' hail filled the position fit ustisl.jliit supeiinti Iinent ol Hit; West point schools for the p:it year. He a native of "unirnK coiiniy. IviiiU-ilil S -nleix P. niiful. Fifty families Unit aie h.ettllng on Kin): lid boi.n-stta.'i lune in lived in Mullen this splliig .lll.l seventeen cars of live s-'tncl; mi Iioiim In, Id gooc's have been shipped t i this point. Most r the liilugs Mere made last fall U.,l nci y id t:,e i i t;yi:n n built hota-..--lufi.ie it t ii iii 1 1 -r for their famillv--. M'lii AccliiciH.ill.v S!iol. Iliduiiiii ii in'cka, of Weston, was killed instaaMy Ly the accidental dls (!::rpc i f i 2:!-cal:ber rule, the bullet JilrJ.').? the bli)i) nbnve the left eye. FARM I-J I SHOT IIY XFJOlinon. Nrbrnskan Faintly Wounded In Burn Near Ituttr. Eric Horg. one of the most prosper ous and highly rcpected farmers of Holt county, was shot and probably mortally wounded Saturday morning by John Price, a Klnkald homesteader, who lived about four miles from Horg. About Jive hours after the shooting, when hotly pursued by Sheriff Hall and a posse, Price ducked Into a shanty on a homestead about a mile from his homo and put a bullet inrougu niE Drain. . j rorg went xo nis nam anout horse and opened the top half of the door, when Price Btuck a-S8-callber revolver up against his breast and I' Med the ttlgRor. The ball entered J,,st to Ule breast bono, missing the lung and lodging In the muscle of the back. Horg got away from In front cf t:ie door and walked a mile along the creek bottom to a neighbor's house, although very weak from loss of blood when he arrived there. Ills condition Is precarious, and It Is thought he cannot recover. Th- woulj-be murderer and suicide, after the shooting, started west along I.'ag'.e Creek, evidently reeking some place of concealment. JSherllT Hall reached the place t f the shooting about 7 o'clock and organized posse, and stalled after Price. In an hour's time one of the poshe located him In a vucar.t f hantyuml bevJi''Tiel his com j at Ions to come up. The door of the shajty wus fastened up on the Inside by wire, but the sheriff Jerked It open and found Price on the floor dead with a note through his head and the re- ioher Uglify gr;-"::ed tn-both nandfl. the muzzle toward his face. The body was still warm, showing It was but a few moments since he had killed him. self. VI. :.IS GUILTY TO FORGERY. Denver .Man I U lies Mall Box and Gets Money on Dnift,' I The opinion holds that the state Warren T. Montgomeiy. who gives bo,rd of aBsessment ln valuing prop Denver us his place of residence, is un- er,v for lnvat0 in a nuasl-Judlclal der irre-t at Fremont on the charge , f f d ging the name of Clyde Foster to a drift on the Standard Life and Acci dent Insurance company, of Detroit. The rompnry rent the druftUo Foster In settlement of an accident claim, by niall, addressed In care of Ihe Bruns wick restaurant. It was discovered e:irly In the evening that the mall box had been rille:l and suspicion rested upon Montgomery, who had been loaf ing around town, as he had on a new suit of clothes and some money. He was arrested, and it was found he had bought the outnt at Frelden'si store, endorsed the draft and received the balance in cash. He pleaded guilty, and in default of bull was committed to the county Jail. MAX KILLED; MILE rXIIURT. A Kunuwov Team Dashes In Front of d train".' t - 1 ..AutpnJJlIck was Instantly killed and I his brother Enoch was fatally hirrt ! at 10 o'clock Saturday morning by. being struck by on Omaha train three- 1 it mi - rtr ii mill, hiiiiiiihhki ill ivime- : field. , . y i The accident Was caused by the In ability of the men 10 control the team if mules which tJYey were driving and Which polled if.i'tn onto the track. Thu tw'o men vere driving from their Jarm on ths reservation and were on thoir way to town. They saw ihe approae of the train beforo they sturtefl across the track, but the mules DeeaViO frightened and started to run away- "he animals crossed me iraea -Hfeiy, but the engine struck the wug- n squarely, splintering It and throw ing the two men out. TRAGEDY AT RROKEX ROW. Fanner Shot mid Killed III Front at Rank Ilulldlng. John Sanderson, a farmer living several miles east ir llroken Row, was. i hot and Instantly,, killed Saturday light by James Curland, a resident of -rokeii Row. The shooting took place n front of the State bank and was .vltnessed by a number of people. amleiKon, who had been drinking, he arter- .vas very quarrelsome during th i. According to. tyl wiljjSii itioil ses the wo men met and had ffe.rds over fam ily mutters, when Uarlaml drew a levolver and Mtl thrco shots Into Sanderson's face., killing him instantly, faiiuud gsv hlni:elf up after the iihootlng. Sanderson leaves a wire and family Cell brutes 9'Jtli ltlrlfal Mrs. Hartslck, tho mother uX Iftnry Itti tsick, living near West Point, cele brated her Hith birthday on Wednes day. Mrs. Ilurtslck is undoubtedly the oldest woman ln (Aiming county and probably In that neetlon of Ne rusku, und is hale and hearty. She nulks to church and buck every Sun day. .a distance f four miles, and fre ouently visits her relatives on foot, traveling Mx to eight miles each time. Whciit Vo i Works 1Iuvim J. 11. J. Tetan, Ilvlijk seven miles northeast of Cook, -discovered that a iiiant!ty of his last year's wheat huft '.teen ruined by wheat weevil. He had : bout Mio bus'aels which he conclude J t i sell. He took n load to the eleva tor, where. It was thoroughly inspected and was found to be literally alive with wheat weevil. Guilty of Extorting .Money. A Juiy in the district court at IJn coln Sat unlay declared R. J. Greene uillty of etorilng money from Lin coln lliiuor dealers. Green was In dicted on the charge of tiling remon--t unices before the excite board and cNactlng cash payments for the with dr.'iwiil i.r the suits. llur;'nrH Haiti Postolllce. Cim ks'neii Saturday night used dy namite or idtroiiyceiin on the iafe of the periodic at l-'alrmont, partly -..-recking ll and tlamuglng ths build ing. The iwbbers got only $20 In cush, ' 'it tiny ruined stamps and papers. I. .l:-tei ,1 until win tarried away und iilteis toyi open, but no greut sum . us si cured The mutilated mall was :a;oV U iu 1 near the Ruiiingtitn de li t. i'l't ie !ti no clue to the l'obtV"V The state board of jubllc lands an I buildings will shortly advettlse fot I bids for labor at the state penitentiary and It Is a safe guess to make that th Lee Broom & Duster company will with the state for convicts at t0 rets per day each. Already feve'rnl let ters have been rjcelved from Interest ed parties for Information regarding the contract now in rorce and ths board expects to receive several bids. In addltiuu to getting convicts at SI cents a day to make brooms, the Lot company Is aluo furnished power and heat and considerable machinery has been bought by the state in order to furnish this power and heat .which othervlsrwou!d not have been neces sary. The state does not compel the company to stamp Its products "peni tentiary made goods," consequently It can compete with any other concern which Is not favored by cheap labor. Nebraska manufacturers have writ ten the board that they pay from $3 to 3 a day for broom maktru am) they are compelled to furnish their own heat and power, which makes II almost Impossible to compete with the firm having the contract with th state. The supreme court has denied tht application of the Union Pacific rail road for a writ or mandamus to com pel the state 'board or assessment to reconvene and make a record of ob jections and a finding of fact. The court held that mandamus would not lie to compel the board to make a re cord or a flndlnr of fact not renulred bv i-w ranarltv -nd Its neilon Is not subtect to collateral attacK, except on grounu- of fraud or other wrongful conduct ilvalent thereio or for the exerclss of power not conferred by law. lite Union Pacific tiled a petition for man damus to compel the board to nmki a record showing Just how it reached the value of its property. . . The state railway commission hai granted permission for a telephone company at Iiattle Creek, to make a rate of $13 per year to farmers and business meniii place of, the $18 rato, If the users will pay In advance $6.60 twice a 'year. If the users pay by the montrh they can get telephones for $1! a year, v The commission figures It.li not violating the principle it laid down when It refused to allow telephone companies to sell $J0 coupon book! for $100. When this question enme up the commission held this was dls crimination because not many people could afford to buy the coupon books ij-no commission figures most anyon cnn Day tne ig.so ln advance J.-a ? t r The Humbolt Telephone company has asked permission or mo runrunu commission to Increase its rates to farmers who built their own metallic lines from 7Ec to $1.25 per month This Is the price paid by other, who use the wires put up by the company The commission concluded to oJJow h comr.anv to make the Increase providing the users did not come 1 by April 1 and show good cause v i the order should not be Issued. b To the complaint against r ton Btock yards at Kenesn- - Burling. Ilngton has J.led answer the Bur- railway commission. wIln thB state or Kelby In his ans- Oenernl, Solicit did not come W er said the matter th. enmr ' tni the Jurisdiction - procedure - A!.l itt f rr (Via nf II Ii itifti PTeal iO Oim local notlinrilles and ,h Y'ck frds Is a nuisance the lo cal BufLhor'ip, have Jurisdiction to remedy thr4 evil. The re j)way commission, after con- B'Jer,nK , a complaint or creamery com TiutdeS V. ji.i...i ... i I panles has decided to Issue an order requir ing ajj transportation companies to gi ye bills or lading or receipts ror 'oods offered for shipment, the re ce,4ts to be given on demand of the F' jlpper. The order, when Issued, will 'ipply to "empties" us well us other consignments. The Judgment of the district court of Richardson county, compelling the Missouri Pacific company o build a transrer switch to the property of the Farmers Elevator company, at Straus vllle. Is affrmed by a decision written by Commissioner Dullie. . John G. Hamblln of Grond Island, sentenced to be hanged for tho murder or Rachel Engle, will not be executed. The supreme court has commuted the sentence to lire Imprisonment at hard labor and recommended that he be not released from confinement. ' A number of citizens of Crete have petitioned the state railway commis sion to compel the Turlington railroad to put back the operator in the depot there. The telegraph olllce at Crete wus Just recntly closed. Christiana Henry of South Omaha, wins her case against the Omaha Packing company for damages for In juries, the supreme court having af firmed the decision of the lower court. The state railway commission has ordered the Llnwood telephone com pany to charge the owners of the property the same price for telephones as the general public pays. Marlon Morris or Omaha has been Instructed by Insurance Deputy Pierce to stop soliciting business ror the Rldgely Protective association or Wor cester, Muss.,- because the company bus no license to do business In this state. The supreme court has quieted title to the Joseph S. Hartley homestead In Holt county In Hugh A. Allen. In the same decision It holds thut the sale of a homestead under an ordinary ex ecuriou during the temporary ubsence of he owner is old. WORK Of . I C0MGRESS j Voting oil ainembiieiits i the curreuer Mil consumed nearly the entire session of he Senate Wednesday. All of the com mittee's amendments were sceepteil and incorporated in the lull, and all ilier amendment, except one, were disagreed to, the voting show in? conclusively that Daly with the sanction of the committee rould any change be made in the bill. In the course of a bitter denunciation of President Roosevelt on thftloor of the House of Representatives Mr. Stanley f Kentucky compared him with Alexan der Hamilton, whom he designated as "an obscure adventurer." and both of whom he said had profound contempt for the constitution niul displnyed'evcrlnstlng im patience with its restraints. Mr. ltrvan, he said, had the respect of the country as statesman. Apparently ignoring '-Mr. Stanley's remarks, Mr. Cocks of New York, representing the President' dis trict, defended the President against the recent attack of Mr. W'illett. Mr. Wil lett, replying, declared his complete abil ity to defend all that he had unid. The Senate Thursday devoted consid erable time fo the credentials of Senator Meet John Walter Smith of Maryland. The result of a long debnte was the ad mission of Mr. Smith. The currency bill was then taken up anl amendment wers considered. More shafts of sarensm and. invective were aimed at Pr -sMent Hoose- velt in the House. Mr. Reni of Texas' ' harged the President with having been tuilty of ' disgusting 'pmrptuion of pow tr" not only toward the national legisla ture, but the judiciary as well. God and the future alone knew, h ibvlprnd, just what niche he wns to occupy in the tem ple of bis country. T'i agricultural ap propriation bill wns connidercd for amend ment, and when it was l.inJ aside for the iloy there had been Mrlcken out the pro- visiou for new weather stations in the States of Texas. Knnsns, Virginia, Michi gan, Vermont, Missouri and Indiana. The Setinte devoted Its entire sefsioi Friday to a consideration of the Aldricb currency, bill.. After further amending the measure, it wns pnssed by a vote of 42 to ll. The Senate then adjourned until Monday. The question whether or not President Roosevelt ih an intolerant . man after the fashion of King George III., arose In the J louse.' The diseussiotii wns founded on a local newspaper story covering what purported to be the detail of an interview between the President and Representative Peikenin of Michigan, ln which the president wns represent as thumping his desk and berating Deikema for having joined in the rr A'. ' of the subcommittee of the judioiar- plart mlttee censuring Judges Wilfley ' yeoav Pnited folates Court in Chir of tne ' Deikemn nbsolvef the Presld jfi- Mr. ' migitestion of intolerance, r vflt from the displayed the greatest V jid said he hfld,' ing his explanation. jOerulity in rereiv- . propriation bill w . The agrieulturfil ap- t not Been mater' as taken up, but it had -' laid aside. ally mended when it was The day Senate wns not iu session Satur lT . RuL little progress wns made in the -ouse In considering the agricultural bill. The discussion dwelt mainly upon the pro posed establishment of federal standards of cotton grades and federal inspection of grains. Consideration of the bill had not been concluded when the House adjourned till Monday. The passage of a large number of bills of minor importance and an extended discussion of a measure to authorize the-, damming of the Snake River, Washing ton, occupied the entire time of Ihe Sen ate Monday. The session was brought to a sudifrn close by lack of n, quorum... Charges of a serious nature against flif--ford Pinchot, chief of the forestry bu reau, were made In the House by Messrs. Smith of California and Mondellof Wyo- , niing. during the consideration of the ag ricultural appropriation bill. Mr. Smith , accused him of entering luto a secret un derstanding with the City of Los Angeles with the view to securing the city alua ble water rights in the Owens River Val ley as against the interests of private parties having prior claims. Mr.Mon dell denounced him for, as he charged, il legally paying the expenses of forest offi- '. rials in attending conventions in the West. The bill was under discussion ulL day. I Nearly the entire scsnion of the Sennte v Tuesday was consumed in consideration of a biil to permit the building of a dam on the Snake river, Washington, and an adjournment wns only reached after Mr. Ileyhiirn of Idaho announced that he would not permit a vote to be taken. During the discussion of the bill Senator Teller made a 8-ech ogninst exefntive encroaehinent. Several bills of minor importance were passed. After having underline ninny changes, the paragraph of the agricultural appropriation bill re luting to the biirenu of forestry, was tinnlly pnsed by the House. Messrs. Moiiiieil ef Wyoming ami Smith of Cull fornla continued their attacks on the bii renu, supported by Messrs. Ronynge of Colorado and Cushnmn of Washington.. Tht embraced charges tht the bureau hnd crented timber mononolies'in favor of large corporal ions, illegally assumed jur isdiction over water rights hclongitig to the Western States, and juggled with fig ures in order to obtain large appropria tions from Congress. The appropriation, for the investigation of soils' was increased. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. The Senate has confirmed the nomi nation of William L. Day to he I'nited Slates Attorney for the northern district of Ohio. Mr. lny is a son of Associate Justice Day of the I'nited Stales Su preme Court. The President announced the selection of a referee hoard of prominent scienti.ta of the country, wl are to uid tin; De part incut of Agriculture in passing u;ion the Knits based upon the use of herzoate of soda, sulphur and other preservatives, in th foods ef the country.