y f rn. " ' 5$'yKvAT t'K ii ri '- . . 0 7, COUNTY HERALD. W .. v 'cij . -w-.l !? j FT MOTTO All The News Whtm It Ii New. QUI r VOL. 20. DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1011. NO. IT. M- DAKOTA iw , M K Pv t' &' Bsr s" "c "- UALBOMORK ORDER A FIRE PROOF BUILDING FOR PUMPING PLANT. PERU ATHELETICS PAY OUT Some Differences In the Matter of Coal Weights. Miscellaneous State Capital News. The State Normal board recently la esslon took up the .matter of replac ing tho water plant of the Peru Nor mal, destroyed by Are some time ago. It is estimated a fireproof building for tlio pumping plant will cost between $2,500 and $3,000 and tho executive committee of tho board was empow ered to advert! so for bids and let ho contract Bids for a pumping engine ranged from $535 for a twenty-borso-power gasolino englno to $611 for i tliirty-horsepower coal oil -engine. Tho letting of this contract also was left to tho cxecutlvo committee. Tho athletic board of tho Peru Nor mal reported that It had" wound up tho season with all bills paid and $1.38 In the treasury, against a deficit of $300 last year, which had been paid out of current receipts and Borne cash lunds which the board had granted permission to use for this purpose. The Peru Normal also reported some differences in weights of coal between the school authorities and the White breast Coal company, the contractor. On thirteen carloads there was a shortage of twenty-Blx tons from bill ed weight, which neither ho railroad nor tho coal company was willing 4o stand, one asserting the weights were correct as billed and tho other deny ing any responsibility. The board de cided it would make the coal company a proposition to split Uie differ onca and pay for thirteen tons, the com pany to lose thirteen. The offer was based on tho fact that there was some Question about the accuracy of the scales at Peru, where a portion of the coal' was received and weighed. Reports from tho Wayne Normal indicated that school is growing at a gratifying rate. At the opening of the school year the registration was less than 100 and today it Is 300, while an other .100 la anticipated by the open ing of the next semester, Tho now Jlbraxy and science building 19 now enclosed and will bo completed In about four months, The board also turned down tho recommendation, of the teachers' com mittee, composed of State Superin tendent Delzell, N. P. McDowell and Dr. Shellhora, in tho matter of a toaoher of expression and physical culture at Chadron normal. The teachers' committeo has in tho past practically controlled theso appoint ments, but other members of tho board concluded It was time they had something to say on such matters. Not Loup City Mills. Through an error of tho office, State Food Commissioner Jackson gave out that the Loup City mills had boon prosecuted for selling short weight products The report should have read against C. W. Benson of Litchfield, according to a" statement given out at the food commissioner's office. Barton to Make Speeches. Btata Auditor Barton has three speaking dates for tho near future, all of them of a nonpolltlcal nature. January 1 he will go to Sutton and deliver an adtfress at tho fraternal ral ly, January 2 to Hastings for institu tional work for the Workmen, and January 30 to Wilcox, where he will speak bofore the farmers' institute. Burkelt On Roosevelt. Bx-Bciiator Burkott says: "Sir. Roosevelt told mo that under no pos sible circumstances would he allow his name to be used, and if necessary to prevent his nomination I feel sure that ho would get up In tho conven tion and positively decline. He has told many others tho samo thing, and tho emphatic way in which he puts it makes It certain that that is just tho wjyr ho feels about It." Friends of State Institutions. Onothird of the fiscal year for tho st&to institutions expired December 1 and with the exception of tho Nor folk Hospital for tho Insano all of thorn had used up moro than one-third of the available appropriations. A majority of thorn, however, are near enough to that figure to convinco tho Board of Public Lands and Buildings they will have no difficulty In staying within the appropriations for tho year. Kearney Industrial school has used the largest percentage of its appropriation, ,5079. Retires From Commission. ' Dr. H. J. Winnett, tho first long torm member of tho stato railway commission elcctod in this staU, whoso term will explro December 31, 1913, will not bo a candidate for an other term. What Caused the Trouble. Discovery ot two pipe carrying un derground polluted seepage into a lo cal city well la believed to offer what may be a solution to tho epidemic ot Intestinal trouble which has ragod here for some time past. NEW STATE TAX LEVY. The Amount It Will Raise It $2,677,154.45. The lovy of state taxes for tho cur rent year haB been apportioned among tho various counties, of. the. state by Secretary Henry Seymour of the state board of assessment and equal ization. Tho total amount of money which will como In through tho new lovy will 'be $2,577,154.45, against $2,000,039.06 raised by thoBtato levy of last year. Tho lncrcaso of $516, 461.30 is for an Increase of over $3,100,000 In tho assessed valuation of tho state over last year. Following 1b tho tablo giving the lovy as assessed against tho various counties of tho state: Counties Adams $ Antelope . Banner .... Blalno Boone Box Butto.. Boyd Brown Buffalo .... Burt Butler Cass Cedar Chaso Cherry ...... Cheyenno .. Clay 1911. 41,741.00 25,362.77 2,400.90 2,870.27 32,150.37 11,883.17 16,461.60 8,116.48 44,439.47 35,437.86 43,454.68 49,461.49 34,806.56 6,456.18 18,362.44 13,764.17 42,672.08 31,446.70 39,645.50 45,342.15 16,053.50 13,334.89 39,011.87 6,447.48 25,280.00 52,646.94 249,520.03 8,970.20 43,115.93 22,773.24' 16,474.50 25,687.33 68,900.83 4,998.77 3,757.26 13,157.43 4,420.53 13,351.24 40,712.35 40,712.35 22,844.85 4,614.09 14,618.74 23,395.75 2,905.62 23,781.53 42,084.69 26,364.68 25,703.10 12,482.10 5,497.27 8,478.29 30,495.42 130,22.81 30,619.20 1,911.76 1,903.25 37,302.72 2,263.88 27,067.25 7,038.30 20,825.12 33,503.62 34,000.14 52,551.21 31,261.95 6,742.93 28,180.13 24,839.17 48,078.15 31,255.47 20,455.23 43,482.07 5,709.08 45,831.64 23,490.95 58,329.42 11,130.79 43,212.43 15,789.28 17,172.17 7,573.85 23.306.80 35,584.92 3,312.95 17,613.53 18,808.87 32,144.46 27,675.06 27,565.42 3,430.88 48,807.14 1910. 33,201.95 20,827.69 1,890.72 2,177.37 2,590.52 8,886.87 12,501.49 6,261.62 36,205.56 28,596.60 35,039.52 40.353.64 28,087.90 5,278.22 14,547.30 10,940.90 34,088.10 25,547.15 32,275.12 36,934.06 13,079.88 16,052.96 32,099.24 5,033.16 20,639.02 42,587.05 1S8.446.94 7,218.11 34.502.03 17,987.31 13,632.80 21,338.51 55,300.73 3,740.61 2,721.71 10.868.07 3,514.43 10,971.99 33,011.13 33,011.13 18,583.61 3,828.84 9,446.62 18,647125' 2,186.84 18,902.35 33,909.22 21,402.12 20,734.20 10,111:19 4,410.62 6,834.80 24,872.02 101,965.90 24,658.30 1,600.26 1,184.96 30,273.51 . 1,765.77 21,823.85 5,461.79 16,860.89 27,105.46 27,245.65 42,683.91 25,245.44 5,754.50 23,324.44 20,881.21 38,769.49 25,255.32 16,745.90 36,021.10 4,558.19 36,838.81 19,017.25 47,644.96 8,359.02 35,028.16 12,420.30 13.807.53 5,775.02 19,122.80 28,620.77 2,413.60 10,034.22 15,308.15 26,110.67 22.387.60 22,135.26 2,676.65 39,544.25 Colfax Cuming .... Custer Dakota Dawes Dawson . . . Deuel Dixon Dodge Douglas . . . Dundy Fillmore ... Franklin ... Frontier ... Furnas Gago Garden .... Garfield Gosper .... Grant Greeley .... Hall Hamilton .. Harlan .... Hayes Hitchcock . Holt Hooker .... Howard . . . Jefferson .. Johnson . . . Kearney ... Keith ...... Keya Paha.' Kimball ... Knox Lancaster ... Lincoln .... Logan Loup McPherson Madison ... Merrick . . . Morrill .... Nance Nemaha . . . Nuckolls .,. Otoe Pawnee . . . Perkins .... Phelps Pierce Platte Polk lied Willow. Richardson Rock' Saline Sarpy ...... Saunders . . Scottsbluff. Seward .... Sheridan . . Sherman ... Sioux Stanton .... Thayer .... Thomas . . . Thurston .. Valley Washington Wayne , .... Webster ... Wheeler ... York Total ....$2,557,154.45 $2,060,693.06 Labor Bureau Euy. The state labor bureau "'la bus theso days finishing up the compila tion of crop statistics. Mr. Guyo hopes to havo tho figures ready to give out In about two weeks. Tho report this year will bo much moro complete than heretofore. In addition to crops It will contain figures on tho amount of idle land, as well as that under crop, in each county In tho state. Tho fig ures, he says, will surprlso most peo of Nebraska land which Is now ldlo and non-productive. The Ruling Appears Wrong. Secretary of State Wait's stand that candidates for prosidont or vice presi dent under tho now preferential law in this stato could go upon tho pri mary ticket only upon Uio presenta tion of a petition bearing at least 3,000 names tho samo as for delegato-at-largo to tho national convention Is wrong according to tho interpretation of tho law by Attorney General Mar tin. Ho eays that tho petition need contain but twenty-flvo names. Agricultural Board Meeting. Tho annual meeting ot tho No- braska stato board of agriculture will bo hold at tho senate chamber, Lin coln, Tuesday, January 16, at 2 o'clock p. m. At this meeting will bo considered tho revision of tho pre mium list, rujes and regulations, the election ot officers, membership and such other business as may legally como beforo said meeting. Presidents ot rogularly organized livo county ag rlcultural societies, which havo filed their roport prior to this meeting, aro I ex-offlclo members of tho board. NOW HE i jHoteSn l 1 fil -rjlHlja " 3 N. V. EVENING MAIL. NEW PLEA DENIED PACKERS' DEFEN8E 18 OUTLINED WHEN COURT OVERRULES OB JECTIONS TO INDICTMENTS. NO UNDUE INJURY TO PUBLIC Attorney for Defendant Telle . Jury They Will Prove That There Hat Been No Violation of 8herman Anti-Trust Law. Chicago. Overruled by Judge car penter on overy objection they had raised, counsel for the packers In the government's prosecution were forced to proceed with their defense without further delay. Replying to the govern ment's arraignment, George T. Buck ingham, In an address to the jury, dis closed, for tho first time, tho full out line of the defense. Specific denial of every matorlal al legation of the government, together with a promise that most of tho state ments of fact in tho packers' Indict ments will bo disproved, were made by Mr. Buckingham. Ho indicated that the statute of limitations would be Invoked to counteract much of tho government's direct evidence He ex pressed the belief that the govern ment was relying to a greater degree than was warrantod In a criminal case upon circumstantial evidence for proof of violations of the Sherman law in tho last three years. It was also Indicated that full ad vantage would be taken of the recent Supreme court ruling that only unrea sonable restraint of trado shall be considered a violation ot the Sborman law. Tho jurors will bo asked by the defenso to find that the procedure of the packers has not resulted in an un due Injury to tho public. The main fire ot tho packers' attor neys, howovor, according to their sy nopsis, is to be directed to proof that I Whatever appuaruuue of prlcu agree ments or combination there may have been no undue amount ot profit has accrued to them. JOHN B1GEL0W, AUTHOR, DIES "Qrand Old Man" of America Pasta Away In New York at Age of 94 Years. New York. John BIgelow, well call ed tho "grand old man" of America, died at his homo at No. 21 Grammercy Park, at tho rounded age of ninety four years and twenty-five days. Mr. BIgelow, born In tho youth of tho republic, lived to see It grow to early maturity. Ho lived In the life time ot every president of the United States except George Washington. Famous Lake to Become Farm. Qutncy, 111. Lima lako, which covers 6,000 acrcB In tho north ern part ot Adams county and Is fa mous tor duck hunting, Is to bo re claimed for agricultural purposes. "The Marvelous Griffith" Found Dead. Sprlngflold, Mass. -Arthur F. Grif fith ot Mllford, Ind., known profession ally an "tho marvelous Griffith," tho lightning calculator, was found dead In bed in a hotel bore. Tho coroner gives apoplexy as the causo of tho death. Killed Accidentally. Flint, Mich. While Frank Motz was showing companions bow an "unload ed" gun was oporatod, tho weapon was AtannrtrttA nrit OirlmiiTif Tnv1ti wan shot dead. MEANS IT! RUSSIA HITS BACK DUMA TO PUT PROHIBITIVE TAR IFF ON PRODUCT8 OF U. 8. Action la Regarded at Retaliation for the Recent Abrogation of the Treatyof 1832. SL Petersburg, RusBla. The duma haB now before it. a legislative pro posal to provIdjL,for tariff war schedules applicable to s the United States at the close of the Russo Amorican treaty ot commerce and navigation ot 1832. Tho measure wan introduced by cx-Pre&ldont UuchkoO and other signers representing the Octoberlsts and Nationalists, parties which control tho majority of the duma. Tho bill proposes to raise ex isting Russian duties by 100 per cent, and to lmposo a duty of 100 per cent on articles admitted tree under the present Russian tariff. Besides those impositions tho bill proposes to levy doublo tho gross weight of tax established by tho law of June 21, 1901, on merchandise arriv ing by sea and to levy a doublo ton tago tax. It is said that the schedules aro to be applicable to all countrlos which do not grant to Russia tho most fa vored nation treatment In commorco and navigation. Tho proposal will be submitted to n financial commission. Washington. Tho final act In the abrogation of tho Russian treaty ot navigation and commerce, the so called passport treaty, was performed when President Taft signed the Lodge resolution. The treaty will continue lu effect automatically until Jnnuary 1, 1818. Meanwhile efforts will bo made to ne gotiate a new treaty eliminating the cause of friction which led to the .ter mination ot the old one. GARY OFFICIAL IS GUILTY Alderman Qlbaon Is Convicted of 1'a- r!.iU money From Contractor Who Wanted Franchise. Hammond, ind. Aldorman Walter Gibson of Gary, charged with solicit ing and accepting a bribe In tho pas sage ot the Dean boating franchlso In Oary, was found guilty by a jury In tho Lako circuit court at Crown Point after the panel had been out but fif teen minutes. Only one ballot was ;taken. Gibson's counsel made a mo tion for a now trial. GEN. REYES IS A CAPTIVE Rebel Chieftain Surrenders After Ad mitting Attempt to Overthrow Rule of Madero Is Failure. Mexico City. Gen. Rafael Reyes, tho leader of the latest revolution against President Madero, surrendered to the fedoral soldiers at Trevtno. Tho surrender was made to Col. Garcia Lugo. The revolutionist admit ted tho defeat of his attempt to over throw tho rulo of Madero. To Lock Out 160,000 Men. Manchester, England. Tho commit too ot tho Lancashire Cotton Splnnors and Manufacturers' association at a meeting hero decided to lock out all tho workers In the mills bolonglng to members of tho fodoratlon. No fower than 160,000 operatives aro In volved, President of Ecuador Dead, Guayaquil, Ecuador! President Emi Ho Estrada ot Ecuador died suddenly hero. Ho had been In odlco less than A year. RUSSIANS KILL 500' WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE MAS- SACRED IN HOME8 AT TABRIZ, PERSIA. FEAR OUTBREAK AT TEHERAN Parliament Building AreGuarded by Soldiers After Regent Dissolves MeJIlea Shutter l Strongly Sup ported by Public Sentiment. Teheran, Persia. The cabinet has notified SL Petersburg that W. Mor gan Shustor, tho American treasurer general has been dismissed and signi fied Its acceptance of all tho Russian demands. This followed tho uniooked for dissolution ot the Mojltss by tho regent's firman. Members ot the dissolved McjIIbb aro indignant at tho action of the ro gont and tho cabinet and excitement runs high throughout tho city. Fear ing an outbroak soldiers bavo been posted around the parliament build ings, guarding all approaches. Mr. Shustor has not yet been official ly notiflod of tho ndvorao action of the cabinet and continues to hold tho fort Tho member of tho Mojllss aro plan ning to send a deputation to beg that ShUBter retain his office In defiance ot tho cabinet. Popular feeling Is strong In support ot Mr. Shuster. Telegraph communication with Tab riz Is still Interrupted, but late Infor mation from there indlcatod that the fighting continued spasmodically. The Russian roinforcomcnls have not yet arrived and the Russians at Tabrli are hard pressed. Many aro dead. Tho Russians, according to the report received hero, nro guilty of atrocities unparalled In reoent years. This nows has aroused tho population of Teheran to a frenzy of rage and ex citement Tho Russians havo killed more than 500 women and children alone. Houses in Tabriz wcro entered indlBcrlmlnato ly and women attacked before the eye" of other members of the family, while children wore not spared. The Rus sian artillery mowed down every liv ing thing in the streets, once the bar ricades, thrown up by the Persians, had been destroyed. The city of Kesht fs reported iiUlst The Russian consul has been declared governor there, Indicating Russia's In tention to tako possession, forthwith of Persian territory. WOMEN MEET SUDDEN DEATH Martha Baker. Painter, Diet Under Knife Overdose of Morphine Kill Margaret Potter. Authoress. Chicago. Martha Baker, declared by Sorclla, tho famous SpnnlBh artist, to bo tho groatest miniature painter ot modern times, died hero at Habno mann hospital of peritonitis superln. duccd by an operation for appendi citis. Scarcely was tho news of her death known whon tho newspapers an nounced tho sudden death at tho Chi cago Beach hotel of Margarot Horton Potter, the brilliant and gifted novel ist, rocontly divorced from John Don ald Black. Thought at first to have been a vic tim of heart troublo, an inquest devel oped tho fact that Mrs. Potter died from morphine poisoning. DECREE FOR MME. LANGEVIN Wife of French Professor Granted Di vorce Beoause Husband Was Guilty of "Grave Injuries." Paris. Mmo. Cangevln was granted a separation from her husband, M. Paul Langovln, whoso nnme was as noelated with that ot Mmo. Curie in a series of recently published lovo let ters. The text of the judges' de cision does not menUon tho namo of Mms. Curio, but states that the peti tion of Mme. Lnngevtn for a, separa tion is granted because Professor lAngoVia bad abandoned the cobJusr! domicllo "under conditions Injurious for his wlfo," and also because It ap peared from tho documents submitted to the court that Professor Langovln had been guilty of "gravo injuries" toward bis wife. ATW00D MAKES NEW RECORD Aviator Exceeds by Fifteen Miles Longest Previous Flight Made In Hydroaeroplane. Providence, R. I. Harry N. Atwood, the Boston aviator, established a now aerial record when ho flew 130 miles from Point of Pines, Mass., to tho wa ters ot Narragansott bay In a hydro aeroplane. Ho flow ovor Doston har bor and Dlngham to tho Massachu setts south shoro and skirting along the sfdo of Capo Cod bay, passed over tho new Capo Cod canal and crossed Buzzard's bay Into Rhode Island. Atwood says his flight exceeds by 1& miles tho longest provlous hydro aeroplane trip. McVey Qeta Deoltlon Over Langford. Sydnoy, N. 8. W. Sam MoVoy, the negro heavyweight, was glvon tho de cision ovor Sam Langford, tho "Doston tar b'aby," hero on points. Tho tight, which brlsUed with bard hitting and clover sparring, went tho limit 20 rounds. New Attache to United 8tates, Dorlln. Tho kaiser has appointed Bernard Von Buolow, a nephew ot Prlnco Buolow, ox-chancellor of tho Qerman emplro, to tho Junior attacha ship ot tho embassy at Washington. FARM On Saturday, Jan. 6, 1912 At lO O'clock A. N. At the Front Door of the Court House in Dakota City, Neb., I will ! at Ptabllo Axaattan. tShe Iseaberij Ferm The North Half of the Northwest Quarter, and the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 29, Township 27, North of Range 7, East, in Dakota County, Nebraska, contain ing 120 acres. Three acres in grove, three-fourths of an acre in orchard, ten acrzs in pasture, sixteen acres of hay land, and the -balance is under plow. There are two wells one with windmill and tower. The buildings urc as follows: One cow" stable 24 iU by 58 ft,, 10 ft. posts, will hold about twelve tons of hay; one cow stabl 14 ft. by 28 ft ; one horse barn 16 ft. by 18 ft., with 12 ft. posts, with- two additions; corn crib 8ft. by 40ft; chicken House I4it. by latt,, with 8 ft. posts; smoke house 6 f t. with 8 ft. posts, with two additions; dwelling house is 14 ft. by 20 ft., yi stories, with an addition on west side. The buildings are one mile from school house, 2 miles from Nacora, and 5 miles from Emerson. TERNS: One-Half Cash on day of sale, and balance with in 40 days orr dellvery-of deed. Right reservfid'to- rejcctxray and all bids. Gs A. Isenberg .Attorney in.Factf6rjOwners. Z. Undertaker County Coroner 11. F. B AWYEB was bom Mr j B, 18&0f (n Man.teld,-?. "H started as an apprentice for three years in the Undertaking business In Iew York City with the Urgest Arm in the cUti remaining Hh-tlsm.1 for five Tears. He has followed the profession ever since, ooraiac to JaokHOU, Nebr, in 1880 and starting tho business be. He bss one of the best equipped TJndortsdlng Parlors lu the state, with. oomaaodions quarters, lsily assistant, fine boarses and equipment snd large stdokf " always on hand. He understands all tho successful methods of embalming sad makes a opooislty of tho Mioo systom. whioh preserves the remains forevor, requires no ontting or exoision of the body, and takes nothing-: away nor adds anything to the subject, the thorough embalming being dono exclusively by external methods. B. Jb Sawyer, Tackson, Nebraska ' k A $2.00 VALUE FOR $1 .00 An Attractive Bargain, of Interest to You FARMER AND BREEDER is the live up-to-date 'agricultural -and Live Stock Weekly issued every Thursday at Sioux. Xity. Iowa. It is a genuine farm and stock magazine, because it " is edited and published by practical and successful farmers and breeders men who own and operats a number of farms. 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Look over our stock of Fall Goods. Our new stock of Whips has arrived and are selling at greatly reduced prices. Kopair Work Givon Prompt Attention Sole Agent for Baum's Hog Tonic, Best on the Market. FVedrickseti (Si Son Hubbard F O R SALE by8 ft granary 10 ft. by. 12itt,- in the line of Horse Goods I I I -! Nabraalc .'3 zznrl v &; mi : VI .! .AM -a. 1 m c ''& lV .-.&4fc!.