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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD.
Motto: All The News When It Is News.
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VOL. 21.
DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, .1912.
NO. 16.
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DEMAND FOR TWO MILLION MORE
THAN LAST SEASON.
SOME INSTITUTIONS ENLARGED
Tuberculosis Hospital at Kearney and
State Normal at Chadron Are '
New Establishments.
If the coming session of the legisla
ture listens to all tho state depart
ments and state institutions and votes
tho appropriations tho amount will
run "P to $0,873,968, according to re
ports now filed with tho 'governor.
This is nearly $2,000,000 more than
the total appropriation of the last ses
sion. Among the larger amounts that will
be asked for by tho different depart
ments are:
Stato University $1,529,800
Normal training In high
schools 125,000
Aid to school districts 125,000
Institution cash fund 245,242
Orthopedic hospital 130,000
Insane hospital, Lincoln.... 305,000
Insane hospital, Norfolk 100,400
Insano hospital, Hastings.... 445,200
Institute Feeble Minded 1G4.G0O
Boys' Industrial school 103,000
Kearney Normal school 159,200
Peru Normal school 197,300
Wayne- Normal school 124,020
Chadron Normal bchool .... 90,500
School for the Deaf 97,800
Penitentiary 147,000
SoldtoiV home. Grand Island 184,800
Soldiers' home, Milfbrd G0.900
Railway commission i 100,500
Supremo court 114.080
The ditter'ent btate officers are ask
ing for amounts as follows:
Governor $25,080
Treasurer 20,280
Auditor 37,400
Insurance department 25,080
State superintendent 2C.2S0
Secretary of stato 39,300
Land commissioner 20,800
Attorney general 39.G80
The increase in appropriations nak
ed in many of tho state institutions
is due to the fact that they have been
enlarged during tho biennlum Just
closing, and therefore the expense of
conducting them Is greater. There
two new institutions which wero not.
in the list two years ago, tho tubercu
losis hospital at Kearney and tho
state normal school at Chadron. The
Chadron school is asking $90,500 and
the Kearney hospital $41,240.
Prison Board Reports.
Secretary Joel A. Piper of thp state
prison board, in his biennial report to
the governor, states that the parolo
law and the Indeterminate sentence
law have brought good results, and
the board is well satisfied with the
record made by paroled prisoners. Up
to tho present time 83 per cent of the
prisoners paroled havo led good and
useful lives. Since July, 1911, tho
prison board has recommended par.
dons for twenty-nlno prisoners and
paroled eighty-three. "Since organi
zation, 375 applications havo been
tiled for their consideration, classi
fied as follows: For pardons, 113; for
commutation of sentence, 02, and for
parole, 200." '
Good Roads Bill Drafted.
Legislative committees represent
ing tho state automobile association,
'county officials' organized good roads
association, conseivation bodies, or
ganized agriculture and similar inter
ests held an all day meeting In Lin
coln last week at which provisions of
a good roads law were discussed and
agreed upon. Considerable progress
was mado, but more work Is necessary
before the bill is shaped for action.
Favors Missouri Plan.
The Wisconsin plan for an amend
ment to the constitution of the state
to better provide for taxation legisla
tion, giving the legislature widor
scopo in taxation matters, was adopt
ed at a special meeting of tho Tax
lteform club in Lincoln. This amend
ment will also be favored by the tax
ation commission of Nebraska, and a
committee from tho tax club went to
Omaha to urge the Omaha ficonomlc
club to get behind tho movoment for
its adoption.
Civil Service Examinations.
The United States civil service com
mission announces tho following ex
aminations to be held at Lincoln,
Grand Island, Norfolk, North Platte,
Alllnnce, Nebraska City and Omaha:
January 8, assistant agriculturist in
farm economics (male); January 8,
engineer and plumber (male); Janu
ary 8, entomological assistant (male);
January 8, laboratory assistant In
physics (male): January 8, scientific
assistant In plant physiology (male)
January 8, laboratory holpor, candy
making (male).
Insurance Department Reports.
According to tho report of Insur
ance Commlsslpner Pierce on opera
tions of that department for the past
two years taxes and fees amounted
to $200,902, or moro than $22,000 in
excess of tho previous blonnlum col
lections. Tho $25,000 appropriated by
the 1911 legislature was sufficient, for
tho first time- In many years, to pay
tho cobt of operation of the Insurance
department and In consequence, no
cording to Commissioner Pierce, thero
will be no deficiency claim brought up
at tho coming leglslntlvo session.
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COMING CORN SHOW.
Something That Ought to Interest Ev
ery Grain Grower
Hero is something that every grain
grower will be lnteiested In. Tho
farmers of Nebraska will hold their
annual Stato Corn Show as usual dur
ing Organized Agriculture week, Jan.
20-24, 1913. Not only Is It for men but
for bojs and girls as well. Program
for the week can bo obtained by re
quest from F. G. Odcll, State House,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Tho many cash prizes, tho silver
trophies, and the $125 inanuro spread
er are worth working for. About $2,000
aro offered In all to aonlor and junior
exhibitors. Such friendly competition
adds pleasures to tho season's work.
Fair treatment Is assured to all exhi
bitors. All oxhlblta will bo displayed
to tho public during this Com Show
which will bo held at tho Lincoln
Auditorium in connection with tho
beautiful State Apple and Floral
Show. It Is a simple matter to outer
oxhlbits.
Premium lists and full information
regarding tho boyB and girls contests
may bo had by writing to C. W. Pugs
ley, University Farm, Lincoln, Nob.
For entry blanks and premium lists
for tho senior contest write to T. A.
Klesselbach, secretary Nobracka Corn
Improvers' association, Lincoln, Nob.
In addition to tho show, tho Nebras
ka Corn Improvers' association will
hold a very interesting and Instructive
program on January 20 and 21 at tho
stato farm. Careful consideration
will bo given to matters of marketing,
soil tlllago and soil fertility. You
cannot afford to miss these discus
sions in which everyone is invited to
tako part.
No Deficit at Kearney.
Superintendent A. O. Thomas of the
State Normal school at Kearney
makes a report in which ho says that
the Kearney school Iipb nevpr yet re
ported a deficit. This year, notwith
standing the fact that ho has had to
equip tho north and south wings of
tho school out of tho general appro
priation, yet by economy ho hopes to
pull out without a deficiency. Ho says
that when he discovert that there la
liablo to bo a deficiency or that tho
fund may run low ho uses the only
prventlvo ho knows of and that Is to
stop buying. Tho total enrollment of
tho Institution has been over 8,000
pupils during its existence. Tho pi op
orty Is worth $220,000. An "appropria
tion of $158,580 Is asked for tho com
ing biennlum.
New G. A. R. Record.
Assistant Adjutant General Trimble
of the Grand Army of tho Republic
has an extra force of clerks at work
on tho record of soldiers of tho civil
war who havo lived In Nebraska at
any time and havo since died. When
comploletl tho lucords will be a valu
able addition to the Grand Army of
tho Republic records for futuro lefer
enco. Mortgage Released.
Papers wero filed with tho secretary
of state in which tho Bankers' Trust
company releases to tho Missouri Pa
cific Railroad company a mortgage on
property of tho company purchased
September 1, 1902. The property
shown In tho releaso was rolling stock
of the road.
Mercy Tempered With Justlcel
With trembling lips and broken
voice Rudolph H. Miller, for thirty
five years a respected citizen of tho
state, stood boforo Federal Judge T.
C. Mimeer and told tho court ii ws
guilty of stealing from tho mails. "I
am guilty, your honor, and I can only
say that 1 have suffered untold agony
since my crime, and I ask that you be
as merciful as you can be." Ho whb
sentonccd to servo throe months in
the Hastings county jail. For 23 years
Miller was a trusted employe of tho
government in tho postal service.
Tuberculos Day.
Superintendent Delzell has issued
letters to tho schools of tlio stato ask
ing them to set aside ono day as tu
berculosis day In which special work
may bo done in, ordor that the pupils
may become acquainted with tho
methods to bo used to provont tho
disease and its spread.
Quarters for State Library,.
New quarters for tho stato library
Is advocated by Harry Lindsay, clerk
of the stato supremo court, in his re
port to tho governor, which ho has
just completed. He desires that tho
legislature pass a law making a levy
of throe-fourths of a mill for two
years for this purpose.
Hog Cholera Still Exists.
Hog cholera, which has been mora
sevoro than for a number of years, Is
still raging with undiminished vio
lence. Dr. J. H. Gain, of tho depart
ment of animal pathology of the state
university, stated that tho demand for
serum to provont tho spread of the
disease has trebled compared to a
year ago, when there was an outbreak
of It.
Douglas and Lancaster Delegations.
Tho two big delegations, in thohouso
of representatives of tho Nebraska
legislature, Douglas and Lancaster
counties, will occupy opposlto sides
of roprosentatlvo hall the coming see
Blon. Tho Lancaster county represen
tatives will occupy tho same position
as formerly, to tho left of tho speaker
In the second row from tho back, near
tho center aisle, while tho Douglas
county representatives will movo
across from tho loft sldo near tho
front, to tho first and second rows on
tho right of tho speaker.
STATE SCHOOL LAND
One of Important Recommendations
to be Brought Before Coming
Legislature.
OTHER NEBRASKA MATTERS
One of tho Important recommenda
tions which will bo brought to the
notice of tho coming session of tho
legislatuio is a proposition to sell tho
state school lands nowv under leaso.
'rhis recommondation has been incor
porated In tho reports of two state
officers, Stnto Treasurer Georgo and
Land Commissioner Cowles. '
Both ofllclals contend that n solo of
the school lands of tho stato will
bring Into tho stato moro money than
Is received at tho present time from
tho leaso or tho lands. Commissioner
Cowles contends that tho larger por
tions of tho school lands unsold aro
of a poor class, many sections not be
ing worth 60 cents per acre and con
sequently tho rental is so small as
hardly to pay for tho trouble of keep
ing track of It.
Treasurer Georgo sots out tho plea
I that if tho lands aro sold the stato will
derive a revenuo from two sources.
One of these is by taxation.
1 Tho other reason and tho ono
which to Mr. George seems tho moro
important is that if tho land is sold
and tho money derived from tho sale
is Invested in county, school district
or municipal bonds that tho Interest
on these bonds will bring into tho
istato a rovenuo moro satisfactory
Minn Is cmlfipii hv tlio stnlo holdlnc
tho lands and leasing them.
Another proposition is that with
tho school i lands disponed of thcro
'will bo no need of a commissioner of
(public lands mid buildings and there
fore that department will be put out
of business. This will mnko an an
nual saving to tho stato in salaries
'alono of over $10,000, besides tho
.cost of ofilco fexpenscs and traveling
'expenses.
According to former Land Commis
sioner Henry M. Eaton, it will tako
an amendmont to tho constitution to
bring about this reform.
Land Commissioner Cowles says
tho work of tho ofilco Is steadily de
creasing and ho has recommended
that the recorder's salary bo'cut from
$1,500 to $1,200.
Implement Dealers Plan Exhibition,
Douglas County. Tho fourth an
nual convention of tho Mid-West Im
plement Dealprs' association, which
will bo hold in Omaha, January 7 to
10, will be featured by ono of tho big
gest shows that has ever been held in
connection witli tho annual meeting
of the organization.
Although tho program has not been
definitely nrranged, a draft has beon
mado which includes many well
known speakers. Among them are C.
M. Johnson of Rush City, Minn., Prof.
James Jarvis of Chicago, 111,, Floyd
R. Todd, Fast Mollne, 111., and B. W.
McCullotigh, secretary of tho Na
tional association.
A reception will bo tendered tho
visitors by tho Commercial club of
Omaha on tho opening ovoning.
Omaha business men desire a closer
friendship with tho dealers of the
stato.
Burn Oil In Engines
Contracts hnvo been closed by tho
Northwestern with tho Midwest Oil
company of Wyoming to furnish from
1,500 to 3,500 bairels a day for seven
years to be used as fuel on tho 775
.Northwestern iocomotivos running
west of tho Missouri river.
Successful Farmers' Institute.
Franklin County. Tho most suc
cessful farmers' institute and short
course ever held in Upland cloned
Friday. Stato university Professors
Gramllch, Burr, Chase and Rail gavo
lectures and demonstrations to a largo
and attentive clnss of men' and boya.
Car Burns At Grand Island.
Hall County. A car loaded with
.oil for the Union Pacific company
and sido tracked along tho oil shed
platform at Grand fsland took fire.
About 2,000 gallons wero destroyed.
Bank Collects Marsh Debt.
Tho United States National bnnk of
Omaha has won Its fight to collect
$25,000 from tho estate of Charles M.
Marsh before Marsh's heirs aro paid
their heritages Tho victory comos by
way of a supreme court ruling, Just
liandcd down.
Precious Gems Aro Found.
Richardson County. T. M. Draper,
an old prospector, has brought tho
attention of tho stato geologist to a
find of precious gomB ut Humboldt,
which Is arousing mlnoralogical In
terest A number of garnets of fine
quality havo beon found, and now
It Is claimed that several rubies, of
considerable value, havo also beon
discovered, Tlio gems havo beon ob
tained by digging iu tho glacial drifts.
Mr. Drapor haa been digging In these
drifts for tho last three or four years.
State Grange Holds Meeting.
Ouster County. Tho Nebraska
State Grango of tho PatronB of Hus
bandry haa finished its second annual
session at Broken Bow, lasting two
days. Many delegates, representing
various granges In that part of tho
state, wero prosenL Tho session was
A closed one, thero being no moetlngs
open to tho public It was found dur
ing tho past year that tho grango had
lncreasod its membership from twen-ty-ono
subordinate granges, with a
membership of 1,400 patrons, to fifty
ono subordinate granges
MR. WILSON'S
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Tho above photograph was taken whllo Presidentelect Wilson and his
family wero In Derhiuda. Tho photograph shows, from loft to right, Miss
Eleanor Wilson and Miss Jesslo Wilson In front of their cottage, Glon
Covo.
DEATH TAKES RE
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AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO
GREAT BRITAIN -DIES IN
LONDON SUNDAY.
KING SENDS CONDOLENCES
United States Diplomat Succumbs
With Wife and Daughter at His
Bedside With Son Crossing Sea
Taft PayB High Tribute.
London, Dec. 17. American am
bassador to tho court of St. James,
Whltelaw Reld, died at Dorchester
houso, his palatial London homo, nt
ton minutes after noon Sunday. Only
his wlfo and daughter, Hon. Mrs.
John Hubert Ward, wore at tho bod
sido whon tho end came. Ills son,
Ogden Mills Reld, has' called from
New York on tho Kronprlnzessln
Cccollle, tho ambassador's family not
realizing tho seriousness of Mr.
Reld's condition until Friday, when
they cubled Ogden to sail Immediate
ly for England.
King George has inquired1 daily as
to tho ambassador's condition sinco
the fnct that ho was seriously HI be
came known. Hon. John Wnrd, who
was at Dorchestor houso, tolophonod
Buckingham palaco Immediately whon
tho death occurred, and within half
an hour Sir John Leggo, tho queen's
equorry, called to convoy thu condo
lence of tho kln&and queen.
The following olllclal statement was
issued nt Dorchester houso by tho at
tending physicians:
"A fortnight ngo tho ambassador
had a return of the asthma from
which ho had previously suffered se
verely at considerable Intervals. Grad
ually bronchitis supervened and the
asthmatic paroxysms became sovero,
loading to extrcm exhaustion.
"Although with great difficulty tho
paroxysms of asthma wore gotten un
der control, early Sunday, tho exhaus
tion becarao extreme Mr. Reld died
of pulmonnry ocdoma nt ten minutes
past 12 o'clock."
President Taft paid an unusual trib
ute to the lato ambassador and ex
pressed his grlof in a cable reply to a
message of sorrow from King Georgo
of Great Britain. Tho president also
ont his sympathy to Mrs. Reld.
Through his own personality, Mr. Held,
the prosldent snid, had drawn Amer
ica and Grent Britain in closor friend
ihlp. Bandits Rob Bank of $3,000.
Austin, Tex., Dec. 17. Four heavily
armed men robbed tho Stato bank at
Kylo, Tox., and escaped with $3,000
The yoggmon seized Night Wntchmnn
Ralph Gulnno nnd bound and gagged
htm boforo hn could glvo tho ulrm.
The mon then leisurely drilled tho
eafo and opened It with nltroglycorlne.
Consul General Resigns.
San FrnnclBCO, Doc. 18. Henri
Merou, consul general of Franco In
Ban Francisco for moro than six yenra,
said Monday that ho had tondored his
resignation, to tako effect January 1.
Ho will soon leavo for Europe
New Turkish Counselor Coming.
London, Doc. 17. DJovad Bey,
counselor of tho Turkish embassy In
London, started for tho United States
Sunday to tako up tho same post at
Washington. Ho was ono of ho most
DODUlar diplomats In London.
DAUGHTERS
BOMB WITNESS IS HIT
F. W. ZEISS HELD UNDER $2,000
BOND, ON PERJURY CHARGE.
Was McManlgal'e Roommnto In De
troit and Worked Jobs
With Him.
Indianapolis, Dec. 10. Fieduilek
W. Zolss, union Ironworkor, Chicago,
brought hero by tho defense to im
peach thu testimony of Oillo McMuu
Ignl. was taken from tho witness
stand at tho dynnmlto conspiracy
trial Friday by ordor of Judgo Albort
Anderson and hold under $2,000 bond
to appear boforo tho next federal
grand Jury for porjury.
Zolss was McManlgal's roommate In
Detroit In tho spring of 1907, nnd
worked on Jobs with him thoro at that
time. McManigal testified that ho had
nevor tnlkod to Zelsta about his first
oxplosion nt tho Russell Wheel and
Foundry company In Detroit, Juno 25,
1907. Zeiss contradicted this and said
McManigal had told him that ho (Mc
Manigal) caused that oxplosion, and
further told him before tho explosion
that ho was going to Bloomvlllo, 0
to got dynamite. Ho also said McMan
igal Invited him to becomq a dynu
miter. "I told him tho gamo was too
dirty for mo," said Zolsfe.
"Do you say that you know this ex
plosion hnd occurred and you said
nothing ttbout it?" asked Judgo Ander
son In astonishment. Zeiss mado no
reply.
"Do you know whore you aro? An
awor my question," contlnuHd tho
court
"Certainly."
MISS HELEN GOULD TO WED
Will Become Bride of Flnley F.
Shepard, a Railroad Man. of
St. Louis, Mo.
Now York, Dec. 17. Announcement
was made Sunday by Georgo J.
Gould of tho engagement of his sis
ter, Holon Miller Gould, to marry Fin
loy D. Shopard, a St. Louis railway
man.
St. Louis, Dec. 17. Flnloy D. Shop
ard, whoso engagement hnB beon an
nounced to Miss Holon Mlllor Gould,
has boon In railroad work nearly all
his life. His romnnco with Miss
Gould dates from last March when
Miss Gould wns making a tour of tho
Missouri Pnclflo and Iron Mountain
systems,
Big Explosion Destroys Boats.
London, England, Dec. 10, A seri
ous oxploBlon followed by firo Is re
ported to havo destroyed or damaged
moro than a hundred Binnll craft
In Naples harbor, according to a
news agency dispatch from Romo Fri
day. Justice John P. Hand Better.
Springflold, HI., Doc. 17. JuBtlco
John P. Hand of tho Illinois Biipromo
court, who wbb strlckon with paraly
sis, was In an improved condition Sun
day. Ho was gradually recovering tho
ubo of his right arm and right log.
Mrs. W. E. Corey Bars U. 8.
Now York, Doc. 17. Mrs. William
10. Corey, formerly Mabollo GUmnn, an
actress, "simply cannot Hvo In Amor
lea" any longer Tho country 1b too
noisy. She Bald so herself when she
arrived on tho Franco Sunday,
NO COAL COMBINE
8UPREME COURT JUSTICES HOLD
U. S. HAS FAILED TO PROVE
AN ANTHRACITE TRUST.
IMPORTANT POINT IS WON
Decision Upholds Contention of the
Government That "65 Per Cent."
Contracts Aro Illegal Oil Caso
Ruling Repeated.
Washington, Dec. 18. Tho Supreme
court of the United States decided
against tho government Monday In Its
fight to havo tho anthracite coal car
rying railroads and tholr affiliated
coal companies declared to bo In a
general combination In violation of
tho Shormnn nntl trust law.
It won a victory In getting tho court
to hold void tho 05 por cent, contracts
whereby tho "railroad coal compa
nies" buy tho output of "Independent"
minus. Justice Lurton, In announcing
tho opinion, Bald theso contracts
wero plainly In violation of tho law.
Tho court also held that tho rail
roads had violated tho law by attempt
ing to shut out of the anthrnclto ro
glon a competitive road through tho
contiol of tho Tomplo Iron compnny.
As to minor combinations of rail
roads nnd coal companies charged to
be violating the law, tho court dis
missed tho action without prejudice to
futuro suits, because It held it not fair
to roqulro those groups to mako a
defense In an action primarily agalnBt
a "gcnornl combination."
In an opinion nnnoiuionil by Asso
ciate Justlco Lurton tho court aays:
"1. Tho gonoral combination al
leged by tho government to exist be
tween the dofendnnt ronds for an ap
portionment for total tonnngo to tho
seaborn d by an agreement In tho na
ture of a pooling arrangement has not
beon established and, therefore, tho
tellef sought by tljo government upon
assumption of such combination is de
nied. "2. Tlio court finds, however, that
tho principal defendants did combine,
for the purpose of shutting out from
tho nnthrnclto coal field a projected
Independent lino of ralhoad, tho Now
York, Wyoming nnd Wstorn railroad,
and to accomplish that purposo It In.
found that tho stock of thq Temple
Iron compnny nnd of tho Simpson and
Watkln collieries was acquired for the
purpoBO of and with tho Intent, not of
normally and ' lawfully doVoloplng
trndo, but of restraining interstate
commorco und competition in trans
portation, which would havo presum
ably come about through tho construc
tion nnd operation of tho proposod
rompotlntT lino of railroad betweon tho
mines nnd tldowntcr.
"3. Tho court holds that certain
contracts mado with producers, cover
ing bctwocn po nnd 25 per cent, or the
total annual supply of coal, known as
tho 05 por cent contracts, by which
such Independent producers bound
thomsolvcs to deliver tho output of
their mlno or nny othor mine
which thoy might ncqulro to
tho railroad companies for 05 por
cent, of tho avorago markot prlco nt
tldowator, wero bIbo void, because in
violation of tho nntl-trust act, ns nb
normn! nnd illegal restraints upon In
terfltato commorco.
"1. The court rolterntOH tho decla
ration in tho Standard Oil case, that
an act of congress dooB not 'forbid or
restrain tho power to mark normal and
unusual contracts to further trade by
resorting to all normal mothodB,
whether by ngreement or otherwise,
to accomplish such purpose.' Never
theless, It holds that tho acts which It
;inds In this caso to bo Illegal, the
Tomplo Iron and 05 per cent, con
tracts, wore not within such clans,
but, on tho contrary, woro abnormal in
their character and directly tended to
and wero Intended to illegally restrain
trado and comment and, (hnrnfnr
oamo within tho statute as Illustrated
by tho rullngB In St. Louis Terminnl
RPPocintlon and Swift and Co, vs.
United States"
DEMOCRAT FOR REID'S POST
President Taft to Leave Naming of
Successor to Dead Diplomat
to Governor Wilson.
Washington, Doc. 18. Because of
tho llttlo tlmo which remnlns boforo
President-elect Wilson will appoint
now men to all the Important posl
tions In tho diplomatic sorvlco, Presi
dent Taft Monday decided not to
nnmo a successor to Ambassador
Whltelaw Reld at London, but to let
tho post romain vacant until after
March 4 next. All tho Importnnt busl
ness of tho embassy will bo transact
ed botween tho British embassy In
this city nnd Sccrotnry Knox.
Wilson Back In the U. 8.
Now York, Dec. 17. ProBidont-elect
Wilson returned Monday from lila va
cation trip to Hamilton, Bormuda.
Tho Bteamshlp Bormudian, which car
ried him and his party, docked hero
a fow minutes nftor 8 a. in., followins
a record trip,
Ocean Crafts Are Safe.
Now York, Doc. 18. Tho steamship
Impoco nnd tho bnrgo Ilnlnaut of tha
Standard Oil company fleet, thought
to havo boon loBt In tlio Gulf of Mox
lco with 30 porsona aboard, arrived at
Qalvoston, Tox., Monday.
Navy Is 0,000 Men Short,
Washington, Dec. 18. Tho navy Is
6,000 mon short of Its authorized
strongth, though reportB show 1m
provoment In recruiting. In tho last
fow months enlistments dropped off In
an unprecedented degreu
$50,000,000 IS TOLL
MONEY TRUST QUIZ HEARS
WALL STREET'S RECEIPTS.
Frank K. Sturgls, Former President
of the New York Stock Exchange,
Occupied the Stand.
Washington. Dec. 16. That coramlu
BlonB amounting to nearly $50,000,000
a year arc poured Into tho pockot ot
Wall ntrcot brokers each year was tha
testimony given hero Friday before
xtho house committee Investigating th
"money trust." Frank K. Sturgls, a.
broker and former president of th6
Now York stock exchange, wns on the-,,
stand.
Samuel Untormyer, counsel for th
commlttoo, trlod to draw from Miv
SturglH an estimate of tho amount of
business dono on tho exchange annual
ly, but waa unsuccessful. Tho lawyen
thon read from tho answers furnlshod'
by tho exchange to questions of the-'
Hughes commission an estimnto of
yearly business amounting to 196,000.
000 shares of stock. Mr. Sturgls said
ho bclloved tho figures to bo about
right.
START SEARCH FOR SCOTT
Rescue Party Starts From New Zea
land to Hunt Antarctic Explorer
Missing Nearly a Year.
Cltrlatohurrh, New Zealand, Dec. 16.
Tho polar rellof ship Terra Nova
sailed from thlB port ou Saturday for
Ross inaland, in tlio far Antarctic, to
bring bnck Capt Robert F. Scctt and
his associates of tho British expedi
tion which went bouIIi moro than a
year ngo to dlscovor tho south pole.
Nothing has been heard from Scott
nnd his men since tho Terra Nova
csmo north on March 5 laat, and thero
la much speculation aa to tha accom-
lilItihliiHhlp Ulld tiotuu Ullt'itollifao an Id
tho fato of tho party.
When the Terra Nova called from
Hut Point, tho winter quarters of tho
expedition, nt tho oxtremo southern
end of Ross Island, Captain Scott and
two companions wero still struggling
lownrd the polo.
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Wuhhlngton, Dec. 14.7-Heprcaenta
tiro. Oharlej'C, Bowman of tho T31ov-
ontu Pennsylvania district was un
seated by tho houso of representa
tives by tho passago, 158 to 18, of a
resolution declaring that corrupt prac
tloes had beon used In his election in
1910.
At tho samo tlmo the house re
fused, 181 to 88, to Beat George R. Mc
Lean, his Domooiatlo opponent,
WnRlilnEton. Dec.' 14. Secretary of
War Stlmson Issued orders Thursday
for tho removal . of the Twenty-fifth
Infantry and Companies Ten, Sixty
eight nnd Seventy-five of coaBt artll
lory from Pacific coast to Honolulu.
Salem, Ore., Doc. 10. Four men
wqro hangod In tho penitentiary In this
city Friday desplto efforts to savo
their lives that woro unprecedented.
Tho quartotto had been under re
prlovo grnntod by Governor Oswald
West for varying periods in order
thnt tho olcclorato of tho stato might
havo an opportunity to pronounce its
verdict whether tho men should hang.
Tho verdict was glvon on November IT
and was In favor of hanging.
PRINCE OF BAVARIA IS DEAD
Lultpold Succumbs In Munich, Follow
ing Several Months of Falling
Health Mode of Life Simple.
Munich, Bavaria, Dec. 14. Lultpold,
prince regent of Bnvarla, died hero
Thursday. Ho was nlnoty-ono years
old. Tho prlnco regont had L-.n In
failing health Bovoral months and his
dentil was not unexpected. Lultpold
waa Blxty flvo years old uud hud lived
a long and useful llfo as a great Ger
man military loader when ho waa
called upon in 1886 to tnko tho throno
of Bavaria, tho second largest ctato
in tho Germnn empire. Ills call to tho
regency was the result of tho Insanity
of King Ludwlg II. nnd his brother,
King Otto. Like his friend, the em
peror Francla Joseph, Lultpold cared
not n fig for tho frumperles of his high
position. His mode of llfo was sim
ple. KUKLUX KLAN METHOD IS ON
Masked Men Whip Georgia Man, Al
iened to Harbor White Women In
His House.
Dalton, Gn., Dec. 10. A rovlval ot
tho days ot tho Kuklux klan tools
placo hore, when a band of masked,
mon took John Wntklns from his home
to tho center of tho town, whoro ho
wns Beverely whipped. Watklns then
was given three dnys to leavo town.
Tho action Is said to havo followed
Watklns' refusal to get rid of sev
eral alleged disorderly white women
living In one of his houses.
12 Hurt as 20 Buildings Burn.
Pittsburg. Deo. 17. Flro believed
to havo boon of incendiary origin, de-i
stroyod twenty BtableB, warehouse
and resldoucos In Braddock Saturday
nlghL Scores wero rescued, twolvo ot
whom woro Injured.
Policeman Kills Chief.
Riverside, Cal., Deo. 17. Police Ofll
cer Bert Barrett ot tho local forco
shot and killed his superior, Acting
Chlof of Pollco John R. Balrd, Sundny,
Barrett's lator attompt to kill himself
was frustrated.
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