mUKTjjrxMi! twwi BOX BUTTE HOSPITAL A Word From the Promoters of the Institution. Realizing llic need of n hospital in this community wo have decided on the first of April, "1008, to open the Box Butte Hospital in Alliance, Ncbr,, to bo nmintnincd until the Sisters have their building and equipment. There will be in attendance two physicians nnd surgeons, Drs. Churchill nud Thornton who are prepared to do, be sides general practice, all kinds of sur gery Dr. Churchill being a specialist in surgery, gynecology and obstetrics. Dr, Thornton in the diseases of child, rcn and nose and throat. Wo will bo prepared to give our patients every comfort possible and the best of nursing. There will be a maternity ward and ex pectant mothers desiring to como in before date of confinement will be given n special rate until such date after which they will pay the regular fee. For all patients maintained by lodges or other benevolent societies, special rates will bo given. Our aim is (b give the patients the best medical and surgical treatment, kind care and scientific nursing. Rates 15 and 25 dollars per week. Box Butte Hospital, Gertrudo E. Churchill, Supt. CONTRIBUTIONS TO SISTERS' ACADEMY Weekly Report of Payments Toward the Erection of the School Building. Following is the amount of money received for the Sisters' Academy and by whom paid, -Much of this is only part payment of subscriptions. The committee is now'out collecting and the amount received will be published weekly, - Previously, acknowledged $5,600.00 Thomas Regan 50.00 Pat Nolan., .' 50.oo John Doran 25.00 Ed Morris 25.00 Anna Welch 25.00 H. T. Carey , 25.00 W. L. McNamara. '. 25,00 F. McCoy ; 7o,0o E. Reardon Sr 75.00 T. Richstein. ., 5o!oo John Itrennan v-.. ,..,...., 200.00 John Rifey '......' 20.00 Total 1 .$6,240.00 Special Notice. Don't forget the temperance meet ings at the opera house, commencing next Suuday eveping, March 29th. Good music will be furnished at all these meetings. Following is the pro gram for next Sunday evening: Meeting will open with a song serv ice, led by a chorus ot fifty voices, Prof. H. H. Reimund, director. Vocal solo, "O Love Divine," L. C. Hazelton. Selection, "Throw Out the Life Line," by a ladies' double quartette. Closing chorus. Stream Horse Sale Was Well Attended. The sale of registered stallions by Frank L. Stream qi Crcston, Iowa, took place at the Sury barns in this city last Saturday- afternoon and was well attended. Owing to the fact that Mr. Stream was unable to be present, his brother and BanksWilson conducted the sale and R. M. Hampton act ed as clerk. There yas a good demand for horse flesh of this kind aud most of the animals were sold. Below we give a list of the sales and nrices rocnivpri for each animal: Slx-jear-old registered buy Shlro to It. L. Phettlerof Canton, ?100. Three-year-old roan, home-bred, French Draft Norman, wuluhlnir. 1000 pounds, to 0. T. Smith, Gruyon, Ncbr., $ 125. Fmr-year-old brown, Krado, to Mr. Squires of Oleman, f i.W. Muck live-year-old registered Shire, to It. 11. Watklns, Alliance, $22j. Hay three-year-old reBlstcred Shlro. to Arthur llaumtfardner, Alllauee, $422.50. Three-year-old black registered Perchcron to I. .1. Sturgeon, Alliance, J380. Fivo-jear-old Imported black Shlro, to Arthur Hubbell, Mlnatare, $400. Throc-year-old dark bay shlro horso to Joo Manlon, Marplo, $'.'10. Two-oar-old In May, bay shire colt, to C. Solleiiberger, Alliance, 3185, Hliiro colt to Howard lleek of Lakeside, It's. Colt to Geo. MeFall, Antloch, tlii. We are pleased to state that at this writing Mrs. Rem Hand Jr., is much improved, so much so that the trained nurse returned to Chadron and Dr. Geo. Hand to Alliance. The pneu monia dealt severely with Myrtle, but with tender care and the best of medi cal aid she bravely fought for life. Hay Spriugs Enterprise. Social Doings. Tho Fortnightly Study club met with Miss Maudio Spacht on Saturday afternoon. Tho timo was delightfully spent by those present, and while, of course, tho name is suggestive of tho nature of the manner in which tho time was spent the guests were treated to delicacies of many kinds. Those as sembled departed with many kind words for the entertaining powers of Miss Spacht. Responding to her kind invitation a number of ladies met at the residence of Mrs. J. A. Hunter on Saturday after noon where the time was very pleasant ly spent in doing fancy work, and listen ing to musical renditions, both vocal and instrumental, by different members of tho party. A delicious four-course luncheon was served by the hostess after which the guests departed for their respective homes, but not without many warm expressions of their appre ciation of the entertaining capabilities of their hostess. One of the most enjoyable events of tho season was at the home of Mr. aud Mrs. C. B. Hancock Thursday evening, when thirty of their friends took pos session of the house. Mrs. Hancock was entertained at the residence of Mrs. D. Laudrigan whilo the people gathered, and at nine o'clock the un suspecting lady was suddenly culled homo and was completely surprised, Cards, dancing, music, singing and joking was indulged during the evening. Prizes were given to the best card-players, Mrs. D. Landrigan winning first honors, a beautiful hand-painted olive dish. J. Burns won gentleman's prize, a beautiful smoker's set, whilo Mrs. Frocshla was consoled with a toy coffee grinder, and Mr. Hancock was given a package of marbles. As a token of friendship, Mrs. Hancock was presented with three pieces of silverware consist iug of a cream ladle, sugar spoon and butter knife. At twelve o'clock the guests departed wishing Mr. and Mrs. Hancock happiness and success in their future home at Speapfish, S. D. Uncle Zcke Mabiu was a passenger through Alliance Monday night, bound for Omaha, where ho will secure an artificial limb in the place of the natural one recently amputated on account of blood poison. Mr. Mabin certainly has au indomitable tenacity that ,is ,tb be admired. He lost both arm' 'and; leg,' met with an accident years ago when lie was crushed almost to death in a coal mine, aud closes his eventual life by braving the privations of pioneer life, yet today he is a man of robust nature and takes a philosophical view of conditions that line his path through lifo with flowers. Edward Mabiu ac companied his father to this city. Easter Millmei Uncle Zed Goodwin came from Alii- ance Tuesday for a short visit with his son. Mitchell Index. Roy Cleavenger was down from Alli ance to spend Sunday with his father and mother. Mullen Tribune. Noah Shawver and family were over from Alliance for a few days visiting. Noah returned Tuesday. Mitchell Index. Harve Goodenough, now conducting a billiard hall at St. Paul, Nebraska, paid a visit to his brother George east ot town, Sunday. He left Monday for Grand Island, where he will install an other swell Lilljard parlor as soon as the building is completed. Mullen Tribuue. TfWKWi ,KKK-iKHt X REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS T HEt'ouTKii nv s AA.F DALDHinaE, Bonded Abstracter V l--5--XK-v-i-W--H--;M"X- Nettlo Wicks to Leroy W. Whipple, lot 12, blk 3, Wyo, mid to Alliance, $23. Lincoln Land Co. to James Dobry, lots 3 and 4, and n ot lot 5, blk Y, Sheridan add to Al lianco, ti'JO. Forest Lumber Oo. to F. E. Heddlsh, lot 10, blk 3, Forest nub-add to Duncan's north side ot resident lots, $325. Joshua Wasco to W. W. Norton, sw H of 21-21-4S $1000.00. Hurry H. IMcrco to Hamilton Hull, sw H ot 22-2S-W.S1 and exchange of property. Hamilton Hall to Harry II. Fierce, no ( of 33-28-50. il und exchange of lands. F. M. Knight to Wllford lteed.u tract of land In lot 5, blk 11. Nebraska add to Alliance, $100. James I. Deull to Lena McLaughlin, lots 11), 20, 21 aud 22, blk 3, Wyoming Avo add to Al liance, J200. Itlchard 11. Wutklns to George Klauipc, sw H of 23-20-19, $2000.00. NOTICi: OF KI.IXTIOX. Notice Is hereby given, that on Tuesday, the 7t)i day of April. I WW, ue.xt, at tho ftvd tore of Jerry llowtin in the First Ward and at the I'lty Hull in the Second Ward, in the city ot Alliance, In II ox liutto county and stuteof Nebraska, au election will bo hold for mayor, treasurer, clerk und engineer for ald city aud 0110 councilman for said First Ward aud one councilman for said Second Ward, which election will be open at nine o'clock in tho morning, aud will continue open until seven o'clock In the afternoon of the same day. Dated March 12th. A. 1). l'JOS. V. O. llAtiNES, Cltjr Clerk. Me TUFT'S CAMPAIGN Money Used Lavishly to Force His Nomination. PUBLIC DUTIES NEGLECTED. Secretary of War Spend Most of His Time Traveling Over the Country In the Interests of His Candidacy. Print Paper Users Will Got No Ro ller From Congress 'Concerning Yachts, Public and Private Coot of Our Naval Establishment Plans ot the Stand Patters. Dy WILLIS J. ADDOT. One of the curious features of news gathering In Washington Is the rapid ity with which n story, ut first merely hinted nt, pusses quickly from the realm of rumor to the point of publi cation. A few days ago It was ru mored that the facls concerning the enormous expenditures of money being made to secure the nomination for the presidency of Secretary Tuft were like ly to bo made the subject of Investiga tion by it widely circulated weekly pa per. Within forty-eight hours the story of the Taft money campaign was told In full In a New York newspaper. Secretary Tuft Is fortunate In having n brother who is enormously rich, who attained his fortune partly through murrlagc and partly because of a shrewd combination of politics and business and the successful manipula tion of public service franchises In Cin cinnati. Two weeks ago people In Washington who professed to know told mo that the Taft campaign for the nomination was costing In the neigh borhood of $S00,000. The Investigators for the New York paper, proceeding along, us 1 have reason to know, entire ly distinct lines, fix it nt $750,000. This, be It known, Is tho expenditure' up to date, yet the real work of controlling a convention has only just begun. While there have been men traveling all over the United States In the in terest of Taft, while ho hns had head quarters In Washington nnd In Colum bus, yet what hits been done up to the present time does not represent half tho expenditure that will necessarily have to be made If his brother is to buy the nomination for him. The con vention Is nearly three months oft, nnd these three months will be the time that, If It docs not try men's souls, will try their pocketbooks. Many people on the Republican side of the house nnd senate think tlint Se." retnry Tuft would have done better to have mnde his campaign without this lavish expenditure of money. Ai Kentucky congressman living ulmoat directly across the river from him said, to me today Unit two of the Issuoft likely to be raised against Taft are his apparent ii"pinCt of the duties of l$ otllce while '.. allng nil over the Unit ed Stntcs In the 'Merests of his can didacy und the lavish use of money to force his nomination upon an unwill ing party. At present Secretary Tntt says nothing lu answer to any criti cism, but If ho shall be nominated he will have to explain whence came the money that paid for his extravagant campaign and how he was able to se cure from a civil service reform presi dent the leisure to go to all parts of tho world for self ndvertlsoment nnd political purposes. Dodging Freo Paper. The newspnper publishers nnd owu ers of the United States who hnve been pleading with this congress for roller ngalnst the extortions of the paper trust will no doubt shout with joy when they learn that the Republican majority has agreed to put nn Item In the agricultural appropriation bill for their bcnellt. The huge sum of .$10,000 Is to be asked for the Investigation of now substances from which paper may he made. I happen to know the proprietors of three or four different newspapers of circulations ranging from 15,000 to 25, 000 dally who say that the recent In crease in the price of paper has cut down their not earnings from $15,000 to $20,000 annually. You can Imagine what It must have meant to papers like the Chicago Tribune, the New York World and the Philadelphia North American, with fivo times that circula tion. The Newspaper Publishers' associa tion asked that print paper and the raw materials necessary for the manu facture of print paper should be ad mitted to this country free of duty. They sent a committee to Interview President Roosevelt on tho subject, and ho tossed them a wilted bouquet by snylng In his next message that this should be done in order to protect our forests. The Republican congress, or, rather, the five men who run It, de cided, however, that to touch the tariff on paper or on wood pulp would be to opcu the tariff question. Therefore nothing Is to be done on the subject except the appropriation of $10,000 to secure Information which will be quite as valuabln to the paper trust us It will be to the newspapers now ground under the heavy heel of that trust. What are the Republican papers re sponsible for the president who be trayed them nnd for the congress which Ignored them going to do about It? Yachts, Private and Public. A New York newspaper the other day printed half a page of pictures of steam yachts owned by millionaires of that "city that wore offered for sale because of the llnnnclal stringency now existing. They are lxmutlful big shlpl, two or three of them requiring crows of from thlrty-olght to fifty men, exclusive of officers, nnd nil employed for the comfort and luxury of one man end his guests. They are bigger than the caravels with which Columbus dis covered America or tho tbip with which Commodore Perry opened Japan to western civilization, but they are nothing more- than floating plensuro houses. If President Roosevelt had done noth ing worse than to cause n panic which compelled the millionaire owners of steam yachts to throw them on the market nothing could be said ngalnst his policies. The trouble is that the same policy adopted by the Republican party which Impels Mr. Vnnderhilt to sell his yncht cuts Tom and Jim and Jerry out of Jobs. Meanwhile tho president suffers not lu the slightest degree. Ills salary nnd allowances, which in all exceed $300,000 a year, continue without reduction. And one of his two yachts, the Mayflower, Is even now on a voyage from Hampton Roads to Vlckshurg, Miss., nearly 2,000 miles, for the purpose of taking Mrs. Roosevelt nnd a few friends to New Orleans, n distance of barely 200 miles. Time was when a president of the United States who used navy vessels oven for his own cnrrlnge up nnd down the Totomac was not merely ridiculed, but denounced. Today when the presi dent himself goes nothing smaller than n battleship with two cruisers In nt tendnnce will serve him. Tho presiden tial yachts nre ordinarily useful only for the women and children of the Roosevelt family. Expenses of War and of Peace. Naval circles In Washington are In terested in tho reports that como here concerning what seems to be an effort of Emperor William to check the rival ry of nations In naval expenditures. Of course every one remembers that the first news of Emperor William's entrance upon this cause came when n lc .' from him to Lord Twcedmouth was given u limited publicity lu Eng land. More recently it was gossip about the Army and Navy club here nud the various legations that a like letter had been sent by the kaiser to a distinguished Italian statesman. Gossip has it that other letters of the same Bort nre out. Of course the professional navy man Insists that the reason for the em peror's interest In limiting sea arma ment Is due to tho fact that Germany Is not well fltted to become a naval power. Her harbors are few, her peo ple not maritime. But all the same her nnvy Is either the second or the third In the world. Her merchant marine Is easily second, and in one line of ships, the Hamburg-American, she has tho greatest fleet of merchant ves sels afloat. If Emperor William Is diplomatically trying to reduce ex penditures for war vessels, ho cannot be charged with doing it through fear or for personal reasons only. Few people understand how grent are tho expenditures made by congress either In payment for past wars or In preparation for future nnd possibly Imaginary wars. Today out of the rev enues of the nation more than Go per cent goes to pensions, to the nrmy and the navy und for new navnl construc tion. Mr. Roosevrlt has asked for four battleships this year. Ills request Is not going to le ncceded to, but If It were It would mean nn appropriation of easily $50,000,000. Understand that this Is merely for new construction for battleships only, eliminating cruis ers, torpedo boats nnd the submarines which are Just at present the sourct of much scandal In congress. If one tenth of the money spent in paying the cost ot past wars nnd In preparing for others, which all hope will never bo declared, could be used In developing our waterways, In digging canals, In preserving forests and mineral lands, the country nnd Its people would be so prosperous that If n foreign danger should threaten It It would be better able to meet the emergency. The least estimate of the appropria tions of this session of congress Is $000,000,000. That Is the money which will he appropriated In n six months session just before a presidential elec tion, a time when the politicians of the majority party are trying very hard to be economical. That means, roughly speaking, $12 for every man, woman and child hi the United States. Chil dren don't pay taxes. Their parents must pay them for them, for of course this money must in some way be found. Statisticians estimate the aver age family as being made up of five people. That means that this six months' congress will cost the average man $00. Is there not reason why he should Interest himself lu securing a congress which will reduce taxatlou, even If it reduces tho spectacular fea tures of the nrmy and navy In so do ing? Tariff Reform In the House. Now, this Is the cheerful agreement by which the Republicans of the house hopo to humbug the tariff rcf owners of the nation. Moreover, it Is the shrewd plan by which the stand patters In the same party are going to try to keep their tariff revision brethren In line. The plan is to authorize the commit tee on ways and means, which is of course the committee lu charge of tar iff schedules, to sit during the coming summer, taking testimony nnd gather Ing data with a view to tariff revision after the next Inauguration. The chair man of that committee Is Sercno Payne of New York. Its most powerful mem ber Is Dalzell of Penusylvnula, high priest of protection. All the other Re publican members down to Nick Long worth of Ohio arc avowed high tariff men and stand patters. The seven Democrats, headed by Champ Clark, conlddo nothing to hoeuro even fair hearings. Of course the scheme is sim ply to offer nn excuse for putting off any tariff legislation until after elec tion. That H)stpoiieinont will be made with or without any excuse. Rut If this plan shall be adopted 110 citizen of the United States who Is restive under tariff taxation need look upon It as othor than a cheap subterfuge. Washington, D. C. NEWS OF NEBRASKA. FUND FOR LINCOLN STATUE Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars to Be Raised In Nebraska. Omaha, March 23. Twenty-flve thousand dollars for an Abraham Lin coln statue In the stato capital of Ne braska, raised by contributions from every Nebraskan, young and old, is tho goal set by the Abraham Lincoln Centennial Memorial association of Nebraska. The association believes that every person In this state, whose center of government bears the name of the great man who did so much toward the permanent welfare of Its future during the dark days of 'Gl-'Go, can manifest a distinguished patriotism by putting In his and her mite for this purpose, and that by this concerted action $25,000 can be raised before the effort is realized. In sending out the prospectus of the plans for raising a fund of $25,000 for the erection of a statue, officers of the association say that patriots will be needed In every community to canvass for funds and ask especially for help from the veterans of tho civil war, comrades of the war president, in the raising of the money needed for tho completion of tho memorial. EVANGELIST IS BADLY BEATEN Rev. F. A. Miller of Lincoln Seriously Hurt for Criticising Kensington. Utica, Neb., March 24. Rev. F. A. Miller, a well known evangelist living at Lincoln, was assaulted whilo on his way to tho depot. In a sermon the minister is accused of criticising the doings of a women's kenslngtou. of this place. About twenty took part in the assault. He was seriously Injured. "I will remain In this town and prac.i, ('.blared Miller. "I did not say tho members of tho kenslngtou were not decent." The minister explained that ho con demned card playing and such prac tices at kensingtons. If the people nt Utica did not play cards at kensing tons, he said, there was no cause for anger. The men in the mob believed that Miller declared the women of the town Indecent. NORTH PLATTE'S MAYOR HELD Anti-Saloon League Finds Whisky in His Drug Store and Will Prosecute. North Platte, Neb., March 24. The Anti-Saloon league caused arrests to be made of Dr. Nicholas McCabe, mayor of this city, and Josephine Owens, proprietor of a resort. Com plaint was also filed against Lizzie Gaunt for running u house of this character. Premises of tho three places were searched and consider able liquor was taken from tho may or's drug store. A case of beer was also secured at tho place of Lizzie Gaunt, but she herself had flown. The largest amount was secured at Mayor McCabo's drug store, where a barrel, several kegs, Jugs and bottles more or less filled with liquor of different kinds, were secured. Mayor McCabo Is charged on eight counts with sell ing liquor without a license. PRAIRIE FIRE IN SAND HILLS Depot at Halsey Is Missed by Fifty Feet and Dunning In Danger. Hnlsey, Neb., March 23. For a short time this town was in danger of being wiped out by a fierce prairie fire that devastated the country northeast and which was forced forward by a high wind. By quick work on the part ot the citizens in plowing fire guards and a slight change in the direction of tho wind, the day was saved, but not until the flames had como within fifty feet of the depot buildings, going on east, where it Is still burning badly and no doubt will reach Dunning If tho wind does not subside. Complain of Oil Rate. Lincoln, March 23. Representative of the Kansas Co-Operative Oil Refin ing company of Chanute called on tho Nebraska railroad commission und filed a complaint claiming excessive freight rates on oil shipments from Kansas points to Superior, Neb., which Is the Nebraska distributing point The complaint Is against the Santa Fe and it Is alleged that for a nine mile haul from Weber, Kan., to Su perior, Neb., $22 a car is charged, while from Chanute to Weber, 236 miles, but $21 is the charge. Trlckett Opens Prohibition Campaign, Lincoln, Mnrch 24 C. W. Trickett of Kansas City, Kan., assistant attor ney general of that state, opened the Prohibition campaign in Lincoln last night with an extended aUdress. His talk was an exposition of the methods employed at Kansas City to close the saloons, and Included a report from the mercantile association of that place showing the effect of no saloons. Mr. Trickett will go from Lincoln to Illinois, where prohibition campaigns are going on in a number of towns Two Babies Burned In Barn. Geneva, Neb., March 23. Two chil dren of John Hoff, a boy and a girl, aged four years and six years, respect ively, were burned to death In a barn. It is supposed they were playing with matches. Their mother, hearing their cries, ran out and found the barn in a blaze. She was too lato to save them. Mr. Horn Died From Natural Caus53 Lincoln, March 23. Mrs. Helen Horn, who left a large estate to Mrs. Shevaller, came to her death from natural causes. Chemists in Chicago, after an exhaustive post mortem ex amination, have found no trace of poi son. Mrs. Horn died last September. Her sisters contested the will. AID TO HOMESTEADER Congressman Klnkald Working for Amendments to Full Section Bill. Washington, March 23. Congress man Klnknld secured a favorable re port from tho committee on public lands on two sections of his bill to amend the Nebraska one-section home stead act, known as tho-'Kinkaid law.'" The effect of one section of the bill is to entitle entrymen to credit for Im provements upon the old homestead yet owned and occupied, mado subse quent to tho date of new entry, as compliance with the Improvement re quirements of tho new entry. Until a year or two ago the department had held as this amendment expressly provides, but by a later ruling credits for such improvements have been dis allowed, yet under the old ruling hun dreds of entrymen, in accordance therewith, made their improvements on their old entry, hence tho equity of tho amendment, which will afford relief to many entrymen. The other section exempts from pay ment of their appraised value lands of the old Fort Sheridan military res ervation, located In Sheridan county, and' tho old Fort McPherson reserva tion, situated In Lincoln county. Both of theso sections apply to existing un perfected a3 well as to new entries. Senator Burkett has taken up with tho war department tho proposition of establishing a United States reserva tion with a view" of permanently pre serving and commemorating old Fort Kearney, Neb. The Historical associa tion of Nebraska has become interest ed In tho matter and has corresponded with the senator in reference to it. He has taken the questions involved up personally with tho war depart ment and expects to lntrodtico a reso lution in' the senate upon the subject. EMPLOYES WANT TO PROTEST Railroad Workers Demand Hearing Before Commission on Rate Problem. Lincoln, March 24. The proposal of tho railway commission to hold a hearing today op freight rates has stirred up the employes ,of railroads in Nebraska' and .a protest was re ceived by the commission from b M. Ryan, a Burlington engineer of Lin coln, who represents a joint commit tee appointed by railroad employes. Mr. Ryan was accompanied on his mission by F. H. Cro3by, a Burlington conductor. They ask that a hearing be hold at which railway employes shall bo given an opportunity to pro test against reduction of rates. It is their intention to notify all railway employes in tho state to be present. The commission set no date, but an nounced that a hearing would be granted before final action is taken on rates. Tho state railway commission is sued' an order to railroad and ex press companies to give bills of lad" ing on demand for all shipments. HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATHS Supreme Court Hands Down Two Opinions Against Saloon Keepers. Lincoln, March 21. The supremo court handed down two opinions in which liquor dealers are held respon sible indirectly for deaths, and" de claring that damages can be collect ed. In one the widow of a man who died as tho result of a debauch at David City was empowered to collect n reasonable sum for support from the saloon keeper who sold her husband liquor. In the other, the Willow Springs Brewery company of Omaha is declared liable for the death of a boy who is alleged to have became Intoxicated at the brewery, wandered onto tho railroad' track and was run over by an engine and killed. Ryder Inspecting Public Buildings. Lincoln, March 23. Colonel John J. Ryder, deputy labor commissioner, went to Fairmont to Inspect the school building there and to consult with the members of the school board. Mr. Ryder returned from a trip to St. Paull and Aurora. At the latter place ho found an opera house with dressing rooms beneath the stage, partly filled with lumber and rubbish. Show people used lamps to light the dressing rooms. The opera house has only one exit. Ho ordered a fire escape and an opening made In the rear of tho house. At a hotel there he found' one fire escape which opened onto a wood en platform. In the rooms on the third floor, however, ho found ropes by which the guests could escape in case or fire. At St Paul he found the heating plant of the school in a very bad shape. He ordered the plant moved, or proper escapes or exits made. Fire Breaks Out in Omaha Theater. Omaha, March 23. Fire in the Jew el theater sent an audience of 200 per sons scurrying for safety. The flre broke out during a performance and scared spectators rushed for both front and rear exits. For a moment it seemed as if there would be a panic, but employes kept their heads and by thier coolness succeeded In calming the frightened people. Several thousand dollars' worth of films were buned and nearby stores damaged. McDonald Succeeds Scudder. Lincoln, March 21. Telegrams from New York city stated that J. W. McDonald of Lincoln has been elected president of tho Lincoln Traction com pany. Ho succeeds M. L. Scudder of New York. The headquarters of tho company will be moved to Lincoln. Lincoln Signs Pitcher Bonno. Lincoln, March 21. Guy W. Green, owner of the Lincoln baseball club! secures the services of Pitcher Gus Bonno. Ho was acquired by purchase from tho Washington American league team. I T