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50 People, White and Colored 50
Playing under our big waterproof tent
Two Performances Daily, Rain or Shine
M mi lyTfr . iXp mu.nui 1'fli I. L' will.
2 Bands of Music 2
25 Ponies, Dogs, and Donkeys 25
2 Private Pullman Cars 2
A large chorus of Jubilee Singers and Dancers
Don't miss seeing our Big Free Street Parade at noon
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Children under 12 years, 25 cents. Admission, Adults, 50 cents
Free Band Concert in front of tent at I and 7 p. m.
Spring Has Come
and now is the time to get busy
We iiave a large assortment of
FLOWER and GARDEN SEEDS
in packages
Onions Peas
Beans Sweet Corn
Turnips Pumpkin
also Onion Sets in large quantities
We want your trade
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Owing- to the fact that our patronage has increased
nearly one-third in the last 30 days, we would kindly
ask patrons to give us their orders as early as pos
sible. Phones 131a and 131b.
Palace Meat Market
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NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
EUGENE SMITH HANDS HIMSELF
Young Man of 8eward County Found
Dead In a Barn.
8eward, Nob., May 13. Eugono
Smith, son of Frank Smith, living near
Mllford, was found dead, hanging In
the barn on his father's place. Ho was
twenty-four yaars of ago and had ap
peared boforo tho grand Jury of Sow
ard horo, whers ho was closoly qucs
tlonod concerning tho doath of his
niothar last February. At tho tlmo of
the assault upon Mrs. Smith, tho son's
ways were the subjact of much com
ment. He loft a note, donylng ho was
responsible for his mothor's doath.
The youug man was thought to bo par
tially unbalanced montally.
"Whan Mrs. Smith was found in her
kitchen early in February, with hor
body bruised and boaten, and later
when she died', tho neighbors demand
ed a thorough investigation of tho
crime. Tho coroner's Jury made suoh
nn investigation as was possible, but
because of the hesitancy of many who
lived near in testifying little informa
tion concerning the assault oould bo
securod. Mrs. Smith refused to eay
who struck her before sho died.
Within the last few weeks tho farm
ers living near the Smiths and else
where In tho county circulated a pe
tition calling for a thorough investiga
tion of tho crime and a grand Jury was
called, which is in sosslon now. The
relatives of tho woman appearod be
fore tho Jury, among thorn tho hus
band and tho son. Tho deliberations
being secret. It is not known what tho
boy's statomont to tho jury was.
ROADS ASK TO SECURE DELAY
Say Grand Island Sugar Rate Will Be
Taken Up Soon at Chicago.
Lincoln, May 12. Genoral Manager
Munroo of tho Union Pacific railroad
has Informed tho railway commission
that tho western roads will tako up
the sugar rate question at a meeting
in Chicago May 18. Ho has askod the
commission to postpono tho complaint
from Grand Island, which Is to bo
heard May 19. Tho commission will
consent if tho complainants do so.
The Burlington road has filed Its an
swer to the complaint, alleging that
tho rate of 10 cents from Grand Island
to Omaha was established at the re
quest of tho Grand Island people for
the purposo of encouraging tho build
ing of a beet sugar factory at Grand
Island'.
Attornoy C. J. Greono askod for ten
days' tlmo in which to fllo station re
ports for oxpress companies. The
railway commission donled tho re
quest. The reports asked for by tho
commission were due yesterday.
LUMBERMEN MUST PAY COSTS
Association Not Dissolved by Recent
Order of Supreme Court.
Lincoln, May 11. When tho decree
of tho supreme court is issued' In the
suit against the Nebraska Retail Lum
ber Dealors' association it is expected
to contain an order of porpotual In
junction against tho officers of tho as
sociation, but not against tho associa
tion itself, which is made up of retail
dealers, from continuing tho unlawful
acts in restraint of trado, which the
court found Secretary Crltchfleld
guilty of and held that tho officers
were chargeable with knowledge of
his acts. In addition, costs amounting
to from $2,500 to $3,500 are to be taxed
against tho association and Its mem
bers. The association was not dis
solved by ordor of tho court and is
permitted to continue to perform law
ful acts. Under tho anti-trust law an
association cannot be dissolved until
twice adjudged guilty of violating the
law.
EMPLOYES ASK A HEARING
Railway Commission Will Give Them
Chance Before Changing Rates.
Lincoln, May 11. Railroad employes
aro pressing for a hearing before the
stato railway commission for the pur
poso of protesting against an Increase
Jn rates, and they make no secret of
their claim that they ropresent a con
siderable number of voters. F.M.Ryan,
a Burlington engineer living in Lin
coln, representing tho Nebraska Rail
way Employes' association, not only
asks for a hearing for his association,
but a hearing for tho employes of each
system of .railroad in tho state. The
commission has set no date for a hear
ing, but long ago informed the em
ployes that they would be given a
hearing before any action is taken on
rates.
Complaint from Western Nebraska.
Lincoln, May 11. Labor Commis
sioner Ryder has received a letter find
ing fault with a bulletin issued by one
of the substations of the experiment
station, which is. alleged to contain
matter belittling to western Nebraska
as a farming roglon. Tho writer says
the people of western Nebraska aro
tired of placing men In office who do
not know anything of the resources of
tho stato. Mr. Ryder has explained
that the substation is not conducted
by any clectlvo officer, but it Is true
that study of tho crop reports of west
ern Nebraska would' open tho eyes of
many people.
Lincoln Saloons Under New Schedule.
Lincoln, May 12. Lincoln saloons
opened today under the all-daylight
schedule. Tho now regulation pro
vides that drinking places must not
open before 7 a. m. and they must
close at 7 p. m. The minimum license
Is $1,500 and tho number of saloons Is
limited to twenty-five. Forty-three ap
plications have been made for license
and when eighteen applicants arc
"turned down" today, stirring times
are expected In the rooms of the ex
cise board.
CHARLES M. KROQH K1LL8 8BLF
Omaha Arohltect at Beatrice Prays,
Then Takes His Life.
Deatrlco, Nob., May 12. Charles M.
Krogh, an archltoct from Omaha, di
rectly In tho omploy of John A. Laten
ser of that city, but who cams horo
last Weduosday to work on a contract
for R. W. Grant, stabbod himself to
death at the rooming house of James
Pcthoud with a small penknife.
Mr. Krogh and his wife arose short
ly boforo G o'clock, after Krogh had
spent a restless night. Ho roquostod
his wife to kneel with him In prayor
and aflor they had done so, he graspou
tho woman and attempted to murdor
her. She struggled away from him,
receiving a wound on tho hand, and
then ran down stairs aud gavo tho
alarm Krogh followed her part way
down stair, oxalalmlng, "We nuiBt both
die togethor."
Mrs. Krogh went to the homo of
Chief of Police Mooro, and tho ofllcor
In company of Mr. Pulhoud visited
the room, whore thoy found Krogh
lyiug across a trunk with a knife
wound in his braast. It was shown
nt tho coroner's incjuoit that Krogh
hat been under tho care of u phystclnn
for tho last week because of a norv
ous breakdown.
MISS PEARL TAYLOR IS DEAD
Young Mlndcn Woman Assaulted by
Brother-ln-l.aw Passes Away.
Mlndon, Nob., May 9. Poarl Taylor
died as tho rosult of the shock of tho
assault, April 28, by hor brother-in-law,
Bort Taylor. Tho young woman
was seventeen years ago. She
had been chokod' and boaten about the
head until concussion of the brain re
sulted. Tho funoral was hold hero to
day. Miss Taylor's death makes tho third
In tho family In a year. Hor slstor,
the wlfo of her assailant, dlod alxnit
a year ago. Hor brother, James Tay
lor, died as tho result of an operation
for appendicitis.
Thoro la no trace yot of Bort Tay
lor, though the officials have not ro
laxed their offorts to copturo him. It
Is believed dotoctivea havo been for
soma time working upon the caso, but
the authorities hero will not dlscloso
the methods employed for Taylor's
capture.
TALBOT PROCLAIMS THE DAY
Asks Modern Woodmen to Wear White
Boutonnlere In Honor of Mothers.
Lincoln, May 9. A. R. Talbot, head
consul of tho Modern Woodmen of
America, Issued a proclamation desig
nating tomorrow as "Mothors' day,"
and requesting all members of tho or
der on that day to wear a whlto flower
and if tho mothor be alive to either
visit or writo to hor. Acting Governor
Saundors and W. J. Bryan Issued
statements commending tho move
ment. Mr. Bryan said, In part:
"Tho wearing of a whlto flower on
next Sunday as a tribute to the sweet
and lasting Influence of the mother
upon the life of tho child is appropri
ate indeod. I havo no doubt that tho
turning back of our thoughts to her
who, in youth, was our comforter, pro
tector and ndvlser will result in many
good resolves."
ADMIRAL ON PEACE AND WAR
Evans Tells North Platte People Bat
tleships, not Statesmen, Are Needed.
Omaha, May 13. Admiral Robley
D. Evans arrived on tho Union Pacific
last evening and left on the North
western for Chicago.
At North Platte high school cadets,
in uniform and with a band, and about
500 citizens met tho train. Admiral
Evans camo to tho rear of tho car on
crutches and made a short speech,
thanking those assembled for tho re
ception. Among other things, ho said:
"We will always have war as long as
we have anything worth whilo to fight
over," and "tho more battleships wo
have and tho fewer statesmen tho
longer wo will havo peace."
Electrical Association Elects Officers.
Omaha, May 9. The Nebraska Elec
trical association elected tho follow
ing officers: President, E. A. Bullock
of Norfolk; vice president, S. J. Dun
can of Kearney; secretcry, William
Bradford of Lincoln; treasurer, L. J.
Schwlngol of Holdrcgo; executive com
mittee, T. II. Frltts of Grand Island,
B. P. Egan of Nobraska City and J.
M. Roberts of York. The place of the
next meeting is to be decided by the
executive committee.
Convict Commits Suicide.
Lincoln, May 11. Brooding over tho
fact that as soon as bis prison term
was finished he would bo arrested
again on other chargos of law break
ing, and that he was already a dis
graced man, Charles W. Smith, whose
real name was Henry Taylor, hanged
himself In his cell at the penitentiary.
This was tho fourth attempt of the
convict to kill himself.
Confesses Mawhinney Robbery,
Lincoln, May 13. James Taylor, ar
rested as a suspect by Detective Ma
lone, confessed to being one of tlm
two bandits who looted Mawhinney &
Ryan's jewelry storo In Omaha last
week. Fifty-five watches were stolen.
Taylor Eays thirty-seven are buried
at Havelock and officers have gone to
dig them up.
C. J. Burchard Kills Himself.
Omaha, May 11. C. J. Burchard of
2915 North Twenty-sixth street, a
salesman for Byrne-Hammor. shot and
killed himself at the Drexel hotol. Mr.
Burchard's father. C. S. Burchard 0
Falls City, has been notified.
Kearney Elevator Burns.
Kearney, Neb., May 11. Fire de
stroyed tho J. P. Gibbons elevator and
15,000 thousand bushels of grain.
ADOPT MONEY PLAN
REPUBLICAN CAUCU3 APPROVES
CURRENCY MEASURE.
Provides for Issue of Emergency Cur
rency Not to Exceed $500,000,000 Ob
tainable for Circulation Through Na
tional Clearing House Associations.
Washington, May 12, By a voto of
138 to 16 the Republican members of
the house of representatives agreed
to an emergency curroncy bill, drawn
by the special committee appointed by
the same conference last week nnd
consisting of Representatives Vreoland
of New York, Burton of Ohio, Wooks
of Maceachusotts, MoKinney of Illi
nois and Knowland of California. By
an equally decisive vote the confer
ence placed In the hands of tho Re
publican invmberB of the oommlttco
on rules the determination of tho pro
cedure by which the will of tho ma
jority, thus expressed, shall be carried
Into effect in the house.
The ruleR ooinmlttoe hns a choice
of methods for putting tho conforenco
bill through the house. The commit
tee can bring in a rule discharging
the banking and currency commlttco
from further consideration of the Aid
rich or the Fowler curroncy commis
sion bill or the Williams curroncy bill.
Either ono of thoso measures will
thou bo before tho house for nctlon
and the proceduro would bo to striko
out all after tho enacting clause and,
under a one-amondmout rule only, sub
stitute for the body of the bill tho con
ference bill.
Provisions of the Bill,
The chief points of tho bill aro set
forth in the following synopsis and
statement mode by Mr. Vreeland:
"Following tho Instructions of tho
conference, tho committee usod tho
previously Introduced Vroeland bill ns
a working basis for the now act. Sec
tion 1 of that bill provides that ba'nks,
not loss than ten In number, with nn
aggregate capital and surplus of at
least $5,000,000, may form voluntary
associations, to bo known as 'cloaring
houso associations; that if the noods of
the country for currenoy are bo press
ing that, In the opinion of the secre
tary of tho treasury, an additional Is
sue of bank noto circulation is neces
sary, tho banks belonging to a clear
ing house association may deposit se
curities, including commorclal paper,
In quality and amount acceptable to
tho association. Tho association may
thereupon appoal to the secretary of
the treasury and he may issue an
amount of additional currency not to
exceed 75 por cent of the securities so
deposited. The changes made In that
section in constructing the conference
bill are that tho clearing house associ
ations must bo formed in contiguous
territory; that not moro thnn one shall
exist in any ono city; and that no
bank can belong to two associations.
Tho conference committee further
provldod that tho capital and surplus
of each bank holonglng to an associa
tion shall bo Jointly and severally lia
ble to tho government for any defici
ency In tho amount necessary to pay
the circulating notes after the sale of
securities so deposited, in case tho
notos are not redeemed. A further
change is that a national bank need
have but 4f per cent of Its capital in
bond secured circulation, instead of
55 per cent, as a condition precedent
to taking out additional circulation
through an association. An additional
provision was adopted that banks must
keep a reserve In gold or lawful
monoy against such additional circu
lating notes, as is now provided by
law against deposits. The committee
reduced from $760,000,000 to $500,000,
000 the limit of additional circulation
which may be taken out for emergency
uses."
AGRICULTURAL BILL IS PASSED
Measure Carries Appropriation of $12,-
142,146 Homestead Law Amended.
Washington, May 12. Tho senate
passed the agricultural appropriation
bill, carrying an appropriation aggre
gating $12,142,146 For building roads
and making other permanent Improve
ments In the national forests, $1,000.
000, instead of $500,000, as provided
by tho house, was appropriated, giving
one-hnlf the amount asked by the chler
forester.
Senator Raynor (Md.) Introduced a
resolution providing for-a court of in
quiry to Investigate charges against
Colonel William It. Stewart, U S. A.,
now stationed by order of the presi
dent at Fort Grant, Arizona.
The conference report on the naval
appropriation bill was agreed to.
The house devoted its time to tho
consideration of miscellaneous busi
ness. By agreeing to some senato
amendments to an unimportant local
bill, upon an anti-gambling provision
placod as a rider, tho house took the
final congressional stop by which bet
ting on horse races at Bennlngs will
hereafter be prohibited.
'A bill authorizing the appointment,
as an addition to the regular military
establishment, of fifty captains to com
mand the Philippine scouts was also
passed. Other bills which got through
wero as follows; Amending tho home
stead laws so as to permit the entry
of 320 ncres, Instead of 160 acres, or
non-irrigable public lands in western
states, and authorizing the drainage of
certain swamp lands in the Red Lako
Indian reservation, Minnesota. A bill
allowing the states of Idaho and Wy
oming 2,000,000 additional acres of
land for reclamation was defeated.
Drainage Congress Opens.
Washington, May 13. In an address
before the national drainage congress,
W. J. Bryan said he was heartily in
sympathy with the movement for tho
reclamation of the swamp lands of
this country through drainage.
TOOTH NOT FOUND IN A6HE8
Day of Contradictory Evidence In
Gunness Murders.
Laporte, Ind., May 13. Iflrldtonoo to
establish tho identity of throo addi
tional victims of Mrs, Ounneea waa
tho most poslttvo developments of &
day filled with contradictory happen
ings here.
Both prosecution nnd dofonso re
ceived setbacks from tho discoveries
and rovelattons, but on the whold sub
stantial progress was mado townrd
bringing the caso toward tho point
whoro It will be transferred to tho
courts.
Tho reports of the four physicians
who conducted tho post mortom exam
inations on tho bodies found In tho
ruins of tho Gunness homo, April 28,
wore given to the coroner's Jury. Thojr
fall to establish tho manner In which
tho woman and three chlldron mot
denth, and' It Is probnblo that tho coro
ner's jury will return an opon verdict
regarding them.
Dr. I. P. Norton, n dentist to whom
tho supposed tooth found on tho Gun
ness farm was turned over for oxamlna,
tlon, declnros Hint tho article is mere
ly a piece of gilded wood, probably
from a picture frnmo.
PRESIDENT LAYS CORNERSTONE
Building Will Be Home of Buroau of
American Republics.
Washington, May 11. Twonty-ono
American republics united today In
laying the cornerstone of tho building
which is to constitute the monument
typifying the predominant doslro of
tho western world for peaco and com
morclal prosperity. Prcsidont Rooso
volt officiated. Besides his address,
thoro were speeches by Soorotary
Root, Andrew Carnegie, who baa con
tributed $760,000 towards tho building
fund, and Ambassador Nabuco of Bra
zil. O&bled wordB of sontlmont and
choor wero read from tho prosldenta
of tho Latin-American republics. Tho
exercises were witnessed by tho diplo
matic representatives of tho world, bo
eldos the high officials and logialatlvw
representatives of this country.
Tho building for which tho founda
tion Is to bo laid will bo tho home of
tho International bureau of American
ropubllos, presided ovor by John Bar
rctt.
HARTZELL 8CORE8 CATHOLICS
Reads Report on Missionary Work In
Africa.
BaUlmoro, May 13. Interest In tho
forthcoming election of blahops la
coming to tho front in tho quadrennial
genoral conference of tho Mothodlet
Episcopal church, now In session hero,
and perhaps ono of the most notable
developments Is tho declaration that
Rov, John F. Gouchor, long identified
with the womon'8 college, will not ac
cept a bishopric. Largo numbers ot
memorials and resolutions aro being;
hnndod In nnd as they como, aro re
ferred to committees, tho work of
which Is rapidly accumulating.
Bishop Joseph C. Harztell, in char go
of missionary work in Africa, read a
report on tho work in that Hold, and
In tho course of It took occasion to
Bcoro the Roman Catholic church and
Its Influence.
Alienist Visits Thaw. ,
Poughkeopelo, N. Y., May 18. Har
ry Thaw was visited In tho Dutchess
county Jail by Dr. John P. Wilson, a
medical examiner of this city. Dr.
Wilson was called In by Thaw's couu
scl, and 'if his oxamlnatlon satisfies
him that the prisoner is sano, ho will
be one of tho five oxperts that tho re
lator will put on the stand when the
habeas corpus proceedings aro begun
before Justice Morschauser in this
city tomorrow.
Rebate Case Put on Trial.
Rochester, N. Y., May 13. Tho caao
of the government against tho Stand
ard' Oil company, in which tho com
pany is charged with receiving rebates
from railroads, was put on trial In tbo
federal court. Tho Indictments aroso
over shipments of oil from Olcan to
Rutland and Bellows Falls, VL Tho
company is indicted on fifty-three
counts.
One of Last Gunness Letters.
Kansas City, May 13. Christian
Hanson, a Norwegian laborer of Ar
mounialo, Kan,, a suburb, lust Satur
day received a letter from Mrs. Eolla
Gunness, tho Laporte, Ind., murderess,
stating that If ho could produce $1,000
cash sho would .marry him. Tho let
ter had remained In tho local postof
flee several days before Its delivery to
Hansen.
Tonopah's Palace Hotel Burns.
Tonopah, Nov., May 13. Fire com
pletely laid In ruins the Palace hotel
block, causing a loss estimated at
$150,000. There was no Insurance, as
tho burned block was of such inflam
mable nature that tho insurance com
panies would not tako the risk. Tho
origin of the fire Is unknown and in
dividual losses cannot be estimated.
Senate in Favor of Motto.
Washington, May 13. Tho senate
committee on finance voted unani
mously to report tho bill already
passed by the house providing for the
permanent restoration of the words,
"In God Wo Trust," to gold and silver
coins of the United States. Tho motto
was directed to be omitted from tho
coins by order of tho president.
Fatal Storm in Texas.
Dallas, Tex., May 13. Ono person Is
known to have been killed, several
others sustained serious injuries and
considerable property damage result
ed from a ' tornado which swept
through the northern section of this
state. At Leonard, Mrs. A. T, Bowd.ry
lost her life and her husband was In
jured when their homo waB wrecked.