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50 People, White and Colored 50
Playing under our big" waterproof tent
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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
Will exhibit, afternoon and evening, in
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Children under 12 years, 25 cents.
Free Band Concert in front
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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
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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 13 la and 131b.
Palace Meat Market
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L.FIRE INSURANCE AGENT
REPRESENTS THE FOLLOWING INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Hartford Klre Insurance Coin puny.
North American of Philadelphia.
Phoenix of lllooklyn. Now York.
Continental of New York Olty.
Niagara Fire Insurance Company.
Counuctlcutt Fire
rninuierclal Union Assurance Co., London
Germunla Fire Ins. Co.
Statu of Omaha
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German American Ins. Co., New York.
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Columbia Klro Insurance Company.
Philadelphia Underwrlusrs.
Phoenix Ins. Co.. Hartford, Conn
1 Iretnans Fund Insurance Co.
Kcx'lii'stor German Ins. Co.
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Good turnouts, strict attention to our business,
and courteous treatment to all has won for us the
excellent patronage we enjoy. Try us.
NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
EUGENE SMITH HANQ8 HIMSELF
Young Man of Seward County Found
Dead In a Darn.
Beward, Nob., May 13. Eugono
Smith, son of Frank Smith, living near
Mllford, was found dead, hanglug In
tha barn on his father's place. Ho was
twenty-four years of ago and had ap
peared boforo tha grand Jury of Sow
ard horo, whore ho was closoly qucs
tlonod concorntng tho doath of his
mother last Fobruary. At tbo tlmo of
the assault upon Mrs. Smith, tho son's
ways wore tho subjoct of much com
ment. He loft a noto, donylng ho was
responsible for his mother's doath.
The youug man was thought to bo par
tially unbalanced mentally.
Whon Mrs. Smith was found In her
kitchen early In Fobruary, with hor
body bruised and boaton, and later
when she dtod', tbo neighbors demand
ed a thorough Investigation of the
crime. The coroner's Jury made suoh
nn investigation as was possible, but
because of the hesitancy of many who
lived near In testifying Uttlo informa
tion concerning tho assault oould bo
secured. Mrs. Smith refused to say
who struck her beforo sho diod.
Within the last few weeks the farm
ers living near tho Smiths and else
where In the county circulated a pe
tition calling for a thorough investiga
tion of tho crime and a grand Jury -.yas
called, which is in session now. The
relatives of tho woman appeared be
fore tho Jury, among them tho hus
band and tho son. Tho deliberations
being secret, it is not known what tho
boy's statomont to the jury was.
ROAD8 ASK TO SECURE DELAY
Say Grand Island Sugar Rate Will Be
Taken Up Soon at Chicago.
Lincoln, May 12. General Manager
Muwoo of tho Union Pacific railroad
has Informed tho railway commission
that the western roads will take up
the sugar rate question at a meeting
in Chicago May 18. Ho has asked the
commission to postpono the complaint
from Grand Island, which is to bo
beard May 19. Tho commission will
consent if the complainants do so.
Tho Burlington road has filed its an
swer to tho complaint, alleging that
tho rato 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'.
Attorney C. J. Greeno asked for ten
days' tlmo In which to fllo station re
ports for oxpress companies. The
railway commission donlcd tho re
quest. The reports asked for by tho
commission were duo yesterday.
LUMBERMEN MUST PAY COSTS
Association Not Dissolved by Recent
Order of Supreme Court.
Lincoln, May 11. When tho docree
of tho supreme court is Issued' In the
suit against tho Nebraska Retail Lum
ber Dealers' association it is expected
to contain an order of perpetual In
junction against tho officers of the as
sociation, but not against the 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 churgeablo with knowledgo 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 order of tho court and is
permitted to contlnuo to perform law
ful acts. Under the anti-trust law an
association cannot be dissolved until
twice adjudged guilty of violating the
law.
EMPLOYES A8K 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
in rates, and they make no secret of
their claim that they represent a con
siderable number of voters. F. M. Ryan,
a Burlington engineer living in Lin
coln, representing tho Nebraska Rail
wny Employes' association, not only
asks for a hearing for his association,
but a hearing for tho employes of each
system of, railroad In the state. Tho
commission has set no date for a hear
ing, but long ago Informed tho 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 bullotln Issued by one
of the substations of the experiment
station, which Is. alleged to contain
matter belittling to western Nebraska
as a farming rogion. The 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 the eyes of
many people.
Lincoln Saloons Under New Schedule.
Lincoln, May 12. Lincoln saloons
opened today under the all-daylight
schodulo. Tho now regulation pro
vides that drinking places must not
open beforo 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 are
"turned down" today, stirring times
are expected in the rooms of the ex
cise board.
CHARLES M. KROQH KILL8 8HLF
Omaha Architect at Beatrice Prays,
Then Takes His Life.
Beatrice, Nob., May 12. Charles M.
Krogh, an archltoct from Omaha, di
rectly In tho omploy of John A. Lateu
scr of that city, but who came horo
last Wednosday to work on a contract
for R. W. Grant, stabbod himself to
death at tho rooming house of James
Pethoud with a small penknife.
Mr. Krogh and his wife arose short
ly beforo 6 o'clock, after Krogh had
spent a restless night. He requostod
his wife to kneel with him In prayer
and after they had doue so, he grasped
tho woman and attempted to mu r dor
her. She struggled away from him,
receiving a wound on tho hand, nud
then ran down stairs nud gave tha
alarm. Krogh followed her part way
down stair, oxclalinlug, "We must both
die togothor."
Mrs. Krogh went to the homo of
Chief of Police Moore, and the officer
in company of Mr. Pethoud visited
tho room, whore thoy found Krogh
lying across a trunk with a kulfe
wound In his broast. it was shown
nt tho coroner's luquott that Krogh
had, been under tho care of a physician
for the last woek becauso of a norv
ous breakdown.
MISS PEARL TAYLOR IS DEAD
Young Mlndcn Woman Assaulted by
Brother-ln-Law Passes Away.
Mludon, Nob., May 9. Poarl Taylor
died as tho rosult of the Bhock of tho
assault, April 28, by hor brother-in-law,
Bort Taylor. Tho young woman
was seventeen years age. She
had been choked' and boatcn about the
head until concussion of the brain re
sulted. Tho funeral was hold hero to
day. Miss Taylor's death makes tho third
In tho family in a year. Hor sister,
tho wifo of hor assailant, diod about
a year ago. Hor brother, James Tay
lor, died as tho rosult of an operation
for appendicitis.
Thoro Is no trace yot of Bort Tay
lor, though the officials have not ro
laxed their offorts to capture him. It
Is bellovod dotoctlves have been for
somo time working upon tho caso, but
the authorities hero will not dlscloso
tho methods omployed 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 "Mothers' day,"
and roquestlng all membors of tho or
der on that day to wear a white flowor
and If tho mother be alive to either
visit or wrlto to hor. Acting Governor
Saundors and W. J. Bryan Issued
statements commending tho move
ment. Mr. Bryan said, In part:
"The 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 Indeed. I have no doubt that tho
turning back of our thoughts to her
who, in youth, was our comforter, pro
tector and adviser will result in many
good rosolves."
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 the Union Pacific
last evening and left on tho North
western for Chicago.
At North Platte high school cadets,
in uniform nnd with a band, and about
500 citizens met the train. Admiral
Evans camo to tho rear of tho car on
crutches and made a short Bpeech,
thanking thoso assomblod for tho re
ception. Among other things, he said:
"Wo will always have war as loug as
we have anything worth while to fight
over," and "tho more battleships wo
have and tho fower statesmen the
longer wo will have peaco."
Electrical Association Elects Officers.
Omaha, May 9. The Nebraska Elec
trical association elected the follow
ing officers: President, E. A. Bullock
of Norfolk; vlco president, S. J. Dun
can of Kearney; secretary, William
Bradford of Lincoln; treasurer, L. J.
Schwlngel of Holdrogo; executive com
mittee, T. H. Frltts of Grand Island,
B. P. Egan. of Nebraska City and J.
M. Roberts of York. Tho place of the
next meeting Is to bo decided by tho
executive committee.
Convict Commits Suicide.
Lincoln, May 11. Brooding over thq
fact that as soon as his prison term
was finished he would bo arrested
again on other charges of law break
ing, nnd that ho 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 Mawhlnney Robbery.
Lincoln, May 13. James Taylor, ar
rested as a suspect by Detective Ma
lono, confessed to being ono of the
two bandits who looted Mawhlnney &
Ryan's jewelry storo in Omaha last
week. Fifty-five watches were stolen.
Taylor says 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-Hammer, shot and
killed himself at the Drexel hotel. Mr.
Burchard's father, C. S. Burchard of
Falls City, has been notified.
Kearney Elevator Burns.
Kearney, Nob., May 11. Fire de
stroyed tho J. P. Gibbons elevator and
15,000 thousand bushels of grain.
ADOPT MONEY PLAN
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS 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
136 to 16 the Republican members of
the house of representatives agreed
to an emergency currency bill, drawn
by the special committee appointed by
the same conference lant week and'
consisting of Representatives Vreolatul
of New York, Burton of Ohio, Wooks
of MaeeachusottB, MeKlnney of Illi
nois and Knowland of California. By
an equally decisive votv the confer
once placed in the hands of tho Re
publican members of the oommttteo
on rules the determination of the pro
cedure by which tho will of tho ma
jority, thus oxprosaod, shall be carried
Into effect In the house.
The rules committee hns a cholco
of methods for putting tho conforenco
bill through the house. The commit
tee can bring In n rule discharging
tho banking and currency committee
from further consideration of the Aid
rich or tho Fowler curroncy commis
sion bill or the Williams currency bill.
Either ono of thoso measures will
then bo beforo tho house for action
nnd the proceduro would be to strike
out all after the enacting clause and,
under a onc-amondmout rule only, sub
stitute for tho body of tho bill tho con
ference bill.
Provisions of the Bill.
The chief points of tho bill aro set
forth In the following synopsis and
statement modo by Mr, Vreeland:
"Following tho Instructions of tho
conference, the committee usod tho
previously introduced Vreeland bill as
a working basis for the now act. Sec
tion 1 of that bill provides that ba'nks,
not loss than ton in number, with an
aggregate capital and surplus of at
least $6,000,000, may form voluntary
associations, to bo known as 'cloarlng
house associations; that if the needs of
the country for currenoy aro so press
ing that, In tho 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 commercial paper,
in quality and amount acceptable to
the association. Tho association may
thereupon appeal to the secretary of
tbo treasury and he may Issue an
amount of additional currency not to
exceed 75 por cent of tho socurltles bo
deposited. Tho changes made In that
section in constructing tho conference
bill are that the clearing house associ
ations must bo formod in contiguous
territory; that not moro than 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 belonging to an associa
tion shall be jointly and severally lia
ble to tho government for any defici
ency In the amount necessary to pay
the rlrcu'atlng notes after the sale of
securities so deposited, In case the
notes aro not redeemed. A further
change Is that a national bank need
have but 4" per cent of Its capital in
bond securod 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
money against such additional circu
lating notes, as is now provided by
law against deposits. Tho committee
reduced from $750,000,000 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.
Wnshlngton, 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-halt the amount asked by tho chief
forester.
Senator Rayner (Md.) Introduced a
resolution providing for a court of In
quiry to investigate charges against
Colonel William R. Stewart, U S. A.,
now stationed by order of the presi
dent at Fort Grant, Arizona.
The conferenco report on tho naval
appropriation bill wag agreed to.
Tho house devoted Us time to the
consideration of miscellaneous busi
ness. By agreeing to somo scnato
amendments to an unimportant local
bill, upon an anti-gambling provision
placed as a rider, tho house took tho
final congressional step 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
were as follows: Amending tho home
Etead laws so as to permit tho entry
of 320 acres. Instead of 160 acres, of
non-irrlgable public lands In western
states, and authorizing the drainage of
certain swamp lands in the Red Lake
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 the
reclamation of the swamp lands of
this country through drainage.
TOOTH NOT FOUND IN A&HE8
Day' of Contradictory Evidence In
Gunness Murdere.
Laporte, Ind., May 13. Iffrhftmoo tt
establish tho Identity of threo addi
tional victims of Mrs, Gunneea was
tho most posltlvo dovolopmonta of a
day filled with contradictory happen
lngtt here.
Both prosecution and dofonse re
ceived sotbacks from tho dUcovcrlcti
and revelations, but on tho whold sub
stantial progress was mado toward
bringing the case toward tho pofnt
where It will bo transferred to tho
courts.
The reports of the four phystciana
who conducted tho post mortom exam
inations on tho bodies found' in tha
ruins of the Giinness homo, April 28,
were given to tho coroner's Jury. They
fall to establish tho manner in which
tho woman and three chlldron mot
death, and' It Is probable that tho coro
ner's Jury will return an opon verdict
regarding them.
Dr. I. P. Norton, a dentist to whom
tho supposed tooth found on tho Gun
noss farm was turned over for oxamlno.
tlon, declares that tho articles is mere
ly a piece of gilded wood, probably
from n picture framo.
PRESIDENT LAYS CORNERSTONE
Building Will Be Home of Bureau of
American Republics.
Washington, May 11. Twonty-ono
American republics united today In
laying the cornerstono of tho building
which Is to constitute the monument
typifying tho predominant doalro of
tho western world for peaco and com
mercial prosperity. Presldont Roose
volt officiated. BosldCs his address,
there were speeches by Soorotary
Root, Andrew Carnegie, who has con
tributed $750,000 towards tho building
fund, and Ambassador Nabuco of Bra
ail. Gabled words of sontlmont and
choor were read from tho presidents
of tho Latin-Amerlcnn ropubllos. Tho
exercises wore witnessed by tho diplo
matic representatives of tho world, bo
eldos the high officials and logtslatlTO
representatives of this country.
Tho building for which tho founda
tion is to bo laid will bo tho home of
tho International bureau of Amorlcan
ropubllos, presided ovor by John Bar
rett. HARTZELL 8CORE8 CATHOLICS
Reads Report on Missionary Work In
Africa.
Baltlmoro, May 13. Interest In the
forthcoming election of bishops la
coming to tho front In tho quadrennial
general conferenco of tho Mothodlat
Episcopal church, now in sosslon horo,
and perhaps one of the most notable
developments is the declaration that
Rov. John F. Gouchor, loug Identified
with tho women's college, will not ac
cept n bishopric. Largo numbers of
m6morials and resolutions aro being
handod In und as they como, aro re
ferred to committees, tho work of
which Is rapidly accumulating.
Bishop Joseph C Harztcll, In charoe
of missionary work in Airlco, read a
report on tho work In that Hold, and
In tho course of It took occasion to
score the Roman Catholic church and
ItB Influence.
Alienist Visits Thaw. ,
Poughkeopelo, N. Y., May 18. Har
ry Thaw was vlsltod In tho Dutchess
county jail by Dr. John P. Wilson, a
medical examiner of this city. Dr.
Wilson was called In by Thaw'H coun
sel, and lf his examination satlsfios
him that the prisoner is sano, ho will
be ono of tho flvo experts that tho re
lator will put on the stand when tho
habeas corpuB proceedings ore begun
before Justice Morscbauser in this
city tomorrow.
Rebate Case Put on Trial.
Rochester, N. Y., May 13. Tho caso
of the government against tho Stand
ard' Oil company, In which tho com
pany is charged with receiving robates
from railroads, was put on trial in the
federal court. The indictments aroso
over shipments of oil from Olcan to
Rutland and Bellows Falls, VL Tho
company Is indicted on fifty-throo
counts.
One of Last Gunness Letters.
Kansas City, May 13. Christian
Hansen, a Norwegian laborer of Ar
mourdalo, Kan., a suburb, lust Satur
day received a letter from Mrs. Bella
Gunness, tho Laporte, Ind., murderess,
stating that If ho could produce $1,000
cash sho would .marry him. Tho let
ter had remained in the local postof
flco 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 take the risk. Tho
origin of the flro is unknown and In
dividual losses cannot bo estimated.
Senate in Favor of Motto.
Washington, May 13. Tho senate
committee on finance voted unani
mously to report the bill already
passed by the house providing for the
permanent restoration of the words,
"In God We Trust," to gold and silver
coins'of the United States, The motto
was directed to be omitted from the
coins by order of the presldont.
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. Bowdry
lost her life and her husband was in
jured when their home was wrecked.
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