THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRfBUflE
nA L. BARE. Publisher
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NORTH PLATTJfi,
NBBRA81CA.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CONDENSATION OF THE M08T
IMPORTANT HAPPENINQ8.
BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD
General Political, Religious, Sporting,
Foreign and Other Events Re
corded Here and There.
Political.
Tho Kings county (N. Y.) repub
lican commltcemcn have endorsed
Chairman Timothy Woodruff, to suc
ceed Senator Piatt.
Secretary Motcnlf of tho navy has
resigned and has been succcodod by
his assistant, Truman Newberry.
Senator Durkett of Nebraska, who
arrived at Washington after a visit
with Presidentelect Taft, says tariff
Is certain to bo revised nnd rales
Jowerod.
The appointment of Colonel Goorgo
II. Tornoy as surgeon general of tho
army to nuccoed Surgeon Gcnoral It.
M. O'Aollloy, was announced by tho
secretary of war. Colonol Tornoy Is
how in chargo of tho genoral hospital
at San Francisco.
John Motloy Morehend, a republican,
who was olocted to congress in a
North Carolina dlctrlct, regrets his
success.
Flvo hundrod farmors, mombors of
tho grange, visited tho presldont,
Tho tariff rovlsers discussed duties
on Imported wines and liquors.
Three Kansaus wore olected gover
nors of an many states in tho election
Herbert S. Hadloy in Missouri; V.
F. Stubbs in Kansas, and James H.
Brady in Idaho.
Seventy days wore required to got a
second Ituof Jury. Thoro aro sixty
more indictments upon which to try
tho man, Tlmo is monoy, and Sun
Francisco Is spending a good deal on
Rucf.
Democratic mombors of tho houso
ways and means commilteo sook to
havo tho tariff on barytcs raised..
Allegations , are mado that tho doath
of former Sonator Cnrmnck was tho
result of a dellborato plot to nssas
slnato him.
General.
Franols J. Honey, prosecutor In tho
San Francisco graft trials, was shot in
tho court room by Morris HnaB, a
venireman who had boon rojectoa
from former Ituof jury bocaUBo ho was
an ox-convlct. Honoy will probably
recover.
- Colonol Duncan B. Cooper and lits
son, Robin Coopor, woro indicted Joint
ly on tho chargo of murdering ox
Senator Carmaclc of Tonnossoo. Tho
formor shorift is charged with bolng
accessory boforo tho fact.
Tho presidential commission Inquir
ing Into agricultural conditions is in
vestigating farm llfo in Tonnosseo.
Emporor of China Is roportod dead,
and tho Dowager ompress, Tsl Ann, Is
said to bo dying In Poking. Croat
socrocy is maintained ns to actual con
dltlons bocnuBo of tho hostility to tho
Manchu dynasty.
Throo hundrod and nlxty minors aro
bcllovod to have lost their Hvob in tho
wrecking of tho workings at Hamm,
Westphalia, Germany.
A Chicago physician who examined
Miss Mao Otis, who Is charged with
plotting to kill her mother, says sho
In sane.
A Taxicttb in Now York was de
stroyed by oxploBlou of n infernal
machine loft In it by a woman.
Park thoator In Brooklyn vraa totally
destroyed by flro within an hour after
tho audience had loft tho house,
VIco President-elect Sherman nnd
other loadlnR political mon of tho nn.
tlon were at Hot Springs for a con
ference with President-elect Toft.
' Doth liberals and conservatives aro
confident of buccosb In tho Cuban elec
tion.
Venezuela has coinplotod proparn
tlons for tho throatonod blookndo of
her seaports by Holland,
Tho governmont will carry tho
Standard oil caso to tho supremo court,
Assistant Forester W. h, Hall snyB
a lumber lamina. Is coming in tho near
future.
Over threo hundred porlshod In a
mlnb oxploslou in Gormany.
' Charles Pool of Johnson county is
Bald to be slatoil for Bpcakor of tho
lower houso of tho Nebraska assembly.
Ex-Shoriff John D. 8harpo has boon
arrested In Nashvlllo charged with bo
Ing accessory, to tho murder of formor
Senator Carmack,
Postmaster General Meyer In his
report on the postal finances ndvocatos
rural parcels post to help pay for this
service
An explosion of a glazing mill noar
Kansas City caused the Injury of n
number of passongers in a Kansas
City Southern train standing near.
The question of war or peaco in tho
Balkans is said to- depond upon tho
tenor of tho noto to bo issued by
Austria.
The delegates from tho Flint Glass
"Workers' association woro excluded
by the American Federation of Labor
at 'Denyer after a lively dobato.
Presldont Gbmpers 6f the Amorlcan
Federation of Labor dollvorod his an
nual report to the convention at Denver,
Judgo Taft and wlfo left for Hot
Springs, Va., whoro they will romaln
until after Thanksgiving.
Ghancollor Androws tondorod his
resignation to tho regents of tho Unl
vorslty of Nebraska on account of ill
health and tho rcslcnatlon was nc
coptod,
Tho federal court of appeals has do
elded that tho Amorlcan Tobacco com
pnny Is a combination In restraint of
trade.
Returns from the Nobraska election
Indicate tho republicans hnvo certain
ly elected Klnkald to congress In tho
Sixth dlRtrlct.
Tho United States court of appeals
at New York refused to admit CliarlcB
W. Morse to ball pending application
for a now trial.
Thoro Is a possibility that Hop
burne has, after all, been elected to
congress from Iowa. Tho volo Is very
cIoro and thoro will bo a recount.
By running away of a freight train
on tho Union Pacific west of Choyonno
thoro was a collision, In which nlno
mon woro killed nnd threo seriously
Injured. Threo of tho victims woro
Chinese.
Tho United States' circuit court of
appealn overruled tho poll tlon for a
rehcnrlng in tho caso of tho govern
ment against tho Stnndnrd Oil com
pany. Tho caso will bo taken to tho
United States supreme court.
Secrotary Root will probably bo
olocted United States senator to suc
ceed Thomas C. Piatt.
Victorlon Sardou dean of French
drnmatlBts, died In Paris Sunday. Ho
was 77 years old.
Unofficial returns Indicato that Mr.
Bryan's majority in Nobraska will bo
4,500.
Railroads of tho west which wcro
forced by tho legislature of tho west
orn states to accept a reduction of 2
conts per mllo for passenger fares aro
again uniting to mnko 2 conts tho
minimum as well ns tho maximum af
ter January 1.
Governor Lhcldon of Nebraska Is
BorlouBly considering caning nn extra
session of tho legislature to pass a
county option bill nftor having sent
messages to membors of tho present
legislature asking their position on
tho subject.
Washington.
Tho formal oponlng of tho army war
college was signalized by an import
ant nddross by Secretary Root, popul
arly known ns "tho father" of tho In
stitution. On account of tho limited
capacity of tho lecturo hall In which
tho oxerclscs wero hold, tho attend
ance was llpiltod,
"Secrotary Taft's religious faith is
puroly his own private concern, and
not a matter for genoral discussion
and political discrimination," says
President Roosevelt In n letter to J.
C Martin of Daytori, 0 In which ho
answors numerous correspondents.
Tho president snyB ho deferred tho
publication of tho lottor until now to
avoid any agitation likely to lnfluonco
tho election.
Important recommendations for im
proving Mnro' Island strait and for the
approaches thoreto aro contained In
tho report of tho board of ongtneor
olflcora of. tho army nnd navy and an
ostlmnto Is made of 51,707,000 for tho
work, this amount to Include n self-
containing nnd tolf-propolllng dredgo
which will require nbout $15,000 per
year to maintain.
Whnt may bo tho final chnptor In
tho story of tho fight against racing
In tho District of Columbia Is record
ed In tho dismissal by tho district
court of appeals of tho appoal of Wil
liam Davis, tho Now York bookmaker,
convicted In tho spring of 1000 of sot
ting up a gaming tablo by making
books at tho Donning raco course Al
though sentenced to servo two hours
In tho district Jail it Is unlikely that
Dnvls will bo brought hero to carry
out tho sentence, as bookmnning ap
parently Is a sport of tho past In tho
district.
Tho tariff cnrnmlsHlnn hnvn mm.
mSncod on their work of revision.
Foreign.
Tho Gorman Reichstag, aftor
further oxcltlng dobato concerning tho
Intorvlew with Kaiser Wllholm In n
London papor, rofuscd Ho adopt a
formal address to tho emporor calling
his attention to tho posslblo offect of
his utterances on foreign relations of
tho omplru,
"Tho burial of Victorlon Bardou was
accomplished at Purls with general
public mourning.
A man solccted by lot to kill King
Manuel of Portugal conunlttod suicide
Instead.
Calcutta, India, Is terrorized by an
outbreak of political crimes,
Personal.
William D, CornlBh, .second vice
presldont of tho Union Pacific railroad,
died suddenly In Chicago.
William Hnywnrd, secrotary of tho
national republican commlttoo, was
given u rousing welcome homo at
Nebraska City, Nub., on his return
from Chicago.
Indications from Wnslijngton nro
that Mr. Cannon will bo re-olcctod
speaker without much opposition.
Crawford Kennedy of Albion, Neb.,
who travoled 18,000 miles with Tuft
special train distributing buttons nnd
tracts, has returned homo.
Judgo Taft and Chairman Hitch
cock wont ovor tho work of tho cam
paign. Mr, Hitchcock stated that no
promises or pledges hod been mado In
oxchaugo for porsonal services or
contributions,
Tho postmastor genoral announcod
that tho prosldont line decided to ro
movo aeorgo M, Stownrt, postmaster
of Scattlo, Wash., ob tho result of an
Investigation of charges that ho so
licited campaign contributions.
IS
TQ2E HSI AN, DOWAGER EMPRESS
OF JAPAN, PASSES AWAY.
OFFICIAL A10UUEN1 MADE
Date of Death Given Out as Two
O'clock Sunday, but Is Delleved
to Have Occurred Earlier.
I'eklnc Tirzn Hal An tlio ilnwnci'r
ompress of China, tho autocratic head
of the govornmont which wo directed
without successful Intorforonce since
lSGl. nnd without nrotost slncn 1KS1.
died at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
The announcement of th-j dowager
ompress' death was official nnd fol
lowed closely upon tho announcement
that Kuang Hsu, tho emporor, had
died Saturday nt 5 oclock In tho after
noon, but It Is believed tho deaths oc-,
currcd n considerable tlmo boforo that
set down In tho official statements.
An official edict Issued at 7 o'clock
placed on tho throno Prlnco Pu Yl.
tho 3-year-old son of Prlnco Chun, tho
rogent of tho cmplro, In accordance
wiin a promlso given by tho downgor
empross soon niter tho m.arrlngo of
Prlnco Chun In 1003. An edict 1b
suod on Friday mado Pu Yl hnlr nrn.
Sumptlve.
Tho foreign locntlons woro nntlflnd
by tho foreign board of tho death of
tho emperor and tho succession of
Prlnco Pu Yl. Troops hnvo been In
readiness for sovornl dnvH to mini I
any disorders that mlnht arise on tho
death of Kuang Hsu, nnd tho possl-
unity or uprisings was mndo greater
becauso of tho fact that thn dn.ith nf
tho dowager omp'css was known to
uo cioBo nt hand. Two divisions of
troops havo been hold In rosorvn nnd
thoso nro now stntlonod In various
quarters of tho city. Twenty con.
darmcs woro dlsnatchod tn minni thn
approaches to tho legations, but up to
mo present tlio duties of tho forces
hnvo boon slight. It was nnnoimnnil
that tho legation guard was ordered
out nt "tho special call of tho lega
tions on account of tho cmnornr'a
death."
Prlnco Chun, tho recent, hna
tho vlcoroys and novernors to tnlrn nrn.
cnutlons for tho continuation of tho
auministrntlon of tho provinces ns
heretofore and ho has ordered n him.
dred dnyH of mourning. Tho court will
go into mourning for three years.
OUTCOME IN NEBRASKA,
Democrats Get Two State Officers
Governor and Railway Commissioner.
Tho democrats will havo tho two
prlnclpnl offices of tho now ntutn nd.
ministration, while tho republicans' gat
tho six other offices of tho now re
gime. Contploto election returns from all
but Rlchnrdson county show thnt tho
domocrats havo olocted Shallcnborger
for governor by n plurality of C,CC2
and Cowglll for railway commissioner
by a plurnllty of 477. Tho republican
pluralities nro as follows:
IIopowoll, for lieutenant covornor.
432; Junkln, for secretary of stato,
1,874 j Barton for auditor, C.342;
Brian, for troasuror. 3.425: Blshon.
for superintendent, 3,927; Thompson,1
ror nttornoy gerornl, 4,800; Cowlos,
for land commissioner, 2,002.
Tho stnto congressional delegation
will bo ovonly divided uotwoen tho re.
publicans nnd democrats. Tho demo
cratic congressmen elect nro Magulro,'
In tho First; Hlthcock, In tno Second,
and I.attn In tho Third. Tho republic
ans havo olocted Hlnshnw lu tho
Fourth, Norrls, in tho Fifth and' Kin
knld In tho Sixth. '
WATTERSON 18 LAID TO REST.
3
Body of Man Who Met Tragic Death
Is Burled at Louisville.
Loulsvlllo, Ky, Tho body of Har
voy Wnttorson was laid to rest Sundny
afternoon In Cavo Hill cemetery.
"Ho wns from his babyhood," said
his fathor, speaking of his dead son,
"u llttlo gontlomnn. Ho was tho only
ono of our children 1 had never to pun
ish. Ho wub born with a strong will
and a llorco temper, but lto complotoly
mustered them. IIo had wrltton his
mother Just boforo tho awful mishap,
a tender and breezy letter In which
ho says:
"'I om protty hard worked, but wo
nro us hnppy hb two bugs In n rug.'
"Our hoarta nro broken now."
EXTRA 8ES8ION OF CONGRESS
President-elect Taft Announces He
Will Call One.
Washington. That a special ses
sion of tho Sixty-first congress will bo
cnlled soon nftor March 4, to tako up
tho matter of tariff rovUlon, becamo
known positively Sunday, when Will
iam H. Taft, presidentelect, after
spending tho day nt tho White Houso
as tho guest of Presldont Roosovolt,
Btated that ho Intonded to call tho
Bpeclnl Besslon to moot as soon after
UI Innugratlon us would bo reason
able, Standing of Next House.
Washington Tho temporary roll
call of tho houso of roprecontatlvos
for tho Blxty-first congress hns boon
complotod and published. It presonts
a completo list of mombors of tho now
houso as shown by unolllcial returns
nnd gives tho politics of all of them.
According to this publication tho noxt
houso will consist of 210 republicans
and 172 domocrats, a total of 301, as
ngulnst a total of 389 In tho houso
during tho Inst sosslon, of whom 223
woro republicans nnd 100 democrats.
Tho republican loss is four.
Ml RULER
DEAD
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Greater or Lesser Impor
tance Over the State,
Chicken thlovcs havo of la to been
numerous In Otoe county.
Tho big flouring mill nt Pierce
burned last week. The loss 1b $75,000.
A. W. Taylor, an Omaha carpenter,
fell from nn eight-story building and
died from his injuries.
Omaha is making big preparations
for tho corn show in December. Rail
roads ,wlll glvo reduced rates.
I. Hampen, a fnrmor of Hayes Cen
ter, committed suicide on account of
domestic difficulty. Ho leaves two
daughters.
Fanners should nil havo telephones.
Writo to us and learn how to got tho
best service for tho least monoy. Ne
braska Telophono Company, 18th and
Douglas streets, Omaha. "Use tho
Boll."
Magnus Anderson of Bertrand Is
erecting n now building for tho In
dependent Order or Odd Fellows'
lougo No. 188. It is to bo a two
story Btructuro, tho contract prlco
being $15,000.
Elmer Lewis was killed in tho rail
toad yards nt Ravenna. Ho had Just,
como in on a freight train and stop
ped off from tho caboose A switch
cnglno going In tho opposite direc
tion struck hlni.
Tho day set for tho doings in tho
matter of the Young Men's Christian
association at Columbus, November
22, has been called off, aa they wero
not ready, and It will bo held the
first week In December.
Vaclav Bohaty, aged forty-nine, a
fnrmor residing nbout six miles north
east of David City, was adjudged a
dipsomaniac by tho board of Insanity
commissioners nnd tnken to tho hos
pital at Lincoln by bneriff West.
If arrangements go as planned, Mrs.
Plerco nnd Mrs. Holdsworth, two nr
dont Brynn women of Vnlloy, will
haul Mrs. Ramsey and Mrs. Kennedy,
equally ardent Taft women. In a
pushcart from tho postoinco cornor
to tho opera houso.
In district court at Plattsmouth
Judgo II. D. Travis sentenced James
Smith, colored, to servo flvo years
In tho stato penitentiary. Smith was
convicted of entering nnd stealing
from tho homo of Mrs. Jcnnlo Schlld
knecht of that city.
"Movo to town and live oft tho In
como from tho farm. Roosovolt will
tako caro of tho chlldron." This was
tho substance of a noto to his wife
found in tho pock of Ira Best, a
well-to-do farmer, 34 years cid, who
committed sulcldo by hanging him
Belfln tho barn on hlu farm, eighteen
miles northwest of Schuyler. Ho is
believed to hnvo been temporarily In
sano. A moiiBtor cemont bridge is bolng
erected across South Tablo creek at
tho foot of Central avenue in Ne
braska City; to tako tho place of the
stool ono which was carried away by
n storm and high water. This 1b tho
first bridge of this kind to bo put in
In that county and if It is satisfactory
the commissioners expect to put In
ninny more
A twenty-mllo walk Is what Is com-'.
Ing to F. A. Moltondorf of Valontlno;
ns a result of a bot on Bryan. Ai
wngor was mado botweon him and
Goorgo Christopher of Simeon that It
Bryan was olected Christopher was
to walk in nnd notify Mr. Moltondorf,
nnd In caso of Taft bolng olected
IJMeltondorf was to walk out and no
'tlfy Mr. Christopher.
Mrs. August Mueller of Richardson
county wub killed and hor husband
probably fatally injured when a bug
gy In which thoy woro riding was
run Into by nn automobile. Tho
drlvor of tho automobllo Bought to
stop tho machine nnd partly succeed
ed but Muellor's horso plungod wild
ly, throwing tho occupants under
tho buggy and tho automobile
A suit for damages In tho sum of
$G25 has been filed In tho county
court against tho Union Pacific by
tho Bluo Springs Farmers Elovator
company. Plaintiffs nllcgo that last
Juno thoy sent a car of wheat to n
grain firm In Omaha. When tho car
reachol its destination thoro was a
shortago of 720 bushels, which had
either been lost or stolen.
Whlla performing his duties ns
night watchman at tho mill of tho
T. B. Hord Alfalfa Menl company in
Contrnl City, Sherman Grubb had an
exciting oxporlonco with somo rob
boro, and hb a result carries a bullet
wound in his left hand. IIo encoun
tered two mon Btoallng comont, the
outcomo of which was abovo related.
Tho would-be robbers escaped.
As tho result of a shooting affray
near Alliance, Llzzlo Brnnor is In
tho hospital, fatally wounded, and her
brothor, Charles Brnnor, who did tho
snooting, and hor Bwoetheart, Frank
Augustlno, aro In tho county pnll.
Brnnor objected to tho attentions of
Augustlno to his sister, and when tho
young couple wont riding tho brothor
followed them. Miss Braner was
wearing tho fur coat of hor escort,
and, mistaking hor for tho man, Bra-
i nor shot her nt abort range. Discov
ering his mistake, ho ilred at short
range nt Augustine, but Injured him
only Bllghtly.
Tho Imprcsstvo coromonloB attend
ing tho laying of tho cornor stono of
tho new Masonic Tomplo thoator in
McCook wcro hold last weok by tho
officers of wa grand lodgo nnd the
luiuonlc lodgo of that city. Preced
ing tho ceremony a pnrado was given.
Tho body of Gottlolb iMSonmnnn
was brought to Nobraska City from
Arnpahoo, Okln., for Interment. Ho
was found dond In a woll with sov
cral pigs, ho was a hermit and lived
alono and It la thought that ho wont
lu search of tho missing pigs and
fell Into tho unused well und was not
found for somo tlmo.
THE STATE CAPITAL
MATTER8 OF INTEREST TO ALL
CITIZEN8.
ESTIMATES FOR THE BIENNI1
Thirty Departments and State Institu
tions Report What Is Needed
for the Next Two Years.
Thirty departments of tho state and
stato Institutions havo mado tholr es
timates of appropriations needed for
tho coming blennlum. These esti
mates have been filed with tho stato
auditor nnd will bo reported to the
otato legislature for action. Those
reporting show an lncreaso ovor tho
appropriation of two years ngo from
$2,039,015 to $2,722,100, or almost
$700,000, This Increase Is duo to n
largo oxtont to tho need or deslro
of now buildings.
Ono now building is askod for at
tho Nebraska School for tho Deaf at
Omaha, to cost $50,000, and to In
clude an auditorium, library, muse
um, domestic sclonco room and dor
mitory. Tho Soldlors' homo at Grand Is
land wants an administration, build
ing to cost $15,000 and an addition
to tho brick hospital kitchen to cost
$3,000.
Tho Homo for tho Friendless at
Lincoln asks for a boys' cottago and
school building to cost $25,000 nnd
n $35,000 mon's cottngo Is wanted nt
tho Hospital for tho Insano at Nor
folk. Two $5,000 items In tho estlmato oi
tho Industrial School for Boys at
Kearney provldo for n now born nnd
oquipmont for tho trndo department
Superintendent Osbom of tho In
stitute for Fcoblo Minded Youth nt
Beatrice asks for a $100,000 cottago
furnished and completo and a horso
barn and a boiler houso costing'
$5,000.
Tho Normal school nt Kearnoy
wants ono now wing to tho building
costing $50,000 and a chnpol and
gymnasium with, equipment costing
$50,000.
Tho Hospital for tho Insano at Lin
coln wants a $50,000 building for
mou, a $0,000 ice and cold storage
plant and $5,000 for repairing a res
ervoir and building a stnndplpe
Tho insurance department esti
mates that it will have a, deficiency
of $2,000 by April 1, 1909.
Tho Peru State Norman wants a
$50,000 now building- for an adminis
tration building and enlarging the
library.
Tho National Corn Show.
Saturday, December 12, haB been
designated as Governors' dny at tho
National Corn Show In Omaha, Con
ditional acceptances have been ro
colved' from Governor Sheldon, Gover
nor Hoch (Kansas), Governor Cum
mins (Iowa), Governor Brooks (Wyo
ming), Governor Johnson (Minneso
ta), and Gbvornor Crawford (South
Dakota). Invitations havo been ex
tended to all tho governors, and It
Is oxpectcd thnt many acceptances
will bo received. It Is also the Inten
tion of tho exposition management to
Invito Hon. William J. Bryan to de
liver an address on Governors' day.
Shallenberger Sees Applicants.
Govornor-elect Shallenberger was
hero and then went to Seward. IIo
hold n mooting with prospcctlvo ap
pointees nt Lincoln during his visit
Lee Hordmnn of Omaha was In town,
but not for tho purposo of interfer
ing in tho matter of appointments, ho
said.
GOVERNOR TO PICK JUDGES.
Nineteen Men Willing to Accept One
of Four Places.
Four additional Judges of tho su
premo court will bo appointed by Gov
ernor Sheldon within two or threo
weeks. Tho appointments nro to ha
mado soon aftor the stato canvassing
board ascertains tho result of tho
submission of tho constitutional
amendment Increasing the number of
Judges from threo to sovon. Tho
nmondmont has undoubtedly carried,
but tho stato canvasslug board cannot
officially act until Novomber 23.
Within ton days thoreaftor tho gov
ernor shall Issuo a proclamation de
claring tho amendment to bo a part
of tho constitution. Tho present
court commission of six members Is
sorvlng at tho pleasuro of tho court
nnd can bo displaced any tlmo to
glvo way for four Judges. Tho
omendmont Incroases tho salary of
Judgos of tho supromo court from
$2,500 to $4,500 n year. Two of tho
Judgos appointed by tho .sovornor will
sorvo till tholr successors aro olocted
noxt fall and two will sorvo until
1911. NInoteon names havo boon
presented to the governor for his con
sldorntlon In making tho appoint
ments. In tho list thero nro four
democrats.
Many Out for Judgeships.
These names havo boon illod with
tho govomor: J. L. Root, Platts
mouth; E. R. Dufflo, Omaha; Jncob
Fawcott, Omaha; John M. Rngan,
Hastings; Lincoln Frost, Lincoln; S.
P. Davidson, TocumBoh; R. I?. Evans,
Dnkota City; E. E. Good, Wahoo; B.
F. Good, Wnhoo; James A. Douglas,
BaBsott; H. M. Grimes, Lincoln coun
ty, North Plntto; John J. Sulllvau,
Columbus; Judgo Sedgwick, York; J.
S. Iloagland, North Platto; Georgo
Ijomls, Fromont; A. C. Epperson,
Clay Center.
RETURNS ARE STILL COMING.
Exact Conditions Cannot Be Known
for the Present.
Tho Journal of Friday says: Offi
cial roturns from all but four coun
ties now in tho offlco of tho secre
tary of stato Indicato the election of
two democratic stato ofllcors, Gar
rett for lloutennnt governor and Cow
glll for rnllway commissioner, but
tho exnet result cannot bo known un
til Douglns county, ono of tho missing
counties, is heard from. Unofflclnt
reports from Omaha indicate tho de
feat of Railway Commissioner Wil
liams. Tho other counties not heard
from officially nro Holt, Plerco and
Richardson.
With four counties missing Hopq
well for lieutenant governor has 108,
790 nnd Gnrrott has 107,190. Tho ma
jority of 1,594 for IIopowoll may bo
wiped out in tho missing counties.
With four counties missing tho re
turns glvo Williams 110,029. Cowglll .
has 108,752. If tho reports from
Douglas county nro correct tho plu
rality of 1,277 for Williams will bo
wiped out.
The belated returns from Platto
county thnt woro mailed to tho secre
tary of state last week, but which
never reached him till yesterday, ar
rived from Washington, D. C. County
Clerk John Graff, who mailed tho
onvolopo, had It sent by registered
mail. IIo wrote tho address on a
pnper and pasted tho paper on tho
front of n largo onvolopo that had
been used before Tho lower part of
tho papor thus pasted on extended be
yond tho lowor part of tho envelope
nnd was folded against tho back.
Tho words "Lincoln, Neb.," wcro on
thnt part of tho papor that was fold
ed agalnBt tho back of tho envelope,
leaving nothing but tho words "Sec
rotary of Stato" on tho front of tho
envelope As a glance might dls
closo that no town was wrltton on
tho faco of tho cnvelopo the mall
clerk sont It to tho secretary cf statei
nt Washington, D. C. '
Nettleton Calls at State House.
Speaker Dan Nottleton of Clay
county called on Governor Sheldon
t,o discuss tho calling of a special
sessfon of tho legislature Without
having all tho facts at hand, tho
speaker Bald ho had not decided
whether ho was for or nsalnst tho
session. Mr. Nettleton was re-elected
to the houso from his county by a
majority of twenty-threo votes. "My
eloctlon was by no means unanimous,"
said Speaker Nettleton. "Twenty
threo majority Is not a very largo
number. Republican defeat, in my
opinion, was duo to several reasons,
principal among which woro tho fol
lowing: Tho liquor Interests, tho
railroads, tho tomperanco clement,
tho guaranty of bank deposits and
tho tax circulars sent out by the dom
ocrats. All of thoso things contrib
uted to tho dofeat of tho governor
and the republican legislature In tho
faco of a splendid record."
Franks and Advertising Contracts.
It Is up to Attorney Genoral Thomp
son to say whether or not prosecu
tions shall bo commenced against tho
Union Pacific railroad and nowspaper
ownors who received mllegno or
transportation during tho month of
Octobor on advertising contracts and
against the Western Union Telegraph
compnny and persons to whom It ha3
given franks. Tho railway commis
sion has ccrtlflod the names of these
two companies and tho names of
frank holders and porsons who had
drawn transportation during tho past
month on advertising contracts. Tho
attornoy genoral has not docldod
what action shall bo taken.
Adams Loses Senatorshlp.
Tho returns from Koya Paha coun
ty furnished final proof of tho elec
tion of E. L. Meyers of Newport to
tho loglslnturo from tho Fourteenth
senatorial district, composed of Koya
Paha, Cherry, Sheridan, Dawes, Box
Butto and Sioux counties. Mr. Moy
ors, who Is a republican, was run
ning against Georgo M. Adams of
Crawford, at present sonator from
tho snmo district. Moyors received
4,830 votes to 4,555 for Adams.
Appeal to Supreme Court.
Tho Farmors & Merchants InBur
nnco company has appealed to tho
supromo court from a Judgment for
$799.82 given In Otoo county In favor
of Olio N. Nelson on a flro Insurnnco
policy. Tho company resists the
claim on tho ground that tho claimant
know that tho agent who wrote tho
policy had no right under his con
tract to Insuro property thnt Is en
cumbered with a chattel mortgage.
Passenger Revenues Increase.
A comparative statement prepared
by Rato Clork Powell of tho railway
commission shows that while passen
ger rovenues of railroads operating
lu Nobraska Incrensod In July and
August over tho same months last
year, tho freight rovonues decreased.
Tho largor part of tho decrease in
freight business was In live stock
and grain.
Legislators Selecting Seats.
First como, first sorved, in tho se
lection of seats In tho noxt loglslnturo
Is tho plnn that has boon adopted by
Secretary of stato Junkln for tho
parceling out of tho easy chairs So
faj- ton membors of tho Bonnto' and
olght mombors of tho houso havo
mado tholr selections. Seat No 9 In
tho senate located on tho north sldo
In tho second row, will bo occupied
by T. R. Rosso of Webster county
Adjoining him to tho loft will bo E
L. Myers of Dawes In No. io and
Goorgo Wlltso In No. 11. '