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GENERAL NEW8 AND NOTES
FRESH FROM THE WIRE.
A WIDE AREA IS COVERED
Embracing a Condensation or fcvenu
In Which Readers Generally Art
Interested.
f 01 dun
Inclmn Angnn, tho Korean who as
sassinated I'rlnco Ito, formor Japan
cso resident general of Korea, In Har
bin, on October 20 last, wbb oxecuted
at Port Arthur.
Tho Italian cabinet has resigned.
Tho retirement of tho ministry,
which waa formed on December 10,
1909, with Baron Sldnoy Bonnlno as
premier, was duo to tho realization
that tho government's mercantllo
raarlno subsidies meaauro was doomed
to defeat
Moro than ono-thlrd of mankind nro
Christians, according to a religious
census JUBt published by Dr. H. Hol
ler, director of tho statistical bureau
In Stuttgart. He estimates that of
tho 1,544,610,000 pcdple in tho world
C34.94O.00O aro Christians. Thero aro
300,000,000 Confucians, 214,000,0000
DrnhralnB, 17C.290.000 Mohnmmodans,
121,000,000 Buddhists and 10,800,000
Jews.
Preparations for tho visit of For
mer President Iloosovelt, who will bo
In Paris throughout tho wool: of April
21-28, continue. In addition to tho sot
functions already announced visits to
tho Pantheon and other great French
monuments havo been planned and
thero will bo, It la expected, automo
bilo trips to Versailles and Fontalno
blcau and other Interesting points.
A wireless dlBpatch from Operator
Baraghcr, who has bem handling
pross dlsratchca at Bluefiolds, Nica
ragua and who Is now with tho steam
er Antilles, says that Gcncrnl Juan
Kstrada recently received a largo sup
ply of ammunition and haB declared
that ho can hold tho Atlantic coast
against 10,000 Madrlz troops, should
thoy attempt to. tako BlucfloldB and
tho coast towns
Central.
"Weston, tho pedestrian, Is now hik
ing through KansaB.
Car nion at Philadelphia havo voted
to contlnuo tho strlko.
Dr. Cook Is Raid to be broken In
health and pocketbobk.
Work on tho Panama canal Is going
forward at a great rate.
Former Vlco President Fairbanks
was welcomed to his Indianapolis
homo,
A slight improvement In tho condi
tion of Senator Daniel of Virginia Is
reported.
Mount Etna Is In violent eruption
and a otreain of lava 1b (lowing down
. tho mountain.
Tho question of ousting Chicago
nnloonu will not bo allowed to come
to a vote.
Chief Justlcn Fuller In to act as. ar
bitrator in tho Costa. Rica-Fnnama
boundary dispute.
John O, Mnbrny and members of
his gang Wore convicted at Council
Bluffs of swindling.
Tho appointment of Sir Chen-Tung
Lino Sh.cng aa minister ut Berlin was
gnzotted at Peking.
Importation of all ktuds of nnlmaln
from Africa la BuggcBtod as a method
of solving tho food problem.
Tho houso committee on lnterstato
commorcd favorably reported tho ad
ministration railroad bill.
Congressman Martin accused Attor
ney Qcnornl WlcUershnm of bolng too
closo to tho sugar trust.
President Gomez has Issued a do
crco, fixing tho period botwoon April
1910, and July, 1911, for iho celebra
tion of tho centennial of tho Independ
ence of Venezuela.
Joseph FoIb, n milltnnalro saok
maker, is Bpendlng $250,000 yearly to
bprcad tho single tax theory. Mr.
FcIb docs not bcllovo in charity.
A petition praying for tho Indopoud
cuce of Uto Phtllpplnu Islnmlora was
presented to tho seuatp by Senator
Crane.
Governor Wilson of Kentucky
signed tho bill providing for eectro
cutlon ns tho means of indicting tho
death penalty.
Tho president has approved tho
Bontenco of dismissal In tho case of
First Untenant Adolph Laughers,
const artillery corps,
Kansas Olty'B million dollar fond,
raised b'y "public subscription to main
tain n lino of freight boats on tho Mis
souri rivor between Kansas City and
HL LouIb, became n reality. In fact,
tho solicitors reported tho mini pronv
Isod to bo 130,000 In excess of that
amount.
Tho Iioubo passed a bill providing
for raising the wreck of the battle
fihlp Maiue.
Nebraska la tho. second Htato In tho
ttulon to call a state conservation
congress,
K. P. Ripley, president of tho AtchI
eonn Topoka & Santa Fo railroad, do
tiled tho statement that tho Ponusyi
vanla railroad had bought a largo sec
tion of tho Santa Fo Btock, formerly
ownedby B. H, Harrlman.
Nicliblaa Longworth, son-in-law of
Mr, Roosevelt, has broken with tho
Cannon machine, according to a por
dstent rumor in republican circles.
In a speech full of bitterness, Speak
er Cannon denounced tho Insurgents,
who caused his undoing.
Tho lnterstato commcrco commis
sion decided against Des Moines on a'
question of freight readjustment.
Tho number of dipsomnnlncs In tho
Nebraska asylum for tho past year
has been only half that of tho year
before.
Tho firemen and managers' commit
too reached nn agreement nnd will
arbltrnto tho question of nn Increase
In wages.
Not n single Insurgent Is Included
on tho tentntlvo group selected for
tho houso rules committee.
Glfford Plnchot has sailed for Eu
ropo to moot Colonel RoobcvcU, It Is
rumored at thu laitor'a requost.
Tho health of banker Walsh, now
In tho fedora) prison at Leavenworth,
has not Improved slnco hla incarccr
atlon.
Paul Morton has gono to Mexico
to Inspect tho Pan-American railroad
of which ho was recently elected a
director.
A two days' aviation meet will bo
held In Atlanta, Ga., May 2 and 3 In
connection with tho automobile races
Glenn Curtlss has been engaged for
tho trials.
Robert E. Peary has announced
that ho will turn over tho procecd&
of hla lecturo before tho Philadelphia
Geographical society April 7 as a con
tribution to tho south polo oxpedltlon
fund.
Having heard retailors and packers
of meat 'In an effort to fix tho re
sponsibility for tho provnlllng high
prices tho senate commlttco has ar
ranged to tako tno tostlmony of cattle
ralsora.
Tho condition of United States Sen
ator Daniel of Virginia, who has been
llngrlng between life nnd death for
somo days ns tho result of a stroko
of paralyls, Is somowhat improved.
Judgo Rlncr or tho United States
court of appcalB has held that tho
twenty-eight hour food nnd wator law
doos not apply1 to termlnnl railroads
unless tho lattor delays shipment tho
full tlmo on Its tracks.
Ono hundred dollars per head was
paid at Fort Worth, Texas, for a
hord of 450 Oklahoma fed boct cattle.
TIiIb Is said to bo tho highest price
for this clafn of cattlo over paid in
tho United States.
Through tho efforts of tholr grand
son, Cody Bonis a reconciliation has.
boon offectcd between Colonel W. F
Cody, (Buffalo Bill) and Mrs. Cody
Colonel Cody nnd Mra. Cody beenmo
ostrangod threo or four years ngo and
Blnco that tlmo thoy havo lived apart.
Tho roport of Socretary Morrison,
of tho Amoricnn federation of labor,
for tho flvo montM ond'ng March 1,
which was submitted, to tho oxocutivo
council qf that body, Indicated an In
crease of. 0,000 In membership over
tho snmo period last year. This fact
was shown by tho per capita tux of
tho flvo months, which amounted to
,$41,280, an lncrcaso of $1,463, as com
'pared with 'tho corresponding period
of last year.
Washington.
"Squatters" on unsurvoyed lands
within tho nntlonnl forests, who havo
occupied tholr tracts continuously
slnco beforo tho creation of tho forest
reserves, and who havo complied with
tho homostend law, havo had tholr
rights increased by an order which
hna Just been Issued by tho secretary
of agriculture. Inch settlers can now
acquire title, prior to survey, to 1C0
acres n full homo3tcnd entry, whore
over possible.
Ono dollar n day for all old Boldlers
Incapacitated In tho sorvlco Is provld
ed In n hill roportcd favorably from
tho houso committee on military
affairs by Representative Sherwood
(dom., O.). Tho bill has been beforo
tho commlttco six or seven years, nnd
comes beforo tho houso now. ns nn
nmundmont to n measure Tntroihraoil
by Roprescntatlvo Townsend (rep?!
Mich.) providing for tho retirement of
army ofllcers at tho ngo of soventy on
ono-hnlf or ono-thlrd pay, dopondent
upon length of service
Tho Bonato amendment to tho cor
poration law providing that roportB re
quired under tho terms of that net
ahall only bo mndo public when called
for by resolution of tho nonnto or
houso, or upon tho order of tho presi
dent, will not bo accepted by tho
houso until after full discussion.
Tho qunlltlcatlon of Indians to ns
sumo tho rights of cltlzonHhlp will bo
determined In tho future by boardB
appointed by tho commissioner of In
dian affairs, to bo known as "compe
tency boards." This Is tho result of
an experiment initiated last summer
by Commissioner Valentino, when ho
appointed uuch a competency board
for tho Omaha Indians in Nobrnsku.
Passing tholr Judgment on tho ro
celptH for tho HrBt eight months of tho
current year $177770,138, Internal
rovenuo ofllclalB say tho total for 1910
will show un ndvnnco of $13,000,000,
over tho amount estimated by Com
missioner Caboll $253,000,000 In his
annual roport.
Persona)
Startling disclosures were mndo In
the Pittsburg cases,
Tho Roosoovlt party wont stghtseo
Ing In nud around Cairo.
Momorlnl sorvlcos to the Into Judgo
Gasllu were held at Lincoln, Nebr.
Representntivo Morris of Nebraska
Is securing many letters of congratu
lntlon. '
Though tho government denlou tho
story, It la porslstontly rumored that
Abdul Uamld has gono mad,
King Albert of Brussols 1b ono of
tho hardest workers In his realm. Ho
rises at 5 and Is quickly at work.
Norm o( NeorasKa caiieu tno re
cent speech of Cannon the vaporlngs
of an angry old man.
SHY ON FARM HELP.
Demand This Spring Greatest Ever
Experienced.
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"Tho demand for farm help this
spring Is tho greatest In tho experi
ence of this department," snld Deputy
Labor Commissioner Mnupln. "Wo
havo scores of applications from
farmers, and wo haven't a single eli
gible applicant for -work on our. list
Wo could find good places for a groat
number of men If thoy nro experi
enced In farm work. Flvo letters
from farmciB this morning, ovory ono
offering nt least $30 a month and
board for slnglo men, nnd two or
threo promlso nn Increase if tho man
8oeurod proves all right. That's bet
tor than $2 or $2.25 a day in tho
city, So fnr this season tho bureau
has received applications for farm
hands from over 400 farmers. Appli
cants for work havo numbered loss
than 300. The bureau has found
placeB for upwards of sixty married
men on farms ut wagos varying from
$30 to $35 a month, with houso, gar
den patch, nnd fuel thrown In. It is
believed that about 150 single men
hnvo been supplied to applicants for
help. Those Job seekors aro given tho
nnmes of farmors seeking help and In
vited to wrlto to them. They nro also
Invited to apply to tho bureau again
In caso they do not Bccuro a position.
Wo have hnd only two or three re
turn calls from Job Bcokcrs, which in
dicates that they hnvo found places in
nonrly every Instance.
I bollovo that the bureau could find
farm Jobs for a hundred or moro ex
perienced farm hands lnsldo of tho
noxt two weoka. But tho lure of tho
cityseems to bo too great. Perhaps
tho promlso of an automobllo to como
to town In overy ovenlng might bo a
great temptation."
Mrs. Jordan Holds the Job.
Tho supreme court has decided that
a woman may hold tho ofllco of coun
ty treasurer. Judgo Roso wrote this
opinion, but ho did not do It without
opposition on tho bench, Judgo Faw-
cott dissenting.
Tho decision nroso In tho manda
mus suit of Gertrude Jordan of Cherry
county, to compel E. B. Qulbblo, for
mer county treasurer, to turn tho
ofllco over to her. She was elected at
tho last election by a largo majority,
after having been dputy In tho ofllco
for bovoh years. Judgo Robo says
thoro Is nothing in tho law to prevent
a woman holding a ministerial office
of thin nature.
Judgo Lotton agrees, but for a dif
ferent reason. Ho states that Nebras
ka has Been tho transformation of a
wilderness Into a prosperous country
In tho last fifty cars, and that wo
men In tho development of tho Btato
have, by custom, been given usual du
ties. Ho says that It would bo; to
turn' back tho clock" to say that a
woman could not hold such a position.
Judgo Fawcctt opines thnt thoro aro
mnny women who, might make better
governors than ,Bomo thnt Nebraska
has had, but ho' Insists that 1( a wo
man may bo olected county treasurer
and obtain tho ofllco that sho can also
bo olected governor. Ho very gallant
ly says that he would do anything ho
could for tho aid of tho office-holding
procllvltlos of tho box. but that ho
thinks tho law Is plainly ng-nlnst tho
woman In tho present caso.
Object to Moving Express Office.
Express companies cannot chnngo
tholr locntlons without considering
tho convenlonco of tho public. Tho
Commercial club of York has filed a
complaint with tho rnllway commls
Blon against tho Adams Express com
pany In a caso of tins kind.
Letter from Sculptor.
F. M. Hnll has received a letter
from Dnnlol Chester French, who Is
to construct tho Lincoln monument,
to tho effect that ho will havo his
model ready by May. Tho commit
aeo bo far has raised $8,000 of tho
ncteagsary $10,000 to mako tho $20,-
000 npprqnnauon avaiiauie.
Miner Raises Lumber.
Jess Minor of Friend called on tho
governor to ahow him pictures of a
forest which ho plnntctl thirty years
ago and from nn aero of which ho ro
cently cut 10,000 feet of lumber.
Treasurer Muet Pay.
"When tho rcgonta of tho state unl
vorslty presont a wnrrnnt to tho stato
treasurer for the construction or two
experimental Btatlons In western Ne
braska, tho supromo court hold thnt
ofllcer must cash Hat warrant out or
tho tompornry university fund.
Selling Mlsbranded Goods.
Last week L. C. Thompson, who Is
agent for a Chlcngo grocery house, was
arrested nnd lined for soiling mls
branded goods to farmors In tho north
ern part of tho state. Food Commls
Blonor Mains tipped It off thnt tho
samo thing would happen again when
Thompson attempted to deliver somo
of tho goods ovdorcd by mall. Attor
neys for tho Chicago houso havo ad--vised
tho food commissioner that such
shipments aro lntoratnte and nro not
anionablo to tho control of tho No
braska law.
Governor's Auto Tax Plan.
Governor Shnllenbergor's plan for
good roads provided for a tax on auto
mobiles, based on the horse-power or
tho machlno, This plan ho will re
commend In hla message to tho next
legislature, though up to tho present
ho has not worked out all of tho de
tails of tho schomo. Ho will submit
to tho legislature His knowledgo of
tho plan as worked out In the east
and loavo tho details to that body to
pay a tax amounting to $1 a horse
power tho first year, gradually reduc
ing In the following years.
CORPORATION TAXES
PROVISION FOR PUBLICITY OF
RETURNS PA8SE8 HOUSE.
'RESIDENT GIVEN MORE POWER
Senate and House Conferees Soon to
Get Together on Publicity
Amendment.
Washington. That tho corporation
tax law will bo amonded to restrict
tho operation of, its publicity feature
was virtually assured when tho houso
flllghtly amended a provision pre
viously adopted by tho sennto for that
purpose
As passed by tho houso tho law
bearing on this subject provides that
"all corporation tax returns shall bo
open to inspection only upon tho or
der of tho president, under rules and
regulations to bo prescribed by tho
socretary of tho treasury and ap
proved by tho president."
As previously provided by the pen-
ato such corporation tax reports woro
"to bo mado public when by resolu
tion of tho senate or hoUso of repre
sentatives or by order of tho presi
dent when ho deems It for tho public
interest."
Tho senate and house conferees
soon will get togothor In nn ofrort
to agreo upon a publicity amendment
In which tho views of both branches
will bo harmonized.
Just before tho BubJect wa3 dis
posed of Mr. Vltzgornld attempted to
get a direct voto on a motion to re
commit tho bill under consideration
with instructions for tho committee
on appropriations to report It w'lth
nn amendment repealing tho Payne
Aldrich tariff law. By a strict party
voto of 150 to 116, in which tho in
surgents woro found side by aldo with
the republicans, a point of order
against Mr. Fitzgerald's motion was
sustained.
Tho sonnto amendmont to tho legis
lative, oxccutlvo nnd Judicial ap
propriation Ml, nrovldlng for pub
licity concerning tho affairs of corpo
rations, stirred up a "hornets' nest"
when it camo to tho houso for action
In connection -with a conforenco ro
port. Mr. GlUett of Massachusetts, Mr.
Mann of Illinois, Mr. Underwood of
Alabama and Mr. Bartlctt of Georgia,
participated In tho discussion. Gen
oral opposition to that provision de
velop on tho democratic sldo.
Undor tho forms of his nmondmcnt,
Mr. GlUett Bald, ho thought tho presi
dent would,. rulo that records of corpo
rations of use and valuo to. tho pub
lic would bo made public. Ho said ho
thought tho majority of corporation
returns ought not to bo mado public,
as they should not bo open to the In
spection of tholr r'vnlB.
Mr. Fitzgerald, combating tho Gil-
lett amendment, said ho was In favor
of tho fullest publicity of all corpora
tlon affairs and offered nn amendment
providing simply that reports re
quired by tho corporation tnx law
"shall bo opon to public Inspection"
and appropriating $50,000 or moro to
classify such reports, etc.
Mr. Hitchcock of Nebraska suggest
ed that tho head of the department In
which Information In regard to tho
corporations had been gathered had
becomo tho head of tho republican
campaign commlttco two years ago,
nnd "tho great, great trust buster of
Ohio, Wado Ellis, had been taken
from tho prosecution of corporations
nnd plnccd in chnrgo of tho campaign
In Ohio."
yTho previous question was ordered
by n vote of 143 to 70, tho Insurgents
voting with tho regular republicans
By a voto of 132 to 123 Mr. GUlot's
substitute was adopted.
Eastern Lines Raise Wages.
Now York. Thoro was real monoy
In tho April Fools' day purse tho
Now York Central men picked up Frl
day. , After n special meeting of dl
rectors, a gonoral order was Issued
Increasing by 7 por cent, tho pay of
all omploycs on tho Now York Con
tral Hnca oast of Buffalo who .now
cam $200 a month or loss. VIco
Proaldont C. F. Daley said that tho
directors of tho Iiko Shore & Mlchl
gan Southern, tho MIchlgnn ContrnI
ami mo mg uur wouiu prooaoiy
thkoBlmllar action at nn early dato
Tho order goes Into effect lmtnedl
ntely.
IvWo Montana Land.
Washington. Approximately 42,875
acres or mni in aioninnn wore desig
nated by Sec'retary Balllngor for sot
tlemont indortho enlarged' homo
stead act. Thlsland, It wns- said, was
not BU8coptlulo yu succcssrui irriga
tion at a roason;uio cosi.
Rumblings a Messina.
Mo8s!iin. Sovon S slight earth
shocks, accompanied by subterranean
rumblings nnd explosions havo been
felt hero slnco Thursday night.
Pleased With Finances.
Washington. President Taft nnd
his cabinet are voryl much ploasod
over tho condition of iho government
finances, tho rcclpta Ifrom customs
and from Internal rovenuo both prom'
Islng to roach an unusually high mark
and probably exceed ttho estimates
for tho current fiscal year. Tho
monthly treasury statements issued
on Friday show that too customs ro
coipts for March, $3?,722,C89, wore
tho largest by about J4.000.000 for any
month Blnce tho nw tariff law wont
Into effocL
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Newt Notes of Interest From Various
Sections.
Tho Midwest Life.
"Why not Join tho agency forco of
Tho MldwcBt Life? It is Just closing
Its fourth year nnd has $2,150,000 of
insurnnco In forco with satisfied
policyholders. It treats its agents and
policyholders on tho square and has
nover had a law suit of any kind or
description. Claims arc paid prompt
ly as soon as proofs of death arc sub
mitted. Tho policies of Tho Midwest
Llfo nro fair and liberal nnd premium
rates aro low. Thero Is an Increasing
determination 'on' tho part of Nebraska
peoplo to patronize safo nnd conserva
tively manager Nebraska companies.
They aro realizing moro and moro
that money paid company like Tho
Midwest Llfo remains In Nebraska;
that it Is loaned hero; stays hero In
panics nnd financial depressions, and
is not Bent awny when most needed.
Thero aro good openings for threo or
four moro General Agents and any
number of local or part tlmo men.
Wrlto N. Z. Snoll, President, nt Lin
coln. Tho Union Pacific storehouse at Co
lumbus was destroyed by fire.
At tho farm of Alex Schlcrmann In
Clay county a flro broke out, destroy
ing a threshing machlno outfit nnd
two largo Btncks of wheat.
A pralrlo flro In Brown county de
stroyed much property. At least fifty
miles of range was burned over and
everything In the path of tho flames
wa8 swept away.
J. D. Rohraer hung himself in his
brother's barn on his farm threo
miles northwest of Calhoun. He was
84 years of age, a single man and had
been ill for some time.
William Jerauld, a farmer northeast
of Auburn, Is erecting a large and
commodious hay barn and stock sheds
and for timbers Is using native lum
ber that has grown on tho place dur
ing tho past forty years.
Mrs. Manspeaker, wife of tho Jailer
at Cass county Jail, 1b receiving con
gratulations of her friends over her
heroic act recently when, nt tho
point of a revolver, Bho prevented
threo prisoners from making their
cscapo from Jail.
Tho team of horses that was Btolen
from Peter Slbbors, six miles south
of Bloomfleld, March 20, was found
last weok flvo' miles northwest of
Pierce. Tho tcai.1 had been turned
looso and the buggy. and harness was
run undor a bridge.
Charles Bowers, a young man sup
posed to havo been living Blnce hla
birth in tho neighborhood of Columbus,
Platto county, was arrested In Sllvor
Creek by Marshal Lucas on advloo
from Sheriff Her of Merrick county.
Ho was charged with having In his
possession a team of bay horses that
did not belong to him.
John Douglas, a horso thief bus
pect, was snot twico and probably
mortally wounded at a ranch nino
miles east of Niobrara by Sheriff
Vlasnlk of Knox county, while com
Ing to a ranch with threo horses to
Bnend tho night there. Farmers held
him by strategy until tho sheriff ar
rived. When Douglas was ordered
to stand and deliver his gun, ho ran
nnd attempted to draw a revolver,
when tho sheriff shot him twice, af
ter firing Boveral times wide of tho
mark Intentionally.
Tho bloody coat and hat of Otto
Wltthuhn of Gothenburg was found
ono block from homo In a hole near
tho sidewalk, also two empty and
bloody nocketsbooks nnd ono shoo
badly cut. On tho bank of tho lnko
was tho other shoe, cut and bloody,
nnd hla vest. Ho drew $1,000 ,ln cash
from tho bank tho day beforo. Blood
hounds followed a trail to tho rail
road track, where woro found feath
ers In blood, Somo think he dlsap
pearcd and left tho bloody clothes as
a blind.
Tho largo barn m tho M. J. Clarko
place, threo miles west of Auburn,
burned. Two horses burned to death
and tho third was so badly hurt that
It will havo to bo killed. Besides
this a largo amount of hay, sovoral
hundred bushels of corn and oats
woro destroyed.
A now effort to catch John Cllno,
tho man who forged a Fromonter out
of $3,000 whllo masquerading under
tho nnrao of Fisher, has boon started
by organizing his thirty or forty vie
Urns Bcattored over tho United States
Tho movo hna been started by tho
Dodgo county authoru.es.
Kearney Is about to start work on
tho soldiers' monument to bo erected
at that place.
At his homo near Humboldt, Gil
bert Ervln. a young farmer, attempt
ed to murder his wlfo with an nxo
and later committed sulcldo by hang
Ins himself In tho barn. Ho and his
wlfo had hnd a disagreement.
Ollbort Irwin, a prominent farmer
who lived ten mllos south of Dawson
committed sulcldo by hnnglns. Ho
had been acting queerly for somo
time nast. nnd his wlfo had com
menced proceedings for divorce.
Wlllard Preston, a Broken Bow boy
of twelve years, waB thrown from a
horse nnd dragged considerable dls
tance. being badly hurt.
Attorney E. C. Calkins hns submit
ted nn opinion to tho city council of
Kearnoy In which ho declares that
tho city cannot legally ralso the sa
loon llconso to $1,500 per year as tho
people voted for and against licensing
tho Baloona under tho provisions of
an existing ordinance. However, an
occupation tax of $1,000 can be placed
and with the present llconso fee of
$500 will make the cost to the saloon
keeper $1,600.
HE IIOHL SCHOOL
MATTER TO BE 8ETTLED IN THE
SUPREME COURT.
SOIf TO PREVENT LOCATION
Damage to Forest Reserve Near Dun
ning. Matters Generally From ;
the State Capital.
Tho ' Importanco of a decision on
tho Injunction asked to block tho
location of tho now normal school at
Chadron was diminished by an agree
ment between tho nttorneys that tho
caso should bo submitted at onco to
tho supremo court for final adjudica
tion. N. K. Griggs, attorney for the Bur
lington, and C. C. Flansburg argued
tho enso of tho Alliance men who
sought tho Injunction. Grant Martin,
deputy attorney general, F. M. Hall
and A. W. Crltca represented tho
Chadron Intcresta and those of tho
normal board.
Judgo Crltes Insisted that the peo
ple of Chadron might be -seriously-
damaged by furthor delay, as about
2,000 feet of sower must bo laid to
tho contemplated school, and this
will, ho stated, cost-about three times
as much later In tha summer ns It
will now. Upon tnls showing Judgo
Frost ordered an ordor drawn to in
demnify Chndron for such loss. Tula,
was withdrawn afterwards, however,
on tho suggestion of tho Chadron nt
torneys. Tho temporary Injunction
was secured on representations that
tho present normal board had no
power to let tho contract, that thoro
wero no such officers as aro named
in tho normal school bill and that the
Chadron pcoplo wero unablo to fur
nish proper tltlo to tho land on which
tho school Is to bo built
Tho appropriation was $35,000. Ap
plications wero filed only by Alliance
within tho original tlmo limit of tho
bill. Lator applications woro filed af
ter tho supremo court had settled
upon the board that should continue.
In exlstenco and Attorney General
Thompson gavo tho board an opinion
that these later applications met tho
spirit of tho law and should be con
sidered as If thero had been no in
terruption in the activities of tho
board.
Damage to Forest Reserve.
D. Clem Deaver, who was In tho
city for tho conservation congress, re
ceived word from tho government
forest reserve near Dunning, thin
state, that great damage was done to
tho rcsorvo In tho recent pralrlo flro
that swept a tract of country ninety
miles long In tho valleys of the Loup
nnd Dismal rlvors. Whllo the forest
was protected by guards , the flro
Jumped these and got Into tho young
trees. In many places on tho re
Horvo tho grass was heavy and great
damage resulted. Tho fire Jumped
tho Loup rlvor In threo different
places, having been carried across by
tho high wind that blow. Concern-
In; this matter Mr. Deaver said:
"Flro can never destroy tho good
work dono by tho forest sorvlco along
tho Dismal and Loup rivers In Ne
braska. Tho fact that pine trees can
bo grown In tho sand hills of north
western Nebraska Is so firmly plant
ed In tho minds of tho farmers of thnt
section of tho stato that oven though
every treo on tho forest reserve
should bo destroyed by fire, the farm
ers Nvlll go on planting treoa from
year to year until that part of tho
state will look like a wooded country.
In tho early days 6f Nebraska, pcoplo
wero Just as skeptical about growing
trees In central and eastern Nebrnska
as they are now In northwestern Ne
braska, If not more so. Tho growing
of trees and tho cultivation of tho
soil changes the nature or the soil,
causing It to retain more of tho mois
ture that falls nnd each ten-year
period advances tho lino or tho move
ment of farmors westward. Tho tlmo
will como yet when tho sons of tho
men now Bottling In tho west will go
back east to redeem tho worn out
eastern farms."
Testing Seed Corn.
It 1b probablo that few campaigns of
any character havo been conducted
moro thoroughly than has the recent
campaign to get farmers to test their
seed corn. Tho Commorclnl clubs of
both Omaha and Lincoln attempted to
Impress tho Importanco of this work
on tho farmers, tho unlvorsltles lent
a helping hand anil tho most recent
bulletin Is that of Stato Superintend
ent Bishop In which he attempted to
interest county superintendents nnd
Echool teachers In tho work.
Railroad Reports Slow.
Reports of tho railroads of tho
valuo of their property to be mndo
to tho Stato Bpard' of Assessment nro
coming In very Blowly. County as
sessors havo reported tho valuation
of railroad properly undor tho pro
visions of tho terminal tax law In
only a few Instances.
Fish Car to Northwest.
Fish Commissioner O'Brien and,
Game Warden Gullus loft with the
state fish car for tho northwestern
cart of the state to plant fish.