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Washington.
At this writing It looks ns It thoro
Is no oscapo from an oxtru Bosnian of
congress.
Democrats look for nn extra session
of congress and aro making prepara
tions accordingly,
Tho toxt of a now treaty with Japan
designed to replace that of 1894, and
drawn with the special doslgn of
eliminating tho restrictions upon Im
migration contained In the treaty,
was laid beforo tho Benato by Presi
dent Taft.
Tho ocean mall subsidy bill, which
nlrcady had passed tho somite, was or
dorod favorably roported by tho houso
commlttco on postpfllcos by a voto of
7 to C. It was amended so as to omit
trans-Paclflc linos, making it apply
ony to South America.
Only one-quarter of tho cargo of
euppllos to bo sent to China on tho
army transport Bufford, for tho relief
of tho amino sufferers, has been re
ceived, and tho Red Cross has Issued
an urgent appeal for provisions and
money to complete tho cargo,
The president sont to the senate
tho nomination of Cadet Taylor for
collector of customs at Omaha upon
recommendation of tho secretary of
tho treasury after careful examina
tion Into tho charges against him by
Victor Rosewator of Omaha, The son
ate may not confirm.
Tho action of tho houso In stipulat
ing that tho vessels of war author
ized in tho building program of tho
navel bill shall bo constructed under
the eight hour law brought represen
tatives of the ship yards on tho At
lantic coast before Secretary Meyer
to ascertain "the exact extent and
meaning of the labor situation.
Representative Alfred P. Dawson of
Davenport, la., to. whom was offered
the post of secretary to the president,
called on President Taft and 'told
him that he did not caro to bo con
sidered In connection with that ofllco.
Mr. Dawson is to become president of
the First National bank of Davenport,
with a salary considerably larger than
he gets Jn congress, and he jtold the
president that he proferrcd to return
to Iowa.
General.
Railroads affected by tho Interstate
commorco ruling may carry tho case
higher.
Tho ocean mall Bubsldy hill was
ord6red favorably reported by a houso
committee.
Two bow bnttloshlpa and somo
smaller craft aro provided for in tho
naval appropriation bill.
Tho French chnmbor of dbputlos
has ordered tho construction of two
battleships at prlvato yards.
The national houso will finish Its
"work, so as not to be hold responsi
ble for an extraordinary soBolon.
The monetary loss to the stato of
New York from doaths by tubercu
losis In 1910 Is placed at JC4.000.000,
A bill providing Tor tho gradual
nbolshment of convict contract labor
system In MlMourl was passed by the
Btate senate.
There' haa been much speculation
art to wha will happen to the Gould
group of railroads when the new man
figement takes hold,
Dlowlng out ono side of the building
and wrecking the safe, robbora atole
between $4,000' and $6,000 from the
First State bank at Barry, Tox.
The Illinois houso commlttbo on
elections has reported out tho bill
granting votes to women without
making any recommendation on It.
The government or Haytl has ad
vised tho American Btato dopartmont
that the revolution In that country 1b
ended and tho Uvea of foreigners arc
secure.
Dlplano of Aviator Purvis, of Chi
cago, waa wreckod and ho wns slight
ly Injurod whon ho fell 100 foot dur
lug an exhibition flight at Baton
Rouge, La.
Driers in the plena In abatomont
and tho motions to quash the Indict
ment gainst tho meat packors woro
fllod In tho United States district
court at Chicago.
Fire swept through tho business
section of Donaldnonvlllo, Ln., de
stroying practically nil bulldlugu on
one aldo of tho main ntreot and at
tacked residences In outlying sec
tions. Tho ions Is about $250,000.
President Taft slgnod nn exocutlvo
order removing tho land offlco frpra
Aberdeen to Timber Lako, 8. D .
A. M. Greontall, son-in-law or Gov
ernor Cjoneral Earl Grey, says Can
ada has a good bargain In tho recip
rocity agreement.
Tho Colorado Benato adpptod n, res
olution requesting President Tart, to
call an extra session to correct "the
known Incqunlltlea" of the tariff law
lrs. Carohno Durkoe, 88 yoars old,
widow of Charles Durkeo, third Unit
d States Bonator from Wisconsin,
and formerly territorial governor of
Utah, died- at Kenosha, Wis.
Tho nonato added $72,000 to tho
houso pension bill.
Tho wnate failed, to rntlfy tho now
Japanese trad 6 and commerce treaty,
Senoto nnd houso conferees reached
an agreement' on tho rlvorB and har
bors bill.
A new rulo was adopted in the
houso which stopped tho filibuster
ln short order.
Assurance is given that Mexico will
not tako map Judgment on alleged
American rebel spies.
Senator La Folletto wants an inves
tigation or the chargo that secrots or
tho navy havo been disclosed.
Convicted offlcors or tho Naval
Stores company havo boon granted a
rehearing by the supromo court
Tho Drltlsh army estimates for
1911-12 Issued by War Socretary Hal
dnne show a total of $l38,4C0,00d.
Tho supremo court of tho Unltod
States ruled that advertising could
not bo exchanged for transportation.
Tho commorco commission hns or
dered n reduction In rofrlgorntlng
charges on citrus fruits from tho
west.
Word from New York states that
negotiations between the Roll and In
dependent -telephone companies havo
rooponcd.
St. Louts was selected as tho next
meotlng plnco of tho National Edu
cation association, department of su
perintendents. The senate commlttco on forolgn
relations decided to recommend to tho
scnato tho ratification of tho new
treaty with Japan.
Eight prlsonors In tho St. Augus
tlno, Fin., jail, Friday overpowered
tho Jailor while ho was giving them
dinner and cscapod,
Rumors of tho bubonic plaguo
spreading Into tho coant cities of
Russia caused wheat prices in tho
Chicago markot to, go a half cont
hlghor.
Androw Cnrncglo hns offered to es
tablish a hero fund or $100,000 in
Denmark. Tho forolgn offlco already
Iibb, exprosscd Ita gratitude for tho
proposed gift.
Tho King Lumbor company, of
Charlottesville, Va., has been award
ed tho contract for tho construction
of tho public building at Holdrcgo,
Nob., at $08,325,
The Mark Twain library, hullt as a
momorlal to Jean L. Glomcnfl, daugh
ter of tho humorist, who was drown
ed at Stormflold, Dec. 21, 1009, was
rorninlly dedicated.
Plqny Stokes, tho 20-ycnr-old Texas
bok convicted of tho murder of Dop
uty Sheriff Wood, Waa sentenced to
bo hanged at tho' Florence (Arizona)
prison on April 28.
The supreme court of tho United
States granted to Arkansas the priv
ilege of filing a suit against Tennes
see to determine tho oxnet boundary
between those two stntes.
Attor a lively dobato, tho Iown
houso, by a voto or 09 to 33, voto to
postpone tho attempt to pass tho Oro
gon primary plan bill over tho gov
ernor's veto until March 8.
Tho commlttco having chargo or
raising tho Bharu or Washington, D.
C., toward tho $2,500,000 memorial
convention hall to Gcorgo Washing
ton roports $524,950 already sub
scribed. A joint resolution authorizing tho
Bocrotnry of war to rocolvo ror In-,
structlon at tho West Point military
ncadomy, two Chlneso to bo desig
nated, by that government, was passed
by tho houso.
Two hundred and forty-eight rail
way mall olorks at Syracuse, N. Y
took a revolutionary Btop for govern
ment omployos by affiliating with tho
American Federation of Labor, re
ceiving, a charter and eloctlng and
Installing omagra,
Marconi's patent covering tho tun
ing qf both transmitters nm receiv
ers used ln wlroloss tologrnphy was
sustained by tho Rrltlsh courts ln a
suit brought by tho Marconi Wireless
Telegraph company or London against
the Drltlsh Rndlo-Tologrnph and Tele
phone company.
An attempt to obtain consideration
rdr the bill to make Robert E. Peary
a rear, admiral, railed. Tho house
waa considering private bills when
Representative Butler or Pennsyl
vania, proposed thnt the Peary bill
be taken up. RepreBontntivo Mann
hlockod the attempt by a parliament
ary motion.
Colonol Theodora Roosevelt, in the
last ot his formal speeches in Chica
go boforo tho Union Longuo club
banquet, warmly advocated tho pro
posed reciprocity trado ugroomont
wltlt Canada and scored congrosBinen
who, ho said, wero responsible for
hindering the confirmation of tho
agreement by moans of an "annexa
tion Bcaro."
Personal.
Samuel Gompors says n, progressiva
lnbqf party must Boon mako Ub ad
vent.' . .
Mlsa Holcn Taft, daughter or thV.
president, attended tho last gorman
ot tho aenson at Baltimore
In ndrossbs at Chicago Theodora
Rooosovclt doclarod ahow lila adhor
enco to progroflslvo legislation.
Senator Lorlmor mndo a long
speech deluding tho legality or his
oloctlon by tho Illinois legislature
Secrotary to tho Prosldont Nortor
says thoro is a lot or extravagance
and neodless wnsto at Washington.
Radical French deputies sovorcl)
attacked Promlor Brland for nllogod
laxity ltl enforcing tho religious con
gregations law,
Crown Prlnpo Frederick William
and tho crown princess of Germany
havo abandoned their visit to China
William Jennings Bryan, ot Lin
coin, Nob., and A. R. T. Moooro, ol
Cedar Rapids, la., havo boon added
to tho oxccutlve committee o( the
Proabytorlan Brotherhoopd of Amen
lea.
A DECISION IS IDE
INITIATIVE MEASURT SETTLED IN
LOWER HOUSE.
SENATE ALSO HAS A BILL
Ten Per Cent Petition In Each, With
a Five Per Cent Referrrlng All
Laws to the People.
Tho lnltlatlvo and referendum law
went one moro Btop toward its final
ratification in the house of represen
tatives on Thursday whon tho houae
version of it wob recommended for
passage. This action was accom
plished without a dlBsontlug vote and
the houso will pass it as it stnnds
Within a few days.
me sonato bill is now in tho hands
of tho Judiciary commlttco and must
bo disposed or. An effort will bo.
made to send tho houso bill to the
governor for signing.
When tho hills started out thoy
were alike, coming from tho samo
source, Representative Hatfield and
tno Direct Legislation league, but now
thnt tho house has decided to pass
a bill that differs In some essential
particular from tho sonato bill al
ready passed, It becomes a question
whut form tho measuro win tako as
it finally passes.
Tho houso bill differs front tho son
Rto bill In two provisions. Both bills
havo a 10 per cent, potltlon evenly
distributed an a basis for initiating
legislation and a 5 per cent potltlon
for referring. Tho house bill has a pro
vision that bills Initiating 'constitu
tional amendments shall havo a 15
per cont potltlon, a provision lacking
in tho sonato bill. Tho sonato bill
lias the Sklles nmondment, which pro
vides that tho majority or votes cast
In favor of a bill must bo not only
a majority of tho votos cast upon tho
measuro, but must bo also 35 per
cont or moro of tho total number of
has a similar provision ln the bill
which It will pass, but tho restriction
refers only to constitutional amend
ments. Tho houso has now tho advantage
In Bottling tho fato of tho two bills,
ns It has Its own bill for passage and
tho sonato bill Is In tho hands or tho
house committee on Judiciary. This
commlttco can1clll tho sonato bill by
Indoflnlto poBtponomont and then try
"to got its own bill through tho upper
houso.
Stock Yards Bill Put Over.
Thp settlement or tho stock yards
fight In the senate, scheduled for Fri
day, failed to take place, 'and tho bill
over which tho Benato has fought and
scrambled went ovor until thla weok.
At tho present tlmo the bill is ready
for pnssago, but tho friends of tho
original moasure. Senators Ollls and
Kemp and a few of their backers, do
not want It passed until It can bo ma
terially changed. Tho Albert amend
ment pasBod on Thursday takes away
all penalty for violation, which prac
tically nullifies tho bill.
Levy for Bridge Building.
Tho houso rocommondod for pas
sago Cronln's bill to provide for a
ono-llfth mill lovy to support county
boards ln building bridges. Tho coun
ty boards aro allowed to apply to tho
stato board or Irrigation Jor holp In
building any bridge ovor n stream
moro than 175 foot in longth.
Tho Measure Postponed. ,
Robert Smith, clerk or tho district
court ln Douglas county, appeared be
foro tho houso commlttco on Judiciary
and succeeded In getting postponed
Indefinitely a bill changing tho fea
system for court clorks.
The Fremont Normal. ,
Tho houso flnnnco, ways and means
committee roturnod from Fremont,
whore it went to Investigate tho pro
posal of tho proprietors of tho Fro
mont normal to sell that Institution
to tho stato. A bill appropriating
$130,000 for this purposo has boon In
troduced. Tho committeo is not
ready yet to announce Its decision ln
tho mattor.
Lincoln Charter Bill.
Tho Lincoln city charter, S. F. 110,
by Selleck and Lancaator, was road a
third time and passed without a dis
senting vote. The bill makes no rad
ical change In tho city govornmcut of
Lincoln.
Will Draft Roads DDI.
Tho Joint committeo on good roads
hold n brief bobsIoii at tho commit
teo rooms of tho Lincoln hotel, rha
bills pending In both houses wero
gono over Informally and some points
of tho most Important onos wero dis
cussed. BartcV Bucket Shop Bill.
A swooping bill ngalst buckot shops,
which might mako regular board or
trado transactions Ulogal If it passed,
waa offered In tho sonato Friday by
Senator Bartos ot Saline. Tho prin
cipal amondmont to tho act prohibit
ing bucket shops, ns it now stands on
tho statute books, is that a definition
is given including "an office, storo,
or board ot trado room" whoreln com
modities, such as stocks, grain or pro
visions, Bhnll be dcult lu without an
actual delivery bolng contemplated
and accomplished.
STOCK YARDS BILL.
Ollls Measure Debated in the Upper
House. .
Discussion of tho Ollls stock yards
bill took up tho cntlro day Tuesday
In the senate. Senators Ollls nnd
Hoaglnnd spoko for tho bill nnd Sen
ators RartOB nnd Morehead against
tho measuro.
Sonator Ollls, author ot tho bill,
spoko at length, dotalllng his reasons
for Introducing the measuro and de
claring that tho main fcaturo of the
bill Is to but tho stock yards under
the control of tho state railway com
mission nnd to provide for the physi
cal valuation of tho yards in South
Omaha and olsowhero.
Ho arguod that tho stock yards are
public service corporations, tho samo
nn tho railways, and that tho state
should havo tho power to regulate
them Just as tho railroads aro regu
lated. Sonato Burtos charged that the
Ollls bill Is an attempt to destroy tho
South Omaha stock yards; thnt such
a measuro will result in great loss to
tho yards and thnt tho chnrgea made
aro not exorbitant In any degree.
Senator Hbngland was in favor ol
putting the South Omaha yards undei
tho control ot the Btato railway com
mission so as to eliminate tho stock
yards "lobby" from politics.
In tho discussion Wednesday advo
cates of tho Ollls jblll, ostensibly de
signed for the protection and conveni
ence of the shipper, described. tho con
poratlon us a cormornnt of more or
less greedy naturo which had long fat
toned upon the shipper and should
now como forward nnd bo "regu
lated." Senator Jensen of Gage, who Is one
of tho chief shippers of sheep In this
state and probably In control ot-moro
sheep than nny other ono man In this
part or tho country, Is against the bill.
Ho assorted that ho had nover had
any complaints to mako and was en
tirely satisfied with the service ren
dered by tho company.
Senator Ollls, who Is himself a ship
ppr or cattlo and tho author of tho
bill, remarked lator In' tho discussion
that It was probably tho fact that Sen
ator Janson Is so important a shipper
that ho had no complaints to make.
Sonator Kemp in his argument for
tho bill sought to establish only tho
ono point that tho stock yards aro a
public servlco corporation nnd aro for
that reason subject to just tho samo.
regulatory laws as are applied to rail
roads ad tolephone companies. Ho de
clared that tho attorneys ot tho com
panies havo ln fact defied tho legisla
ture to undertnko any regulation bo
causo tho yards are a prlvato enter
prise. Scheele Gets Bouquet.
Representative e Henry Schcolo re
ceived tho following telogram of con-"
gratulatlon from fifty-one business
men of Utlcn. his homo town: "Con
gratulations on your splendid victory.
Wo bellovo tho man most capable to
roprcsent tho people of Seward coun
ty haa won."
Telephone DIM.
A bill will shortly bo introduced ln
tho legislature allowing tho consolida
tion of telephono companies under su
pervision of tho stato railway com
mission. It 1b understood that both
Bell and Independent interosts havo
agreed on this bill.
Studente Votes Under Ban.
A bill to dlsfrnnchtoq students liv
ing In' Lincoln and other university
towns was recommended for passage
by tho sonato artor a tiard fight
against it.
Goes to General File.
Tho appropriation bill for a $20,000
m6morlal armory ln Otoo county, In
troduced by Represontntlvo Annoss
nnd rocommondod by tho committeo
for Indoflnlto postponement, finally
went upqn general fllo nftor a fight
by Its author.
The Referendum Bill.
Slowly tho houso Is amondlng the
Initiative nnd referendum bill into
passable sliupo. That body eolebrated
Washington's birthday by spending
practically tho entire day upon tho
bill. Tho not result of tho' day's work
was tho adopting of one nmondment
which recognizes tho fact that thoro
Is a dleffrenco between amending tho
constitution nnd adopting statutory
legislation. Tho amendment was in
troduced by Spoaker Kuhl nnd wns
tho only ono of three voted upon dur
ing thO day to rocolvo tho sanction
of tho hcuso. It provldos that a potl
tlon of 15 per cent of tho legal votors
of tha Btato shall bo necessary to In!
tlato a constitutional amondmont, but
leaVoa tho percentage required to Ini
tiate a statute at 10. Tha amendment
writi carried by a vote of 49 to 41.
County Option Reported.
Tho houso heard tho report ot tho
commlttco on miscellaneous subjects:
nnd Re recommendation to paBs tho
county option bill to third reading
without nny debato ln tho committeo
of tho wholo was accepted without
dtSCUBBlOU.
Scheelo Is Seated.
Schcolo was seated as a member of
tho houso ot representatives by d voto
of 54 to 43 and tho case ot Charles
Wertmnn, tho 1'opubllcau contestant,
waa denied.
House Working Overtime.
Tho houso has come to tho conclu
sion that it it Is to got through by
spring plowing tlmo It will havo to
work faster. In consequonco it hns
adopted the policy ot working an hour
and a halt longer each day than
hitherto.
10 FORTIFY CANAL
HOUSE VOTES FAVORABLY BY
LARGE MAJORITY.
THREE MILLIONS FOR WORK
This Action Practically Settles the
Question, as the Senate' Is for
Fortification.
.
.Washington. After nearly five
hours of dobato, the houso of repre
sentatives shortly beforo 10 o'clock
Saturday night voted overwhelming
ly for fortifying tho Panama canal
nnd appropriated $3,000,000 to begin
work, tho total cost 'of which has
been estimated at $12,000,000.
Tho action of tho house practically
settles tho question ot fortification,
for tho sentiment ln tho sonato is
said to bo more than two to one ln
favor of protecting tho isthmian wat
erway by seacoast batteries.
Tho real test came on nn amond
mont proposed by Rpprcsentative
Tawnoy of Minnesota, chairman oi
the committeo on appropriations. The
amendmont provided that no part ot
tho money set asldo for fortifications
should bo used until tho president
had nttcmptcd to ncgotlato trcatlos
with all of the leading marltlmo na
tions gurantceing tho neutrality and
International protection of tho canal.
Representative Sberley of Ken
tucyk attacked this amendmont and
warned membors that It had been in
troduced for tho boIo purposo ot de
feating tho appropriation. Tho Taw
noy nmendment was then votod down,
130 to 63. A motion by Representa
tive Kolfor of Ohio to strike out all
provision for tha fortification of tho
cnnal was lost by a voto f of 135 to 51.
The renl Interest ln tho debato
seemed to center ln the Tawnoy
amendment and tho speeches made
ror and against It by Mr. Tawnoy and
Mr. Shorloy.
Mr. Tawnoy, n stalwart ropubllcan
looked to tho democratic sldo for
sympathy and applauso nnd received
both.
Mr. Shorloy, ono ot tho democratic
loadorn of tho house, was accorded an
ovation by tho republican mombers.
When It came to voting tho republic
ans genornlly supported the fortifica
tion ot tho canal and the democrats
opposed, it.
Tho defection of about twenty re
publicans from tho general policy of
fortification was offset by 'a similar
defection on tho democratic sldo in
favor ot fortification.
The fortification of tho canal was
provided for in tho sundry civil bill,
Cut was considered ln tho houso prac
tically as a soparato measuro nnd af
ter all of tho other features of tho
sundry civil bill had been disposed of.
Norrls Resolution Reported Favorably
Washington. Tho houso commit
teo on judiciary ordorod favorably re
ported tho Norrls resolution Instruct
ing tho nttornoy gonoral to send .to
tho houso nny Information ho has re
garding the alleged' monopoly of tho
coffee trade. Tho committeo nmond
od tho bill by omitting references to
Brazil.
Hears His Funeral Songs.
Owosso, Mich. A phonograph will
furnlBh sacred music nt the runornl
Monday In tho Methodist Episcopal
church of William Henry Faxon, a
nonagenarian who lived near here.
Tho rocords to be used woro mndo
for tho funeral by Mr. Faxon when
ho was 88 years old.
American's Meet the Pope.
Rome. Tho pope Sunday recolved
ln nudlenca Monslgnor Kennedy, rec
tor of tho American collego, who hns
roturnod from a vacation in tho Unlt
od Statos, Monslgnor Konnody found
tho popo looking qulto well and
bright, notwithstanding his roccnt at
tack of influenza.
Railroads Are Retrenching.
Chicago. Following the rocont rnto
decision of tho Interstate Commorco
commission, E. W. McKenna, vice
president of tho Chicago, Milwaukee
& Pugot Sound railroad, ordered that
retrenchment bo begun and thnt ex
tension work bo "forgotton" for tho
preBOt.
l
Out of Senatorial Race.
Now York. Edward M. Shopard in
a letter to Montgomery Hare an
nounced his retirement from tho fight
for the United Statos senatorship to
succeed Chauncey M. Dopew. Ho adds
that ln his opinion William F. Shoe
han's retirement Is imminent.
Forestry Has Come to Stay.
Now Havon, Conn. "Tho nntlonnl
fight has been won for us, nnd forest
ry haa como to stay," satd Natlonnl
Forester Honry 8. Graves ln his ad
dress at the closing exercises of tho
Ynlo rorost school.
Roosevelt on Long Trip.
Now York. Next Snturdny Colonel
Theodora Roosovolt, Mrs. Roosevelt
and their daughter, Miss Ethel, will
atart on a long trip throughout, the
wosL Tho Roosovelta will go b;jf tho
southern routo, nmong the Important
stops being Atlanta, Now Orlonns nnd
thonco to southorn Arizona. Colonol
Roosovolt will deliver n paries or lec
tures at the University of California
during tholr stay of about n month
on the coast. Leaving there about
April 1, the colonol expects to tour
tho northwestern states.
Nebraska in brief.
News Notes of Interest from Various
Sections.
An airship company has been organ
ized at Falrhury.
A party of educators left Nebraska,
for Mobile and will bo nwny ten days.
An epldomlo of weddings has
struck Moldrego and cupld is work
ing overtime
Tho 'Young Men's Christian asso
ciation of Fromont ia making an ef
fort to clear up an old Indebtedness.
At the election held In Chappell to.
voto on waterworks and electric light
bondB, tho proposition was caried by
75 for, 29 againsL
An Austrian omployo of tho Unloa
Pacific . railroad, Nick Rastlck, was
Btruck by No. 2 in tho ynrds at Colum
bus nnd instantly killed.
William R. Kelly, formerly general
solicitor of tho Union Pacific road,
and now holding a like plnco with,
tho San Pedro road, is critically lit
at his home at Los Angeles.
The Inauranco rnto book for Green
wood, Just Issued by an Omaha firm,
shows a big lncreaso ln tho rates
amounting in most coses to nearly
100 per cent greater than last year's
rating.
Tho preliminary hoarlns of Willie
Moore, chnrgod with arson In con
nection with tho burning or tho court
houso nt Brokon Bow, terminated in
county court when Judge Hilcomb
hound tho dofendant over to the next
term of tho district court.
Rev. R. C. Moodle, pastor of tho
Congregational church nt Wlsnor,.
who graduated from Yalo with Presi
dent Taft in 1878, has accoptod a call
from the church at Blair. Ho has re
colved an invitation from tho presi
dent to attend tho class rounlon at
the White houso next month.
Tho board of public lands and
buildings has awarded a contract to
the Baker Ico Machine company of
Omaha to install for $3,170 an lco
and refrigeration machine at tho Nor
folk asylum. Tho machlno will cool
three or four storage rooms and wilt
turn out 1,000 pounds ot lco por day.
Acting upon n request ot David
Falrchlld, agricultural explorer of the
United States Dopartmont of Agrlcul
tur, William Ernst of Tocumsoh haa
forwarded to Washington fifteen good
oars of his Nebraska White Prlzo aeed
corn. Tho corn 'is to, go to tho Trans
vaal department of agriculture, Pre
toria, South Africa, for experimental
purposes.
Tho "widely advertised wolf hunt
was pulled off in the northwest por
tion of Rock county. Tho territory
covered was about 175 squaro miles.
Only n fow wolves wero captured. A,
feature of tho hunt was the number
of women present on horseback,
somo of them riding through canyons,
draws and over tracts of country
whoro even old tlmo cowhoys hesi
tated to follow.
Gus Lumbard and Floyd and Fred '
amchor wore rescued from an iBland
in the Platte river threo miles below
Fromont by County Attorney. Cook,
who went to tholr aid ln a boat. The
boys wero hunting on thq Island when
tho loo broke up. Thoy hnd been
thcro threo dnya when County Attor
ney Cook, who, himself had gone out
to hunt ducks, heard their cries for
help. The boys had killed rabbits
as a means of satisfying their appe
tites and had not sufferod great hard
ships Prof. iWllcox, department of agri
cultural botany. University of Ne
braska, has Issued this notice: "Tho
Nebraska Seod Laboratory whlch waa
established threo years ago in co-operation
with tho United States Do
partmont of Agnculturo Is maintained
for tho purposo of making purity and
germination tests of samples of seed
which may bo sent In from seedsmen
nnd larmo'rB of Nebraska nnd adjacent
statos. Wo aro preparing to add to
tho services wo can rondor NobrnBka
farmors tho work of tostlng eeed
corn." Address tho Nebraska Seed
Corn Laboratory, Lincoln, and loam
of Btops necessary to bo taken in 'the
matter.
George E. Townsond, found 'guilty
of conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment out of many acres ot Deuel
county lands, fled a motion for a now
trial In the UnlteU Statos district
court In Omaha.
At a meeting of tho city counoll
of Grand Island stops were taken to
pass tho necessary ordinance placing I
the salaries of mayor and council
back to $500 and $250, where thoy
woro boforo tho hard times in 1895
and 1896.
Milwaukeo (Wis.) dispatch: Keen
regret was felt at tho emergency hos
pital whon Mrs. W. T, Scott, with
tho twins, resumed her stork-Interrupted
Journey to her parents' homo
In Michigan. At tho hospital tho
twins woro big favorites. Last Do
cembor Mr. nnd Mrs. Scott left Dawes
county, Nebraska, In a pratrlo schoon
er. Arrived ln Milwaukee, tho stock
which had been following tho llttlo
family all tho way from tho wost
halted tho Journey ln tho Northwest
ern dopot and tho hospital ambulnnco
wns not speedy enough. Ono babe was
born In tho ambulanco on the down
town Btroots ami tho othor as the am
bulanco reached tho hospital.
Georgo Townsond, a woll known
farmer and feodor who lives west of
Tecumsoh, shipped twcjvo carloads of
fat cattlo to Kansas City, tho Burling
ton giving him a Bpeclal train for
the convoyanco of tho herd. Tho cat
tlo had been eating $C0 worth of corn
por day.
An advertisement has 'been placed In
North Platto papers by tho Nebraska
Central & Wostorn railway asking for
bids on 090,000 cubic yards of earth
work out on Broken Bow, Arnold,
Gnndy and Tryon on tho, now pro
posed railroad- It la stated that tllo
grading la to bogln In ninety days.