SUMMARY OF LAWS
A Condensed Statement of the Work
Accomplished by Nebraska
Lawmakers
GOVERNOR SIGNS MANY BILLS
A Digest of the Bills Passed by Both Houses of the
Nebraska Legislature at Its Thirty-Second Session
Which Have Been Signed by the Gov
ernor and Will Be Placed on
the Statute Books
( Houio Rolls.
2. Eastman. Establishes school of
agriculture In southwestern Nebraska.
S. Bushee. Appropriation of $15,000 to
finish and complete the basement rooms
of tho state house.
E. Busheo. Provides for election of
governing board of trustees by benovolcnt
and religious soclftttes.
7. Pries. Establishes salary to be paid
cleric of district court.
9. Fries. Makes It optional for school
boards to set aside a fund for library
purposes.
10. Pries. Grand and petit Jurors shall
recclvo 33 per day and 10 cents per mile.
14. Grossman. Provides pollco magis
trates In cities and villages shall have co
extensive powers within the corporate
limits of such cities or villages,
21. Hatfield. Appropriation of $8,000
for tho maintenance of tho Nebraska
Orthopedic hospital.
26. Bnrtols. Appropriation of moneys
belonging to state normal school library
funds for purchase of books for state
normal at Wayne.
27. Prince. Amendments to constitu
tion providing for non-partisan board of
control for all stato Institutions.
20. MorIrty. Establishes fees In
county Judro and county treasurer's oRlce.
32. Allet. Proposes an amendment to
the constitution relating to time of bleat
ing Judges of the supreme court.
33. MaKIssIck. A bill for an not to
protect Mvos of the traveling public and
relating Ao the size of caboose cars.
34. Fnller. Empowers county boards
to erec r repair all bridges not exceed
ing Id- cost 1500 without advertising for
mas.
zr. Leldlgh. Makes It unlawful to
camp, on the public highway,
42. Taylor of Hitchcock. An not for
the relief of animals Injured on the right
,r way or railroad companies.
3. xayior or JiucncocK. Makes It a
mlsdomcanor to abandon maimed or sick
domestic animals.
. -rayior or imcncocK. Makes It a
misdemeanor to Inhumanely or unreason
ably beat domestic animals
48. Kent and Clark. Appropriation for
completion of the Chadron normal school
buildings.
49. Potts. Authorizes tho state treas
urer to sell certain bonds held by the
rio,
52. McKlsslck. Appropriation for pur
chase supply Cobbey's Statutes for use
of the stats.
03. iawrence. Provides that em
ployers shall give letter to discharged
employees, setting forth nature of service
rendered, etc
E4. Bartels. Appropriation of $55,000
to erect hall and library building for stato
normal at Wayne
55. Dolezal. Joint and concurrent res
olution ratifying proposed nrnendment to
constitution of the United States relating
to income tax.
67. Metcger. Dipsomaniacs to be en
titled to benefit of a writ of habeas
corpus.
68. Sanborn. Provides for the prepara
tlon and distribution of hog cholera
serum.
59. Kent and Clark. Appropriation of
moneys belonging to the state normal
library funds for purchase of books for
stato normal at Chadron
60. Cronln. County commissioners
salary incroased to per day.
63. Clark and Kent, Appropriation of
$12,000 to Install a heating plant at tho
Chandron normal school,
64. Candy. Road tax In all counties
under township organization must be paid
In cash.
68. Quackonbush. Appropriation of
$12,000 for completing an additional story
to the library building at tho Peru nor
mal,
70. Dort. Appropriation of moneys bo
longing to the state normal library funds
for purchuse of books for state normal at
Peru.
71. Qrueber. Limiting tho hours of
service of railroad employees.
73. Kotouc. State auditor shall be the
lawful representative of foreign lnsurunce
companies doing business In this state.
77. Colton. When lands revert or
escheat to the stato It Is tho duty of the
county attorney to appear In court and
attend to tho state's Interests.
83. Potts. Provides that Jurors draw
their pay for services as soon as they aro
completed and the Jury Is discharged.
84. Hatfield. Establishes Board of
control for dependent children.
86. Builey. Appropriates $55,000 to
build south wing to the present nocmal
college at Kearney.
89. Bushce. Establishes a hospital for
tuberculosis Insane.
91, Qerdes. Appropriation for payment
of officers and employees of the legisla
ture. 92. Qerdes. Appropriation for pay
nent of Incidental expenses of the legis
lative session. '
98. Evans, Creates an ndvlsory board
"f pardons and making nn upproprlutlon.
100. Jones. Owners of land are per
mitted to drain tho sume In the general
lourso of natural drainage,
107. Housh. Prohibits all gift enter
prises.
109. Shoemaker. Makes It a penlten
tlary offenso to carry revolver.
Ill, Bnssott. Appropriation of moneys
belonging to state normal library funds
for purchase of books for state Inormal
at Kearney.
142, Fuller. All taxes shall bo due and
payablo at the death of tho decedent.
145. Kotouc. Appropriation of 90 per
cent of one mill levy for use of the No
brnska state university.
157. Hatfield. An act to legalize cer
tain defective assignments of mortgages.
158. Hatfield. Provldos for rcleaso of
mortgages within one year from date.
168. Pries. Changes terms of office of
district assessors.
169. Quackenbush. Regulating the
granting of adjournments or continuance
of causes In the district courts of the
stato.
176. Qustafsan. Amends primary law,
177. Dolezal. Provldos for the pay
ment for all horses killed by the state
veterinarian which were suffering with
contagious dlsoase.
178. Busheo. Establishes a county
high school board of five members, to be
known no the board of regents.
180. McCarthy. Providing a method
for perfecting titles; to legalize Instru
ments now appearing of record.
183. Metzger, Appropriates $8,000 for
construction of a barn and store-room at
stato fish hatcheries. South Bond.
184. McKlsslck. Amends county as
sessor law, making precinct assessors
elective.
193. Bassett. State university author
ized to accept gift or bequests.
196. Nutzmnn. Appropriates $800 for
the relief of Sylvester C. Hathaway, peni
tentiary guard, Injured by gunshot.
197. Anderson of Kearney. Railroads
must provide shelter for live stock.
205. Lawrence. An act to provide for
draining marsh, swamp or wet lands.
IE. Anders6n. Prohibits public exhl
bltlons of hypnotism.
219. Sandbom and Hardin. General
revision of laws relative to sale of ngrl
cultural seeds.
221. Evans. Appropriation for laundry
at Haa tings asylum.
222. Clark. Appropriates $4,000 to pay
traveling expenses of district Judges In
excess of tho amount appropriated for
this purpose In 1909.
228. Bassett. Medical colleges to have
bodies of people who die In poor houses,
Insane asylums and ponltentlary, when
agreed to by relatives.
238. Taylor of Hitchcock. Amends
gamo laws of the state.
240. Metzger. Residents must have
licenses to fish and hunt.
243. Motzger. Changes open season
for hunting wild game.
247. Grossman. Regulating and llcens
Ing maternity homes.
248. Swan. Appropriation for expenses
of food, drug and dairy commission.
252. McArdle. Amends law relating' to
registration of all motor vehicles.
259. Allen of Holt. Provides that
Judges of olectlon shall call attention of
voters to any constitutional amendment
to be voted upon.
269. Quackonbush. Provides wntor
way dimensions of railroad bridges In th
state of Nebraska.
274. Cronln. Stnte aid for bridges over
175 feet In inngth on public highways
276. Hardin. Amends law relating to
the puro food and drug department.
278. Gandy. An net to enable owners
of farms to record the name thereof.
281. Hardin. Provides for appoint
ment of a commission to revise and re
compile the laws of Nebraska.
286. Hardin. Prescribing methods of
testing and weighing grain.
288. Anderson of Kearney. Provides
that all persons serving ns Jurors must
bo qualified electors of the state.
293, McArdle and Bassett. Provides
for township public, libraries.
94. McKlsslck. Provides for Incorpor
atton of Insurance companies.
301. Bonhnm. Appropriation for mark
Ing tho Oregon trull In the state.
308. Quackenbush. Provides when at
tachments for recovery of money may
Issue.
309. Nelr, Provides for filling vacancy
In congress.
313. Quackenbush. Makes It a mlsde
meanor for minors to smoke cigarettes,
314. Metzger. Provides for the nccom
modatlon of caretakers of live stock while
In transit on railroads.
318. Busheo. Organizes districts by
stato board of Irrigation.
319. Hospodiky. Appropriates $100,000
for erection of new buildings at Insnn
hospital in Lincoln.
822. Fries. To give cities and village
power to acquire a mill dam site.
326. McKclvle. Appropriates $334 for
paving South street, Lincoln, In front of
the Orthopedic hospital,
344, Bushee. Relates to construction
of works In Irrigation districts.
356. Potts. Charges the county boards
of supervisors with the unforcement of
quarantine rules and regulations of stnte
board of health.
357. Potts. Village boards of trustees
charged with enforcement of quarantln
rules.
3(0. Bulla. Provides for a state hotel
commission.
866. Gallagher General salary appro
priation bill for state officers.
368. Shoemaker. Appropriates $500lto
pay deficiencies of school for deaf.
377. McArdle. Amends lnw granting
franchises In cities of metropolitan class
for gas mains, electric lights, etc.
3S9. Kirk. Makes Judges Ineligible to
other offices during their term of office ns
Judge.
418, McArdle. Establishes Nebraska
legislative reference bureau.
423. Grossman. Appropriates $S,000
for wnter mains for the Nebraska school
for deaf at Omaha,
433. Rengan. Requires registration of
alt pedigreed stallions.
441. Gnndy. Appropriation for tho re
lief of W. A. Phllpot. Injured at asylum.
444. Stebbens. . An net to prohibit
throwing glass, crockery, etc., on publlo
highways.
464. Prince and Sink. Articles of In
corporation must fix the termini of all
proposed street railroads.
466. Nordgrcn. Appropriates five thou
sand dollars for flro-proof vaults for In
urnnco department.
480. Lcldlgh. Appropriates $12,000 for
heating plant for tho Instltuto for tho
blind at Nebraska City.
481. Leldlgh. Creates a bureau . of
printing and establishes a commission.
485. Bushee nnd Harrington. Appro
priates $125,000 to aid nchool districts to
hold at least five months school In each
ear.
603. Holmes. Appropriates $62,000 for
purchase of land for Nebraska school for
tho deaf.
511. Gallagher. Appropriation law for
curront expenses of the state officers.
625. Matrnu. Appropriates $600 for
tho relief of Louisa Rollins, Injured In
the feeble, minded Instltuto at Beatrice,
555. Liver. Provides for changing
dato of saloon llcenso In metropolitan
cities nnd 'submission of question of sn
loon license In all cities upon petition
Igncd by thirty resident freeholders.
571. Gerdcs. Compels nil state Inslltu
tlons to deposit publlo funds with tho
tnte treasurer.
672. Gcrdes. Monies collected for ex
amination of Insurance, companies to ba
paid to stnte treasurer.
676. Qerdes. Certain mcmbors of tho
faculty of the stato university shall bo
under direction and control or the re
gents. 1
694. Kirk. Appropriates $15,000 for
construction pf sewer nnd water system
nt Wayne normal.
699. Gcrdes and Potts, Provides that
all buildings erected by stato appropria
tions shall bo constructed within tho
limits of such appropriations.
608. Lcldlgh. Appropriation for pur
chase or two uiocks or innu nujoiuing in
tltuto for the blind nt Nebraska City.
619. Swan. Appropriation for miscel
laneous Items of Indebtedness owing by
tho stnte.
670. Joint Rond Committee. Estab
lishes county highway commissioner.
661. Gustafson. All bridges 'on public
highways to be of sulllclent strength to
bear the weight of traction engines.
703. (At request of governor.) Pro-
ldcs for Btate Inspector of buildings.
BOTH BILLS INTRODUCED.
Washington. Two of tho tariff
measures which the house expects to
pass )n advance of nny general legisla
tion have beon Introduced. They aro
Canadian reciprocity, 'following the
identical lines or tho McCall bill ex
cept (or a clauEo authorizing con
tinued negotiations on articles not cov
ered by tho ponding agreement, and, a
bill to put on the free list about 100
articles now dutiable. Both will re
ceive early consideration
The free list bill Is designed to plac-
ato farmers for agricultural, losses
which they will sustain under the Can
adian agreement, but It contains also
foodstuffs and boots and shoes. Tho
list Is as follows: Plows, harrows,
headers, harvesters, reapers, agricul
tural drills and planters, mowers,
horse rakes, cultivators, threshing ma
chines, cotton gins, farm wagons,
farm carts and all other agricultural
Implements, Including repair parts.
Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth und
fabrics suitable for baling cotton, bur-
laps and bags for sacking agricultural
Senate Files,
1. Skllcs. Constitutional amendment
providing for tho lnttlattvo and reforen
dum.
7. Reagan. Constitutional nrnendment
permitting cities over 5,000 to mnko thel
own charters.
8. Tlbbots. Amends law relating to
salary of county superintendents.
11. Kciiid. Permits change of location
of school site at cither regular or special
elections.
16. Rengnn. Providing for protection
of persons In nnd about tho construction
or repairing or buildings.
1. Cord eat. Cities of second class and
villages may fund their Indebtedness.
24. Placek. Repeals section 315, Code
of Civil Procedure, relative to new trials
In suits for damages,
25. Bartos. Actions may bo brought
for recovery, partition or sale of real
property.
27. Cox of Hamilton, Fixes salaries of
officers In cities of second class.
91. rtnhrmnn. Provides for tho drain
age of wator courses running through
private lands.
37. Tlbbets. County attorneys to pros
ecute nnd defend on behalf of tho statu
In neighboring counties under a chnngo
of venue.
39. Kohl. Fixes tho limit of 40 mills
for school taxes In nil cities and villages,
48. Tlbbets. Abstracts of transcripts
of evidence shall bo prepared In all cases
appealed to tho suprcmu court.
50. Albert. Mayor and council in cities
having over 6,000 and under 25,000 In
habitant authorized to issue bonds for
construction of city liallH, Jails and build
ings for fire department.
63. Banning. Provides for Issuing dis
tress warrants by county treasurer arid
for serving of same by the sheriff.
65. Leo. Prohibits hnullng or convoy
ing voters to polls on election day.
66. Tlbbets. An act concerning prlvnte
and foreign corporations holding and
forcing liens upon property in this state
59, Kemp. Provides for parole of first-
term prisoners
62. Horton, An act relating to pan
dering to doflno and prohibit the same,
67. Morehend. Amends the law pro
viding for register of deeds, fixing salary,
etc.
71. Talcott. Making birthday of John
Howard a legal holiday In nil penal nnd
reformatory institutions
76. Brown. Establishes statutes for
organisation of n parish of the Protestant
Episcopal church
77. Brown. Fees to be charged In
office of secretary of stato.
78. Brown. Fixing amount of fees to
be paid by corporations nnnunlly to the
stnte.
81. Tanner, Provides punishment of
persons Interfering with telegraph nnd
telephone wires.
88. Ollls. Defines meaning of co-operative
company, corporation or association
under the stato laws.
93, Tanner. Amending Bouth Omaha
dinner.
115. Ollls. Defines public stock yards
nnd places the sanio under control of
stnte board of railroad commissioners.
137. Bodlnson. Provides when Hens
against real estate shall not be enforce
able by reason of lapse of time
147. Volpp. Amendments to constltu-
products; hoop or band Iron or steel
for baling cotton; wlro for baling hay,
straw and other agricultural products;
grain leather, buff, split, rough or solo
leather, bend or belting leather, hoots
and shoes, harness, saddles and sad
dlery and leather for manufactured ar
ticles, barbed fence wire, rods, wlro
stands or wire rope, wire woven or
manufactured for wlro fencing.
Meats, fresh, salted, pickled, dried,
smoked, dressed or undressed, pre
pared or preserved; bacon, ham,
shoulders, lard, lard compounds and
tlon relating to term of office of members
of legislature.
14R. Volpp. Cemetery associations
shall havo power to purchase or take by
gift, devise er power of eminent domain,
lands, not exceeding 320 acres, and same
to be free from taxation.
154. Brown. Establishes law granting
divorce under certain conditions.
162. Placek. Authorizes nnd empowers
Cities of second class to require nnd en
force the lighting of railroad tracks.
168. Tanner. Amends law relating to
terms of members of school boards In
metropolitan cities.
171. Tlbbets. An act authorizing the
organization of trust companies, donning
their powers nnd privileges.
175. Hongland. Provides for tho Inde-
termlnnte sentenco of persons convicted
of certnln felonies.
176. Banning. Auditor of publlo no-
counts authorized to deputize, two com
petent accountants to establish uniform
ity In the system of keeping accounts.
184. Plncck. Drainage district officers
aro permitted to Issue bonds up to $5,000
without the holding of elections.
190. Hoagland. Providing for the
dralnngo of self-Irrigated lands.
191. Honnland. Defining tho duties of
board of directors of Irrigating districts.
192. Hongland. Provides for the filing
of petitions by electors In Irrigation dis
tricts.
193. Hongland. Relates to meetings of
Irrigation district boards, nnd provides
for publication of proceedings.
199. Tlbbets. Court costs to be taxed
to persons suspended or dlsbnrrod In all
contempt proceedings.
200. Albett. Judicial district appor
tionment law, specifying counties In each
district, also number of Judges to ba
elected In various districts.
201. Buhrinnn. Designates certain
days ns "Jcgal holidays."
204. Hoagland. Provisions for estab
llshlng a system of soworago and drain
age In cities.
213. McGrew. Amends guaranty o'f
bank deposits statutes.
225. Hoagland. An net to make Irriga
tion districts llablo In damages for neg
ltgence In failure to deliver wntor.
226. Hoagland. To approprlato water
und Irrlgnto lands for which water has
already been appropriated.
227. Hoagland. Provides for lists of
nil lands to bo watered, names of ofllcors,
owners nnd thoso In control of ditches or
reservoirs.
228. Buhrmnn. Railroad companies to
build nnd nalntaln Bhcds for protection
of llvo stock nt all shipping points.
235. Judiciary Committee. Fixes fees
of shorthand rcportors In all matters
other than district court work.
236. Hongland. General Irrigation law.
241. Talcott. Board to make rules and
regulations for admission of pupils In
public schools nnd Junior nnd aummor
normals.
242. Ollls. Provides for appeal from
decision pf state railway commission,
249. Morehend. Provides for a Hre.
board, to hnvo authority for tho Investi
gation of Ares In nil cities whore a flro
department Is located.
260. Morehend. Establishes "State Flro
Day" In all public and private schools.
258, Horton. An net to legalize lssu
anco of bands for purpose, of maintaining
parks, etc., In Omaha.
257, Smith of Fillmore. Prohibits sond
Ing or receiving telephone messages so
they may be ovorhcard by persons near
tho person sending or receiving.
25Q. Horton. Prohibits persons mak
ing connections with clcctrlo wires with
out knowlcdgo or consent of owners.
262. Hongland. Repeals section 6823,
Cobbey's Statutes, relating to Irrigation
270. Bartos. An act to prevent over
loading of passenger cars.
271. Smith of Boono. Provldos for the
taxation of mortgaged on real estate nnd
prevents double taxation on encumbored
proporty.
273. Placek. Legislative apportion
ment, rrdlstrlctlng tho state In senatorial
and representative districts.
78. Horton. Fixes salary of sheriffs
In counties having a population of 100,000
or over.
285. Bodlnson, Prohibits tho sale of
soda or carborated wnters. containing
saccharine or coal tar sweeteners.
292. Tnlcott. Authorizes villages and
cities under 5,000 to acll real estate where
same has been abandoned.
293. Hongland. Defining the term
"stato board of Irrigation."
294. Tlbbets. Amends law relating to
sewer nnd wator districts In nil cities.
299, Kemp. Provides foes charged by
county Judges In certain enses.
300. Setlcck. County superintendents
hall hold public examinations of persons
. I -I . l . ...Hflnnlo. nn ti.t-A
Saturday of each month.
304. Bodlnson. Provides for division
of counties In supervisor districts.
307. Hongland. Commissioners may
appoint temporary county Judgo undor
certain conditions.
310. Varner. Provides for recovery of
damages against dralnngo districts.
313. Brown. Compels corporations, for
eign nnd domestic, to file nrtlcles of In
corporation,
314. Banning. Amends statutes rela
tive to snlary of county attorneys. .
318. Bartos. Prohibits bucket-shops.
nnd provides penalties for thosu engaged
In promoting or patronizing mo same.
319, Banning. Compels railroads to
furnish watchmen to protect shipments
of freight.
326. Selleck. Authorizes county boards
to grndo or pave In counties having cities
over 25,000 and less thnn 100,000 Inhabi
' 333. Reagan. Authorizes use of photo
graphic processes In making and copying
of public records.
342. Banning, Commission plan of
government for nil cities having a popu
lation of B.OOO iniiauitanis or over.
358, Selleck. Provides for committing
dependont or neglected children to suit'
nblo Institutions (or the purpose of cur
Ing of tho same.
363. Tanner, Establishes rates and
condition of service under authority of
wnter hoards in sputn omutiu,
376. Hoagland. An act to determine
the rights of parties who have acquired
water rights under tho act of congress
of tho United States,
377. Hoagland. Provides for laying
out of publlo rouds whero topography of
country will not pormlt following section
lines. ,
388. Selleck. Authorizes mnyor nnd
council In cities of first class to levy
tax for pertain purposes.
S58BS
ONCE A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR
united States Senator George S.
Nixon of Nevada in a man of varied,
attainments,' He nover held as oMce
In his life except one term In the
stnte legislature ns a stato representa
tive until ho was sent to the Unite
States senate. Senator Nixon got bis
Btnrt in lifo ns a tolegrapa operator.
It must havo boon mighty paying, aa
ho is now tho owner ot several banks,
land and a theater or two, all ot
which aro snld to bo worth at least
20 mtlttont) ot dollars.
A atory of ono of his feata ot
telegraphy has rocontly beon told. He
was on ono of tho California llmlteda
a few years ago, when there was a
wreck. They were away off from no
whoro, so to speak, with tho mothoda
of communication cut off. Tho con
ductor of tho llmltod said that they,
had n telegraph Instrument aboard,
and always carried. It, but unfortu
nately there wna no one that could
send a message 8enntor Nlxoil heard him, called for tho Instrument, and
proceeded to climb tho nonst tolojrnph polo with all tho agility ot ono fond
of tho nrt. Ho out In, and n Iobs than flc mlnutOB was calling for a certain
station down tiio Jlno, which ho had called ttousnndB ot ttmea In his youthful
days.
Now, cvorybody does not know, perhaps, thnt a telegraph operator's man
nor ot Bonding, Is equally ns distinct ns hU mnnnor of wr'tlng or speaking,
and thoso who havo over known IiIb touch rmnombor It J'ist exactly as they
would remember his voice If they had ever hoard It. Tho operator at tho
station ho was calling hnppencd to bo tho old ouo, and ho had not heard Sen
ator Nixon's touch for 20 years, but recognized It at onco.
"Whoro tho Sam Hill did you come from, nnd whoro aro you?" camo over
the wlro to Nixon.
"On top of a telegraph polo," ropllod Nixon. "Send ub a wrecking train."
And you hotter bcllovo tho wrecking train was Bent In a hurry. Since
then Senator Nixon has boon a horo with tho people on that train.
IS DOING MUCH FOR PEACE
Movor before has the peace move
ment ovoked such unanimous ea
thuslaBtn in Great Britain. Tho most
striking fact Is. tho cordial rosponse
given by tho Gorman ofilclal press te
tho ovorturoB of Foreign Minister St;
Edward Groy.
Of all tho great European news
papers tho Paris Tompa alone strikes
n discordant note, hut Ha cynical
dqubts are drowned by the cordial
wolcomo extended to the movement
by the other French papers.
Sir Edward Groy HlmBelf is optlm.
lstle, nnd ho 1b a man of singularly
calm and unemotional character.
Poaco advocates here, while warmly
appreciating hU work, wish that he
was endowed with moro flro and en
ergy to avail hlmnolf of the present
temper on both Bides ot tho Atlantic,
to mark an immediate and decisive
advance in the good work. Thoi
oughly Blncero, determined and single
minded, Sir Edward drey laoka the
touch of Imagination that might at thla moment nrouse tho people of Europe
to a full Benflo ot the folly nnd barbarism of armaments and war. Dut his
temperament makes him proceed slowly and cautiously within the conven
tional llnoa ot diplomacy.
TO REDUCE COST OF LIVING
With this spring the city of Mem
phis, Tonn,, InatigurntoB an experi
ment which, it to beliovod, by the
foremoat authority In tho farmers'
co-operatlvo demonstration work at
Washington will provo the practica
bility of a plan capable of reducing;
tho cost of llclng In America by
tho cost of living In America by
reduce It half that amount.
Dr. S. A. Knnpp, the chief o( the
co-operative demonstration office in
tho department of agriculture at
Washington, In announcing tho In
auguration of tho Memphis exirari
mont, dwells particularly on the ef
ficiency of boys In allowing that, by
tho ubo of propor modern methods,
enormously Incroasodt crops can be
raised on ground which gave previous
ly but meager returns to Uie toll and
tho crudo systoms In vogue among
'.lio men farmers ot their respective
districts, In brief, tho o,orn-club plan
is to bo applied to town back yards.
Tho plan, not altogether novel In Its contral fenturea, yet truly astounding
in tho imposing magnltudo contemplated, proposes that every family In the,
United States shall utilize tho Bpare ground attached to Its dwelling for the
raising of tho vegetables usod on tho home tablo. It is obviously impossible
to shut one's eyes to tho fact that there are many thousands, perhaps mil-,
lions, of families who, living In olty localities so densely populatod and so'
completely bricked, havo no spare ground nvallable for even n foot of parsley. i
MEXICO'S NEW AMBASSADOR
substitutes; sausage, buckwheat, Hour,
corn meal, wheat and rye flour, bran
middlings, nnd other offals ot gralu;
oatmeal and rolled oats, all prepared
cereal foods, biscuits, bread wafen
and similar articles not sweetened;
timber, hewn, sided or squared, round
timber used for spars or building
wharves, shingles, laths, fencing posts,
sawed boards, planks, deals nnd othor
lumber, except ebony, mahoguny, rose
wood and other cabinet woods,
Sewing machines and salt complete
tho free list.
Tho latest addition to tho diplomat
ic corps at tho nation's capital la Man
uel do Zamacona o Inclan, who wa
selected by President Diaz ua Mexi
can nrabassador to the United States
as a successor of Francisco Loon da
la IJarrn, who has accepted the poet
of minister of foreign affairs in the
new Diaz cabinet. Senor Inclan la
nt present tho financial representative
of tho government ot Moxlco In Lon
don. He has had considerable expo
rlenco In diplomacy.
Ho studied In tho United States
nnd Europe when a young man, and
in 1878-80 filled the position of at
tacho to the Moxlcan legation In
Washington whilo his father, Manuel
M. de Zamacona, was mlnlator. From
1880 to 1805 ho was socretary to the
local board of tho Mexican Central
railway. From 1895 to 1897 he was
paymaster to tho military command
ery ot tho federal district and admin
istrator of the Btamp tax at Pachuca,
capital of the mining stato of Hlldalgo. From 1897 to 1903 ho waB postmas
ter general of Mexico, and on April 10, 1903, he was promoted to be treasure!
of tho nation. The new ambassador is 61 years old. j