THE SEMI-WEEKLY TH1IUME
IRA L. BARB, Publisher.
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NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA
EPITOME OF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention of What It Transpiring
In Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countrle.
Washington.
Charles A. White, the Illinois legis
lator, who claim he was bribed to
vote for William Lorlmer for sonator,
completed hid three days' story on
direct examination before tho Sen
ntor Lorlmer committee.
Standing upon chairs, waving hand'
kerchiefs and yelling loudly, demo
cratic representatives acclaimed Itcp'
resentntlvo Oscar W. Underwood rt
Alabama, democratic leader of tho
house, when he attacked William J.
Bryan for criticising his position on
extension of the tariff revision prog
ram, A woman Is now In actual charge
of the mints of the United States.
Miss Margaret Kelly, long connected
with the mint bureau, was appointed
examiner, in which position she will
be next In authority to George E.
Roberts, tho director.
With stable tariff conditions tho
United States within the next fifteen
years will be producing within Its
own borders all tho BUgar consumed
In tho country, In tho opinion of True
man a. Palmer, secretary of the Unit
ed States beet sugar -Industry, who
testified beforo the house sugar Inves
tigating committee.
Proposed increases in commutation
passenger fares by tho leading rail
ways operating In and out of New
York city wcro held by tho Interstate
Commerce commission to bo reason
able generally, except In the caso of
tho Pennsylvania railroad, whose com
mutation rates nro declared excesslvo
and are ordered reduced. Against tho
Pennsylvania a specific order In made
by the commission requiring it to do
eJst from cxcrclBlng Its present com
mutation fnrcH to and from New
York city by September 1, and for not
less than two years thereafter.
Genera!.
A fire at Dubuque, Iowa, destroyed
1190,000 worth of property.
Congressman Berger has Introduced
a bill to pension all old people.
There Is now In the treasury vaults
xt Washington a total of $1,889,247,
POO. The Very Rev. Robert Gregory, D.
D died at London. He was dean of
St. Paul's.
Bryan says If ho has done .Congress
man Underwood an injustiuo ho will
retract his criticism.
At least eight nro known to bo dead
Jn tho flro which, burned tho hospital
for insnno at Hamilton, Ont.
An excursion steamer capsized in
tho St. Luwrcnco river, and coven aro
known to have been drowned.
rTho Connecticut stato grango has
decided to administer a snub to Presl
'dent Tnft at tho coming fair.
President Taft sont to tho uonato
the nomination of Cnptaln Alfred
Reynolds, U. S. N., as a roar ndrnlral.
Robbers entered tho Bank of Taft,
twelve mllco west of Muskogee, Okl.,
blow tho safo and escaped with $1,200.
Democratic Leader Underwood, in n
apo6ch denounced ns falno William J,
Bryan's attack on j.lr. Undorwood,
charging him with blocking tariff
schedules.
A statute has been found under
which the coffee trust nnd other Jlko
foreign combines can bo prosecuted.
Tho campaign publicity bill, with
1" e ameiidmonU attached to It In tho
uttmte, was sent to a conference com
mittee of tho two houses.
Record-breaking export flour orders
for September and October delivery
have been booked by Seattle millers
durug the last two weeks, One
mill has Chinese orders for 100,000
sacks and otliora are running full ca
pacity, Encouraged by the success of the
postal savings system la the hundrods
of cities whero It Is alrcdy In opera
tion, Postlnaster General Hitchcock
signed an order extending the system
to ten large cities of tho first class.
According to official estimates, an
nounced at tho presldonfa office, tho
largest part of tho Mudortut army has
been mustered out and tho former
revolutionists aro at work in the fac
tories or on tho haclondas.
Tho government has taken duty off
coal Imported Into Canada at all
ports botweon Soo, Ontario, and the
Pacific coast to rollevo tho coal fam
ine In tho western provinces. '
Chicago detectives arrested a
an giving his namo as John Barker,
who Is believed to bo Jay Uuryoa, in
connection with tho robbery of II. T,
Bled, a Lob Angeles, Cal., diamond
merchant, from whom diamonds val
ued at 10,000 woro stolon June. 23.
Grim talus of loss of llfo and disas
ter to shipping by tho West Inldan
hurrlcono which swept the Now Eng.
land coast continue to como In.
The senate Larimer committee will
spend perhaps tho last week of tak
ing testimony fn Washington and may
then recess tp meet In Chicago at
eome time yet to bo decided.
The cotton revision bill passed tho
houso by a vote of 202 to 91.
Tho farmers' free list bill passed
the senate In amended form.
Rfinnlnr Tji FYilltHn phnrirnil con
splracy to defeat all real tariff' legis
lation.
Street car motormen and conduc
tors of Des Moines are on a. strike.
Tho Standard Oil company has an
nounccd Its nlan of reorganization.
The present mayor of Omaha favors
commission form of government.
John A. Topping denied there was
a price agreement among steel men.
.The Encllsh narllnment will adiourn
August 18 till about the 1st of Novem
ber.
Democratic and republican con
gressmen have arranged a baseball
game.
Senator Batlcy has refused to servo
longer on tho privileges and election
committee.
Commissioner nf CarnnrntlnnR Smith
made his report on tho tax lawB of
tho states,
Mnnkcr. the fugitive banker, whose
wlfo lives nt Eagle, Neb., suicided
In San Francisco.
Over two millions nf dollars nro
charged up against tho people of Ne
braska in back taxes.
Thoi sonnto passed tho houso reap
portionment bill, providing for In
creased membership of tho lower
body.
At Paris John W. Gates continues
a battle for life, but It Is admitted
that the chances are against the
financier.
F. H. Penvoy & Co. will refund nil
Ita Indebtedness by Issuing collateral
C per cent notes, maturing In threo
ycarB.
What is expected to bo tho last
"stomp dancb" of tho Bnnke Indians
Is in progress on Hickory ground,
Oklahoma.
Treaties of arbitration between tho
United States, Great Britain and
Franco were signed at Washington
and Paris.
The Intcrstata Commerco comml-
slon ordered lower rates for commut
ers In and around New York In a few
instances,
Charles White of the Illinois loirlsla-
ture believes that most of tho demo
crats voting for Lorlmer got pay foi
so doing.
Lieutenant Charles R Brlllhart of
tho United States navy wus found
dead from a bullet wound in his room
at the Hotel Astor, Now York.
It Is rumored in Wnshincton thnl
Senator Galllnccr of Now HnmnRhi.
owing to recent family bereavements,
has decided to retire from nubile life.
Tho revenuo cutters Ondonca and
Semlnolo wero ordered tn noti tn
search for tho yacht Coronot, which 1b
bellovcd to bo In dlstresB off Cano
Hatteras.
Nebraska stato banks munt dlsnlav
in a conflplcuoun nlaco certificate
showing their deposits are urotocted
by tho dcposltora' fund of tho state of
rieorasKa.
President Taft sent to tho Bonato tho
nominations of Lawrence N. Houston
as registrar of tho land offlco nnd
Hugh Scott as receiver of public
moneys at Guthrie, Oklahoma.
John G. A, Lclflhman linn beon pro
posed to tho Gorman government by
Washington as American ambassador
to succeed Tir. David Jayno Hill, who
resigned last spring.
Mnjor General Carter was relloved
of command of tho maneuver division
nt San Antonio, Texas, and ordered to
Washington to resume his duties uh
assistant chief of Btnff of tho army.
An official communication from the
Italian government showB that from
July 21 to July 20 Inclusive 480
deaths from cliolora wcro reported
and 223 deaths In tho provinces of
Italy.
Tho war department has begun a
determined campaign to procuro tho
highest number of cadets allowable
undor the law for tho class entering
tho United States military acadomy
next 'Juno. y
Captain Wllllnm L, Rodgers, at
present In command of tho battleship
Georgia, haH been selected un presi
dent of tho Naval War collogo to take
the place of Admiral Raymond Ro
geos, who retires next fall.
A daughter was bbnv at tho general
.hospital In Sault Sto. Mario to Mrs.
Angolln Napolltlnn, tho convicted
slayer of her husband who was sen
tenced to bo hanged In August, but
whoso sentenco wa cummutcd to life
Imprisonment,
At a meeting today ol' tho creditors'
committee of Chicago bankers in
charge of tho affairs of tho defunct
Peavey Grain company, a report of
the auditors was road showing that
the liabilities of tho concern are
$1,000,057 In excess of thi" assets.
W. S. Shullonborgor, lor ten years
second nsslBtunt postinastor general
and for six years In congress and n
member of tho oommittoo on postal
affairs, appeared boforo tho commls
slon appointed by congress to Inquire
Into nnd "report on nn oqultrtblo ad
justment of the disputed rntos on soo
ond class mall matter,
Personal.
Congress expects to got through by
tho 15th.
Mr. Charles M. Schwab sayB. that
It was ho whp ovolvod tho ldead of the
steel trust.
Admiral Togo was In Washington
nnd dined with tho prcsldvnt.
"Republicans aro having fun ovoi
tho Bryan.Underwood controversy.
Tho reapportionment bill Is so
drawn that no stato will loso In rep
resentation. Former United States Senator Ed
ward Murphy of Now York died at
Troy, N. Y.
Germany has uccepted Johu Irish
man b rimbaosndor from tho United
States at Berlin.
S
MANAGER SAY3 PRICES OF HAY
MUST BE RAISED.
SHIPPERS ENTER A PROTEST
The Price Asked Is Now $25 a Ton,
Cut Crop Is Short and a Raise
to $25 Is Asked.
Tho rallwnv rnmmfcafnn lit,1
hearing of tho request of tho Union
HtocK Yards comnnnv of Rnnfti
Omaha to Inoreaso tho prJco of" corn
rrom $1 to f 1.10 a bushel and th
price of hay from ?20 a ton to $25 a
ion.
In addition to protests ror-nlvmi
roveral days ago tho commission, has
received one from O. H. Maze, mnn.
nger of tho Cal away Shlnnlnc- nnnn
elation, representing 300 members
Mr, Maze says: "Wo havo been forced
to nay an exorbitant tirlco fnr mm
ana nay thero for several years, nnri
now ns tho prlco of feed Ib high for a
ume, ana only for a time it would
teem that to allow tho prlco to bo
raised would bo very uniust nn it
would be very hard to cot rnlsod
prices reduced again."
u. jannei or cal away, who snvn
ho BlllpS from fifteen to twnntv my-h
of live stock each month, writes tho
commission to protest nKnlnst an In
crease and say hay and corn nro hleh
at the stock yards nt South Omaha at
tno present price.
Attorney Frank T. n
Gcnornl Manager Buckingham ronre.
sentcd tho ntock yards company and
aiiege mat reed lias Increased on tho
market nnd that tho nroDosed In.
crcaso is Justified, that It 1h nirnndv.
in rorco nt the Kansas City and St.
joo BtocK ynrus ond Is to bo enforced
at Sioux City. Tho company moroly
nskn leavo to charco tho snmn nri
charged by other stock yardB In tho
west.
General Mnnanor Buckingham tfEtl.
fled (luting almost tho entire after
noon, telling the commission how thn
stock ynrds purchases hay and the
labor required to dlstrilititn If fnr
feeding. Ho said tho law of Kansas
permits stock yards to charge doublo
tho market prlco for corn and hay.
Ho said tho Btock yards buvs nbotit
12,000 tons each yoar. Last year was
poor year for tho cron. but no in-
crcaso was mado by tho stock yards
at South Omaha. Now tho cron In n
failure throughout tho country and
conditions cannot Improvo for another
year, but on the contrary prices aro
likely to advance. Ho said ho would
havo to pay $17 toJIS a ton beforo
iuijk uuu iuhi ii win no impossible to
sell nt $20 a ton at tho vard. tnklne
Into consideration tho labor of mon
ana teams to distribute and break tho
bundlcn, tho Insurance on a largo
amount of hnV In storago and tho jn
lorest on tho Investment. Ho ndmltted
that ho had bought somo at $13 nnd
$14 r ton, but ho had got bargains
from persons with whom ho had dealt
many years. It waa shown by his tes
timony that hay will cost nt least $5
a ton morb this year than last year.
Ho said his company hnd not yot sent
out buyers, but ho was confident that
tho hearing now being hold boforo tho
commission would rosult In n consid
erable Increase in prlco. Ho did not
want tho newspapers to glvo thiB
nway, but ho said tho momont,hl8
compnny boglnB to buy prices will go
up bocnusa It Is tho largest consumer
In Nebraska. .
Lancaster County Fair.
Tho premium list of tho Lancnstcr
county agricultural society for 1911 Is
ready for distribution. Its offerings
in tho way of prizes aro moro liberal
this years than In former years. Resi
dents of Lancnster county havo the
opportunity of competing for both
county and stato premiums In ono dla
play nnd for each single exhibit. This
Is tho ono county of the stnto that can
Join with tho state in holding its an
nual fair and It Is suggested that Lan
caster should nwakp to its chances for
securing a lending prlzo In tho county
collection exhibit in competition with
all tho counties of tho stato.
How Is This?
W. C. Lambort, assistant city at
torney of Omaha. haB filed with tho
railway commission a clipping from
tho Omaha World-Herald of AugUBt 1,
boarlng on tho application of the
South Omahn Stock YnrdB company
for leave to lncreaso the price of hay
from $20 to $25 a ton. Tho stock
yards contends that the shortago of
tho hay crop throughout tho west will
rnsult in hlghor prlcos and that ub
high (is $18 a ton will bo tho market
prlco bofore long. Tho clipping from
tho Omaha papor atatoB that on Aw.
gUBt 1 tho liny market was over
stocked by tho arrival of over fifty
cars, tho largest shipment of tho now
crop received this year.
Advise Release for Two.
Tho advisory board of pardons has
recommended tho roleaso of Joseph
McCoy, convicted In Clay county of
horso stealing, and William McPhall,
convicted In Douglna county of for
gory. Both havo Uten In tho prison
hospital ovor slnco they arrived and
tho advisory board decided to recom
mend a commutation of sentouco
which will roleaso thorn. Tho rolntlvoa
of McPhall, living In Michigan havo
agreed to pay IiIb transportation from
tho prison to tholr homo and to cara
for o prisoner, who 1b diseased.
STOCK YARD
HEARD
HORSES AND CATTLE.
A D::raase
Both In Numbsr
Valuation.
Snd
Tho valuation of cattle and horses
by tho coiinty assessors this yoar and
last year in Nebraska show very Ut
ile uinerence. For purposes of taxa
tion the county nssessprs last year re
turned Cattle at 2.457.S.19 In nnmhnr
valued at $10,639,258 for purposes of
assessment, this year the assessors
returned the number of cattle at 2,
299,770 In number and valued at $10.i
voi,ius. jsi year tho average per
ncau was jm.zs and this year It la
$15.09 a head.
Last year tho total nnmhor nf hnr.
es returned for taxation by assessors
was auo.nctho assessed valuation1
oemg $n,DMp35, an average assessed
value of $10.1(5 a head. This year tho
total number of head nf
turned for assessment Is 922,840, nt a
total assessed valuation of $13,941,460
ur an average assessed valuation of
?i5.uu a nead.
rue following Is tho number ot
Horses and cattlo llstori fnr nM.
inent this year and tho assessed vol-'
uanon :
Horses.
No. Vulue,
.11. C05 t 224.S14
Ccttle.
No
Adntm
Value.
13,132 $
13,811
11,670
9,787
31,471
16.671
22,316
18.318
31,513
23,966
19,665
20,423
46.184
12.148
25.708
11,733
16,016
21.766
48,610
76.342
11,174
24.386
64.774
Anttlooe
13.724 183.279
160,178
Jianner .. 4.355
48.069
Ultimo . . 3.13ft
00,151
42,799
151,859
32,960
223,158
98,482
88,012
120,938
305,091
188,608
188,966
203.108
232.080
73,890
283,935
82,650
243,240
137,958
138,952
414.126
81,138
105.3
276,391
18.495
163,151
102,384
168.699
63,770
222,267
139,106
158,112
180,912
320,646
78.869
47,339
100,622
31,257
111,938
174.792
237.911
128,828
64,708
83,288
209.683
19,463
145,322
199.637
136,664
146.087
77.290
76.616
34.688
211,663
332,305
203,459
40,335
37,866
199.862
42.653
123,661
104,700
144,243
177.826
213,211
214,133
160,649
60.613
162.633
139,479
213.973
170.586
120,267
207.051
60.665
230.649
78.982
263,116
97.045
241.256
221.662
127.671
122,606
123,707
220,829
20.125
129,545
166.969
169.762
Hoe no ...I2.mr.
Box Uutto 11,102
Ilmwn . . 17 sit
68.767
101.421
Hoyil .... 7,23
72.332
Iiurrulo ..17,698
138,682;
116.923;
Hurt ....10.300
Butler ..10.M2
34,119.
CUS ....11.231
CVdnr ...16.367
94.763
218.710
Ulinno ... 6,204
Cherry ..27,948
Cheyonno 7,334
60,979,
CZ3,247
44.255
i.lnv 12.809
76.791
Colfax .. 7.sr.ft
95,602
C7iiinlfiir tt linn
239,070
329,738
47,921
91.16b
t-TjMer
35.632
Dakota
. 4,870
..10.143
17.613
.. 2.6S0
..10,661
Dnwei
Unwson
32,563
4,963
26,915
28.290
16.626
12,812
15,639
19,889
21,764
17.263
29.175
154.817
Detil .
22,501i
Dtxnn
1I2.7S0,
.12,036
11,476
. 6,015
11.895
8.742
11,703
Douglas.
92.661
60,680
72,641
86,055
81.343
78,206
141,064
133,930
49,676
68,934
130,847
83.664
117,377
130,496
, 71,094
30,561
40.401
309.367
29,787
113,632
123.827
71,323
69,940
69,940
98.823
".191
201,646
160,610
171,168
40,283
33,120
100.165
80.941
146.271
86,064
143.441
92,431
125,519
139.981
98.601
25,260
66,866
120,428
148,001
94,414
62,868
147.776
103.571
89,640
39,871
130,855
64,448
108,064
260,986
86,280
140,977
1.16.652
100.162
46,268
67.570
107.506
166.161
151,147
139.681
66,631
131,495
Dumir i
Flllrnoro
Krnnhlln.
rentier
Kurnaji .
.11.858
Once ,.,,16.738
Garden . 9.326
36.465
12,010
13,449
35,035
21.825
24,533
24.051
16,818
9.632
11.591
77.628
6.716
27,122
22.595
14,316
15.895
19,360
20.074
4,905
60,849
32.053
45,071
11,551
8.997
33,770
22,663
29,537
32,823
22.707
14,924
21,310
24.546
18,694
9!6X1
16,851
28,831
34,000
19.43
13,699
25,619
26.057
19,746
7.987
31.066
12.687
23,118
67,366
21,327
33,763
28,805
21,366
11,079
11.003
22,255
21.816
Onrlli'ia . 4,097
Oonper .. 6,625
Grant ... 3,865
Orctldy .. 7,577
Ifntl .,..10.631
Hamlton 12.683
Harlan . 8,835
Hnyen ... 6.476
Hitchcock 6.686
Holt ....16,403
Honker .. 2.187
llowar.l
Tefferjon
Johnson
Keiirnoy
Keith ..
8.1)54
10,625
7.483
8.540
7.61!
KeynlMlia 6.637
Kimtiall . 3,541
Knox ...16,316
Lancaster 17,536
Lincoln .18,1154
Logan .. 3,566
Loup .... -1,336
Mnilllion 12.216
McPlierson 5,943
Merrick . 7.311
Morrill ..10,193
Nnnco ,. 8,263
Keinnha 9.097
NUCkoll 10.908
UtOO ...,11,410
1'awnee . 7.789
Perkins . 5,020.
Phelps ., 9,120
Pierce 9.737
Platte ...12.546
Polk 10.07R
Ited Willow 8,059
Kleirdson 10,938
Hock ... 5.653
Fallne ....13.062
Harpy .... 4.88?
Hmimlfirn 14.225
Rcotts nirr s.os2
Reward ..12.636
Shcrldnn 13,575
Sherman. 9,888
Kloux: 11.261
Htrvnton . 7,242
ThAyer ..11,117
Thomas . 1.949
Thurston 8.165
Vnllnv .10.276
Wnsh'gton n.430
Wayne ..s.841
Wi-hnter 10.924
1 19,087
196.466
41,748
255,407
29.570
26.241
13.494
22,904
Wheeler . 3.348
York ....14,168
Total 022.840 13,941,450 2,229,976 10,052,238
The University Removal.
To block future attempts to romovo
tho University of Nebraska to the'
Btato farm grounds citizens of Lin
coln propose to raise $135,000 with
which to buy two blocks of ground
east of tho present site of the campus
upon which a new $85,000 building will
bo constructed. A resolution will bo
Introduced at tho meeting of tho city
council appropriating $G5,000 from tho
city funds for tho purchnoo of tho
land. The only proviso attached to
tho gift In tho resolution ,1b that tho
unlvorslty be permanently located at
its present Bite.
Pacific Out of .Business,
The Pacific Exnrcss comnanv hns
notified tho state railway commission
that at midnight, July 31. Its tariffs
In this state will no longer be in forco
and, that Wells-Forgo tariffs will take
iiioir jniice. At. tnni iimo me wens
Fargo company takes over the busi
ness of the Pacific In this Btato.
Shorn of Partial Power.
Tho board of secretaries to the
stato board of health wob shorn ol
florae of Us power, tho board ol
hoalth doclding that Stato Health 1
spector Wilson should hereafter have
ontlra charge of all tho work of gath
ering vital statistics and that ho
should have control of tho expendi
ture of monoy appropriated for the
supprosslon of epldoralcs.
J. H. Preison Gets Place.
Governor Aldrlch has appointed
Hov. J, II. Presson of Omaha to fill
tho vacancy In tho position of record
ing clerk In tho executive oillce.
caused, by tho doath of G. C, HustcU.
To Attend Omaha Encampment.
Captain Lawrence Frazler of tho
corps -of engineers and Captain J. Do
uampueii, rourtn infantry, United
States army, havo been detailed to at
tend tho national guard encampment
near Omaha, from September to Octo
ber 6.
Hliy IN CANADA
WARM RECIPROCITY CAM
0AIGN TO BE 8TARTED.
LAURIER'S ACT A SURPRISE
Sudden Dissolution of Parliament by
tho Opposition Was Entirely
Unlooked for.
Ottawa, Ontario. Readjustment ol
political plans and preparation foi
the campaign throughout tho domin
ion over reciprocity with- tho United
States havo characterized tho last
week when tho Laurlcr government
dazed most of Its own followers and
tho opposition, by tho sudden disso
lution of parliament.
Tho extent of tho suprlse is Indi
cated by the fact that low mombers
were ready to leavo for their con
stituencies to seek re-election, nnd
the last groups aro now leaving Ot
tawa. Meanwhile tons of printed mat
ter havo bean mailed, tho franking
prlvllego having been extended one
week.
Little election machinery 1b in run
ning order, tho contest having been
precipitated a year before Its normnl
time a general election being re
quired every flvo years. Nominating
conventions, -however, are scheduled
and tho naming of candidates will be
completed In a month.
It Is tho evident purpose of the op
ponents ot reciprocity to divert at
tention from It as much as possible.
But tho government nnd Its sup
porters will Insist that on the election-
six weeks from now every ballot
ahall bo morally a decision whether
thero suall be reciprocity with the
United States. On deciding tho peo
ple will determine whether Sir Wil
frid Lnurler shall continue tn Iia
prlmo minister or whether he shall
be replaced by R. L. Uoracn, me op
position leader.
Prominent momborB of tho govern
ment exprcsp increased confidence
that tho new parliament to bo
opened in October by the new gov
ernor-general, tho duko of Con
naught, will mako Its initial act the
ratification of tho reciprocity agree
ment. Tho opposition asserts that tho
crest of a tidal wave of antl-recip-roclty
Bentiment has beon sighted
nnd that tho conservative and French
nationalist majority in tho new par
llament will kill tho pact.
President Taft Is almost ob great a
personality as Sir Wilfrid Laurler In
tho present campaign, and It is safe
to Bay that his utterances on reelp
roclty will bo moro often quoted
throughout Uie provinces tho coming
weeks than those of Sir Wilfrid or
Finance Minister Fielding.
Defeat Street Car Bandit.
Salt Lake . City, Utah. The at
tempt of a bandit to hold up an elec
trio car filled with pleasure seekers
returning from Salt Air pavilion re
suited In slight Injury to several pas
sengers nnd tho defeat of tho robber,
who escaped with little booty.
Big Battle In Colombia.
Guayaquil. According to ndvlces
received here a battle was fought be
tween Colombian and Peruvian
troops in Caquota, a largo unorgan
ized torrltory In Colombia, and the
Colombians wero defeated with great
losses.
Houso Accepts Amendments.
Washington. Tho house concurred
In the senate amendments to tho con
gressional reapportionment bill to
prevent gerrymandering nnd passed
tho measure as amended. Thn hill
now goes to tho president for ap
proval.
WREATH ON WASHINGTON GRAVE
It Is Reverently Placed There bv
Admiral Togo.
Washington. Reverently and with
i brief invocation In Jananeso. Ad.
mlral Count Togo placed a wreath of
roses on tho tomb of Washington at
Mount Vernon Sunday. A groun of a
dozen, among whom were the Japan
ese ambassador, Acting Secretary of
tho Navy Wlnthrop, flvo rear admirals,
of tho United States navy and Chand
ler Hale, third assistant secretnrv of
stato, watched tho diminutive oriental
enter tho mausoleum and stand silent
ly at salute. Ho spoke softly, but
audibly, for a moment and then set
down mo wreath.
Liner Hits an Iseberg.
Now York Tho Anchor Lino steam-
r Columbia, which collided with an'
Iceberg on August 2, reached New
York Sunday from Glasgow under her
own steam. Many yards of canvass
covored tho holo mado In Its bow by
tho Iceberg, but its officers said tho
damago was entirely nbovo tho water
line. Tho accident occurred about 120
miles off Now Foundlnnd. The Colum
bia's C98 passengers had Just sat down
to dinner, nnd because ot tho heavy
fog tho vessel's engines had been
stopped.
NECRA3KA IN BRIEF.
News NoUe of Interest from Various
Sections.
Mrs. Sucnnnnh Parrla of
county has reached the ago
Boward
of 101
years.
Bayard, in order to keep pace with
tho surrounding country, hnB organ
ized a Commercial club.
September 2 Omaha will vote on
tho question of conducting tho city
under tho commission form.
Omaha has voted bonds 'to the
amount of $8,506,000 for tho purpose
of buying tho waterworks.
Lightning struck and burned the
barn of William Ost, near Nehawka.
Eighty tons of hay wero consumed,
Tho last threo days of August and
the first day of Septembor will bo tho
time for the old soldiers' and settlers'
runlon at Scottsbluff,
Tho city authorities of David CJty
havo succeeded in selling tho $20,000
water extension bonds, They will pro
ceed at onco to reconstruct tho wator
works system.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gaeth,, resi
dents of Saunders county, woro run
down by nn automobile south of Fre-
tnont. Both wero painfully bruised,
but will recover.
Tho big nnnual pow-wow of tho
Omaha Indians on tho reservation
about twenty miles north of Tekamnh
attracted many to witness their per
formances.
Dr. W. M. Condon, president of tho
Otla and Murphy bank nt Humphrey,
and nromincnt in social nnd nolltlcnl
circles, was bound over to tho district
court for carrying concealed weapons. '
Between 4,000 and C.000 Nobraska
teachers aro expected In Omaha No
vember S, 9 and 10 to attend the an
nual mecctlng of th Nebraska Stato
Teachers' association.
Major Atkinson of tho regular
army was In Fremont from Fort
Crook for tho purposo of Investigating
tho proposition that city Ib making
for n rlflo range.
According to present plans of tho
labor organizations In Lincoln thero
will bo no Labor day parade ki Lin
coln on Labor day, tho first Monday
in September. Instead it is planned
to hold a picnic.
Citizens of Valentino aro pnnrccMe
In making tho Fraternal picnic, Corn
show nnd Farmers' institute, which is
to bo held there September G to 9. in
clusive, four days of tho biggest klud
possible.
Falrbury now has a postal savings
bank and Postmaster Low Shelley
has issued a number of doposit cer
tificates. This bank- was established
August 1 and deposits mado will draw
Interost at the rate of 2 per cent.
Guy Kimblo, the adopted eon of
Mr. nnd Mrs. Gus Benomoyer, of Elm
wood, who was thrown from a horso
and his skull fractured, was taken to
uncom to navo an operation per
formed upon his Bkull, as ho hnd not
regained consciousness,
Tho Falrbury Commercial club
held n special meeting and appointed
a committee to confer with A. W.
Kelso, division superintendent for tho
Rock Island concerning a now station
to replace tho old ono that was de
stroyed by fire.
Scrotary of the Btato fair board,
Mellor,. returned from Sherman
county enthusiastic over the condi
tion of corn in tho country ho visited.
Ho expects his Sherman county corn
land to produco between fifty and
seventy bushels to tho acre. Wheat
went from twelve to fifteen bushels,
but thero were no oats.
Tho state treasury was enriched
by tho purchnso of $"30,000 of Chad
ron water bonds, $10,000 of water
bonds of tho village of Osmond and
$12,000 of school district bonds from
Dakota City. Tho bond clerk returned
$50,000 of Sidney water bonds to that"
city. Theso securities woro not sold
to tho stato, but havo been placed
elsewhere.
Tho United States nostal savlnus
bank was opened in tho Broken Bow
postofflco with Postmaster Haumont
In chargo. A few depositors nppeared
tho first day and others havo written
in to inquire about the method of
making deposits In tho bunk. Unless
thin branch of tho work Increases
considerably no extra help will be re
quired In the postofflco.
Secretnry C. S. Palno of tho states
historical society, has received from
E. Peters of Guide Rock, Neb., a
broad ax nnd a frow which wcro used
in building the first house in the Re
publican river valley in this Btate. Mr.
Peters, who waB the first sheriff ot
Wobster county, used the tools him-
self, and hnB had them in his pos
session ever slnco.
Tho bonrd of nubile lands nnd
buildings Is investigating tho auto
matic stokers for power plants at
stato institutions. Tho machines cost
from $1,000 to $1,500 each, but the
board on inquiry of operators of tho
machines in Lincoln has decided that
stokers save from 25 to 30 ner cont
of coal, almost entirely do away with
smoko nnd that steam coal can ba
used Instead of n better quality, thus
saving 75 to 80 cents a ton In the
prlco pnld for fuel.
Harry H. Martin, paid to have
killed Georgo Brownell, tho Union
Paclflo brakoman at Sidney by Nstrlk
Ing him a blow vlth his list, waived
preliminary examination and was
bound over to tho district court. Bail
was ilxcd at $5,000 by County Judge
uaven.
I. E. Hershoy of Kenesaw was
thrown from his motorcycle near thn
west side of Hastings by running Into
a pile or sand in the rond. He was
thrown several yards and waa nlcitod
up in nn unconscious condition nnd
tuken to a hospital In a serious con
dition.