TIE SEMI-WEEKLY TRiMM IRA L. BARB. Publisher, TERMS, $1.25 IN ADVANO. NORTH PLATTat, - NEiRAtKA FOR THE BUSY IN NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON BE COMPASSED. MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and. Foreign Intelligence Con densed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs. Waihlneton. Determined to avoid giving any pro text for foreign Intervention for financial reasons, the Chinese govern mont lma ordered nil receipts from maritime customn, Including the 1901 boxer Indemnities, to bo deposited with the- foreign banks to the credit of China's foreign debtors. Another movo looking to tho re- lenso of Charles E. Morse, tho former Now York banker, from tho Atlanta Penitentiary was forecasted here by n conference between Attorney Ocnrnl Wlckcrabam nnd Morse's counsel, II. 8. Dougherty nnd T. B. Folder. The nature of tho proposition was not dis closed. The dangor stone In tho uso of steel rails, as at present manufactured, baa been reached, declared President It. S. Bcllknap, of tho luterstato com nerce commission In a report to that tody. If heavy, high speed trains are (o bo run In safety, Mr. Bellknap Ho llared, a inoro scientific Investigation Into rail defects must be undertaken with a view to remedying the trouble, The Italian foreign office, In a mail report received by the Italian embas sy, makos counter charges of Turkish Mutilation of Italian soldiers. It al leges that In reconnaissances mndo made November 7, by tho Italian tropps beyond the entrenchments of Tripoli, tho bodies of five Italian sol dlerB were found; that one of thoso bodies was naked; that nil tho unU forms had been taken aw'rty from the others and that thrco of tho soldlors had been beheaded after death, Gonsrat. Hunters In Wisconsin have killed 2,000 deer since November 11. The government is planning for a campaign against the opium traffic, Statisticians Have figured that another decline in business will soon be here. A Wisconsin football authority says the game Is honeycombed with cor ruption, Okmulgee, Okl., adopted the com mission form of government by a large majority. Tho Lorlmer commltteo will not take up the perjury chargcH until the main inquiry Is concluded , There Is a bitter row in the ranks of dcmocratlo members of the house tteel investigation committee, Anthony It. Faust, manager of the St. Loula restaurant, founded by his father, whb declared lnnpe; " 1 In the first Installment of hla auto biography Senator LnFdllette de scribes characteristics of Hoed and MoKlnley. Guests at a hotel In Albert Lea, Minn., had a narrow escape from death vhen the hmisw was destroyed by fire. One man was reeported miss ing, but no body has been found lu the debris, At Illlledale. Mich., United States Senator Coe I. Crawford, of South Dakota, deKvered hla address In the tntereuts of the republican progress ive movement and of Senator La Fol lette for the prealdency, 'Heads of all railroads operating In Missouri, replying to a. request of Gov ernor Hartley, have agreed gladly to abolish - common drinking mips on passenger trains, provlulng the State Hoard of Health makes such request formally! Valuable coal land Ih the Evans. toil, 'o., land district aggregating 2,670 aerea are tHVolved In a decree cancelling patents Issued on thirty four wtWIers' Additional entries, an nounretl by the commlasloaor of the general land ofAcfl, HramllBK aeelallam as the greatest aae6e of the age, Bird 8, Coler, dew ecratlo caadldate far governor of New York against Odell in 1902, Mid at St. Paul that it the rcpubllo of the United States "la to remain great asd decent, socialism must be fought, un ceasingly." AVHfrcd Stuart Sheldon-Dlckason, alleged scion ef a noble Knglleh fam ily, was bound over to the grand Jury on the charge of stealing Jewels val ued at 2,5 from Mrs, 01 ga von W. Haskell, a society leader of Minneap olis. In dofault of 94,000 ball he was returned to his veil, Mrs. Esther K. Abbott was elected postmistress of Leroy, Kas., by an overwhelming majority over her male exponent, O. O. Kersey, and thux, It Is believed, attained the distinction of being the first person to outer- that efflce by popular vote. President toulii w". Hill of the Great Northern railroad denied a re-, Krt that be. Intended to fmlt the. rail- www mwfiwvHf The Good Koads congress came to an end wINt wfcat many delegates still eTfclared to be a division of opinion as to noklns Ik government for federal President Tnft Is now engaged In wrltlmr his annual mensneci. President Tnft may urgo a change In treaties with Russia In his mea sage. Drinkers at Now Orleans envo nn provnl of tho Aldrich curroncy plan. Tho prosecution will be hold to nar rower limits In tho second Hyde trial. Persia has appealed to tho powers to stay the greedy hand of Russia. Tho Illvct nnd harbor nnnronrl atlons thlu year will be held to a low limit. -President Cnccros. of the Domini can republic, was killed by two ene-- mlcs. A mnssacro of foreigners and Mnnchus Is reported at Stan Fu, China, A. A .Hayes, general freight auditor of the Atchison, Topcka & Santa Fo railway, died at Topoktt. Tho International Harvester com pany has asked for a rohcarlng In the Missouri order of ouster. Wu Tine Frine hns warned foreign era that tho bombardment of Nanking may begin very shortly. Postal savings banks will bo estnb shed on December 20 nt Hebron, lerco nnd Silver Creek, Nebraska. The United States Stool corporation contends thore Is no ground for con tinuing the'houso commtttco Inquiry. Crown Prlnco Gustavo Adolnh of Swodon was operated on for appendi citis. His condition is oulto satis factory. A now counterfeit S5 silver certifi cate, crude Imitation, has appeared In circulation nnd tho secret service sounded an alarm, In less than two minutes after tho Are fllnrm lint! Knitnrioil at fit IIixIppm school In Milwaukee, tho buildlntr hud beo'u emptied of COO pupils. Tho serious attention of tho nubile has again been called to tho dononu- latlon question in France by tho pub lication of official statistics. President Louis W. Hill of tho Great Northern railroad denies a re port from ChlcaKO that ho Intondod to quit tho railroad business. The Japaneso crisis, threatened by tho finance minister's demand for wholesale outs In tho budgot. prob ably will be averted. Hugo von Tschudl. ono of the best known authorities on art In Eurono. and Dr. Wilholni Jensen, the well known Gorman author, died In Munich Friday. According to tho report of tho Italian government thero wero 113 cases of cholera and, flfty-flvp deaths in Italy rrom November C to Novem ber 11 Inclusive. Urging laws In tho interest of farm- ors and the lightening of their burden of taxation. Governor 'Judson Harmon of Ohio addressed the uatlonal grang at Columbus, O. Frank Allen, arrested as a suspect In Pekln, III., acknowledged to Sheriff Fleugal that he 1s one of the men wanted lu North Dakota for holding up a Northern Pacific train lasbJuly. Forty-seven carloads of c garottes. valued at $1,000,000, have arrived at superior, Wis., from the cast br way or the Great lakes and will be shipped to Vancouver. 1). 0.. for export to China and Japan. Susie 19, Presalcr. aged sixty-four, a pension agent of Toledo. O.. wns ar. rested by United States offlcors on an inuictmont roturned In Aberdeen, S. D charging her with fraud jn connec tion with a land drawing In 1010, wit Japanese Antarctic etfnodlHnn aboard tlie Kalnan Maru,. which waa rorceu, jo return to Sldnoy last spring after reaching 74 dogrooB south, has started on Us second attempt to reach me south pole, A quarterly dividend of to nor share was declared by the director or Mm Caluntet and Heda Mining company, A new counterfeit fcG per sharo was declared by he directors of the Calu met and lleola Mining company. Spokane shipper Joined with thn Department of Justice and the Inter state Commorco commission In an ap peal to the supreme xourL of tho United States jtrom tho recent ad vance decision or the commorco court In the Spokane rato caso. Mme. Jerome Napoleon Bonannrin. widow of a graudson of Jerome Bona- parte, brother of tho first Nanolnnn. and n granddnuxhter of Danlol wii. ater, died In Washington after a long nines, sue was seyenty-two years old and waa born In Beaton. Manna. chussetta. At Chicago .Indite flnnrcfl A. (In tor granted the indicted Chicago pack, ers a delay Jn their crlmlnaLrlal un til December 0 pending proceedings for the defendants boforo tho Unltod States aupreme court, Counsel for tho packers will sock further dolav when the federal supreme court re convenes at Washington December 4, when a motion for a stayi order will be presented. BHTHE IS B URIED REMAINS OF WIFE MURDERER LAID AWAY. THE WORK DONE SECRETLY Only Immediate Members of the Fam lly and Eight Boyheed Friends ,. Attend the Funeral. . Richmond, Va. By tho grave of tho wlfo whom ho murdorcd' July 18, tho body of Honry Clny Beattlc, Jr., was burled In Maury ccmotory shortly after sunrise Sunday. Thoro was n brief service at tho rcsldonco, attended only by .members of tho family and olglit friends who served an pallbearers, und then tho proces sion moved through the silent streets of South Richmond, Rev. John J. Fix, who prayed with Beattio Just before ho was lod into tho death chamber at tho pcnltcntlury Friday morning, read the service of the Presbyterian church. To guard against possible anoyance tho exact hour of tho funeral was kept secret until midnight and consequent ly there wcro no crowds around ' the Heattle. homo or cemotery. Police wore on duty, but Uio hcarso and cov en carriages bad .reached tho grave before tho city was astir. When tho burial was concluded II. C. Beattio, sr., left with Douglas, .his eon, and Hazel, his daughter, and two aunts of tho murderer. The aged father's grief was intense. Tho pallbearers, boyhood friends of Beattio, wcro aBkcd by hlra to serve. Several of them had testified In his dofciiBO at tho trial and one was his best mwn when he and Louise Well ford Owen were married, exactly one year from the date he pleaded not guilty of her murder in court, A florist's wagon, completely filled with, flowors, entered the cometery gates ust after daylight, and the mound of earth was hidden beneath chrysanthe mums and Immortelles. After It became known that tho funeral had already beoti held a tre mendous crowd visited tho cemetery. Double ropes wero stretched around the Beattio section, and two mounted policemen lu addition to officers afoot kept tho crowds back. Thero was no disorder, however, and no attompt to take away the flowors. NEBRASKA IN DRIEK. News Not of Interest from Various Sections. BANKER MORSE TRANSFERRED. a Taken From Atlanta Prison to Fort McPherson. Atlanta, Cla. Charles V. Morse, the New York bnnkor, Sunday ex changed his baro cell at the federal prison here for h more commodious ward In the army hospital at Fort Mc Pherson, The change was ordered by Attorney General Wlckcraham, who recontly made a special visit 'to At lanta to investigate the condition or Mr. Morse. Tho trausfor waa made about 8 o'clock in the morning, Morse making the trip of several miles in an ambulanco, accompanied by Mnjor Baker, chief surgeon at the fort. Endangered By Forest Fires. Santa Monica, Col. -Joe Anchor, a rancher, 'his wlfo and four children! which have been placed in tho state's are bollovod to have perished and many summer homes destroyed in a forest fire in Topango canyon. Sev eral hundred persons are making their way out over tho almost Im passable trails and are suffering greatly. Personal. Bird 8. Coler says the spread of the socialist doctrine Is a real menace. Col. Roosevelt is urged to .make the race for president, Suffragettes of Loudon threaten to renew their struggle. The trcasnrer of an oil company was arrested at Pittsburgh. General Reyes Is hold to be the dis turber of peace in Mexico, Former Senator John F. Dryden or Kew Jersey 'died at Newark. The U. 8. supreme court has ad journed until December 4th. Kngllsb. suffragettes are preparing another onslaught en parliament. Norman K. Mack say that Roose- velt 1b an avowed candidate far the Kesldency. Mary Chamberlain, the victim of tkV Kansas tarrlag episode, uid her story to a erowded court room. President at Episcopal Church. Wnshlngionr-President Taft, who usually attends All Saints' Uulturlan church, bocauso Sunday was"peaco Sunday, worshipped at the Episcopal Church of the Bphluny whoro the rector, Rev. Dr. II. R, McKim, preach in advocacy of the arbitration treaties now pending between tho United States and Great Britain and France. Wreckers Blown to Pieces. Cleveland, O. Six Florida wreckers wero blown up Sunday while attompt Ing to Becure a floating box of ex plosive, part of the cargo of tho steamor San Joachim, which went ashore November 22 on the rocks of Fort Atwood bay. Ruttla Opposes Blockade, r Paris. Russia Informed Franco and tho other powers that It Insists on tho netutrallty of tho Dardonolles as provided by. tho treaty of London In 1871. Help Up by a Lone Robber, Columbus, 8. C.A westbound At lantic Coast Lino train was help up by a robber who rlHcd the mall bags. The robbery occurred within two miles ot this city, Paid for His Protection. Chicago, Lewis Levin, a witness before tho civil service commission, which is investigating conditions In the police department here, on Satur day "testified 'tnat he had paid $400 for alleged protection en the west side, Package ef $19,000 Is Gone, Winnipeg, Man. An express pack, age containing $10,000 was stolen from the oScea of the Canadian Northern Expresa company at Region on Friday Ust. Tho Daughters of Rebecca have or ganized a lodge at Scottsbluff. Butler county will have n corn show that will opcti nt David City, Dec. f. Tho Peru normal quartot has gone on tho road to fill a number of on gagements. The cornerstone has been laid for a costly Catholic church to bo built in Hastings. The Fremont postofflco building, overhauled and enlarged at a cost of foO.OOO, Is now occupied It has been arranged to hold a big farmers instltuto with a display of farm products In Havelock on Janu ary 9. At the stato conference of rcpubllo ans In Omaha It was decided to hold a Taft mass Incetlng at Lincoln De cembor 19. A night school has been established at McCook for tho benefit of such children as nro tinablo to attend tho day school, Tho city of Tecumsch is advertis ing for bids for proposed public Im provements amounting to $29,500, the bonds having boen recently voted. Tho Stnto Railway commission granted to delay putting in effect cer tain class nnd commodity rates from Lincoln, Fromont, Omaha and Grand Island to tho North Platte country un til December. County Survoyor Sanders declares that a new high water mark In road' Improvement hns been set in Dodge county by tho work of the past year, when tho expenditures for road Im provement wero approximately $25,-000. Thomas K. Etownrt, former book- keeper at tho Instltuto for feeble minded youth at Beatrice was acquitt ed aftor a Jury had been out nn hour and live minutes. Stewart was charg ed with embozzlcmeut of funds of the Institution. Tho mcmbora of tho county board of Hall county and the officers of Grand Island are negotiating for the estab lishment of u Joint emergency hos pital, on tho poor farm, two miles north of tho city. Tho noed of n county Institution Iiob often bcen,felt. mo largo barn on tho old W. A. Poynter farm, southwest of Albion was destroyed by fire. The farm Is owned by Mrs. W. A. Poynter of Lin coln and Is farmed by Charles 'Dalgh. How the flro started Is a mystery. The live stock was rescued with tho ex ception of throe pigs. Two of Ashland's leading ministers, Rev. John D. Rico, rector of St. Ste phen's Episcopal church and Rov. Vic tor F. Clark, pastor of the First Con gregational jchurch, have tendered tholr resignations. Mr. Rico will re move to Portland, Ore., and Mr. Clark expects to take up work with Doane college of Crete. The Nebraska Woman Suffrage league, in session at Lincoln, elected officer, as follows: President, Dr. Inez Phllbrlck, Lincoln; vlco president, Mrs. Anna Kovandn. Table Rock: recording secretary, Mrs. Ada Shafor, Omaha; corresponding secretary, Miss Mary H. Williams, Kenosaw; treasur er, Dr. Emma W. Demaroo, Roca; au ditors, Mrs. Frank Harrison, Lincoln, and Mrs. Kate Chaplnhouse, Peru. 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An advance ot from 3 to 9 cents Jpor hundred weight on nil merclinndUo freight shipped from Atlantic seaboard to Lincoln will be effective January J, ae a result of the order of tho in torajato commerce commission re Bcindlng Its order of December 20, 1009, In the Burnham, Hanna, Hunger rato, case. collection of wild fjamo. Tho state will endeavor lo propagate the Hun garian partridges and then distribute them in portions of the state where they will bo protected. Several years ago several hundred partridges of this varloty wore dlstrlbutetd In tho north ern part of the state, Most ot them are said to have been killed by tho people who bought and liberated them, but at Gordon tho flock that waa protected 1b reported to have In .creased to 200. The Stato Dur association will meet In Lincoln city December 28 aad 29. .This year's annual meeting will close with a banquet on 'the evening of tho latter date. Cblof speakers at Mio gathering will bo John II. Atwood of Kansas City on "Tho Stato as a Hate Maker,' Jesse U Hoot on "The Other Sldo or tho Shield" and Paul L. Martlu or Omaha on "The Trained Lawyer." State Hume .Warden Miller has been Informed that the buck deer seen near Sterling, Johnson county, went north and crossed tho Platte river near the state fisheries at South Ucnd and thea started oast along the banks of the , river, Ho believes It was tho mate ot tho doe shot and killed near Wahoo several wcoks ago. A few days ago while Thotnna Lily of Ulchurdson county was shell. Ing corn for a neighbor, ho broko Mb let. Something had gone .wrong- wtlh the clutch and he kicked at It, and In this way was caught. An examina tion by doctors showed It to be too badly ninnglod to be set, and it was and It was therefore amputated just abovo tho knee. The vpstry of Christ's Episcopal church of Central City has extended a call; to the Itev."j; Franklin Long, at praseat pastor of fit. Ann's parish In Chicago. He Is very highly recom 4meuded, and the local vestry Is very anxious to secure him. Feurteon homesteaders under the Lincoln laud office jurisdiction have applied for permission to make final proof In the past month. Included in the number was an application from Greeley county, a mere or leaa unuau at circumstance because ot the scar, city ot available homesteads la that county at present, State .Anti-Saloon League. The annual meeting of tho Stato Anti-Saloon Jcaguo was hold here be hind closed doors. Out of thlrty-flvo trustees of the league, twenty-five were present. Discussion of tho work of the past year featured tho moetlng. The election of offlccro for tho com ing year resulted as follows: S. K. WnrrlcU, Alliance, prealdont; J. M. Guile, Lincoln! vlco-presldcnt and treasurer; J. W. Hilton, Cotner, secretary-Nil. P. Carson, Lincoln, superin tendent, nnd Thomas Darnell, also ofc this city. In Supreme Court. Bccauso in hfa absonco tho church p.cuplo went ahead- and built a struc ture Bomewhat more costly than ho had nt first thought they would, Fran els G. Keens, a Kearney man, Is fight ing in supreme court n decreo of tho district court which doclnred that he must pay a $3,000 contribution. Indorsed the Socialists. Tho Initial session of tho Nebraska Woman Suffrgo loaguo Indorsed the action of the national socialist party In Its efforts to secure tho adoption of an amendment to the fedoral constitu tion providing for granting tho ballot to women. ' Nebraska Railroad Ernlngs. The railway commission hns com plcted a report of the business doue by all rallroadB at all alatlons In No braska Tor tho year ending Juno 30, 1911, The business dono by all rouds at Omaha during tho flscalyear was $U,04;6,2;i8,iM. Tho business dono nt South Omaha amounted to $0107 C33.87, and that at Lincoln, 13,39c'- Requisition Honored. A requisition for tho return of J. A. Gregory to Sduth Dakota on the chargo of grand larceny has been hon ored by Governor Aldrich. Gregory waB arrested at Omaha with two horses In his possession which he la charged with stealing. Business of the Railroads. Compilations made In tho statisti cal department of the rallwaytcom- mission, ln-ehargo of U, q. Powell, show that tho volume of business dono by all roads in NebrasUn was grnator for tho year ending June 30. 1011, than for tho preceding fiscal year. For tho year 1911 all roads in tho btnto did a businesa amounting to $55,094,300.63 and for the preced ing fiscal year tho business was $53,725,40UG. These figures have no reference to "earnings" of the, roads, but merely show the volumo of busi ness, being a summary of the btiBl ness of every station In the state. A Jury Commission. A Jury commission of the clerk of the district court and an appointee ot the state Is ono of several changes which will bo submitted at tho next session of the legislature by the statute revision commission. Prlmarlas on Friday. Officials at the state house have figured out that the primary next year will fall on Friday, April 19. The pri mary election, according to law, is to be held forty-five days prior to the first Monday lu June, New Plumbing Recommended. , At a meeting ot tho Board or Public Lands and Buildings Governor Aid rich urged that all tho plumbing at the Institution for tho feeble minded at Beatrlco bo replaced In the hopo of checking the epidemic of typhoid fever there. Silk Thieves Caught. Fillmore County. Threo Btrangers who were trying to soil silks and furV In Fairmont wore arrested by Sheriff Ashton on suspicion. W, h, Taylor of Exeter, Nelf, identlllod somo of the goods as having been taken from his store. Carload of Postal Cards. Tho Lincoln postotlTco received a carload of postal cards for Its sub-, agency. This shipment consisted of" 4,132,000 postal cards, of a value of'' $13,540. It contained the following' cards: 3,820,000 No. 4, ordinary ontfY cent postnl-cards; 90,000 No. 5, white, postul carda printed In red Ink, onov cent each; 220.000 No. G, ono-cent ' double, reply postal cards; 2,000 No." 7, two-cent International postal cards. State Tubercular Hospital. The Board ot Public Land und Buildings Informally discussed ap pointments nt the stato tubercular hospital, but took no action. Slate Treasurer George . proposed the ap pointment of a man and his wife, ono to be a farmer and the othor house keeper at a total salary of $100 n month. Thore are thirteen acres of land surrounding tho building, most of It being In alfalfa. Tho board de elded not to pay more than $75 a month to both the farmer and house keeper and the discussion stopped,