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THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
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ER OF THE WEEK
COWHBN8ATION8 OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
II BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Othor
Matters In Brief Form for All
Classe of Readers.
Congress.
Survey and estimato of a ship canal
around Nlugara Kails was asked for
Jn a bill Introduced by Representa
tive Mott
The commltteo on prlvlllgcs and
cloctlonB adopted a report exonerating
Senator Stophenson from charges of
corruption.
In tho senate tho 8herwood pension
bill wan rejected by tho pensions'
committee and a substitute of Senator
Smoot adopted.
James J. Hill testified regarding tho
Hill lease of tho Lalco Superior oro
fields before tho house Stanley steel
committee.
' Tho llvc-yoar army enlistment,
amendment to tho army appropriation
bill was adopted in tho house by a
vpto of 101 to 73.
A delegation from tho American
Rankers' association urged tho enact
ment of legislation for better regula
tion of bills of lading.
A servlco pension bill similar to tho
Bhorwood bill and prohibiting special
pension legislation was introduced in
Jio senato by Senator Works.
Senator WllllamB of Mississippi ad
ocatcd before tho senato Intorstato
Commerce commltteo UIh bill for tho
tcgulatlon of intorstato corporations.
Tho Lewis fraud ordor caso devel
oped controversy botwoon Georgo D.
Cortelyou nnd E. C. Mnddon beforo
tho house poBtofflco expenditures com
mltteo. Tho bill to mako effective tho con
vention between tho United States,
Great Britain, Japan nnd Russia to
Btop polnglc Bcnllng was passed by
tho house.
Roprcscntntivo Lamb of Virginia
has Introduced n bill to llconso all lo
comotive onginccrs and plnco them
under tho Indirect supervision of tho
Intorstnto commorco commission.
It was charged beforo tho commlt
teo on expenditures In tho War de
partment that President Taft shield
ed Major Ray, a paymaster, from
court-martial because of Ray's politic
al services In 1008.
General.
China has becomo a ropubllo by the
abdication of tho Imperial Iioubo.
A Now York sowing machine man
mtya thoro i no need of a protective
duty.
For the timo being, at least, Mexi
can troopB will not bo allowed on
American territory.
Senator Rood of Missouri Introduced
Ills anti-third term amendment to tho
constitution.
Every ward In St. Louis elected
Champ Clark delegates to tho demo
cratic otato convention.
Tho Western Retail Lumbermen's
association at Seattle wont on record
bb opposed to tho parcelB post.
Tho old story of improper acquisi
tion of tho Panama canal zone was
retold to a houso committee.
Tills Is not tho year for Roosovolt
to mako tho raco for president, ac
cording to Secrotnry MacVeagh.
Tho Oklahoma republican stato com
mltteo at Its meeting endorsed Presi
dent Taft for ronominatlon.
Headquarters for Speaker Champ
Clark's campaign for the democratic
presidential nomination wero opened
at Washington.
Stato Senator A. V. Proudfoot or
Indinnola, la., authorized tho Htato
ment that ho will seek tho republican
nomination for governor.
Tho stato department has concludod
to decllno tho request of tho Mndoro
government for permission for Mexi
can troops to cross TexaB.
Lawrcnco Y. Sherman of Spring
field, 111., mado formal nnnouncomont
of his candidacy for tho republican
Domination for United States senator.
Georgo G. Thompson of Dotrolt,
Mloh., superintendent of rural mulls,
was appointed chief clork of tho post
office department at a salary of 14,000
a year.
Tho tariff board's money is running
eo low that it may not this year bo
Ablo to Investigate tho iron and stool
schedule, which is under investigation
by congroBB,
Tho twenty-flvo army posts which
experts of tho war department advo
cate abolishing will not bo provided
for in tho army appropriation bill
now before tho house.
At tho Department of Justlco it
was said that no ovldonco implicating
officials of tho Amorlcnn Federation
of Labor had been adduced in tho
grand Jury Investigation at Indiana
polls, No official statouiont was
forthcoming.
Albert Prlnco pleaded not guilty to
the charge of murdering Doputy War
den E. D, Davis at the Nebraska peni
tentiary. Tho Illness of Representative Ueorgo
R. Maltby of Now York, who now is
convalescent, has delayed tho final re
port of the house commltteo which
investigated tho sugar trust.
Colonol Roosevelt declined to dis
close the contents of the letter ho re
ceived from state governors.
Tho houso paased tho anti-loan
shnrk bill fixing 12 per cent ns tho
maximum Intorcat rate in tho District
of Columbia.
Kansas City, Mo., will bo tho sceno
of tho next lntorcolleglato balloon
race.
An nppcal for votes for women waB
mado to the senate woman suffrngo
committee.
Former Governor Myron T. Herrlck
of Ohio was confirmed as ambassa
dor to Franco.
Hrlgadlcr General Charles II. Whip
ple, pnymastor general of tho army,
was retired.
James .1, Hill nays competition, In
steel, as In everything else, Is des
tined to continue,
American soldiers by getting Into
Juarez, Mexico, by mlstako caused a
great commotion.
Tho United States has given assur
nnco to Moxlco that there is no
thought of Intervention.
A Bteel magnato said labor unions
should bo under government control
tho samo as corporation!).
Congressman William Kent, of tho
Second California district announced
his retirement from congress.
A forost lands oxecutivo order by
Theodoro Roosevelt will probably be
rescinded by President Taft.
Sovoral hundred billiard hall pro
prietors from all partB of Iowa met
and formed n stato association.
Arthur W. Brewster of Kansas City
filed his declaration as candidate on
tho democratic tlckot for governor.
The Now York democratic state
convention to Bolcct delegates to tho
national convention at Dnltlmore will
bo held April 12.
B. H. Meyer at a hearing urged
wider powers for tho commission, in
cluding physlcul valuation of railroads
and supervision of bonds.
W. Morgnn Shuster, ox-treasurer
general of Porsln, was a passenger on
tho steamship Georgo Washington,
which Bulled from Southampton for
Now York.
Tho docks nnd waro houses of the
Campagnlo do 1'nOconn burned at Ani
Btordam, The loss on goods stored in
tho ward houses Is estimated at over
$400,000.
The British steamer Cuban, which
arrived in London from Now Orleans,
brought Into port nlno of tho crew of
tho British ,hlp Brno, which was
wrecked In a heavy storm.
Intorstato Commorco Commissioner
Lnno told tho Interstate Commorco
commltteo Investigation showed nu
merous dovlatlonu by express com
panies from published rates.
CharleB Hnzen Hyde, former Now
York city chnmborlaln, lost his appeal
to tho appellato division of tho su
premo court for a change of venuo,
and therefore must stand trial.
Mrs. S. II. Schermorhorn, wifo of a
Chicago broker, was seriously burned
when an alcohol stovo overturned in
a compartment of a car on tho Santa
Fo California limited train near Em
poria, Kan.
William MoVoy, arrested In Now
Orloans for Inrcony, Is tho former Ne
vada convict for whom a roward was
offored aftor tho murder of William
A, Sandorson at Garflclud, Utah, No
vombor 11.
President Tnft'a urgont appoal for
development In Alaska bore fruit in a
bill Introduced by Chairman Flood, of
tho territories commltteo, to create an
Alaska railroad commission of threo
mombers.
Comptroller of tho Currency Mur
ray announced that ho would strictly
enforco tho law which holds directors
of natural banks llablo for losses sus
tained through, loans In excess of le
gal amounts,
Postmasters af postal saving doposl-1
torles may accopt deposits from any
body, tho regulation restricting dopos
Iters to tho patrons of a particular or
flco being rescinded In an ordor issued
by Postmaster General Hitchcock.
Representative Mott of New York
Introduced In tho houso a bill appro
priating $250,000 for tho survoy ana
estimate of cost of a ship canal to con
nect tho navigable waters of the
Niagara river, making a continuous
water routo botweon the flvo great
lakes.
Senator Raynor askod tho Bcnato to
adopt a resolution instructing Uio
Judiciary commltteo to roport if tho
anti-trust law could bo so strength
ened us to deflno clearly tho nets con
stituting n violation of tho law and
to insure the protection of fair com
petition in interstate trado.
Personal.
LaFolletto says ho is not out of the
presidential race.
Tho national commission of China
has elected Yuan Shi Knl presidont.
Former Gov. Folk of Missouri has
dropped out of tho presidential raco.
Norman E. Mack has roslgnod us
democratic stuto chairman of Now
Yorlc
Adjutant Gonoral Alnsworth was
placed on the rotlred list at hlB own
rouqost
Attorney Gonoral WickcrBham says
it will take RooBovolt's word to sat
isfy him ho is a candidate.
Tho trial of tho alleged dynamlt
ore has been tentatively flxod for
Muy.
Adjutant General Alnsworth has
boon relloved of duty and is to face a
court martial,
Leo Mulgrow of Dubuque was re
elected president of the Iowa ntate
bakers' association,
Governor Aldrlch of Nebraska said
that talk of himself as u vice presi
dential candidato waB premature.
Common scnBo and honest methods,
Is tho panacea recommended by ex
Senator Boverldgo for government
ills.
HELP FOB SETTLERS
IRRIGATION ENGINEER VISITS
THE STATE CAPITAL.
HAS A PB08LEM TO SOLVE
Water Rates So High That the Out
look la Discouraging Miscella
neous Capital Mattero.
Hnrteon A. Mark, an Irrigation en
gineer from Morrill, Neb., was at the
capital to see if thoro was not some
way by which tho state railway com
mission could help out tho Bottlers on
the interstate ditch In his section.
When tho reclamation service engi
neers mado an estlmato of what wa
ter rights were to cost they placed it
at $35 per acre, with a maintenance
charge of forty cents per aero per
year. On the Btrongth of thlB a largo
number took up lands under tho gov
ernment project. Payments wero to
date from tho time water waB turned
on, which tho engineers fixed at Juno,
1908, but aB a matter of fact only a
small portion of tho dlBtrlct, obtained
water on that dato, with tho result of
uo crops.
Tho engineers allego this was duo
to tho farmers not knowing how to
handle their dltchcB, but the settlers
and engineers employed by them as
sort It wob duo to faulty construction
of ditches.
This, howover, Is not ull of their
troubles. Instead of $35 por aero tho
price has been raised to $45 for all
who had not paid up on their con
tracts. In one section only one mnn
was able to do thlB und ns a result nil
othorB aro held for tho greater rate.
The maintenance charge, Instead of
being forty cents per aero is $2. This
maintenance charge 1b remitted for
two years to ull who sign the now con
tract. Many of those sottlerB, Mr.
Mark says, have Invested everything
thoy have nnd duo to lack of water
for their lands have neither money
nor tho credit to get it to enable thorn
to mako their payments and unless
Bomo rellof Is afforded by means of
extensions will lose their investment.
Even with tho extension they aB
Bert the rate Is bo high that no one
but a capitalist can swing tho propo
sition. Tho ditch being an interstate
proposition tho railway commission
1b doubtful of its authority to do any
thing in the matter of regulating
rates, which aro llxod by tho Water
Users' association, composed entirely
of owners of deeded lands.
Rotation on the Ballot.
F. M. Currle, secretary, and C. A.
Adams, presidont of tho Taft league,
called on Secretary of Stato Walt in
regard to how tho namoB of candi
dates for delegates wero to go on tho
ballot. Both tho La Follotto and Taft
organizations are understood to favor
Bomo method by which tho respective
delegations can bo designated by the
name of the candidate they stand for,
nnd that each sot bo grouped and tho
groups rotated Instead of rotating tho
Individual names. Mr. Walt holds that
In tho nbsenco of any speclllc provis
ion ho will follow tho Intent of tho
law, which clearly Is to make tho bal
lot Intelligible to tho votorB.
Nearlng Century Mark.
Last Thursday was the ninety-sixth
birthday of the Rov. Harrison Pres
Bon.'Ho received callB from many old.
soldiers nnd womon of tho relief
corps at hla homo In Lincoln. Tho
Rov. Mr. PresBon in 1850 preached tho
first Bormon dollvored In Omnhn. He
1b in good health and his faculties aro
bright and keen. Ho sorvod In the
civil war and bo did his son.
Condition of Treasury.
With only four counties yet to ro
port their collections up to January
tho Btato treasury Iiub received $701,
404.9G since January 1. Of tills
amount $418,272.13 wob received in
January and $283,132.83 in February.
Whilo DouglaB county has not mado
dual Bottlemont it has remitted tho
major portion of tho amount duo tho
Btnte. Tho other counties ScottB
bluff, Gardon und Custer by ronson
of having a largo amount of school
land, will hnvo heavy payments, largo
ly for tho school fund.
Prince Before Court.
Albert Prlnco, colored convict, who
killed Doputy Warden DavjB at tho
penitentiary, wub arraigned in county
court on tho charge of murder in tho
llr8t degree Ho ploadod not guilty,
waived preliminary hearing nnd was
remanded for trial. ,
Deserter Arrested.
J. F. Guthrlo, a deserter from tho
torpedo boat destroyer Preston, who
gnvo himself up at tho recruiting sta
tion, will bo court murtinled.
Kearney Hospital Contract.
Tho Board of Public Lands and
Buildings awarded tho general con
tract for the erection of tho now tu
berculosis hospital at Kearney. It
wont to W. S. Crossloy of Kearney,
who la Just finishing up n contract on
tho Kearney Normal. Tho general
contract calls for $10,180, plumbing
and heating,' $2,700; wiring, $325;
total of $13,105 for tho building. ThlB
price was reached by changing the
plana somewhat. "This will loave a
conslderublo sum for tHtlngs and put
ting tho building in shape.
PRIMARIE8APRIL 19.
Governor of 8tate Prepares Hie
Proclamation.
Governor Aldrlch has proparcd it
proclamation calling a primary elec
tion to be held April 19. In accordance
with the law IiIh proclamation calls
for tho selection of candidates for tho
following offices:
Preferential candidato for president.
Preferential candidate for vice
president.
One United States Ecnator.
Four delegnte3 at large and two
from each congressional district to nt
tend national conventions of the vari
ous political parties.
One national committeeman lor
each political party.
Ono congressman from each of tho
six congressional districts.
Governor.
Lieutenant governor.
Secretary of state.
Auditor of public accounts.
State treasurer.
Superintendent of public Instruc
tion. Attorney general.
Commissioner of public lands ana
buildings.
Ono railway commissioner.
Eight presidential electors.
Stato senators nnd representatives.
And five constltutlonul nmendments
for adoption as party measures by tho
various political parties, as follows:
No. 1. Reserving to tho people tne
right of direct legislation through tne
Initiative nnd referendum.
No. 2. Fixing tho term of ofllce ana
Increasing tho snlarles of members of
tho legislature.
No. 3. Creating a board of commis
sioners for state Institutions.
No. 4 Providing for general elec
tion onco in two years.
No. 5. Allowing cities of more than
5,000 inhabitants in this state to
frame their own city charters.
Merchants Are Pleased.
Nebraska merchants are feeling
much plensed over tho action of tho
lnterstato commerce commission In
suspending tho proposed freight
schedules of tho western railroads,
No. 51, which was to have been effect
ive February 15. The schedule pro
vides for Increases in some rates and
for a reclassification in part of exist
ing schedules. In order that time
might bo glvon for a thorough exami
nation of conditions and of the effect
of tho new rateo, tho commission or
dered them Ineffective until June 14,
In the meantime it haB promised a
searching investigation.
Major Penn to Manila.
It is understood at the state house
that Major J. A. Penn, the regular
army officer detailed as Inspector and
Instructor to the Nebraska National
Guard, will bo ordered about, April 1
to rejoin his regiment. As his regi
ment is now in the Philippines this
means another trip to tho orient for
tho major. Major Penn has been on
detached duty as long as tho military
regulations permit and this Is the rea
son assigned for the transfer.
Two Regiments May Go.
Adjutant General Phelps has noti
fied the War department that Nebras
ka will send two regiments to tne
army maneuvers at Fort D. A. Russell,
Wyo., In case the railroads will grant
a suitable rate, such as Is In etTect to
Denver, but In case no rate Is maae
only ono regiment will attend.
Prince Expects to Be Hung.
Albert Prince, tho "Omaha negro who
on Sunday murdered Deputy Warden
E. D. Davis at tho state penitentiary
Just ns chapel exorcises wero drawing
to' a close, Is confined in the dungeon
roslgned to tho fate which he knows
nwnlts him. He expects u death sen
tence for his crlmo and ho declares
that ho Is ready to pay the price or
tho blood of tho man ho slow because
of some slight reprimand which that
official had given him.
Violation of Law.
Labor Commissioner Louis V. Guye
hns mailed a notice to a company
playing at tho Amorlcan theator in
Omaha that they wore violating the
law when they permitted 7-yenr-old
Gladys Ponlca to appear on tho stage.
Tho company has now left the
state.
More Bonds Bought.
Tho Board of Education Lands ana
Funds has invested $C0,800 of perma
nent school funds, as follows: Bonds
of tho city of Sutton, $28,o00; bonds. of
tho city of Rushvlle, $15,000; bonds ol
tho cty of Gordon, $4,000, and bonds
of tho city of Wilcox, $13,000.
Declare Law Invalid.
Tho county board of Boyd county
and County Attorney D. A. Hurting
ton hnvo set usldo nn enactment of
tho Inst session of tho stato legisla
ture. Tho luw referred to 1b tho act
extending tho ofllce of county assess
ors ono year and tho board of tho
north Nebraska county has declared
that tho law is invalid.
Old Legislators Meet.
"Auld Lang Syno" In Nebraska legis
lative history was inlltated In Lincoln
when membors paBt und present of
tho stato legislature sat around tho
festlvo board and broko bread togeth
er in tho first reunion of Its kind ever
held in tho stato. Ono hundred and
eighty legislators wero In attendance.
The Plans Approved.
Plans for tho $100,000 medical build.
Ing at the Omaha campus of the Uni
versity of Nobraskn wero approved by
tho board of regents. "
A PLAGE ON BENCH
CHANCELLOR OF NEW JERSEY
the PRESIDENT'S CHOICE.
APPOINTMENT ALMOST SURE
Thirty Years As a Jurist, Six Year
Under the Age Fixed for Po
sition by the President.
Washington. Mahlon Pitney, chan
collor of tho stato of Now Jersey
member of congresB for two terms
a lawyer and jurist of thirty years
practice, looms up as tho man whom
President Tuft will uppolnt to the
supremo court bench to succeed the
late Associate Justlco John M. Han
Ian. Among friends of tho president
it wub reported as practically certain
that Chancellor Pitney would bo ap
pointed, and tho nomination, accord
ing to excellent authority, will be
Bent to the senate Monday or Tues
day. So far tho president Is understood
not to have discussed tho appoint
ment, of Chancellor Pitney with all
his cabinet No special meet ing of
tho cabinet has been called .tonight,
but it is possible that members of
President Tart's official family will
be told his choico tomorrow.
The presidont 1b understood to be
lieve that the appointment of Chan
cellor Pitney would not be opposed
in the Benate. Chancellor Pitney has
been under consideration by the
president for several weeks. Follow
ing protests against Secretary Nagel,
Mr. Taft turned his search from be
yond tho Mississippi river, where hi
ilrst looked for a candidate. Chan
cellor Pitney nnd F. J. Swayze, jus
tice for tho supreme court of New
Jersey, wero two men who gradually
became most prominent in the presi
dent's mind.
Chancellor Pitnoy meets many of
tho president's requirements for a su
premo court justice. He is just a
little more than 54 years old, six
years under Mr. Taft's age limit, and
has been a practicing lawyer and a
judge since 1882. He served as as
sociate Justice of the New Jersey
supremo court from 1901 to 1908 and
became chancellor In the latter year.
His term would expire in 1915. His
home is in Morrlstown.
PINCHOT QUITS LA FOLLETTE.
Says Wisconsin Senator's Course
Falls of Purpose.
Washington. GIfford Plnchot in a
signed statement made public Sunday
announces ho has withdrawn his sup
port from Senator La Follette's presi
dential candidacy and that ho will
horeafter advocate the nomination of
Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Plnchot
says that tho events- of tho last month
have mado it apparent that Senator
La Follette's candidacy will enlther
hold tho progressive republicans to
gether as n fighting force nor prevent
the nomination of 'a reactionary re
publican." Mrs. Lucy D. Flsk Dies.
Boston. Mrs. Lucy D. Fisk, widow
of James Flsk, jr., who was shot more
tQian forty years ago in Now York by
Edward S. Stokes as tho climax of a
bitter rivalry between the two men
for tho smiles of the famous beauty,
"Josle" Mansfield, died almost penni
less Sunday In South Boston. She was
70 years of age.
Five Cases of Yellow Fever.
San Diego, Cal. With flvo cases of
yellow fover among Its crew, tho Brit
ish ship Akalls put Into Sallna Cruz
for medical aid early last week, ac
cording to advices just brought here
by tho American-Hawaiian steamer
Nobraskan.
Clayton for Governor.
St. Joseph, Mo. A special train,
bearing delegates to the democratic
convention at Joplln Tuesday, will
carry nioro than 200 democrats from
northwest Missouri, all of whom lined
up to launch a boom for Mayor A. P.
Clayton of St Joseph for governor.
Many Injured in a Wreck.
Baltimore, Md. In a head-on col
lision between an oast-bound freight
and westbound passenger train on tho
R. & O. railroad near Rockwood, Pa.,
twenty-four aro reported injured.
Called off Invasion.
San Francisco, Cal Freddie Welsh,
British contender for lightweight hon
ors, announced from his bed in his
training quarters at Coluia that lie
had called off hla American invasion.
Make a Demand for Money.
Now York. Hundreds of excited
depositors, mostly foreigners, stormed
tho private bank of Adolph Mondell in
Rlvington street, demanding tholr
money.
To Discuss Wage Demands.
New York. A conferonco commit
tee of twolve, roprosonting the forty
eight eastern railroads concerned, will
meot union representatives in the
near futuro to discuss the recent de
mand of the locomotive brotherhood
for more pay.
Former Baseball Manager Dead.
Cincinnati, O. Edward Ashenbach,
former manager of tho Syracuso, N.
Y team for the New York stato base
ball league, died at a detention hospi
tal of paralysis.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
News Notas of Interest from 'Various
Sections.
Three hundred old Nebraska legis
lators held n banquet in Lincoln.
Citizens of DoWitt aro interesting
themselves in an electric light planL
The Y. M. C. A. of Fremont is mak
ing an effort to clear up its indebted
ness. Farmers' institutes throughout tho
Btnte ure well attended and much In
terest manifested.
In Jefferson county six hundred
men succeeded in killing four wolves
in n round-up.
Burwell is pushing for a public li
brary and seems to have everybody
Interested in the movement.
Twenty-five students from six col
leges wero graduated at the State uni
versity mid-winter graduation exer
cises. All efforts so far to apprehend the'
murderer of tho llttlo girl at Grand
Island have been unsuccessful. There
is a good reward out.
The Eustls board of education at a
special meeting reelected Superin
tendent John L. Zink for another year
at a substantial IncrenBe in salary.
Enos J. Stedman of Syracuse, a
member of the legislature from Otoe
county, dropped dead at tho home of
IiIb son, two miles south of,Syracuse.
shoes and n pair of his trousers.
Marvin Maxwell, 8-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Maxwell of Bloom
field, died as tho result of an accident
while coasting.
Farmers of Nemaha county aro test
ing their seed corn. Much of it shows
a low vitality, and quite a largo per
cent falls to germinate. More care will
be exercised than is usunly taken.
Rov. F. W. Cliff, who has been in
charge of the Baptist church in York
for the paBt five years, has handed hi6
resignation to the trustees, his resig
nation to take effect March 10.
After being given a bed for the
night at the Friends' mission In Fre
mont for 10 cents, Robert Swain,
transient, walked out of the little
church building wearing the minister's
Somo valuable horses have been
lost in the vicinity of Peru and in the
neighborhood of Brownvllle, it is
thought from eating cornstalks which
had not matured when the hard frost
came.
The Dashler broom factory paid out
$2,000.78 the first of February. They
now have eighty-one persons em
ployed. A number are boys that only
work before and after school and Sat
urdays. Henry Johnson, a young farmer liv
ing near Roca, furnished a bond in tho
sum of $500 in the court of Justice
Stevens at Lincoln that he would sup
port his wife and child. Johnson was
charged with wife abandonment.
Edward Williams of Grand Island,
state deputy fire warden, has tendered
his resignation, to take effect March
1. He was appointed when Stato Fire
Warden Randall was chosen by Gov
ernor Aldrlch In January, 1911.
If the 8,000 live stock brands and
marks registered with tho secretary of
Btate 5,000 expire by limitation of law
with tho current year and unless re
newed aro subject to be claimed by
others.
A sad tragedy was enacted at the
home of Ed Orris, a farmer residing
six miles north of Bancroft, when tho
lG-ycar-old Bister of Mr. Orris ended
her life by taking carbolic acid. She
had brooded over somo trouble in the
household.
At Pender, Judge Graves sentenced
J. E. Dillon of Council Bluffs, la., to
an Indeterminate sentence of from
one to twenty years in the peniten
tiary for mayhem. Ho bit off the ear
of Ed Bellvillo of Herman nt Wait
hlll recently whilo fighting.
The board of public lands and build
ings has formally awarded a contract
to W. S. Crossloy of Kearney to erect
a building at the state hospital for in
digent consumptives at that place.
Tho board made several changes in
the original plans.
Representative Flood introduced In
the house a bill to create Alaska rail
road commission.
Chairman M. E. Costin of the
county board of Dawson county has
filed an application with Stato Engi
neer D. D. Price asking state aid for
the building of a bridge at Lexington
across tho Platte river.
Of the nineteen most Important
Junction points in this state, fourteen
transacted a larger volume of busi
ness for the fiscal year of 1911 than
for tho previous fiscal year, according
to roportB on file with the state rall
wny commission.
J. F. Kotnn of Omaha haB been au
thorized by the adjutant general to re
cruit a company of tho National Guard
to bo known aB Company F, First reg
iment. There has been no Company F
In this regiment for somo time, it hav
ing been mustered out.
A pathetic sceno occurred In Judge
Boyle's office at Falrbury when the
county authorities took charge of six
children belonging to Mrs. Lillian
Fivecoat and took them to tho Ne
braska Children's Home society in
Omaha. The family for months has
beon living In dire destitution.
State Treasurer Georgo has bought
$6,000 of bonds of the school district
of Long Pino and $10,000 of bonds is
sued by tho town of Benedict,
Washington dispatch: The entire
Nebraska delegation voted against
cutting off pensions to pensioners liv
ing in foreign lands. It has been found
that many pensioners have removed
to Canada. Many widows of veterans
are living In Europe .Tho Nebraska
members felt that as long as a serv
lco pension .bill had been passed that
it was only consistent to base pen
BionB on service claims rather than
residence.
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