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'& IV ( ' k i i 1 i i I I ! ( . ' ! I 'I , J If?1 m . j . ., THE SEMI-WEEKLY TBIBUHE IRA L. BARE, Publlshor. TERMS, $1.26 IN ADVANCE!. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA NEWS OF HE WEEK C0NWEN8ATI0N8 OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE. I OF EVENTS rational, Political, Penonal and Other Matter In Brief Form for All Classes of Readers. Congress. The house adopted a resolution call ing on the Department of Justice to mako known whether It was Investi gating the "smelter trust." Secretary Stimson urged tho houso commllteo on military affairs to. re commend legislation to Increase tho efficiency of tho national guard. Representative Littleton announced lio would lntroduco a bill to meet tho "legalized monopoly" patent decision handed down by tho nupromo court. Tho Interstate commorco commlttco agreed on tho Panama canal bill, fix ing maximum tolls at $1.25 a ton, nnd no proferenco to American vessols. Senator Hoke Smith attacked ovlla of special pension legislation, saying real solicitors who boro tho brunt of battlo woro discriminated against for favorites. In tho houso nn amondment to tho agricultural appropriation 1)111 increas ing from $125,000 to $500,000 tho amount for protection of tho national forests was adopted. Representative Aiken apologized for lnnguago used In speech printed In Congressional Record, but not deliv ered In house, in which ho assailed President Taft and othora. , Tho sennto appropriations' commlt 3o ordered favorable report on fort! tcattons appropriation bill carrying 44,180,235, Including $150,000 for slto for protection of ontranco to Chesapeake- Day. Congressman StophonB Introduced a bill to give tho court of claims Juris diction over the claim of tho Santco Bloux Nebraska Indians for their an nuities. Tho bill la similar to ono In troduced in the senate recently by Sonator Clapp of tho sennto Indian Af fairs committee. President Taft, in n Bpcclal messago to congress, suggests that consumers of tho United States adopt tho Eng lish system of co-operative buying of tho necessities of life, ns a means of Checking tho increasing cost of living, which, ho says, la world-wide, and has oven vexed tho co-oporatlvo soclotlos of England. Concluding n two days' speech In apport of tho reorganization of tho government printing offlco, Senntor Bmoot, chairman of tho Joint printing committee of tho two houseB, told tho Bcnato that under tho present systom of distribution many exponsivo public documents llnd their way Into the hands of Junk dealers. General. Tho solid Virginia delegation to Chi cago Is plodgod to Taft. Kansas democrats in Btato conven tion instructed for Champ Clark. A resolution charging n basobull trust was Introduced In congross. An unsuccessful attempt was mndo to asBaslnato King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. A. P. Wildor, consul general of tho Unltod States at Shanghai, arrived at San Francisco. Ttoreo woro killed and flvo are miss ing In a wreck on tho Santa Fo In Now Mexico. A Judgo, prosecutor and Bhorlf woro Bhot by Virginia mountain out laws In tho town of Hillsvalo. Alleged dynamiters appeared in court nt Indianapolis, pleaded not guilty and tholr trials woro set for Oc tober, Tho coal minora' strlko In tho great German coal llelda of Westphalia con tinues to spread. Thoro nre now moro than 210,000 men out. Strikes nt six of tho toxtilo mills In Lawrence, Mass., aro endod. Others roinnln In effect nt eoven mills Uiore and ono in North Andovor. Senntor Jones of Washington lntro iftuced a bill to amend tho law for tho protection and regulation of tho flsho rioa of Alaska and on tho Pacific coast Tho embargo on cattlo from Groat Britain whoso Importation into tho Unltod States has boon prohibited for almost a year past, becauso of tho foot and mouth dlseaso, was lifted by Secretary of Agriculture Wllsou. Tho Odin club of Minneapolis, ono of tho largest Scandinavian organiza tions In tho United States, invited Captain Raoul Amundsen, who rocont Jy discovered tho (south polo, to bo 'a guest of tho club on his return trip. Tho government renewed Its fight against tho morgor of the Union and Southern Paolllc railroads. Tho Interior department oxpondi turoB committee prnctlcally decided to investigate the Indian bureau during JtooBovelt nnd Taft administrations. No decision of tho question of Pana ma canal tolls was reached at tho meeting of tho house commlttco on IntorBtato nnd foreign commorco. Charles Vickery, Bald to live in Omaha, Neb., was brought before Howard Abbott, foderal commissioner ' nt Minneapolis chargod with dovising n the lead for mayor in tho city prl a schema to defraud. marica. L. a Ohacnreltcr, tho Dubuquo, la., business man who is on, a twenty-day fast, passed tho fifteenth day. Democratic Lender Undorwood sayB that tho democrats will consider no tariff schedule after tho wool bill la passed. President Taft wanta it understood thero will bo no Intervention In Mex ico. Mr. Roosevelt's pro-convention cam paign will be limited to ulx or eight spooches. W. J. Drynn defended tho Judicial recall boforo the Ohio constitutional convention. The pnrcelB post wns discussed by tho Inundrymen of Iowa at their fourth annual convention. Tho home rulo bill is not to bo in troduced Into tho houso of commons bofore Eastor. Congress Is oxpectcd to act promptlj m an offort to offset tho Bupremo court ruling on patents. Henry Harlg of tft. Loula accident ally shot nnd killed lilu 11-ycnr-old son whllo Bliootlng at a target. Tho plan of tho war department to mako Ft. Snolllng a brigade post has begun to assume definite form. President Taft insists that thero be no moro personalities In tho campaign so far as his aido la concerned. Tho house commlttco on Judiciary has comploted its antl-lnjunctlon bill and will report It to tho house. An express mossonger In Toxaa killed two bandits who attempted to hold up a Southorn Pacific train. By a unanimous voto tho Michigan house passed a worklngmnn's compen sation and omployers' liability bill. Two delegations will probably bo aont to tho national ropublican con vention In' Chicago from Louisiana. Vice President Wood of the Penn sylvania railroad says the steel cor poration should quit carrier busi ness. Tho olghteenth annual meeting of tho northeast Iowa teapherB conven tion will bo hold at Waterloo, March 28, 29 and 30. Speaker . Clark has been compelled by the pressuro of hla official duties to decllno all invitations to mako speeches in various parts of tho country. Chairman Morrison announced that tho patents committee would await probablo rehearing of tho supremo court's patent monopoly decision be fore framing tho now law. Secretary MacVoagh affirmed the sale for customs duties at San Fran cisco of tho Russian art collection, ex hibited at tho St. Louis fair, to Frank C. Havcneof Oakland, Cal, at his bid of $39,000. Proposed advances In tho transpor tation rates on hay, varying 'from $2 to $7 a car by northwestern railroads woro suspended by tho Interstate commorco commission from March 15 until July 13. An increaso in lnsurnnco rntes in tho Modern Woodmon of America, rocently adopted at Chicago, has been npproved by sovonty-llvo deputies of tho ordor representing Missouri, Kan sas and Oklahoma. W. A. Porter, former United States sonator from Kansas, Is critically ill at a hospital in Topeka. His right leg was amputated abovo tho kneo to chock tho progross of gnngrono which affected his foot. Leaders of Uio campaign for votes for women Invaded tho capltol In force and presented tholr argumonts to tho nation's legislators In advocacy of an amondment to tho constitution to enfranchise women. A now mnp of tho United States, proparod by tho general lnnd office, dono In Bovon colors to show national forestB nnd parks, Indian, military, nnvnl nnd other rosorvntlons, has Just boon finished. It 1b a wall mnp, nbout flvo foot by Bovon, nnd 1b corrected to July 1, 1911. They nro to bo sold for $1 oach. Senator LaFolletto wlrod A. II. Tucker, chairman of tho North Dako ta progressive republican lenguo at Fargo, that ho would como to North Dakota and mako several apoochca in tho state In tho last wook of tho pres idential primary campaign If nooded. A messago was sont to LaFolletto re questing his prosonco, nnd arrange ments will bo mado for four or flvo spocchca. WflTdon Jamos Dolahunty, Doputy Wnrden Honry Wagner nnd Guldo lOmil Q. Hollman of tho Nebraska ponttentlary wcro killed by three prisoners who blow locks with nltro glycorln and then UBod flro armB with which they had been provided. Thos. Goody, a guard, waB seriously wounded. Thothreo prisoners com mitting, tho murders mado tholr es capo and nt this writing hnvo not beon captured. Personal, Mr. RoobovoU hns tho first of his campaign apoochoB proparod. Chancellor Pltnoy was confirmed ub n Justlco of tho supremo court. Ropublican mombors of tho houso aro not favorablo to froo sugar. Tho Spanish cablnot, which was reorganized in April, 1911, resignod. Woodrow Wilson Is in fnvor of a presidential preference primary. Dig business is to bo the next sub ject for exposition by Mr. Roosovolt. Suffragists invaded tho national capltol building with a slogan of "votes for woraon," President Taft roturnod from his lato speaking tour tired but well sat isfied. John Barrett tlilnks it tlmo to ex orclao patience In doallng with. Mox- ico. Secretary Nagol clmrged leading re- publlcnn3 with n lack of loyalty to President Taft. Tho socialists swont Rurliiuitnn in landing tlrolr candidate. Schunnnm,' A RULING REVERSED OUPREME COURT CHANGE8 POSI TION IN SURETY CA8E. PROHIBITS COMPACTS IN LINE State Auditor Barton Icsues Warning to Thooe Dealing With "Outlaw" Insurance Companies. Tho supremo court rovorscd its former decision In the case of tho Btato against tho American Surety company. The court now holds that the Junkln anti-trust act Includes In surance compnnies In Clio enumera tion of trusts and restraint of trnde. Tho enso camo up on a motion of tho stnto for a rehearing, the court holding In a previous opinion that tho net did not apply to such companies and that tho Gondrlng act which did, having been repealed by tho Junkln net, thero was no law which Included insurnnco companies within tho inhi bition. In tho rehearing It waB called to tho attention of the court that in tho Omaha Elevator case It had ben held that all of tho Gondrlng net, except tho first section, wns repealed, but that this first section specifically men tioned insurance companies and tho court therefore reversed Its former ruling nnd holds that Insurance Is trade and commorco within tho mean ing of tho law, nnd therefore covered by tho Junkln act. But for this rever sal Insuranco companies would havo been freo to enter Into any comblnn tlon which they saw fit. State Auditor Gives Warning. State Auditor Bnrton hns issued a warning to all merchants and manu facturing companies In tho stato against dealing with tho "outlaw" In surance companies which have no le gal right to wrlto Insurance in Ne braska. Tho au'Mtor proposes to pros ecute ngonta of auch companies if they aro found soliciting business in this Btate. He states that all admitted compan ies aro required by law to appoint tho nudltor of public accounts their at torney, and In case of dispute or liti gation tho claimant can obtain serv Ico on tho auditor and compel the company to make tholr defense in tho Nebraska courts instead of In a for-, olgn Btato or country. Mr. Barton hns received complaints that many mer chants In tho Btato aro patronizing tho oaBtern concerns, and takes this means of warning them against tho danger In doing so. Ho saya, In part: "The outlaw companlea maintain no agenta and nro forced to write tholr Insurnnco by representations mado mado through tho malls. Every busi ness man knows that tho agent who writes his Insurance Is watchful to see that his Interests nro protoctod, that tho terms of policies aro concurrent and do not conflict, and Is Just as careful to guard tho lntereats of tho Insured ns ho is to look ufter the In terests of the compnny ho represents. TheBO InBurnnco agents are, as a rule, competent and actlvo and representa tive mon In tho community nnd fairly earn tho commission thoy rccolvo on tho business entrusted to their care." Sale of Bonds. Somo figures compiled by Stato Treasurer Walter George show that during tho last year bonds of othor Btates belonging to the school fund havo been sold to tho amount of $1,01C,21C nnd that a premium of $8,418.98 hns beon realized on them. Tho proceeds havo boon reinvested in Nebraska securities drawing .93 of 1 por cent higher Interest, which real izes $9,450 yearly for tho Bchool fund. Theso bonds havo boon bought at par. Talking Through Their Hat. When Governor Aldrlch was told that a Lincoln pastor nssortod In n Bormon that the management of the Nebraska penitentiary Is such that prisoners are mado worao Instcid of hotter, ho Bald Bomo of tho critics of tho institution do not know what they nro talking about. Many Cattle Dying. Reports from tho wostom ranges are that mnny cattlo aro dying nB a result of tho sovoro weather and scar city of feed. Tho heavy bhows have covered up the rangoa and tho torn poraturoB havo beon so low much of tho tlmo that Btock haa Buffered greatly. Part of National Guard. Adjutant General Phelps Is consid ering a plan to mako tho Pershing Ri fles, tho crack company of tho uni versity cadets, a pnrt of tho Nebraska Nntlonal Guard. Tho plan was sug gested by Captain Yates, commandant of tho cadets, and haB boon under consideration for somo time. Western Families In Hard Lines. Rev. W. II. Kearns, as Hold secre tary of the homo mission dopartment of tho Prosbytorlan church of this top rltory, has studied tho financial condi tion of tho pooplo In tho western part of Nebraska, and says that tho condi tion of many families 1b pitiful, espe cially In tho North Platto valloy, whoro tho government Irrigation ditch 1b being built. Throe years ago the government Bold tho land to settlers ut tho rato of $35 an aero, which was to includo water rights. Many of tho I people have not yet had water. WORK FALL3 DEHIND. Btato Supreme Court Continues Lose Ground. to Tho Bupremo court nt tho present time is from twenty months to two years behind with Its work, or in othor words a caso filed recently will bo heard in tho ordinary course of eventB in that length of time. What Is still moro discouraging tho court is gradually falling bohlnd instead of digging out under tho pllo of litiga tion. Ono reason for thlB Is found In tho habit which Bomo Nebraska attorneys appear to havo of appealing practi cally every caso in which they can induce clients to take such action. Tho triviality of many of tho cases Is notable. One instance of recent date is whoro a case involving an attach ment against a $40 sewing machine was appoaled twice to tho supremo court and In the finality tho costs amounted to more than $400. Another cobo of comparatively recent vintago involvod a difference of $8 over a deal In hay and this involved costs of about $300. It is estimated that moro than 50 per cent of the civil litigation In tho court Involves sumB of less than $500 and 25 per cent of It lesB than $200. An aggravated feature of the situ ation is that the more tho court gets behind tho moro cases will bo need lessly appealed, for it offers an op portunity for delay to litigants who havo that for their solo purpose. They appeal nnd let tho enso prnctlcally go by default when It actually comes to a hearing and In tho meantime havo gained tlmo to straighten themsolves out or accomplish whatever purposo delay is useful for. Tho Case of Murderer Prince. A. E. Howard, attorney for Albert Prince tho negro murderer of Deputy Warden Davis of the penitentiary, in his argument before Judge Stewart on his motion to have tho Prince case continued over the term, declared that his client hod beon treated with such persistent and extreme cruelty ns to dethrone his reason and render him Irresponsible for his actions. At tho conclusion of the argument he sus tained tho motion and set the trial for April 23d. Colonies for Nebraska. Labor Commissioner Guye announc ed that ho had completed arrange ments for bringing a colony of Jews from Chicago to Nobrasku. He de clined to state tho exact location picked for tho Immigrants. Ho, ex pects to mako similar arrangements for "bringing Danes and other nation ill ties to tho state. Reform School Report. Tho report of tho boys' industrial school at Kearney for February shows' Chat on tho last day of the month thore wcro 199 inmates, against 192 on tho first day of tho month. Thero woro no paroles during February, two In January and throe In December and 9lx In November. Good Seed Corn Found. The pure food department has com pleted tho testing of another batch of seed corn submitted to It. One lot, which came from Decatur In Burt county, showed the highest per cent of gormlnatlng power of any ' yet tested, it developing 90 per cent. Fair Board Hires Band. Tho state fair, management has signed n contract for the nppearnnco at the 1912 fair of the Llberatl baud and grand opera company. Nebraska Guard Maneuver. Tho question whero tho next maneu ver camp of the Nebraska guard shall be held has been referred by tho War dopartment to the commanding gen oral of tho central division with head quarters in Chicago. It has beon set tled, practically, that tho camp will bo Bomowhoro in Nebraska. Socialist Filings. Tho socialists of tho stato have filed a largo list of candidates for Btato offices, tho number including Clyde J. Wright of Lincoln for gov ernor, Adnm Adeo of Steolo City for nttornoy general, nnd congresslonnl candidates as follows: First district, J. S. Balzor, Havelock; Second, J. T. Brlllhart, Omaha; Third, J. W. Swl hart, Fremont; Fourth, B. F. Walton, Geneva; Fifth, Thomas Bristow, Supe rior; Sixth, F. H. Signer, Plbol, Whee ler county. Report On' Industrial School. Superintendent Mnnuol of tho boys' Industrial school at Kearney has re ported to Land Commissioner Cowles an enrollment of 199 boys In tho In stitution. Tho number wna only 188 January 1, and a year or two ago was bolow 100. Tho recoIptB of tho Insti tution for Docomber aggregated $2,799.45, of which $2,001.55 was for sugar boots grown at tho Institution farm. In February tho Institution re ceived $1,500 from tho sale of pota toes. Much of the farm land was Irri gated during tho dry summon Census Figures High. A compilation haa beon mado to show the relation botween tho assess ed valuation of Nebraska lands and tho vnluatlon placed upon farm lands In tho federal census and It shows somo startling results. In some counties the assossed valuation is only 17 per cent, of tho value fixed by tho census and In otiiors It is C9 per cent,, whllo tho average for tho ontlre state Is 5C.lo per cent. In no county In Nebraska Is tho assessed valuation tis high as tho census fig ures sot forth. WORK IN THE HOUSE TARIFF PROGRAM WILL BE OF WAY THIS WEEK. OUT WOOLEN SCHEDULE TUESDAY Much to Do In the Senate, Whero Democratic Revision Measures Are Constantly Piling Up. Washington. Tariff revision will continuo to occupy both houses of congress this week. When tho houBe passes tho excise income tax bill on Tuesday and submits a woolen sched ule revision to tho democratic caucus posslly by tho end of tho week, the revision program there will havo beon been ended. Democratic revision measures aro piling up in the senate. Tho finance commitleo's adverso report on tho houso iron and steel bill will be made this week. Chairman Penrose and his republican colleagues will mako an elaborate statement of their atti tude on tho revision bills. Tho finance committoo will hear Chairman Emery of the tariff board Tuesday on the houso chomlcnl tariff bill, hoarlngs on which probably will Occupy the week. Hearings on the house freo sugar bill will follow the chemical bill. Meanwhile tho democrats and p, gresslvo republicans aro no nearer an undei standing, though some of them express confidence that tho talked-of common ground right bo reached on Bomo tariff legislation. Democratic leaders In tho houso aro determined to speed up legislation. Somo members of tho ways and means committee and many other de mocrats aro insisting upon freo wool, to which Democratic Leader Under wood is as much opposed as ho was originally to free sugar. Mr. Underwoods Idea is to report a eohodulo which would conform to the conference report on schedule K of tho present law last summer, which proposed a 27 per cent ad valorem tariff on raw wool, i Disposition of tho oxclso bill in tho house Tuesday will open the way for further consideration of appropriation bills. Tho postofflce bill, which would establish a parcels post system, will bo considered under a special rulo. Opponents of a parcels post have op posed bill on tho ground that It bears new legislation, point tho new rule Is designed to meet. No Clew to Assassins. Lincoln, Neb. Following another day of activity in searching for con victe Morley, Gray and Dowd, who murdered tho stato penitentiary of ficials Thursday and then made their escapo through tho east end of thi3 city little or nothing has been added to tho clew since It was lost where Lloyd Dickmnn, a milk man's son, left tho men after driving them to the cor ner of Twontleth and R streets in Lin coln. Roosevelt to Take Stump. Oyster Bay, N. Y. First Informa tion of the plan of campaign mapped out by Roosevelt leaders at their con ferences at New Yorlc Friday and Sat urday was given Sunday by Colonel Roosevelt. Dr. Mary Walker III. Now York. Dr. Mary E. Wnlkor, widely known ns nn ndvocato of woman's rights and "dress reform," in which she set an example by wear ing male attire, is in tho Presbyterian hospital here and was reported Sun day night to bo dangerously 111 Virginia Outlaws at Large. Hlllsville, Va. Two thousand feet abovo 6ea level, among the crags of the Blue Ridge mountains, tho Allen gang, who demonstrated their con tempt of constituted law by a massa cre of the Judge, tho prosecutor and tho sheriff of tho Carrol county court last Thursday, continued to defy cap ture. German Aviator Killed. Berlin. Herr Wlttee, who took a prominent part In tho Berlin aviation meeting at Johannlsthal, was killed on tho 15th. He was making a flight in tho vicinity of tho suburb of Tel tow when his biplane collapsed and foil, killing hira Instantly. Roosevelt's Position Criticised. Washington James H. Boyd, chair man of employers' liability commis sion of Ohio, before the houso Judici ary committee, criticised Roosovolt's position on liability act. Hygienic Order Issued. Washington. Under nn executlvo order Issued by President Taft tho government buildings of tho capltol nro to bo swept, dusted, fumigated and otherwise mado sanitary. No More Troops to Border. Washington. No moro troops will bo sent to the Mexican border nt present to enforce tho neutrality laws, in accordance with President Tnft's proclamation rocently issued. Tho army regards that as tho duty of tho civilian customs officers. Discover a New Star. Cambridge, Mass. A nowly discov ered star, which gave an unusual Bpectrum, resembling eomewhat that of our sun, was an object of much in terest to Harvard astronomers. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. News Notes of Interest from Various Sections. eocioHsts of Lincoln Cmvo put a ticket in the field. A straw voto at Alliance for demo cratic nominees gavo Wilson 19. Other candidates receivod but ono vote each. Tho Nebraska Llvo Stock Remedy company has been incorporated at Fremont with a capital stock of $30, 000. Tho two leading parties nt Neligb. aro endeavoring to get together and put up a citizens ticket for tho coin ing election. Fremont Methodists at n meeting discussed tho subject of assisting la the campaign for a $400,000 endow ment fund for Wesleyan university. An epidemic of chlckonpox prevails in Oxford. No severe cases have oc curred and comparatively little other sickneso prevails. Mrs. Villa Scott, a young woman, wiho camo to Lincoln from Harrison villo, Mo., to get a divorce from hor husband, killed herself by swallowing carbolic acid. Nelson, in Nuckolls county, is talk ing up a municipal light plant. There is a private light plant there now, but the servlco doc3 not seem, to bo satis mactory. A resolution from tho Nebraska Wo man Suffrago league, Inez Philbrick, president, favoring woman suffrago, was filed by Sonator Brown in the United States senate. PostpfTico grounds at Beatrice will be graded, according to tho recent re quest of the Beatrico Commercial club. Notice was sent Senator Brown by the treasury department. Alexander, Bernstein of Omaha, the 18-year-old son of Mrc. Anna Bern stein, shot himself through the head through despondency In not being able to secure employment. State Fire Warden Randall Is de livering some addresseB throughout the Btate relative to fire preventing. Thero is urgent need of education along this line. Tho Farmers and Merchnnts' bank of Exeter has filed articles of Incor poration with the stato banking board for approval. Tho organization has a paid up capital stock of $25,000. C. C. Frahan of North Bend was trampled 'beneath the feet of two colts when he fell from a ladder in his barn Into a stall in which the two ani mals were standing. Ho la very painfully hurt. Washington dispatch: Sen. Hitch cock received petitions from Scotts bluff and Broken Bow against tho parcels post nd from Verdon In fa vor of tho Kenyon-Sheppard inter state liquor bill. Claude Boylos, a seventeen-year-old Broken Bow boy, was fined $25 and costs for assault and battery against Miss Jessie Lovett, a young teacher who conducts a school about sixteen miles north of Broken Bow. Tho now sheriff of Douglas county continues to round up Omaha lavr violators and Is putting the police of that city to shame. The latter havo pleaded that they knew of no viola tions, but tho sheriff haa no difficulty in finding material upon which to mako raids two or three times a week. Several republicans nro in the field for tho congressional nomination from tho Second district, among them be ing Blackburn, Baldrige and Bakir. all lawyers. The first named has. challenged the other two for Joint discussion of public questions, but thus far there has been no response, favorablo or otherwise. Tho Furnas county spelling contest was held at Beaver City, thirteen grado school? being represented and four high schools. Tho gold modal was won in the grado school by Es ther Anderson of district No. CI. Tho high school contest was a We, be tween May Young of tho Beaver City 6chool and Cleora Eng of tho Edison school. Figures compiled from tho count of mall at tho Fremont postoffleb during tho last week show that 36,530 pieces of mail were delivered to patrons of the office by carriers during the seven days. Tho total weight of tho mall delivered was 3.90G pounds. Tho Rev. C. H. Bascom, who has completed his thologlcal studies, passed tho examination nnd will be ordained priest tho latter part of uls month by Bishop Williams, has been called to St. Stephen's, Ashland. Hla election has beon confirmed. Ho takes tho place vacated by the Rev. John D. Rice, who removed to tho Pacific coast. Whether tho big granito boulder that has been ordered to mark tho courso of four historical trails through Fremont should bo placed on tho lawn at tho Union depot or at tho court house, flvo blocks north, is a question that has arisen to puzzle tho members of tho Lowls-Clarko chapter of tho Daughters of tho American Revolution. Tho boulder will bo there during tho summer, and the lo cation must bo definitely determined before ita arrival. Tho third appoal during the winter for immediate help for western Ne braska people haa been aont to the people of tho First Prosbytorlan church of Lincoln, through tho synod ioal aecretary for tho Presbyterian churches of Nebraska, Dr. W. II. Kearnes. Tho Nebraska state board of health j haa succeeded In renewing reciprocal relations with tho South Dakota, boartj whereby physicians- who are examined and licensed by tho Nebraska beard may bo readmitted to corresponding privileges in South Dakota without further examination. : t&tosxi&Tzrsr'