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I 5 THE SEMI-WEEKLY TBIBUME IRA L. BARE. Publl8hor. TEIIMS, $1.S5 IN ADVANOB. WORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA F EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. DAY'S EVENTS BOILED DOWN Personal, Political, Foreign and Other Intelligence Interesting to the General Reader. Congrees. Representative Rodenberg In a speech attacked Governor Woodrow Wilfion. The General deficiency appropria tion bill wob reported by Chairman Fitzgerald. The Bennto paBBed tho sundry civil appropriation bill carrying approxi mately $116,000,000. In the senate Senator CummlnB pre eented a substitute for the democratic wool tariff revision bill. Representative Norrla concluded hla speech attacking tho nomination of President Taft at Chicago. '.Tho houso ngriculturo committee recommended $5,000 appropriation to light army worm In south. Tin senato adopted resolutions to Inquire Into tho purchaso of Monti cello, Jefferson's old home. The postofflco appropriation bill, embracing tho pnrccls post system, was reported In tho senate. Tho house committee considered tho houso Alaskan legislative assem bly bill passed by tho senate. The Benate adopted tho Joint roso tjtlon appropriating $20,000 moro to fght tho nrmy worm In the south. The Bennto passed tho Joint resolu t.on directing tho secretary of war to Investigate clalmB of Amorlcans grow ing out of Mexican revolution. Senator Smith of South Carolina in troduced a Joint resolution for nn im mediate appropriation of $25,000 to tight tho army worm In tho south. Senato democrats In caucus de cided to support tho houso excise tax bill as against tho Borah lncomo tax bill introduced as an amendment. Tho houso Judiciary committee vir tually agreed upon an immediate in quiry Into tho cxlstonco and ramifica tions of tho so-callod "Beef truBt." The senato passed tho houso oxclso tax bill extending tho corporation tax law to Individuals and copartnerships on incomes in excess of $5,000 by a voto of thlrty-Bovcn to eighteen. The education and labor committco of the senato endorsed a bill creating a department of labor and a bill creat ing a commission on Industrial rela tions, both of which have passed tho house. Tho senato agreed to conforenco report of naval appropriation bill, with exception of battleship and tor pedo boat provisions, which house in sisted should bo eliminated, und sent It back for further conference. Georgo It. Sheldon, treasurer of tho republican nntional commltteo Jn 1008, gave to commltteo investigating campaign funds his version of Ed ward H. Harriman's contribution to tho Roosevelt fund in 1904. "General. Jack Johnson announces his willing uess to meet Jocb Joanotto. ProgrossIvcB of Vermont hold a state convention and nominated a ticket. In a speech at Chicago Lorlmer said ho would nover again bo acandldato tor office Representative Gardnor promises a surprise in tho minority report on tho steel investigation, The houso agreed to tho conference report on tho rivers and harbors bill which carried approximately $33, 000,000, an lncreaso over tho original measure of about $7,000,000, Theoretically tho United States lost half a dozen of its biggest battleships In an engagement with submarines at Newport Tho announcement of a sweeping advance in transcontinental freight rates, In some Instances amounting to M muoh aB 100 per cent, was mado at the general ofllces of tho Southern Pacific and Santa Fc railroads. The senate and house confereoB on the naval appropriation bill failed to reaoh an agreement on the battle ship program, -though tho senato yielded to the house and dropped tho appropriation for navy yards. Danger of bubonio plague caused the senate to stand by Us determi nation to incrcaBO from $200,000 to 1600,000 an Item in the sundry civil bill, to enable tho public health serv ice to ubo every precaution to meet an invasion of the scourge from Cuba or Porto Rico. The Oregon convention of tho na tional progressive party elected five delegates Instructed for Roosevelt. Two separate 'delegations were selected by Georgia progressives to tho national progressive convention at Chicago, August 5, Ex-Governor Richards of Wyoming, who was a member of a land-seekers' party, died suddenly of heart failure' at Melbourne, Australia, Interstate Commerce Commissioner Clements gave tho Interstate com merce commltteo his views of pro posed legislation affecting the com-mission. 1 1 Tho Benate appears to bo in no hur ry to try Judge Archbald, although setting dato for filing pleadings. Tho house committee, by strict party voto, recommends the unseat ing of Cntlln of Missouri, whoso term Is almost out anyway. Build moro warships, Is tho cry of Great Britain. New Jersey progreaslves decided to launch n separato ticket. President Taft Is bellovod to bo willing to repeal Canadian reciprocity. Roosevelt says there must be full state tickets all along tho political line. Tho new progressive party has been formally launched in New Jer sey. At this writing Woodrow Wilson Is In seclusion, preparing his speech of acceptance. Tho tariff board is to Btand for another year unless tho houso deter mines otherwise. "Governor Deneen'B decision to stand with the Taft regulars means a third party ticket in Illinois. The state department having given tho word, tho navy department order ed the return to America of 850 of tho marines now Iti the neighborhood of Guantanamo, Cuba. Colonel Augstino Estrado former commander of tho Madero govern ment garrison In Juarez was released from tho custody of tho United States commissioner's court. Appointment of a receiver for the Big Ax Pocohontns Coal company, whoso property is In Buchanan coun ty. Virginia and valued at $1,759,000 is asked In a bill filed in the circuit court at Chicago. The houso territories committee considered tho Alaska civil govern ment bill and refused to agree to the senate's elimination of the proposed Alskan eonato. Rev. Laurltz Carlson, head of n Scandinavian mission in San Francis co, received word that he had been decorated by King Haakon of Norway with the cross of the Order of St. Olaf, in recognition of his services as a missionary among tho Scandina vians in this country. ""Arthur P. Bittner of St. Louis, a meat dealer, whllo driving' hiB auto truck to a wholesale market was shot twlco in tho head and is in a serious condition at a hospital. The polico arrested Bittner's son, Arthur P. Bittner, Jr., near tho auto truck. Tho father and son had been es tranged. Tho army council, called by Secre tary Stimson to dotormlno tho needs of tho army, completed Its two weeks of sosBlons. Secretary Stimson ex pressed himself as gratified with tho work of tho council, which reviewed tho condition of tho army and formu lated suggestions for bettering the service. Colonol Georgo AndrowB, according to prcsont plans, probably will bo nominated by President Taft to suc ceed Brigadier General William II. Hall, retired, an adjutant gonoral of tho army. Colonel Andrews has been connocted with tho adjutant gen oral'B office for fourteen years and only Colonel Henry A. S. Helstand outranks him there. Eight aldermen and tho secretary of the common council committees of Detroit wero placed under arrest on charges of accepting bribes and con spiracy to accept bribes for voteH and lnflucnco In tho passing of a measure affecting city property recently trans ferred to tho Wabash railroad. At leaBt six other arrests of aldermen are expected. William U. Miles, formor gonoral manager of the Armour Packing com pany at Kansas City and ono of tho chief witnesses of tho government's recent packer trial, charged that ho has been defrauded out of $109,818.74 In a bill for an accounting tiled in tho circuit court against J. Ogden Ar mqur, Charles V. Armour and tho Armour Packing company. At Munich, Bavaria, a German aviator named Fischer and a me chanic named Kugler, wero Instantly killed when tho aeroplane in which they wore riding fell from n consid erable height. Tho- aoropluno was smashed bo that the cause of tho ac cident could not be ascertained. Fischer passed hla norlul pilot's ex amination pnly a fortnight agi. Mrs. Nellie Gibson Jumped from a passenger train as It was crossing tho bridge over the Blue river about eight miles north of Nelson, Neb. Her clothing caught on some brldgo tlin- bors and held her until the train had backed up to within a few feet of where alio was bunging, when alio tore loose and fell Into the river, Her right Bhouldcr was broken and she was badly bruised. Clini' y Olcott, tho actor, has filed Bii 1 1 for annulment of hiB mar riage to his first wife, Mrs. Cora E. Jamos-Strlker-Moran-Olcott. The suit dlsolosoa u matrimonial tangle which Involves titles to valuable property. The cobo will come up In supremo court In Albany. Olcott married his first wife In 1883 and divorced hero in 1693. In 1897 he married MIsb Margaret O'Donovau, who Is still liv ing with htm. Tho Bcnato postofflco bill Is shorn of the good roads provision. Personal. Senate democrats and progressives united and passed the oxclso bill. Colonel lloosevolt lias completed What ho calls his confession of faith. Congressman Humprey replied to Congressman Norrls In bitter words. Maryland progressives decided on an Independent set of electors. Charged with bribery, a number of counollmen at Detroit have been arrested. S HIGHER ALL DUT TWO COUNTIES SEND REPORTS TO BOARD. THE LEVY RAISES MUCH CASH Should Reduction Be Made By Half Mill, Returns Would Equal Previous Years. All but two counties havo now re ported to tho secretary of tho state board of assessment These two counties aro Box Butto and Custor. Dodgo county reported last week, showing an lncreaso of over $1,000, 000, tho assessed valuation this year being $9,538,824 as against $8,491,441 last year, making an lncreaso of $1, 047,383. With tho two counties to hear from this makes the assessed valuation of tho stato $456,437,517. Counting the two counties yet to hear from Bamo as last year tho assessed valuation of tho stato this year will bo $456,703. 405. A 5- 1-2 mills levy, same as last year, would raise a rovenuo of $2,887, 361 against $2,577,154 last year. Tho Increased vnluation of tho Btate may result In a lower levy and tho 'board may cut off tho ono-llfth por cent Should It decldo to go oven farther than that and make tho levy one-half cent, lower tho stato would still have a larger Income than was received last year. ' Later. Custer county has now re ported to the board of assessment, leaving but ono county now to com plete tho state. Custer shows a fall lng'off from last year of $17,765, tho assessment for this year being $7, 295,184 against $7,313,240 last year. Pardon Is Denied. Clarenco Gathrlght serving a Bont enco of twenty years for complicity Jn tho murdor of Joo Flury, an Oma ha street car conductor, has been turned down by tho stato board of pardons. Ho asked for a pardon, but tho board submitted a report to Gov ernor Aldrich recommending that no clemency bo shown Gathright. Clark, a negro who was a alleged to bo tho pilmo mover In tho murder, was hanged. Governor Sheldon refus ing to commute hiB sentence to llfo Imprisonment. Wain, the third man convicted of tho same crlino, Is serv ing a llfo sentence. Gathrlght accord ing to a letter of tho prosecuting at tornoy, testified In regard to tho kill ing of tho conductor and on account of his testimony tho stato was ablo to convict. Pardon for Whitney. Charles Allen Whitney, sent to the penitentiary on a charge of bigamy committed In Plattsmouth and other places, and who had his trial before "Judge Travis, has been granted a pardon by Governor Aldrich on re commendation of tho Judge who sent enced him. Whitney deserted his wlfo and two children and went to Nebraska City, whero ho married a Mrs. Bnckus. Rate oil" Canned Goods. The stato railway commission has authorized n rate of 14 cents on canned goods from Kearney to Lin coln and Omaha, minimum weight 30, 000 pounds. Tho rate is established for tho benefit of a new canning fac tory Boon to begin business. Seeking Information. Four hundred and fifty municipali ties of tho stato havo received letters sent by Director 8holdon of tho legis lative reference bureau and asking for detailed information with regard to local problems and tho solution of difficulties presented to officials. Toll Rates at Grand Island. The railway commission has Issued an order authorizing tho Nebraska Telephone company to reduco its toll rates between Grand Island and Chap man from 15 cents to 10 cents and to establish a tint rate of 25 cents a month to all subscribers of either the Grand Island or Chapman exchange for toll Bervlco. Would Leave Dlpso Ward. Albert Paulson of Pierce, and W. A. Simmons of Cass county, wero before tho county Judgo of Lancaster county Thursday on an application to bo re leased from tho asylum. Both men are serving short tcrroB In tho dlpso ward and claim that they have been obliged to occupy the same ward with Insano patients. Hansen Gets Busy. Food Commissioner Hansen will be gin proceedings on eomo of tho food powder companies which havo not paid thoir annual license fee for two years. Theso delinquent companies havo been waiting to hear from tho courts as to tho constitutionality or tho law. Highlanders Appeal. The Royal Highlanders have ap pealed to tho supremo court against a doclslon ot tho district court ot Webster county which gavo Judgmont against tho ordor In favor of Sarah A, Smith, wlfo ot Rufus B. Smith, who held a policy in that organization and afterward died. Tho judgment was for $1,500, but tho organization clalmB that Smith committed sulcldo and tiiereforo tho policy was void. Tho Jury decided that thero was no ovldenco thnt Smith suicided and ren dero Its verdict accordingly. A8 TO LAND VALUES. Railroads Have Some Complaints to Make. Tho hearing held recently, says tho Lincoln Journal, by tho stato board of assessment was Intended to bo for railroad tax commissioners who de sired to protest against Increases In tho valuation of railroad property in cities and villages, listed for local taxation undor tho terminal taxation law, but tho railroad men took occa sion to protest ngalnst tho under valuation of farm lands listed under tho general taxation law. Tho rail road men thus killed two birds with one stone. A long list of counties was thus added to the list complain ed of by County Assessor Blessing ot Nemaha county and County Assessor Bernecker of Seward county who had complained that twenty-flvo or moro counties had under valued lands for assessment and who asked tho stato board to lncrcnso values in tho counties complained of or reduce tax able values in Soward and Nemaha. Tho counties now complained of by assessors and railroad tax commis sioners on account of low land values, aro Adams, York, Fillmore, Polk, Otoo, Jefferson, Pawnee, Sarpy, Nuckols, Wayno, Cuming, Colfax, Butler, Saline, Lancaster, Hamilton, Cass, Thayer, Johnson, Richardson, Clay, Dixon, Dakota, Platte, Boone, Knox, Pierce, Keith, Lincoln, Deuel, Cheyenne and Box Butto. This will not end the list becauso tho state board will go over the en tire list of ninety-two counties and select others which may bo deemed to have under assessed lands or other property and the assessor or county boards of each county in the list will be cited to appear before tho stato board and explain why their assessed values should not bo Increased. An increase of assessed valuation Imposed upon a county does not nec essarily mean that people In tho coun ty will jay moro taxes than last year. If assessed values are Increased, the county levies may bo reduced- so that taxpayers may possibly not pay more taxes than they did last year. If tho increase reported by county assessing officers is sufficient to Justify the stato board in reducing tho stato levy it will do so and cut down the levy of G 1-5 mills of last year for stato pur poses. Tho stato board desires to have property assessed as near the full value as possibly. Then levies can bo mado accordingly. File Incorporation Articles. The Coleman Aviation association of Omaha has filed articles of in corporation with tho secretary of state. Tho association is Incorporat ed by Rupert F. Coleman and Peter Lock and has a paid up capital stock of $5,000. Tho object ot the associa tion is to buy flying crafts and to givo exhibitions. Second Regiment Encampment. Adjutant General Phelps returned from Grand Island after holding a conference with the Grand Island peo ple regarding tho location of tho an nual encampment of the Second regi ment of tho Nebraska guard this year. Ho waB met at Grand Island by Colo nel Paul of tho Second and ho Inspect ed the grounds which the people there are offering free of charge. Tho grounds He two miles northwest of tho city on a horse ranch which con tains an auto speed track, and is on tho Platto valley bottom. Plenty of good water can be secured and a good field for thoTnaneuvers. Tho encamp ment will bo held August 23 and tho hospital corps of Lincoln will parti cipate in the encampment Dull Court Season. Tho summer Is a decidedly dull tlmo of year In United States district court. With all JudgeB of Lincoln district on their vacations and a largo number ot lawyers also out of tho City, there Is only an occasional filing In tho clerk's office. Court will not convene until about tho first of Octo ber. New Station Ordered. Tho railway commission has order ed tho Burlington road to enlarge its station at Crawford and rearranged Its station ground and tracks in such a manner as to provide safe and con venient approaches to its station for the traveling public. The decision ot tho commission was prepared by Com missioner II. J. Winnett Tho rail road company Is required to fllo plana, for a new enlarged station and re quired to complete the Improvements by Juno 1, 1913. New Rait Company Formed. Artloles ot Incorporation ot a now railroad to bo known aB tho Hastings & Northwestern Railway company wore filed In tho office of tho secre tary of state. The road will run from Hastings to Gibbon, about thirty miles, and will connect with tho Union Pacific at tho latter place. Tho Union Pacific la supposed to be back ot tho move. Tho Cudahy Packing company will put up a $350,000 meat houso in South Omaha. Hansen Dack on Job. Food Commissioner Hansen and Chemist Redforn, returned from their trip to Seattle Saturday, whero they attended tho meeting of tho food in spectors of the country. Mr. Hansen roports an especially Interesting ses sion and oxpectB a much better sys tem of laws throughout the country as a result of the meeting Ho was especially pleased with a well prepar ed paper read by Mr. Wallls ot Idaho, a newspaper man, on the "Press," and says that It will bo published later. SENATE VOTES 52 TO 3 TO RE DUCE TARIFF THEREON. LOUISIANA SENATORS OPPOSE Lodge-Brlstow Measure Cuts the Duty From $1.90 per Hundred to $1.60. Washington. With only threo sen ators, dissenting, tho Lodge-Brlstow bill, reducing tho duty on sugar passed tho senate Saturday by a voto of 52 to 3. Those who opposed tho bill were Senators Foster and Thorn ton of Louisiana, democrats, and Hey burn of Idaho, republican. Tho two Louisiana senators op posed tho measure on tho ground that it seriously affected a homo industry. Under tho terms of tho bill adopt ed and which Senator Burton stated in tho course of the debate that tho president would approve, the duty on pure sugar Is reduced from $1.90 a hundred pounds ns in the present law, to $1.60. Tho differential, which has given tho trust 7 cents on every pound of sugar is the Dutch standard, under which the trust has been enabled to compel every pound of light colored sugar Imported to pass tho samo duty as roflned. Tho net saving to tho consumer may not bo visible In thoso figures, but It is argued that the bill will very materi ally reduco the enormous profits of tho sugar trust In tho futuro. Thero Is a concession of 20 per cont on sugars Imported from Cuba. Senator Bristow, after the bill had been passod, pointed out that the bulk of all sugars imported come from this island, which will bring the rato on Cuban sugars down about $1.20 per hundred pounds. Careful computations based upon tho Importations of 1911 show that a loss In rovenuo of approximately $5, BQ0.000 per year will result through these reduced rates, but Senator Brls tow assorts that the American con sumer will save moro than $25,000,000 annually. Tho democratB stood by" tho Wil liams bill ub long aB it had any parlia mentary status. It was rejected when it waB offered aB a substitute for tho Lodge-Brlstow bill by a voto of 32 to 24. Senators Foster and Thornton again refusing to support the measure. As to Taft's Nomination. Washington. A statement, ap proved by President Taft, upholding tho validity of his nomination by the Chicago convention, was made public at tho White house Sunday. It r& views every contest before tho repub lican national committee and the cre dentials committee of the convention, and asserts that each contest was set tled logically, upon Its merits. The statement was submitted to the cab inet at a recent meeting and recelvv ed the approval of the president's of ficial family. No Funds to Move Money. Washington. An unprecedented si tuation confronts tho United States treasury. With millions in currency piled In its vaults and a crying de mand for It throughout the country, tho govornmont has practically no funds with which to pay for its trans portation. Thero iB an urgent call for notes of tho smaller denominations which cannot bo mot during tho remaining days of July. Tho prospects are that thousands of persons will bo paid off In coin. Youth Kills Father. St. Louis. Arthur P. Bittner, Jr, confessed that he shot his father from the rear of an automobile truck in which tho elder Bittner, and anoth er son, Edward, wero riding. The wounded man is in a- hospital with two bullets in his brain. His object was robbery. Murder In First Degreee. Choyenno, Wyyo. Murder in the first degree was the finding of tho Jury in the case of J. Warren Jen kins, who was charged with killing his wife, Jessie Jenkins, on April 14. It waB alleged that Jenkins killed her In ordor to get possession of her estate, valued at $50,000. Woman Saloon Keeper Shot. Chicago. Five masked men enter ed tho saloon of Mrs. Helen Bauman, a widow, Sunday, shot tho woman probably fatally, and her daughter. The burglars fired at a son who at tempted to defend tho place. Award of Armor Contract. Athens Greece. Tho Bethlehem ateel company of America was award ed tho contract to supply the armor and gunB of tho new armoured cruiser Greece. Found Guilty of Contempt. Denver. F. G. Bonflls, part owner of a Denver newspaper, was found guilty of contempt of court In pro ceedings growing out of Bults for libel filed by William D. Evans and For mor Mayor Robert W. Speer, and aggregating moro than $1,000,000. Two Men Hung. Nashville, Tenn. Two white men, Georgo Sheldon and John Bailey were hanged Friday for tho murder of Ben Pettigrew, ofi old negro, and hla two children. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF, News Notes of Interest from Various Sections. Mr. and Mrs. John Flcko of Seward county celebrated their golden wed ding. A. B. Smith, assistant general freight agent of the Burlington fell dead in nub office at Oinnhru Nebraska state bankers will be in Omahn In convention, August 2Gth and 27th. A big gathering is looked for. Six thousand people saw the first afternoon program of tho nineteenth annual stato volunteer firemen's tournament at Norfolk. Osmond's system of waterworks Is nearly completed. Tho water will be turned on in less than two weoks un less something unforeseen arises. Oleria Arnold, 19, a pretty little) southern girl who came to from At lanta, Ga., threo years ago, attempted to commit sulcldo in Omaha. Her lover had deserted her. Miss Mary Souders was brought be fore the Insanity commission at Beatrice and was adjudged Insano and was ordered committed to tho asylum at Norfolk. Letters of Inquiry were sent recent ly to representative fruit growers of Nebraska, and from replies received by tho Stato Horticultural society has tabulated the following: The average applo crop for all parts of tho stato is 60 per cent of full crop; 100 per cent, compared with tho 1911 crop; 110 percent, compared with tho aver age for the past fivo years. Elaborate plana are being mado for tho annual encampment of tho Grand Army of tho Republic for tho Platto Valley district which will bo held in Central City for the week of August 5 to 10, August 6 will be gov ernor's day when Governor C. H. Al drich will bo present. August 7 there will be an aeroplane flight by a Curtis machine. Some of tho leading speak ers In the state will fill out the pro gram on the other days. Moving pictures of Omaha aro be ing shows in twenty moving pictures of Omaha. The pictures aro tho best that have ever been taken of a city. They are being shown In connection with the Know Omaha campaign which is boing waged by the Publicity Bureau and the Know Omaha commit tee. Tho movies will be sent out in tho stato after they have completed tho rounds of tho city and will give Nebraskans nn opportunity to see what tho metropolis is like. Albert Prince, condemned to bo hanged for tho murder of Deputy Warden DaviB at tho ponitentiary, has appealed to the supremo court He was convicted in tho district court of Lancaster county May 21. Tho Jury fixed tho penalty at death and Prince was sentenced to bo hanged August 30. An appeal to the supromo court in such cases automatically suspends" sentence, so Prince will not be put to death on the date designated by tho Judgo of the district court. Messenger service for special deli very letters and parcels received at the Omaha postoffice during the fiscal year ending Jnne 10, 1912, cost $5, 867.92. Each special delivery messen ger gets 8 cents for delivering a let ter. If he carries five letters on a trip, he gets 40 cents for the trip. Thirteen regular messengers are em ployed at tho local office. The total number of special delivery letters that came to the Omaha office was 79,628. Only 3,996 failed of special delivery. Somo tlmo ago two .farmer boys, George Seal, aged 27, weight 200 pounds, and Abo Seal, ago 20, weight 190 pounds, began taking wrestling lessons from Logan Champ of Hastings, and developed so rapidly that Farmer Burns was induced to come out and look them over. He ar ranged a handicap match with them, undertaking to throw both of them la one hour. The match took place be fore a big crowd of enthusiasts. Burns won the fall from Abe Seal in two minutes, and from Georgo Seal In eight minutes. Clyde Benedlg, a convict employed in the warehouse outside the peniten tiary walls, calmly walked away last week. The warden at once sent out gangs of men as searching pa'rties. At tho dedication of tho magnificent new United Brethren church in Auro ra over $5,000 was subscribed to clear the new building ot indebted ness. Bishop Weekley ot Kansas City presided at tho all-day services and In the evening the church would not accommodato tho crowd. This is tho fourth beautiful church structure to bo erected In Aurora within a very fow years, and a now Christian church wll bo built during the sum mer. According to tho opinion of some ot the sheep men of tho west tho sheep marketed this fall will bo a great deal fewer than In the last fow years. I. C. Lincoln of Filer, Idaho, who mar keted sheep at South Omaha, saya that while tho sheep crop In Idaho is not much shorter than normal, It Is true that Wyoming, ono of tho greateet sheep states In tho union, has suffered a loss of nearly half the normal crop of sheep, Montana also has suffered. Washington dispatch: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Latta and his mother ot To kamah left Washington In their auto mobile, accompanied as far as Balti more by Representative Stephens, whose guests they have been for some days. Just as the Norfolk passenger on the Union Pacific road was starting to leave Platto Center. I. W. Zavadll of Humphrey, a passenger on tho train, fell between the two paBsenger carB and was cut in two. Several who witnessed the accident wero un able to say whether ho slipped or was overooroe with tho heat A ' J S&