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L n THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE IRA L. DAUB, Ptibltshor, TERMS, J1.25 IN ADVANCE). WORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, FOB THE MEW8 EPITOME THAT CAN BOON BE COMPASSED. WINY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Forelnn Intelligence Con. dinted 'Into Two and Four Lino Paragraphs. Congress. Tlio houno considered conference report on Indian appropriation 1)111. JIouho (Icinocrntlc loaders agreed to nnotlicr caucuH on tlio bnttloalilp pro gram, The senate military affairs commit tea reported tlio finny appropriation Ml). The Donate pnBBed a resolution ex tending last'year'H appropriation hn til August 15. Tho sonato passed the cotton tariff rovlelon bill reducing tho existing dutloB approximately 21 per ccnL Tho Iioubo rejected all aonato omendtnentH to tho Indiana appropria tion bill and orderod further confer ence, Representative Xnylor Introduced n Mil for u Lincoln memorial In tlio form of a national highway, Boston to Ban Francisco. Sonato domocrntn and progressive ropubllcanB were given comploto control of conferenco committees on tariff and oxcIho blllfi. Tho house directed tho sundry civil bill bo sent to conference, rofiiBlng to accept tho Bonato'B ambndmont con tinuing tho tariff board. The BOiuito paHBed tho Joint roBolu Hon directing tho nccretary of war to Investigate clalinn of Amerlcnna grow ing out of Mexican revolution. Tho nonato foreign relations com mltteo adopted tho report of Senator Lodgo rcainrmlng tho Bcopo of Mon too doctrlno In no uncertain terms. Senato democrats In cuuciib de cided to fiiipport tho houno oxclso tax bill nB agalnBt tho Bornh lncomo tax bill Introduced as an amendment. Tho hoiiHo commerco commltteo re port ii favorably Representative Stan ley's bill to dollno moro Bpeclllcally tho term "mlnbrnndod" In pure food laws. Tho Bonato paBBod tlio Lodgo reso lutlon warning forolgn nations from i encroaching on tho American contl- ncntE to obtain naval or military bases. Tho liouoo public bulldlngB and grounds commltteo agreed to Include $275,000 for memorial ampltheator In Arlington In noxt public buildings bill. Tho Bonato passco over proBldont'B veto tho bill to reimburse porBons who Huppllod labor and Biipplles to contractors on Corbott lunnol Irriga tion project. Tho ratification ot Newfoundland fisheries treaty, signed rocontly by Great Britain and tho Unltod StateB, was ngrocd to by foreign rotations commltteo of tlio Bonato. Attornoy Qonoral Wlokorsham. bo goro tho Interstate commerco commit too, favored greater right of appeal for shippers from decisions of tho In torBtato commorco commission. Tho ecnato passed tlio houso oxelso tnx hill cxtondlng tho corporation tax law to Individuals and copartnerships on Incomes in oxccbb of $5,(100 by a vote ot thlrty-Btwon to eighteen. Chairman Clements of Interstate Commerco commission dented to In terstate commerco committee that commission had given tnsldo Informa tion concerning rulings to certain railroads. Qenoral. Colorado "regulars" endorsed tho administration of President Taft, Undo Sam Ib without monoy to pay Increases under tho new poubIoii bill, Tho old stock ot tho Standard Oil company of Now Jersey, which In cludes all tho BUbsldlarles sold on the curb for $1,000 a share, a high rec ord price. Tho renomlnatlon of President Taft by tho republican national convention Inst month waB compared by Colonel Roosevelt today to tho election ot William Lorlmor to tho United States senate. The steamer "Planet," which la measuring Pacific ocean depths, ac cording to a message from Manila, mound a depth ot 32,600 foot, or over five miles, forty miles oft tho north ern part ot tho Island ot Mlndunao. Following out planB for a country wldo campaign against bubonic plague. Surgeon General Uluo as signed five additional experts to vari ous ports where tho disease has been Indicated. President Madcro is declared to block tho way to ponce In Mexico. Formal announcement was mndo by Govornor Wilson that ho would not resign tho governorship of New Jer sey during his campaign for tho pres idency, Tho capital stock ot tho Standard Oil company of California was In creased from $25,000,000 to $50,000, 000 today. Tho proceeds ot tho sale of tho new stock will bo used In li quidating tho present Indohtednoss ot the company to the Standard Oil com pany of Now Jersey, about $12,000,-000. IS! I Jack Johnson says ho is dono with I 4lin rntiifl nrntin nml U'111 HflVflr flrflW on n glove again. Tho minority report of tho steel In vestigating commltteo recommends regulation and not dissolution for big corporations. (lovcrno Wilson declared himself In favor of gradual rovlslon of tho tariff. ' A resolution offered In tho house permits of tho recall of Inferior judges. Negroes were conspicuous for tholr abBonco at tho Louisiana third party convention. Colonol Roosovolt will welcomo tho colored man to tho ranks of tho third party. Governor WIlBon Ih far out at Boa putting finishing touches to his speech of acceptance. An epidemic of typhoid prevails In tho municipality of Pcnuclas, eight miles from Ponco. Tho treasury deficit for tho flrBt month of tho now fiscal year Is less than a million dollars. Tho United States senate, by a practically unanimous vote, reassert ed tho doctrlno of Monroe. A statement Issued at Washington with President Tnft's approval de- fends tho nomination of TafL House Chairman Adamson, In a tart letter to Secretary StlmBon, denies danger of a water power trust. Tho American Federation of Labor has Issued a call to all stell work ers, urging that they unionize Tho United States sonato served notice on all nations of Its Intention to uphold tho Monroo doctrine. Tho fooling at Washington Is that everything has boon done In Mexico that can bo short of Intervention. Tho president haB about abandon ed hope of opening tho Panama canul on tho 'date promised by engineers. Tho Gorman government Is greatly concorned over tho rapidly falling birthrate In Germany, and tho mln-, iBtry of Interior has nBked various authorltlcB to mako u thorough Inves tigation, A clash between inemborB of tho Twenty-first rurales and tho police. at Victoria, Mexico, resulted In tho dis armament of tho detachment of 200 fedoral soldiers stationed thoro. President Taft sent to tho sonato tho nominations of Lowls C. Laylln of Ohio to bo nssistunt secretary of tho Interior and that of S. T. Wright to bo collector of Internal rovonuo for Alabama. Fiirnurn T. Fish, tho Lon Angeles, Cal., aviator nnd a passenger, Morris Schermcrhoru of Maiden, fell llfty feet In a byplnno nt tho Saugus (Cal.) race track. Roth escaped serious In jury. Tho Turkish government Ifl willing I to eutor Into peace negotlatlona with Italy If they nro conducted In a nor compatible with Turkey's man compatible with Turkey's honor and dignity and its rights aro ade quately safeguarded. Sierra Juarez Indians In tho stato of Oaxaca, havo renewed tholr rovolt against tho government. It la report ed that a largo body of tho wurrlors Is mnrchlng on Ixtlan, forty miles from tho stato capital. ItooBovolt supporterH held a state convention at Jackson, Miss., elected delegates to tho national progressive convention In Chicago and adopted a platform, ono plank of which ex cludes tho negro from polltlcB. Nino boy scouts were drowned by tho capsizing of a cutter off Shippy Island, A largo party of boy scouts wih proceeding nt tho tlmo to tholr summer camp on tho Island. Several other holiday fatalltloB wore reported. President Taft did not meet tho live Ibbucs lu his speech accepting tho republican nomination, Bald Colo nel Roosovott, The president con llued himself largely to utterances upon general questions, Colonel Roosevult contended. Representatives of tho war depart ment has been making surveys and u careful investigation In tho vicinity of Fort I). A Russell for tho purpose of determining tho increased acrcago that will ho required In enlarging tho post as recently outlined by tho war department. Tho Italian cabinet nnd Hounto help iv prolonged Bocrot Joint mooting and voted for tho dissolution of tho cham ber ot deputies on the ground that tho present extraordinary session of the chamber, being a continuation ot tho previous session and having com pleted Its term, now lapses. Senator Burton's bill for tho ap pointment ot n commission of seven members to consider plans for tho celebration of the 100th anniversary of tho treaty with Great Ilrltalu, mndo nt Ghent In 1814, wiib favorably reported to tho senato by Senator Root from tho committee on foreign relations. After a three-hour debate behind closed doors, tho senate, fil to 4, adopted the Lodge resolution defining the attitude of the United States In disapproval of tho acquisition by foreign Interests of any territory on tho western hemisphere which might bo used as military or naval bases or menaco "tho approaches" ot this country. . Tho call for tho populist national convention to bo held at St. Louis, Tuesday, August 13, was anuouucod by James H, Ferris, chairman of tho national committee. Prion. Dr. Wiley suyB ho Is tolng to sup port Gov. Wilson. President Tuft's speech of accept mice covers about 10,000 words, Benton McMlllen won out In the Tennessee primary for governor, Emperor Mutshulto of Japan It dead, and Crown Prince Jushlhlto has ascended to the throne. HOLE W HI8 VIEWS MUST BE INCORPO RATED IN PARTY PLATFORM. ADDRESS GIVEN Oil TUESDAY Speech Will Deal With Political Questions He Says May Be Called Socialism and Anarchy. Now York. The national progress lvo party must accept Colonel Roose velt's political doctrines If ho Is to bo Its standard bearer. Ho said lato Sunday, as ho started for Chicago, that ho would Insist upon making his "confession of faith" to tho delegates boforo tho committee, which 1b tq druft tho platform, makes itsvflnnl re port and that ho would not accept tho nomination on a platform which did not meet with his approval. Colonel Roosovelt'B speech was originally scheduled for Monday night. It was suggested to him that tho tlmo of Its delivery ho postponed and ho sont word to his manager that ho would consent to a delay after tho platform had been presented to tho convention. Advance copies of tho speech reached the leaders of tho now party several days ago. Tho colonel said nothing, however, to In dicate that tho suggestion for a do lay In the delivery of tho speech was duo to impressions of those who had read 1L Colonol Roosevelt said that In his speech ho had dealt fully with all tho great political questions of tho day. Ho spoko frankly and fearlessly, ho said, and hellovcd that tho conven tion ought to bo fully apprized of his vIowb boforo ratifying tho tentative nomination, which ho accopted at Chicago. Ho contends that It was upon a qucBtlon of principle that ho left tho ropubllcanarty and now ho has dono so ho cannot mako a com promlso of principles in nccopting tho leadership of tho now movement. His declaration of political faith, ho said, Is ono which will bo termed cither socialism or anarchy and prob ably both, but ropresonts his convic tions. Ho goes to Chicago to mako Uiob'o vlows known and to recolvo the presidential nomination only if thoy nro accoptahlo In tholr substantial provisions to tho now party. According to tho present arrange ment Colonol Roosovolt will deliver his speech Tuesday. Tho plan ho said, was satisfactory to him, as at that tlmo tho platform commltteo will not havo completed Its work. Colonel Roosevelt left Oyster Ray Sunday afternoon by automobile for this city, whero at 4 o'clock ho took n train which 1b duo In Chicago early Monday. Ho was accompanied only by Mrs. Roosovolt nnd his secrotary. Tho appointment ub a messenger by President Tnft of Mingo Sanders, who was a sorgenat of tho colored Infantry reglmont, discharged from tho army for participation In tho BrowtiBvlllo riots, led Colonol Rooso- volt to crltlciso tho prostdont sharply, Sanders took tho Btump In tho Ohio primary tight between Colonol Roose- volt nnd President Taft. Launching of New Party. Chicago. Tho nntlonnl progressive party will bo formally launched Mon day nt noon In tho Coliseum, whero a little moro than u month ngo Presi dent Taft was renominated for tho presidency on tho ropubllcnn ticket over tho protest of many of thoso now Icnd.ii; tho third party movement, Tho big convention hall, all ready for tho now party, shows but fow changes in tho arrangomcntB provided for tho republican nntlonnl convention. Over tho mnln cntrnnco door, however, haB been hung tho head of a magnificent specimen of a bull moose, In token of tho nlcknamo attached to tho now party. Tafto Off for Vacation. Minneapolis. MIsb Holon Taft nnd Robert Taft, daughter nnd son of tho president, and Mrs. Tnft left Sunday for Glacier National park, after a day spent hero as tho guests of President and Mrs. Georgo 12. Vincent of tho University of Minnesota, nnd Miss tBnbel Vincent, who wiib a schoolmate with MIeb Taft. Appropriation for Extermination. Washington. Representative Mon doll of Wyoming Introduced a bill to appropriate $200,000 for the United States to 'pny Its share of the coBt ot exterminating tho "predatory wild ani mals" on the forest reserves of tho west. Ho disclaimed being after tho bull moose. Highest In Forty Years. Chicago, ill. A light supply ot cattle on Saturday brought nbout the highest prices of tho week. Prlcos now ranging aro Bald to bo tho high est In forty years. Army Bill Amended. Washington. With practically all features upon which President Taft based his veto eliminated, tho army appropriation hill, was again reported to tho senato by tho military affairs committee, carrying approximately $94,000,000. General John H. Baldwin. San Francisco. Qonoral John 11 Baldwin, ono ot Callfornlns earliest pioneers and iv member of tho person al staff of General Leo during the civil ar, died hero Saturday. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. Laboring men of Lincoln will havo a big parade labor day. A sensation was created In Yrttan by tho quarantine of six houses In that village for smallpox. Tho business men of Cortland havo organized a commercial club which will boost for that city first, last and all tho time. Although Kcarriey coiTnty was very much Injured by tho drouth dur ing the summer wheat Is yielding far beyond expectations. Henry Alma, a farmer living threo miles northwest of David City, fell from a loaded hayrack and broko both his arms nt tho wrists. Marccll Brown, who was shot and killed at Laramie, Wyo., by his wife, was a formor resident of Wymoro, leaving thero about two years ago. Tho coroner's Jury In tho case of Joseph Miller, whose body was found on tho railroad track near La Platte, returned a verdict that ho was killed by tho cars. During the month of July slxty-nlno marriage llccnseB were Issued In Lan caster county. This Is not fully up to the monthly average, but Is about as many as arc usually issued in July. Tho SyracuBo Commercial club has selected September 20 for the annual "Syracuse day" festival. This Is tho big day each year for Otoo county. Tho oxecutlvo commltteo has organ ized with II. L. Arends as chalrmn'n and W. N. Hunter nB secretary. Tho foremen of each department of tho Dempster Mill Manufacturing company at Beatrice have organized what is to bo known ns a foremen's association for the purpose of bring ing them in closer touch with tholr work and to work moro In harmony with each other. A rato cancellation hearing was held before tho stato railway com mission, tho applicants being tho Bur lington freights department. A can collation was asked on a 4V-cent per hundred rato on stono from Lincoln to Grand Island. Tho application was fought by a Hall county granite com pany. An auto containing William Mo Dougal, Frank Fobs, Joo Forney and Clydo Davis, all of Falls City, turned turtlo about a mllo south of Nebraska City. William McDougal was pinch ed. Joo Forney, who was thrown Bomo distance, may bo fatally hurt, DavlB nnd Fos escaped with minor injuries. Fred Johnson or Johan Hansen, a farm hand employed by W. W. Butler five miles south of Lincoln "committed suicide by hanging himself to tho limb of a trofc. Tho act took place a quarter of a-nllo from the Butler home. Johnson took his shirt mado a loop of one end nnd placed It around his neck, the other end ho fastened to tho limb. Ills knees touched tho ground and In order to strnnglo himself ho twisted tho loop around his neck. Washington dispatch: Senator Hitchcock Introduced a bill lu tho senate providing "for tho opening of tho Niobrara reservation to homo stead entry. Tho bill Is identical with that introduced in tho houso by Klnkaid except that it provides that tho stato shall purchase at $1.25 an aero tho land used for agricultural school purposes Instead of acquiring Its ubo under n twenty-year lease. Tho Btato railway commission hoard tho application of tho Burlington road to cancel a rato of 4Vfc cents a hundred on stone from Lincoln to Grand Island. Assistant General Freight Agont Johnston testified that practically no stono moved on this rato, that It was a paper rato mauo In 1900 nnd was mado only for lime- stono. Mr. Young, representing tho towns nt KVnmnnt TTnntlnrra nnil- Grand Island In rato mattors, protest ed against tho cancellation on hehnlt of tho Flshburn Granlto company of Grand Island. Ho said that company had shipped somo granlto recently and would havo shipped moro but for tho fact It was unaware tho rato was In existence. Tho Washington county assessment for personal taxes, which has Just been completed, shows that the most valuable single pleco of property in tho county is tho Blair railroad brldgo, which Is valued at $573,000. ThlB Is $34,310, moro than all the cat tlo aro worth. Tho railroads ure val ued at $1,941,865 and tho telephones at $76,905. Fullerton. The 8-year-old son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Ira Lansberry, while In tho plnnt of tho electric light com pany, lost his balance and fell upon tho fly-wheel. His lower limbs wore so broken and crushed that It was necessary to amputate botli, In order to savo life. W. T. Gibson has appealed to tho Bupremo court from a Judgment of tho district court of Sherman county, which held that' ho was not entitled to recover from tho county $1,078.30 for the erection of a brldgo and tho building of Ico breakers. The legls- laturo passed an act appropriating $512.24 to relmburso Gibson for a por tlqn of his work, but tho district court hold that tho act was unconsti tutional. At Beatrice, William Reed was brought boforo Judge Fomberton on tho charge of carrying concealed weapons and was paroled from term to term of tho court for a period of ono year, furnishing bond to the amount of $500. Officers In tho section about Boa trlco aro looking for Chester Barnott of Laramlo, Wyo., who was last.seen at North Platte. Tho young man Is demented and thinks that some ono is attor him and will take his life. Ho stated to the sheriff at North Platte that ho was on his way to Lin coln and then to Beatrice. SUES HIGHER TOTAL FOR NEBRASKA FIXED BY THE STATE BOARD. AN INCREASE OF $50,000,000 Box Butte County Reports, Thus Closing Up the Work for Entire Commonwealth. After a long wait Box Butto county has made Its report to tho secretary of tho Stato Assessment board and finishes tho assessment of tho entire state. Box Butto bIiowb a total valua tion of $2,138,203, an Increaso of $221, CC4 over 1911,, which makes an In crease In tho stato of $50,237,129. The total assessed valuation of tho state is, therefore, $405,907,204, Its one-fifth value. Following is. a valuation of the stato by counties: Ratio of assessed to Tot. census Counties 1912 value. Adams 5 7,635,394 62 Antelopo 5,222,475 Banner 406,972 Blalno 547,388 Boone 5,346,535 Box Butto 2,138,203 Boyd 2,698,268 Brown 1,751,581 Buffalo Burt ., 7,566,032 7,647,779 100 7,676,781 67 Butler Cass 8,403,723 72 Cedar 9,436,885 100 Chaso 1,014,019 41 Cherry 3,399,687 50 Cheyenno 2,594,428 45 Clay 8,392,672 80 Colfax 5,803,023 70 Cuming 7,669,043 73 Custer 7,295.484 48 Dakota 3,158,434 77 Dawes 2,122,823 34 Dawson 6,628,076 60 Deuel 1,179,238 31 Dixon 4,610,843 65 Dodgo , 9,538,824 80 Douglas 45;049,757 69 Dundy 1,394,304 33 Flllmoro 7,403,816 70 Franklin 3,863.188 73 Frontier 2,650,397 64 Furnas 3,954,408 61 Gago 11,050,277 65 Garden 956.098' 49 Garlleld 703,860 55 Gosper 1,969,971 60 Grant 717,439 76 Greeley 3,406,006 80 Hall 7,747,792 69 Hamilton 7,865,838 70 Harlan 3,042,558 45 Hayes 690,555 39 Hitchcock 1,733,597 40 Holt 4.712.85G 47 Hooker 482,811 50 Howard 4,465,195 66 Jefferson 6,943,754 77 Johnson 4,420,665 70 Kearney 4,280,619 54 Keith . 2,055,466 31 Koya Paha 956,299 45 Kimball 1,529,500 85 Knox ,5,342.759 57 Lancaster 23.604,189 78 Lincoln 5,131,830 41 Logan 346,294 49 Loup 396,616 55 Madison (5,826,376 76 McPherson 489,368 60 Morrick 5,092,034 75 Morrill 1,441,660 Nnnco 4,179,771 48 77 84 Nemaha . . C.16-,-06 Nuckolls 931c 630 , ' Kn'oko 60 84 82 perkin8 1,319,874 47 J. UtlilUU - t pnelps 4,383,029 piorco -J.oio.uo.: Platte 8,636'no Polk . .V HSS'rnn lteU WIIIOW ,vu.,uuu nlnhardsoii 7,034,074 Rock 1.105,885 Sallno 8,335,834 Sarpy 4,164,753 Saunders 9,588,198 Scott's Bluff 2,153,760 Seward 9,119,274 Sheridan 3,292,115 Sherman 3,292,115 Sioux 1,273,911 Stanton MJ5'252 Thayer 0.092.632 ThnmriB 010,04 Thurston 3,057,928 110 Valley 3,583,027 Washington u' ,X'onS Wayno 5,570,397 Webster 5'30-,,i! Wheeler 7,572 York 9,377,615 90 75 73 70 81 Total $403,709,001 Requisition From Illinois. Springfield (111.) dispatch: Governor Denoen issued a requisition on the governor of Nebraska for tho return to Chicago of Nick Gavas, aliaB Da vison, who Is under arrest In Omaha and who Is wanted on tho chargo of larceny. New Well at Penitentiary. Tho penitentiary Is now being sup plied with water from tho big well recently dug by convict labor. Al though tho work of walling tho well has not been finished, tho water Is being pumped Into tho Institution. Tho now well furnishes moro than tho five small. well did before they prac tically gave out. Prisoner Jumps From Train. Thomas Cramer, sentenced to tho penitentiary from Box Butto county, was landed in tho prison after taking desperate chaucos In making his es capo from the sheriff while being brought to Lincoln, Cramer, while the officer was momentarily from his side, crawled through a car window to tho top of tho coach, nnd when the train stopped near Mason City he Jumped off and escaped to the timber near the track. Tho Bherlff and oth ers pursued and after firing several I shots effected his capture. BOTH SIDES HEARD. Wants Enough for Operation of Its Troubles. Argument looking to the adjudica tion of tho water power rights of tho Kearney Wnter and Electric Powers company was hoard by the stato board of irrigation, says tho Lincoln Journal. Attorneys for and ngnlnst the Buffnlo county corporation's pe tition were heard in the case, tho number Including John N. Dryden of Kearney and C. C. Flansburg of this city. The company, which has a power canal sixteen miles In length, thirty feet wide and varying from four and a half to twenty feet In depth, desires to take enough water from the Platto river to opernto Its power machinery to tho best possible advantage. It contends that duo to tho scarcity of water at certain times of the year It is impossible to do this unless npproprlators farther up tho river aro cut off from using the water for irrigation purposes. This action Is asked for in a petition which tho Kearney company filed some tlmo ago in the district court of Dawson county. The legal action which came out of that litigation was entitled the Kear ney Water and Electric Powers com- pnny against tho Gothenburg Power and Light company, tho Gothenburg Irrigation company, the Cozad Canal company and the Farmers' and Mer chants' Irrigation company. In the neighborhood of fifty other Irrigation projects are also associated with the defendants of this action in tho pres ent hearing before tho state irrigation board. The original company financing the Kearney project was called tho Kear ney Canal and Water Supply com pany, and was organized in 1882. Tho contention 1b made against this com pany and Its successor that the water rights granted to it wore not to bo permannt only to tho amount of a certnInflow. In tho district court ac tion, which terminated during the lat ter part of 3,911, a title to 125 cubic feet per second was declared. to rest in the Kearney company anjl certain other companies were also Bet out as having tho right to varying amounts of the Platte river water. In a brief filed in behalf of the plaintiff tho contention is mado that the present laws of the state provide for the adjudication of no claims which aro not upon record in the of llve of the state board of irrigation and that no provision is made by which prior appropriators may apply to the stato board of irrigation for adjudication of their claims. The further contention is made thnt thero Is no limit to the time in which the adjudications of water rights can be made by the state board of irrigation. The petition of the Kearney company, after requesting thnt it be given authority to take sufficient water from from tho Platto to operate its plant, deals extensively with the su periority of rights of tho litigants in tho case, and says: "The case at bar does not present a situation where the damages to pe titioner's property in case it is de prived of the use of water is merely Incidental. In case of such depriva tion the wheels of the machinery stop and the enterprise Is practically dead." The question of the powers of tho state board of irrigation is also threshed over at somo length, tho opinion of tho petitioner's attorneys being that the board is administrative in its authority and in no sense has delegated to it Judicial powers. J Informal hearings on the petition of the Kearney company havo been held before the stato board of irriga tion in tho past three or four months and several briefs and affidavits rel ative to the litigation have been filed with Secretary Price of that board. Irrigation companies to the number of sixty appeared at an April hearing ' to dispute tho right of the company to close their gatcB in order to pro vide sufficient power for the opera tion of Is machinery. Assessment of Counties. No change will bo made in the as sessed valuation of thirty-five conn les as returned to tho state board of equalization. In somo of the other counties nn increase of from 5 to 25 per cent, is proposed and in others a decrease of from 5 to 15 per cent, is proposed The counties which are to be increased will bo notified to ap pear and show cause why they shall not be increased. Appeal to the Supreme Court, Charles Madden has uppealed to tho supreme court from the Judgment of tho district court of Johnson coun ty, in vhich Oscar Eisentraut was given Judgment against him for $1, 500. Tho suit grow out of an alterca tion between the two men on Decem ber 3, 1910. Eistraut alleged that Madden, without cause or provocation attacked him with a heavy scoop shovel striking him over tho head and beating him so terribly that ho will nover recover. H stated that IiIb spine was injured and his nervous Bystcm wrecked. Gandy Wants Depot, Railway Commissioners Clarkp and Wlnnctt returned frcm Gandy, where thoy held a hearing regarding side tracks at that place and at the old town of Logan. Poth towns aro close to the Union Pacific line which runs as far as Stnpleton. The new line is built about a mile and a half from Gandy. Tho town has been laid out in such a way that it extends In a narrow form from the town to the depot and tho people want a depot erected, although tt would bo only three miles from Stapleton. ! li'jMimM11'' - T 'l A1 V " . .W -- 1 M.,,