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Congress.
Congress may adjourn August 17,
or It may hold ono week longer.
The Iioubo passed wool tariff revi
sion bill over President Tnft's veto,
174 to SO.
The senato passed the $1G0,000,000
pension bill, which now goes to the
president.
The senate passed tho house bill to
create a commission on Industrial
relations.
Representative Byrnes Introduced a
bill appropriating $50,000 for investi
gation Into pellagra.
The senato passed tho postofllco ap
propriation bill containing provision
for parcels post.
Attempt by tho sonate to pass tho
wool tariff revision bill over the pre
cident's veto failed.
Tho senate refused to tako up sov
oral special bills and cleaned tho way
for appropriation measures.
Senator Poloreno proposed nn
amendment to extend lnterestate
merco net to cover natural gaB pipe
lines.
Senator Kcnyon introduced resolu
tion for investigation of operation of
Interstate Commorco law slnco Its en
actment. Tho houso refused by a vote of 152
to 107 to pnsn over tho president's
feto tho oxecutlve, legislative Judicial
Appropriation bill.
Senator Bacon Introduced a bill to
irovent use of American troops
Ubrond whllo congress 1b In session
without Hb consent.
Representative Lloyd, chairman of
1908 democratic congressional com
mittee, testified bofore campaign fund
Investigating committee.
Representative Legato of South
Carolina and Haugon of Iown, whoso
places were contested, wore declared
entitled to their seats.
Tho Benato agreed to tho houso
amendments to tho proposed law to
regulate wireless telegraph. Tho bill
now goes to President Taft.
Senator La Follotto, speaking on
tho wool bill, attacked tho now pro
gressiva party and sworo now alle
giance to progressive republicans.
Leglslatlvo-oxecutlvo-JudlcIary bill,
with commorco court and seven-year
tcnuro civil service provisions elimi
nated, was reintroduced in tho houso.
Tho conference roport on tho Pa
nama canal bill was approved In
the senate by a vote of 48 to 18 after
a fight agalnat It led by Chairman
Brnndegee.
Senator Lafolloto, during discus
sion of tho postofllco bill, charged
poBtofflce officials with rifling his
mall, a chorgo which postal officials
declared "absurd."
Reprosentatlvo Thcron E. Catlln,
republican, of Missouri, was unseated
by n voto of 121 to 70 and Patrick If1.
Gill, democrat, contestant, aeated by
n voto of 101 to 79.
Tho Bourno-Brlstow parcels post
provision In tho postofllco appropria
tion bill was substituted by system
of Representative Moon and bill re
turned to conference.
Tho financial operations of the re
publican congressional campaign com
mittee wero rovlowod before cam
paign funds investigating commltteo
by Chairman McKlnley
Majority Loader Underwood of tho
houso appointed commltteo to Investi
gate Hpoeches, attacking public of
ficials, Inserted In Record by Repro
sentatlvo Akin undor "leayo to print."
The Donate Judiciary commltteo re
fused to make report on tho Pomo
rcno resolution requiring tho attornoy
general to bring criminal prosecution
against ofllcrs of Standard Oil and
American Tobacco companies.
General.
Col. Roosevelt denies that he prom
ised Aldrlcb a federal Judgeship.
Democrats of Nebraska have chosen
Orund Island as state headquarters.
No action will be taken by tho sen
ato at tills cession on the omnibus
- claims bills.
Steps for Improving tho Missouri
rlvor at Decaturo, Nobr., will bo be
gun at once.
Dr. Theodora Hansmnnn, who, as a
practicing physician of tho capital
half a contury ago, numbered Lln
coln and Carl Schurz among his pa
tients, 1b dead at tho ago of ninety
one. It la snld to bo reasonably certain
hat no furthor protest will bo made
by Groat Britain on behalf of English
mercantile Interests against the Pa
numa oanal If it finally, takes tho
form reported from tho conference1
committee.
Bishop Peter Trimble Houo of Alas
ka, who has Just declined to accopt
election as coadjutor bishop of Ohio,
Arrived In Seattle from Alaska.
At Sprlnglleld. Mo., despondent
from worrying over the high price of
meat, James N. Stough, a butcher, cut
bis throat with a razor, dying coon
After.
Sfccretary Fisher hus a plan to al
lot govommont coal lands to cities.
Governor Wilson is getting Ideas of
reform on expenditures of congress.
Lafollctte stirred tho sonuto by
charging that his mall bad boon tam
pered with.
Unexpected opposition developed
In tho houso to the amended canal
bill.
Peaco negotiations In Mexico aro
off so far as General Orozo Is con
cerned. Thcron E. Catlln, republican mem
ber from Missouri, was ousted from
the house.
Tho senate refused to pass tho
wool and metal bills over the presi
dent's veto. '
New York bankers havo promised
Prosecutor Whitman assistance in
uprooting graft.
The Martin eight-hour bill was fa
vorably reported by the houso com
merce committee.
Colonel Roosevelt wunlfi n .week of
reHt, and promises then that some
thing will ho doing.
Governor WIlBon said he did not
want or expect campaign contribu
tions from corporations.
Mexican rebels laid a trap for a
federal troop train and killed soldiers
nnd passengerB aboard.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Hayes Is criticised for his part in tho
Florida ovcrglades affair.
There aro signs of nn ugly spat
with Great Britain over the free tolls
provision of the canal bill.
Pioneers of Bollevue, Nebr., helped
Judge James Gow, a citizen celebrate
his ono hundredth birthday.
Tho Btato department waB accused
Ih tho houso of being careless and
Improvident in expenditures.
Representative Gardner says tho
way to solve the trust problem Is to
make tho big combines behave.
Colonel Roosevelt denounced aB
flctlouB an Omaha dispatch that ho
was pledging offices In advance.
Nineteen negro miners wero killed
by nn explosion In the Abernant
Coal company's mine at Abernant.
A fight between unionist and non
unionist longshoremen at Tilbury
docks, London, resulted In eleven
men being Injured.
Tho Alsop claims, which several
yearB ago threatened tho frlndly ro
tations of the United States and
Chile, aro about to bo paid.
Nearly 800 telegraph Operators of
tho Canndlan Pacific railroad servlco
will receive an Increase of $5 a
month, dating from July 1 last.
Gulllermo Bllllnghurst, mayor of
Lima, Peru, was elected president of
Poru In succession n Augusto Lugla,
whofle term expires Sept. 24, 1912.
Tho senato commltteo en resolu
tions refused to report the Pomercno
resolutions calling tor the prosecution
of tho Standard Oil and Tobacco com
pany. The American Blblo house has
flnnlly obtained permission from tho
Turklan government to construct a
school at Korltza, in southern Al
bania. Tho nomination of Jacob Gould
Schurman, prosidont of Cornell uni
versity, ns minister to Greece
Montenegro, was confirmed by
senato.
Brigadier General Georgo S.
and
tho
An-
dorson will bo placed on tho retired
list of tho army October 1G, upon his
own application. General Anderson
was born In Now Jersey In 1849.
United States Judgo Cushman In
Seattlo denied citizenship to John M.
Manos, n Greek, who haB lived In tho
United States twelvo years and who
rofused to bring his wlfo and daugh
ter to thla country.
Tho agricultural appropriation bill
more thnn a month overdue In taking
effect, was Hlgncd by President Taft
and released for field work a small
army of employes hold up. during tho
delay on tho measure In congress.
President Taft told several callors
that he expected to sign the Panama
canal bill passed by tho senato carry
ing provisions agninst tho use of tho
canal by railroad owned ships and
granting froo tolls to Ajnorlcan ves
sels. With tho declaration that thoy
would have a clear majority of 100
In tho next house, tho managers of
tho democratic congressional cam
paign commltteo announced that thoy
would open headquarters at onco in
Chicago.
Increased fright rates for the
transportation oi petroleum and by
pduct8 from points In Now York to
Cincinnati, Ohio, and other destina
tions In tho Ohio and Mississippi val
leys, wero suspended by the Inter
state commorco commission.
Mrs. Alva Cave, dnuEhtor-ln-law of
Rov. R. Lin Cave, chaplain-general
of tho United confederate veterans,
wsb murdered at NnBhvllle, Tonn.,
and Mrs. J. G. Jones, aged twenty
four, la In Jail accused of tho killing,
which Is said to havo been Impelled
by Jealousy.
It Is stated unofficially, but on good
authority that arrangements are be
ing raudo for tho prince of WnleB and
his brother Albert to pay a prlvato
visit to the duke of Connnught In
Canada during tho bummer vacation
next year, under the chargo of his
tutor, Henry P. Hansell.
Testimony In tho government's suit
to dissolve the "sugar trust" was con
eluded In Denver, and the Bpecinl ex
amining board will meet In Now York
on September 1C. Attorneys for the
government declared that thoy had
proved everything they expected to
show In Colorado.
Parsonal.
Governor Wilson discussed tho
tariff. from the farmer's standpoint.
Mayor Hurrlson Is offering hla help
in settling street car striking difficulties.
HMD
OBIS
TOLD IN MATTER OF EQUAL
IZING FARM LAND VALUES.
STATE BANKING BOARD ACTS
Governor Says State Board Must
Raise Enough Revenue to Pay
' Legislative Appropriations,
Tho proposal of tho stato board of
assessment to equalize farm land
valucB betweon counties by increas
ing tho assessed values of landB In
flfty-ono counties and reducing
values In buy on counties, resulted in
tho biggest pow-wow ever held be
fore a state board In Nebraska, says
the Lincoln Journal.
Tho stato board proposes to In
creaso tho assessed values In fifty
one counties from 5 to 20 per cent.
Tho objections that poured in upon
tho board wero almost ns numerous
aB tho counties In the list and some
of tho seven counties whose valua
tions nro to bo reduced from 5 to 10
asked for greater reduction.
It was ono continual round of
hard luck stories and oceans of
worthless land. "I nover knew that
Nebraska was such a poverty strick
en state, and that It contained so
much worthless land," said one who
heard tho assessors object to an in
crease In assessed valuations. "I
am almost afraid to remain longer in
tho state after bearing of tho amount
of worthless land nnd crop failures.
And to think that ono can buy In
Richardson county for from $1 to ?10
an aero land that Is covered with
timber and Is sultntjlo for fruit grow
ing." Occasionally an assessor or county
attornoy or county commissioner
would admit that much of the land In
their counties had been valued for
assessment at $125 or' $160, but tho
general tenor of their remarks was
"poor -land," and opposition to an In
creased valuation.
Tho stories wero in contrast to
thoso told by witnesses called by
railroad companies before tho stato
railway commission's physical valu
ation department. Before thnt de
partment, where railroads deslro to
boost tho value of their right of way
witnesses stato that thero Is no poor
lnnd In Bight and that values run
considerably over $100.
Almost In vain did Governor Aid
rich preach to tho county officers
present tho theory that tho state
board must equalize to obtain any
thing llko equality in counties and
that If assessed values aro increased,
the stato board will decrease tho
state lovy ono mill nnd county boardB
caq decrease tho percentage of lovy
so that taxpayers need not pay any
moro money on their lands than thoy
paid last year.
Some assessors contended that
county boards would bo to blamo If
thoy did not reduce levies In the
faco of an Increased assessed valu
ation, but asserted that many local
assessing boards would fall to do bo
nnd the result would bo an Increaso
In tho amount of money collocted
for taxes.
Governor Aldrlch said tho stato
board must ralso enough rovenuo to
pay tho appropriations mado by tho
loglslnturo and county boards must
look after tho needs of counties and
school districts, but that with an In
creased valuation tho tax levies
could. bo roduced nnd only enough
money) raised to pay tho oxponseB of
the state and local governments and
nobody would bo hurt. Ho said If
levies aro not reduced In tho face of
an Increased valuation 6f lands, tho
local boards and not tho stato board
will bo to blamo.
Grift Evans, county assessor of
Adams county, objecting to an In
crease of 10 per cent In land values
In hlB county, which would bring
the average per aero up to $C1.03,
plainly said when tho political effect
was mentioned that ho folt that If ho
was responsible for the Increase In
his county ho would expect to bo
wiped from tho political map.
Second Regiment Camp.
Orders havo been Issued from tho
office of tho adjutant general for an
encampment of tho companies of tho
Second regiment at Grnnd Island on
August 21, to remain until August
28. All companies of that regiment
except G of Omaha and K. of Schuy
ler will comprise tho camp.
Prominent Educator Dead.
C. M. Penny, u member of tho
teachers' Btato examination board
and a prominent Nebrasku educator,
died at his home In Lincoln. Ho hnd
been 111 for several months nnd waB
unable to attend to his duties for
cloven weks preceding his deutb.
The Green Bug PesL
According to Assistant State Ento
molglst Myron H. Swenk, tho green
bugs said to bo destroying tho corn
crops In tho vlclnty of Fromont, be
long in all probability to a species
of plant llco which has been known
In Nebraska tov some tlmo. Reports
from Fremont nro to the- effect that
the peBts are killing off tho corn nt
an nlarmlng rate. Small green bugs
ntacked the wheat In somo parts of
Nebraska In the spring of 1D07, but
It Is bolleved that they were of a
different species than present pests.
ROAD MAKES APPEAL.
Union Pacific Seeko Reversal of
Shippers' Damages.
Tho Union Pacific railway company
has filed In tho office of tho clerk of
tho .Bupremo court an appeal from
tho district court of Dawson county
In a caso wherein Robert W. Ralston,
a stock shipper, had obtained two
Judgments against tho compnny for
Injuries to stock shipped from Utah.
Mr. Ralston sets forth In district
court thut ho shipped two carB of
live stock, ono to Lexington and tho
other to Willow Island, In Nebraska!
That tho usual amount of time re
quired to carry the stock from Den
ver to Lexington Is twenty-five hours
but that the stock was kopt on tho
road slxety-ono hours. Ho says that
on account of a holo under tho
door of the car six of tho cattle had
caught their legs therein and had
them broken, whllo seven others woro
serlopsly Injured because of tho rough
handling of tho cars. Ho asked dam
ages In tho sum of $500.
Tho second car was en route from
Denver to Willow iBland, fifty-eight
hours, when twenty-four hours was
the usual tlmo consumed. Threo
head of cattle In that car wero killed
and ono had n hip broken, besldcH
other damages. He aBked for $500
damages in that caso.
In the first caso tho Jury awarded
Mr. Ralston the full amount asked,
with Interest, which made the Judg
ment $536.64, while In the second
caso they gave him In all $164.40. Tho
company nppealB to the suprenjo
court.
Special Sunday Rates.
In answer to a letter sent by Secre
tary of Stato Walt to L. W. Wakeloy
asking for special service or cheap
rates on Sunday before the opening
of tho state fair so that people com
ing to tho fair can get'there In tlmo
to attend tho unveiling of tho Abra
ham Lincoln statue, Mr. Walt received
tho following letter f rom "Mr. Wakeley:
Mr. Melor and I had a talk about
train service. As the result of this I
havo added more apeclals from tho
stato Into Lincoln Tuesday. You un
derstand that people can come to Lin
coln on as cheap railroad faro on
Sunday as on Monday, or subsequent
days; tho rate evry day Is 2 cents
a mild In each direction. Our regular
train service Into Lincoln on Sunday
is ample from all populous territory.
Wo havo Sunday trains on all main
llneB into Lincoln from every direc
tion. Thero is only certain branch
lino territory not served by Sunday
trains Into Lincoln. The only Bectlon
from which passengers cannot reach
Lincoln before Monday ls from north
of Aurora, but that country is so dls
taut that I would have to start special
trains from up thero long before day
light In drder to reach Lincoln in the
forenoon. Wo do not Initiate Sunday
Bpeclal excursions; we desire to glvo
our crows their Sunday rest. But In
tho case at hantl, thero Is practically
no need of our running Sunday trains
as our many regular trains Into Lin
coln will take caro of over 90 per
cent of any possible Sunday travel.
Close Call for Metcalfe.
According to J. L. McBrlen of Lin
coln, who returned from tho progress
ive convention at Chicago, It. L. Met
calfe of Lincoln might have been
considered as Colonel Roosevelt's run
ning mate bad his consent been ob
tained. Adjutant General Back.
Lieutenant F. C. Test and Adjutant
General Phelps returned from tho
Polo Mountain maneuvers with tho
guard. Tho trip was a successful ono
and very beneficial to tho guard. Tho
march of eighteen miles from Polo
Mountain to Laramie, where tho
guard took tho train, was made In
flvo hourB and forty minutes. Tho
boys stood It pretty well, only six
men falling out and taking the ambu
lance. However, somo of tho boys
had their feet somewhat blistered.
Banking Board Acts.
The Btato banking board baa taken
official notlco that in somo states
professional promoters are going
about organizing now banks on tho
commission plan and then departing
for new fields to earn more commis
sions for gottlng stock subscriptions.
No such Instances in Nobaska havo
como to tho notlco of -tho board, but
at Its last meeting It adopted a reso
lution Instructing Secretary Royse to
to wlthold charters where It Is
found that their organization has
boen offecetd by methods Incompat
ible with safe banking.
No Troops at County Fairs.
Tho county fairs of the stato of
Nebraska will not be supplied with
cavalry troops for exhibitions this
fall, ob many of them havo expected.
A recent order from Washington or
dors the cavalry troops of Fort Rob
inson and Fort Meade to take part
In the maneuvers at Hot Springs
during tho first week In September.
These are tho two forts from which
the various county fairs had been ex
pecting to secure dctuchments.
Pardon Denied.
J. W. Connell, alias W. T. Dorson,
sent up from Douglas county on a
chargo of robbery In April, 1909, has
mado application to the Board of Par
dons for a pardon nnd tho Bamo haB
been denied. Connell Is a brother-in-law
of Charles Morley, connected with
tho outbrenk at the penitentiary last
spring, and was sent up for holding
up Louis Parsley at his place of busi
ness In Omaha. Parsley waB forced
at tho point of a gun to hand over
$120 In cash, and In addition an over
coat which was Identified.
HEADY FO SIGNING
PANAMA BILL NOW IN HANDS
OF PRESIDENT.
CaFERENCEMEASURE PASSED
Provides for Free Passage of Amer
ican Coastwise Vessels and Ma
terial Free to the Zone.
Washington. The Panama canal
bill aB agreed upon by conferees of
tho senato and houso was passed by
tho houso Saturday, by a vico voce
voto. As was expected, the bill,
which provides for the government
and administration of tho canal
contains provisions for tho passage
of American coastwise vessels
through tho cannl free of tolls and
tho ndmlttanco of ship building ma
terial to tho canal zono freo of duty.
The bill already has passed the sen
ate and It now goes to the presi
dent for his signature.
A special rule prohibiting points of
order against the measure prevented
Representatives Mooro and Olm
stead of Pennsylvania, republicans,
from renewing their attack on the
provision for the free admission of
ship materials. As a result there was
little opposition.
Mr. Moore wag taken severely to
task by Representative Alexander,
chairman of tho merchant marine
committee, for his allegations that
the tree admission clause, would In
jure American ship yards and work a
hardship on American labor.
Mr. Alexander held that with freo
material, shipping would be greatly
benefited and that such a provision
would In no sense affoot the labor
Bltuatlon In American yards. He de
fended that admission of foreign
built ships to American registry on
tho ground that American shipyards
wero not building vessels for tho
foreign trade.
The exclusion of railroad or trust
owned shlpB from using the canal, In
tho opinion of Representative Sims
of Tennessee, was worth all the la
bor and time taken to mold the bill.
He folt, ho said, that a long Btep for
ward had been taken In the solution,
of the trust problem.
DARROW IS ACQUITTED.
But He Must Now Stand Trial on
Another Charge.
Los Angeles, Cal. Clarence S.
Darrow, tho Chicago lawjer, who
was found not guilty SatuVday of the
chargo of having bribed a prospect
ive Juror in tho McNamara case,
must stand trial on a second Indict
ment, according to an announcement
mado by District Attorney Frede
ricks, Immediately after tho ncqultal.
As he sat In a modest cafe, a few
blocks' from the scene of his notable
trial and vindication surrounded by
a few Intimate friends and finding
moro relish In tho perusal of scores
of congratulatory telegrams than In
his luncheon, Darrow waB apparent
ly unconcerned over tho statement
of tho prosecutor.
Nebraskan Suicides Abroad.
San Francisco, Cal. Joseph T.
Miles, 26 years old, son of Joseph
Miles, millionaire) stockman and
financier, of FallB City, Neb., and
heir to a largo fortune In hla own
right, killed himself in Hotel St.
Mark, at Oakland Saturday by firing
a revolver bullet through his brain.
Ho loft tho following: "To whom It
may concern I, T. J. Miles, shot my
self and ask that J. H. Miles, 41
West Moreland Place, Los Angeles,
bo notified. (Joseph T. Miles.)"
Lorlmer Bill Referred.
Washington Tho senate commlt
teo which investigated William Lori
mer's election referred a bill of $2,
500 presented by William J. Burns
for detective work in the case to Its
attorneys for investigation and re
port. Tho committee thought tho
bill was not itemized sufficiently.
Hogs Bring Big Price.
Omaha. P. Pollard of Schuyler
broke all records on tho South Oma
ha market slnco November of 1910
with a shlpmont of seventy-nine
hogs. They averaged 200 poundB
and brought $8.45.
Congressman Stephens Comes Home.
Washlngtbn. Because of tho poor
health of his wife, Representative
Stephens started for Fremont Satur
day. He said he considered the most
important business of tho session
was over and that ho should bo with
his family.
Get Children Out of Way.
ICansaB City, Mo. "Mothers would
put their children In the public
schools before they could walk if wo
would let them," says the secretary
of tho Kansas City school board.
Laid Out by Veto.
Washington. Failure marked an
attempt by tho house to pass over
President Taft'8 veto tho bill of the
senate to pay claims of thoso who
furnished labor and materials In
building the Corbett tunnel of tho
Shoshone Irrigation project.
The Feat Duplicated.
Choyonne, Wyo. Lafe Lewman,
during Frontier day sports here, dup
licated tho feat of Ursua in "Quo
VadU" by breaking tho neck of a
Texas steer with his arms
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Managers of tho Oakland "Fall Fes
tival" Invited John F. Flack, president
of tho City National bank, Omaha, to
deliver an address here. He haa ac
cepted the Invitation.
The Fourth of July committee of
Pnwneo City reported a balance la
the treasury of $141.94, which It pro
poses to turn over to the Commercial
club to assist in securing now street
lights.
When Al House of Spencer attempt
ed to remove a shotgun from a wagon
the weapon waB discharged. One rib
was torn awny and the. hip bone waa
shattered. He may recover unless
complications ensue.
A coroner's Jury found that thero
waB no cause for holding the four
men who had been In custody since
the dead body of John Crawford was
found In tho road between Spauldlng
and Greeley and they were released.
Del Cooper, Alfred Bolt Carl Hahl
beck and William Hagerbaum, threo
young men who reside at Hooper,
were more or less bruised when an
automobile they wero driving collided
with a steel bridge on the road be
tween Hooper and Uehllng.
James C. Chrlstensen, residing eight
miles north of Fremont was painfully
trampled by a team of horses whllo
hauling bundles In a harvest fiejd. In
an effort to quiet the horses which
hnd taken fright at an automobile,
Mr. Chrlstensen went to their heads.
They leaped upon him.
Hastings will get the next conven
tion of tho Nebraska Christian Mis
sionary society. It wan decided at a
business session of the convention at
Bethany park to take the next meet
ing to the Adams county town, pro
vldlng the Commercial club of that
city will make a suitable offer.
Edward Delaney, Burlington section
boss brought Into Wymore a water
melon packed In hailstones. Tho
hnllstones fell Wednesday, August 7.
Mr. Delaney says that southeast of
town there are piles of hailstones con
taining more than a carload. Some
of the stones he brought in measured
oVer two Inches in diameter.
Tho Lovitt clothing store at Raven
na was destroyed by fire. A dog be
longing to Frank Howard, who lived
half a block away first attracted at
tention to the fire by his loud bark
ing nnd howling. The stock, valued
at $12,000 wasentlrely destroyed and
the brick building owned by Frank
Havlik badly damaged. Both were In
sured. '
Rev. J. D. M. Buckner of Aurora
received a telegram from his son, Em
ery R., that he had been appointed
counsel to conduct the aldermanlc In
vestigation of police conditions in
New York city growing out of tho
Rosenthal case, at a' salary of $1,000
per month. Young Buckner graduated
from the University of Nebraska In
1904 and from Harvard In 1907.
The Fremont Electric Light com
pany, following recent extensions In
Fremont and vicinity, is bidding for a
contract to supply tho town of Cedar
Bluffs In Saunders county, with elec
tric Juice. Cedar Bluffs recently voted
$8,000 for a new electric light station,
but In view of- the offer from Fremont
may call another election to rescind
the former action.
Albe Harold who Is employed as
cook In the institute for feeble minded
at Beatrice, was taken sick on tho
motor' car on his way home from Lin
coln. He was removed to the Pad
dock hotel and Immediately lost con
sclousness Stimulants wero adminis
tered and after a few hours' work by
the physicianB In barge he became
much better.
When Charles Bunger of Craig and
Waldo Hancock and Frank Welch of
Tekamah, went over a sixty-foot cm
hankment a few miles from Blair in a
motor car, they escaped without a
scratch. Tho machine, however, drop
ped to the bottom of the pricipice.
Tho threo men were thrown out when
the car bumped against a ledge fif
teen feet below tho brinks of the cliff.
As a result of the equalization by
the stato board of the present year's
state assessment a decrease of $1,733,
422 has bepn made in the total assess
ed valuation of all classed of property
In tho state. The total under the re
vision amounts to $463,379,889, which
Is an increaso of about $48,000,000
over the valuation of last year.
In a case tried at Lexington by a
special term of district court with
Judge Grimes of North Platte presid
ing, wherein the state was trying a
young man by the name of Young for
murdering an Indian by the name of
Blackhawk the Jury was unable to
bring In a verdict after being locked
up for two days and two nightB
The festivities of the closing day of
the flremens and baseball tournament
at Madison were attended by n large
number of visitors. The 100-yard
hook and ladder dash was won by
Norfolk; time 19 seconds ;ladderman,
August Kell; Humphrey made the run
In 20 Vi seconds; William Geitzen
climbing the ladder, and William E.
Mader for the Leigh team reached the
top round of the ladder In 20 seconds.
Purse $45.
Washington dispatch- Cavalry for
exhibition purposes at the Custer
county fair, to bo hold at Broken Bow
Sept 10 to 13, cannot bo provided
Iw the war department, according to
information bent Congressman Kln
kaid. The trpops will be In maneuver
camp at that time.
The people of Holdrege will vote on
a proposition to Issue bonds for the
sum of $5,000 for the purpose of es
tablishing nnd maintaining a public
park. As yet this city has no park
and the matter haB been agitated for
several years by the Woman's club
and the Commercial club,
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