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1 1 1 () THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE IRA L. IJAHB, Publisher, TERMS $1.00 IN ADVANCE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, T INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED COVERS WIDE AREA. GREATER OB LESSER IPORT Includes What Is Going On at Wash ington and In Other Sections of the Country. CONGRESS. Dobato was begun on annual pen sion appropriation bill carrying $180, 300,000. Iloproaontatlvo OlmBtead Bays It would bo cowardly to withdraw from tho Philippines. Tho United States and Franco havo ngrocd to continue tho arbitration treaty for flvo years. Tho diplomatic and .consular appro priation bill carrying ' $3,701,642, waB passed by tho Houso. President Toffs veto of tho Burnett-Dillingham Immigration bill was received and ead by tho senate An amendment to tho poatolfico bill In tho senato povides for primary elec tion on fourth claBs postmasters. Tho Houso Territories . committee heard Alaskan plea for legislation permitting entrymen to provo coal claims in court. 'An aggrcgato of $19,800,080 Is ex ponded annually by tho government to maintain tho public health service of tho varloiiB departments, according to a statement forwarded to tho son cto by tho secretary of tho treasury. Eulogies for tho lato Sonator Fryo of Maine and RopresentaUvo Hubbard of Iowa, and Utter of Ilhodo Island, 1 ero dellvored In tho houso recently. Many representatives Joined In tho vymposlum of tributes. CrltlcUm of tho present conserva tion system of tho United States bo causo of tho power It gives to depart mental heads in Washington to rcgu lato affairs In great arcaB of western stntos wob voiced by Sonator ThomaB if Colorado. Tho bill to provldo $2,000,000 for government participation In tho Panama-Pacific, exposition In 191G nt San Francisco was killed for this session of congress on a test voto of 112 to 317 In a parliamentary Bklrmlsh for closing debate. 8 PORT. Jack JohnsorTwIll moot Al Palzer In Parts on Juno 2G. William F. Qutnn, who has trained hundreds of Harvard athlotos for field ovents and hurdling, died aftor a long IllnesB. Ho was thirty-two years old and camo to Harvard in 1906 from tho Now York athlotlo club. Protests agalnBt starting National league baseball games there at 2 p. m., as announced by Prosldont Mur phy of tho Chicago club, caused Mur phy to modify tho Innovation by say ing that tho games would bo started ct 2:30. Honry Coultor, ngod 71, at ono time said to havo boon champion sin glo scull oarsman of tho United States, died at his homo In Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Coultor participated In many famous racos In Uiis country and England. Luther McCarty's noxt fight will bo with Bombardlor Wolls. Tho placo will bo Madison Squaro gardon, Now York, and Uio d&to will bo March, '14, or a day close to that. This much was agreed botwoon McCarty's man ager and tho proprietors of tho Madi son Square Gardon club. Ad. "Wolgast, former Hgbtwolght champion, arrived from Portland to bog! nT training for IiIb fight with "Har lem Tommy" Murphy on "Washington's birthday. IIo confirmed tho report that ho had sovorcd business relations with Tom Jones, formerly his man ngor, and at onco established his training camp. With tho adoption of tho playing echedulo for 1913 tho club-ownors and representatives of tho National league ended one of tho shortest and most peaceful sessions in tho history of this baseball organisation. According to tho statement mndo by Secretary Heydlcr at tho closo of tho mooting harmony provailed and thoro waB not a rlpplo of discord heard during tho discussion of buslncBS. Tho schedulo callB for 154 games. GENERAL. II. IL Humphrey nud It. II. McWhor tor, who confessod to having practiced fraud In connection with tho Columbia river orchards swlndlo, woro lined $1, 000 each and sentenced to sixty dayu' Imprisonment at Portland, Ore. How ho discovered information for which tho govornmont paid him $50, 000 in loss titan (Ivo months' employ ment by Duven Bros., dealers In art objects, was related to a Now York supremo court jury by Joseph Lam bert Payno. Ban Francisco was endorsed for the mooting placo of the National Gun ners' association in 1915 at tho clos ing session of tho convention. A great national pant In Colorado, to bo known obi tho Rocky Mountain park, la proposed in a bill Introduced by Ropresontatlvo Ruckcr of Colorado. NEWS BRIEFLY OLD Thomas A. Edison eelobrated his CCth birthday on February 11. Tho price of oil huH been advanced In tho North Lima, O., field. IntcrsUito Commerco Commission Pass Inspector Boyd Is in Omaha test ing Uio frco transportation murkcL Eastern railway llromon havo voted to go on strike. Tho proposed Gorman petroleum monopoly was placed fully undor gov ornmontal control by an amendment to tho bill by tho commltteo of tho Imperial Parliament. The Illinois senato unanimously rat lflcd tho proposed amendment to tho national constitution providing for tho election of United States senators by tho direct voto of the people Fire which started In the garret 6t tho Star hotel at Dolan, S. D burned eleven buildings in tho business part of tho town boforo being brought under control. Tho estimated loss Is $CC,000. It Is understood tho marrlago of Princess Victoria Louise, only daugh ter of tho Gorman emperor, to Prince Ernst August, son of tho duko of Cum berland, will tako place In October noxt. Tho national chamber of commerco adopted a resolution calling upon the president and senate of tho United States to renew tho arbitration treaty mado botwoon this country and Great Britain In 1908. Conrad Schlckerliug, president of tho Shickorllng Manufacturing com pany, was arrested In iNow York on an indictment charging uso of tho malls to swlndlo pupils of a Jowolers' art school, A bill providing for a minimum wage for women passed by tho Kan sas houso of representatives ixes ?G a week for a nlnehour day as tho minimum wago of all women workers except domestic servants. Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin waved beforo tho eyes of his associ ate a draft for $1,500,000, tho proceeds of a lumber deal. Back homo tho boys aro wondoring if Uio old man wll run again and glvo prosperity a boost Harry Fisher of Buffalo was elected, president of tho National Association of Morchant Tailors at tho close of tholr annual clothing and stylo show In Cleveland, succocdlug Charles Mc Carthy of Chicago. Tho YpsllantI Rood Furnlturo com pany, an Institution adjoining tho stnto reformatory and in which con vict labor was largely employed, was destroyed by flro at a loss of $2G5,000. Tho Btato lost $100,000 worth of equipment in tho factory. Tho origin of tho flro has not boon determined. Rov. Dr. Robert Stuart McArthur haB roslgnod his pastorate at tho At lanta Baptist Tabernaclo, which has boon stormy for months through dif ferences botwoon himself and tho congregation, and will return to Now York to resume his dutlos as presi dent of tho World's Baptist Alliance. Tho soil of a groat portion of Ger many Is little but Band and it has been tillod for centuries, but on this poor lnnd German farmors aro today raising In somo crops more than twlco as many bushels per aero as tho American farmer, and In all' crops from CO to 80 per cont moro. Whothor tho six-year single presi dential torm constitutional amend ment shall bo prosentod to tho public as It recontly passed tho Bonato, or bo substituted by tho Clayton resolu tion, tho houso Judiciary commlttoo was unable to decide. Tho quostlon is to como up In tho houso later. Criminal contempt of court proceed ings ngulnst tho Southorn Wholesale Grocers' association and seventy-nlno Individuals for alleged violations of tho anti-trust docrco entered against tho "grocers' trust" moro than a year ago woro begun In Birmingham, ro contly by tho federal government. John F. Bauer of Wllkos-Barro, Pa., who has colobratod his fortyflfth birthday anniversary, has tho dis tinction of being tho first whlto child born at Hays City, Kan. Hays City Yyas ono of tho most Important trad ing posts for tho Indians, and it aftor ward bocamo tho leading shipping point for cattlo in Uio ontiro Paulina illo section. Mr. Bauor camo to Wllkcs-Barro thirty yoars ago. Goorgo Klttlo of Parade, Neb,, filed a complaint againBt IS. II. Farmer with tho county attorney Saturday. Tho complaint alleges that Farmor bo cured $62 from him by falsoly repre senting that ho was about to be ar rostod by a Unltod States deputy mar shal and needed that amount of money to Btwo him from tho humiliation of bolng nrrestcd. A warrant was issued and Farmor was arrested Wednesday at Hastings. President-elect Wilson announced definitely tonight that ho would not make public tho names of his cabinet until ho sent them to tho senato for confirmation, March 4. "I will follow tho gocdoId-faBhlonod method," ho said, "and not mnko any announce ment until tho names of tho cabinet mombors aro sent to tho senato." Mr. Wilson's remarks woro occasioned by tho publication of roports from WnBh Ington that ho would announco his cabinet tomorrow. Ho said thoro was ubsolutoly no truth or authority for the roports. In a Bpeech at Now York Cdlonol Roosevolt returned to an attack ol tho supremo court of Idaho. A report of Illinois same time ago stated that In Uio last twenty years 10,000 country churches'ln Illinois had closed tholr doors. ( Former Governor B. M, Fornald of Malno was elected president of the National Canners' association in con volition In Louisville, Ky. . April 14 has been solocted as tho ditto for beginning a general strike throughout Belgium by the National Council of Worklngmeu's organlza- i tlons. IS ICE BROKEN FIGHTING, REPORTS 8AY, HA8 BEEN RESUMED. THE' MESSAGES ARE EAGER Authorities Have Established a Strict Censorship In Mex ico City. Mexico City. Tho strictest censor ship on all dispatches has been estab lished at Mexico City. Government olficIalB havo taken chnrgo of tho ca ble ofilco and ruUiIessly discarded messages of correspondents to their papors. Codo message and all messages con taining any expressions whatever that might bo constructed Into a sug gestion of tho Important happenings in tho capital camo under Uio ban and promptly wero confiscated by the censor and his assistants. NoverUioless sovoral dispatches, of a Bomcwhat detached nature, escaped tho vigilance of tho censorship and a bulletin was flashed through that the armlstlco had been broken and that both sides woro fighting savagely. Tho Mexican government was un ablo, howover, to shut off the official dispatches of tho diplomatic represen tatives', but as theso aro sent In ci pher, considerable delay Is being ex perienced in translation, and tho fear 1b expressed that many things may occur In tho Mexican capital detri mental to tho foreign residents be foro Uio actual situation Is learned by Uio homo governments. Brief dispatches giving a general Idea of Uio situation prior to the fresh break of hostilities wero passed by Uio consors to their destinations, but tho government apparently Is de termined that not a word of the fight lng which has torn the city asunder for eight days shall bo communicated to Uio outBldo world, if that can be prevented. Tho government has not only shut tho word off from Mexico City, but bo far as tho public Is concerned has shut Mexico City off from the world, including tho whole of the Mexican ropubllc. News dispatches sent from tho United States to Moxlco City wero either refused or held up, the Intention evidently being that tho residents wiUiin tho capital shall not bo informed of t tho measures which havo been undortakon by tho Amer ican and oth6r governments to pro tect tholr lnterosts. Whllo Madero haB been reiterating his declaration that conditions in Moxlco outside of tho capital aro sat isfactory, advices from various cen ters Indicate that thoro havo beon im portant movements in favor of Gen eral Diaz. Confirmation of tho breaking of tho armlstlco and tho resumption of hos tilities has been received from La redo, Tox., where wlro communica tion waB established with Mexico City. Tho messages stated that a bat tle was on. Official advices received from Ambnssador Wilson tell of tho narrow escapo of tho British minister, Francis W. Stronge, from federal bul letB whllo on his way to a confer ence at tho American embassy. Tho automobilo In which Mr. Strongo was riding, escorted by a federal guard, was struck In several placeB. This gives somo slight Indications of Uio difficulties and dnngers encountered by tho diplomatic representatives In tholr ondoavors to bring about a peaco settlement. Furthor advices from tho ambassa dor say that tho majority of tho Amorlcan residents havo found places of rolatlvo safoty, although a few of them havo refused to abandon their homOB. Attempts to Rob 16 Men. Kansas Olty. A man who gavo tho namo of D. R. Leopor, attomptod to hold up and rob sixtoen mon on tho stroot near Uio Union station, IIo was unabo to keep all of them under his oyo und aftor omptylng his rovol vor at thoso who attomptod to escapo, ho took to his own heels wlUi Uio men ho had attomptod to rob In pur suit. Ono of the highwayman's bul lets fatally woundod Francis Fitz gerald, a 16-yoar-old boy. Loopor was captured, China Holding Elections. Pokln. Present returns from tho gonoral elections being held through out China lndlcato that President Yuan S1U Kal will bo returned to of fice by a substantial majority. Morehead Stops tho Fight Lincoln, Neb. Following Uio filing of a protest by Uio Trl-City Barnca union of Omaha and vicinity, Gover nor Morehead wired Uio Bhoritf to prohibit tho fight at Grand Island. Chinese to Be Hanged. Now York. Two memborB of tho Chlnoao Hip Sing tong Eng Hlng and Yoo Dock woro Bontonced to execu tion March 24 for tho murdor of Leo Kay, a follow countryman, during a tong shooting affray about Fobruary 14, 1912. Power Engineers In Field. Fromont, Nob. -Survoyorn ropro sontlng tho Kountzo canal Interests aro Bald to bo working near Llnwood A wook ago they woro in Uio vicinity of Cedar Bluffs. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. Coming Events In Nebreska. February 20-21-22. Loyal Order d Moose Fair and Bazar, Omaha. Feb. 24 to March 1. Omaha Auto mobllo Show, Omaha. March 5 to 15 "Made-In-Ncbrnska' Show, Omaha. Alllanco will get tho fire tourna ment this summer. Trailers ure being put on aU the street enrs In Omaha. A new camp of W. O. W. is being organized at Ansolmo. Merrick county's new court house is Hearing completion. Franklin pays Its city superintend ent of schools $1,12' a year. Four hundred nnd fifty-four bills havo been introduced in tho senate. Alnsworth Monks of McCook war killed at Wray, Colo., in a train ac cident. About" 500 tons of hay was destroy ed in a pralrio flro near Hyannls rec ontly. Tho farmers In the vicinity of Peru closed a successful three days' farm ers' instituto. Three wolves were killed near Ohlowa this week. About 800 people Joined in tho hunt. J. C. Franklin, aged 95, a wealthy pioneer of Nebraska, died at Fre mont on February 12.. Tho Omaha Woman's club's resolu tions against tho ropoal of tho Albert law, tho Sackett law or tho 8 o'clock closing law havo beon received by the house. In a one-sided game of basket ball, University Placo defeated Beatrice by tho Bcoro of 16 to 18. Allen of the visitors was tho star and mado most of Uio goals. Ono case of smallpox has been re. ported to tho city physician at Au rora, and in order to tako precaution tho schools havo been closed for the purpose of fumigating. Tho Cortland basketball team de feated Wllber at Cortland by Uio scoro'-of 36 to 28, Cortland has won eight straight games and claims the championship o the county. Tho Union Pacific has announced tho posting of a reward of $1,000 for tho arrest and conviction of the par ty, or parties, who murdered George J. Hood, Uio station agent at Miller. Tho progresslveness of tho Village of Dodge is best shown by Uio con struction of tho new $40,000 school building now nenrlng completion upon tho slto used for school purposes for many years. Tho Rov. L. W. Corey, pastor of the First Baptist church of Frempnt for Uio past flvo years, recently tendered his resignation to his congregation. Ho will go to Kenosha, Wis., to as sumo charge of a church. John Elmer recently sold his fine ono hundred and twenty-acre farm, a low miles southwest of Snyder, for tho longest price paid for farm lands in that section, getting $165. per acre. It is a lino farm and ono of the best in tho section, though tho Improve ments wero nly ordinary. Fire caused by Uio explositlon of a barrel of headlight oil damaged tho Union Pacific roundhouso at Kearney Thursday night to tho extent of $35, 000. Ono engine burned and another was badly damaged. Tho damage to tho building was heavy. Tho fire raged for two hours. At a meoting of the Alliance retail morchants' association Tuesday ways and means woro discussed and plans formulated for placing before the peo ple of Box Butte county the necessity of a new court houso and the getting out of tho vote, April 7, to decide for tho issuance of bonds for tho build ing thereof. Contracts wero Blgned nnd work be gun this week on a 16 room hotel at tho town of Van Tansoll, Wyo near tho state lino. Work Is to bo rushed and building conploted by April 1st. Cost of building $3,GOO.00. J. H. Kneoter of Spoarfish, S. D is tho pro prietor, and ho will spend $1,500.00 moro In furnishings this giving Van Tassoll an up-to-dato hostelry. Stophgn T. Roasoner, a well known business man of Kearney and for two torms county superintendent of Buf falo county, died at Rochester, Minn? Ho had been successfully opornted upon for Intestinal troublo jn July, but a second operation Wednesday was fatal. Tho funornl will bo hold from Ashland, Nob,, his old home, on Monday undor tho auspices of tho Ma cons, of which order ho was a mem ber. Tho clerks In tho auditing depart ment of Uio Burlington nt Omaha havo bogun packing up preparatory to tak ing tho records of that ofilco "to Chi cago, on or about March 1. Thoro are a lot of clorks In tho bortlng room nnd who como undor tho Jurisdiction of tho auditing department, who have rebelled. Vincent Astor has selected tho field of ugrlcultpro for aiding humanity. Governor Sulzer announced today ho had appointed Mr. Astor to head tho delegation which will ropre Bont Now York stato, at the meeting of tho general assombly of the Inter naUonal InsUtuto of Agriculture to bo hold In Romo, Italy noxt May? Bailoy R. Simmons, a pioneer of York, died recently. Lon Wright and Davo Rockio won tho Fromont bowling tournament dou bles hy scoring 1,043 plnB. Tho tour nament has been in progress for six weeks. Farmers living In tho locality oi Arnold aro profiting over a florc? competitive fight Uio three creamer les of that placo aro putting up. An effort Is bolng mado on the part of the cltlzeus of Alliance to Induce tho newly appointed bishop of Kear noy dloceso to mako Alliance his res ldence. IHE FREIGHT BILL KECKLEY TELLS ABOUT BAD TREATMENT DY COMMITTEE. BILL PUT OVER ONE WEEK Chairman Explains He Vas Simply Seeking Full Information. Keckley Didn't See It That Way. Lincoln. Tho proposed reduction" of freight rates by tho legislature, with out regard to tho Stato Railway com mission, was tho ono big question be foro Uio house, brought up this after noon by Keckley of York, who, rising to a quostlon of personal privilege, gavo a talk on his treatment at tho hands of tho railway comnvitteo, be foro which ho appeared Friday eve ning. Tho action of tho commltteo was dofonded by Holllger, chairman, and Stephen of Merrick, a member. Keckley wanted tho commltteo to mako a report on his bill last night but instead It went over for a week do tho committee could get more facts In tho case. Kockloy said, aftor telling about be ing tho author of the bill to reduce freight rates 20 per cent: "That bill wont to tho railroad commltteo and was discussed Friday evening. I asked tho committee to report tho bill back to tho house and I was not par Ucular what report It made. I told tho commltteo I was not competent to discuss freight rates with tho railroad exports. I wanted to show my data upon which tho bill was based to tho committee of tho whole and not bo compelled to show my hand to tho sommlttee. Fprced to Show Hand. "But tho commltteo insisted that I 6how why tho bill should bo passed, instead of compelling tho freight ex ports to show why it should not bo passed. While making a running fight with tho experts I was forced to pro duce somo of my data. I showed tho committee flguros to prove that tho people of Nebraska In comparison with tho people of Iowa wero extorted out of $9,126,000 last year. The com parison I showed the commltteo showed that the extortion In freight rates is about 60 per cent" Bills Passed by House. Bill passed were theso: Houso Roll No. 14, by Frle3 of How ard Provides for marking county roads on both boundaries and for concrete, iron or Btone monuments on survey points. Passed, 92 to 0. Houeo Roll No. 13. by Fries of How ard Defines powers, duties and fees of county surveyors and prescribes method of establishing and restoring lost or obliterated corners. Passed, 88 to 2. Houso Roll No. 13, by Fries of How rd Gives state surveyor power to summon witnesses, administer oaths and compel testimony In boundary disputes. Passed, 87 to 0. House Roll No. 40, by Hardin of Harlan Ropeals the Smith mortgage tax exemption act of 1911. Passed, 53 to 38. Houso Roll No. 59, by Keckley of i'ork Established a civil service sys tem in all tho state institutions under administration of state board of con trol. Passed, 88 to 0. Houso Roll No. 51, by Richardson of Lancaster Makes it a felony to glvo or sell "dope" or Intoxicants to penitentiary or asylum Inmates. Passed, 86 to 0. Houso Roll No. 92, by Norton of Polk Proposed constitutional amend ment enabling a reform of tho stato tax system. Passed, 87 to 0. Houso Roll No. 18, by Brain of Douglas PermltB tho voting of bonds tor sower construction in villages where no newspaper Is published. Passed, 90 to 0. Houso Roll No. 142, by Greenwalt of Custer Allows cities of from 2,000 to 5,000 population to adopt tho Ban ning commission form of government Passed, 92 to 0. Saloon Limit Dill Killed. Lincoln. The houso killed H. R. 86, by Andorson of Koarnoy, providing tho number of saloons shall bo limited to one for every 1,000 .people In wot towns. The Judiciary committee re ported tho bill for indefinite postpone ment. To Probe Industrial School. That C. B. Manuel, head of tho boys' Industrial school at Kearney, has failed to furnish any information as to a deficiency of nearly $50,000, was asserted by C. II. Busch, chair mun of tho house dollclenclos com mittee, who asked a committee to In vestigate where tho money was Bpcnt Ho Bald tho deficiency amounts to half tho total maintenance appropriation. A commltteo of three, with tho senate commltteo, will probe. Says Horse Disease Is Dreaded One Stato Veterinarian Bostrom hns heard of no other cases of the horse epidemic of which four cases wero re portod from the vicinity of Beatrice About six weeks ago there wero foui or flvo cases of thta dlseaso reported from York county. Tho stato vetcri narlan says that tho epidemic which a fow months ago raged ovor No braska, Kansas and Oklahoma. He does not bollovo that a serious out- break of tho dlseaso will develop at this time. WON'T SPEND THE MONEY. House Committee Refuses Many Monetary Advances. With a deaf car turned to practical ly all entreaties tho houso finance committee made up Its salary budget for tho biennlum and presented it to tho house Jn a bill. Tho measure car ries a total of $883,200 for tho blon nlum as opposed to $1,194,140 two years ago. This does not mean that tho committee actually reduced sal aries. As a mattor of fact tho total increases footed up to $27,340 over and above those of two years, ago. The dlfferenco is duo to the fact that no salaries wero provided for tho four normal schools, tho Board of Chari ties nnd Corrections, and tho pur food department Theso will be cared for In another way. If all demands of heads of depart ments had been acceded to the salary hill would have been almost 50 per cent larger than before, but once in Its stride tho committee oven refused, advances of not more than $100 for a. department All through tho first draft of the bill the notation Is car ried "not recommended" with expla nations appended as to reason fpr hardness of heart. ' A separate bill asks that tho four normal schools bo given a three fourths mill levy. It comeB from tho finance committee, which has gone on tho assumption that tho measure wIlL pass and has left salaries for tho nor mals out of Its general bill. The nor mal mill levy bill will bo called up by Chairman Pottn nnd ho will ask Uiat it run parallel with the salary bill In order that If it should fail the addi tions can be mado to the general bill before it Is too late. The adjutant general asked for two new officials at combined salaries of $2,040, but both were rejected. Tho modest commissioner of labor asked for $500 increase for himself and for new positions in his depart ment carrying salaries of $4,900 and $360 more for his stenographer. Tho commltteo turned down the proposed uew officials and refused advances for those now in office. v The Board of Charities and Correc ;ions was cut out, the committee be ing of tho opinion that tho Board of Control would assume tho duties of this department. This action, If ap proved, would leave tho present secre tary, Joel Piper, out of a job. A new position, second assistant agent for the state public school was allowed at $800 per year, but in creases for the secretary, tho gov erness and tho phyBlclon, aggregating: $900 wero disallowed Tho stato printing commissioner, who by law has been getting $1,500 a year for two years, was cut to $1,000 under a mistaken idea of the commit tee that ho had been getting but $1,000 a year. A new nosltlon. sunerintendent and. physician, for tho tuberculosis hos pital at Kearney was recommended. Many other changes in salaries were made, but the committee struck a fair average as a whole. Board of Control Bill to Senata. The board of control bill brought molded out of all pending measures beforo tho legislature and retouched with suggested changes that may In sure better operation of this new ad junct to tho stato government was reported to tho senate. 'Its consider ation will be a matter of special bus iness at next week's session. Tho bill bears the namo of Ollis of Val ley. It was prepared, following a tilt on tho floor of tho senato by a commltteo consisting of Cordeal' of Red Willow, Dodge of Douglas and. Wink of Buffalo. The measure pro vides that members of tho board may be chosen from any county in tho state, this following action taken on ono of tho old measures by the sen ate. Election Contest Undecided. Tho senate committee on election contests was to have had a meeting Friday, but not all the members were present and no action was taken to ward tho writing of a report on tho Pancoast-Grossmnn contest. Kiechel of Nemaha explained ho did not know there was to be n meeting. Placek of Saunders asked if ho should not pre paro a report for the committee. "Why not let Senntor Heasty writo It?" replied Kiechel. Placek said Heasty might not write tho same kind of a report he would write. Kiechel said ho did not think there would bo any troublo of that kind. Defer Action on Phone Bill. Following a short hearing on tho Fuller county ownership bill, tho sen ate commltteo deferred action until the roturn of President Frank Woods of tho Lincoln Telephono and Tele graph comuany from Chicago. 15, M. MorBeman and C. N. Pratt of tho Nebraska Tolephone company ap peared beforo tho commltteo and ar gued against the bill on account of its alleged confiscatory objects. W. M. Morning of the local public owner ship league urged its passage so that the people might hold an effective "club'' over tho companies. Lincoln Holiday Bill. Overriding all opposition the house with shouts of assent lifted tho bill which sought to mako Lincoln's birth day a legal holiday and recommended It for pasBago. This was done In tho midst of third reading progress, on motion of Hubbard of Adams, In honor of Uio birthday of tho martyr president Two yearB ago tho legis lature mado October 12 a legal holiday only after a prolonged dobato. Both senato and houso membors adjourned long enough to honor the martyr. -MtW.I
