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CONGRE8S.
Fcnator Ashurst linn Introduced a
bill to appropriate $1,000,000 for a
goernmont armor plnnL
One-cent postage for lettera after
July 1, 1914, wna proposed In a reso
lution by Representative House of
Kentucky.
Representative Hobson has Intro
duced a bill to prevent Induatrlal de
pression and value fluctuation In Iron
and steel products.
Representative Slsson In speech at
tacked the government's treaty-making
power, where it susponded law
making power of Individual states.
The bnnking and currency commit
tee baa authorized Chairman Owen to
draft a list of questionB on currency
refprm to bo submitted to all bankers.
A constitutional umendment to pro
Tide direct election of the- president
and vlco president for a single six
"nr term waa proposed in a resolu
tion by Representative Drltten of Illi
nois. The parcels post business has
grown so extensively that tho Houso
has beer compelled to appropriate a
tfiOO.000 emergency fund for oxtra
clerks.
Senntor Nelson has Introduced n
(solution for a constitutional
rmendment, giving tho president
power to veto i-uy Item In tho appro
prla'lon bills.
Senator Chamberlain has refuted
Delegate Wlckersham's statement
that bo bnd Introducec) a bill which
would have turned over Cordovn har
bor to tho Guggenhelms.
Elevation of dlploamtlc mission to
Spain to an embassy and provision
for neparato ministers for Uruguay
and Paravuay nro provided in a bill
Introduced by Senator Dncon.
Senator Plttman has Introduced n
bill to permit the government to
mine Alasknn coal when needcd( by
tho navy, or when It would relievo' op
pressive condtlons to a coal monop
oly. Representative Bartholdt Introduced
a resolution for a constitutional
amendment vesting in congress tho
power to legislate on nil questions nf
fecting tho rights of foreigners In tho
United Statos.
Senator Tillman's bllf allowing tho
secretary' of tho navy to assign gradu
ates from tho naval aendemy to tho
lowest commissioned grades in the
malne corps or staff corps of tho navy
was ordered favorably reported.
GENERAL.
Maryland expects to comploto COO
miles' of now stato roads systom this
year.
New York la passing tho hat for
$50 000 to' flnanco a Fourth of July
celebration.
Gnylard M. Saltzgabor of Van Wert,
O. has takon tho onth of olllco as com
missioner of pensions.
Thomas P. Kane, acting controller
of tho currency, ban abondonod tho
compulsory annual meetings of nation
al bank examiners at their own ex
pense. Twenty Btudenta of tho Central and
South high schools of Akron, 0 woro
Injured when a balcony In tho audi
torium of tho Central high school col
lapsed. Tho Imports of American merchan.
disc Into Liverpool last year exceeded
by $50,000,000 tho figures of 1911,
which were greater than over before
In the history of tho trade, tho total
bing $377,750,902.
Mrs. George Wnllaco, 93 years old,
of Dolmont, Pa., won a twenty-mllo
automobllo race to Urennsburg a
gainst Mrs. Harry Leordon, aged 25,
She drove the dlstanco In twenty
three mlnuts.
Ernest SchmedeB, Frederick O. Ben
nett, and Frederick C. Green, form
erly clerk In the San Diego poatof
flee, were convicted in tho federal
court at Lob Angeles of having open
ed, copied and delayed letters.
Cato SellB and A. A. JonoB demo
cratic committeemen from Texas and
New Mexico, respectively, vlll be ap
pointed to federaf positions by Presi
dent Wilson. Mr. ScUb is slated to
be Indian commissioner, while Mr.
Jone Is elected- as assistant secre
tary of tho interior
The school children of Clinton, Mo.,
dug up 10,747 pounds of dandoliona
last week.
John Mulr, tho famous California
naturalist, has just celebrated at
Martinez, his home, the seventy-sixth
annvonary of his birth.
A porcelain teapot, cream Jug and
two cups and saucers, onco tho prop
jerty ot Edmjund Durke, the Irish ora
tor, were sold at auction for $7,000.
i A branch of the women's welfare
department of the National Civic
Federation Is soon to be formed at
; Pittsburgh, the Initiative- strp having
already been taken.
Miss Frances A. Shnw, for thirty
years a resident of Minneapolis and
widely known ns nn author, is dead.
Chicago reportB the formation of a
now mail ordor house, capitalized at
$8,000,000.
Malno has 79,955 wage earners em
ployed in 3.G4C factories.
The emporor of Japan Is serously
111 with Inflammation of tho lungs.
Tho City of Now York owns 5,500
parcels of land, vnlued at $1,
.100,000,000. A heroic bronze statue of .ho lato
Rov. Dr. Edward Everett Halo; has
been unveiled ut Hoston.
Snlo of clgarets to persona under
21 years Is heavily pennllzul by a
new law in Pennsylvania.
Moro than 30 per cent of Califor
nia's orange crop csenped the disast
rous frosts of a few weeks ngo.
Charles M. Schwab Is having n pri
vate rallrond car built for him In
South Bethlehem, Pa., to cost $125,
000. Trinity Church corporation, New
York, has a tenant In ono of its
houses who Is tho mother of twenty,
four children.
Rum is now imported into prohi
bition Maine In powder form, tho con.
Blgneo preparing tho drink by tho ad
dition of fluid.
Tommy Burns' prize light arena. In
which Luther McCarty was killed In
the fight with Arthur Pelkey, wbb
burned to tho ground.
Francis Thompson Harvnrd, asso
ciate professor of mining and metal
lurgy at tho University of Wisconsin,
died of pneumonia, aged 35 years.
llerenfter In California giving a tip
to portors, conductors, waiters, bar
bers, bellboys or others performing
ulmllar services Is a felony penalized
by llbornl fines.
Tho nshes of the late Joaquin Mil
lor, poet of tho Sierras, woro scat
terd Among tho flames of a funeral
pyro that had been built by the poet's
own hands.
Victoria park, in tho west end, was
tho scene of rioting when London
trade unionists and socialists at
tempted to hold a demonstration in
support of votes, for working women.
By a voto of 85 to 0 tho Illinois
senato passed a bill putting quack
doctors nnil fako medical sharks out
ot business. Tho bill is now before
tho houso of representatives with a
favorablo report.
Mcinbors of the Amorlcan colony
at Empalmo, Mox., have established
a camp on tho beach within call of
tho crulBor California in anticipation
ot tho attack on Guuymns.
Tho third death among pntlents
who received tho Friedmann tubercu
losis treatment is reported nt Wor
cester, Mass. The laBt victim waa an
Armenian personally treated by tho
doctor.
Mount Vernon, homo ot George
Washington, will remain closed to vis
itors on Sundays ns heretofore ns tho
result of resolutions adopted by the
council of regents of tho Mount Ver
non association.
Tw provisions of tho city charter
make it imposslblo for San Frnncisco
to add to Its forco threo pollcowomen
for whom tho Board of Supervisors
recently voted an appropriation.
Miss Elizabeth M. Meigs, who has
boon tho copyist nnd lndoxer of tho
Bupromo court In tho District of Co
lumbia for twenty-two jears, hns been
appointed assistant chut clerk of tho
court, bolng tho first voman to hold
this position.
Tho oddest and most gruesomo
theft probabjy recorded took piaco In
Now York lately when some ono
stole a human hand wearing n dia
mond ring, which had been sovorad
from a young woman falling under
an elevated train.
8PORT.
Gcorgo Stovall of the Browns Is In
tho .300 class, which Is ono of tho rea
sons Colonel Hodges Is so anxious to
hnvo his manager reinstated.
Manager Georgo Stovall ot tho
BrownB haB boon reinstated by Presi
dent Ban B. Johnson of tho American
league after being on the suspended
list for nearly threo weeks.
Announcement has boon mado by
tho Omaha, Nob., mnnngemont that
Glavonuch, a right hand hurler, has
boon purchased from the Cleveland
club of tho Amorlcan league.
Jnck IIondrlckB, manager ot the
Denver ball club, denied a report
from Donver that ho would farm out
ShortBtop Matthews to tho Ludlng.
ton club ot tho Michigan Stnte lengue.
Ono of tlte largest track and Held
moots ever staged In the west was
hold at Dcb Moines, la., in n combined
Btute collogo and Btato high Bchool
meet. Ovor 400 woro entered for tho
various events.
Waltor Johnson, Washington's
crack pitcher, was defeated for tho
first time this Benson by an to 0
score, at tho handa of tho Cleveland
tenm. Ho had a record of ten
straight victories.
A dlslocatod neck caused tho
death of Luther McCarty during tho
light with Arthur Pelkey, according
to information given out following
an autopsy conducted by Dr. Moshlor
at tho request of Coroner Costello
Denver BooniB to be hitting tho
chutes. ThingB don't como so easy
away from tho home boar pit.
Third BaBomnn Callahan, who has
been with Wichita for two years, has
been Bold to tho Sioux City Western
League club.
"Clila" Palmer, a member of the
Columbus, Nobr., Stato league base
ball team, haa resigned his position
and quit the game uutlrelv.
Manager Jennings Ih going to glvo
Sam Crawford a two weeks' try-out at
first base, If ho fails, then an effort
will be made to secure Hal Chase
1 from New York by trade or purchase
MANS TO MEET
ON BATTLEFIELD
Big Reunion of Survivors of Civil
War at Gettysburg on .
July 1.
40,000 EXPECTED TO ATTEND
i
Men Who Wore the Blue and Gray
to Again Gather on Ground
Made Memorable by His
toric Conflict.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
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'ASHINGTON. During the
first four days of July tho
battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa.,
will again be tho Bceno of a
meeting of the Blue and tho
Gray, but this time thoy will meet In
nmlty and nffectlon. A half-century will
have passed since Inst these men of two
great American armies met on this
northern field. Then, they were face
to faco in deadly conflict, for tho Issue,
It was well understood to both con
tending forces, was tho Bucceas of tho
southern cause, or the beginning of its
defeat, to be followed by tho restora
tion of tho Union as It had been before
tho first shot was fired at Fort Sum
ter. Tho United States government nnd
the government of nearly every Btato
In tho Union have combined to make
tho Gettysburg reunion of tho soldlors
of the north and south one of tho great
peace events of the century. The state
of Pennsylvania some time ngo ap
pointed a "Fiftieth Anniversary of tho
Battlo of Gettysburg commission" to
make preparations for tho four daya'
reunion, at which Pennsylvania ns a
state wna to act as host to the vet
erans of tho war between tho Btntes
and to tho thousands of visitors who
would follow their march to tho field
of battle, and appropriated $150,000 for
tho purpose of entertaining the vet
erans. 40,000 Veterans Expected.
It Is expected that 40,000 vetorans
of tho war, not nil of them, howover,
survlvora of tho Gettysburg battle, will
bo found encamped upon tho field
when rovelllo sounds on tho morning
of July 1. It will bo a different re
veille than that which the flfo and
drum corps of the two great armies
sounded fifty years ago. Tho call to
awakening will be a call to a peaceful
celebration while tho call to tho awak
ening In July, 1863, was a call of
armies to conflict and, to thousands of
men, a call to death.
For years the veterans have been
looking forward to thlB reunion. It la
probable that thero will bo present
many thousands of survivors of tho
battle. The United States government
under an act of congress haa appro
priated money for tho preparation of
tho camps and for tho messing of tho
Boldler visitors. Tho averago ago of
tho men engaged in tho Civil war was
only eighteen yeara, but fifty years
Havo passed since theso soldier boys
fought at Gettysburg, and so if tho
computation of ngo was a true ono tho
average years of the veterans who will
moot In Pennaylvanla in July will bo
about sixty-eight years. Many of them,
of course, will bo much older and a
good many of them, men who entered
tit ngea ranging from fourteen to sev
enteen yeara, will bo younger, but all
will bo old men ns tho world vlowa
ago.
Many pf tho atates of tho Union,
north as well as aouth, have mado ap
proprlatlono to send their veterans to
the Gettysburg reunion and to pay all
othor expenses. Tho battle of Gettys
burg is recognized as tho turning point
of tho war botweon tho Btatca. It haa
been called thnu nnd again ono of the
declslvo battles of tho world. Gener
ally It Is recognized that Gettysburg
decided tho great conflict, helped In
the declslon probably by tho fall of
Vlcksburg on tho MlsalBalppl, which
took plnce virtually at tho moment
that the conflict on tho Pennsylvania
field was decided in favor of tho north
ern arms.
Tho preparations whlcli tho govern
ment lo making to caro for tho voter
nns at Gettysburg nro interesting.
Thoy have been under tho charge of
James B. Alcahtro, quartermaster gen
oral of tho United States army, and
Henry G. Sharpo, commlasary general
of the United States army. Two years
ago last March 14,000 regular troops
wero gathered in enmp at Texas. The
health of the soldiers throughout the
Texas encampment wna nlmoat per
fect, made so by the plans which had
boon carefully laid to Bee that perfect
Baultatlon was maintained. Tho Unit
ed States army waa taught a lesson
by tho Spanish war, when lack ot
propor sanitary precuutiona and unpro-
puredness in other ways coet the gov
ernment tho lives of moro mon than
wore sacrificed to the bullets of the
Spaniard.
The estimates of tho commissary
and quartermaster authorities nro
based upon an attenduncoof 40,000 vet
erans. It probably will cost the gov
ernment about $360,000 to act In part
as host to tho survivors of tho battle
and othor veterans who attend tho
Gettysburg reunion.
Big Task to Feed Men.
Tho survivors of tho wnr from tho
north and Bouth who will bo present,
being old men, must bo cared for In
a way which would not have beon nec
essary fifty years ago. The meastng of
the vetorans will require 400 urmy
ranges, 1 great field bakery, 40,000
mesa kit, 800 cooks, 800 kitchen help
ers and 130 bakers. This helping per
sonnel will bo required to bo in camn
for at least Boven days, and rany
them for a longer period, for 'ho pur
poso of Installing tho field bakery, tho
field ranges and In dismantling, clean
ing, packing nnd storing material aftor
tho encampment is ovor.
Tho old soldiers arc to bo supplied
with fresh meat directly from refrig
erator cars drawn upon tho Hold. Thoy
will be given fresh vegetables and apo
dal bread with the best coffee and lea
which tho mnrket affords. For them It
will not bo a case of hardtack, bootleg
nnd poor bacon.
Tho Battlo of Gettysburg commis
sion of the stato of Pennsylvania haa
a largo sum of money at Its disposal
for tho entertainment of tho visiting
veterans, nnd the thousands of persons
who will accompany them. Hospital
ity Is to mark the days. Fifty yearB
ago Pennsylvania aided In the work of
repelling tho visitors from the south.
In early July next tho name state will
have Its arms wldo open In welcome
to the men wearing the gray. Enter
tainments of vnrlous klnda will be of
fered tho visiting veterans, but it la
pretty well understood that their deep
Interest in revisiting tho scenes whero
they fought, Little Round Top, Oak
Ridge, Cemetery Hill, Culp'e Hill,
Rock Creek, tho Stono Wall and other
places will hold them largely to tho
plcusurcs and to the Badneaaea of per
sonal reminiscences. Arm in arm with
tho Union soldiers tho Confederate sol
diers will retramp tho battleground.
Thoy will look ovor tho field of Pick
ett'o desperate charge. They will ro
traco tho marching stopB of Long
street's corps. They will go to tho
plnce whero Meade had his headquar
ters and to tho place from which Leo
directed his aouthorn forces in battlo.
Pennaylvanla is going to make a
great celebration of peace of this fif
tieth nnnlveraary of what probably
was tho decisive battlo of the war, al
though it was fought nearly two yeara
before tho war ended. Other stateB
will help Pennsylvania In ita work, and.
from every, section of tho country,
north, cast, eouth and west, the vet
erans will nsscmblo, most of them
probably to see for the last time in
llfo tho field upon which they wero
willing to die for the sake of their re
spective causes.
Tho veterans will not bo directly en
camped In tho Gettysburg park, which
is dotted with monuments to the vari
ous commands which took part in the
fight and which is laid out In approved
park fashion, with fine drives and
beautifully kept lawns. Thero will bo
two camps, known as No. 1 and No. 2.
ro. 1 will cover 149 acrea and No. 2
will cover 44 acres. Tho layouta of
theso camps aro baaed on the use of
conical tenta, each of which will, with
out crowding, accommodate eight per
sons. Innsmuch ns accommodations
aro to bo furnished for 40,000 visitors
5,000 tenta will bo required to give
quarters to the visiting hosts.
Visitors to Be Cared For.
Every poaalble care la to be taken
of tho vlaltors. Tho sanitary arrange
ments which havo been made are said
to bo tho best that are possible and
they nro the reault of careful study by
medical officers of the service. All the
experience of tho past has beon drawn
upon to make it certain that tho health
of the veteranB will bo conserved while
they nro in camp.
With so mnny thousands of old sol
diers In attendance, and taking into
consideration tho probability that tho
weather will be warm. It la expected
that there will be sickness, but tho
United States government and tho
Btato of Pennaylvanla are preparing
for a hoapltal servlco which shall bo
adequate to any contingency. There
will bo hospital corps detachments
prosent ready to render firat aid to
tho Injured, and there will bo many
field hospitals with surgeons In at
tendance, whore the sick can receive
Instant attendance.
It Is said that this contemplated re
union has Induced more Interest
among the old soldiers of the north
and tho eouth than any event whlcn
has happened since the day that the
war closed. Thero is today at Gettys
burg a great nntlonnl park, in which
la Included a cemetery where thou
sands of soldier dead aro burled. Tho
United States government und tho leg
islature of Pennsylvania worked to
gether to make a park of the battle
field and to mark accurately every
point In It which has historic Interest
'When ono goes to tho Hold ho can toll
Just whoro this brigade or that bri
gade was engaged, just where this
chargo or that chargo was mado and
Just whero tho desperate defenses ot
positions were maintained until the
tide of battlo brought cither victory or
defeat to ono of tho Immediate com
mands engaged.
It waB In 1895 that congress estab
lished a national park at Gettysburg
and gavo tho secretary of war author
ity to name a commission "to superin
tend the opening ot additional roads,
mark tho boundaries, ascertain and
definitely mark tho lines of battle ot
troops engaged, to acquire lands (whlch
wore occupied by infantry, cavalry and
artillery, and such other adjacent
lands aa tho aecretary of war may
dcom neceesary to preserve the Impor
tant topographical fenturca of the bat
tlefield." Whon tho Union and the Confeder
ate vetorans reach Gettysburg on June
30 next they will find on the scene ot
tho old conflict between five and six
hundred memorials raised In commem
oration of tho deeds ot their com
mands on tho great fields ot the Penn
sylvania battlefield. There aro, more
over, 1,000 markers placed to desig
nate historic Bpots. There are great
towors built upon the field by the go
ernment eo that bird's-eye views can
bo obtained of tho entire scene of tho
battle. Flno roads have been con
structed and everywhere attention bar
been paid to every detail of the least
Importance In sotting forth the history
of one, of tho greatest battles ever
t 1 known to warfare.
IS UP 10 PRESIDENT
BUNDRY CIVIL BILL WILL AWAIT
WILSON'S ACTION SOON.
WAS ONOE VETOED BY TAFT
Interest Centers In Exemption of
Farmers and Labor Or-
ganizatlons.
Washington. President Wilson may
havo actually before him this week
for hla approval or rejection tho much
buffeted $117,000,000 sundry civil ap
propriation bill, whlcli Includes tho
provision exempting labor unions and
farmers' organizations from prosecu
tion through funds appointed through
enforcement of tho Sherman anti
trust law.
What tho president will do with
tho measure becauao of tho exemption
clause, which caused former President
Taft to veto It, is engaging country
wide attention.
The executive's office haa been
flooded with lettei3 and petltlona re
garding the measure, somo urging him
In emphatic language to veto it bo
cause of the exemption clause and
others appealing to him to glvo It hla
approval.
Committee Work Slow.
Tho tariff situation will reach an
Interesting period when tho Bonato
finance subcommittees got down to
tho actual work of writing their revi
sions of the Underwood bill. When tho
private hearings close the three sub
committees will begin to sift through
the mass of material procured In tho
private hearings and through briefs
tied with them by protesting manu
lacturers. Although Senator Sim
mons, chairman of tho flnanco com
mittee, had hoped that tho work of
revising tho schedules could be con
cluded this week there Is little pros
pect of It.
Senator Williams' subcommittee
will take up tho Insurance feature of
tho income tax section of tho bill. An
other matter to occupy this subcom
mittee will be tho amendments to the
administrative featureB of tho bill
proposed by Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Denison and Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury Curti3. 'The amend
ments being seriously considered are
one to give tho secretary' of tho treas
ury the right to proclaim valuations
on ad valorem goods and another to
prohibit attorneys taking up disputed
:ases on a contingent fee basis.
Packers Called to Testify. '
Chicago. Subpoenas were issued
for five Chicago packers to appear as
witnesses before the vice and mini
mum wage commission of the state
senate, which is schduled to resume
its hearing.
Conditions among tho girls and
women employes at tho stock yards
are to be investigated and several of
the workers themselves will be
called to testify.
The packers for whom subpoenas
have been Issued aro J. Ogden Ar
mour. Louis F. Swift, G. F. Sulz
berger, Ira Morris and Edward Til.
den. Mr. Armour is abroaci and tho
commission probably will have con
cluded Ub work before he returns to
this country.
Lieutenant Governor O'Hara, who
is chairman of the commission, an
nounced that the real object of the
investigation from now on would be
to bring about the passage of a min
imum wage bill in Illinois, resulting
ultimately in national legislation.
Boy Found Dead on Farm.
Beaver City, Neb Tho lifeles8 body
of Floyd Wilhurn, with tho top of hla
head blown off by a shot from a shot
gun, was found. The body waB dis
covered by n younger brother. Floyd
waa 21 years old and had been miss
ing from homo since tho middle of
the afternoon Saturday. No inquost
was held, as it seemed to be either
an accident or a case of suicide. The
young roan's father, T. M. Wilburn, la
a prominent Burlington railroad man
and was at Grand Island at the time
of the death.
Trouble In Venezuela.
Wiliemstad, Curacao. Tho discov
ery of a plot against the llfo of Pres.
idont Juan Vicente Gomez, has led to
tho arrest of eight parsons nlieged to
be Implicated. According to the
latest information from Caracas, the
intention was to kill the president on
May 25 at the horse races at ParalBO,
a suburb of Caracas.
Degree For Cretean.
Cambridge, Mass. Among tho suc
cessful candidates for doctor of medi
cine dogreo at Harvard Unlvorslty
School of Medicine Ib Edgar Matthias
Modler of Crete, Neb
Vesuvius Theatens Again.
Nnples. Vesuvius shows renewed
signs of aotivlty. One eruption was
accompanied by a slight oarthquako
ehock. A now nnd large central fis
sure has opened around tho crater
from which ashes aro emitted. They
have not gone beyond the volcano.
Colleges Get NearlyMllllon Dollars.
Now York. The General Education
board appropriated $837,600 for the
benefit of sixteen colleges and educa
tional Institutions In various ,arts ot
the country.
SOLDIERS.
State Officials Ask Cities to Send In
Contributions.
Governor Morehead . and all tho
state officers have Joined in a request
for mayors of cities to Eeo that, col
lections aro taken up to pay tho faro
of old soldiers to the battle ot Get
tysburg July 4. Tho legislature ap
propriated $4,000 for this purpose, but
270 names of eligible vetorans have
been received by tho state commis
sion and the appropriation will not
pay moro than one-third of tho rail-'
road fare of all who desire to make
tho trip. Tho full fare for the round
trip will cost $45. Only Boldlers who
were In the battle of Gettysburg,
whether on tho union sldo or the side
of tie confederacy, are to receive any
of tho Btato appropriation. The lay
ing of the corner stono of a peace
'monument Is .to take plnce July 4 and
all who took part In tho celebrated
battlo have been invited to bo pre3ent.
Ono thousand letters were sent by
state ofllcers this morning to mayors
of cities and board of village trustees
appealing for private contributions.
The legislature of Iowa appropriated
$10,000 for this purpose and thero
will be a deficit of $4,000, which the
governor of that state Ib planning to
provide for, either through the ad
vancement of tho money by memberB
of the state senate or by public sub
scription. To Secure More Land,
Tho Nebraska State Board of Agri
culture will at once begin condemna
tion proceedings to secure tho addi
tional land to be bought under the ap
propriation made by the last legisla
ture. This was ordered at a meeting
of -the board of managers at the of
fice of Secretary Mellcr.
Chairman C. 11 Rudge was chosen
to go to Minneapolis to attond a na
tional meeting of btato fair ofncials.
The number of drinking fountains to
bo Installed was considered. Plana
wero considered for rearranging tho
Judging pavilion for textile arts and
making it as nearly fireproof as pos
sible. The nnming of additional judges
was left for another meeting. Owing
to his recent illness President I. W.
Haws of Mlnden was unable to be
present. Those who attended the
meeting were: Joseph Roberts, first
vice president, of Fremont; second
vice president, J. A. 0111b of Ord; C.
H. Rudge of Lincoln, Peter Youngers
of Geneva, J. F. McArdle of South
Omaha
son.
and George Jackson of Nel-
Asks Architects to Submit Plans.
State Superintendent J. E. Delzell is
continually receiving letters from
school district officials asking for
plans for rural school buildings from
one to four rooms in size. In order to
meet the demand he has sent out the
following to all architects of the state
which he believes will solvo the sltua
tlon: In this office we have many calls
from school officers for one, two and
threo-room rural school buildings, also
a few calls for a four-room building.
The legislature does not furnish funda
to pay for these plans, but if the archi
tects of the state will furnish us plans
and cuts for these buildings we will
print-the same in pamphlet form, giv
ing each architect credit by printing
his name with the plans, if such plans
are definite enough to be of value to
tho schools of the state.
If this appeals to you, please let us
know at once, stating nbout what time
you can furnish the plans. It will bo
necessary that we get theso plans
soon, so if you desire to assist in this
matter write us at once.
Brian and Ilnor Disagree.
Lawson G. Brian is disposed to take
exceptions to a statement made by
Deputy State Auditor Minor that he
mado a contract with John Gilchrist
to tho effect that tho latter was to
receive $1,200 for services performed
a short time ago. Mr. Brian met Mr.
Minor and accused him of making
statementB which could not be corro
borated and after a wordy battle tho
two went their several ways.
Thorp Case to Supreme Court.
Attorney R. Olsen of Wayne has fil
ed with tho clerk of tho aupremo
court a brief in tho case of Thorp
against tho State of Nebraska In tho
damage case wherein Thorp was ar
rested for false testing of cream and
was afterwards discharged. .Thorp
sued the puro food commissioner,
Nels P. Hansen, for damages in tho
amount ot $50,000 and tho case has
been taken up to the supremo court.
Phone Union is Approved.
The State Railway commission has .
npproved tho action of the city of
Wahoo in granting a franchise to the
Lincoln Telegraph and Telephone
company, whlcli takes over the Wa
hoo Telephone company, carrying
with It a raise in rates on business
phones of 25 cents and a correspond
ing reduction on residence phones.
Favor Sterilization Law.
Of the 200 doctors belonging to the
Nebraska State Eclectic Medical as
sociation an even 150 wero registered
at the session held in Lincoln.
The association passed a resolution
favoring a sterilization law such aa
was paused by the last legislature, but
votoed by Governor Morehead.
First Vice President J. N. Campbell
was elected president and C. A. Lut
gen of Auburn vice president. Mtb.
Amy Robinson of Hastings was elect
ed secretary and H. H. Schultz of Sut
ton treasurer.
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