Nebraska Newspapers

    i
h
0
h
THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
1HA I. BAKE. Publisher.
TERMS $1.00 IN ADVANCE.
NORTH PLATTE, . NEBRASKA,
m
POINTS
EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A
FEW LINES.
LUTE EVENTS BOILED
Personal, Political, Foreign and Other
Intelligence Interesting to tlio
General Readers.
CONGRESS.
Tlic Senate ban begun consideration
of Iho Indian appropriation bill.
Tho Indian appropriation bill, carry
ing $11,288,702, lion boon reported.
President Wilson Iibb submitted
ninny nominations for confirmation.
Finance .commltteo democrats con.
tlnued coiifildoratlou of tariff bill
changes.
Representative Murray (Okl.), 1ms
offered nn amendment to tho rules to
ri'Htrlct lobbying.
Democrats of tlio finance commit
tco aro considering changes suggested
In tho tariff bill.
Tlio actlvltlcB of tbo Hawaiian BUgnr
IntercBts formed subject of hearings
beforo tbo lobby InvcHtlgatlng com
mittee ot tbo Bcnnto.
President Wlls - atlll wants cur
rency leglBlatlon onaotod at tho pres
ent session and will bond ovory ef
fort to accomplish that purpose.
A strong Bontlmcnt in opposition
to currency leglBlatlon at UHb sdsBlon
developed nt special mooting of tho
Sennte banking commlltco.
RoproRontntlvo Hothermlll has in
troduced a resolution for a Bpeclnl
coiumlttco to Investigate conditions
on tho Beat Islands of Alaska.
Representative O'Shaughnessy haB
Irtroduced a roBolutlon for InvoBtl
nation of American boot packora' In
terests In Argentine cattlo Industry.
Senator Newinnds baa Introduced a
bill to amend tho Erdman act lit tbo
manner suggested by railroads and
labor organizations.
Senator Lowis has introduced a
bill to give tho Interstate Commorco
control over nil stock Isbuco of rail
roads and other common carriers.
Representative Droussard has Intro
duced n bill for tho contlnuanco ot
the commerce court and extension of
Its powers.
An admendment for a duty of 15
por cent ad valorem on raw wool has
been beaten. Tho Stono subcommit
tee was unanimously In favor of no
duty.
Tho sugar section was reported fa
vorably by Senator Williams sub
committee An admendment to strike
cut the provision tor freo sugar after
three years waB voted down.
Senator Ashurt submitted report ot
women's suffrage committee, and ro
commended passage of tho Chamber
lain resolution for constitutional
nmondment extending uuffrago to wo
men. Only the npproval of tho president
1b now needed to mako a law ot tho
rndry civil appro-rlatlon bill, with
the exemption of labor organizations
nnd farmers' associations from anti
trust prosecutions with funds provided
ly the measure.
:
TJomertlc
Secretary Danlcla plans to Increaso
tbo plants in tho Norfolk nnd New
York; navy yarda.
A 13-pound girl waB born to Mrs.
Atel Jncobson. 3914 Bedford avenue,
Omaha, at 13 minutes after C o'clock,
Friday, 13th.
One of the largest eagles ever 6ccn
In Vermout was captured near Mid
dlebury by John Huston. Tho bird'
wng was broken. It measured bLx
tft from tip to tip.
An organization of tho Timber
Workers' union wna effected by tho
striking lumber handlers nt Duluth,
The organization will demand a flat
rate of 25 cents per hour from mill
tiwnera.
Finding childroa tnoiv Interesting
tlu.n dogs. Mrs. Malcolm I). Whitman,
formerly MIsb Jennie Crocker, of San
Francisco, has dlsjHsed ot her famous
kennel and will devote her llfo to her
4wo Email stepchildren.
Viscount Ghlnda, the Japanese am
bassador, ha advised Secrotary Bryan
that Japan is wlllllng to renew for an
other period of five years tho arbitra
tion treaty with tho United States,
which expires by limitation Augimt 24.
A special medal of honor has been
awarded by Sccretay McAdoo to Pri
vate William Rouse. Jr.. of tho coast
artillery. Rouse, gets a silver medal
for the rescue of several persons from
drowning from the collapse of a dock
nt Seattle, Wash.
Tho blggett melon of the Standard
Oil crop carries $60,000,000 and is
about to be cut.
Ban Francisco finds Its wntor sup
ply ontlroly too limited for its needs
nnd Is unable at present to secure an
Increase.
George- H. Armstrong of Philadel
phia, was elected president of tho
Traveler's Protective Association of
America at their annual convention.
The places of the packing houses
butchers who wont on strike In South
EL Joseph have boon tilled by work
men brought from Cblpago and Kan
eaa City.
New York Ima 20,839 jwluetrlnl os
tabllBhmentB. Atlanta's new court houso will
cost $1, 250,0(0.
Chicago Ib lo put tip 10,000 now
ntroct signs at crowdngB in Soptom
bor. John Purroy Mitchell wan sworn in
nB collector of the port of New York,
Bticctiedlns William Ioob, Jr.
Tho domostlc economy schools of
Iondou evory yoar preparo 500 glrlw
certificated to ho model IiouhowIvob.
"Ilrldglo" Webber, one or the princi
pal wltneHBOH In the Rosenthal murder
case, wiih ntabbod In the back by, au
unknown party.
Tho estate of Colonel John Jacob
Antor, who perished In tbo Titanic
disaster, ban been otllclally appraised
at 8C,0GC,6U.
SL IxjiiIb women nro raising fnndH
to endow a mothors and babies' homo
which Is now caring for 175 children
and tblrly.flvo motherH.
Lobnnon clnlniB to bnvo tho oldest
citizen In Missouri William C
Simpson, a Mexican war veteran who
waB t0!i! years old on June 3.
San Francisco's municipal street
railway lino on Geary street baa al
ready piled up a deficit of. $17,380.G3
In four montliH of operation.
John Madden, for eight years gen
eral attorney for tlio Missouri, Kan
snB & Texas railway has roBlgned to
become general solicitor of tbo Miss
ouri Paclllc
Evnn Edwards of '-Torquay, Eng
land, who ban attained the patriarchal
ago of 08, nnd in mill halo and hearty,
la believed to be the oldest llapilat
minister In, the world.
Teto .Tntino, tho most westerly dl
vlBlon point on the Grand Trunk Pa
clllc, In the Rocky mountains, Is un
der water becaiiBo of a sudden rise
In the Frnzler river.
Henry Morgnnthau, n New York
lawyer, to whom President Wilson of
fered the post of ambassador to Tur
key, after a conference with tho pres
ident, tins declined tho post.
Dr. Goorgo 12 Vincent, president of
the University of Minnesota, confer
red degrees upon tlio largest gradu
ating clnss In that Institution's his
tory, 700 receiving diplomas.
John A. Mdllhenny baa been des
ignated by President WIIfoii nB presi
dent of tho Civil Service commission.
Mr. Mcllhenny waB tho only one of
the old commissioners retained.
A public utlllltoB bill, providing for
a state commission to have gonernl
charge ovor rates, service and cnpl
tallzatlon of alt public utilllties In
Illinois, has been passed by the lowoi
house.
Eugono MaggI and bis wife, believ
ed to ho the wenllest persons In
Switzerland, committed sulcldo be.
ing nctuated by sheer lack of Inter
cat In life, Eugene Maggi was only
forty.
Fifty women spectators in the Chi
cago circuit court rushed to Dennlo
Bernstein 22 years old, and hugged
nnd kissed him when he w.ib found
not guilty of tho murder of Lawrence
Ruck.
Notwithstanding the strict Ameri
can rules applied to emigrants in re
gard to thlr health nnd means, Rus
sian emigrants Increased during 1912
to 57,850, having been 30,101 in 1910
nnd 35,052 in 1911.
LowIb Grnndjenn Is attempting to
induce the immigration authorities
to win n $10,000 Btnke for him by de.
porting him to Franco as nn undesir
able alien. Grandjenn says that If
ho can reach Paris by July 15 he will
win $10,000 put up nt the Jockey
club ten yearn ago as a wager that ho
could not visit ovry country in tho
world, always working his wny, nnd
never beiug subsidized or receiving
charity.
Foreign.
Unlookod for opposition against tho
three-year military tovicc law is de
veloping in France.
Dr. Kuseblo Morales, the newly ac
credited minister from Panama has
arrived in Washington.
Count Alvaro do P.omanones, who on
May 30 resigned as premier, together
with all hla ministry, 1 is consented to
resume olllco.
There 1b a movement in England to
Bend the offending' suffragists to the
Island of St. Helena Instead of pun
ishing them in Jail,
Members of the house committee
on naval nffnlrs are planning a trip
ot inspection of tho navy yards of the
Atlantic const.
A Portuguese aviator wuned Manlo
was killed through the collapso of hla
aeroplane when he wbh dying at a
height of 1,000 feet.
Floods cost the loss if 800 lives in
tho Pnlltnna district on the peninsula
of Knthiawar to the north of Rombny
on the Arabian sea.
Anticipating a demand by the pow
ers for demobollzntlon, Sorvla has pro
posed to Bulgaria that the two coun
tries reduce their armanonts,
British cabinet ministers have been
absolved by the parliamentary com
mittee from all blame In connection
with tho scandles alleged to have sur
rounded the contracts between the
British government and tho Marconi
Wireless company.
Mnhmoud Shefket Pasha who was
recently assassinated In Constantin
ople, was onto of the ablest men In
Turkey and loader of the joung Turk'
movoment which resulted In tho over
throw of Sultan Abdul Humid, four
years ago.
Andrew Drew, a Chicago aviator,
roll 200 feVt while making a tost
flight noar the Limn, Ohio, stato hos
pital and was lustaatl.x killed.
Nineteen Moorish soldiers wore kill
ed and sixteen wounded la a single
volloy fired by thu Spanish crolMir,
Rclna Regentc, naoonllng to an bill
clal , dispatch. '
TARIFF ABOUT READY
REVENUE MEASURE MAY REACH
FLOOR IN TEN DAYS.
WOOL ill SUGAR FIGHT OVER
Mcmbern Frcm Louisiana Only Ones
Not Agrealng to Bo Round by
Party Action.
WnKblngton.--Dovoloptnentn of tbo
Jiut week' nt both ends of the capltol
have Indicated a growing determina
tion on tho purl of the democratic
leaders of congress to puss a tariff
bill and wind up Uio work of tbo ex
tra session with action upon currency
reform or any other Important subject.
Tlio tariff revision bill Ih to bo
pushed to completion and laid before
tho domocrats ot the sonatu In cnucua
before the cud of this week In the
meantime, notwithstanding President
Wilson h repeatedly expressed deslro
to soo some positive action taken to
ward a reform of tho nation's financial
systomr' tlio controlling forces of tho
party In both houses aro showing a
disposition to defer action on mone
tary reform until tho regular session
opening next December.
Wlillo tho senate currency commit
tee took no definite action, many
members, including Influential domo
crats, openly expressed tho opinion
that no currency law would bu enact
ed at tills session.
BUI Ready June 25.
The tariff Ih to come Into tho sen
ate for tho second stugo of rovlslon
within teu days. Tho senate flnanco
cotmnltteo will comploto work upon
It early this week, nnd an Immediate
call will bo issued for democratic
caucus. It Is believed the bill will bo
formally presented to the senato
ready for deliberation In that body by
Juno 25.
This will bo a busy week among
tho domocrats of the senato In charge
of tho tariff bill. Tho majority mem
bers will mcot nil day and late Into
the bight passing on subcommittee re
ports. Senator Williams' subcommit
tee, tho hnrdost worked of all of them,
labored hard putting the finishing
touches to the administrative provi
sions of tho bill and the Income tax.
Tho light ovor freo wool and freo
sugnr, so far , as the democrats nre
concerned, Is believed to bo over by
tho administration leaders. Senators
Rnnsdell and Thornton of Louisiana
nnd Wnlsh ot Montnna aro tho only
democratic senators, it Is now be
lieved, who will rofraln from taking
tho cnucus pledge. Even Senator
Walsh might support tho bill, some
of his frionds declnre, artor it la ap
parent that ho has done everything In
his powoi to have a small duty put on
wool.
Bryanv Cancels Speaking Dates.
Washington. A busy weok In pros
pect baa caused Secretary Bryan to
cancel speaking ongugementa nt Char
lestown nud Lowell, .Mass. The secre
tary will not leave Washington beroro
July 1. Among the important busi
ness to bo crowded into tho current
week at tho Stato department will bo
consideration of tho Japanese situa
tion, nppolntmonta of American am
bassadors and ministers and consi
deration of foreign protests ugnlnst
certain administrative features of the
pending tariff bllL
Loses Sight In Explosion.
Beatrice, Nob. Mrs. Clifford Mc
Casli, aged 20, is blind from injuries
to her eyes by tlio explosion of an
acotylluo tank hero. It Is believed her
sight is permanently losL Her hus
band was badly burned about the
faco. Tho couylo was married only a
few months ago. They were visaing
at tho homo of Mr. nnd Mrs. H. Brae
mor. They wore Inspecting tho tank
in the summer houso when McCash
lighted a match. Tne explosion re
sulted. Tho roof was blown oft tho
bulldt.-g.
To Drain -and Reclaim Land.
Washington, D. C -Socrotary 1-ane
has submitted a recommendation to
congress for a law authorizing tho
drainage and reclamation by tho Unit
ed States of public Bwamp and over
flowed lands In any state or territory.
While the nroDoned measurn Ih de
signed primarily for tho reclamation
of public lands, It nuthorlzos the in
clusion In tho dralnago projects, un
der specified conditions, of stato or
privately owned swamp land contigu
ous to uio public land or located In
thu E4.mo dralnago basin.
Farmer Breaks Leg and Arm.
Bonnington. Neb. Henry Arp, a
fanner residing three mile's northwest
of Washington, sustained a fractured
arm and los, when ho fell from tho
hayloft ot his barn.
Alaska Steamer Wrecked.
Washington. Tho Stuamor Yukon,
from Seattle to Nome, was totally
wrecked on Sannak Island, uoar Unl
make pass, Tho revenue cutter Ta
homa took oft bor master, the crew
pf forty-four mon and six puwongers
and took them to Unalnsko.
Cousul General Has Resigned.
Washington, D. C Frank Holcom
Mason, formerly a Cloveland now pa p.
or man, in tho consular sorvlco slnco
1SS0, and ootisul gtnural at ParU since
180. hits resignud
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Tho enrollment nt tho Peru nor
Dial Ima reached nearly SOO.
The noxt mooting of the funeral
directors of the state will bu hold in
Omaha next year.
Seward county lins enriuhod tho,
state treasury by remitting $15,000
of collections duo the state.
Florence Ixidge No. 281, Ancient
Free and Accepted Mnsona, Iibh been
Instituted, nnd tho now oIHcora of
the lodge Installed. '
Tho proposition to vote $20,000 to
build a new bcIiooI houso nt Burwoll
was overwhelmingly defeated. Tho
vote stood 27 for and 181 against.
Wlllard Avery, a young farmer re
siding In tho Immediate vicinity of
Edgar, was quite serlodBly Injured
while stacking alfalfa with a stacker.
Forty horses wero burned to death
nnd financial loss of $5,000 caused by
a fire which destroyed tho barns of
tho Twin City Tranafer company at
Omaha. ,
The Luther Grocery and Notion
store nt Broken Bow w.tb destroyed
by fire. The Iobb will probnbly ex
ceed $1,500, tho stock not being In
sured. Rev. R. A. Scholl, paBtor of tho
First Christian church at Hastings
for the Inst seven years, has accepted
n call to tho pastorato of the Chris
tian church of Boulder, Colo.
Beatrlco Is assured of nineteen
blockB of paving In the residence dis
trict nnd a petition Is now being clr
culatd for paving fourteen blocks
more.
E. D. Gepson, for six years truant
officer cf the public schools of Omaha,
will bo principal of the now school
for boyB which tho bonrd of educa
tion will establish.
Ed Wurdeinnn, assistant cashier of
tho First Nationnl bnnk of Columbus
sold lils filO-acro fnrm near Leigh, to
Emll Petr, of Clarkson, the consider
ation being $80,000.
Tho llttlo daughter of W. G. Nov
Ins, twelve miles north of Coznd was
bitten by a rattlesnake. A younger
sister sucked tbo wound and no bad
result followed the bite.
Tho business men of Beatrice havo
taken steps to procure the franchise
of the Seward baseball , team in the
Stato league and expect to secure
enough funds for Its purchase.
With John Merle Coulter, ono of
tho prominent botanists of the coun
try, ns the speaker for the day tho
plant Industry building at the state
farm was formally dedicated.
Mrs. Aaron Mast, wife of a promin
ent Holmesvllle farmer, was granted
a divorce by Judge Pemberton a few
minutes after she filed her petition.
She was given $S,000 alimony.
Chief Prairie Dog Is tho name of
ono of the proprietors of a restau
rant at Beatrlco who has paid $2
registration fee to P. F. Ackerman,
state hotel commissioner.
Harry W. Shakelford haB appealed
to the suprome court for a reversal
or an order Issued by tho village
board of Springfield granting a saloon
license to Frank Zimmerman.
Under orders Issued from the ad
jutant general's office two dozen
tcntB belonging to the national
guards will bo left at Yutan nnd at
Berlin for several weeks to come.
Election Commissioner Moorhead,
who Is seeking, not one. but 515 hon
est men to servo ns Judgis nnd clerks
at the tornado bond election, says
that bo Is finding his tnsk a difficult
one. '-
Grand Patrlnrch S. R. McFarland
of Madison, Instituted Pawnee en
campment, the 1. O. O. F., with sixty
charter members nt Fullerton. Tho
degree team from Central City put on
the vyork.
'Six hundred nnd ten Inmates of
tho Lincoln hospltnl for the Insane
cost the state at tho rate of $9G for
their keep during the paet half year,
according to Superintendent Wil
liams' report.
The war spirit seems too have
struck Nebraska and the office or the
ndjutant general Is in receipt of sev
eral Inquiries as to tho prospects of
getting In ontn company In the Na
tional Guard.
Mrs. Annette Gamble, on old resi
dent ot Dodge county, who was form
erly Mrs. Ashlay Parks, wife of Ash
lay Parka who served for many years
as street commissioner of Fremont,
died suddenly, following n brier ill
ncss. Tho matter or the future postmas
ter of Nellgh was settled In a pri
mary election held for that purpose
by direction of Congressman Stevens.
Alter a closoly-conducted contest T.
A. Dnvls won out by n majority ot ten
votes.
Douglas county real estate values
Increased $3,40G,295 from 1912 to
1913, despite the fact that the torna
do did more than $1,000,000 dnmngo
to real property In the county, ac
cording to returns of County Asses
sor Counsmnn.
The Falrburv council has roceived
advico from Ed. Campbell at Crete
that ho will not accept the superin.
tendency of the Fnlrbury water and
light plant, Mr. Campbell has been
favored with nn Increase nt Crete and
will rutaln his present position.
Adjutant General Hall has called
a mooting of the stato military board
to be held at Lincoln Juno 18.
Miss Kvn Arnold, daughter of Wil.
Hum Arnold, a well known Fremont
girl, was married to tho Jlov. William
B Kline, pnstor of the Congregation,
al church at Wahoo.
The state board of pardons hoard
applications for parolo of William
Washington, Jamos K. Kelley, George
1 Bond. William Crjlg ami Clifford
I Hayes. No action waa taken but
the men's merits will considered
and a recommendation mnde later.
E
8TATE COMMITTEE MEETS TO
CONSIDER REMOVAL.
BEN IIOR INSURGENTS AGTIV
wr
Clalm Supreme Body Has No Right
to Order Increased
Assessments.
Lincoln, Neb. Tho State commit
tee met In Lincoln for tho "purpose
of preparing plnns and a statement
relatlvo to the cost of removal of the
Stato university to the State farm or
for buying land for the purpose of
extension Just cast of the present site.
A proposition of Lincoln merchants
was mndo that tho state will not
have to pay more than $300,000 for
the six blocks needed Tor tho exten
sion downtown.
Something like a hundred mer
chants signed a bond guaranteeing
that the cost should not exceed that
amount to the state, and It Js under
stood that the committee, or at least
a majority or It, Is in accord with the
plan.
-Tho committee, consisting or Sena
tor Reynolds or Dawes, Representa
tive Mockett or Lancaster and Re
gents Coupland and Allen met and
talked over the proposition, but came
to no definite conclusion, as It will bo
necessary to get the estimates or ex
perts who aro looking over the two
propositions.
Estimates mado heretofore have
placed tho value of the six downtown
blocks at figures rahsing nil the way
from $300,000 to $700,000, nnd It will
require something more definite to
satisfy n portion or tho committee be
fore tho proposition offered by the
Lincoln people is accepted.
Etter Elected Secretary.
Lincoln, Neb. This city was chos
en for the 1914 meeting place or tho
Nebraska Stato Postmasters' associa
tion, at tho concluding session. The
following officers wero elected:
President, George W. Schreck,
York.
First vice president, Ed. Sizer,
Lincoln.
Second vico president, Lew Shelley,
Falrbury.
Third vice president. W. T. Morris,
Friend.
Fourth vico president, Frank Mill
er. Dayklri.
Secretary, Lou Etter, South Omaha.
Treasurer, A. F. Buechler, Grand
Island.
Wesley J. Cook of Blair was se
lected as delegate to attend the na
tional convention.
Reports of the retiring officers
showed that the organization was in
good financial condition and that
membership of all classes of post
masters had been materially boosted
during tho past year.
Inspector General Joseph Johns
ton of Kansas City -gave his annual
review of work accomplished and
congratulated tho retiring Nasbys,
many or whom will likely not be here
next year, on their uniformly success
ful administration of the depart
ment's business.
Postmaster Monteba of Firth dis
cussed consolidation of tho third and
fourtlvclass matter and touched up
on changes In postal arrangements
that havo been debated for varying
periods or time by members or the
crnrt. Growth or tho details and
needed changes, mado apparent
through n year's trial, was a subject
given attention in informal talks
made by several membtrs.
Commission to Make Rate Changes.!
. I 1 v-,. -.,.. , i
J.1I!UUI1I, UU. lUlh'H tlUBBlllUU-
tlon changes- are proposed on emi
grant movables, acid, tence post, rur
nace, music, record, sarcophagus,
tomb, Junk, pile driving machine,
vacuum cleaner, paper drinking cup,
tomato, lime, bridgo material, silo
put meat shipments, under n re
vision upon which hearings wore an
nounced by the state railway com
mission. The first or the hearings will bo
held June 25, when matters relating
to the above proposed changes are
to be taken up by the commission.
Petitions ror the suggested chnngos
come from various sources, from the
manufacturing companies interested,
rrom western wolghlng nnd Inspc
Hon bureau or tho Union Pacific
auditing department nnd from the
commission itself.
Many of the proposed clnsslflca
tlons nro not listed nt present and on
that account have been submitted to
other classifications than those to
which tho manufacturers hallove
thoy aro ontltlud. Classifications al
ready listed, but In which ehangoa
are naked for, will llltoly be modified
by tho commission to meet the de
mands. Preparing to Fight Insurance Code.
Lincoln, Neb Tho removal here
of Charles 11. Clancy or Omaha, who
haB blight ly oor n month to reniRln
in otllre iib lusurancu deputy under
tho present Insurance status, Indi
cates that preparations aie bolnR
made by Auditor Howard and Inter
ested Insurance men to fight the pro
visions of the lately onaotod code
bill and to contlnuo Mr. Clancy In the
ofllae to which be was appointed bv
Howard. Pimm for the flRht are said
to be in the fnrmulatlvo stno, and
ore uow being outlined.
GONFERENC
HELD
ARE STILL IN DOUBT. ,
No Decision on Attitude to Insurance
Code.
It now nppears thnt ir any hostile
legal notion Is to bo taken towards
tho Insurance code law-boforo It goes
Into effect next month, the move
will hnve to bogln with the stato aud
itor, who does not want to lose his In
surance department control, or with
the fraternnls, who would bo most
vitally Interested In court action.
Nothing has been done yet. Tho at
torneys who wore Instructed to dolvo
deeply Into the mean3 of defeating
the law In court, have reached con
cluslpns enough. It now remains for
the companies to decldo upon policy.
The mlstnkos that occur In the law
afTect chlcriy the fraternals. They
aro no more hostlld lo It as part of
the statutes of tho stato than aro tho
old line compnnles, but they do havo
a bettor chance of making progress.
Some or the old line officials say tljat
the most vital changes trom present
methods, so rnr aB they nro concern
ed, are In sections on tho constitu
tionality of which there is no ques
tion. In case a test wero made and
these compnnles were to stnnd for
part of the expense the best decision
that thoy could hope Tor would bo
for the fraternal companies and not
ror them. This Is the position taken
by ono or the officials of a domestic
company, Interested In the results of
tho fight on this law.
So llttlo applause for a trial or the
rererendum on this measure waH
elicited at the last meeting or the In
surance .men that the conclusion
reached by some or them Is that thlB
plan has dropped riaL Any referen
dum on a 1913 law would have to bo
Invoked wfthln tho next five weeks
or not at all. No move has been made
by the insurance men towards fram
ing up their blanks or distributing
them. Ono Insurance man said that
while he considered tho Idea dead,
It would not bo a difficult thing to
secure the petitions In the tlmo now
remaining. Indeed, he felt that with
tho organization of agents in tho
state it would not require more than
two weeks to Becure 2G.000 signatures.
Prison Religious Census.
According to a report Hied by War
den Fenton with tho governor, the
state penitentiary is filled with many
backsliders, as nil but- slxty-rour of
tho 3G5 inmates of that institution de
clare they belong to some church.
Following is the list:
Catholics 78
Methodists C4
Baptists 57
I Lutherans 13
Episcopalians 9
United Brethren 5
Congregatlonalists ;... 4
Zionists .'.... 2
Christian Scientists 2
Mormons 2
Adventlsts l
Jewish i
Non-religious C4
The population of the prison In
creased during tho month of May
rrom 35C to 3C5. During the month
twenty-rour prisoners were received.
I three returned rrom parole, two rrom
I furlough, making twenty-nine in all.
One was dlbcharged on account of his
term expiring, sixteen paroled, two
died and one was given a furlough.
Whether the aboe Information re
garding church affiliation Is correct la
not specifically stated as none or tho
prisoners brought their church letters
with them to substantiate their right
to membership in tho churches they
claim to misrepresent
Railway Commission Busy.
The Stato Railway commission
handed down a few minor matters
among the most Important being
granting to the Gordon telephone ex
change the right to raise rates. Tho
rates were raised to $1.50 for busi
ness 'phones per month and $1 for
residence 'phont's. Tho application
was granted, ns no protest was made
nnd because the Commercial club
sent In a statement showing that tho
raise was satisfactory. New rates
over tho railroad to Haig from Gering
were ordered.
No Cash Handed Out.
Old soldiers who desire to attend
the Gettysburg celebration are clam
oring to the stato commission for
their share of the $4,000 appropriated
by tho legislature to pay fare. Gen
eral j. H. Culver of tho state commis
sion which has charge of the distri
bution has endeavored to make it
plain that no cash will be sent. In-,
stead nn order from tho commission
to be applied on n railroad ticket, will
bo forwarded to each eligible soldier.
Tho order will bo accepted by any
railroad agent In lieu or money nnd
will apply on transportation.
Elderly Woman Found Dead In Bed
Bradshaw. Mrs. Sidney G. Geb
bart, who had been suffering from
abthmn Tor homo time, was round
dend in her bed. The attending phy
sician says she must havo boon dead
more Uian an hour when discovered
rfho waa over 79 years or age.
Crop Report for June.
The crop seapon for 1913 seems
most flattering. Tho weather has
been cl.arr.ctwized by generous pr.
cipltation and cold weather, which
lias given bmall .praln roots excel
lent chance for development. Damp
ness has been rellevod by sunshine
and WHrm weather the first week in
June. We have passed through tho
early beon with little damage from
floods or washing rains. Tho rush
poTiud Je now on aad there is every
reason to buttoro that tho rear will
? an exceptionally profitable one.
N
4