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THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
IHA L. BARB, Publisher.
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NORTH PLATTE, . NEBRASKA.
EPITOME OF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention of What It Transpiring
In Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countries.
CONGRESS.
The Indian appropriation bill as
nmonded by enato was sent to con
ference Representative Rucker ban Intro
duced a bill for Blx-ycar presidential
year terms.
Representative Roberts, Massachus
etts, has Introduced a bill to safe
guard railroad passengers.
Senator Chamberlain has Introduc
ed a bill to authorize the building of
j' a government railway In Alaska.
Representative Gould naB reintro
duced his bill for establishing a Unit
ed States National Bank of America,
Representative Barton hns Introduc
ed a resolution asking the- secretary
of the navy for Information on armor
plate.
Senator Borah demands Immediate
legislation on behalf of homestead en
trymen In Oregon, Idaho and other
western states. ,
President Wilson has nominated
Thomas Nelson Pago as ambassador
to Italy, nnd P. A. Stovall as n'mlnls
ter to Switzerland.
Secretary McAdoo has asked a
$100,000 appropriation for vessels to
i, i cmorcu lawn lor pruivcuuu oi jiiubiwu
j' fish and fur animals.
Sonator Owen has Introduced a res
olution to direct tho secretary of com
merce to Investigate whethor tho
price of oil In Oklahoma wub being
artificially fixed.
Representative Clayton has Intro
duced a bill to provide mediation, con
ciliation and arbitration In controver
sies between certain employers and
their employes.
Representative Humphroy has In
troduced n bill to prevent representa
tives elected to fill an unexpired term
from drawing salary from tho tlmo
tho seat was vacant.
Secretary McAdoo Is urging an ap
propriation of $1,3S3,GG1 for public
work and submitted a letter urging
the Boston Immigration building cost
limit be raised to $427,000.
Senator Hitchcock Introduced
amendments to tho tariff bill placing
n graduated Incomo tax on $100,
000.000 corporations controlling moro
than onc.quartcr of tho productloon
In their respective lines.
President Wilson has sent to tho
senate a long list of nominations In
cluding: Minister to Portugual, Mere,
dith Nicholson of Indlnna, postmast
ers John G. Preselly, Wallace, Idoho;
A II. Abels, Terrell, Tex., W. W.
Browning, Ogden, Utah.
An amendment to tho Underwood
tariff bill adopted by tho majority of
the Benato flnanco commltteo gives
tho president of tho United Stated
authority to suspend certain rates In
tho proposed law and to proclaim
special rates against nations which
discriminate against products of tho
United States.
Three tired United States Senators
have come too Washington after a
week of stroneous investigation In
tho coal strike district or West Vir
ginia. Senators Swanson, Konyou
and Martina, who havo concluded for
a time their examination of witnesses
at Charleston, have returned to the
senate to take up their legislative
duties.
Vigorous opposition from tho now
Department of "Labor to tho proposed
arbitration and mediation act, prepar
ed by tho railroad and railroad
brotherhoods for enactment by con
gress, was voiced when tho measure
watt presented to a Joint Mission of
the houBo and senato Interstate com
merce committees.
Domestic.
Fire, bollovcd to havo started in
the paint shop, destroyed hdS. Lag.
crquiBt garage coinnuay's plant at
Den MolneB, la, o loss Is estimated
at $50,000.
A confusion of orders thnt may
never be explained brought death to
J fourteen parsons when two electric
j trains mot head on near Vallojo, Cal
while tunning at high speed.
In four mouths after tho uct of con
gress regulating wlroloss communica
tion "rent Into effect Inst Decornbor,
3,407 licenses were Issued to wireless
operators and stations In tho United
Suites.
Now Jersey's greatest altltudo Is 13,
275 feet, which Is a point two mlleB
north of Trucha's peak.
Apparatus by which ga lamps can
be lighted and extinguished by w I re
lets waves has been Invented In Ger
many.
Secretary Dnnlclh plana to lncreaso
(ho plants In tho Norfolk and New
fVork navy yard.
Wireless rnesages reported tho
ulnklng of tho stoani lumbor schoon
er Hlversldo off Cape Mendocino, on
a dangerous strentch of tho northern
California coast. Tho crow of thirty
six was taken off.
Now Y?rlt Is to h&n; a training
school for suffrage workers.
Tho I'nltcd States produces about
88 per cent of tho world oysters.
Baltimore, Md will establish a
municipal storehouse to enro for and
Issue supplies to city departments.
Five Indictments were returned
against tho Michigan Centra railroad
by a Detroit grand Jury on tho chargo
of giving Illegal concessions.
Five persons who made up a launch
party on Lake- Cooper, above tho Keo
kuk dam on the Mississippi river, are
believed to have been drowned.
leprosy Is Btoadlly increasing In
tho I'nlted StnteH, according to Dr.
Rupert Blue, surgeon general of tho
United States, public health service.
Captain Robert Bartlett, command
er of Peary's north polo vessol, takes
a llko position in Stcffanson's expe
dition to the Arctic, which stnrted re
cently. Eva BalletiR and Lily Sutherland,
both aged 25, were drowned at Ponce,
Alberta, when tho raft on which they
wero riding was carried over Spray
Falls In the Bow river.
Eloven persons were Injured, two
perhaps fatally, when a Pullman car
attached to. a northbound Mobile &
Ohio passenger train turned over, fif
teen miles south of Cairo, 111.
In tho first live months of 1913 re
turns show thnt 141 mining corpora
tions have paid out $51,000,000 In
dividends. Of these corporations thlr-ty-ono
operate copper properties,
E. Dana Durand, director of tho
United States census, has accepted
tho position of director of the bureau
of research In agricultural economics
at tho Minnesota Agricultural college,
A music publisher, addressing the
Now York State Music Teachers' as
sociation, said tho nation's annual mu
sic bill was nearly $600,000,000, say a
per capita of $G.G6, which Isn't so
much.
Tho estato of tho late Mrs. Levi 55.
Loiter has been appraised at $3,
072,725, not Including household ef
fects of the Lclter mansion In Wash
Ington or personal property In Cut
cago.
Flvo thousand Nw York orphans
loaded Into 344 nutomqblles wero ta
ken to Central park one day last week
and given n picnic with nil tho trim
mings big hearts and purses could
supply,
N. W. Flnislg of Alhambra, Cal
who has passed his eightieth birthday
and hns spent slxty-threo years In tho
employ of ono Arm, has signed n con
tract with tho same for twonty-Ilvo
years longer.
Ogden, Utah, haB a woman city
physician who Is nlso quarantine of
llcor, nnd recently used tho cow
catcher of an engine to carry her
sover.il miles on the hunt of an es
caping smallpox patient.
Richard L. Metcalfe, appointed gov
ernor of tho Pannma canal zone, has
hold a long conference with Colonel
Goethals, engineer In charge. Met
calfe expects to leavo for tho zono
August 1.
President Wilson docs not plan t(
attend tho fiftieth anniversary cele
bration of tho battle of Gettysburg
on tho battle Held next month. Ho
will bo at tho summer White house
at CornlBh. N. II., over July 4.
Isldoro Under, "professor of burg
lary," confessed to a Now York judgo
that for Bovoral years ho has hold
claBsoa In stealing. Many of his pu
pils, ho said, havo stolen nearly $500,
000 worth of horses and merchandise.
Medical OYldenco tending to show
that Luther McCarthy died In tho
prize ring May 24 as tho direct result
of a blow on the Jaw, administered by
Arthur Polkey, was prcsonted by tho
crown at tho trial of Polkey for man
salughtor nt Calgary.
Tho pooplo of Now York aro becom
ing badly frightened nt tho ever In
creasing cost of their city govern
inent. In 1898 tho city budget wnB
$77,437,084. In 1913 It Is $192,7Q9,
342. Tho dobt of the cltv In 189S
wns $341,844,225. In 1912 It was $1,
117,15:1,098. Tho greatest fortune over nceumu.
latod by an Indian of the Northwest
orn tribes probably Is thnt loft by tho
lato Mrs. Alma C. Parkins, n direct
descendant of Sitting Bull, famous
chief of tho Sioux. .Mrs. Parkin who
died recently nt Cannon Ball, N. D
left an estato valued at more than
$300,000.
President Wilson has received calls
from Viscount Chimin, tho Japanese
ambassador; KaJInnosuke lbuka, pres
dont of tho Federation of ChriBtnln
Churches In Japan; Dr. Julchl Soye
da, former president of tho Indus
trial banks of Japan, nnd Tndal Ka
mlya, chlof secretary of tho chamber
of commerce
Forelgm
According to nn Italian scientist a
squaro mile- of tho earth In six hours
of sunshine recolvcs heat equivalent
to tho combustion of moro than 2.C00
tons of coal.
Crumbling Mono arch railroad
bridgoa In Germany hnvo been
strengthened by boring holes Into tho
masonry and Injecting thin cement
mortar at a prpBsuro of llvo atmos
pheres. Tho Sorvlnn cablnot, of which M.
Gasltch wuh premier and minister of
foreign affairs has resigned.
Tho parish church nt Rowley Regis
near Dudley, wns destroyed by firo
with n loss of $30,000. Tho tiro was
attributed to Buffrngottcs.
Bazll in 1012 bought $921,045 worth
of motor vohlclos from tho United
States, $1,470,795 worth from France
and $1,520,019 worth from Germany.
Tho real estato nnd banking firm
of Wlsebnden and Bauer at Frank
furt, Germany, has suBpunded with
liabilities of $4,5000,000 and nssots or
$3,750,000.
CONGRESS CETS
GURRENGr BILL
Wide Reform Is Provided For in
New Measure.
RIGID RULES FOR BANKS
Details of the Proposed Law Which
Has the Indorsement of President
Wilson Federal Board to
Have Control.
Wnshlngton, June 20. Tho Owens-Glass-McAdoo
banking and currency
bill was Introduced in both houses of
congress today.
Thl 8 bill, which has tho approval or
President Wilson, may be modified In
Rome particulars during Its considera
tion by congress, but In most of its
features It will bo the law or tho land,
In all probability, before tho adjourn
ment or the present session of con
gress. Summary of Provisions.
Summarized, the bill Is as follows:
The secretary of tho treasury, the
attorney general, nnd the controller of
tho currency .are formed Into nn or
ganization commltteo for the purpose
of dividing the United States Into not
less than 12 districts, each district to
contain a rcderal reservo city.
In each federal reserve city the or
ganization committee will organize a
federal reservo bank.
Every nutlonnl bank within a re
serve district must subscribe 20 per
cent, of Its unimpaired capital to tho
capital stock of the federal reserve
bank of thnt district, tho capital stock
to bo not less than $5,000,000.
Limit on Branch Houses.
Each federal reservo bank may es
tablish branch ofllces, tho number of
which must not exceed ono for each
$500,000 of tho capital stock of Buch
federal reserve bank.
Every federal reserve bank shall be
Incorporated and shall have succes
sion for a period or 20 years from Its
organization.
Every rederal reservo bank shall bo
controlled by a board or nine direc
tors holding office ror threo yearB,
tbreo or whom shall bo chosen by tho
stockholding banks, three represent
ing the general public Interests of tho
reservo district, and three designated
by the federnl reserve board. Share
holders In a federal reserve bank shall
bo entitled to an annual dividend of 5
per cent, on tho paid up capital.
Raising of Surplus Fund.
One-hair or tho net earnings shall
bo paid Into tho surplus rund until
thnt rund amounts to 20 per cent, or
tho, bank's capital, and the remaining
half shnll bo paid to the Unlt6d States.
When tho surplus fund amounts to
20 per cont. of tho cnpltal and tho
shareholders havo received tholr flvo
per cent, dividends, all excesB earn
ings Bhall be paid to tha United
etates.
Any Btnto bank, banking associa
tion, or trust company may subscribe
to tho stock or a federal reservo bank.
A rcderal reservo board is created
consisting or nine members, tho secre
tary or tho treasury, tho secretary of
agriculture, and the comptroller or the
currency, threo members choson by
tho president or tho United StateB and
by and with the advice and consent or
tho senate, ror a term or six years,
one or whom 1b to bo the governor, nn
othor tho vice-governor, and tho third
tho secretary; and threo members
chosen by the olectors or tho rcdorul
reservo banks.
Powers of Federal Board.
Tho rederal board as empow
ered; To examlno accounts nnd books or
fodoral reserve bankB.
To requlro or permit a federal re
serve bank to rediscount tho paper of
any of tho federal reservo banks.
To establish each week or oftenor a
rato or discount which shall bo mand
atory upon each rederal resorvo bank
for each class of paper.
To supervlso and regulnto tho Is
sue of treasury notes to rederal re
Bervo banks,
"To requlro the removal or (federal
reservo bank officials for Incompe
tency, dereliction of duty, fraud
or deceit.
To require tho writing off of'doubt
fill ,or 'orthless assets upon tho
books and balance sheets of federal
reserve banks.
To suspend tho furthor operations
or any rederal reserve bank and ap
point a receiver thororor.
Limit of Bank's Business.
A rcdoral reservo bank may re
ceive from any of Us stockholders do
posits of current funds, national bank
notes, federal reserve notes or ohecks
nnd drafts upon solvent banks.
Upon the endorsement of any mem
ber bunk It may discount not) and
bills of exchange arising out or com
mercial transactions.
Such notes or bills, however, shall
not bo discounted ror speculating pur
poses. Vnrlous restrictions' are Imposed In
reference to tho extent or tho loaning
power of a federal resorvo bank.
Tho federnl reservo board nmv .
tborizo the reserve bank uf a dUtrlct
to discount the direct obligations or
member banks.
Certain open markot operations are
permitted to reservo banks.
Fiscal Agents of Government.
All moneys now held In tho general
fund of tho treasury wJU be deposited
In fedornl reserve banks, which shall
act as fiscal agents of the government.
All revenues of tho government shall
be deposited In such banks and did
bursemonts drawn against such de
posits. The federal reserve banks may be re
quired to pay Interest on government
deposits, but shall not pay Interest on
nny other.
The government nnd state banks de
positing In the federal reservo banks
shall bo tho only depositors In tho re
serve banks.
An Issue of $500,000,000, plus nn
amount equal to the amount of na
tional banks notes which may be re
tired, Is authorized.
This Issue shall be made at tho dis
cretion of the federal reserve board.
Division of Treasury Notes,
Any federal reserve bank may mako
application to the federal reserve
board for such umount of 'treasury
notes as It may desire, such applica
tion to bo nccompanlcd with an offer
of collateral security to protect the
notes, equal In amount to the sum ap
plied for.
Whenever any federal reserve bank
shall disburse federal reserve trasury
notes, It must hold In It own vaults
gold or lawful money equal In amount
to 33 1-3 per cent, of the treasury notes
bo paid out by It.
Federal reserve banks may bo re
quired to deposit In tho treasury a
sum In sold or lawful monev eaual
to 5 per cent, of whatever amount or
federal reservo treasury notes Issued
to it.
Exchange of collateral put up ror
notes is provided ror.
Service as Clearing House.
Tho federal reserve board may act
as a clearing house for federal reserve
banks, nnd may also require each such
bank to exercise the funetionn nf a
clearing houBo for Its shareholding
banks.
Provision Is made for the reduction
and wiping out of liability by federal
reserve banks.
Tho secretary of the treasury Is di
rected to exchange United States 2 per
cent, bonds, bearing tho circulation
privilege of 3 per cent, bonds without
the circulating privilege. When the
outstanding 2 per cents, shall be ex
changed or refunded the power of na
tional banks to issue circulating notes
secured by United States bonds will
cense.
Every national bank may receive cir
culating notes under tho conditions
prescribed by tho bill, but no national
banks shall bo permitted to Ibbuc cir
culating notes or any substitute there
for. Arter twenty years national bank
notes remaining outstanding shall bo
recalled.
Demand for Bank Reserves.
Within 60 dayB after the establish
ment of a federnl reserve bank every
national banking association shall e&
tabllsh with the rederal reserve bank
or Its district a credit balance on the
bookB or the latter Institution equal to
not less than threo per cent, or its
own total demand liabilities, exclusive
or circulating notes, and at the end or
14 months this amount shall be' In
creased to five per cent.
National banking associations clas
sified as country bnnks and situated
outside of central reserve and reserve
cities must maintain a reserve equal
to 15 per cent, of the aggregate
amount or their deposits. National
banks in reserve cities must maintain
a reserve or 25 per cent, or their out
standing deposits ror 2G months nfter
tho passage of the bill and for 12
months thereafter 22 per cent., anil
at tho end or 38 months permanently
a reservo or 20 per cent, or their stand
ing deposits.
Every rederal reservo bank must at
all times have In its vaults In gold or
lnwful money a sum equal to not less
than 33 1-3 per cent, or Its outstand
ing demand liabilities.
Drastic Examination Provided.
Drastic and rrequent examination of
national banking associations are pro
vided for.
Any national bank making a loan or
gratuity to nn examiner Is subject to
a flno or $1,000 and the officer or offi
cers or tho bank authorizing it to an
additional flno of $500. Any examiner
accepting tho loan or gratuity Is lined
$500 and disqualified from office.
No officer or director of a national
bank may be a beneficiary of nny
transaction made on behalf of his
bank. Should ho violate this provi
sion he wlil bo punished by a fine or
not less than $5,000 or by a peniten
tiary seutenco or three years, or both.
Responsibility on Persons.
The stockholders or every national
banking association will bo held In
dividually responsible for all obliga
tions of such association.
Any national banking association
not situated In n reserve city may
make farm lonns, equal to 25 per cent,
or Its cnpltal and surplus or 60 per
cent, or Its time deposits.
Any nntlonnl banking association
capitalized at $1,000,000 or moro may,
through the rederal reserve board, es
tablish branches In rorelgn countries.
Tho bill doscrlbes Itself as "a bill to
provide for the establishment or red
eral reserve banks ror furnishing nn
elaBtlo currency, affording means for
redlscountlng commercial paper and
to establish a moro cffectlvo super
vision or banking in the United States,
and ror other purposes. "
it prescribes that the short title ot
tho net shnll bo the "rederal reservo
act." Tho second section which re
lates to "rederal reserve districts" re
quires that within GO dnys nUer paHa
age or the bill the secretary of tho
treasury, the attorney general, nnd tho
controller of tho currency, acting ns
a reservo bank organization commit
tee,' shall deBlgnnto rrom among tho
resorve tho cities now nuthorlzed by
law a number or suclncltles, not less
than 12 to bo known ns federal reservo
cltleB, nnd shall dlvldo tho continen
tal United States Into districts, each
district to contain ono of such rodural
reservo cities.
HO CHANGE IN TARIFF
DEMOCRATIC SENATORS SUPPORT
BILL AS REPORTED.
CRITICISE ONLY II FEW RATES
Duties on Chemicals, Oils, Paints,
Glassware and Mctalo Dis
posed of.
Washington, D. C. Tho Underwood-Simmons
tariff revision bill, as
agreed upon by tho democrats of the
senate commltteo, went through a
full day's session of tho sennte dem
ocratic caucus with practically no
change, and with harmonious support
for most of tho alterations the finance
commltteo members had made in tho
original Underwood bill.
Tho tariff duties In chemicals, oils
and paints, on earthenware and glass
ware, ind on two-thirds of the arti
cles comprised in the metal schedule
had been dUposed of when the cau
cus adjourned.
Democratic members of tho finance
committee met to finish redrafting
tho incomo tax section of tho bill.
Tho Important changes to bo made In
this provision, reducing the exempted
Incomes from $4,000 to $3,000, prob
ably will bo completed and the In
come tax and administrative features
or the' bill then will bo turned over
to tho caucus Tor consideration.
Criticism or tho tariff bill in party
coherence was limited to a rew spe
cific rates, and a half dozen Items
wero sent back to the finance com
mittee for further Investigation and
report. Tho committee report put
ting cement on tho free list was sus
tained after long debate. The pro
posed duties on flaming arc light car
bons, on Btalnetl glass and on field
glasses, optical and surgical Instru
ments and photographic lenses came
In for criticisms and were referred
back to thedemocrats of the finance
committee.
Cheap automobiles ns necessaries
of business and farming life were the
subject of much of the "debate." The
financo committee democrats had al
ready cut the rates of the Under
wood bill from 45 per cent ad valor
em to 31 per cent on motor cars val
ued at less than $1,500. Several
eral democratic senators urged a
rurther cut and recommended that
the tariff be only 10 per cent on ma
chines valued at less than $1,000.
This demand was made on tho
ground that cheap automobiles wero
now commercial necessities.
Tho caucus did not settle the auto
mobile controversy, but asked Mr.
Simmons and his colleagues on tho
finance committee to Investigate
further.
Advocates or the lower duty claim
the government would lose little rev
enue, as the high priced machines
pay most or the tariff.
Boy Scouts to Carry Message.
Wahlngton. Standing on the Trent
porch or tho White House at 9:30
o'clock Tuesday morning, President
Wilson will place In tho handB of a
boy scout a message to bo kept mov
ing day and night for four days at
the end of which tlmo It will be placed
In the hands of Mayor Carter Harri
son at Grant park, Chicago. Scouts
will relay the message all the way,
covering 778.8 miles at an average
speed of almost eighty miles an hour.
The International Athletic Champion
Association Olympic Carnival meet at
Grant park Is to bo opened next Satur
day by tho delivery of the mossage.
Crack in Wall Damages Canal.
Pannma. Numerous alarming ru
mors of damage havo gained currency
as a result of a crack that recently
developed In tho cutoff wall of tho
northwest wing of tho Mlraflores locks,
of tho aPnama canal. Ono report had
It that tho gates hod pulled away
some portions of their supporting ma
sonry and that tho cost to demolish
and rebuild the damaged structure
would be $1,500,000. The canal en
gineers say the crack Is only a minor
one and that It probably was due to
a slight settlement of the masonry.
Cuts Rope as Cow Drags Boy.
Logan, la. Nato Raines, a sprinter
or note, ran in and with a kniro sever
ed a rope and released Lloyd Shadden,
being drafted by a badlv frlchtened
cow. Tho boy was dragged 1,000 feet j
uororo Raines came to his assistance,
Though no bones wero broken, yet ho
Is undor tho doctor's care.
Sixth Child Is Born to Queen.
Madrid. Queen Victoria or Spain
has given birth to a son. This Is tho
sinxth child born to Queen Victoria.
King ARonso and Victoria Ena were
marled May 31, 190G.
Husband and Wife Asphyxiated.
Chicago. Samuel Sarto, 51 years
old, and his wife, Mrs. Dellda Sarto,
53 years old, wero asphyxiated by gas
in the rear of their grocery at 910
West Polk Btreet, while tholr four
children slopt In an upstairs room ig
norant of their parents' death.
, Wilson Attends Wedding.
Washington. President Wilson
wont to Baltimore to attend the wed
ddlng of Secretary McAdoo's son.
Francis II. McAdoo, ,to Miss Ethel
Preston McCormlck of Baltimore.
WILL EXAMINE RATES.
Insurance Commissioners,
Tho attention of Insurance Commis
sioner Clancy has been called to a
condition which prevails regarding
rates In Lincoln regarding fire, light
ning and tornado insurance nnd tho
difference In other cltlos In Nebraska.
Ono of tho leading Insurance agents
In the state called 'on tho commission
er and brought with him evidence
sufficient to convince tho commission
er that there was an effort on foot
by certain companies to freeze out
local companies which have not so
cured a strong foundatioon on which
to do business.
Ono party In Lincoln, working for
less thnn $50 a month, pays $1.50 por
$100 for his Insurance. A widow who
Is supported by her children pays
$1.25 on the some kind of Insurance.
A man who is considered well fixed
pays only 85 cents per $100 on his In.
surance. A man working for $2 per
day pays $1 per $100. Another man,
because of close friendship to the
agent, pays 90 cents per $100. A poor
laboring man pays G5 cents on a
three-year policy. A man drawing a
salary of $12,000 pays only 80 cents
per $100 for bis insurance.
The same class of rates cost In
Omaha, Beatrice, Fremont and other
cities of the state $1.95.
Tho commissioner believes that In
localities where local companies have
secured a good business foreign com
panies are seeking by cutting the rate
to force the former out .of business.
It Is known that in tho past local
companies hnve been forced to quit,
because of the competition or foreign
companies, which cut rates down to
such a figure that tho locals could
not meet the cut, and it will b6 the
policy of the Insurance department to
do everything to protect the locals.
How Nebraska Stands.
Value of farm property: There
are thirteen states which have farm
property In excess of $1,000 per capi
ta for the people who live on the farm.
The per capita value of Nebraska
farm property is 5G.5 por cent more
than tho average valuation of the ten
states of the corn-belt. These states
are: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa. Nebras
ka, Missouri and Kansas.
Value of Corn Crop: Nebraska
stands second In the per capita value
of tho corn rop; Nebraska corn crop,
brlngn an annual per capita value to
her farmers of 15.5 per cont moro
than the average of these .en states.
Value of the Wheat Crop: Nebras
ka stands second In per capita value
of the wheat crop; in yield per acre.
Nebraska leads Kansas, her chief
competitor, 25 per cent annually in
bushels per acre. The per capita
value of the Nebraska wheat crop Is
94.7 per cent more than tho average
of the corn-belt states.
Value of Oats: Nebraska ranks
fifth In oats; she leads five of the1
corn-belt states E8.5 per cent, in the
per capita value of this crop.
Value of Rye: Nebraska ranks
fourth in value of rye; the per capita
value of her rye crop is 119 per cent,
more than the average of six of the
corn-belt states.
Value or Potatoes: Nebraska
ranks fourth in potatoes; tho per
capita value of Nebraska potatoes is
93.5 per cent moro than the average
of six of the corn.belt states.
Value of Horses: Nebraska ranks
second In per capita value of horses;
she leads tho average value of tho
ten corn-belt states 3S.7 per cent.
Vnluo of Diary Cattle: Nebraska
ranks fourth; she leads the entire
ten states of the corn-belt 3.7 per
cent In the average per capita value
of dairy cattle.
Value of Beef Cattle: Nebraska
Is FIRST; she leads the corn-belt
states 129 per cent in average per
capita value.
Value of Swine: Nebraska Is sec
ond; she leads the entire corn-belt 75
per cent in average per capita value
of swine.
Would Make Authorities Give Trial.
Charles Brycehasapplledjto tho su
preme court for a writ of habeas cor
pus to compel the authorities of
Adams county to glvo him a trial.
Bryce sets out that on November 12,
last year, he was arrested for horse
stealing, was given a hearing and
bound over to tho district court. Ho
says that since that time there has
been two terms of court, and no effort
has been made to glvo him a trial.
He sets out that he has been In con
finement all of this time and ho wants'
the matter settled ns soon as possible.
Calls In Warrants.
State Treasurer George has Issued
a calj for registered warrants to the
amount of $251,000. This will include
all numbers under 201,118. At this
date the payment of these warrants
will leave about $250,000 of registered
warrants outstanding.
Otoe county has come forward with ,
a remittance or $29,000 to tho state
treasury and Adams county followed
suit with $23,000 more.
Pay for State Mllltla.
Orders issued by Adjutant General'
Hall show that officers or national
guard companies of tho state will re-.
colve pay at tho following rato for ad
minlstratlve work throughout the
year: Captains $5 per quarter, first
sergeants $3. quartermaster sergeants.
$2, and artificers $1. Tho pay will bo
turned Into company hinds by prac
tically all of tho officers. In the evont
thnt quarterly reports are not sent to.
the headquarters by tho tenth of oach
month following tho end of Mm mmr.
V
, ter, the compensation will bo forfeited!