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sT8SatSrxfe533! . ..tars' -r a. THE NORTH PLATTE 9EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. I"f t n: Ul HI .7 .t. W! A m f M Wl POINTS KVENT3 OF THE DAY HELO TO A FEW LINES. LATE EVENTS COILED Personal, Political, Foreign and Other Intelligence Intnrettlng to tho General Readers. WASHINGTON. Charles M. Branson of Lincoln has been appointed to tho position of In tornal rovenuo collector of tho canal rone. Tho oinco carries with It a Salary of $2,500. President Wilson has signed tho urgent deficiency bill, carrying ex emptions from tho civil service of deputy United States marshals and Deputy collectors of Internal rovenuo. Democrats, republicans and progres sives of the house aro going to pre sent a wedding gift next month to Miss JeoBle Wilson, the prosldont's daughter. 'I he tlmo for the handing down of tho arbitration board's award In tho wage dispute botwoou the eastern Tall roads and tholr trainmen and conduc tors has been extended' to November 10. Secretary of tho Navy Daniels boa passed a rulo that appointees to the naval academy at .Annapolis may hereafter proceed nt onco to tho noar ost resulting station and havo their physical examination mude. (Ropresontativo Cordell Hull of Ton ticssoo, author of tho lncomo tax pro vision of tho tariff law, has began a Vigorous campaign for an amendment to tho constitution limiting tho mom Vohshtp of tho national houso of rep resentatives to 450 members. Tho present membership Is 435. Representative Doltrlck, democrat, of Massachusetts, has introduced n resolution desiring the naval commit tee to report n bill to approprlato for tin Immcdinto boginnlng on a "squad ron of four adtiitlonnl battleships of mammoth design, one to be built in a government nnvy yard." Secretary of Stato William Jennings , Aryan predicted that tho Owen-OlasB currency bill would pass tho senate with a larger majority than tho Un derwood tariff measure in a spoech at Camden, N. J,, In tho interest of tho candidacy of Qovornor Jamos F. Fielder. Ho told tho audience that tho national administration looked to Now Jersey to glvo a vote of confi dence in President Wilson, A govornrnont controlled and operated-central bank, to dominate tho fi nancial system of tho country, has entered tho legislative arena as a rival of tho administration regional reserve currency plan. Frank A. Vanderllp, presldont of tho National City bank of New York, oxplatned tho now plan to tho senate banking and currency committee. Ho had evolved tho now schomo as a result of conferences with members of tho sommltteo whom ho said had express ed approval of such a plan. DOMESTIC. Attorney General Crawford of Ore gon has decided that an osteopath cannot bo a city health officer In Ore son. Tho accident to the machinery of the battleship Texas, on her trial trip may send tho big flghtor buck to Newport Nows for repairs. An "arson squd" of mllltnnt suffra getcs sot flro to and destroyed tho sports pavilion of Brlston university. They left tho usual tell talo sullragetto literature scattered about tha grouudB. "Jack" Forest of El Paso, Toxas, a oll known automobilo racing drlvor, was klllod and John Pryor, a negro mechanician, was injured when For est's racing car turned turtle on tho El Pa8o-Phoonlx, courso, thlrteon miles west of Phoonlx. Ariz. Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks, wlfo of tho former vlco president died nt her homo In Indianapolis of nneu- monla. Mrs. Fairbanks served two terms as prenldont gonernl of tho Daughters of tho Amorlcnn Revolu tion, Sho was tho daughter of Phi Inndor C. Colo of Ohio. Elmer Butler and Amos Howol! wore klllod and a dozon other mon seriously hurt when a cable snapped on a mountain incline near Kay moor, W. Vu. Tho mon wore riding on a truck which fell over tho cliff. A now treatment of typhoid fovor based on tho injection of a sorum drawn from typhoid convalescents was announced at San Francisco by Dr. George R.' Carson of tho Southom Paciflo hospital at tho annual con vention of tho Paclllc coast railway Burgeons. Mrs. Dorceas Jones, 105 yoars old, eald to ho the oldest woman in Ohio, died suddonly at Caunonut, O. Death was tho result of old age. She has jiuver had a day of sickness. Bajtlmoro Is rooting up cobblestone pavements and putting down asphalt. Columbus, O., netted $23,000 from garbage last year, while St. Louis paid $400,000 to tako It away. Chicago lendB tho largest twenty two cities in tho United States in tho porcontago of increase In automobilo ! accidents in tho last flvo years. w w w Negotiations havo been closed by an English syndicate for the pur chase of cxtcnslvo coal land and min ing property In tho New River dis trict of West Virginia, at a price said to approximate $50,000,000. About 5,000,000 acres of land and ninety-six counties aro Involved In the transac tion. Between 230 and 280 miners were entombed by an explosion In mine No. 2 on tho Stag Canon Fuel company nt Dawson, N. M. Tho entombed men Included General Superintendent Frank McDormott of tho mine and sovcral other American miners. Tho cause of tho explosion is unknown. Taking of depositions for use in tho trial of the government's suit against tho Boll Telephone companies of tho Pacific Btatcs to forco the defendant corporations to sell competing sys tems they havo absorbed was begun nt 8eattle by Constantino J. Smyth, special assistant to tho attorney gen eral. A blanket Indictment, charging Harry K. Thaw and four others with conspiracy In connection with his es capo from Mattenwan stato hospital for the criminal Insane In August, was returned by tho grand Jury at Now York. It wlll'bo used as a weapon by William Jravors Joromo In his effort to extradite Thaw from New Hamp shire. From thousands .of chrysanthe mums being grown in tho white houso conservatories and in tho green houses at tho department of ngrlcul-. ture for tho approaching whlto houso wedding, ono aristocrat of that plant family an entirely now creation now being developed is to bo nnmod aftor tho bride, Miss Jessie Wilson. Mrs Evora Drummond was granted a divorce at Los Angeles, Cal., from John M. Drummond, Jr., son of tho late tobacco manufacturer of St. Louis. Mrs. Drummond,, who boforo her mar riage was Mlsn Evern Meyer of Chi cago, charged her husband with deser tion, cruelty and lnfldolity, and named Mrs. Lafta Eastland of San Diego as co-respondont. Tho supremo court of Now York has been called on to decldo whether owners of tho steamer Titanic must faco Bult for moro than $10,000,000 for Iobb of; llfo and property when tho ship wont down, or whether liability for tho tragedy Bhall bo limited to $01,000, tho paBsngo money, pluB the value of the few llfo boats recovered, Ono million flvo hundred thousand dollars to Johns Hopkins Medical school, Baltimore; $200,000 to Brain ard college, Now York City; $200,000 to Wellesloy colloge, Wollcsley, Mass.; $50,000 to Rlpon colloge, Rlpon, Wis. a total of $1,950,000 those wore do nations announced by tho General Education board which was founded by John D. Rockofoller, nine years ago. FORFIGN. Dillon Wallace has concluded his exploration work In Labrador and Is safo at St. JoluiB, N. F. Serious fighting has occurred at Tnlipoa, In Mlndlano, between tho tribesmen and tho Philippines' scouts. So far, It Is reported, flvo scouts havo boon killed and eight wounded. An Interesting fenturo of Colonel Roosovolt's visit to Rto Janeiro was his Inspection of tho Oswaldo Cruz Institute of Pathology and Bacter ology. Ho was shown through tho laboratories for which ho expressed his admiration, and acquired somo In formation on tho use of qulnino in connection with his expedition Into tho Interior of Brazil. Tho honorary committee of Gcr-i mans consisting of representatives of shipping and trading Interests which is endeavoring to socuro German rep resentation nt tho Panama-Pacific ex position at San Francisco in 1915 adopted a resolution UBkiitR tho eov- eminent for an appropriation to eroct a Gorman pavilion. Tho hoBtllity against tho scheme to provldo homos in England for tho children of tho Dublin transport work ers who havo boon on strlko slnco Soptombor Is Increasing. A crowd among which wero sovoral clergymen, boarded u train ub It was about to leave tho station at Dublin and took from It cloven children who wero bo Ing takon away. Tho steamer Westkuston which loft Vns&, in tho Gulf of Bothnlu, in a gale, ran on n reof and forty-four passen gers wero drowned. A Blnglo survivor was plckod up by tho stoamor Carl von Llnne. Gonernl William Brumwoll Booth, head of tho Salvation Armys will sail soon for America on his first visit to tho Unitod Statos, whore ho oxpocts to socuro some American Salvation ists ub vnluntoors for Chlnn, whero tho work of tho Salvation Army Is to 1 bo Increased. JEWS FEAR TROUBLE RU3SIAN OUTRAGES ARE AGAIN PROBABLE. BEILIS TRIAL NEAR1NG CLOSE Accused Witnesses Deny All Charges, But Their Evidence Is Contradictory. Kiev. As tho trial of Mondol Bollls, oharged with murdering tho Christian boy, Andrew Yushlnsky, in March, 1911, porceeds, tho uneasy fooling la growing that whatcvor tho result, outbroaks against tho Jowb will fol low. Dispatches from various quar ters indlcato actlvo preparations in this direction. "Tho Black Hundred" organ, Tho Two Headed Eagle, In an Inflamma tory article, commenting on alleged .Tow I sh threats against Russia pub lished in tho Vleneso press, calls on Its xcadors "to remember alwayB and overywhero tho Infamous words ut tered by Jowlsh publicists and that tho Jews daro to insult tho sacred name of our adored emporor and menaco his sacred person and tho wholo lmporlal family." Tho police havi arrested many per sons in the suburbs of Kiev on tha chargo of attempting to incite riots against Jowp. Deny Everything. Tho ovldenco at the trial of Bollln, which practically concludes tho testi mony agalnBt him on tho charge of murdering Yushlnsky, was of no spe cial Interest, except' that Rudzlnsky and Slrgalovsky, confronted with the witnesses who had accused them of Yushlnsky's, stoutly denied every thing. They wore unablo to stand against tho cross-examination and made contradictory Btatomonts. On tho witness stand these two mrmbors of tho Tcheberiak gang confessed that they had committed a robbery on the night of March 25, 1911, tho date of Yushlnsky's murder, In order to avert suspicion which might wrongly attach to them In con nection with tho murder. On the aross-examlnation they gave confuBod and "evasive answers. Guards and Strikers Battle. Ludlow, Colo. A general battle be tween 'striken, mlno guardB and dop Jty sheriffs was waged for twolvo aours in Berwin canon, at Hastings, md in tho vicinity of the Colorado & Southom station at Ludlow. Firing started at 3 o'clock in the morning nd continuod intermittently until aoarly 4 o'clock In tho aftornoon. One ailno guard was klllod and, according lo union mon, ono striker is mlsBlng. The situation Is extromely critical. Moro than 700 armed Btrlkors are .re ported to bo In tho field against tho mino guards. Armed strikers patrol tho ontlro district in tho vicinity of Ludlow and communication with tho samps of tho Cedar Hill, Tollerbugh, Berwin, Hastings, Delegua and To basco has practically been cut off. Diaz Resigns from Army. Vera Cruz, Mexico. Tho last shred Binding General Felix Diaz and Presi dent VIctorlano Huerta was severed when Gonoral Diaz telegraphed to tho Department of War his resignation as brigadlor goneral of tho army. Tho genoral said nothing of hla trip to Mexico City on tho Invitation of Gen eral Huorta, Ho rofused to accompany Colonel Vldaurrnzaga, secretary to Gonernl Blanquot, war minister, giw Ing as his reason tho Illness of his wlfo. Colonel Vldaurrazaga con tlnued his efforts to Induce General Diaz to change his decision, but final ly loft for tho capital on a special train. Gonoral Diaz and his family re mained hero. Drops Pay Check Into the Fire. Evnnston, Wyo. Tho next tlmo Newell Johnson hands his wlfo tho proceeds of his month's pay check as a locomotive engineer, ho'll mako Biiro that sho doos not intend to light any firoa. Johnson cashed 1Ib chock and handed Mrs. Johnson $175 in bills. A few minutes later, Mrs. John, son stooped ovor a Btovo to light a flro and tho bills fell Into the blaze and were destroyed. W. C. T. U.'s Cheer Sailors. Now York. Enthusiasm was arous ed at a mass mooting hold nt tho Brooklyn Academy of Music when eight Bailors from tho United States battleship Washington mado their ap pearance nt tho convention of tho World's Women's Christian Temper anco union. Many people In the nud leuco rose and choorod. Postofflce Safe Robbed. Chicago Junction, O. Robbora blow open tho safe of tho postofflce at Atti ca .seven miles west of hero and es caped with loot estimated at $15,000 Thoy left no clow. Heavy Fine For Not Declaring Goods. Now York. Mrs. Frank Wlborg ot Cincinnati, a niece of Gonoral Sheri dan, wus fined $1,750 In tho Unitod States district court for having failed to declare dutiable goods on her ar rival hero on tho stoamshlp Mauro tanla, September 5. Incline Cablo Parts. Thurmond, W. Vn.- Elmer Butler and Amos Ho well wore killed and a dozen other men aoriously hurt when a cnblo Bnappod on a mountain incline near Kay Moor BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA. S. Drako of Kearney lost $13,000 In negotiable notes on Omaha streets. Hastings has started In on a war agalnBt clgnrots and tho "makln's." Dr. T. E. Cnstcrliuc, editor of tho Edgar Sun, Is dead, after a lingering illness. Fremonters havo organized a musi cal art society with a membership of over 100 John Motz of Seward had both bonds In his right arm broken by tho kick of a horse. Tho annual convention of the Ne braska Christian Endeavor union Is In session at York. Superior Is about to come into pos session of one of the finest parks In southern Nebraska. Martin I. Aitkin, a leading citizen of Lincoln, Is dead at that place, after an Illness of over a year. Gus Runhke of Macon was thrown from a horso and dragged seventy-five yards, killing him almost instantly. Henry Stroh was Instantly killed In tho Union Pacific yards at Grand Island when ho was struck by a switch engine. N. W. Bacon foil while descending the stops nt tho Congregational church at Hastings, breaking his left leg near tho hip. Benjamin Andrews, an Omaha man, dropped dead on tho street a block from hlB home, stricken with heart failure. ' Ten sons and two daughters wore present at a recent reunion ot tho lato William Kaiser family In Saunders county. M. Shartzcr, Thomas Dunne, Martin Swanson and Goorgo Vanosdall wero Injured In an automobile accident near Greeley Center. There is a fight on amongst the milk dealers in Lincoln, and consumers stand for a chance to reap some of tho benefits of the row. Channel cat and croppies to the amount of ten thousand havo been placed by tho stato fisheries In the waters around Wahoo. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Work ot Hastings celebrated their golden wed ding last week. Many friends and relatives wero present. An alleged practical Joker with an exaggerated sense of humor has been victimizing Lincoln undertakers by sending In "fake" calls from suburban districts. Mrs. J. C. Messick of Hastings, who 1 suffered ptomaine poisoning from Ice cream last summer, Is dead at her home, following a third stroke of paralysis. Winter wheat in Adams county Is raid to have tho rankest growth for this season of tho year In history, and rar.ny farmers are pasturing stock In the fields. Thirty-five steers In the herd of Kent & Burt at Genoa wero poisoned to death by feeding on pig weed, In which it is thought prusslc acid had dovoloped. ' Tho fourth annual Gorman day cele bration at Lincoln came to a close Thursday afternoon with the ending of the combined historical pageant and flower parade. Tho Broken Bow Chief is advertis ing for the owner of n quilt which tho recent cyclono left nt the home of a subscriber eight miles from tho near est point in its path. I Apple trees In the orchard of A. S. Chapman nt Surprise have borne two crops of fruit this season tho last ono, however, being prematurely cut short by tho frost. Nebraska university gathers Its stu dents from ovor tho entire world. The latest to arrive from tho other side of the globo is Indu Prakash Banerjl, a Hindu from the University of Cal cutta. A $7,000 flro developed when tho handle of a lantern broko as George Hauptmann was about to enter his silo near Plymouth. The burning oil spattered over somo alfalfa, 200 tons of which wore burned, together with the bam and other buildings. Mrs. H. A. Thompson of Kearney fell down a flight of stops to the cellar and received a number of cuts and bruises which rendered her uncon scious for somo time. "Billy," for flvo years flrehorue nt onglno houso No. 1 at Lincoln, made his last run to a fire Sunday afternoon when ho was instantly killed In a col lision with a street car. Victoria Rennor, a 7-year-old Hast ings girl, was rendored totally blind for sevornl hours as a result of tem porary paralysis of tho optic nervo when sho fell on a walk In the school yard at that placo. 1 Norfolk will get the next meeting of tho Nebraska Blacksmiths, Horse Bhoors and Wheelwrights' association. Charles Gellcspic, an insane patient from Nomnha, who was being taken to tho Lincoln asylum by Deputy Sheriff Broady, Jumped or fell from a Mis souri Pacific train near Nebraska City and was killed. Impersonating a Judge and sheriff of Lancaster county, two men buncoed Charles and Theodoro Strelow, broth ers and aged bachelor farmers, near Lincoln, out ot $230 on tho pretext that thoy wero taking a cash bond for their nppearanco in court. Tho German-American alliance has decided to mako German day nt Lin coln a permanent annual affair. Lincoln has gone into commercial lighting, nnd Is furnishing tho com modity to n number of patrons. An effort upon tho part of Hastings grocers to secure an ordlnnnce charg ing truck peddlers $5 a dny for solicit ing In the resldonco district was unani mously dofonted by tho council. Tho epidemic of rabies among Om aha's dumb animal population, pro nounced by City Veterinarian Hall several weeks ago to bo tho worst in his experience In the city. Is over. STATE'S RESOURCES LIVE STOCK AND LAND VALUES OF .NEBRASKA. GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAI Items of Interest Gathered from Re liable Sources and Presented in Condensed Form to Our Readers. Hon. Charles W. Pool, deputy com missioner of labor, has just Issued "Bulletin No. 27 of tho Nebraska State Bureau ot Labor and Industrial Statis tics." It is a couclso and comprehen sive volumo containing information In a condensed form regarding the state's various industries, its manufacturing Interests, live stock and crop produc tion. Population and land values, and a thorough opltomo of county statis tics, together with a woll-wrltten his tory pf Nebraska as a territory and a state. Information regarding every item has been gathered from thorough ly reliable sourceB, and can be rolled upon as being authentic. Amongst other important matter found within Its covers, tho bulletin contains tho following data regarding the state's livo stock assessment and its gain in acrcngo and land values: There are 920..081 horses In tho ntato valued at $73.30 on tho average, 96,590 mules that aro worth $90.90 apiece, 1,940,192 cattlo with an aver ago value of $29.40, and 1,762,002 hogs, valued at $9.75, according to the figures Just totaled by the state assess, ment board, with tho grand assess ment roll for the present year as a basis. All of tho values aro higher thnn last year. There aro 4,000 less horses In the state, however, than thoro wero In 1912 and 5,000 more mules. There aro about 60,000 less cattle than when tho 1912 figures wero garnered In by assessors over the state. Although there "was no real estate revaluation for the present year, values of this class of property show an upward' climb. Improved lands that averaged $37.50 an acre In value last year have leaped ahead to $46.70. The average in tho entire state In creased in the year from 21,201,835 to 21,320,665 acres. Unimproved lands fell off from an average acre valuation of $9.15 to $8.30. The total value of all lands, both Improved and unim proved, increased from $1,246,345,228 to $1,25G,221,730, a gain of moro than $10,000,000 in tho twelve months. Studied Single Tax System. Details of the operation of the modi fled single tax system adopted by sov oral Canadian provinces were pre sentcd to the state tax commission by Director A. E. Sheldon of tho legisla tive reference bureau. Mr. Sheldon made a six weeks Investigation of the Bystcm during tho past summer and familiarized himself with points which ho was requested to detail to the tax body upon his return. According to his statements to tho commission about three-fourths of- the present population of tho four western pro vinces has migrated there in the last ten years. "Never before in the his tory of the civilized world has so large a population, with so many of the tools for development nnd so large a credit in the borrowing centers of the world taken up such a largo area of fertile land in so brief a tlmo. Tho product of these factors has been an extra ordinary development ot land specu latlon," he said. The Oats Crop. For 1913 the acreage devoted to oata in Nebraska aggregates 2,019,096, ac cording to the estimates of the state board of agriculture. Tho production 1b 52,222,066 bushels and the cash value of the" crop for tho year amounts to $17,233,281.78. Tho estimated pay roll of the Nebraska manufacturers last year was $15,622,204. Thus the Nebraska oat crop for this year would meet a year's payroll with almost two million dollars to spare. Tho university Y. M. C. A. hat started Its annual campaign for funds. Three thousand flvo hundred dollars Is the amount of money needed. It Is hoped to ralso $1,500 of this amount from tho student body, $500 from the faculty, $1,000 from the citizens ot Lincoln, and $500 from alumni. Government Serum Station. Tho government serum station, lo catcd at tho state university farm, will turn out a million cubic centimeters of hog cholera serum this month and will to some extent catch up with tho do mand which has been very heavy in Nebraska this summer nnd fall. The government keeps a drove of hogs at tho station for tho manufacture of scrum and for bleeding purposes This serum Is sold to tho farmers nt tho cost of 1 cent per cubic contl meter, which 1b Just what Is costs the government to mako it. Many Hotels Are Inspected. Nine hundred and fifteen hotels, res taurants, rooming houses and apart monts havo been Inspected by the stato hotol commission slnco that body came Into now powers. Total col lections for tho first six months of the department's oxlstonce wero $2,974, according to a report handed out by Commissioner Ackermnn. Salary ol tho commissioner, In that time has amounted to $752, and his traveling ox ponses totaled $106. Doputy inspec tors drew $511 in solary and $502 In traveling expenses. NEWS FROM STATfe HOUSE The stato board of agriculture has mado arrangements for improving the raco track at the fair grounds. With a Judicial appointment soon to bo mado in tho Second district, yU Itors are flocking in squads to tho gov ernor's ofllco to recommend or opposo ono or moro ot thoso who aro in tho. race. Levi St. Cyr, Oliver Lemero and Al bert Konslcy, threo Winnebago In dians who ntended tho National Indian. conference at Denver, woro stato house callers. Application has been roccived by the state engineer for construction of a. state brldgo on tho Republican river, one mile west of Superior. Tho struc ture will bo 400 feet long and Is to coat $25,000. R. J. POBBon, J. B. Shepherd, II. N ThomaB and F. J. Chaso, alternate mnko up tho stock-Judging team which. Nebraska will send to tho national dairy show at Chicago this year. The show will bo held October 22 to. No vember 1. State Auditor Howard Ib getting, much encouragement In his effort to collect $90,000 duo from counties ta ttle state for tho caro of Insane. Many of tho larger counties havo paid In fulL or have promised to pay when a county levy Is mado next year. Members ot tho board of secretarles of the state board of health have pro cured equipment for tho soon-to-ba established stato bacteriological labor atory. Lack of room at tho stat houso is all that Is delaying the open ing of the now department. W. S. Delano of the Nebraska farm ers' congress has Invited tho Lincoln Commercial club to namo a speaker to present arguments in opposition to. university removal at the annual meet ing of the congress at Omaha, on lh evening of December 11. Ross Ham mond of Fromont will argue In favor ot romoval. Three new stato banks have been given stato authorization to do busi ness. They are tho Haigh Stato bank of llalgh, $10,000 capital, M. L. Wellln, president; the Grant County State bank of Ashby, $15,000 capital, ThomaB Stanszle, president; the Breslau Stato bank, $10,000 capital, M Inholder, president. The school of agriculture has broken, all records In enrollment this year, there being 500 students at the end of two weeks of school this year, where there woro less than 400 last year. It had been feared by many that the drouth would seriously hamper the at tendance of farmers' sons at the uni versity this year. The barley crop of the stato is esti mated at 21.15 bushels per acre on the average for tho present year. The value, according to tho board of agri culture, Is $1,140,722. Tho aggregate acreage in the state was 97,694. Hitchcock county led with 17,022 acres, valued at $127,665, and Logan county was second In tho stato with 11,027 acres, valued at $119,060. H. E. Fredrlckson of Omaha, J. G, Beehlor of North Platte and C. H. Gustafson of Mead wero appointed' stato highway commissioners by tha state board of irrigation and highways, The men will serve without compensa tion and will act In an advisory ca pacity to the stato board, under au thority of a law enacted at the last session. The following sums will bo raised, by stato levies this year, according to figures computed by Deputy Stato Treasurer Danlelson: Goneral fund, $2,353,500; university maintenance, $470,700; special university building fund, $353,025; tho normal school fund, $400,095, and the Btato aid bridge fund, $94,140. The total amount raised by the 7.8 mill levy will bo $3,671,461. At the "request of organizations In-, tercsted in boosting the Lincoln high way automobile route through tha Btato of Nebraska, which follows the Platte river, Governor Morehead has officially fixed tho date of October 31 rs a time for dedicating tho road. What form of observance shall b mado on that day is left to tho differ ent persons and bodies taking part in the movement. Stato Treasurer Georgo has sent out a call for $44,000 worth of tho $685,009 general fund warrants that have been registered In the past few months and which have to be held for payment or subjected to a 1 per cont discount. Nebraska railroads will fight the re cent order of tho Btato railway com mission compelling a general freight rate reduction on apple shipments In this state. Such was the word brought to the commission ofllces today in a notice of nppeal llled by attorneys ot nil the carriers concerned. Tho cement sidewalk on the stnta capltol grounds Inld about two years ago Is being torn up to make room for a new asphalt driveway in front of tho west entrance. That the epidemic of tuberculosis among the cows of the Btato herd at tho Inglesldo stato hospital was tho direct result of filth from an open sewor being discharged into a pasture In which the milch cows woro grazed, Is chargod by employes of the insti tution nnd by farmers living on adjoin ing land, A.
