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THE NORTH PLATTE" SEMI-WEEKLY TRIDUNE. EPITOME OF EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. ARE SHORT RUT INTERESTING Brief Mention of What It Transpiring In Various Sections of Our Own and Foreign Countries. WASHINGTON. Manuel L. Quezon, resident com missioner from the Philippines In con gress, nsserted upon lila return from Manila that since the announcement of President Wilson's policy the Fili pinos are more friendly toward tho Americana than they ever wore. Congress will be naked to crcato four Tlco admirals In tho Uulted States navy Immediately after tho holiday re cess. Secretary Daniels said that ho had determined upon this courso to avoid the possibility of embarrassment to tho American navy In foreign Bor vice, Edwin P. Orosevonor, who for a number of yours has been special as sistant to tho attorney general at Washington and special counsol In Important anti-trust enses, has re signed from tho Department of Jus tlco to engage In prlvato law prac tice In Washington. , Liberal concessions to tho home steaders of Alaska, on whom tho fu ture development of tho natural re sources of the territory depends, are recommended by Clay Talman, com missioner of tho general land office, In his annual report submitted to tho secretary of tho Interior. Tho historic old painting, "Tlio Signing of tho Emancipation Procla mation," commemorating President Lincoln's action in 1802, which for yearB has been ono of tho show fea tures of tho capital, has been temp orarily put out of Bight. It Is under going a nice, clean bath, tho first in years. Widely circulated reports that Gov ernor Gonernl Harrison has been re placing many civil employes In tho Philippines with democrats from tho United States led tho War department to Issue a statement formally declaring tbat tho now governor has appointed only three Americans from tho states to ofllce. DOMESTIC. Now York legal aid bureau for a feo of 10 cents furnishes a lawyer to assist Immigrants and poor persons In obtaining Justice New York's nowost hotel, about to bo opened, covers a block, cost $10, 000,000, has 1,000 rooms, oach with a bath, and rises twenty-six stories above tho stroet. A formal chnrgo of murder was placed against Robort Malonoy, an uctor, who shot and klllod'his wlfo nnd 1-year-old daughtor in a CIncln ati hotel Monday, Thomas Taylor, president of tho Farmers State Hank of Groensburg, Kana., died at tlio ago of 80. Forty yearB .ago ho was a cowboy In Wyo ming. Ho never married. Tho total foreign trade ot tho port of New York In 1913 reached tho two billion mark for tho llrst timo in Its existence Tho total value of Its for olgn trade for tho year just past Is $2, 139,205,022, oh against $1,915,044,233 in 1912, an lucroaso of f 223,021,389. A grand Jury Investigation of tlio mobbing of Chorion II. Moyor, presi dent of tho western federation ot minors, will bo domanded nt tho coun ty seat of Houghton county by O. Hilton, attorney for tho federation, when tho Inquisitorial board moots. Copies of tho federal reservo act. tho resolution to bo adopted by banks which wish to ontor tho syBtem nnd the blank drawn by tho organization commlttco for uso of applicants for momborBhlD. will bo mailed to ovorv national bank in tho Unltd stales. Flefty Department company, one of tho largest of th Mllwaukeo down town Btores, filed a voluntary peti tion In bankruptcy. Tho firm has boen In buelV3Ba six months. Tho lia bilities are placod at $209,980, tho afisestB, '126,016; cash, $1,000. Tho Unltod Railroads, which owns many o.f tho San Francisco street car linos, has presented, to 1,587 of its employes, who have boon with the conrfcany threw or more yoara, life In surance policies aggregating $1,250, 000. Threo unidentified mon were killed near Akron, O., by a Pennsylvania train. They were walking tho tracks and In stepping out ot 'tho path of an on-coming freight train, stopped In front of an on-rushlng passenger train on another track. They wero mangl ed beyond recognition, Governor West of Oregon has order ed Jila private Bocrotury, Mies Fern Hobbs.Jo proceed at onco to Copper field, a mining town In Baker county, and close the saloons and gambling lUlUBAK. Brooklyn Elko have laid tho corner stone of a $400,000 lodge building. During tho holiday crush in New York City $20,000 worth of automobiles wero stolen from Broadway alone. Lower express rates throughout the country will become effective February 2. By tho torms of tho recent Inter stato Commerce commission order It Is estimated that tho average reduc tion in charges will bo approximately 17 par cent. With tho filing of petitions from ten counties, aggregating 2C.C93 names, tho proposed law providing for totnl prohibition in Carolina will go on tho general election ballot in 1914. Tho total number of names now rep resented on the petition is 41,015. Seventy-two witnesses wero sum moned for tho trial at Macon, Ga., ot John W. Nisbeth, a merchant of Be. vler, Mo., charged with having caused tho death' last Juno of his young stenographer, Merlo Orlnkard, through tho agency of a drug. Threo lumber companies, ousted from Missouri by the state supreme court December, 24 and lined a total ol $110,000, for alleged violation of the anti-trust law, recently prepared to closo their St. Louis offices and ro opon in East St. LouIb, 111. Adjutant General Hlllls In charge of tho pursuit of "Happy" Jack Hond rlckson and members of his clan, In the mountains near PInovIllo, Ky., has ordered the militiamen and depu ties to their homos. Tho search -jlll be conducted by individuals. Stories printed In the United States thyt Great Britain nnd Gor many had (icluded an understanding aimed to cuilr the financial and com mercial actlyites of tho United States In South America were characterized by the British foreign ofllco as pura inventions. Geno Monta.nl, now sorving a long term in Sing Sing as ono of tho ring leaders in a $25,000 taxicab robbery in Now York In 1912, has laid charges beforo Assistant District Attorney Frederick Groohl that two Now York police ofllcials after his arrest offered to froo him of tho charge for $5,000. Thero wore 7,509 national banks do ing business In tho United States De cember 31, according to tho comptrol ler of tho currency. Tho authorized capital or theBO banks was $740,633, 645. During tho year 217 applications to organlzo national banks wero re ceived. Only two wero rejected, and 171 so far have been approvod. The American embassy nt London has presented to tho British foreign office a statement for its Information relatlvo to tho clauso In tho now American tariff act providing for an increaso of customs duty on articles sent to tho Unltod States by forolgn oxporters who refuso to show their books. Tho statement suggestB that tho government may deslro to Insti tute loglBlatlon to meet this situation. There Is not nn ldlo working man at tho head of tho Great Lukes is tho statomont of leading Duluth employ ment ngoncles. It was estimated that 500 men have been glvon employment In tho lumber camps Blnce Christmas day. Largo numbors of men are being recruited nnd aro given froo faro to tho camps. Wages are tho best that they l.avo been during tho present season. Warrants for tho nrrcst of Miss Alico E. Malono and Sidney B. Harri son, former employes of a Washing ton branch of N. L. Carpenter & Com pany, Now York stock brokers, have been Issued. Miss Malono Is charged with embezzlement ot Philadelphia & Rondlng stocks valued at $8,100, whilo Harrison 1b charged with em bezzling 300 shares or tho samo stock OBtlmated to bo worth $24,000. FOnPIGN. Eighteen weaving mills in tho dls. trlct about Blackburn, England, have boen closed, owing lo a slump In the cotton, trade. It 1b understood that many other mills aro about to coaso Tho bnsoment portion of the grow some Tow or of London, whoroln Sit Walter Raleigh, Guy Fawkos and other historic characters woro confined, will bo open to visitors next summer. There is an nnormmin rlnmnnri tnr nlcotlno for spraying grapovlnos and rruit treoa In tho Lyons district oa well oa olaowhoro In France. Nlcotlno hna been found particularly olllcacl oub as an insecticide. Nowb of the escape of Dr. Dolninger and Dr. Kempt, German government forostors, reported to have boon killed by cannlbalB in tho Interior of Neu mecklenburg. in tho Bismarck nrchi. pelago, waB telegraphed to tho gov ernment from German Now Guinea. Lord Northclirto, acting on medical advice regarding IiIb eyesight, 1b re linquishing some of his responsibili ties nnd Is going abroad until Easter, ncordlng to advices received tram Loudon. iipcauHo mo reruvian congress failed to sanction tho budget for 1914, which was submitted to It In August, tho government Issued a docrco de claring that the old estimate would remain in force for tho next twalva months. I FLAYED IMPOSED SENTENCES NOT AU THORIZED BY COURTS. BORAH GIVES OUT STATEMENT Senator Borah Makes Public "State ment of Fact" About West Virginia Strike. Washington, D. C. A Bcvero an ralgnment of authorities who admin istered martial law in West Virginia, from September, 1912, to June, 1913, when the Cabin Creek nnd Paint Creok coal mlno strlko troubles were In progress, is contained in a sub committee report made public by Senator Borah, a membor of the sen ato committee that Investigated the West Virginia disturbances. Tho report was given out as the ''statement of fact," prepared by Son ator Borah as tho member of tho sen. ato committee charged with prepar ing that section of tho report bearing on court-martial trials and alleged violations of law by tint military courtB. Senator Borah's ntatemont holds that tho military authorities, acting under the direction of the governor, superseded all constitutional courts In West Virginia, Imposed sentences not authorized by standing lawB, and took ovor all tho duties of the civil courts of tho district and that at the time such martial law was being enforced thero was no evidence that tho civil courts had been Intimidated or that thoy would have failed to perform their duties faithfully. Facing Engineering Feat. Cody, Wyo. Government Irrigation experts aro wrestling with a tough problem at tho big dam of tho Sho shone project In tho canyon above Cody, Whore tho drainage gates some timo ago Bprung a loalc Efforts aro being made to repair this leak without draining the huge lako. To drain tho lake would moan that tho hundreds of farmB below tho dam would bo with out water tho coming season and great damago would result - Tho gov ernment engineers plan on lowering a wooden ball, eight feet in dlamotor, and filled with cement, down the face of tho dam, figuring that tho suction will draw tho ball Into tho mouth of tho outlet and thus stop tho loak while repairs aro being made. But before this can bo done, a wiro screen, which covors tho end ot tho big outlet plpo, must bo raised, but thus far tho screen has resisted all efforts to ro move It And oven after tho screen Is removod, and tho huge ball takes Its placo and tho repairs are made, tho greatest difficulty of all will bo to then romove the ball. Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell Dies. Philadelphia, Dr. S. Wolr Mitchell, noted author and physician, died at his homo herq. Death was due to In fluenza, tho seriousness of which was accontuated by his advanced ago. He was In his eighty-first year. Stricken laBt Monday with what was thought to bo a mild attack oP grip, no apprehension for his recov ery was folt until recently. Dr. Mitchell's fame both as a physi cian and an author waB International. His last book appeared a few months ago under tho title of "WestwayB." Ho was noted ns u nourologist nnd his medical works wore largely on tho Bubject of norvous diseases. He was an advocate of tho "rest cure'' In the treatment of such diseases. . Does Not Resemble Wilson. Pass Christian, Miss. H. B. Ward of La Fayette, lnd who has been told that ho Is President Wilson's doublo, arrived hero recently to mako a prac tical to3t of tho resemblance. After walking about tho streets for several hours and dining at the Mexican Gulf hotel, whero Uioso attached to the presidential party aro stopping, Ward decided that tlio resemblance was slight in tho extromo. Falls or Jumps From Floor. Chlcngo, 111. William J. Sweeney, & metal dealer of Denver, fell or Jump od to 11b death in a crowdod streot from tho fourth story of a hotol hero tonight. He died on tho way to a hos pital. Severe Storma In German,. All Germany is In tho grip of vio lent Btorms, nccompanled In many placoB by heavy snowfall. Berlin it self is thickly covered with enow. Motor Car Company Bankrupt. Oshkosh, Wis. Tho Oshkosh Motor Cnr company filed a petition of bank ruptcy with liabilities of $31,000 and assets of about $17,000. Tlio president 1b the heaviest loser. Finds Seventy Twenties Burled by.. Michigan City, Ind. Twenty-dollxr gold pieces amounting to $1,400 wore found by Mrs. William McCorklo of McCool, Ind. They had boon burled undor a treo acroeo from his homo eight yonrs ago by her father, Na thaniel Marshall, a carpenter . Fugitive Husbanda Indicated. Washington, D. C Twenty fugltlra husbands wero indicted hero by tlio fodentl grand Jury and will bo ex tradited and returned for trial. On was located lh Uie Hawaiian Islands, NEWS FROM JSTATE HOUSE A reception at tho govern6r's man sion is being planned by tho stato his torical society for Sons of tho Amer ican Revolution on Wednesday after noon, January 21, The reception Is to be held in connection with the annual meeting of tho historical society. Word of tho selection of former State Land Commissioner II. M. Eaton as superintendent of schools at Emerson has been received by Stato Superintendent Dclzell, Mr. Eaton is a school man of many years' train ing, particularly in normal work. The Juvenile court law enacted In 1905 Is not opposed to sound public policy, is not unconstitutional, and docs not establish a new court. This was tho opinion of tho state supremo court In tho ca3e brought by Wilbur F. Bryant of Hartlngton to invalidate tho law. Right of the chlropractlcs to prac tice In this state has again been as Bailed in the supreme court, this timo on nppeal from Thayer county, whero Earlo A. Harvey was found guilty In nlno counts and a fine of $150 was levied against him. Tho question has never been settled in this state. Apportionment of $36,671 for stato aid to weak school districts is an nounced by State Superintendent Dcl zell. A totnl of 290 school districts aro included. McPherson county, with twenty-three weak districts, drew highest money, $4,035. Red Wil low county, with one such district, drew only $58. At tho session of the Nebraska Stato Bar association at Omaha last week the following officers wero elect ed: President, H. H. Wilson, Lincoln; vice-presidents, Judgo E. E. Good.Wa hoo, W. M. Cain, Schuyler; secretary, A. G. Elllck, Omaha; treasurer, C. G. McDonald, Omaha; executive council man, John J. Halligan, North Platte The board ot educational lands and funds has decided to direct Stato Treasurer George to change his policy In regard to the use of educational funds. The board has decided that it is not good policy for tho state to make money by not paying its debts. Therefore the state treasurer will use the first money available for the re demption of outstanding state war rants. Adjutant General Hall has an nounced that Company E of Schuyler, Fourth regiment, won first honors In shooting for possession of the na tlonal defense trophy. The company will keep the trophy one year, when it wPl again be tho subject of com petition. Tho slfootlng la done at ihj home stations of companies. Com pany G. of Hastings, Fifth reglmont won second honors In the same com petition. , Tho deficiency in the Btato recodi tying commission will amount tc about $500, according to revised e tlmates made by the members. Vouch crs covering the last days ot em ployment of Commissioners E, L King nnd A. M. Post were filed with tho auditor. Tho other commis sloner, J. H. Broady, and ono or tw assistants, have a week's labor tc clean up and then the legal wheel! will stop. The annual report of II C. Lindsay, clerk of the supreme court and state librarian, filed with Governor More head, shows that tho state library con tained 65,871 volumes December 1, 1912. During tho past year Mr. Lind say purchased 652 volumes and re ceived 1,321 volumes by donation and exchange, making a totnl of 67,884 volumes on hnnd at tho closo of the year 1913. Tho Nebraska Btato library is admitted to bo one of tho best law libraries In tho United States. Ofllcials of tho anti-saloon league aro not In pronounced sympathy with tho state-wide prohibition movements stnrtcd in various sections ot Ne braska, nnd, nccording to talk from headquarters, consider them lll-ad-vlsed nt the present time. Efforts of tho lengue are to bo concentrated In tho support of tho two-mile limit measure, a bill making it illegal to sell liquor within two miles of any Btato educational Institution. Timo in laying that proposed measure be fore tho people will be well taken up, according to the ofllcials, and the wider movement taken up next year might tend to defeat ono or both, in their opinion. Counting Infants that never breathed, there were 852 more deaths In Nebraska In tho year 1913 than thero wero In tho year 1912. Dr. W. II. Wilson, Inspector for the state board of health, who Is in charge of tho col lection of vital statistics, has com pleted his annual report. It bIiows a total of 11,254 deaths. The number reported tho yenr before was 10,402. While tho doath rate was higher this year, the birth rate was lower. Last year a total of 26,697 births were re ported. This year the number Is 26,153. Georgo St. Clair, who refused to at tend penitentiary chapel, and who was later denied icllef when Warden Fen ton kopt him in his cell for dlsobedl onco of prison rules, now asks the board of control for a personal hear ing In tho mnttcr. In Btat.ng his case he Bnys that Inasmuch as legal appeals BomotlmcB suspend sentence, ho be lieves nn appeal to the control board from tho warden's decision Bhould suspend Its operation, Tho novel turn to tho affair does not meet a hearty response on the part of board members. IDE illlll'S DATES WOMAN DEAD IN EYES OF THE LAW. GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL Items of Interest Gathered from Re- liable Sources and Presented In Condensed Form to Our Readers. Following are dates and places at Which fnrmers Institutes ore to' bo held during the month of January: Morse Bluff, Wednesday, Jnnunry 7. Aurora, Wednesday and Thursday, January 7 nnd 8. ( Spencer, Wednesday and Thursday, January 7 and 8. . Waverly, Thursday, January 8. McCool Junction. Thursday and Fri day, January 8 and 9. Plainvlew, Thursday and Friday, January 8 and 9. Spring Grove church (near Gretna), Friday, January 9. Fairmont, Friday and Saturday, January 9 and 10. Crelghton, Friday and Saturday, January 9 and 10. Pierce, Monday and Tuesday, Janu ary 12 and 13. Madison. Monday and Tuesday, January 12 and 13. Creston, Tuesday and Wednesday, January 13 and 14. Osmond, Tuesday and Wednesday, January 13 and 14. Howells, Wednesday and Thursday, January 14 and 15. Laurel, Wednesday and Thursday, January 14 and 15. Humphrey, Thursday and Friday, January 15 and 16. Papillion, Thursday and Friday, January 15 and 16. Hartlngton, Thursday and Friday, January 15 and 16. Wakefield, Friday' and Saturday, January 16 and 17. Elkhorn, Friday and Saturday, Jan uary 16 and 17. Woman Declared Legally Dead. In the eyes of the law of the stnto of Nebraska, Emma Booshe is a dead woman, though no certificate of death has over boen filed with the officers charged with keeping the mortality records. Judgo Cornish of the district court signed a decree to the effect that "the legal presumption is that sho Is now dead." The decree of the court was granted upon the petition of Gerd H. Booshe, who was married to Emma many years ago. In his petition filed in district court a few weeks ago ho alleged that Mrs. Boosho left him in 1904 with tho avowed intention of going to her old homo in Germnny. Since that time ho has never heard from her. Reward for Discovery of Oil. Fifteen thousand dollars is tho prize offered by the stato of Ne braska to the first person who shall succeed in locating a steady How of oil within the state, yielding fifty barrels per day for sixty consecutive days. The existence of this forgotten statute, passed by the legislature of 1903, was rediscovered in Stato Treasurer George's ofllco following the receipt of a letter from New York asking whether Nebraska has such a law. The letter was sent from tho New York ofilce'of a London corpor ation known as the Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Products Company. A short time previously Treasurer George received anothor query from tho same source, but did not answer it. The persistence of the company in seeking to find out about tho state reward Is taken to mean that it has some kind of a "tip" as to whero oil may be found in paying quantities In this state. If so, it has been able to keep the information secret, as no facts have been made public relating to any such discovery. A few test borings are known to have been mad j In different localities, but these, so far as is known In Lincoln, have al) been abandoned. National Commander Washington Gnrdner of tho Grand Army ot tho Re public will bo In Nebraska next May, according to word received by tho state department. Ho has asked that tho dates for tho Nebraska encamp ment be set at the time of his visit. The affair will, therefore, be held May 13, 14 and 15. Grand Island will en tortaln the veterans at that time. Winter Short Course. The school of agriculture announces that the winter short courso .will be gin Immediately following the holi days, Janunry 6th. This Is a course of six weeks' work, composed of practical lectures, and laboratory work on various agricultural sub jects. Omnlia now has a full battalion of the Nebraska national guard, tho fourth company. D, of the Fourth In fnntry, hnvlng been mustered In by Adjutnnt General Hall. Half of Envelopes Addressed. Tho secretary of stuto's special force ot nBsUtunts, employed to ad dross 250,000 large envelopes In which printed matter rolatlng to measures submitted under tho Initiative and referendum will bo mniled nqxt year to Nebraska voters, has finished prac tlcally one-half of the work. En velopes for tho voting Inhabitants of Lincoln and Lancaster county, tho cities of Omaha and South Omaha have all been addressed. The secre tary of state has received lists of voters from all but twelve counties, BRIEF -NEWS OF NEBRASKA A commercial club has boon organ feed nt Cortland. Josephine Humbergcr is tho new postmistress nt Plymouth. Morse Bluff's first church is ncnrlng completion and will soon bo ready for use. The. various towns in the stato base ball leaguo arc already making plans for next Benson. For the first timo in twenty years corn Is being shipped to Tccumseh for feeding purposes. Dick George, near Falrbury, nearly lost an arm In a circular saw, which" he was operating, cutting stove wood.. Harry G. Piatt, a Burlington switch man at Lincoln, suffered a crushed skull when he was caught between two ears In tho yards here. Plans for rebuilding tho Grand? Island Pythian hall, which was de stroyed by fire Friday night, are al ready under consideration. , Peter Brehm's saloon at Lincoln was burglarized three times in ns many months, and last week Peter was helcl' up and relieved of $3, all his spare cash. Thero 1b an epidemic of diphtheria at Wymoro and tho city board of health Tuesday Issued a proclamation prohibiting tho holding of public gath erings. Paul Good of Lincoln has been chosen by. tho Nebraska committee as next student from this state to enter Oxford university with Rhodes schol arship honors. Sam Noble, a veteran Burlington en gineer, dropped dead Just as he seated himself to partake of his noon lunch at a restaurant at Lincoln. Apoplexy was the cause. Joseph Cullen Root, prominent Omahan, financier, lawyer and found er and sovereign commander of the Woodmen of tho World, is dead at Wendersonville, N. C. While steam and smoke were still arising from the ruins of the Gaston Music company at Hastings, tho firm had reopened in another location with a fresh stock of goods. Mrs. A. E. Hatch, wifo ot a North western brakeman at Norfolk, was slugged by some unknown man when sho went to tho depot to meet her husband Saturday night. F. A. Sess, a Jeweler at Kearney, was found In a dying condition at the foot of the cellar stairs in his store. Ho died before recovering conscious ness, a victim to apoplexy. Tuesday before Christmas was the biggest day In the history of the Fre mont postofTice. Nearly a third more packages and letters wero handled by the force during the day. Through the death of his uncle, Ellas Ollnghouse, a miner of Wahoo county, Nevada, Paul Ollnghouse, thir teen years old, of Beatrice, has fallen heir to an estate valued at $60,000. Herbert W. Wright, who has been assistant secretary of the Beatrice Y. M. C. A. for the past eighteen months, has resigned to accept a posi tion as secretary of the Seward asso ciation. Abram E. Rodebaugh, businessman of Bancroft, Neb., was run over by a Northwestern train at Parker, S. D., both his legs being cut off. He was not found until an hour and a hair after the accident. An overdose of headache tablets, came near resulting fatally to Mrs. Will Buraup of Tecumseh, who was found unconscious by her daughter who hastily summoned a physician. She is now thought out of danger. Al Jackson, an Omaha policeman who was shot In the leg several years ago in a duel with Pat Crowe, tho alleged kidnaper of young Cudahy, has Just suffered amputation of tho limb, blood poison having recently de veloped. Roy Northrup of York has some' fin specimens of topaz, dressed and mounted. They were found near Hum boldt, and th" rough stones sent to a lapidary at Denver, who pronounced them llrst-class, and mado some ex cellent Jewels of them. Miss Frances Shorn of Falrbury is in n critical condition from blood poison, the result of puncturing the palm of her hand with a lead pencil some time ago. Petitions for the appointment of a county demonstrator for Cuming county nre in circulation and will' be presented to tho county hoard of su pervisors. John Slevers had most of tho cloth ing torn from his body and escaped death In a miraculous manner when ho caught his foot in tho belting of a gasoline engine ou his farm near Fre mont. Fire at the stato house at Lincoln, caused by a lighted match Igniting some gasoline In a cuspidor, gave tho firemen a run and mado considerable excitement one day last week. Charles Mitchell, a husky tiller of tho soil in Saline county, put two holdup men to flight when they at tempted to rob him as ho was en route to DoWltt on horseback. Mrs. Uummell Anderson of Malmo was burned to death by a flro originat ing In a gasoline explosion which de stroyed her home. Her invalid hus band, in the house at the time, was carried to safety. Lawrence King, a well-to-do young man, committed suicide by hanging himself In a cattle barn on hlB father's farm near Edgar. Ill health Is supposed to have been responsible. J. C. Mitchell, driving an oil wagon at Hastings, was thrown from the seat and severely Injured by the wheels passing over hl3 head and shoulders. Tho eleven-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hull was scalded to death at their home In Round Valley, when a plug came out of a washing machine, letting the contents, boiling hot, splash over her. A A