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HEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
Includes What Is Going On at Wash
Ington and In Other Sections of
the Country.
WASHINGTON,
A Mil adding 9,080 ncroa to Pike
National forest In Colorndo.
A joint resolution authorizing the
president to wine the. regular army
to war Htrongth.
A bill creating an aviation flection
In tho army signal corps with Blxty
officers and 200 enlisted men.
,
A bill making It a misdemeanor to
tisf the American flag or Its coat of
arms or other Insignia as an adver
tisement, tradomark or label.
A Joint resolution authorizing the
i president to Invite foreign nations to
' nend representatives to tho Interna
tional Dry Farming congress nt
I Wichita, Kns.
1 1
Tho cale of tho battleships Mlssls-
clppl and Idaho for use In tho Greek
j navy was consummated by tho dollv-
1 cry to Secretary Danlols of a check
' for $12,535,275.90.
Secretary Daniels has announced
tliat ho would advertlBO for bids for
l the construction of two new battle-
J hlpG on August 1. One of tho three
s.iips In thld years construction pro
gram will bo built at tho Drooklyn
navy yard.
A party Including members of tho
congressional naval committees and
their wives and Mrs. .losephus Dan
iels left Washington aboard tho dis
patch boat Dolphin for Qulncy, Mass.,
to attend tho launching of the new
battleship Novada.
Tho $200,000 appropriation for tho
aid of the Salem lire sufferers, asked
by President Wilson in a message to
congress, was refused by tho houso
appropriations committee Tho ma
jority of tho committee contended
that Massachusetts was ablo to tako
caro of the situation.
t After a. lively debate between tho
Oklahoma and Mississippi delega
tions tho limiBO rejected a senate
amendment to tho Indian appropria
tion bill which would permit tho Mis
sissippi ChoctawH to present their
claims for participation In tho tribal
funds of tho Choctaw Indians of Ok
lahoma. Tho Japaneso ambassador, VlRCount
Chlnda, Introduced to President Wil
son Major Gonoral Gijuchl Tanaka, a
member of the Japaneso army gonoral
Etaff, who has boon In Europe Inves
tigating military establishments. Tho
genornl Ib accompanied by Dr. S. Kin
ngawa, a distinguished' authority on
International law.
President Wilson received a tele
gram from tho Pan-IIcllonIc Union In
America thanking him for tho salo of
the battleships Idaho and Mississippi
to Grecco. "Wo consldor tho trans
action a great act of humanity In pro
venting tho outbreak of a now war In
tho near east," telegraphed the presi
dent of tho union.
Secretary Daniels announced that
tho latest four new dreadnoughts, be
ginning with No. 39, would bo named
Arizona, California, Mississippi and
Idaho. The lost two woro bo named
In order that tho Btatps of Mississippi
and Idaho might not loso their ships
b causo of tho recent sale of two bat
tlcstilps to Grcoco.
Bonnie clerks woro busy preparing
for the government printer bills which
the senate disposed 6f In what Is be
lieved to have been a record session
in so far as tho amount of buslnuss
trtpctcd was concerned. In a little
nirre than three hours tho senate
paFcd 122 mlscellanooun bills and
resolutions. Among tho moro Im
portant measures disposed of woro:
DOMHOTIO.
The statement of the Copper pro
ducers' association for Juno shows
an increase In stock on hand of
12,768,022 pounds, compared with tho
previous month.
All the volcanoes along tho Alaskan
peninsula wost of Seward to tho
Aliitlan Islands are In action, accord
ing to a roport brought by Captain
McMullcn of tho steamship Dlrlgo,
which arrived from Dutch harbor.
Powerful champions went to tho
defense of tho industrial relations
commission In tho sennto and de
feated, 40 to 19, an appropriations
eommittoo amendment to cut down to
fCO.nnO tho $200,000 pmvlded for tho
commission by tho liotibo In tho sun
dry civil bill.
American canoeists nro proparlng
to defend the International cauoo
trophy and somo cxcollent races aro
promised at tho elimination trials to
be hold In GraveBoud bay, July 17
and 18.
United Stutos mints last year pro
duced 180,021,871 coins.
' In Anrtl Hitft v.onvnn TTntfml Qtnfnfl
mining companies paid out $7,418,033
In dividends.
For tho enactment of laws to reduco
the stato tax levy, a special session
of tho Ohio legislature waB ordered
by Governor Cox.
Maintaining tho militia in the cop
per country during the strike last
winter cost tho state of Michigan,
$405,000, It Is announced.
Tho body of William Kenehan of
Denver, who fell or jumped from tho
steamer Ilolen Blair a week ago, was
recovered near Huron Island.
An official inspection of tho navy
yard and naval prison at Portsmouth
was made by Franklin D. Roosevelt,
assistant sccrotaiy of tho navy.
Major General Wood bado official
farewell to Prosldent Wilson before
loavlng tho Governor's islnnd to tako
command of the department of tho
east.
Fred A. Busso, former mayor of Chi
cago, and for years a woll known re
publican politician, died at his home
there. Ho had been sick for mnny
weeks.
Dr. Charles Francis Daxter, former
ly a physician at tho penitentiary on
Iilnckwell's Island, was sontencod to
servo tho limit sentence of ono year
In prison and fined $500 for selling
morphine to prisoners. Ho pleaded
guilty.
Traveling nt tho rate of seventy
eight miles an hour, Eddie Rlcken
bacher drove his car to victory In tho
threo hundred mllo nulomobilo race
at Sioux City and captured $10,000 of
tho $25,000 prize, $15,000 being dlvld
cd among tho other contestants.
A director of Kansas City Southern
says: "We closed on June 30 tho best
year In tho company's history. Gross
earnings were approximately $10,980,
000, compared with $10,700,000 in 1913;
not carnlngB wcro approximately $50,
000 larger than In 1913.
A. DIotz, of Now York, a diamond
morchant, and his son, ChurloB, have
been indicted by a federal grand Jury
nt New York on olovon counts as par
ticipants In an alleged conspiracy to
smuggle diamonds into tho United
States. Diamonds valued at from
$300,000 to $100,000 woro smuggled
from Canada In 1911 and 1912, it is
alleged.
Federal legislation to bo substi
tuted for tho "bluo sky" laws of tho
various states, tho domination of prl
vato . banks and tho discouragement
of tho practlco of Issuing overdrafts
woro expressed In resolutions adopt
ed by tho National Association of
Supervisors of Stato Banks nt tho
closing session of their convention at
Atlantic City.
.
Tho Norwegian colllor Storstad,
which collided with tho steamship
Empress of Ireland In May, with a
loss of moro than 1,000 lives when tho
Empress sank in tho St. Lawronco
river, will bo sold at auction. Tho
Storstad was seized aftor Its arrival
at Montreal, In connection with the
suit for $2,000,000 dnmages brought
against Its owners by tho Canadian
Paclllc railway company.
A Chicago Jury awarded James B
Wilson, former conductor on tho Bal
timore & Ohio railroad, $75,000 for In
juries rccolved after ho had boon
forced to work sixty-eight hours out
of seventy-two. Whllo switching n
frolght enr to a sldo track at Penin
sula, Pa., on tho third day he became
oxhausted and fell between tho car
and an onglno. His right arm was
crushed and his splno badly Injured.
FOREICN.
Adolfo de la Lama, minister of
fliianro, departed for Franco recently,
presumably on n tluunclnl mission. A
largo number of Moxlcans and French
citizens will sail with tho minister for
France.
A world'n altitude record for an
aeroplano carrying only tho aviator
was mado at Johannlsthnl by the Ger
man airman, Otto Llunekogel, who
attained a holght of approximately
21,051 feet In his monoplane.
In a boating nccldont on tho Grand
river. Ontario, Thomas Garnet, a
wealthy farmer, his two children and
a maid, lost their llvos. Tho other oc
cupant of tho boat, a farm hand, swam
to tho shore and gavo tho alarm.
Tho Berlin pollco arrested tho proa
Idont nnd memherH of tho Servian
Students' club and searched their
rooms for evldenco of a pan-Servian
conspiracy which was ulleged to in
volvo Servians living In various
towns of Germnny.
Two hundred coal minora woro on
tombed In tho Vlollo-Mnrlhayo col
Hory, near Llcgo, Bolglum, whon tiro
broko out. Two hundrod of tholr
comrades escaped when tho alarm
was glvou.
Tho sick report from Vera Cruz for
tho wook ending Juno 8 shows a
slight Incroaso. Tho rato of 2.39 for
army and marines of tho preceding
week Increnacd to 2.47. Iiitostlnnl trou
ble Is steadily decreasing and no
further cascB of malaria have developed.
F1III1 IS OVER
RUIZ REPORTS HUERTA WILL
ABDICATE.
CARBAJAL MAY ASSUME LEAD
Rumor Says Huerta Has Named Him
as Provisional President of
Mexico.
Laredo. General Venustlano Car
rnnzu, Interrogated by Huerta agent
regarding the nccoptsince of Francis
co Carbajal as provisional prosidonl
of Mexico, ropilod ho would not re
cognlzo Huerta or nnyone chosen i
this way to succeed him, was roport
ed from reliublo sources in Nuovc
Laredo.
Vera Cruz. To Bave his countrj
from tho horrors of civil war and hifr
capital from capture and perhapt
fiom sack by a victorious army Gen
oral Huerta intends to resign the pro
visional presidency and leave Mexico.
Unless something occurs to disar
range tho present plans, Ruiz Ib con
vinced that lighting between federals
and constitutionalists Is over. This,
ho said, was Indicated by tho evacua
tion of Guadalajara.
To Avoid Sacking Capital.
Llko Porilrlo Diaz, who lied from
his country in tho hope that his go
ing might avert a long and costly
"Avl war, Huerta, according to Huiz,
has decided to yield to superiority in
numbers. Both Huerta and General
fllanquct, his minister of war, know
that longer resistance was futile and
would mean nothing more than the
slaughter of thousands and perhaps
tho sacking of the capital with per
haps horrors perpetrated by a victori
ous army joined by mad mobs from
tho Blums of the city.
Going to Thank A. B. C's.
Llko Adolfo de la Lama, the Mexi
can minister of finance, who arrived
bore, also in flight for Europe, tho
sub-secretary of foreign affairs pro
Jessed still to maintain his connection
with tho government He had been
named, ho said, special ambassador to
Argentina Brazil and Chile to convey
to those countries tho thanks of tho
Mexican republic for their efforts in
tho mediation.
Timber In Hands of a Few.
Washington. Concentration of
timber lands in tho United States In
the hands of a few owners Is dis
cussed nt length In the second and
third parts of tho report' of the bu
reau of corporations on tho lumber
Industry, submitted to Presidont Wil
son by Commissioner Davles.
Two men hold 49 per cent of the
timber in southwestern Washington,
tho roport says; five men hold 3G per
cent In western Oregon; bIx, have 70
per cent of northeastern California;
ten have moro than half of tho red
wood nroa, and In north central
Idaho four holders havo 50 per cent.
"Tho control of our standing timbber
In n comparatively few enormous
holdings, speculatively held far In ad
vanco of qny uso thereof, nnd tho
groat Increase In tho value of timber,
resulting In part from such specula
tive holding, nro underlying facts
that will becomo moro and more Im
portant elements In determining the
prlco of lumber ns the supply of tim
ber diminishes," says tho report.
Demonstrations Allowed.
Now ork. Frco speech was allow
ed to anarchist and radical organiza
tions In their demonstrations for their
throo adherents killed In tho dyna
mite oxploslon on July 1. No disturb
ance resulted from tho voicing of rad
ical views by speakers, who were
groeted with cheers of approval by
those wearing bands of red nnd black
cropo and met by curiosity or Indif
ference from tho larger number com
posing tho crowd of several thousand
persons drawn to Union Square, by
announcement of tho demonstration.
Fifth Plague Ictlm Is Strcken.
Now Orleans. Ln. Another enso of
bubonic pluguo, the Ilfth slnco tho dls
oaso appeared two weeks ago. has
been found by Dr. W. C. Itucker, as
nlstant surgeon general of the United
States honlth service. The victim, the
first woman to bo stricken, Is a negro
who waa employed ln a restaurant
Within two blocks of where the first
enso was found Approximately t.000
rats havo boon examined since tho
first plague rnso without finding any
signs of lufoctlon.
Price of Oil Reduced.
Now York. Tho Standard Oil com
pany announced u 10-polnt reduction
in refined petroleum, making ensos
10.9 cents; tanks. 4.0 nnd Standard
white S.40 8.40 cents per gallon.
Decide Against Funeral Parade.
Now York. No nttempt will bo
mado by anarchists to hold tho pro
posed funeral parado In honor of tho
men who woro killed In tho bomb ex
plosion. It was Intended to hold tho
parado In dellnnco of orders by tho
mayor and pollco commissioner.
Threw Officer tiff Ship.
St, Catherines, Ont. A Canadian
chief of pollco was thrown, ho nlloges,
from the steamer Cadillac, an Ameri
can vessel, to n canal bank, whon ho
bonrded tho ship to serve a summons,
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Tho Nebraska Bankers' association
Is to meet In Omaha In convention
September 1C to 17.
Tho Harvard Community club Is
planning for a fall festival. Commit
tees havo been appointed to arrango
a program.
G. M. Prentice, retiring postmaster
at Fairfield, has held tho office for
nineteen years. Ho will be succeeded
by A. G. Carey.
Mrs. John Marmott dlud as tho re
sult of Injuries sustained a month ago
at Humboldt when she was thrown
from a buggy in a runaway.
Tho Beatrice city commissioners
havo adopted an ordinance regulating
street trafllc nnd Imposing restric
tions upon drivers of motor vehicles.
A story hour has been added to tho
work of tho supervised public play
grounds nt North Platte. Ml?e Mabel
Dulco Is In charge of the new depart
ment. Whont and oats yields in the vicin
ity of Fairfield art large and the corn
crop Is in good .condition. Potatoo3
aro running to tops and the yield will
not be lurgo.
The question of provldlnc a fivo mill
levy for four years, for tho purpose
of building a now court houso will be
submitted to the voters of Lincoln
county on August 18.
Harvesting in tho vicinity of Har
vard Is almost completed and the,
yield has run from thirty to fortv
bushels per acre. Tho corn and al
falfa crops are In good condition.
Citizens of North Platte have be
como nroused over tho many fires of
Incendiary origin that have occurred.
All loiterers or night prowlers aro to
bo given quick Justice from now on.
The Fremont city council have ap
proved tho contracts for tho new
sewer extensions recently awarded by
the board of public works. Tho Im
provements will cost about $12,000.
Contentions of the Calumet Baking
Powder company with regard to tho
legitimacy of tho uso of albumen in its
product and tho water glass test in
Its demonstration, were upheld by tho
stato food commission.
At a special election held at Bridge
port tho three propositions submitted
to tho voters were carried bv a larce
majority. Bonds were voted for an,
extension of the water mains, and lor
a sower system. Sundny basoball was
also legallzzed.
A real reunion of former Nebras
kans and Omahans will be held in
Omaha during Ak-Sar-Ben week, Octo
ber 5 to 10. Tho committee in
charge expects to havo many former
residents of the stato come homo
Jurlng the week.
Frank Aldrich of Lincoln, 18 years
old. wli'ln rldintr hs innt0mVP t
forty miles an hour, collided with a
Burlington passenger Main just west
of that city, and broke his neck and
logs. He was thrown thirty feet by
tho Impact.
A ten days' schedule Is laid out for
the farm demonstrators and university
experts to cover tho country contigu
ous to Crawford. A party of about
fifteen arrived from Chariron. liotng
met nbout five- miles north by citizens
Of Crawford In nutos.
Taylor filed a complaint in Justice
Archer's court charging Tony Hilton,
colored, with having shot Fred Lowe
in Plnttsmouth on July 4. The pris
oner was given a preliminary hearing
and bound over to tho district court
under bond of $1,000.
Charles II. Chase, president of the
Crawford Fruit nnd Produce company,
was stricken with paralysis as ho waa
preparing to retire. His whole right
3lde is affected. There is strong hope,
however, of his complete recovery, as
Mr. Chase has scarcely reached mid
dle life.
Tho second of the series of Market
weeks, Inaugurated by Omaha busi
ness men, will bo hold in Omaha dur
ing August. Invitations will bo sent
to dealers ln Nebraska, Iowa and
South Dakota, requesting them to
visit Omaha and be the guests of the
Jobbers nnd manufacturers during tho
week.
The name of the boy whoso body
was taken from the Missouri river a
mllo below the Northwestern railroad
bridgo near Blair was James Bushus,
jr., aged 8 years. Ho was drowned
by his trlcyclo sliding into tho river
at Sioux City on Sunday, Juno 21.
His father, James Bushus, Identified
the body.
Whllo excavating for tho now Up
land school building, Elmer Bunger
found a lower jaw of mastoden amer
loanus with ten teeth ranging in size
from 2x2V.- inches to x inch. Tho
bono crumbled up on removal from
tho yollow clay ln which it was found,
but the teeth nro in perfect condition.
This Ib tho first specimen of tho kind
found In this locality.
Grant C. Brown, car foremnn for
tho Rock Island at Fairbury has a
force of forty-live men, Including car
repairers and carpenters, engaged ln
coopering cars for grain sorvice. Tho
force is tho largest In tho history of
tho company thero. Owln? to a short
age of box cars, tho company is coop
ering stock cars to haul grain. Now
grain Is already being moved to the
Kansas City markets.
Arthur Warnor, a youth of about 16
years, was drowned in Medlclno river
noar Stockvllle. He was in swimming
with somo boye. Tho water Is high
on account of recent rains nnd the
current took him down.
Hall county agricultural enthuslnsts
nro Industriously boosting tho rountj
fair. The county agricultural aocloty
has Just boon organized. Prealdont
L. C. Lnwson was In Lincoln last
weok, Inspecting tho latest Improve
ments on tho Stato Fair grounds. A
number of these Innovations will bo
used In the new buildings nt Grand
Island.
PREPARE FOR RUSH
RAILWAY COMMISSION PLANNING
TO MOVE CROP.
NO GAR SHORTAGE THUS FAR
Movement of Grain Will be Controlled
Largely by Prevailing Price's,
It Is Thought.
Lincoln. Preparations for oversee
ing the handling of the Immense crops
that Nebraska farmers havo harvested
Rnd aro yet to harvest, aro being
mado by the stato railway commis
sion. Cnr reports aro being carefully
Bcrutlnized as they como Into tho com
mission offices nt.d experts aro at
work making comparisons with other
years and gathering Information as to
tho probable distribution that will
have to bo made the present year.
No calls have come to the commis
sion thus far for car relief. But It
will not be long before complaints nnd
orders will be surfeiting commission
affah-3. Tho body's activity in this
regard Is to see that fair play prevails
In railroad attitudes toward shippers,
that cars aro kept on the move nnd
that empty ear distribution Is kept up
with demand.
Prices of two or three weeks hence
are looked to govern the movement
almost entirely. If they hold up well
there will likely bo a decided rush for
the elevators and grain will begin to
move in tremendous quantities. If
the price falls off there will be much
grain held. That will almost certainly
moan a heavy movement In tho fall
and during tho winter, and will come
nt a time whon part of tho heavy corn
crop will be In the process of move
ment. It will burden the railroads
down in that event more than for sev
eral years.
Wants Maneuvers at Ashland.
Lincoln. Because Commander-in-Chief
Morehead of the Nebraska Na
tional guard believes expenditure of
federal and state funds should go
toward improvement of the Ashland
rifle rango In Nebraska rather than
Camp Dodge ln Iowa, he has ordered
General Hall to uso all energy at his
command to hold this year's maneuv
er camp In this stato instead of ln
Hawkeye territory. By so doing it la
believed that some $42,000 that would
pass needlessly out of Nebraska
would be conserved here.
The matter is still tho subject of
discussion between General Hall and
tho federal war department. -Nebras-knns
ln Washington, Including Secre
tary of Stato Bryan and Senator
Hitchcock, will bo asked to further
tho effort. If tho plan goes through,
a company of regular army Infantry
men, along with O) number of dotach
ed regular army officers, will be sent
to Ashland to participate with tho
guardsmen In tho maneuvers.
Reports of federal Inspection of MI
companies of tho Nebraska guara
were forwarded General Hall from
Washington. The work of tho'guard
Is complemented therein, the Omaha
companies coming in for particularly
favorable mention.
Work to' Begin at Early Date.
Lincoln. As a result of a confer
ence between Thomas J. Majors and
A. L. Caviness of the state normal
board and J. II. Craddock of Omaha,
architect, who will make plans for
tho new building at tho Peru stato
normal school, work will be begun as
soon as possible. The building will
cost $83,000. A levy of 85 per cent of
a mill has been mado for the state
normal schools by the legislature and
the bonrd has apportioned tho amount
and each institution will tako its turn
ln having a building erected.
Loss Shown In Forty-nine Counties.
Lincoln. Tho increase of over
$1,000,000 which was mado by the
first thirty-eigat counties reporting to
the secretary of tho Stato Board of
Assessment has been cut down by tho
last eleven so that thero Is a loss for
tho forty-nlno counties of $S49,7C1.
Douglas and Lancaster counties havo
not yet reported and It is thought that
the increaso In thoso counties will
holp to bring tho valuation of the
state up to somewhere near what It
was last year.
Complains of Charge.
J. W. Shorthlll, secretary of tho
Nebraska Fanners' Co-operatlvo
Grain and Live Stock association of
Hampton, hns filed a complaint with
tho state railway commisBlon against
tho South Omaha Stock Yards aseo
elation, claiming that tho stock
yards company makes yarding chargo
of 8 conts on hogs whon but C cents
Is charged by Kansas City and St.
Joseph.
Two Cents Per Mile Allowed.
Lincoln. Because railroads of the
stato In Bovornl Instances of competi
tive rates bctweon common points
havo been allowed to Incroaso to 2
conts flat per mile, dissatisfied citi
zens are said to bo planning a legal
attack on tho action of tho railway
commission.
The present stato of the 2-cont pas
Fonger faro law, however, indicates
that tho step would bo a hnrd one to
accomplish. Tho law allows railroads
to chargo not moro than 2 cents per
mllo, henco they aro entitled to that.
STATE TO PA ITS DEBTS.
Treasurer George Issues Call for Out
standing Warrants.
Lincoln. Unusually largo remit
tances by counties and tho uso ol
the university building fund has on.
nblcd Stato Treasurer Walter A.
George to call ln all outstanding state
warrants Issued up to July 1. At
that tlmo there were $51g,910 of war
rants registered and not paid for lack
of funds. The date the call for war
rants Is to be effective has not yet
been announced. Whllo tho calling
of these warrants practically wipes
out tho state's floating debt, It Is.
likely thnt the stnto treasurer wilt
continue to register warrants for lack,
of funds. The high mark In remit
tances from counties has been reach'
ed and from this tlmo on the reve
nues of tho state will bo compara
tively small. ,
Of tho $514,910 of warrants out
otandlng tho last day of June, $100,
000 wero hold by tho state, having
boon tnken up by tho use of univer
sity building funds. This left over
$400,000 of warrants ln tho hands of
privato owners. During tho past ten
days county treasurers remitted to
tho state treasurer a total of $401,583,
of which $235,509 was for tho general
funds. Lancaster qounty sent in
$101,833 and Douglas county paid
$177,452.
Tho treasury lacked $108,000 of
available funds to call ln outstanding
warrants, but $90,000 of university
building funds Is now available. In.
addition the treasurer received
$18,009 in fees from different state
officers. This still leaves $60,000
lacking for the purpose of cashing
warrants issued up to July, but tho
treasurer expects to receive that,
amount from different sources before
the call for warrants Is effective.
The South Omaha Stock Yards com
pany has appealed to the supreme
court from a Judgment for $12,000 se
cured in the Douglas county court by
Joo Kudrna for permanent injuries re
ceived whllo In the employ of the com
pany. Kudrna alleged In his suit that
ho was employed by the company tc
drlve a team of horses hitched to a
coal dump cart about the stock yards.
That on this particular day ho had
been given a team to drive which was.
vicious and that they ran away with
hlhi dragging him about the yards,
severely and permanently Injuring
him. Ho clnimed to havo an earning
capacity of $50 a month and sued for
$13,000 damages. The jury gave him.
$12,000 and the company appeals.
C. F. Steyart of Council Bluffs, sec
retary of a farm and live stock com
pany, has written to Secretary Henry
Seymour of tho state board of assess
ment for information in regard to
taxes paid on his company's property
March 12 of this year. As there wero
no county officers and no records ln
Arthur county he paid tho tax to th
treasurer of McPherson county, a
county to which Arthur was formerly
attached. Now the treasurer of Ar
thur county asks him to pay tho same
tax to that county. It la understood
Mr. Stewart will endeavor to get Mc
pherson county to pay him back the
amount of tho tax.
Lincoln will not have a dairy in
spector for tho coming year. Health,
officer Spcalman had placed In the
health office budget for the coming
year a salary of $1,200 for a dairy in
spector; but Commissioner King de
cided that it could not be allowed. He
said Health Officer Spcalman would
hnve to try In some way to do this
work. Tho health officer was given
a raise of $50 a month last year and
tho city pays for tho upkeep of his
automobile. Mr. King said he thought
the health officer could be using his
automobile making trips over the
county Inspecting dairies that Hupply
Lincoln with milk
The railway commission has an
nounced the cancellation of the $23.80
car rate In lots of ton or moro cars
that has prevailed for some time past
on live stock shipments between Cen
tral City and Lakeside. This Ib ono
of tho last rates of this kind remain
ing in the state. Shippers will now
pay at the same rate on ono car as
upon 100. The cancellation follows
action of the Interstate commerce
commission in allowing railroads of
tho country to eliminate such rates
from their traffic sheets.
Tho governor of Kansas has asked
Governor Morehead for the return to
that state of J. H. McGlven under ar
rest for the sale of booez and for es
enping jail In the city of Topoka. Mc
Glven Is being held in Omnha by tho
chief of police. Tho requisition was
granted.
Tho Fidelity Insurance company of
Omaha has filed articles of Incorpora
tion with a capital stock of $100,000.
Edward Mahcr, John G. Maher and
Blako Maher of Nobraska and Nellie
Maher of Chicago aro the Incorpora
tors. The county commissioners have let
tho contract for the construction of
tho oast wing of tho now building for
the county farm. It Is to bo thor
oughly modorn In every particular and
Is expected to last for all time. It
will havo the Knhn system offlre
prooftng, with black slato roof. There
will be a smokeless boiler and a
vacuum vapor heating system. Tho
work on this wing is to bo completed
by November 15. Tho contract for
tho building is let to Henry A. Fricke
for $9,880 and that for tho plumbing
to G, II. Wentz for $1,945,
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