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THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NOlRTH PLATTE. NEBRA8KA. K JOHN D. JR., IS till WARNING GIVEN ITALY WILSON VEI0E5 BILL JEROME IS DISMISSED s Ell CONDENSED NEWS ) UBMARIN RAID J. R. LAWSON CHARGES OIL KING'S 80N IGNORE8TOILER8 EVEN WHILE THEY STARVE. RAKES THE FOUNDATION, TOO Official of United Mine Workers Says Institution Seeks to Substitute Philanthropy for Justice Tells of SufferlngAmong Workers. Now York, Fob. 1. Coming nlmoat straight from the olllco of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whero ho had n "frlondly chat" with him over condi tions in tho mlncB of Colorado, John It. Lawson, a member of tho oxccutlvo board of tho United MIno Workers for tho district Including Colorado, road beforo tho federal commission on In dustrie relations on Friday a scathing indictment of Mr. Rockefeller and tho attitudo ho had displayed beforo the commission. The policies and purposes of tho $100,000,000 Rockefeller foundation and tho recent utterances of young Mr. Rockefeller on tho witness stand were assailed by Mr. Lawson. In assailing tho Rockefeller founda tion ho asserted that ono of tho causes of industrial discontent was that very philanthropy and tho feeling that tho millions "spread over tho world in showy gonoroslty" were derived from tho "money withheld from tho wages of tho American working class." Mr. Lawson criticized young Rocke feller for his lack of knowledgo of con ditions among employees of tho Colo rado Fuel company, and said ho was "equally as Ignorant and indifferent as his trusted executives." "Your body can well afford to lot tho testimony of John D. Rockofeller, Jr., bring your investigation to on end," Mr. Lawson told tho commission. "Out of his mouth camo a reason for every discontent that agitates tho laboring cIobb in tho United States today, and if remedies aro provided for tho injustices that ho disclosed a long stop will bo taken away from in dustrial disturbances." Mr. LawBon told of tho shooting of striking minors in Colorado, tho shat tering of minors' homes, how hundreds woro "dumped in 1903 into tho desort without food or wator," whtlo others woro drlvon ovor tho snow of tho mountain ranges. Tho philanthropy of tho Rockefellers Mr. Lawson referred to as follows: "Health for China, a rofugo for birds, food for Belgians, pensions for Now York widows, unlvorstty training for tho elect and nover a thought or a dollar for thousands of mon, women tfnd chlldron who starved in Colorado; for tho widows robbed of husbands, children of their fathers. "Thero uro thousands of Mr. Jtooko follor'a employees In Colorado who wish to God they wore in Bolglum to bo fed, or a bin' to bo cared for." 258 ON THE VIKNER PERISHED British Casualty List. Shows Reserve Men and Boys Went Down With Armored Merchant Ship. London, Fob. 1. A casualty list is sued on Friday shows that tho Drltlsh armored merchant vessel Viknor, which was lost off tho coast of Ireland several days ago, carrlod a crow of 258, composod of naval resorvo mon and boys belonging to tho mercantllo marine, nil of whom porlBhod. Among tho crow woro 24 royal naval resorvo men from Newfoundland. Tho admiralty roport announcing tho Vikner's loss Bald nil on board had undoubtedly poriBhed. MRS. ROGERS IS INDICTED New York Grand Jury Returns Indict ment Charging Murder on Two Counts Against "Love Wife." New York, Fob. 1. Tho Bronx county grand Jury roturnod an Indict ment on Friday charging murdor on two counts against Mrs. Ida Sniffon Rogers, tho "love wlfo" of Lorlys El ton Rogers. Mrs. RogorB paused tho death of her two children by giving them blchlorldo of mercury. Sho is in Lebanon hospital Buffering from tho effects of tho Biuna drug and could not bo romoved, although a bench warrant was issued for her nrrost. 300 OF 6,000 SURVIVE FIGHT Of Inhabitants of Pllkallen, East Prus sia, Only Women, Children and Aged Are Left Alive. London, Fob. 1. A Router dlBpatch from Potrograd Bays: t "Tho Russians occupied PUkallon (Eaat Prussia) after u day's sholllng. Tho garrison Buffered heavily beforo retiring. Of tho population of 0,000 only 300 women and children and aged persona remained." Ludwlg Goes to the Front. Amsterdam, Jan. 30. King Ludwlg, accompanied by Gen. Baron von Kres BeiiBtoln, tho Bavarian war minister, loft on Thursday on a two weeks visit to tho Bavarian troops on tho western war front, Tried to Assassinate King. London, England, Jan. 30. An Ex clmngo Telegraph dlspotch from Co penhagen gives a roport that an at tempt was mado several days ago to assassinate H King Constantino of Greece at PatraB. KAISER OBJECTS TO MOpiLIZA TION PLANS, IT IS SAID. Germany May Send Ultimatum to Rome Turks Remove Vice-Governor Who Violated Consulate. Chlusso, Switzerland, Jan. 29. Aus tria and Germany nro growing dally moro alarmed nt Italian wnr prepara tions and aro augmenting their troops along tho Italian frontier. Germany especially Is pouring regi ments from Bavaria Into Tyrol, It be ing understood that tho German gen oral staff is controlling all tho Aus trian military plans. Prlnco von Uuolow, German ambas sador to Rome, speaking to Itallnn statesmen, made It clear that if arma ments and tho concentration of troops on tho Austrian boundaries contin ued, tho central empires would bo obliged to denounce tho treaty of the trlplo alliance and send an ultimatum to Italy demanding guarantees for tho malntcrmnco of strict neutrality with tho alternatlvo of bolng considered an enemy. That Italy Is prepared to "act quick ly" is not doubted by tho Italian press. Sho has now an army of 2,000, 000 men under arms. Half of thoso aro at training camps. Tho other half has been distributed among strategic garrison posts, with heavy concentra tions at tho extremes of tho line Milan and Vonlco. Dccombor 5 it waa announced in Rome that thoro wcro three Gorman army corps in nil 130,000 men In Trentlno and that theso had, replaced tho Italian-speaking Austrian levies, which had boon sent against tho Rus sians in Gallcla. FLASHES OFF THE WIRE oooooooooooooooooooooo Prlnco Albert, Sask., Jan. 28. Tho thennomotor hero Wednosday regis tered 42 degrees below zero, tho cold est of tho winter. Potrograd, Jan. 28. Tho Persian city of Tabriz, now hold by tho Turks, is bolng rupldly fortlflod by Gorman onglncors, according to a dispatch from Tlflls. Washington, Jan. 28. Senator JamcB Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, who had boon ordered to tako a comploto rest for ton days on account of an at tack of indigestion, was reported as not seriously ill. Manila, P. I., Jan. 28. Genoral Norlel, insurgent leader, and two aids convicted of tho murdor of a political ononay in 1912, woro hanged. London, Jan. 28. A sharp earth quake shock was recorded by tho sols mograph at tho West Dromwlch ob Borvatory. It was admitted that tho seat of tho disturbance was some whero In Turkey or Greeco. CONGRATULATES THE KAISER President Extends Cordial Felicita tions to German Emperor on Hlo Birthday Anniversary. Washington, Jan. 29. President Wilson on Wodncsdny sont the follow ing congratulatory cablogram to Em peror William of Germany on his fifty sixth birthday: "In bohalf of tho government and peoplo of tho United States, I havo tho ploasuro to extend to your majesty cordial felicitations on tho anniver sary of your birth as well as my own good wishes for your welfare. "WOODROW WILSON." Amsterdam, Jan. 29. Emporor Wil liam arrived at Thlolt on Wednosday and a great forward movement by tho Gorman troops in Flanders has bo gun. PasBChendaalo was occupied by tho Gormans. Berlin, Jan. 29 (by wireless). Au Imperial decreo of nmnesty for per sons undergoing punishment for minor offenses against military law was is sued hero upon tho occasion of tho leader's fifty-sixth birthday. SHIP MEASURE IS ADOPTED Senate Passes Fletcher Bill Providing for Organization of a Shipping Organization. Washington, Jan. 28. By a strict party voto, tho sonato commorco com mltteo on Tuesday adopted a favorablo roport on tho Flotchor substitute for tho ship purchaso bill and by tho samo voto rejected tho Lodgo nmondmont, which declares that no lntoraod ships of belligerents shall bo purchased. Tho Flotchor substitute provides for tho organization of a shipping corporation under tho laws of tho District of Co lumbia, tho United States to subscrlbo through a shipping board for nt least 51 per cent of tho stock. Tho ship ping board is to coiiBlst or tho secre taries of commorco and tho treasury, with throo additional mombers, Alabama Bank In Trouble. Birmingham, Ala., Fob. 1. Tho Jof forson County Savings bank, with $1, 035,021 deposits, Is In tho hands of tho stato banking department. Slow pa por cauBod the suspension, according to tho directors. 8on of Ex-President Captured. Paris, Feb. 1. Captain Claude Cuslmlr Porlor, son of a former presi dent of Franco, has been made a pris oner by General von Kluck's army, near Solssons, according to dispatches received hero. EXPRESSES REGRET FOR HAVING TO RETURN IMMIGRATION MEASURE UNSIGNED. SAYS IT IS TOO RADICAL Chief Executive AssertB That Literacy Test and Restrictions Which Accom pany It Constitute Radical Change In Policy of the Nation. Washington, Jan. 30. Tho Immigra tion bill was vetoed on Thursday by President Wilson In the following mes sage to congress: "It Is with unaffected regret that I find myself constrained by clear con viction to roturn this bill without my signature. Not only do I feel it to bo a very serious matter to excrclso tho power of veto In nny case, because It involves opposing tho slnglo Judgment of tho president to tho Judgment of tho majority of both houses of the congress, a stop which no man who realizes his own liability to error can tako without great hesitation, but also because this particular bill is in -so many important respects admirable, well conceived and desirable Its en actment Into law would undoubtedly enhance tho efficiency and lmprovo tho methods of handling tho important branch of tho public service to which it relates, but candor and a sense of L amy witn rcgaru to tno responsiuimy bo clearly Imposed upon mo by the Constitution in matters of legislation leaves mo no cholco but to dis sent. "In two particulars of vital conse quenco this bill embodies a radical de parture from tho traditional and long established policy of this country, a policy in which our peoplo have con ceived tho very charactor of their gov ernment to bo expressed, tho very mis sion and spirit of tho nation in respect of its relations to tho peoples of tho world outsldo their borders. It seeks to all but closo entirely tho gates of asylums which always havo been open to thoso who could find nowhero elso tho right and opportunity of constitu tional agitation for what they con ceived to bo the natural and innllena- ablo rights of man; and it excludes thoso to whom tho opportunity of elo mentnry education has been denied, without regard to their character, their purposes, or their natural ca pacity. "Restrictions llko theso, adopted earlier in our history as a nation, would havo very materially altered tho course and cooled tho humane ardors of our politics. Tho right of political asylum has brought to thlB country many a man of noblo character and elovated purpose who was marked as an outlaw in his own less fortunate land, and who has yet bocomo an orna ment to our citizenship and to our public councils. It is Impossible for mo to assent to It In tho form In which It Is hero passed. "Tho literacy teat and tho tests and restrictions which accompany it con stitute an oven moro radical chango in tho policy of tho nation. Hlthorto wo havo generously kopt our doors open to all who aro not unfitted by reason of disease or incapacity for self-support or Buch personal records and ante cedents ns woro likely to mako them a monaco to our peace and order or to tho wholosomo and offonslvo relation ships of life. In this bill it is proposed to turn away from tests of charactor and of quality and Imposo testB which oxcludo and restrict; for tho now tests hero embodied aro not tests of quality or of character or of personal fitness, out tests of opportunity. "If tho people of this country havo made up their minds to limit tho num ber of immigrants by arbitrary tests and so rovorBo tho policy of all tho generations of Americans that havo gono beforo them, it is their right to do so. I am tholr servant and havo no Hcen8o to stand In thoir way. But I do not bollovo that they havo. I re spectfully submit that no ono pan quote their mandate to that effect. Has any political party over avowed a policy, or restriction In this funda mental matter, gono to tho country on It and beon commissioned to oontrol this legislation? Docs this bill rest upon the conscious and universal as sent and desire of tho American peo ple? I doubt It. It Is bocauso I doubt It that I mako bold to dlssont rrom it. I nm willing to abldo by the verdict, but not until It has boon rendered. Let the platrorms of parties speak out upon this policy and the people pronounce tholr wish. Tho matter Is tpo funda mental to bo settled othorwlse. "I havo no prldo of opinion In this question. I nm not foolish onough to proross to know tho wishes and Ideals of America hotter than tho body of her chosen representatives know them. I only wnut Instructions direct from thoso whoso fortunes, with ours and all men's, aro Involved. (Signed) "WOODROW WILSON." Gen. Pau to Command Russ. Borlln, via wireless to Sayvlllo, L. I., Fob. 1, Dispatches from Geneva, tho press bureau assorted, Btato that Gon. Paul Pau, Franco's ono-armed hero, is enrouto to Warsaw to tako command of ono or tho Russian armies. Germany Arrests British Colonials. Berlin Fob. 1. A dispatch reach ing hero from Hamburg says that all British colonials in that city, with tho exception for tho timo bolng of tho Australians, havo been arrested and Interned In Ruhloben. ATTORNEY GENERAL OUSTS HAR RY THAW'S NEMESIS. Action Believed to Have Disposed of One of Greatest Obstacles to Slayer's Freedom. New York, Jan. 28. W. T. Jerome, for nearly nlno years know an Harry Kendall Thaw's nemesis, was removed on Tuesday from his position of spe cial deputy attorney general of tho stato of Now York by Attorney Gen cinl Woodbury, and tit once ceased his light to havo Thaw sent back to Mat teawnn lnsano asylum. Tho reasons that actuated Attorney General Woodbury aro embodied In tho telegram of dismissal which he sent to Jerome. Tho telegram In part reads: "You and Mr. Kennedy ought to be congratulated upon tho successful cul mination of your efforts for tho return of Harry K. Thaw to the rightful Juris diction of the courts of this state. Tho case will now bo handled by tho attorney general's ofllco. I thank you for your services. "EGBURT E. WOODBURY." Thus ends tho long prosecution of Thaw by Jerome And thus ono of tho greatest obstacles between Thaw and freedom Is removed. Thaw's friends aro openly predicting that Thaw's chancei for victory In his coming fight aro now moro than bright. Jerome has been connected with tho case sinco tho night tho Pittsburgh millionaire shot and killed Stanford White, nine years ugo next June. Through both sensational trials, through three habeas corpus hearings, and through every recourse to law, old and new, Jdromo raced with Thaw, and always barred tho gate. After 18 months of waiting, tho unrolentlng Jcromo fetched Thaw back to New York the final chapter in the most remarkablo prosecution In criminal annals. BOERS ARE STILL FIGHTING Rebels Putting Up Stiff Resistance, Despite Official Announcement Up rising Had Been Crushed. Pretoria, South Africa, Jan. 28. Despite tho recent ofllclal announce ment that tho Boor uprising in South Africa has been completely crushed, tho rebels in Bechuanaland are still putting up stiff resistance against overwhelming forces. It Is announced that In tho fight at Uplngton, on the AranJe river, on Sunday, six members of tho Union defense force were killed and 23 wounded. Tho rebels lost nine killed and many wounded. One hundred and twenty-five rebels, dressed In Gorman uniforms furnished by the governor of German Southwest Africa, wero captured. Commandant Stadler, tho rebol commander, who was wounded, has since died. AMNESTY GRANTED TO MANY Kaiser's Decree Sets Free Persons Un dergoing Punishment for Minor Of fenses Fifty-Sixth Birthday.. Berlin, Jan. 28 (by wireless). An Imperial decreo of amnesty for-persons undergoing punishment for minor offenses against military law was Is sued hero upon the occasion of the kaiser's fifty-sixth birthday. Impe rial clemency is thus extended to porsons undergoing disciplinary pun ishment inflicted by tho military com manders, to thoso upon whom fines have been Iovled and to those sen tenced to six months' or less by court martial. Tho decreo also sanctions tho annulment of Investigations against soldiers on active duty for transgressions and offenses against tho clyll law committed prior to the call to arms. READY TO PAY FOR CATTLE U. S. Government Now In Position to Reimburse Stock Owners for Animals Destroyed. Washington, Jan. 29. Tho depart ment of ngriculturo announced on Wednesday that It now Is la a position to reimburse stock owners whose cat tie were killed In tho fight against tho foot-and-mouth disease. President Wilson mado nvallablo $2,500,000 for uso In tho campaign by tho department when ho signed the urgent deficiency bill. TURKS .NEAR SUEZ CANAL One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Ottoman Troops Within Five Miles of the Waterway. Athens, Jan. 29. Tho advance guard or a Turkish army of 120,000 mon un der DJemal Pasha and a corps of Ger man officers Is within fivo miles of tho Suez canal, according to dispatches from Cairo on Wednesday. A Family Affair. Yonkors, N. Y., Fob. 1. In tho samo court on tho same day Paul Gil bert was sentenced for assault, his son, Frank, aged twolvo, was convict od of robbory, and anothor son, Wil liam, was convicted of truancy. Man Leaps to Death. Chicago, Fob. 1. Frank T. Craw ford, wealthy Yale graduuto and son-in-law of tho lato Luther Laflln Mills, killed himsoir by leaping from the third floor of his reslonco. Despondency caused by Illness caused act GERMANS SEND THREE BRITISH SHIPS TO BOTTOM. RAIDERS EASILY MAKE ESCAPE Was Same Vessel Which Sunk British Battleship Last September When 246 Drowned. I London. Tho toll taken by tho Ger man submarine U-21 in its raid In the Irish sea In tho vicinity of Liverpool still stands nt throo ships tho steamers Ben Cruachen, Linda Blancho and the Gilcoan, tho latter a small vessel. Tho crew of tho Kll coan has beon landed on tho Isle of Man by a coastwise steamer. In addition a German submarine also has torpedoed two British siteam ers in tho English channel near Havre tho Toko Maru and tho lcarla, Tho Irish sea raider easily made her escapo and shipping Interests, confident that sho has returned to her base, ordered a resumption of normal traffic. This under-water Emden Is tho samo vessel which last September torpedoed in tho North sea tho British cruiser Pathfinder,, with a loss of 246 lives and later destroyed two British steamers off Havre. In addition to tho threo-vessels sho is known to have sunk, at least five other steamers wero chaBod by her. Theso included tho steamer Graphic with 100 passengers, Ava, Kathleen and Edymlon. All theso vessels es caped in zigzag fllghL The Allen liner Scandinavian, from St. John, N. B January 22, for Liverpool, with 500 passengers on board, learned of tho raid of the U-21 and put into Queens town. After remaining in Queenstown for a short tlmo she proceeded for Liverpool. Struck While Stationary. A member of Uie crew of tho Brit ish steamer Tokomaru, which was sunk In the English channel supposed, ly by a submarine, has arrived in Lon don and thus describes tho disaster. "Tho officers and crew had Just fin. ished breakfast when' tho explosion occurred. Tho shin 'was virtually sta tionary, seeking a pilot The vessel tilted ovor immediately and soon had a heavy list. "The captain ordered the boats cut and in fifteen minutes everyone was away, but saved virtually nothing. The general opinion of the crew was that It had been torpedoed, but no sign of submarine was seen." Will Stay Till Enemy Quails. Berlin. "Wo will stay on hostile territory until tho enemy Is van quished or has collapsod," was the as sertion mado by Emperor William in personally cbnferrlng tho Iron cross on a German soldier, according to a report printed by a Cologne news pa per. U. S. Will Retain Rights. Washington, D. C. The United States government does not Intend to be drawn into any negotiation or discussion with foreign governments as to whether or not it has tho right to buy belligerent ships, until tho bill pending In the senate Is enacted Into law and there Is a decision as to whero tho purchases are to bo made. The Washington government, It may bo stated on the highest authorr Ity, confident of its rights under In ternational law, does not Intond to syrrendor Its right to bestow tho American flag on its own or private vessels, bought after tho outbreak of hostilities, if tho transaction is in ev ery sense proved to be of a bona fldo charactor. Kills Wife, Daughters and Self. New York. Armed with a maga zine rifle- equipped with an automatic silencer, Herman Auerbach, a wealthy real estato operator, who had become despondent because of finan cial reverses, shot and killed his wife and two daughters as they slept, and then, returning tq his own bod, killed himsoir. His son, Lester, a high school student, was the only mem ber or tho family left alive. Auer bach's wealth was estimated recently at nearly $1,000,000, but securities ho held are said to' have depreciated. Steamer Dacla Sails. Galveston, Tex. The steamship Dacla has departed from Galveston for Rottordam with 11,000 bales of cotton to bo transhlppod to Bremen. The Dacla cleared January 22. Its delay here Is yot unexplained and its agent and master said Uiey did not know why it was waiting. Tho Da da's cotton cargo is valued by tho ahippcrs at $800,000, or 16 cents a pound laid down in Bremen. Roberts Found Guilty. North Platte, Neb. Roy Roberts has boon found guilty of murdor In tho first degroo for tho killing of Vernon Connott August 2, and sen tenced to death. Tho verdict was reached by tho Jury after it had been out moro than twolvo hours. 30 Years for Killing Ma-ln-Law. SL Louis, Mo. Edward Ellebrecht, 23 years old, was convlctod of tho murdor of his mothor-In-law, Mrs. Joseph Farragher, last July and sen tenced to thirty years In Jail. OF INTERE8T TO ALL. Gothenburg was visited by a $10,000" flro list week. Grind Island is planning a $100,000 sower system. North Bond will havo a now $25,000' church In tho spring. The Jitney buss has already made Its appearance at Lincoln. ' Fire destroyed tho homo of Chas. Ash at Auburn last week. Omaha's new million dollar hotel will be opened February 25. Tho Erlcson Journal hns been mado tho official paper, of Wheeler county. Thoro wero 3,809,000 swine In No braska January 1, according to a fed oral roport. Congressman-elect Shallenberger will give a Wnshington'B birthday ad dress at Hastings college Hastings college and tho Kearney normal school aro arranging a series of debates for the near future. By a preferential primary for tho postmastershlp of Fremont, N. W. Smalls, veteran editor, -was chosen. Forty-two relics picked up on the battlefields of Europe aro now on dis play at an Omaha department store. The next meeting of the Nebraska farmers' congress will bo held ir Omaha November 30 and December 1 and 2, The first mothers' pension In Cass county has Just been awarded to Mrs. Stella Persinger, who has fivo young children. James W. Falrhead has been pro moted from tho position of assistant ' cashier of the First National bank at Syracuse, to cashier. Word has been received at Omaha from the Pasteur Institute at Chicago that tho dog which bit sovoral peoplo was Infected with rabies. Robert I. Elliott, former deputy stato superintendent, has taken up his duties In tho mathematics department of the Kearney normal school. The Falrbury Baseball association has consummated a deal whereby they become owners of the Superior fran chise in the Nebraska Stato league. Over fifteen hundred sacks of ap ples wor given to visitors at the corn, and apple show at Lincoln by tho Central Fruit Growers' association. The Scottsbluffs beet sugar factory used 210,000 tons of beets Jast year." Tho amount paid tho farmers was $1,400,000. The season has Just closed. Rev. M. E. Lumbaa of Wilton Junc tion, la., has accepted a call to the First Presbyterian church at Dunbar and will take up his duties in two months. Governor Morehead and Douglas County Treasurer W. G. Ure will ad dress the county treasurers stato meeting at Hastings February 9 and 10. Money contributed by school chil dren for a Nebraska building at tho San Francisco exposition will be re turned to tho districts contributing tho money. The Dawes County Fair association has elected: President, William Don ohue; vice-president, William Chls holm; treasurer, Bon Loewenthal; sec-, retary, J. F. Lawrence. On account of ill health Miss Cath erine Butt, postmistress at Unadllla for nineteen years, hns resigned and a civil service examination will bo held February 20 to fill tho vacancy. That cement Is better building ma terial than other materials Is thp ob ject of the meeting of tho Nobraska Iowa Cement Users, which will bo held in Omaha the first week in March. Because ho failed to secure a new lease on his farm Chris Chrlstensen of Wlnslow, drank carbolic acid and died within a few minutes. He was 50 years old and leaves a wife and four children. Stato Auditor W. H. Smith has de clined to register $C,000 of bonds Is sued by the town of Kimball for water purposes because the issue was made under two conflicting sections of tho statute. At tho annual stockholders meeting of tho Farmers' elevator company of Silver Creek plans were made for tho erection of an elovator within a short time. Several thousand dollars havo been collected. "A bill to mako Nebraska a largo manufacturing center" Is tho title of a proposed law which will be presented In tho Nebraska legislature by Repre sentative by F. M. Broome, and which ' Is being promoted by tho Commercial club at Alliance. Companies A, B, C and D of tho Fourth Infantry, Nebraska National guard, and tho regimental band all located at Omaha will bo subjected to federal Inspection on March 2, 3, 4 and 5. Orders to that effect havo been Issued by General Hall. Under the direction of Mayor Inga ham of Hastings a committee of tho council hns begun Investigation look ing to dollar gas In Hastings and a re duction of tho price of electric cur rent for cooking purposes rrom 6 to V& cents por kilowatt hour. Stato Treasuror Hall has purchased tho bonds of two Nebraska school dis tricts in tho total sum of $40,000. Tho bonds bear 5 por cent The districts soiling tho bondB wero No. 33 of Platto county (Creston), and Nc. 20 of Fill moro (Exoter). Each district sold $20,000 worth. Miss Mabel Gould, a Kearney heir ess, nged 30, has been taken to tho hospital for lnsano at Hastings after having been Judged lnsano 'before tho sanity board. Miss Gould Is tho ownor or properties valued at $10,000 and heir to a portion or her father's estate valued nt $60,000. ; i