THE FRONTIER. PURMSIIKP KVKIIY TIIt'ltfUtAY By Tim KmiNTmn 1'hihtino Co. O'NKILTi, NKHHASK A. OVER THE STATE. Ci.ay county's Jail contains but on» prisoner. A t.oixiK of (liiii I'clhms has been or ganized at l>odgo. Volts is again in possession of two daily newspapers. Vai.i.ky county has organized a coun ty relief association. Ci.ay Ckntkk has but two families that hare ashed for aid. Fiikmostriim now get their mail through the new postofllcc. Pai.myiia proposes to send out a min strel troup in tlio near future. Frank IIhown was found frozen to death near Wost I.incoln lust woeh. a A CRMKTKHY ussoclution bus been formed at Tryou, Mcl’herson county. Tuk Wosau Creamery company will opvna plant there for business about March 1. Ahiianokmknts are being perfected in Clay county for a grand circular wolf hunt Jacob Hoi./.wktii of Sutton wan be fore the comminnionorn of insanity and adjudged insane. Tiik creamery at Dixon has paid out over St.ooo to itn farmer patrons in the course of the past tlva months. Volt trying to prevent the arrest of n tctigli at Wakefield, Kay Cook received a broken arm and bruised head. Tiik Madison county teacher’s insti tute will be held at Norfolk, beginning June 10, and continuing two weeks. Roiuiins of l.aneaster has introduced a bill which will remove the illegality Of marriugo of a white person with u negro. Bloomfield citizens are talking su gar beet culture and will shortly decide Whether or not to try a crop the com ing season. Sunday schools and other schools in Bastings have been suspended tempor arily on account of the prevulance of acarlet fever. John Mockkniiaiit, a bell boy at the Lincoln hotel in Lincoln, was caught in the elevator, receiving injuries that Bay prove fatal. Citixkns of Verdon gave a bean soup and corn bread dinner. The afTuir was largely attended by tho pioneers of Richardson county. Miss Ukhtiia Davis of Hebron has accepted the position of instructor on the violin at the Nebraska institute for the blind at Nebraska City. Mns. II. Thompson of McCook, by nlstake, swallowed some carbolic acid on Tuesday of last week, but the prompt attention of a physician relieved her from her suffering. liuy home-made goods and build up home industries, is a good policy: Far rell’ Fire Extinguisher, made by Far rell A Co., Omaha; Morse-Coe boots and ahocs for men, women and children. An overdose of nltrato of potash Caused Mra W. J. Unangst of lllue Springs a serious hour's conflict with cramps, cold extremities and other symptoms of approaching dissolution. Tux county board of Knox county has ordered a poll tax assessed against all Indians who vote. This action was taken in order that the Indians should he compelled to aid in keeping up the high ways The February term of the district court of Lincoln county convened last week. The docket contains about 330 Cases. Hard times is the cause of many of the, they being foreclosures of real estate mortgages A subscription paper is now going the rouuds iu Ueliwood for tho pur pose of raising enough money to see if a flowing well can be found in the Sublto square. The subscription list I being liberally signed. ’ Th* 13-months-old son of Mr. and Mra A. O. Marr of Tecumseh was bad ly scalded about the head, breast and arms by pulling a teakettle of boiling water off the stove onto Itself. It will probably recover but will be badly dis figured. Mrs. Alice Minnick was last week admitted to practice at the bar of Gage county aa attorney ou motion of Judge A. Hardy. Mrs. Minnick was formerly a practicing attorney at Lincoln, but haa not yet hitherto been admitted to the Gage county bar. Attorney General Churchill has been requested by the people of llolt county to have either General John C. Cowin jr T. J. Mahoney of Omaha Artist him in the prosecution of the cases ct the men charged with the Burdw of liarrett Scott. Bosmnbaum Bros., tho well known grain commission merchants of Chicago, sent a $S0 contribution to Oberfelder & Co., of Sidney to the free seed fund of Cheyenne county. In this manner it la expected that many of the destitute termers will be relieved. lulu Stafford Is in the city jail at Lincoln waiting an opportunity to go to the Milford home. She is a 21-ycar old grass widow and is in a delicate condition, said to be the result of undue ■ intimacy with a street car conductor ; named William Murtindale. Tub authorities of lieatrico will make |i. Ml effort to clear the city of disreputa ble houses, and lively times may result, i ' It is said that tho names of all the male visitors to the houses for the past three months have been secured, and they Will be called as witnesses. Department Commander Church Bowk of the Grand Army of the Re || public, has sent a letter to Louis Klop6ch, proprietor of the Christian Herald of New York, acknowledging his munificent gift of (1,000, to be used for relief purposes among the Grand Army of the Republic destitute. £■ ‘ Charles Kiim’linger of Hay Springs was brought in to South Omaha to answer in Judge Levy's court to a charge preferred by Miss Susie Moran of Douglas county in which she alleges that Jvipplinger is the father of her illegitimate child, which was born on , January 19. ii|s, William Homershaum, an old resi dent near Odell, called at the bank of Odell and' while there asked to see a Bote held against him for collection. While it was on the counter before him he seized it and tore it in pieces, saying that it was now settled. He will be ar rested if the amount is not made good at once. y%, . . * Tiikhk is a conflict at liny Spring* among county ofllcera and banker* an to the deposit of tho county funds. The bank* have turned over to the county comrnlsssloner* S1*,’,000 head on wheat, which ia cheaper than ,'i0 cent corn, which Is the usual price at the ranch. A i.ahok do# appeared on the street in Ashlund showing signs of being mad. Jim Jardinc got a gun and took after him, following him over a largo por tion of the town. As the animal trav eled he snapped at every dog and per son that came any way near him. Ha was followed to the slaughter house of lou Middleton, where he bit four hogs, at which place he wus dispatched. A Lincoln dispatch says: There will bo a report from the house committee appointed to investigate the manage ment of the roliuf commission. This report will probably show that the blame for piling up trainloads of sup plies at Lincoln while people were furnishing in tho western counties should bo divided between Secretary Luddcn and the railroad companies. Thk mortgage record for January shows: Farm mortgages filed, 58, $40, 095.53; released, 58, $40,780.20; city, 10, $9,430.39; released, 12, $9,085.50. In January, 1994, the number filed was one less than 1895, and released the same, on farm property. The amount in 1894 fo; the samo month was $9,000 greater and the amount rclcused $5,000. In tho month of January, 1894, there were were 188 chattel mortgages filed and this year only eighty-nine. Tiik eleventh annual encampment of the Nebraska division. Sons of Vet erans, will convene in Fremont Tues days, February 19. The program for the occasion is as follows: Tuesday— lleception with program. Open to the patriotic societies, Grand Army of the llcpublic, Women’s Uelief corps, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Kepublic, and Daughters of Veterans. Wednes day—Exemplification of new ritual and camp fire. To members only. Thurs day—Installation of new officers, ban quet. John Bui.okb, a single man of per haps thirty-five, was found dead from suicide on his farm ten miles south of Irenton. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that he came to his death by his own hand. Evidence disclosed that he placed the rifle on the floor by the bed and leading over it with the muz zle over his heart he pulled the trigger. The ball entered the heart and passed through the body and up through the root. Ho had money in the bank and no particular reason can be given for his action. Olney Stephens of Stanton county was found frozen to death. He was aged about 21 years, a son of II. 11. Stephens, residing one and half miles northwest of Stanton, llis brother, while on his way to Sunday school, found the body about half way’ between home and Stanton. Olney had been spending the evening in town with his brother, William Stephens, and two friends. When they separated about midnight he decided to stop in the pho tograph gallery of Henry Milenz and not go home. That was the last seen of him alive by anyone. A wei.i, known Gage county farmer said in discussing the oleo bills intro duced in the legislature, that he for one did not want to see any legislation except in the line of protection from fraud. If the product of the olea fac tories was through legislation com pelled to compete with butter in its true name, no objection could be made to it, but at present there is nothing to prevent it being put on* the tables of hotels and restaurants as butte. What he wants is a law compelling the pro prietors of such places to exhibit placards noting the fact that oleo was put on the tables. Mr. Davies of Cass has introduced a bill to repeal the law giving the gov ernor authority to pardon two long time convicts on the fourth day of July each year. The bill is introduced in order that Benwell, the Cass county murderer, now in the penitentiary, may have no excuse for being pardoned. Of course, with this section repealed the governor would still have the authority to pardon any man in the penitentiary, whatever his offenso might be, but the champions of the bill in Cass county believe that its pas sage would be in the line of the ex pression of public sentiment. They I also know that the governor rarely ' pardons a long-time convict except on the 4th of July. Mrs. Hayward of Chadron came near meeting with a very serious accident j last week. While out sleigh riding her I horses became frightened, ran away ; and broke loose from the sleigh, pull ing Mrs. Hayward, who very pluclcily , hung to the lines, over the dashboard. She was dragged a short distance, but fortunately escaped with slight injury. At Greenwood Mr. Bowers' little boy 1 aged 2 years was scalded to death by falling into a bucket of hot water, lie lived about twelve hours. His mother had poured out a bucket of hot water to scrub with and stepped out a min ute. The little fellow in playing fell backwards into the water. LEGISLATIVE RECORD WHAT THE NEBRASKA SOLONS ARE DOING. Aome Kills raised and Olliers Yet Being Introduced—Arrangements Entered Into for a Joint Adjournment for • Week — A lie port on the Holdlers* and Sailors' Home at Orand Island—Bills Kecommended for Passage—Senator Teft's Knad and Bridge Bill—A Meas ure for I'ubllratlon of the Ueneral Laws — Miscellaneous Matters In Both Houses* The Nebraska Assembly. Hbnatk.—In the senate on the 4th the fol lowing report was presented: Your commit tee, appointed on Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home, beg leave to submit the following re port as to the treatment of the Inmates thereof: We visited the Institution on Feb^ ruary I, and. after viewing the buildings, property ami premises generally, made an extensive examination of the Inmates sep arate and apurt from the officers thereof, as to the manner In which said home has been conducted by the present management, also a* to the treatment accorded to the inmates by the present commandant ami the ofllcers under nim, and we find no cause for com plaint; hut from the testimony of numerous parties, consisting wholly of the inmutes. .lust, rcasdn for words of commendation and praise. And we find and report that the treatment and care of the Inmates by the present commandant and officers under him has i een ptoper and commendable and that the Inmates are contented and satisfied. Tin* report was approved by the sena e and ordered spread upon the records. Gatbbun, from the Joint committee on temporary ad lournmcip, reported that the committee JhkI agreed upon an adjournment of the two bouses from February 7 until February 11 at « o’clock. Tb«' new bills introduced and read for the first time this afternoon were as follows: Ily Teft. relating to the govern ment and construction of roads and bridges In counties having less than 100,0 0 Inhabi tants: by Crane, to pr hi bit book making and pool selling; by Moan, relating to the power of the district court toallow tempo rary alimony, suit money and maintenance totnewlfclu actions begun for divorce or separation; by Dope, to permit debtors to confess Judgment either In term time or va cation. In person or by attorney. -i urn’ wim iiiiuiiin uunj null uuj ill tho house on the 4th and a number of bills were recommended for passage and put to sleep In committee of the wholo. Jenkins secured In committee of the whole a recom mendation for passage for his hill, house roll No. 58. 'I'hls hill provides that Junuarv 1. February 2*2, the Fourth of July, the 2»tli of December ulid any day appointed by the governor of tills state or the president of the United States shall be considered legal holidays, and that when any of these days fall on Sunday the following Monday shall be observed. The following bills were rec ommended for passage: House roll No. 41, providing that any niemborof a lawfully organl/.ed volunteer lire company who shall be disabled In the line of duty shall receive not less than $.1 nor more than $10 a week during the period of such disability. House roll No. 5N, providing for legal holidays for school teachers House roll No. s2, by Lee, providing that when uny warrant Issued by any county township, city, town or school district is not paid for want of funds, the county treasurer shall take up such warrant and hold it for the benefit of the fund so Invested till the snme Is paid as provided by law. The house members of the joint commit tee on midst ssiou adjournment reported that they had arranged with the senate committee for a joint adjournment of the legislature from Thursday noon, February 7, until Thursday, February 14, at a o'clock p. m. The report of the committee was adopted. House roll No 92, the bill to levy a one-half mill tax on the property of the 1 state for additional buildings for the State university was discussed without definite a tlon. Senate.- Iu the senate on the 5th the anti-oleomargarine bill was reported for passage by such an overwhelming majority that Its final passage through the sennte with the sign over hotel tables and all other features unchanged, is admitted as certain by all. The oleomargarine people got In petitions from the commercial club and board of trade of Omaha asking that the bills be not passed, as they are calculated to destroy large Interest in this state. Hen at r McKesson favored the bill because he believed that uny man, if he wanted it, had a right to buy real butter that traced its origin to a cow and not to a hog. He be lle* ed the interests of the 150 men employed in the oleomargarine manufactory at bouth Omaha was not to be compared to the larger interests of the 100.UU0 women over the state who made butter from milk. The committee of the whole arose and reported the bill with the recommendation that it pass. The senate then went into committee or the whole. Pope In the chair, for the considera tion of senate tile 0. by Akers, the district Irrigation bill. The senate, after th>* com mit tee arose, adopted the report of the com mittee, asking leave to sit again. Among new bills introduced were the following: To amend sections 11. 17 and 18, and to repeal section 2*2, of chapter fit), laws of 18S7, enti tled, “An act to regulate railrouds, prevent discrimination, provide for a board of trans portation and define Its duties, and repeal urticles 5 and ti of chapter 7*2, entitled " Kail roads,'1 of the revised statutes, and ull acts and parts of acts in contlict herewith. To provide for an Insurance board, to dotino its powers and duties and to repeal all acts and parts of acts Inconsistent with this act. House.- In the house on the 5th house roll 9*2 was considered. This is the bill providing for uu additional levy of 4 mill for the ben efit of the state university. The entire moiniug was spent in discussion of the bill. It was finally amended so as to provide that the levy should not be mote than is suffi cient to raise $ti0, (XX) per annum, and not to exceed 4 mill, in the discretion of the state authorities. The report of the committee of the whole was adopted. Reports of com mittees were received as follows: To pass as amended house roll 101, button's bill re lating to state banks. To pass as amended house roll 2t!2, Ashby’s bill to maue does personal property. Amended to Indefinitely posti one Amendment lost and committee’s [ report adopted. To pass house roll U2. Monger s judlcla^dlstrlct bill. To pass house roll 273, Benedict’s cenetery bill. To pass house.roll o04. Burns’bill to create a park commission in towns of '..5,0.0 Inhabitants. To pass house roll 3«, Burnses’ bill relating to cities of the second class. To pass house roll 8 ', Perkins’ Russian this tle bill; to pass as amended house roll :i49, Ashby’s bill, to create a dairy commission: to pass house roll li , Mongers « 111, prohib iting written instructions to juries; topass committee substitute for house roll 2lo, Bar ry’s bill to provide for school district libra ries; topass as amended house r 11:101, Da vies road bill; to pass as amended house 1 roll *282, Harris’ bill to punish persons unlaw fully wearing the Grand Army button: to pass senate tiln 9. Caldwell’s dentristry bill. Among new bills Introduced were: To pro vide for the incorporation of accident com ftattles on the assessmetU plan, and to regu ate the same; to provide for the examina tion of their condition: to prevent the fraudulent practices by such companies; to provide a penalty for the violation of this act: relating to life insurance, to prevent discrimination and rebates and provide pen alties for violation thereof. —x m* st'iiaw I'UDinmircuQ consti tutional amendments, on the 6th, decided to Introduce in the senate fourteen amend ments to the constitution. The same amend ments will be submitted in the house. They have been prepared by Senator Watson of the senate committee on constitutional amendments, and Representative Davies, of the same committee in the house, and both gentlemen have availed themselves of the assistance and counsels of t h ef Justice Norval and Justices Dost and Harrison of the state supreme court. A great deal of care has been exercised in the preparation of these amendments, and it is f;elleved by all parties who have been interested in put ting t cm in shape ihat they will give the people of the state an opportunity of revis ing the constitution without resort ing to the extraordinary expense of a constitutional convention. There are fourteen amendments. Lehr from the committee on highways, roads and bridges, presented a favorable report on senate tile No. 74. This is known as Curtiss Turner’s good roads bill, and it provides for a highway commission to take sole and exclusive charge of all county roads in counties having more thau lOttudO‘inhab itants. The committee on miscellaneous cor]H>rations ieported favorably on senate 11 .e N . 72. a bill introduced by Caldwell, re quiring ail manufacturers or lard to stamp in plain letters and figures on each can, pall or vessel containing the product the exact proportion* of other Ingredient* therein Wnuon's hill. No. 214. to prevent insurance companies doing business In this state from ! making any agreement whereby open and ; free competition between said com pan lea , will l>o nreventnd or hindered, wan also! given a favorable report from the commit- j tee on miscellaneous corporations. I Hoi.hk.—In the house on the flth commit- j tees reported as follows: To puss house roll i 185, relating to county surveyors; to pass house roll 31ft, Brockman's bill to regulate the movements of steam engines; to pass, as amended, house roll 1.V5. A linn's car coupling j hill; to refer to the roads and bridges com- i tnlttee house roll 281, Sisson's public road j bill; to pass house roll 74, Sisson's bill pro viding penalty for assessors who fail:to value property according to the law; to pass house roll 3.7, Harrison’s hill relating to tMe. House roll Ui, the bill to make an ad ditional tax levy, was placed on Its passage, but lacking the requisite number a sharp tight resulted, and before the result of the vote was announced an amendment to the hill was tabled, and the speaker ruled that this also carried the bill to the table. Bills were Introduced in the house as follows: House roll 4ft3, by Burns of Dodge, to au thorize cities of the second class to con struct electric light and gas plants. House roll 481. by Tim me of Douglas, Irrigation bill. House roll 4K4, by House of Hall, p*o vldlng for insane persous. House roll 4*^6, by Crowe of Douglas, to amend section 682, code of civil prooeedure. Senate.—The senate on the 7th considered the bill granting a half-mill levy for the use of the state university. McKeeby took charge of the bill and briefly glanced over the arguments In favor of the measure. He closed by offering an amendment providing that the levy shull be so equalized that It will not produce more than #1)0,000 per an num. An amendment suggested by Camp bell and accepted by McKeeby, In lieu of his own amendment, provides that “when the levy is made It shall not exceed that fraction of a mill which, based upon the as sessed valuation of the property, shall be sufficient to raise the amount of 100,000 per annum. The committee agreed to recom mend the passage of the bill as amended. The senate then listened to the reading of a large number of reports from standing committees. The general file was Inert used by the addition of nearly twenty hills, while nearly as many were inuetinitcly postponed. Ten or tifteen new bills were introduced, In cluding the proposed amendments to the constitution offered by the committee. After recess the senate took up and passed four hills, as follows: Deducing the interest on state warrants from 7 to 5 per rent; amend ing the law reluting to county soldiers’ re lief commissions; amending the law which provides for the puyment of the salaries of county attorneys; the bill to prohibit the sale or use of oleomargarine unless the same be labeled as such. imm.sk. in me nouso on inn 0,0 to relieve the immediate necessities of the poor, and contributions of food and clothing have been made by generous t eoplo In almost ev ery state In the union. But all the people have not been supulied. Petitions for as sistance are pouring In everyday and not only myself, but the people’s representa tlves in the legislature, are dally In receipt of many complaints of the lack of proper aid from the commission. The press has seen fit to comment freely upon the matter and ask for reports of tlio progress of the commission in relieving distress. It Is necessary for humanity’s sake, and In order to maintain the credit of the state, that every hungry c tlzenbe fed. The com plaints from clamorous hundreds asking for food and clothing cannot he ignored. 1 would respectfully urge upon every member of the commission tne Importance of taking an active part in the work of re lieving the distress. The duties are too great to devolve upon one man, whatever his capacity may be. In my judgment, the personal and active service of at least three members of the commission Is required In Lincoln at this time iu order to dispose of the work satisfactorily. Reports should be made with frequency, showing the disposal of donations and especially setting forth the receipt and disbursement of all cash contributions. i It would certainly seem advisable that a meeting of all members of the commission, acting under the law now in effect, should be held at once. Prompt, systematic and effective work Is necessary, in iny judg ment, In order that the pressing needs of the deserving poor are at once supplied, and at the same time that such Investiga tion bo had us will prevent those who are unworthy from taking advantage of the dis tressed condition of the people. The active and energetic service of every member is needed In order to till the expectations of the people. I trust you will reply at once ami give this matter your prompt attention. Sincerely hoping that the commsssion will realize the urgency of my request, I am yours very truly. Silas A. Holcomb, (Signed.] Governor. Ninety-five Carloads of Relief Provisions m On Hand. Governor Holcomb directed Deputy Labor Commissioner Erion to make an investiga tion of the quantity of supplies now in the hands of the state relief commission at Lin coln and what has been sent out and where sent. His report, among other things, says: There is now on track of the various rail road companies centering in Lincoln sixty cars of supplies consigned to the relief com mission as follows: Burlington & Missouri—Fifteen cars mixed grain, eight cars mixed supplies. Missouri Pacific—One car containing 175 sacks of flour, six barrels of flour, one car containing twenty barrels of syrup, ten bar rels of sugar and a lot of mixed supplies, one car of wood, one car of lumber, and in addition several boxes of clothing. Eremont, Klkhorn& Missouri Valley—Two cars ear corn from Tipton, Iowa. Chicago, Hock Island & Pacific—Four cars coal now transferred to Union Pacific cars, eleven cars mixed supplies. Union Pacific—une car mixed suppl es from Portland, Ore.; one car mixed supplies from Dillon, Mont.; one car salt from New Orleans, sixteen cais syrup from Now Orleans, one car flour from Rosie, Idaho; one car flour from Blackfoot, Idaho; one car flour from Topeka. Kas. ;one car wheat from Kufus, Ore,; one car wheat from Grant,Ore.; one car wheat from Idaho Falls, Idaho; be sides four cars of coal shipped out today, transferred from the Hock Island. The Buckstatt warehouse at Sixth and L, where the commission has storage, contains a vast amount of supplies of various kinds. It would be very difficult to make even an approximate estimate of she supplies stored there. The space occupied with flour and meal in sacks is about 45x25, twelve feet high, allowing forty pounds of flour to the cubic foot there would be contained in the space named 270 tons, or thirteen and one half carloads of flour and meal. The men at the warehouse informed me that there was shipped out yesterday about sixty tons of flour. About the same amount of space, named above, is occupied with corn and wheat in sacks. There are also thirty-six barrels of coal from Pennsylvania, live cars of syrup from Louisiana, fifty barrels of Kraut and a large quantity of i oxes. barrels and Dales of clothing from which shipments are being made. There is also a large amount of meat, bacon, fresh beef, boxes of crackers, b.ir rePj of salt, etc. Also a number of boxes and barrels containing mixed supplies ad dressed to private parties. T.ho entire amount of supplies on track and in the warehouse at Lincoln at present would reach about ninety-five car loads from three to four cars a day are being loaded out of the warehouse and from six to ten men handling the same. There are now six and one-half cars of syrup on the track, which is enough to supply the entire stale. It might tie a good plan to sell some of this syrup and use Uie proceeds In a way that would he of greater benetit, Vester day s shipments were one car each to Pali sade, °rec ey Center- Curtis and Bcnklc The receipts have fallen off very materi ally within the last few days. Tefft'a Good Roads BUI. One of the important bills introduced in the senate at the present session is the good roads bill offered by Senator Tefft of Cass county. By the provisions of this bill each county in the state having less than liv.OJ inhabitants, excepting portions occupied by cities and incorporated villages, is declared to be a separate and distinct road depart ment, and all road districts and the office of road overseer or supervisor heretofore ex isting in such counties are abolished! . .btTomcs n lllw ‘t will make a most radical change in all existing statutes ?hi?States th»tJ'ns ,rasHa 1,1 tlle front rank of the Skates that are endeavoring to solve the good roads problem It first provides that, the county board of each county shall have sole and exclusive power and authority to govern, manage, regulate, lease, establish vacate, alter, relocate, widen, narrow, im prove, pave, macadamize, construct, pur chase and repair a 1 p„: he roads and bridg es within the t oad department of the county Each county road department is divided into road districts, all under charge of the county surveyor. After the surveyor has reported upon the needs of each district the county board is directed to let contracts for the improvement and care of the roads. In order to provide funds for the road deDart ment the county board is directed to levy and collect In cash a tax „ot to exceeds mills on the dollar valuation of all real and personal property of the county. Jnu Ocean Steamer* Overdue. New York, Feb. 9.—The steamer La Gascogne has not yet been sighted. Seed Grain Uw Objectionable Broken, Bow dispatch: A mass was held in this city this afternoon to, aider the question of voting county 0n' under t he new law for the purpose «# 1 Ins seed an. feed. A^t least *5) wensTJ’^ feed. _w tendance and the discussion was unlmated. They severely crlMciser| provisions in the law which provide farmers paying for the seed at the r.tn, 10 per cent within one year and the h «i ruuiiin from 5 to 10 years at 7 per renii terest. This was regarded as a very ov., , ive experiment J'ho majority of ii,ls' present were not such as the law com!!** plates bencHtting. as they are able ton.; chase their own seed. They were in ner-, i of the opinion that interest on a $5o,(joo {*11 furtive years would cost the coumv n,’, than it would lose by letting the ground i idle for the season. The law would hai been much more acceptable to the maiorit* in the county had it been pas>ed as tir„t ,, troduced, by which the seed and feed m,! chased would have been a lien upon th farms sown. ** The convention decided to not petition fn. an election to vote the bonds, but tales, the question with the masses to take m» li action as they mi lit deem best. The m n eral opinion is that an election will be calit-.i at any rate, notwithstanding the fact that the law is not satisfactory. It Is very doni.i ful that the bonds will carry. Roads and Bridges. A bill introduced in the senate by Senator Tefft makes a radical change in the public road and bridge law of the state. This hill proposes to abolish the road supervisors and make the county surveyor the count? engineer. All road work is to be done under the supervision and according to p|!lRs made by him. All of his work is to lie first approved by the board of county commis. stoners. All work which amounts to ninre than $50 in value is to bo let to the lowest bidder. Instead of having four funds from which bridges and roads are built and repaired the bill provides that all these be bunched in one fund, to be known as the general road fi nd. Work to the amo nt of $10 may be done hy the county civil engineer without letting to bidders. Kuch county civil engineer shall prepare and keep a county road- plat, showing the roads and bridges of the county. Then-is provision for the salary which snail be paid to the county engineer. This is to be ftinij per year in counties with less than 5,00') pun. ulat ion. $800 to $1,000 in counties having /rum 5,000 to 1,00) populat ion and $1,500 in coun ties having more than 15,000. If enacted into a law it will go into effect January l, IKK), at which time the terms of the roudsu* pervisors now in office will expire. New Judicial Dlntrlct«. Mr. Schlckodanzof Howard has introduced a bill which proposes to make many impor tant changes in the judicial districts of the state. This bill places Gage and Jefferson counties in one district with one judge. Lancaster county is given one additional judge, ltichardson, i'awnee, Nemaha ami Johnson comprise one district with one judge. Hamilton, York and Seward com prise one district with one judge. Polk, Saunders and Butler comprise ono district with ono judge Hall. Howard, Ureelev Wheeler. Merrick, Loup, Valley and Uarhehl comprise one district with one judge. Daw son. Custer, Buffalo, Hooker, Grant, Thomas and Blaine comprise one district with one judge. All other districts remain us they are now. This is an iucrease of two district judges in the state. Pool Selling-' Senator Crane has introduced a bill that if it becomes a law will throw the business of pool selling open to the world or that part of it which may want to engage in it and draw the protecting circle of tne law’s sanc tion around pool sellers. This bill goes further than the one Introduced a few days since by tenator Smith, providing that pools mav be sold on the grounds of a racing asso ciation. The Crane bill wili make it impossi ble for any one to have a monopoly, but will let in any man wants to engage in the busi ness. _ MISSOURI MINES. Some Interesting Figures From the State Inspector's Report. Jefferson Citv, Ma, Feb. 6. —Tlio report of the state inspector of lead, zinc and iron mines, Francis H. La grave, has just been completed. He says there has been a falling off in the production of zinc ore, a material increase in that of lead, while iroa production has ceased altogether. Lead and zinc ore is produced in ten counties, and in all 563 shafts are operated. The number of tons of lead ore mined .during the year was 53,002, valued at $l,OsO,5fi8, and of zinc ore 86,150 tons, valued at 81,337,010, making a total for the two of 83,287,478. The average price ,per ton paid for zinc ore was 813, and for lead ore 837.48. There were 5,065 men employed during the year, of which 3,421 were miners. Seventeen miners were killed during the year, and twenty-nine non-fatal accidents occurred. The St. Joseph lead com pany, at Bonne Terre, is by far the largest producer of lead in the state, and probably the largest in the world. CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH. Wh»t a Mother Found When She Re turned Home From a Visit. Kansas City, Ma, Feb. 6.—Two little children were burned to death at their home in Sheffield at MO o’clock yesterday afternoon while their mother was visiting a neighbor They were Maggie Stitziel, aged 5 years, and Henry Stitziel, aged 3 years. The origin of the fire is »n‘ known, but it is supposed to have started in a defective flue. Henn.plo Canal M orkmen Sufferiiia* Princeton, I1L, Feb. 6.—On account of the intensely cold weather, all the men employed by the government on the Hennepin canal have been laid off for two weeks and those employed by the contractors have been greatlv reduced in numbers. A large part of the men are living in tents at consid erable distances from villages and much suffering is reported. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS NOTES. The threatened trouble between the Southern Pacific company and its locomotive engineers has been averted. The president has sent those nomi nations to the senate: Postmasters John Schyler, Hayes, Kan.; John W. Cox, Ellis, Kan. The lower house of the Arkansas legislature by a vote of 71 to 20 passed a bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and cigarette matter. Horace A. White, division superin tendent of the Chicago, Kock |s*an and Pacific railroad company, died a his home in Trenton, Mo. The withdrawals of gold from the New York sub-treasury Thursda amounted to $320,000, which leaves the gold reserve $41,743,130. At Vineyard Haven, Mass., an nj1" known lime schooner is. ashore'', three dead bodies lashed to the dec house and covered with ice. The big gingham mills of Walker ' Bothmond, located at Power - Lane and Frankfort Creek, Pa.. ",e totally destroyed by fire. The * ' was $70,000. ^ Acting Secretary Sims has appr°'\ thirteen cases of allotments of la in the Pawnee reservation, Oklahoi in iaccordance with the act of re ruary 28, 189L