THE FRONTIER^ PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Bfc Tn* Euoktis* Pbistino OO. \ Tkbr^a. sis OWEILL, « OVER THE if - stk(te. Axovikh paper. It Is announced, will •oo'i W started at Ilcmtngf&rd. A Voiy-rfr » Cnuumix Associa tion lias iiecn orifMflzed at Lyons. Tni'. Swift packing company has housed 1*0,000 tons of ice at Ashland. Tim "tote encampment of the Rons of Veterans will meet at Fremont on the liith. Tm ni'. were sixteen inmates of the Otoe county poor honse during the past yen') k ■ iNHiiiecrtoNs have gone forth in Schuyler to keep the saloons closed on Sunday. Many English sparrows are said to have frozen to death during the recent blizzard. Tux recent farmers institute in Uoono county was the most eucaessful one ever hcla^ A wii»i.KHAf.K firm has offered to sup ply the farmers of Custer county, with free sugar cane seed. As a result of the temperance revival at Albion eleven people liavo joined the Cloud Templars lodge^ Tiik Capital of the Nebraska City packing company has been increased from SHOO, 000 to 81,000,000. * Sknatou Ma^dkhaon, as soon as con gress adjourns, will return to Nebras ka, engaging In the law business at Omaha. Tiik building owned by Mat Linden, a tank maker at Shelby, was .totally destroyed by fire. There was some in surance about people nave oeen conven ed at Milford as the result of revival meetings conducted by llev. A. li. Arrington. In a difficulty on the river bottoms In Hurt county, J. P, lllann *shot and killed Bobert Phillips. The murderer made his eseape. Kkva Paha county had two carloads of aid last week, one from the Btate Relief commission and one from Chor ea ty. lows. vn. If. Haywooo of Chraad Island wee wij layered by being klekidby a ». One rib was fractured and ale ,»aria wan brakes. Ena-cattle stealing esses against the ® 'doth walls of Kaos eouaty have bees ipokplacd ha tease the prosecution did g- wah hatters it possible to saaers eosvie Samuxi. Stkpiirns, a veteran of the war* who formerly lived at McCook, died st the soldier's home in his seven ty-Seventh year, lie was a member of company A, Illinois infantry. Waits Mrs. Laura C. Simmons of Arapahoe was preparing some medicine containing turpentine on a hot stovo the mass suddenly ignited and was thrown over one of her hands, fairly cooking the flesh. Tan town of Pierce is to have an opera house. A handsome two-etory brick ballding Is in anticipation. The enterprise is being pushed by the busi nee* men of that town, and will cer tainly be a success. k . C. Worlxy of Bassett wi down an old house near one day recently when the Wtf1 gave way, pinning him to the grotfjptiteah ing his upper jaw and ipMi The wound ls serious and he wil die. ^ . , . i Srnatob Strwart, the on member of the Colorado legisl tended an invitation to Dr. __ who .occupies a similar poafjlMi With the Nebraska lawmakers, tovtellhlm* in Denver, and the doctok acemstod ttC invitation, ' Tnd relief ooramitt* of Shermnaeoan* ‘ ty complains that while therO*KMf'«M| of syrnp on track in Lincoln data# MM good, many famittanlStflit, iewwigcfer,;.. . in sdstibe ter kcr» hleAre Tbatastamr near ending km ilia ant ' "bSS _Ml Aa ftwatf hn' terribly burned about the and arms. The immediate of othfp extinguished the fli farm house on • the farm 1 to the heirs of I)am^ five miles south hg Mr. O’CmuNOi ‘ An,., ‘ AU f, the 10-year-i i Lovell of that city, \v‘ way to the fire was thrown hone and sustained a fractu isl and was severely inju State banking board turfe of the Bank of Superb wt Superior. State Bank _ HfcGrew telegraphed the boards -that a temporary receiver be The bank i# owned by JSrigga, with A. J. Briggs easi capital Stock, paid up, is giv< .000.' t‘T■ ■■ ■ ■■ Uro Gums, who was nearly frozen' ’ J® two weeks ago by becoming . loat' between Alliance and Ogalalla, bad seren toes amputated and will •survive with no further losa He was •S lost for fire days in the sandhill •eonntrX| and when found was uncon . (Scions. , It was first supposed that if he lived at all both legs must be amputa ted, but skilful care has brought him through as stated. S. Kurpgewkit, a young man living ■ear Madison, accidentally got his •R right hand caught in the cog - wheels of a horse power the other | evening and injured it to such an ex - tent that it was found necessary to am putate the entire thumb and part of the second finger. C V. PsciU-^SZhler of tth-TreBlon bank, arrested last, week by ; *tefels Confel on a warrant issued by ^County Judge Taylor. The complaint charged keck with forcing balances in the amonota of three different parties and making fraudulent entries in the , . hank book, and was sworn to and filed -.by County Attorney Blackiedge. Title governor has appointed John H. Powers of Ilithcock to be deputy labor somralaaioner. and the appointment takes effect March 1&. Tine G-yenr-old non of Mr. Campbell of Harrisburg was lost during the bli/. zard and all the people In town turned out to hunt for him. While the search was In progress the boy reaheed the steps of his father's house and fell ex hausted on the porch, lie was badly frost bitten, but will recover without sustaining any permanent Injury. Ki.kvkn carloads of wood, corn hay, flour, wheat and clothing were shipped from Adams last week to Keith, bin coin, Frontier and Gosper counties, do nated by the people of Adams and sur rounding country. The llev. James (1. Ntannard accompanied them to their destination, where he will personally oversee the distribution of the goods. Tub 3-year-old son of Joe Bowers, who formerly resided in Ashland, but recently near (ilenwood, fell into a bucket of boiling water and was scalded to death. The mother was using the water in scrubbing the floor, and had stepped out for a moment, when the child in its play backed up and sat down into the bucket and was unable to help Itself out. Tuk plat of the survey made by the United Htates of the north boundary of Nebraska has been received ut the land commissioner’s ofllcc. This lino was ro-estublished by Joseph Jenkins, the government survoyor, in 18113 and 1801. The survey went west from where the north line of the state crossed the Nio brara river. The entire line is a frac tion over 081 miles long. Wai.tkh Tracy, who was convicted at the October term of the district court of Thayer county and sentenced for one year, will make application to Governor Holcomb, through his attor ney, M. II. Weiss, for pardou. The pe tition was signod by more than 1,800 residents of Thayer county. Tracy was convicted for attempting to do Bodily harm to E. W. Van Duyaa Frank Taylor began suit in district court of Adams county against the First Nationnl and the German Na tional banks of Hastings for 813,000 damages. At a chattel mortgage sale at which the banks sold various chat tels given by plaintiff to secure certain loans the defendants disposed of a lot of things owned by plaintiff that were hot mortgaged, so the plaintiff alleges. J uk city coimcil ot Grand Island at Its meeting last WNk accept a proposi tion tram tha bondsmen ot <1. W. VV cst, the defaslting elty tratntK who is now serving a tarm la tha penitentiary, to sattla all olaima for eity funds for tt,00a Tha amount Of the suits pend t*g In district aoart is ®4,K>o. .Seven of tha eight oousoUaaea ware present Hd all v«ied to aacapt tha proposition. It now appears that a Gage county citizen was one of the passengers on the ill-fated Elbe. Ills name was Henry llunzie, a resident ot the vicinity of Plymouth, Western Huge county. He had been on a visit to wealthy rela tives in Germany and was returning home with a friend, Gottlieb Bokle tnann. They took passage on the Elbe. Uunzie leaves a wife and several chil dren in Gage eounty. A 1’KTiTioN is out in Boone county calling for a special election to take advantage of the new seed grain bill, house roll No. 1. Other counties in that section are making the same start. The move, unfortunately, is meeting with indifference, and some opposition. hi caused by a feeling among the ■tarty farmers that they will be unable to oomply with the provisions of the low necessary to secure the grain. BtftKNK Moork, auditor of public ac cotntahas completed a statement show laothc condition of insurance business ! ilrVhe state for the year ending De ttiither 31, 1894, as follows: Bisks : written, $105,093,283.09; premiums paid. ; fS,MM^lT7.13; losses incurred, $1,142, ! *7*.40; losses paid, $1,114,378.45. Tho average loss ratio to premiums paid is *1.5' per cent. The average loss ratio to premiums paid on foreign business ieM.8 per pent, ^Tmi court room at Columbus was »Wed the other day to see and hear (toe examination of W. K. Lay, charged (With Insanity, it was shown that Lay rflstmh to be a, prophet and that he Ola!seed to have1 received revelations direct from the Almighty, once at Atlantic, la., several years ago, and 'several times more recently in Colum boa There were fifty-seven witnesses' for the defense and twenty for the prosecution. The commission reported Ley morally insane but not a fit. sub Jeetlor the insane asylum. In peveral factories for which Chad !«■ has been laboring for the past six non!hi are now a thing of certainty. The eaterprisdh consist of a beet sugar taetpey with a capacity of 250 tons of heels, chicory factory, glucose and starch factory, the total outlav of whtah. will be over $1,000,000, thebonuB of 10,000 acres of land and $50, - all of which has been Ttvb, citizens committee depu A. C. Putnam and J. S. Bomiue, two of the main promoters pf tha en to go to Chicago and finish the _ . . ,last report of the Urand Island Oowievb' home Dr. J. Janss says: “One •I/ttp isost, if not the most, perplexing QMMl^s in the management of the Wgw home is undoubtedly the jfWril'g habit' of some of the inmates. Who have thus lost control of Tires are to be pitied, and are as If not more, in need of an insti MttW of this kind as those not so MWim* I believe that this home ah—MI follow the example of others, Ml', offer them the Keeley cure. Through the influence of General Averill.I am in possession of the 'for mulae used in some of the national homes, where this treatment is most effectually administered. Whereas it does not cure, L e., heal the bad effects which liquor brought upon them, still it temporarily relieves their craving for it, and once more gives them a chance to regain their manhood.” Andrew Sahcelson, a well-to-do farmer of Oakland, who has been af flicted for some time with epilepsey, was found dead in his bed the other morning by his two young daughters, who went to call him to breakfast He was found with his face buried in his pillow, and it is thought he suffocated during an attack of his trouble \ The Water and Light company of ■ Nebraska City has commenced suit against the city for 16,000, which, it al lege^. is past due for hydrant rental. The C'ty in turn claims that the water I company has failed to fulfill its eon- ' tract jtd that the amount due ia much 1 leaa tV» that amount rV ■ ■ i-j.-m_ i. HELP FOR NEBRASKA CONNECTICUT OFFERS A $3,000 DONATION. Got. Holcomb Returns Thanks, Hot De clines to Accept the Money—Depnty Labor Commissioner Erlon Makes In vestigation of Amount of Supplies In the Hands of the Ktate Relief Commis sion—Objection Urged to the Seed Grain Law—A Record of Proceedings In the Legislature. • Governor Holcomb Replies to Connecti cut’s Generous Offer. The following Is the letter sent by Govern or Holcomb In reply to the offer of aid from the stato of Connecticut: Lincoln, Nob., Feb. P, 1889.—lion. Thomas L. Parker, House of Representatives, Hart ford, Conn.—My Dc»ar Sir: Permit mo to ac knowledge receipt of yours of the Gth Inst. Informing me of the resolution now before the committee on appropriations, of which you are secretary, proposing to appropriate $5,(.00 front your state treasury for the relief of the distressed In the drouth-stricken por tions of western Nebraska. I beg leave to say that 1 thoroughly appreciate the gener ous Impulse prompting this proposed dona tion. Our reverses are onlv temporary and are confined to a portion or the state, and while our people are highly gratified at this evi dence of your friendly Interest our misfor tunes have not assumed such proportions as would render It proper to accept aid impos ing a burden on tho taxpayers of other states. It Is true that in portions of Nebras ka, on account of a most severe and unpre cedented drouth, a large number of worthy people, through no fault of their own, have been reduced t» a state requiring assistance from others more fortunate until they can again sow and reap. voluntary contributions donated by the generous people from all over the country are being thankfully received by the state relief commission. With these contrlbu t Ions so magnanimously given and the pro visions made by our state legislature the relief com miss ion will doubtless be able to provide the necessaries of life to our own deserving poor until another crop Is bar- j vested. Other state* have expressed tbelr | willingness to render assistance, but those proposals of stato appropriations have Inva riably been declined. The Nebraska state legislature has made an appropriation to meet tho present neces sities of the drouth sufferers ami has en acted a law providing for the bonding of counties in drouth-Btrlcken sections in or der to procure seed to sow and feed for teams used In cultivating the land during the coming crop season. Again thanking you for your expression of tho generous Interest of your committee, 1 am very truly yours, tbignea.l ml as A. Holcomb. Governor. Nebraska Boundary. Field notes of a survey of the north boun dary of the stato have been received by the land commissioner and ure now In posses sion of the state engineer, Alex Scblegel. These valuahlo documents comprise a record of a re-established survey made by Joseph II. Jenkins in the year 1893 and ap proved December 1894. Re-establishment was necessary because the old monuments were nearly all burnod off, stones had crum bled away, the pits U4 led up and markings almost obliterated. Urand Island Republican; Irrigation would make bountiful crops absolutely cer tain In all districts in Nobraska where irri gation Is practicable, and there are few localities where irrigation is not practicable by one method or another. Mr. 8'chlegel believes the boundary line is now one of the best marked In the United States. Half-mile monuments have been added in the now survey, in addition to the mile markings. The half-mile posts are of Sioux Falls granite, six feet long, eight inch es square, set three feet in the ground. The mile stones are of the same material, seven feet long, ten inches square, set three and one-half feet in the ground. Mile monuments west of the initial point, at the Keya Paha river, are marked on the west face with the number of miles from the Ini tial point, on the north face "H. 1).,” and the south face bears the letter “N,” standing for Nebraska. Those east of the initial point are the same with the exception that they bear the nnmber of miles east from that point. The survey consists of the re-establish ment of the forty-third parallel from the Keya Paha river west to the northwest cor ner of the state and also the same parallel from the Keya Paha river east to the Mis souri river. The line Is281 miles long. The next survey of importance to Nebras ka will be the survey of the fractional town ships in Boyd county adjoining the state boundary line. These townships instead of being full six miles wide, will be about three miles in width. The Nebraska Assembly. Senate.—The senate was called to order on the 14th by the lieutenant governor at 3 o’clock. The journal of last Friday was read in part by the secretary and then the further reading was dispensed with on mo tion. Senator Dale offered a resolution for adjournment until tomorrow us a testimo nial of the senate's sympathy with Sneaker Richards ou the death of his child. The resolution was adopted and the Senate ad journed. House.—The house was called to order on itjhe 14th by Mr. Munger of Lancaster, who $y reason of being chairman of the judici dry committee is speaker pro tem. Harrison Of Drill moved that a commit.ee of three be appointed to draft resolutions of sympathy wiili Speaker and Mrs Richards. The mo tion prevailed and Harrison of Hall, Davis of i ass and Howard of Sarpy were named as committee. Cole of Hitchcock moved that as a mark of respect to speaker Richards the house adjourn until tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock. The motion was seconded by Chapman of Saline and the .house ad journed. cjenate. mo lain was a Held day in the senate for Senator Watson. Four of his bills were considered in committee of the whole, recommended for passage and ordered en grossed for third reading. The total num bo of bills thus far introduced is 290. The first bill taken un was senate tile No. 11, by Watson, a joint resolution submitting to the voters of Nebraska a proposition to call a convention tor the purpose of revising the constitution. The till was recommended for passage. Senate file No. 14, by W atson, was recommended for passage, it repeals the present law requiring railroad compa nies in this state to equip their cars with automatic couplers and substitutes the na tional law which is not to go into eff ct until on and after January I. IsiM. When senate tile No. 11, providing for a constitu tional convention, was up in committee of the whole Graham succeeded without any diillculty in making a radical amendment. The bill as it was introduced a thorizeu the governor to designate one weekly newspa per in each county in which the proclama tion submitting the proposition for a con vention should be printed. Graham's amendment provided that the newspapers should be designated by the secretary of state. When the committee reported the bill back to the senate Sprecher attempted to knock out Graham’s amendment. The senate adopted the report of thecommittee iut luuing Graham’s amendment. House.—In the house on the 15th the spe cial seed grain note bill, recommended for passage in committee of the whole, excited quite an animated discussion. The bill pro vides for a negotiable note to be given for seed grain, which shall become a lien on the crop. It must also be recorded with the county clerk, the same as a chattel mort gage, and. upon payment, mu 11 e released If the crop fails to satisfy the note the nia*- r is held for the residue. There was an attempt made to amend the measure by making the note cover grain for reedin' purposes' but It was voted down by a lar~e majority. The committee's substitute for house roll No. 210. by Barry, providin ' for the maintenance of public libraries in school districts, was reccom mended for pas •aige. House roll No. 132, by M unger, relat ing to the assessment of lands and lots by county commissioners sitting as boards of equalization, was recommended for passage. Kaup sent up a resolution, which was adopted on suspension of the rules, thank ing the donators of supplies for the needy from other states. Another resolution was referred to the committee on finance, ways and means, providing that the eight or ten bodies of union veterans now in the potter's field of the Hospital for the Insane at Lin com be removed to Wyufca cemetery, at a cost not to exceed $100. Ch ’pnien bad the following resolution on the desk, which, on suspension of the rules, was adopted; That all claims for supplies furnished the legis lature previous to February 9, 1*96, he *i»b mlttedtothe commit tee on accounts and ex rend I tu res of this house on or before Feb ruary 20, IMA, oriheBame be compelled to await action until the assembling of the ! Twenty-fifth session of the Nebraska state legislature. . llills Affecting Public Schools. Lincoln, Feb. J4.—A commtttee appointed ; by the St ate Teacher’s association, consist ing of Stale Superintendent of Public In struction H. R. Corbitt, C. G. Pearse, princi pal of the Beatrice schools, J. M. GUlan, secretary of the Omaha Board of Education .7. H. Baer, superintendent of public Instruc tion for Lam aster county, and II. K. Wolfe of Seward, held a meeting In Lincoln for the ! purpose of securing united action upon a number of the educational b lis now pend ing In the legislative committees. These bills were prepared by a committee ap pointed by the state Teachers* association. They are ns follows: House roll No. 74. providing for the equi table division of license moneys between t wo or more districts forming parts of a city or village. House roll No. 69, providing for the issu ance and registration of school district war rants and the payment of Interest on them at the rate of 6 per cent per annum. House roll No. 162 Is urgently recommend ed by the association. It provides for a state hoard of educat ion to consist of the state superintendent of public instruction, the chancellor of the state university, the principal of the state normal school, one city superintendent and ono county super intendent, the last i wo to be chosen by the first three. The members of this proposed hoard are to receive no compensation but their actual expenses. The bill direct-the board to prescribe minimum courses of study for common and biirh schools, to licence instructors, prescribe courses of study for county Institutes, c nduct state examinations and issue state cer ifientes. House roll No. iK'O contains several fea tures recommended by the stale teachers association, including those making the school year agree with the fiscal year, em powering hoards in cities and towns to em ploy teachers after April L changing the time of election of members of boards of education in cities making boards consist of an odd number of member*. House roll No. 188 strengthens the com pulsory attendance law and provides for an attendance officer House roll No. 388 provides for free atten dance at public high schools. Foreclosure of Mortgages. One of the most important bills yet pre sented at this session was Introduced on the 15th. This bill relates to the foreclosure of trust deeds and mortgages on real property. The bill proposes some radical changes that will attract general attention among all classes of people. The champions of the measure state that this bill simply gives to Nebraska the same law that exists in South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Kansas and Missouri. i his hill provides that in any conveyance of realestate by mortgage or trust deed it shall be lawful to provide for the sale of Huch real estate by the mortgagee, his agent or attorney, by the trustee named In such Instrument, or by any sheriff of the county in which the mortgaged premises are situ ated, upon default of any condition In such instrument. All such sales of realestate are to be made at the court bouse In the county wherein such « remises arc situated, at public auc tion, to the highest bidder for cash, after giving no less than thirty days’ notice of such sale; and the purchaser is required to immediately deposit with the clerk of the district court the amount of the bid. It is provided that whenever default shall be made in any condition in the mortgage deed the legal holder of the notes secured there by may tile In the office of the clerk of the district court a notice stating that default or breach has been made and containing an estimate of the probable amount of inter est, taxes, and costs likely to accrue during the year of stay, thereby notifying all par ties then having on record any interest in such real estate of the default or breach, and that the same will be sold as provided in saiu mortgage. He may also file a precipe in the office of the clerk aforesaid directing a copy of said notice to be delivered to the sheriff of said county, who shall serve the same upon all parties namod therein so having of record an Interest in said real estate, which copy shall be served upon such parties. When the notice of default shall be filed In the clerk’s office the clerk shall docket the same, but no other or further record in the cause need be made than docketing and filing the papers. Preparing for the State Fair. The board of managers of the state fair, In session at Omaha, made the following ap pointments: General superintendent, Austin Humph rey of Lincoln. Assistant general superintendent, I,»ouis Rheem of Omaha. Superintendent of gates, William R. Bowen of Omaha. j t hief of police, Louis Grebe of Omaha. Master of transportation, George V. llines of Omaha. Superintendent of agricultural hall, W. II. Harrison of Alda. Superintendent of art gallery, George W. Lininger of Omaha. Superintendent of forage, John H. Butler of Omaha. Superintendent of Amphitheater, F. H. Briggs of Omaha. Booth manager, Charles A. Dunham of Omaha. * Superintendent of manufacturer’s hall, E. M. Searle of Ogalalla. Superintendent of mercantile hall, Mr. Sheldon of Beatrice Superintendent of speed, W. H. Barstowof Crete. Class superintendents: , Class A—Horses—E. A. Stewart of Blair. Class B—Cattlo—B. H. Dunn of harvard, Class C—Sheep—J. Holcomb of Osceola. Cla.'-s D—Swine—W. h. Barger of Hebron. Class E—Poultry—C. M. Lewellyn of West ern. Class F—Farm Products—Captain J. W. Lee of Oxford. ClassG—Textile Fabrics—Mrs. A. H. Baker of Grand Island. Class H—Fine Arts—G. W. Lininger cf Omaha. ^Class I—Dairy—WI Hi am Sutton of Table Class J—Educational—Charles Royce of University Place. Class K—Bees and Honey—A. 'Whitcomb of Frifend. Class L—Mechanical Arts—E. L. Grinnell ; of Fort « alhoun. l Class M—Agricultural Implements—E. 8. ! Hawley of L ncoln. i class N—Instruments, etc.—E. L. Grinnell i of Fort Calhoun. Class O—* ounty Collective Exhibits—J. D. Ream of Broken now Class P—Discretionary—L. A. Beecher of Neligh. Class Q—Special Premiums-B. Crowder of Gordon. Secretary Furnas was Instructed to Inves tigate different attractions, correspond with the managers as to terms and other de tails and report to the board at a future 1 meetln Treasurer* May Rave a Seal. A bill la now before the judiciary commit tee of the house which la intended to correct a curious condition of affairs. This is house roll <49, Introduced by Representative Bech er, and It provides that county treasurers i may have a seal of office and authorizing them to affix it to certain Instruments. The O' casion for such a bill being necessary is this: When lands are sold for taxes the pur chaser Is given a certificate by the coun y treasurer which shows what amount was fetid, the date of the sale, description of the and and other particulars of the transac : tion. If the original owner does not redeem i in a cc tain time the holder of the tax sale : certificate is entitled to a deed totheprop | erty. The law says this deed shall be ex ecuted on demand by the county treasurer, who shall affix his seal to the document. Now as the law makers have never pro vided that the county treasurer shall have a seal, and the supreme court has held that these tax deeds are not good unless his seal which he has not, is attached, there are a lot of tax deeds of dou tful validity afioat In the eta c The present act will remedy this by supplying the seal which has herc fore been left out of the equipment of the county. To Kill Off Superfluous Attorneys. Sutton of Douglas has a bill printed, house loll No. 448, which is very stringent in its provision* regarding the practice of law. The very first section provides that from and after!August 1, loSS. all licenses to prac tice law Ip this state be revoked, with the exception of the judges of the supreme jourt, district and county court*, judge* of the police court* of cftlesOf tfte metropoH t«n or first class, the attorney general of thO itate and county attorneys. It Is then pro rided that, In the way of reinstatement, the •upreme court may from time to time place upon the rolls as attorneys and counsellors if paid court such persons as have thereto fore practiced therein as In the judgment of lhe court are thoroughly qualified to prac tice therein. Thereafter no person shall be Admitted to practice law in any of the courts >f this state unless he shall have been duly Admitted to practice in the supreme court, fhe supreme court shall appoint committees for the examinat Ion of applicants for license to practice law as may be necessary, and the meetings of these committees shall al ways be held at the capital of the state. The utlier provisions of the bill are similar to the law now In force. Including the two years’preliminary reading in the office of i regular practicing attorney, or on produc tion of a diploma from some reputable law jchcol In the state. Irrigation Notes. North Bend Argus: In irrigation and the iugar beet lies a future for Nebraska that mnnot be looked forward to by any othar itato in the Union. Give us irrigation an! iugar beets. \ Dundy county will be In It next season if Irrigation has any virtues. In this immedl* Ate vicinity five private ditches are com pleted, each ranging from six to ten miles in length. The next tangible question to solve is how the people are to pro cure seed. ('hadron Signal: Alfred Johnson, one of the energetic young farmers of East i raig precinct, called at this office Tuesday. He 4ays the irrigation company at Mirage has ii surveyor at work on the line of the pro jected Irrigation ditch. It will cross Pepper creek and the deep Sand canyon by means of flumes. West Union Gazette (Custercounty): The prospect of Irrigation has caused quite a stir among our people, who have not hith erto availed themselves of the benefits of t» e homestead law. Several have taken claims under the ditch Among others our justice of the peace, Ira Sturdevant and I had Loop have taken some valuable land. At a meeting of the board of trustees of the Mliago Irrigation company recently, they concluded to change the point of di version of the water in the river to be used for irrigation purposes, by lapping the river just above the mill dam at Dunlap, Sheridan county, which would thereby lift the main ditch ton or twelve feet higher, and save a great deal of very hard ditch work. The hoard went to Dunlap Monday 10 see what could bo done. They succeeded in making an arrangement for the Irrigation company to have full control of all the water for seven months in each year, commencing April 1 and ending November 1. The con stdera ion to be paid for this water privi lege for fifty years is $1,000, to be paid in cash when the ditch is completed ana the water turned on. Transfer Switch Case Appealed. The State Board of Transportation has filed Its appeal in error from the O’Neill dis trict court in the supreme court. The case In point Involves the constitutionality of the law requiring Intersecting railways to put In connecting switches. The case was negun at O’Neill at the October term of the district court. An alternative writ of man damus was prayed for by ti.e Board of Transportation to compel the Sioux City, O’Neill & Western railroad and tbe Fre mont, Kluhorn & Missouri Valley railroad to put In a connecting switch at O’Neill and to establish and put in force a joint sched ule of rates for freght in car lots from every point on one lino to every point on the other. The case, by stipulation, was heard by Judge Chapman of Cass county, instead of by Judge Kinkead. To the application defend ants demurred, alleging in addition, to the usual points of a general demurrer that the pretended act of the legislature under which the action was brought was unconsti tutional and void, for the reason that it de § rived defendants of their property without ue process of law and denied defendants equal protection of law. The demurrer was sustained by Judge chapman and the case dismissed. To deetde the constitutionality of the law the State Board of Transporta tion now comes to the supreme court. Judge Marshall has filed his opinion with Attorney General Churchill In the Schuyler transfer switch case. This one embodies all the points covered by Judge Chapman, to gether with a great many others. Judge Marshall covers, in his opinion, the whole ground, constitutionally and statutory. ubstantlally it agrees with the ruling of Judge Chapman. Both judges hold that sec tion r.62 of the constitution merely gives one new railway the right to cross another, and is not mandatory In the way of forcing an old road to build transfer -witches. Secre tary Dllworth of the Board of Transporta tion says that an effort will be made to ad vanoe the O’Neill case on the supreme court docket. Caldwell's Seed B11L Senator Caldwell’s bill to enable town ships to vote bonds for the purpose of sup plying seed grain for planting contains some new reatures that other relief measures do not. It differs in detail very much from the Lamborn law, which permits counties to vote bonds. The Caldwell bill, it is claimed, will be adaptable to localities where bonds would not be voted by an entire county, because the larger portion of the county is not in need of aid to purchase seed. Very often it is the case that one or two town ships in a county have been hit by the drouth and successive crop failures and are in need of aid. Under this bill these townships can vote bonds to the amount of 1»per cent of their valuation and use the proceeds of their sale to purchase seed. The farmer to whom this seed is distributed is required to give his nole for the amount of the value of seed furnished and file with proper authorities a description of the land on which it is to be Hlanted. The amount of seed furnished is mited to $i worth to each acre cultivated by the applicant. There is a provision that the county shall hold a first lien on the crop raised on the land for the payment of the seed note. It is also provided that notes shall be payable in four years with the option of paying in two. The money from the notes is to be put in a sinking fund, which is provided to pas the bonds when due. Landlord's Lien BUI. The "landlor’s lien bill” having passed the senate will come up in the house in a few days. This bill is by Senator Bressler, and is as follow: “Sec. 1. A landlord shall have a lien for his rent upon all crops grown upon the premises, and upon any other personal prop erty of the tenant and not exempt from ex ecution, which has been used upon the prem ises during the term, for the period of six months after a year’s rent, or a shorter pe riod claimed, falls due. but such lien shall not in any case continue more than six months after the expiration of the term. "Section 2. The lien maybe effected by the commencement of an action within the period above prescri cd for the rent alone, In which action the landlord will be entitled to a writ of attachment, upon filing with the proper clerk, or the justice, an affidavit that action is commenced to recover rent accrued within one year previous thereto upon premises described in the aftidafit.” \Y itliout questioning in the least the mo tives of the gentlemanly author of this measure, it may bo said that this bill is not constructed in the interests of the people. It will tend to give every advantage to the landlord without permitting the tenant to enjoy anything but the privilege of breath ing and hearing the burden that the ele ments and his landlord may see fit to heap upon him. * Bate Is Impracticable. Railroad men say that the bill Introduced by Senator Caldwell requiring all railroads to charge a uniform rate per mile for all freight is Impracticable. They, the rail road men, say that as an example of where this will rail to work is on the lines oper ated between Omaha and Lincoln. The Bur lington line between these points is several miles shorter than that of any other roadl, and if all are required to charge the sanrie ri^?iPer mils bill is practical and equitable and,6ays that he will push it to Its passage beca/lise it is a just and fair measure. / Oklahoma Divorces to Bo Msdo Easy* Guthiue, Ok., Feb. 13.—A pill was railroaded through the lowep house of the legislature to-day granting to prohate judges the right ho try di vorce cases and grant divorces for fourteen different canaes so any per son living in the territory [ for ninety days. J ■•'?A BRIGHT STAB, A SKETCH OF THE MAN » LED MARY ANDERSON TO FAME. AIM Played Leading Kale* with Barrett and Thorne. [From the St. Louie Chronic, s&aTiarsarrs of his youth were Thomas w rL "* Frank Chanfrau. We find Keene™ the age of 25 and Norton in the early manhood, the leading maSf„ Booth at the famous Winter Uaffil? ter. He was starred with Lawreni rett early in the 70s, andTltSfJ* leading roles with Charles Thorne*^ Variety theater in New Orleans & J the Centennial year, in Louisville met our Mary Anderson, then a fair girl who aspired for stage fame, to* under his guidance and, as evmi knows, led her to fame. Mr. Norton L the proprietor of the Grand Opera Hon? St. Louis, the Du Quesne Theater Pn burg, and one of the stockholders American Extravaganza Company One afternoon early in June he h«u 'into his New Yorkofflce on Broadtm encountered his business manager (L, McManus, who had also been a rheunu sufferer for two years. Norton was Wised that McManus had discarded dine. “Whocured you?” he asked "I,™ dyself,” replied McManus, “with Dr Sms’ Pink Pills.” " M was encouraged by Mr. McMre cure, and as a last resort tried th» p, Pills myself,” said Mr. Norton to a Cl* iefe reporter. “You have known me fori years, and know how I have suffered 11 during the summer of 1893 I was® back at the Mullanphy hospital, in city , four weeks. I was put on the old tempf dieting, with a view to clearingth acidulous properties in my blood that an cal theorists say is the cause of mv rh matin m. I left the hospital feeling stream but the first damp weather brought vi those! excruciating pains in the tecs back. It was the same old trouble, i,, sitting down for a stretch of fivo minou the pdins screwed my legs into a knotwh I uro.it. and I hobbled as painfully as m After! had taken my first box of PiskPii it stnYk me that the pains were less tit bleson V. I tried another box, and I almost Imoonsclously to have faith ii Pink lolls. I Improved so rapidly u, could } fee after sitting at my desk for hour ai I the twinges of rheumatism f accompanied my rising were so mild tha scarcely!noticed them. During the two weeks we have had much .. weather in St. Louis. But the damp has not Rid the slightest effect in briny back then rheumatism, which i consul sufficient and reliable test of the ethese Pink Pills. I may also say that the I Pills have acted as a tonic on my stom which I thought was well nigh desire by the thousand and one alleged reme I consumed in the past five years " Watches In the Haase. Tom Reed has the finest watch inti house. It ^tever varies more than is or three seconds in a week. It is w especially costly, but it is a wonder It accuracy, and the ex-speaker never In the slightest trouble with it There! a chronometer in the house lobby whie is connected |with the meteorologia apparatus, and the members who hi) pen to have fairly good time pieces s> their watches by it every day. Kerf is easy at the head of the list, but Dinf ley, Turner of Georgia and Russell t Connecticut come close behind.-'led ington Letter^ How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars revert for any case' of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hail'd Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY SCO., Toledo. 0 We, the undersigned, have known F,. Cheney for the,last 15 years, and belier Mm perfectly [ honorable in all bosmee transactions and financially able to cart out any obligations made by their firm West Sc Tbcax, Wholesale Druggets.» ledo, O. Warpwo, Kisnsn & Minva Wholesale DrugWists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken interna* acting directly tipon the blood ami mow surfaces of the system. Testimonials *• free. Price 7BeT per bottle. Sold oj * Druggists. \ Hall’s Family Pills, 35c. _ Nobody contenjts himself with rourjt. monds, or wears) them so. When and Bet, then thoy give a lnster. Chicago Tribune: “When I "f • your line of business, my friend. Mr. Fellaire, giving the greasy W half-dollar an(d kicking him off » front steps of bis mansion, “I • had sense ^noygh *° £° roun“ back door." neuLi.v r- , vidence of expene° department. 11 “Vu^as," whose r iliar to newspaperje t the country ,here W. L Dojufflas as a Publishu The Times it the name of a late * rival in the (field of journos® » Brockton, Maps It is an eiga- PJv seven column/daily, with a twelv P . Saturday issu/e. It is neatly P and shows hands in e owned by W. trait is so fal ers thronghoj ing very few which his S3 shoe is not Col. J. Armiry Knox is manager, ^ a personal Representative of ■ i;. laa The Times is independent tics, prefenring’to advocate P ,onl rather than parties. It is Prl it Hoe press/which is evidence m®',.,,,'] started oiRt with a good sized tion. Who wins the s300? ^ Anovfel way to obtain “ dailies or weeklies fthne is not advertise Cl* name ff>r their great, yes, tbe new oats, has been adopter • off# u“Vt w, hsh* * rrkpr John A- Salzer Seed Co. $300 f
try and name them- I|e Skater' ley be called Peter and MP lis«i ut na His mother would n ..[A , the name Peter. Then he s*; ;he name reier. - » m be called Max and “No,” she said. ‘‘They a™ l i girls, ~so we cannot name I. em Max.” _tho0^ Then he said after much ,et them be called Kate nem ne caneu .. te.” After this his head w»» W' ed and he was sent out to v lion Signal.