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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1895)
. THE FRONTIER. PUBLISHKl> EVERY THURSDAY By Tb* Ebortibm Piiintipro Co. O’NEILL., -> NEBRASKA. OYER THE STATE. Tim band boys of West Point cleared (00 by their recent ball. G E Di ui.a xi) will take charge of the I’lainview postofilcc April 1st. Tiikiik are thirteen Sheridan county boys iu tho reform school at Kearney. Faiiikiki.I) can secure a creamery if her citizens will put up the neceasary bonus. Tiirkk business buildings at Alvo were destroyed by fire, causing a loss Of 84,000. Tim soldiers' home at Grand Island will shortly be supplied with lnoandes cent' lights. Tim Loup and Elkhorn Baptist asso ciation will hold a meeting at Tilden March 1.1 and 14. 1. 1). Newell, formerly superinten dent of Clay county, died recently at Manhattan, Kas. Ciiaiii.es Davidson, a young man living near Stanton, has been arrested charged with the ruin of Miss Abbio Holmes. Overwork and worry over sick chil dren has caused Mrs Augusta Lade of Sherman county to lose her mind, and the has been sent to an asylum. Thu Grand Island Baptist college will hold its first graduation exercises this year. Miss Grace Bentley will be the first graduate and is tho only oue in her cluss. An effort is being made, and a meet ing will soon be held at Norfolk, to ar range fora circuit of fairs this fall, including Antelope, Pierce, Knox, Mad ison and Boone counties. Dave CHockeii, chief of police of York, has resigned. The trouble arose over the mayor's order, which lie refused to obey. It is ruihored that dames 101 ginfritz will succeed him. A Tkciimnkii wife-beater started in belaboring his wife with his fists.when the woman's sister arrived on the acene and hit the brute over the head with u atick of cord wood, laying him out. Buy home-made goods and build up liome industries, it a good policy: Far rell' Fire Extinguisher, made by Far rell &. Co., Drnahu; Morse-Coe bootsand ehoes for men, women and children. Jack Wii.kh of St Louis and Black Pearl, a colored pugilist from Hastings, had a glove contest at Leon Grove, a resort about a mile south of Grand Is land. Wilks had the best of it through out the four rounds. “• *• ornAcrK nus Dean Holding meetings at the Willis school house, north of btockville, for the last two weeks, and on Sunday last eighteen persons were united with the church *• m a result of his labors. Kkti’hns from all precincts in lloyd county show that the proposition to bond the county for $10,000 to buy seed IT min and feed for teams was carried: 830 votes were cast, 300 being in favor Of and 330 against the proposition. ’•, A UAl.K-wiTTKD boy and a match started a tiro at Stewart that caused the destruction of a lot of hay, consid erable farm machinery, a number of the Standard Oil company's barrels and a building belonging to John Skiring. Sunday morning last two young men Darned Robinson and Powell escaped from the county jail at Springview. It is supposed that they have escaped to the Indian reservation north of tiiere. They were bdfng held on the charge of horse stealing. Aktkh going to church at Leigh Geo. ", 1 Davis made an assault on Bert Holden * and was locked up to await the action of the district court. During the night someone unlocked the jail and gave Davis his liberty. He has not been Been since. Thk special election which was held last week to vote upon the question of bonding Holt county for $30,000 to pro vide seed grain for the farmers, re - suited in the defeat of the proposition by a vote ef about 8 to 1. A light vote was polled. Stkikk Fkatiikh, a Ponca Indian, while asleep in his tepee in the N'io brara valley, was burned nearly to death. He was alone at the time and it is supposed that the high wiud fanned the flames of the tire inside and . burned .the tepee. although w. j. Bryan s term as con gressman has closed, he is not cx Sfeted home in the immediate future. efore he returns to Lincoln he will make a tour of the south, lecturing’ on free silver. He is expected to remain away about a month. Si-RiNoriKLn has just been author ised by the county commissioners to hold an election for the purpose of vot ing V>,000 bonds to build a system of water works in tho village for lire pro tection and domestic use. The election is to be held August 2. Tiik trial of the gang of farmers charged with breaking into a car on the It. & M. track at Axtell, February 2S. and robbing the same, was had in the county court at Minden. The court decided to hold the defendants to the district court and fixed the bail at $500 each. Tuk First National bunk at O’Neill . got a verdict against Holt county for $11,000 in warrants drawn on the 1883 * fund, Barrett Scott got the money, .and there being no funds to pay the warrants the suit was brought. The county will be obliged to make a special levy. The Banner County News soys: Stock in this part of Nebraska is in ex cellent condition, in spite of the severe cold spell of the first half of February. > The probabilities are that cattle and horses will come out in better shape '> thau usual, in spite of the reported * scarcity of hoy and fodder. At Aurora James Gillitly and Ed Williams, sons of old settlers there, were arrested a few days ago for steal ing chickens. They pfea led guiitv to the charge before Judge Mark, and were promptly fined $25 und costs each and made to pay $14 for the chickens they had taken. A shout tins ago a house which had , been recently bought by Bichard Louis, a well-to-do farmer, who Jives west of Decatur, was burned to the gronud. it was beyond a doubt of in cendiary origin. There is a man who * saw the deed done and saw the man who did it. but refuses to disclose his pome. \ A AKRiors if not fatal runaway oc curred at Waterloo. Mm Louise Lar son's horse became unmanageable and ran into u tree, smashing the buggy into kindling wood and throwing the lady over the dashboard, where she struck on her shoulder and when picked up was unconscious, Fatal results are feared. .Mkmoiiiai, services in honor of the late Hon. T. M. Marquette were held at Lincoln in the supreme court room. Appropriate resolutions of respect were adopted and eulogistic speeches made by Judge Cobb, ex-iiovernow Dawes, ex-At&orney Ceneral Hastings,1 Attor neys A. O. Abbott, Woolworth and others. The roosters of the realm are going to hold a grand carnival ball at the opera house in Madison on the 18th inst. No ladies will be admitted, and one-lntlf the gentlemen present will impersonate the fair sex in dress and manner, a valuable prize being given to the greatest artist in that line. This is a novelty with whiskers. A <ikaM) reception was given in the opera house at North Kend by the old settlers of that community, in honor of the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. ('otterell, founders of that city. Four hundred invited guests sat down to a sumptuous wedding ban quet. Friends and relutives of the aged couple from Canada, Ohio, Iowa and other state's were present The board of supervisors of Fillmore county met in called session to consid er the question of appropriating funds to assist the destitute farmers in the purchaso of feed and seed grain. After a prolonged discussion 88.500 was voted from the general and road funds to be apportioned to the various townships according to ther needs, in amounts ranging from 8115 to 8-25. Mu. AND Mas. M. S. CoTTKREI.r. of North liend last week celebrated their golden wedding. Four hundred in vited guests were present ut a sumptu ous wedding banquet. It was one of the most happy social events that has ever occurred in that part of the state. Mr. Cotteroll settled in South liend in 1850. and has since continuosly resided there. Henry Kxoei.i. of Fremont has com menced two suits in district court to recover heavy damages, one ngninst the receivers of the Union Pacific railway, and the other against the eity of Fre mont The allegations in both cases are substantially the same, and in each case he asks for $10,200 damages. The suit is about a defective culvert that went down with disastrous results to KnoelL The 810,000 worth of county war rants assigned by the county commis sioners of York county to T. W. ISmithe nf Vnnlf »La nnBMnuA •eed grain and grain for teed to be Bold to York county farmers who are un able to provide themselves with grain, will, judging from large numbers of applications received, only supply one fifth of the amount asked for. No ap plications will be received after March 10th. Rkv. .Iamf.h Lvi.Kofthe Methodist Episcopal church of North Loup left last week to solicit seed grain ana feed for the townships of Independent, Da vis Creek and North Loup, intending to visit portions of Illinois, Indiana and perhaps Ohio, where the reverend gen tleman is well known and has a large acquaintance, on account of having served pastorates in those regions. He is duly accredited by the officers of the local relief board. Thk agent for the Ilookwalter lands in Valley county the other day received a letter authorizing the purchase of wheat to the amount of 8400 on the ac count of the owner of the lands and distribute it among their needy ten ants, pro rata to the amount of ground broken out, and to tuke notes for the same, payable October 1 without inter est. The company also propose to make some arrangements with regard to seed corn before the time for plant ing. ___ Two Judicial Districts Added. The committee on apportionment considered a number of measures look ing to a redistricting of the state. The committee will report favorably on house roll No. 470, by Schickedantz, which relates to judicial districts. The measure provides that the state shall be divided into seventeen judicial districts. There are now fifteen. The division recommended is as follows: First District—Richardson, Nemaha, Johnson and Pawnee. Second—Otoe and Cass. Third—Lancaster. Fourth—Douglas, Sarpy, Washing ton and Burt. Fifth—Cage and Jefferson. Sixth—Hamilton, Seward and York. Seventh—Butler, Polk and Saunders. Eighth—Dodge, Colfax, I’latte, Boone and Nance. Ninth—Saliue, Filmore, Thayer, Nuckolls and Clay. Tenth—Cuming, Stanton, Dixon, Da kota, Cedar and Thurston. Eleventh—Wayne, Madison, Ante lope, Pierce and Knox. Twelfth—Adams, Webster, Kearney, Franklin, Harlan and Phelps. Thirteenth—Merrick, Hall, Wheeler. Greeley. Garfield, Loup, Valley and Howard. Fourteenth—Buffalo. Dawson,* Cus ter, Sherman, Blaine, Thomas, Hooker and Grant. Fifteenth—Lincoln. Logan, Keith, Cheyenne, Deuel, Scotts Bluff, Kimball, Banner, McPherson, Arthur and Per kins. Sixteenth—Gosper, Furnas, Frontier. Red Willow, Hayes, Hitchcock, Chase and Dundy. Seventeenth—Holt, Rock, Brown, Keya Paha, Cherry, Sheridan. Dawes. Sioux, Box Butte and unorganised ter ritory. Seven judges are provided for the Fourth district, two for the Eighth. Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Seven teenth, four in the Third, and one in each of the other districts. Tim sixteen-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs Kaffen of Omaha was burned to death last week. She played with the fire while her mother was tempora rily absent. One of the latest projects on foot in Fremont is for the establishment of a manual school, to be known as the “John C. Fremont Manual Training School,” for the training of boys and girls in the use of tools and mechanical appliances, with instruction in mathe matics, drawing and the English j branches of a high school course. The i •chool is to be established to perpetu-J ate the name of the “Path-finder," fori whom Fremont was christened. 1 NEBRASKA ASSEMBLY. A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS IN BOTH HOUSES. Jinny Hilla Now Being Pushed Through —Insurance Matter*—The Irrigation Measure—Bills Heroin mended for l'assnge-^An Appropriation for Unfin ished Buildings—The Sugar Beet In dustry—Seed for Nebraska's Drouth Stricken—Miscellaneous Matters. The Nebraska Assemble. Senate.- In the s-enntc on the 4th tho si finding committee reported the following Mila: To establish free employ incut offices In cities of the first class, recommended to puss: prohibiting justices of the peace from giving process to constables outside their district for service In the district for whloh the constable was elected, to be indefinitely postponed; making tax and special assess ment receipts presumptive evidence of tho taxor assessment and that the same was legally assessed and levied and a lien against the land, indefinitely postponed; to provide for settling disputes us to owner ship of islands in non-navigable streams, indefinitely postponed; to make persons liable for pay for newspapers until i he full subscription price Is paid up and providing that notice to stop must ho accompanied by tho full amount due on subscription, r- commended to puss; the Weston ballot bill providing for using i uurty emblems recommended to pass: the bill providing for the selection of non-parti san election officers, recommended to pass. ( onslderatlon was given to senate file til, the st ate banking bill. The bill provides fora state banking board, of which the state au ditor. state treasurer and attorney general shall he the members. The board isauthor ized to unpoint a secretary tit a salary of ifl.’iiO, «na h clerk at a salary of ft,200 per annum. Bank examiners are to be apt) diited by the hoard, and the fee for examining a bank is fixed at $15 for banks having a capi tal of #l’i,uno or less; banks having over $15, 000 and less than 5*60,000. $20; for those hav ing from $6l>,0 0 to §l.‘>0,000, $25; and on all with more than $150,000 capital, the fee K to he$0>. The bank examiner is required to give bond in the sum of $25,00* With several committee amendment tlies bill was recommended to puss. Tho following were also recommended for passage: To legalize the acts of the governor anti of cl y officers under the ac of April », totfJ, governing cities of the first class, which act was after ward declared unconst it utional by the su preme court; senate file hi, to legalize the issue of bonds by counties and precincts, wImre the bonds arc ti bo used for boring wells to be used for irr gating purposes; senate file to legalize acknowledgments to deeds tuken by commissioners of deeds, which have not bad at tached the cer Ificato of the secre tary of state as required by law. House.—in the house on the 4th., the In surance committee reported Harte’s bill to repeal the valued policy law. recommend ing that the bill be indefinitely postponed. l>uvies of Cass moved to adopt the report, liurteof Douglas moved to place tho bill on general file, but his motion was lost in a chorus of noes, and the bill was laid to rest. Other bills Indefinitely postponed were house roll 71. by liairgrove. regulating the reserveof life insurance companies; house roll !iwt bv Hm win>ll. i*oir n I at 1 ncr mutual fire lightning or torn ad • insurance com panies, and house roll 467, by Burns of Lanca ter. and house roll 467, by Burns of Lancaster, creating an In surance board. House roll 169 was considered. This is a measure providing that in the event of a contest over a county, precinct or township office, ora member of the legislature from one county ulone, based upon the ground of error in the count and error alone, the certificate of election shall be withheld until after the recount de manded shall have been completed, when the certificate shall be issued to the person shown to have the highest number of votes. The bill was amened so as not to apply to members of the legislature or congress and in this shape was recommended to pass. Ilouso roll 1-3, Cole's bill to reduce the rate of interest on tax certificates to 10 per cent, was recommended for passage. House roll INK, Sutton’s compulsory education bill, was indefinitely postponed. House roll 174, Halrgroves bill to apportion tines and license money in towns and villages, was recommended to pass. House roll 283, Me Nltt’s bill providing free attendance at pub lic high schools, was recommended to pass. Senate.—In the senate on the 5th the standing committee reported senate file 168, the bill to amend the herd law, by including in the meaning of the words, cultivated lands, lani.s on which are trees, hedge rows, tame grass, or around which a plowed strip of not less than one yard In width has been plowed at least once a year, recommended to pass. Senate file No. 182, the Akers irriga tion uet, whs read the third time. After the leading was completed, Senator Akers moved a call of the nouse. Roll call showed several senators absent. These were brought in by messengers and the proceed ings under the call of the house were dis pensed with. The vote was then on the passage of the bill. Twenty-seven senators voted for it and the bill was declared passed with the emergency clause. The gov ernor s private secretary delivered to the senate a message from the governor notifying the senate that he had signed senate tile <8, and recommending that amendments he made in it as It became a law. Senate tile i8l. the Platte river canal bill, was read the third time and put upon its passage. The bill recelvedseventy-seven votes, only three, Bauer. Dale and Sprecher voting against it. renate tile 112, providing that county judges should be practicing at torneys, was passed. Senate file 118, to amend the law relating to draining swamp lands, and to provide for keeping open the drainage ditches was passed. Senate file 32, providing for the payment of bounties House —Governor Holcomb on the 5th re turned the antl-olcomargarlnc bill, senate file No. 7s, signed, but accompanied by a special message recommending important amendments to bo incorporated in another bill, Lnanimous consent was secured by the committee on linance, ways and means to report, house roll No. 511, by Griffith, ap propriating ¥£5,000 for the payment of inci dental expenses of the legislature, for pas sage. House rolls Nos. 534 and 5st had been mude a special order for today, and 5;i4 was put upon its passage, receiving K> votes to none uga list. The bill authorizes county boards of the several counties in the state to use the surplus general funds, road funds and county bridge funds in purehasingseed and feed and to distribute the same among the destitute, lluuse roll No. •'») passed by a vote of Hstoi, lielany and Uuthrieop posing. This bill authorizes county com missioners to use the surplus nrecinct • olid funds for purchasing seed and feed. , Hy resolution of the house, senate tile No. ! -511 v.-n* called up and put upon its passage. Tills Is known in the house as -the Harrell Scot change of venue bill," providing that i ne attorney general can take any prisoner out of one county for trial in another, it passed by CD to i.. The house relief bill ap propriating *200.< 00 was passed without the emergency clause. Other bills passed as I follows: Senator tile No.9, authorizing the appointment of supreme court commission ers. House roil No. tstt hy Mlinger, granting Lincoln real ostate to the German Lutheran Congregation. House roll No. B0. hy Jenkins prohibiting the manufacture and sale of cigarettes 111 the state of Nebraska. House roll No. 117. by Lamkorn, relating to the j payment of warrants and the form of war rant registers. ] senate, in the senate on the Bth senate! (lie l~.k to legalize acts and doings of the governor and of the cities affected under! chapter 8. of the laws of 1891, which law has i been declared unconstitutional, was passed ‘ The emergency clause was attached. Thu ' foliowin also passed. Senate tile SI, to j legalize bonds heretofore issued and the money realized from the sale of which was ! used tor boring wells to be used for Irriga tion purposes. Senate tile 45, making" u ■ Judgment, in the district court a lien on the ! real estate owned by tite debtor in tile 1 county where the judgment is given. Sen- ' ate tile 54. legalizing oaths administered i and acknowledgements taken before com- I missioeers of deeds where no certificate of the secretary of state is attached. Senate file til, to establish a state banking board, provide for a secretary and a clerx of tho board, and regulate the conduct of the officers of the hoard. Senate fileW, allowing Incorporated mm nal insur nm e companies to charge' a policy fee of 50 cents, was recommended to pass. Senate filer?, providing that contracts for the sale or leasing of rolling stock of any railroad or street railway company, shall be recorded in the office of the secretary of state. This operates so as to remove the necessity for recording In each county on the line of road I was recommended to pass, senate file 10, providing for park coumissioners and au thorizing them to purchase and maintain parks in cities of from f> >00 to 2 .000 Inhabi tants, was recommended to pass. House.—In the house on the 0th Governor Holcomb's special message accompanying the anti-oleo bill was read, and Miles moved to refer it to the committee on agriculture. < huptnun amended to refer to the commit tee on miscellaneous subjects with instruc tions to prepare a bill in accordance with the governor's suggestion. The amendment | of chupman prevailed. A message was I read from the legislature of routh Dakota reciting tin* passage of a resolution provid ing for the appointment of three commis sioners each by the states of bouth Dakota nnd Nebraska for the purpose oi settling the boundary lino between the states. The message was referred to the committee on federal relations. The following bills were put upon their passage and disposed of. House roll .%o, 14. by Allan, to legulate the conduct of primary elections In cities of the metropolitan class and of the first class hav ing a population of 10,< (JO or more, and to re quire the registration of voters for that purpose. Passed, 71 to 10. House roll No. 3o2. by Myers, to provide for organi zation of irrigation districts and acquir ing of cumils partly built. i assed, M0 tol. House roll 150, by ('lianman, providing for deciding the merits or an election contest based upon the ground ofefror In count. Passed, 71 to 12. 1 louse roll 531, by Griffith, appropriating$.V>,00j for the payment of in cidental expenses Incurred during the Twenty-fourth session of the legislature, was the last bill on third reuding, and was disposed of. The lull passed, 87toO. The committee on accounts and expenditures, by unanimous consent, re ported house roll No. 585 for passage. The nill provides for the method of purchasing all manner of sup ! piles for the legislature and regulate > the use and cure of the same. Sixty days prior to the convening of the legislature tho i Hoard of Public Lands and Buildings shall ! advertise in the same manner as for other 1 bids for supplies not to exceed $.V 0 wor. h of 1 stationary and other articles. The person j to whom the contract Is awarded shall de ! liver the goods to the order of the board on ! or before the first day of the session of the ; legislature, accompanied by a complete in voice or Id 11 of the same, which shall be pre sented to thecomrnitteeon claims. All other j supplies shall be purchased by resolution | of either branch of the legislature. j Senate.—In the senate on the 7th Stewart stated that he believed the time hud come when the senate should take some action toward relieving tho distress of the desti tute people in the drouth-stricken counties of the state He therefore moved that the relief bills known us senate file No. 27 nnd house roll No. 287 be made a special order for o’clock this afternoon. The motion was unanimously agreed to. Senator Sloan of r ill more county led the opposition to the amendments proposed by Governor ol eomb. while Senator McKee by of Webster officiated as the champion of the bill which embodies the governor's suggestion. Sloan moved that the 1)111 be referred back to the committee on commerce. In support of his motion he said that he had asked for an opportunity to appear before the commit tee. The chairman of ti e committee had as sured him that he should have the opportu nity. Senator Hitchcock attacked Mr. Sloan’s right to appear before tho committee at all. lie demanded to know by wliut right or by what courtesy the senator from Fillmore asked to appear before that committee. McKesson stopped the debate by movingt; e previous question. It was so ordered and the yeas and nays weie called on Sloan's motion to refer the bill back to the commit tee on commerce and manufactures. The vote was a tie vote, and under the rules the motion was lost. The bill therefore goes to the general tile. The bill providing that all executions shall take nho*«* ni. tlm m>nUon. iiary, was read a third time aud passed. House roll 5 4, authorizingt he county board of any county to use the surplus general funds, county road funds and county bridge funds, in purchasing seed and feed for distribution among the destitute and needy farmers, was also considered Amendments were adopted by the commit tee of the whole legalizing past acts of county boards in conformity with the pro visions of this bill. Senator ?%tewart ob jected to the provision which required the applicant to make affidavt that he is des titute, and moved that thisclause be strick en out. The amendment was adopted. Sen ator Sprecher thought the bill conflicted with senate tile ;>12. The bill as amended was recommended to the senate to be passed. House,—In the house on the 7th tho fol lowing were recommended for passage: To authorize couutics to issue warrants during March, April and May, 18U5, to the full amount of the levy, the warrants in excess of 83 per cent of the levy being used for the purchase of seed grain; authorizing labor organizations to use a label and to provide a punishment for the infringement of that Jaoel, was considered; to authorize the or ganization of mutual plate glass insurance companies; for an *8,0W) appropriation for a branch soldiers’home at Milford; to pro hibit the sale of bogus or inferior nietal as sliver: to provide for county depositories and in enforce deposits of county funds therein; to apportion the state intocongre* sionai districts; to apportion the state into Judicial districts; inflicting a penalty of 823 per day upon county officers for failure to report fees; to define a newspaper for publi cation of legal notices to be a paper having 2<)0 circulation; regalatiog the construction of county jails In counties of over 25,000; b ritz’s bill to restore *2,223.50 to Dakota county for over-paid state taxes; Robin son s bill to Jncoiporate companies to do business on the assessment plan. Senate.—In the senate on the 8tli protests against the passage of the bill to perma nently locate the state fair at Lincoln were read. Petitions asking for the passage of house roll 84, requiring convict mude goods to be stamped, were presented and read. Senator Crane Introduced a resolution ask ing for the appointment of a committee to investigate the charges of cruelty and attempted bribery which have been made against Warden Beemcr and Prison Contractor Dorgan of the state penitentiary. The resolution was adopted. On motion of Senator McKesson senate file 3'5 was A(lvAnr<>rl tr» third i His Dill provides that the secretary of st»Uitei. ^all designate the newspapers in which proposed amendments to the consti tution shall be published. The governor now names the papers. Senate file 1113, which provides that the commissioner of public lands and buildings shall have charge and control of the appointment of the deputies and of the business of the state oil inspec tion. was taken up. Senator Butler offered uti amendment substituting the governor as chief oil inspector instead of the commis sioner of public lands and buildings. Sen ator Wilson said in support of the bill that the new law on the statute books was con cededly unconstitutional on the ground that the legislature could not create a new executive officer. He said he did not object to the governor being added t > the board as one of its members. Adjourned until Mon day. House.—In the house on the 8th the com mittee of the whole consumed nearly the entire day in considering one of the five stock yards bills, house roll No. 328. It had been anticipated that a.stubborn tight would be waged on this, or any of the other five bills, and such anticipations were verified. The amendment of Miles prevailed, making the charge for weighing hogs 6 cents a head. Sutton of Pawnee ottered an amendment, making a charge for switching cars, but it was voted down. Kothleuter wanteu to re duce the price of weighing and yarding cat tle from 2 to 1> cents a head. It is now 25 cents and the bill, as drawn, provides for cents. J'Otlileuter’s amendment was de feated. The bill was recommended for pas sage by the committee. House roll No. <), by Suter, to fix commissions for selling live stock in the state, wa- then rushed through and recommended for passage. It provides that, it shall be unlawful for parties selling stock to charge more than 40 cents per head for cattle, 15 for hogs, single deck cars and for double deck cars; f4 for sheep, single deck, and S7 for double deck cars. Ou tiie question of amending the bill to permit any one to sell live stock In the Omaha yards. Barry said that no one could sell slock either in Omaha or Chicago except members of the Lixe Stock exchanges there. Benedict disproved this by the sworn state ment of Mr. Spearman of sarpy county, who had sold stock for over twenty years in tho Omaha yards and had never t>een a member of the siock exchange. There was a close vote on the motion t * recommend the meas ure for passage, but it prevailed. 37 to 35. lhe committee then rose and reported. Benedict moved that the report be not con curred in, but that a committee of five be appointed to visit the stock yards and rc Pj,rt* A motion to table was lost, as was also Benedict’s motion for a committee. I he vote for the bill was yeas 70, nuys 20. I lie roll call was then demanded on the motion to adopt the favorable report of the committee of the whole on house roll No. 9, cuter s bill to regulate the commission deal ®J* ^uth Omaha. This carried by a vote of i* to2i The house then adjourned until 10 a. m. Monday. ■■■ fr Signed the Oleo Bill. Anxiety over the fate of the anti-oleo margarine bill was ended on the 5th by Governor Holcomb, who attached his official ! signature to the measure, accompanying it j I with the following message: | To tiie Honorable, the Legislature of the , State of Nebraska: In notifying your hon orable body of the approval of senate file No. 78, entitled “An Art Concerning Imita tion Hutterand Imitation Cheese, l)e tin lug the Same, Prohibiting Their Being Colored in Semblaneo of Butter and Cheese, Regu lating Their Manufacture, Shipping and Sale, and Protecting the Consumers at the table and Prescribing Penaltie- for the Vio lation Thereof.” I desire to say that 1 thor oughly appreciate the Justice of so brand ing oleomargarine that consumers may know they are using imitation butter ana not the genuine article, and 1 heartily ap prove of wise legislation having for Its ob ject such reasonable protection as may be given to the manufacturer, dealer and con sumer of unadulterated butter and cheese, the product of the dairy. 1 believe that | oleomargarine should be sold on its own • merits and not on the merits of butter. I The bill referred to is the first legislation had in tills state on t his important subject, and, us it seems to mo, in order to remedy the evils mentioned, the act In question works an unnecessary hardship upon the n^anufucturers of oleomargarine In this state. The provisions, as now contained in the bill, practically prevent the manufac ture of oleomargarine within the state un der the laws of the I’nited states for ship ment into other states than Nebraska with out any corresponding advantage to the manufacturer of the dairy product, who liastoeompete in the open markets of the world with the oleomargarine product, now I recognized ip our commercial system as a * whoicsome food product. While a law of the kind enacted is needed, I am of the opinion the law should not be so constructed as to deprive the state of the benefits accruing from the manufacture of oleomargarine within Its lim.ts, with no corresponding advantage to those who are sought to be benefltted thereby. The manufacture of oleomargarine Is an industry which has been located in the state, giving employment to a large number Of workingmen and enhancing the value of live stock on the market. As senate tile No. 78 received almost unan imous approval of the representatives of the people in the legislative bodies, I did not deem the objections to be of such char acter as to necessitate the vetoing of the bill, which in the main, 1 considered to be for the best Interests of the whole people. But I hereby authorize and recommend the introduction and passage of an amend ment to senate file No. 78, providing that nothing in that act shall be so construed as to prevent the manufacture within the state of oleomargarine, under the restric tions and provisions of the Unite * States law, and I would further suggest that the word ’ oleomargarine” be used wherever the words “imitation butter” appear in the act, thereby making the state law conform to the laws of the United States and pre venting confusion in complying with the law by the manufacturer. Silas A. Holcomb, Governor. The New Gambling Law. The new gambling law which the senate has placed on the general tile, with a re commendation tacitly favoring its passage, is likely to create something of a stir before it is finally passed. The entire bill is con tained in the following paragraphs:» Every person who shall play at any game whatever for any sum or money or other property of value, or shall bet any money itj ujiun »»u* ^auiuiui^ lauic jjiu hiblted by law, or who nhall bet upon any game played at or by means of any such gaming table, shall, upon conviction, be hoed in any sum not exceeding $i00, and upon a second or any subsequent convic tion shall be fined in any sum not exceeding 1200. or bo imprisoned in the county jail not more than sixty days, or both, at the discre tion of the court. Sec. 2. If any person or persons shall lose any property or money at any game, either cards or games of hazard of any kind, such person snail have the right to recover, by civil procedur e, the money or value thereof, or the property or value thereof, upon proper proof of the same, said money or property or the value thereof so recovered to revert to the school fund of the county in which said action is brought. Every per son who shall set up or keep any gaming table, faro bank, or any kind of a gaming machine of any description or name whatso ever for the purpose of playing any game of chance for money or property, except bil liard tabies, or who shall keep any billiard table for the purpose of betting or gam bling, or shall allow the same to be used for such purposes, shall, upon conviction, be punished by line in any sum not exceeding #200, or be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed sixty days, or both, at the discre tion of the court. Sec. 4. Section 214 and section 215 of the Criminal Code, enacted ill 1887, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. The proposed bill changes the present law in this respect: Under the present statutes gambling is made punishable by fine and imprisonment in the state penitentiary; the new bill simply provides for imprisonment in the county jail; the maximum fine under the present law is $500; under the proposed law, $200; the extreme term of imprison ment in the penitentiary under the present law Is one year for the flrst conviction and two years for the second; under the pro posed law the limit is sixty days in the county jail for the second conviction; no imprisonment is provided for tue first con viction. Features of the Stock Yard's Bill. House roll 328, by Jenkins, the stock yards bill, recommended for passage by the com mittee of the whole, opens the case with the preamble that all stock yards opened or organized under the general corporation law of the state or by special charter are declared to be public markets. Section2 provides that all persons, cor porations or companies dealing at such stock yards »hall have the same rights and Drivileges with all other persons or corpor ations, and no rights or privileges granted i°.*V *‘itlier directly or Indirectly, shall be held from any other person, company or cor poration. Section 3 authorizes ihe governor to ap point a number of competent persons to in spect live stock at the yards and determine what stock is unfit for market, and have the same removed. All persons except those appointed for the purpose are prohibited from acting in the capacity of inspectors. Section 4 prescribes the price for yarding and weighing stock. * Section 5 makes it unlawful for any stock yards corporation or company in the state to charge for grain and hay more than dou ble the market price in the city or village where the stock yards arc located. Section 6 makes it unlawful for proprle tors of stock yards to deliverer selfless tlinn 2,000 poun.is of hay for a ton or less than seventy pounds of corn in the ear or fifty-six pounds of shelled corn fora bushel, or less than sixty pounds of wheator thirty two pounds of oats for a bushel. hection 7 makes it unlawful for proprie tors of stock yards to prohibit the owners of dead stock in the yards to sell to any person to whom said owner may desire to sell the same. The penalties for violation of any of the provisions of the act are not less than $50 nor more than $100 for the first offense, not less than $10 * nor more than $200 for the sec ond offense and for each subsequent offense not less than $2u0 nor more than $500. The Penalty Attachments. Penalties attaching to violation of the oleomargarine law, which has been signed by the governor, and which has heretofore been given in full, are embodied in the fol lowing sections: Sec. K. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of sections three dj, tour (4). five «a>, six (b> and nine <9>of this act shall, for the first offense, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars <$25.0(>\ or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. And for each subsequent offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars <$50.00>, nor more than one hundred dollars <fl 0.00), or by im prisonment in the connty jail of not less than thirty days nor ra< re than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 9. No action can be maintained on account of an v sale or other contract made In violation of, or with intent to violate,any of the provisions of this act by or througn any person, firm or corporation who was knowingly a party to such wrongful sale or other contract. W hoever shall mutilate, ob scure, conceal, effa e, cancel or remove any mark provided for by this act. or cause or permit the same to be done, with intent to mislead, deceive or to violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty if a misdemeanor. Sec. lo. Whoever sells, or offers for sale, to any person who asks, sends or inquires for butter, imitation butter, or imitation cheese, or any substance made in imitation of or semblance of put e butter, not made :;-:7 entirely from milk of coloring matter shaii?l*,,,1tl» punished b, a fineof n^'l!^ A five dollars (t>5.00) nor°mJ*88tW laramoo, f?r each offend *» ilict heJewlth^a^^oI. repealed. a l"*uin# Wew Bo«rd o,7^r, One of the last bills Int™"^ house, and by which it i, late out of existence the labor commissioner, is (■?,". 01 house roll No. 639, nrn.iui ’1 Board of Immigration Itsm»#' 000 for the use of the bo«w|PI?p,“ that It shall not, under aw ,’ul involve the state In anrlW expense In amount cxceeSi.?111 ryCrof state. aVffV'“ and buildings. It ismadeVffi to encourage immigration hr Information. regarding a Information regarding f offered by the state ft ‘ >n: employ a secretary at a salaf annum. Each year it shall *n?° pile for publication a of all facts and statistics relit m character and resources ofSi1 amount of money expanded s aether with other infa^•ma,l^, Interest and calculated to iXl Bigns of the act. The board S celve no compensation, it is the power to appoint six Le£ one from each eongresslnn.n they, with the secretary "ha it in the sum of *-.,000conditioned o ful performance of their duties. Beet Sugar Bonnty A Lincoln special says: Not i house has passed the beet sugar to the final campaign in the senate m be brief and triumphant. No o» the ability of this, one of the non measures of the session, to pas, i lhe small opposition to the rnea<« promising to do so much for \,h however, making a few sna-moois create prejudice against It, |« roorback of the wildest characieeu ed loose. It wa* in the shape efi the effect that the Norfolk7™. was holding in reserve 2,no syrup, nnd that as soon as the b« became a law the syiup wmml !*«, and *80,(KU drawn out of the treasarr A little analysis of these fleumn their fallacy. In the first place tied last year at their Norfolk factors tured and sold ...61)0,000 pounds of. 27,. 00 tons of beets. To secure from the state treasury the Usnsi4 have to have on hand afier Mi enough syrup from last year's.W 9,tRD,000 pounds of sugar. Thin quite 60,000 tons of beets, it is lurt siDle that after selling the nrodua. tons of beets last season the Norioll would have remaining the syrup It tons In addition. Even if such u should be on band it Is only fairtoii the Oxnards would prefer to male sugar before July 1 and receivetk bounty of elght-tenthsof a cents bounty instead of waiting unM to receive a state bounty of bulb of a cenl per pound. Branch Soldier’s Horn The old soldiers In the vicinity oft house are jubi lan lover the fj.ons* on Herrick’s bill, house roll IS, i poses to locate a branch soldWi Milford. xiio uni ua» uruusvu some uiscm it is generally favored by the Gni of the Republic. It provides for lb KoVimunt /i# n hnonnh nAMfap'c lishmen t of a branch soldier's t ford. The free use of the sanitiriw ing and park is given to the sui next two years. Captain Culveri not intended to antagonize theGrut home, but to provide for the praml gency. Bo many of the veteransii reauire immediate care that towaitl buildings to be erected would car suffering. One hundred can be«r dated in the building offered to i with but little cost for operatic?« which would give the state general g >vernment. The bill provides the dutiesofcc ant, adjutant and quartern)asterJ performed by one person and fora amount is is now paid to the w* the Grand Island home. Thedutie geon will be performed by any o doctors at Milford for $6 per me engineer performs all of the wor»« dustrial home and can do itaitwj home. The other positions ran cm from the Inmates. No work is w the grounds, as nature has made*3 vision In the way of shade and pleasant surround ngs. iDe*® great at this time, which fact sugp wisdom of immediate relief. Capital Punishment in MWm Discussion of the Smith bill, tonf death sentences to be executed u walls of the state penitentiary, * the fact that there is a strongjj®1 favor of the abolition of capita ment. , . .l,, A number of senators, durms . t took occasion to express the W time would soon come when turn no judicial killings of human state. Senator Stewart same J™. bad the effect of a hot is; ine t"e alty, was not adopted, hut this k ' -n because the quest'?;" brought up, and itsadopw* Smith it*' ~ave have killed the "'A giving assurance that the am ure would be adopted. , MPl| f riends of the reform_ f TICUUH U1 tllB --- tn have, after consultation, come ^ elusion that the bouse will P* ■ Ls_Wng_hau_ging^ Antamesndnje» prepared, ana when the Smith * the nouse it will be offered, J change will he made. When the bill passes the hoi», wnun me um -v- orP i>p pected It will by those who tw ft will come back to the sen* informed as to the se"‘i?h ”1‘ti,e» tors unhesitatingly say -HSdniHt' question but that the am'j ^ ^ concurred in if adopted bythea" Without the Emergent j The relief bill which approF ^ passed the house without ^ clause. The coustitutlon Pr (ll( that pass without an emerge"1- ^ come laws after the 1e*P‘“djouraj calendar months after tneIhoniJP* the legislature. If <h'* Ind * senate without amendnj^ fj ltl( & lature should ad journ duif |jf j March, the bill woulll. * iHmad;i'"rf If the legislature should * ^jii day in April It would not "eL y *< August 1 In this event it the appropriation would hePj hl)|l(# less, Cut the friends of the y noney would be an\ 1 j in >rder that It could be u € | !<m It Is not pro1'* bi|| if _natc will pass twrvnn| COJ.OuO appropriation t‘im ,;a iusui v,.v advanced W ,1 JUJ.IMU appro p i ,unl ui»" he senate will ?utll}“fJJtat*004 it the most, and 'Setback :cncy clause. send]n» |tuat>g urrence of the house. ;ipDro'‘>r£ 'ery1tr.®?;yJ,wj^Usattbeluu.d;f1( «e senate ***** , pn tt the most, and will td ^to, ■""'tahte \p< attbeh»0.fr although' ^llcarvdt"' Sloonaih w - **■«£? mists. rsofthej^;,, hlch he protests agalnsfjjj11 pis ■ery dreary tor a he liaiw'iol he drouth suflerers at tne iiibllcan legislature, a; for. nterests have been »elUi__ Amending the sloc” pwtBf Mr. A. G. Wolfenbarger. ren^ 30 lebraska prohibitions. ]p; itterstothe members oi len ne proven , amend the ouse roll 410. Mr.Wol*®"^, ,-jJ "Section 1 of tlds P *mons'rJ!i(: Dt|uires a $100bond b>ti* hie. Hut ]J ^ __ nd by re“ , jjut i^jj unfair and,unre»!jJJ,1,.ai“ foui^ ‘^3 ja.cli seek toum;;"* amar] lot the present law in ” radically aboilsh a» rtirlBJu.! ges under the stat-tu ut of the traffic. p your »'• d ••I would especially caa^r,, „ ,4 ■ le manner in whu '; . If ^ at law is to be changei ,, at becomes a law. m t|iedrink r' ^e as been wrecked > ate. need se<‘K ill be pur ;'] !,, or.”l‘»a->''. no woman in l*'-0' ti,at * selling the II; uortl,at.-1‘d^t *. tins her husband. »o notice u>,KaJ duty servo w ritte. work\L; a traffic eventual1} uni.aI e entirei measure • ia a 4*6 y4,a id I hope you «-•*• .V fulpud slst in- defeating thi- " oposed liquor legist^ *- our J Our actions ar.* oar A quences belong to .^nK*^ The world gives no P tt giving burdens