.
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