Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER.
PUBLISHED EVl'.UY TIIUHSDAY By
Tn« I'lioNTim Printing Co.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA.
OVER THE STATE.
Fai.i. wheat Is said to bo looking'
nicely.
Tine poNtoffleo nt Burlington has boon
discontinued permanently.
Tiik Lincoln Light Infantry has
made application to bo mustered in the
Nebraska National guards.
Okoiigk Diet/, of Falls City was
kicked in t he side by a horse, breaking
one rib and severely hurting his arm.
Tiik semi annual meeting of the liluo
Valley Congregational association will
be held at Exeter May 21, 23 and 23.
Tiik. citizens of Dunbar aro complain
ing of an epidemic of grip, attended by
severo sore throut. Children are gen
erally uttuckod.
A KANtiot.ru woman tried to learn to
rldo a bicycle on Sunday and was
thrown over the handles of the machine
and severely injured.
A CAlir.oAt) of potatoes belonging to
1). M. White was burned on tlie track
at Aurora. The car, as well as 4DO
bushels of potatoes, is a total loss.
Harry Draper, the 4-yeurold son of
Tom Draper of Lincoln, was drowned
in a well. The child and several others
were playing uround the place when he
fell in.
Tmc 17-months-old child of William
Downing, living near Havelock, drank
a large quantity of solution of arsenic,
but the promp application of emetics
caved the little one's life.
Excavating for tho Masonic temple
at lndlnnola commenced Inst week,
tho structure will be a two-story brick,
twenty-live feet fronting on Main
street It will oust 97,000.
Buy home-made goods and build up
home Industries, Is a good policy: Far
rell’ Fire Extinguisher, made by Far
• rell & Co., Omaha; Morse-Coe boots and
shoes for men, women and children.
The mortgage record for (logo county
is as follows: Farm inortgAgess filed,
83; amount, 9112,QUO; released, 82;
amount 908,833. City mortgages filed,
93; amount, 913,020; released, 20;
amount, 918,020.
A FtitK from a defective flue entirely
destroyed the residence of W. It Tur
ner, a prosperous farmer living three
miles south of Steele City. But little
of his household goods were saved.
Loss, 9800; Insured for 9400.
James McCpi.i.ovcui, a bachelor resi
dent of liemingford, was found dead
in his bed by a neighbor. Death was
probably due to natural causes, as his
clothes were by the side of the bed and
the pockets contained over 973 In cash.
Cukt Snyder was arrested in Fuller
ton for stealing two horses from a
farmer near St. Edwards. He came to
town and sold the horses at public sale.
J. T. Smith bought one for 930 and
Hibson Miller purchased the other for
917.
Tuk proposition to vote $10,000 bonds
to tho Cogad Irrigation company was
▼oted on last week the second time and
carried. This binds the irrigation com
pany to have wator running in its
ditch by May 15 or forfeit 8100 per day
thereafter until complete,
W. W. Art, who has tho contract for
the resurvey of Grant county, arrived
at Hpannis last week. He came with
teams and men fully equipped to begin
the work at once. It will require about
eight months to complete, the contract
Pjjjo for which will be about $8,000.
^ usoak DickkUnon of Rising City was
accidentally shot by John Rogers while
they were hunting on Platte river. The
full charge of shot struck him in the
leg between the knee joint and hip
joint and shattered the bone so that
the doctors think that the leg will have
to be amputated.
Tuk prisoners. Smith and Norton,
«who were serving out a thirty days’
sentence, of which eleven days had
passed, broke jail in a clever manner
on Saturday night. They had placed
two dummys in their cells, and the
sheriff in making his rounds, thought
be saw them asleep and locked the
cages.
Rrv. James Lyi.e, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church, of North
Platte, who has been for several weeks
in the east soliciting grain and seed for
the farmers, has returned home. Com
rade Haydn Strong, who went to sol
icit seed grain under the auspices of
the Grand Army of the Republic post
of North Platte, returned with one car
of grain.
The South Omaha postoffice was en
tered by safe blowers last week and
was robbed of $3,000 in money and
stamps. In the vault down stairs was
$3,500 worth of stamps that had been
taken from their boxes and handled,
but were left lying on the floor, which
is thought to iudicate that the thieves
were frightened away before they had
completed their job.
There was a large and enthusiastic
meeting at Table Rock to look up the
beet sugar business. Individual pledges
were made for the planting of thirty
acres C. S. Wood was appointed as a
canvasser to look up tho matter thor
oughly for three or four davs, when
another meeting will be called and a
permanent organization will be ef
fected. Much interest is being mani
fested in the matter.
The speed program for the coming
state fair is out, and in consequence of
the liberal purses offered, it must com
mand the favor of all local horsemen,
aggregating, as they do, within a cou
ple of hundred of $10,000. That the
management realizes that it will re
quire good purses to insure success is
mode evident by the sum offered.
There are to be five days of racing, be
ginning on Monday, September 16, and
continuing until Friday, September 30,
inclusive.
A revolver in the pocket of the ed
itor of the Ewing Advocate "went off”
while he was standing in the postofllce
and gave the crowd a scare. The edi
tor was a little more than scared, for
the bullet sped down his leg into the
heel of his boot, leaving a blistered line
to mark its course.
Mrs. Metzger, wife of Harry Metz
ger of the Aurora Sun. was severely
burned last week by the explosion of
a kerosene lamp. Her clothing was set
on fire and she ran into the street,
where Charles White rolled her on the
ground until the tire was nut out. Her
clothing was burned from her person
•ad she is in a precarious condition.
Wai-sa is enjoying a little building
boom. Three nice resiliences ere under
construction and contracts will be let
for the erection of a two-story brick
business block in the near future.
Anxoi.t) linos.’ clothing store at Fair
field wus burglurized a few nights ago.
The thieves effected an entrance
through the basement, tumbled a lot
of clothing down the cellar, and appa
rently sorted it over at their leisure
and selected what was wanted They
ulsotook a lot of jewelry, sueli as collar
unil cuff buttons, the vuluo of all
amounting to near *100.
Tom Majors, Land Commissioner
Russell, Deputy City Clerk (iillcspie
and John Wiseman left last week for
Tennessee to participate in the anni
versary of the battle of Shiloh. Tho
battle ground is to be turned over to
Hie government at this celebration.
The gentlemen who formed this Lin
coln delegation to the historic scene
were all participants in the battle.
(•kohgk MouuKNKTKCKKBof Nebraska
City, one of the senate doorkeepers,
dropped dead from heart disease at
Lincoln, lie was present at his post
as usual at'! o'clock, but as he com
plained of being sick, he started for
his boarding house and dropped dead
on tho way. lie was the father of
(ieorge Molirensteeker, one of tho lead
ing dry goods merchants of Lincoln.
Mus. Katk Wai.ker, living near the
Missouri I’aciHc in Nebruslcu City, had
a lively experience with tramps. A
number of that profession culled at her
residence nnd asked for something to
eat Hhe accommodated them, and
during her temporary absence from the
room, ono of them went through tho
dresser, throwing tho contents to the
lloor, appropriating what he fancied.
Robert Leach, a member of tho Sec
ond Infnntry band, committed suicide
at Fort Omaha by blowing the entire
top of his head off with a shotgun. The
suicide was deliberate and premedi
tated. Leach had taken ono of tho
shoe strings out of his shoes. One end
ho fastened in an eyelet of his right
shoo and the other to the trigger of the
gun. He then placed the muzzle of the
gun in his mouth and by pushing out
Ills foot discharged the weapon. The
entire top part of his head was blown
off.
Wii.t.iam Williams, a young man,
died last week at Verdon. He went
Into the field to break stalks with four
horses and a long pole. While unfas
tening the pole from the wagon the
horses started and cramped the wagon,
the cramped wheel striking Williams
in the breast and p&ssingoverhis body,
fracturing three ribs on the left side
and breaking the collar hone on the
right side. A neighbor at work in an
adjoining field noticed the team run
away, but not seeing any one after
them for some time, went to investi
gate and found Williams lying on the
ground.
Seed Grain for Nebraska*
A recent Issue of the Philadelphia
Press contains an editorial concerning
Nebraska's urgent need of seed grain.
It says:
Senator William V. Allen on his re
turn from Washington finds and reports
that large numbers of his constituents
are in a most deplorable condition
through their unpreparedness to meet
the requirements of the coming year.
Senator Allen asks that help be given
these struggling farmers of western
Nebraska, and he asks it of those who
can easily afford to assist them. In re
ply to a telegram of inquiry from this
state as to what form of aid would be
most beneficial the Nedraska senator
wires the following reply:
Madison, Neb., March 31.—What can
be done in the way of sending seed
grain? There is great necessity for
prompt action. William V. Allen.
In responsse to the representations of
Senator Allen and the other evidences
of the immediate needs of the drouth
Bufferers in western Nebraska it is pro
posed that Pennsylvania shall send at
once to these seedless farmers twenty
five carloads of seed wheat. With its
accustomed liberality and world-famed
public spirit the Pennsylvania Railroad
company enters into the proposal and
offers to do its share, as the following
letter to one of the gentlemen who
have interested themselves in the mat
ter attests:
My Dear Sir: Replying to your com
munication of the 31st, inst, enclosing
letter from United States Senator W.
V. Allen, in regard to the transporta
tion of twenty-five carloads of seed
wheat contributed by the farmers of
the state of Pennsylvania to be distrib
uted among the sufferers in Nebraska,
I would say that the Pennsylvania
Railroad company will cheerfully
transport ffee the wheat referred to
from points in Pennsylvania to Chica
go, which point, as you know, is as far
in the direction of the destination of
the wheat as our lines extend.
Very truly yours,
Phans Thompson,
First Vice President
Philadelphia, March 35, 1S95.
Secretary Rdge can not do better to
signalize his promotion to be the head
of tho Department of Agriculture in
the state government of Pennsylvania
than to take charge at once of the col
lection and transmission of seed wheat
from this state to the stricken farmers
of Nebraska. The need is urgent.
Transportation is provided free, for no
doubt some one or more of the railroads
from Chicago to Nebraska will not con
sent to be outdone in generosity to the
people of Nebraska by the Pennsylva
nia railroad. The opportunity is given
to the farmers of Pennsylvania to help
their brethren of the west But it
should not be left to the farmers alone.
These twenty-five carloads of seed
grain should be collected promptly, for
its transportation and distribution will
consume some time, and if it is to
answer its purpose it must be in the
ground within a very few weeks. This
call for help from Nebraska should
meet with immediate and generous
response from Pennsylvania.
I The i oung Men’s Christian associa
; tion of the Third district of Nebraska
held tlieir sixth annual convention at
\ Kushville March Sit, 30 and 31. There
i were over ninety delegates in attend
ance. Rev. Mr. Pease, of Hay Spring,
| J. H. Yap Ciasbeck of Neligh, Harry
; Markle and H. E. Wells of Fremont de
‘ livered five addresses during the ses
> sion. A delgation of Indians from Pine
| Ridge agency was present and took an
! active part in the convention. The fol
i lowing officers were elected for the en
! suing year: President. J. II. Van Gas
I beck of Neligh; secretary, Harry Market
! of Fremont; assistant secretary, C. &
i Woods of Rushville.
LEGISLATIVE LABOR
CEING THAT WHICH APPLIES
TO NEBRASKA.
A Good Many Measures Being Pat
Through In the Closing Days of the
State Assembly—The Governor Exer
cises tlie Veto Power in Several Bills-—
Some Measures that lie Has Signed—
Miscellaneous News and Notes.
The Nebraska Assembly*
•Ffjtatf.—The senate put in the afternoon
on tho let in pusllng bills to third reading.
'1 ho only bill of importance passed and sent
back to the house was the salary bill, appro
priating tot ft, ODu for the payment of salaries
and wages of state officers, supe» lntendents
of state institutions, clerks, assistants, etc.
The iiill appropriates £1(1, .0 more than it
did when it passed the house und it must
j therefore go hark for concurrence. Of the
increased appropriations fett.3 0 consists of
i niseo salaries for offices already in exist
ence and for new offices created by the
present legislature. It Is believed that
the house will concur In the amendments.
'1 lie bill providing for the appointment of
lawyers as judges pro tern under certain
circumstances was read a third time and
passed. Another 1)111, read the third time
and passed, amends in very many particu
lars the law governing the appraisement of
state educational lands, hate in the
afternoon the senate took up for third
reading senate tile 2.2, the bill
which last Thursday afternoon brought
about the Stowurt episode. The bill was
passed, hut only seventeen votes could be
mustered, and the emergency clause was
knocked out. The bill was introduced by
Noyes of Douglas county, and makes anum
berof radical arneiHlmenis to the school
law, and is particularly obnoxious m the
senators from the western part of ihe state.
The provision to which they most particu
larly object is the one which recites: "if
any school district for the period of one year
fail to maintain a school for a term of at
least three consecutive months, or keep Its
organization of officers, or if there lias been
an average at tend since for three consecu
tive months of live pupils or less, such dis
trict shall lapse and the money in t he coun
tv treasury belonging thereto bo divided
among tiie other districts of the county.”
Another objectionable section was the one
providing that the maximum limit of any
school district levy shall po 15 mills Inste id
of 25, us under the present law. The senate
read the third time and passed the joint
resolution and memorial to congress asking
for the cession of Fort Omaha to the state
of Nebraska.
Hot8F.—In the house on the 1st the gov
ernor sent in a message vetoing the Omaha
police bill. I ostponement of consideration
for the present was moved. Mr. Barry ob
jected, citing the following from the consti
tution: rcctlon 15, Article V. Veto.—If he
approve he shall sign it and thereupon it
shull Leconie a law; but if he do not approve
lie shall return It with his objections to the
house In which It shall have originated,
which house shall enter the objections at
large upon its journal and proceed to recon
sider the bill, i urry argued that the sense
of the constitution was that tho house
should proceed immediately to considera
tion of the veto measure and vote upon the
bill. When the speaker announced tho
written motion he as timed the responsibil
ity of changing the wording of the motion
t«» make it apply to house roll No. l.il). This
interference on the part of the speaker was
vigorously objected to by Jiowurd and
Harry. They claimed that after the motion
had been read and had become the property
of the house the speaker had no right to as
sume the grave responsibility of changing
the wording on his own motion. Tho point
of order made bv Howard was overruled.
Van Housen moved that Ricketts’motion to
make the veto messugo a special order for
Wednesday be laid on the table, and de
manded a roll call. Van Housen’s motion
was defeated by nays 42, yeas 22. The fol
lowing bill were read a third time and
passed: House roll No. 2t>3 by Spencer,
amending the Consolidated Statutes relat
ing to lncoiporation of street railways.
House roll No. 243, bp Rhodes, barring an
insane wife’s dower and Interest In her hus
band’s real estate. House roll No. 2P, Dy
Brady, authorizing cities of the second class
and villages to impose a special license on
insurance companies. House roll No. 557,
by liecher. providing for spring elections in
cities of the second class and villages.
House roll No. 34(5, by Burch, authorizing
cities of the second cla-s to issue bonds and
borrow money for water works purposes.
House roll No. .'R% by Lamborn, providing
for a method of purchasing supplies for tho
legislature and to regulate the use and care
ox the same.
cenate.—In tho senate, on the 2d, the
committee on banks and currency recom
mended the passage of house roll No. 101.
This is the new banking law, introduced in
both houses. Each branch of the legisla
ture passed its own bill, but as amended the
house bill was the more acceptable. Several
senators, however, desired to add one or
two amendments, and it was therefore made
a special order for a o’clock. The senate
then rvadjfor the third time and passed
nou.'.e roll No. *50, a bill Introd'aced by Da
vies, to amend the law defining the manner
in which proposed amendments to the con
stitution may be voted upon. The gambling
bill introduced early in thesession oy Hahn,
and which was so radically amended by the
senate last week, was read the third time
and passed. Senate file No. M), by Graham,
to require and regulate tho registration or
voters for election purposes in cities
of the metropolitan, first and second class,
was read the third time and passed.
Holorook. from the committee on manufac
tures and commerce, reported back the bill
passed by the house ana known as the gov
ernor’s oleomargarine bill, being a measure
introduced by McKeeby upon the recom
mendation of Governor Holcomb. The com
mittee recommended that the bill be passed
and it went to the general flic. The sifting
committee reported six senate bills and
eight house bills with tho recommendation
that they be considered immediately. These
are the last s- nate files that will be acted
upon at the present session. None of them
were of extreme importance. The lieuten
ant governor appointed as tho senate con
ference committee on the salary appropria
tion bill £enuturs Graham, Black and
Caldwell. The senate is being importuned
every moment of the day to pass this bill or
that bill for tho benefit of private individu
als. Some of these bills provide places for
new officials. Some enable individuals to
accomplish their own private ends. Few of
them are of importance to the state at
larue. The senate has enough to do if it
will confine itself to the work of passing the
apptopria.ion bills.
"House.—In the house on the 2d house roll
No. 607, by J udd, providing for the eject
ment of Contractor Porgan from the peni
tentiary, was passed by a vote of to 2.
The bill authorizes the appropriation of
.000 for the purpose of buying out Dor
pan, the present prison contractor, and for
other necessary expenses incident thereto,
i hree appraiser* of the contractor's prop
erty are to be appointed, one by tho Board
of Public lands and Buildings, one hv i or
gan and one by the governor. Should Por
gan fail to select his appraiser the other
two are to proceed and annrai.se the nrnn.
erty. i ne toiiowing uuts on third reading
were parsed: Providing for a county hoard
of equalization of assessments; providing
that county assessors shall assess property
without reference to the assessment hooks
of the preceding year; for the relief of
David b. Kenyon, deputy sheriff of Antelope
county: providing for u plumbing inspector
In cities of the metropolitan class: pro
viding for the election of supreme
judges and regents of the State university:
to compel institutions transacting a bank
ing business to keep a list of shareholders
for the inspection of creditors of the insti
tution; providing that articles of incorpor
ation have been tiled with county clerks as
well as with the secretaiy of state; provid
ing for the enforcement of tfmirantlne laws
in cities and vil ages; creating a board of
immigration and defining its duties, with
out the emergency clause; providing that
all warrants shall draw Interest from the
dale of tlicir presentation; providing for a
canvass of the votes in the constitutional
amendments; joint resolution, providing
that Nebraska shall in the future be known
■no te'erred to as the “Itee Planters
Mate:” providing for the manner in which
the con-titutioual amendments shall he
submitted to the people, was concurred in
a ud goes to the governor for'ills signature.
Fixate.— In the senate on the ad the sift
ing committee reported seventeen addi
tional bl.ls for immediate consideration,
all house rolls, numbered as follows: 6 ,
SOI. 87, 21*4. 457. 346, 5-6. 136, 28. 392, 585, 510, 232.
Hi, 36,13. t'42. l»n motion of Akers \0X> extra
copies of the Irrigation bill were oruered for
distribution. The senate then took np bills
bn nurd reading and passed the Omaha
charter amendment.-, the bill defining a
legal newspaper and the bill known as sen
ate file >o. 3.'53, providing for the payment
of the money re* eived in redemption of real
estate sold at tax sale to tbo owner of the
certificate. Just before the noon recess the
senate went into the committee of the whole
to consider bills in the sifting file. Senate
file No. 128, providing for the government of
mutual life insurance companies, was read
and then indefinitely postponed. The bill
authorizing the secretary of state to
designate newspapers in which the pro
posed amendments to the constitution
shall be printed, instead of permitting the
governor to do so, was taken up and passed
over the governor’s veto by a strict party
vote. The senate then resumed the order
of bills on third reading. The first bill
passed was house roll No. 1 »1, known us the
state? banking act. It makes a number of
.material amendments in the present law,
tiie principal feature of the hew law being
the provision which relieves the supreme
court of the burden of the Immense amount
of business occasioned by the failure of
banks. At present the supreme court has
exclusivo jurisdiction over broken banks,
and as there are constantly from forty to
sixiy suspended banks in the court, at least
one-thiru of the time of the supreme bench
is taken up in this way. The district courts
will have charge of the work in the future.
The Lincoln charter was read the third
time and passed.
House.—In the house on the 3d the follow
ing bills were passed: Authorizing the
governor to appoint three commissioners to
act with a like commission of routh Dakota
in ascertaining the correct boundary line
between that state and Nebraska, so far as
the same may be the line » etween Clay
j county in South Dakota and Dixon county
[ In Nebraska; to pension firemen of paid lire
I departments after a continuous service of
twenty-one years, and the widows and or
! nhans of firemen who lose their lives in the
line of duty: (elating to contracts for the
sale, lease or hire of railroad and street
railway equipment: authorizing counties,
townships, pierincts, cities and villages to
issue bonds 10 aid in the construction of
wagon toll bridges across any boundary
i river in tho state; providing for the nomi
| nation of public officers by certificate; em
powering cities of tho second class of more
than 5,0*0 and less than 2».U00 inhabitants to
purchase or own and improve land for
parks and public grounds and to bond such
cities for that purpose; the Omaha
canal bill, to enable counties to issue bonds
to construct and operate canals for naviga
tion, water power and other purposes.
Tiie governor’s private secretary presented
a message from the executive recommend
ing tiie passage of an additional relief bill
appropriating £50.000. ben at oil le No. 8, pro
viding for bills of exception In courts lower
than the district court, was recommended
for passage, and *48, for tho preservation of
I game and fisli, and (17. for the increase of
sheriff’s fees, were indefinitely postponed.
The clerk read a message from the governor
In which he declined to give his signature
to senate file 335, providing that the secre
tary of state, instead of the governor, shall
name If he papers in which the constitutional
amendments shall bo published. Jt had
been passed in the senate over the veto and
fared the same way in the house by a vote
of (Si) to 21 The house then took up the
special order of the day. house roll No. 139,
the Omaha fire and police commission bill,
vetoed by tho governor, and the clerk read
the message. The vote on the bill resulted
in 62 votes to 0 in favor of overriding tho
governor’s veto.
Senate.—In the senate on the 4t.h the im
migration bill was considered. The judici
ary committee recommended that the bill
be passed just as It came from the house,
and that It be advanced to third reading.
Tiie report was adopted. House roll No. 31.
reducing the. interest on state warrants,
was indefinitely postponed for the reasou I
that it was not an exact counterpart of sen- !
ate file No. 25,which had already been pass- 1
ed by both houses and signed by the gover
nor. House roll No.'8S4, known as Benedict’s
age of consent bill, was considered. The
senate then, by an almost unanimous vote,
ordered the bill advanced to third leading
after adonting the amendments recommen
ded by the judiciary committee. As amend
ed, the bill now reads as follows: ‘'if any
person shall have carnal knowledge of any
other woman, or female child, than his
daughter or sister, as aforesaid forcibly and
against her will; or if any male person, of
the age of 18 years or upward, shall carnal
ly know or abuse any female child under
tne ago of 18years, with her consent, unless
said female child so known and abused is
over 15 years of age and previously unchas
ed. and every such pereon so offen
ding shall be deemed guilty of rape,
und shall be Imprisoned in the pen
itentiary not more than twenty years
nor less than three years.” The Louse
county depository law bill was passed. The
next Dili read the third time and passed
was house roll No. 540 better known as the
immigration bill. The measure was passed
with the emergency clause, just as it came
from the house. The senate then took up
tiie bill already passed by the hou-e to cre
ate a branch soldiers’ home at Milford. The
bill provides that the Milford Sanitarium
shall bo used us a soldiers’ home by the
slate, providing that the rent shall be free
for two years. The bill was recommended
to pass. The appropriation bill wa? passed.
Lindsay created a diversion by moving that
house roll No. ’TO be ordered to third read
ing. Tliis was the insurance bill which the
senate had ordered Crane to return. The
| opponents of the bill endeavored to force
an adjournment, but failed, and Lindsay s
motion was agreed to. Before adjourning
the senate adopted a resolution of Watson’s
cyrecting the secretary of state to hang in
the senate chamber a portrait of the late
ex-Lieutenant Governor E. O. Cams of Sew
ard, the frame to bear a silver plate in
scribed with a suitable inscription setting
forth the public services of the deceased
lieutenant governor.
llocsE.—In the house on the 4th the speak
er appointed Burch, Koddy and Harris a
committee to act with a similar body from
the senate, to arrange for the selection of
six trustees of the Institute for the Blind
at Nebraska City. The house conference
committee on house roll No. 60, the anti
cigarette bill, made the following report,
which was adopted: Your conference com
mittee appointed to meet a like committee
from the senate on senate amendments to
house roll No. 60, begs leave to report that
it has agreed to the amendments by the
henate except in line three of senate amend
ments, strike out the figuro $> and insert
the figures fio all of which is respectfully
submitted. The following bills were re
commended for passage: To regulate the
organization and operation of mutual in
surance associsstions; providing for the
I care of feeble minded and imbecile chil
dren; for the adjustment of damages by
reason of public roads being laid upon pub
lic school lands; providing for the fisting of
public lands by county clerks for purposes
of assessment; providing that county com
misssioners let bridge work to lowest Lidder
to reapportion the state into judicial dis
tricts; providing that executors and guar
dians of feeble minded persons may take
charge of their property; memorial and
joint resolution to congress regarding the
conveyance by the government of Fort
Omaha to the state of Nebraska on condi
tion that the fort l econverted intocncamp
ment grounds for the Nabraska National
t»nurds; Noyes’bili for forming new school
districts. 'J he committee of the whole then
rose and the house took up the regular or
der of bills on third reading. Senate, file No.
‘.Q, by Sloan, legalising orders, judgments,
decrees und findings of courts, was passed,
henate file No. 59, Sloan's bill making valid
orders and decrees of 1887, and No. 7. Crane’s
measure relating to probate courts, were
also Dassed.
Senate.—In tho senate on the 5th the
oleomargarine bill passed by a vote of lit to
10. The senate then took up for third read
ing and passed bouse roll No. 4.14, a bill pro
viding that linion college of Lincoln may
Issue diplomas. The following were passed:
House roll No. 519. Introduced by Hairgrove,
by request, and providing for the appropri
ation of £1,090 for the purpose of furnishing
additional shelving for the state library;
appropriating I6C0 out of the library fund
for the purpose of purchasing the necessary
cards and cases and arranging a card cata
logue for tho state library; providing for
the payment to Dakota county the sum of
$2.-2U.5u overpaid to the state on erroneous
assessment in Its", 1888, 1889, 1890: providing
for a uniform system of vouchers for use
for all disbursements of state funds, and to
provide for the atlixlng of an oath or affirm
ation thereto by the claimant; providing
for the free attendance at public high
schools; making an appropriation to nay all
expenses occasioned by the state I ourd of
transportation in defending the maximum
rate !aw in the federal courts against the
in ,unctions brought by the railroad compa
nies and for providing funds with which
to pay John L. Webster for legal services In
carrying the case to the supreme court of
the t nited States: providing for the estab
llshmentof a branch Soldiers’ home m Mil
foJ'}1:-I!roil5ln* ,or ,he refunding of$240
which had been erroneou-ly paid on state
lands by Maurice Dee. The senate adopted
the usual biennial resolution, giving away
the senate flag to some Grand Arngy Dost in
the state This year the lucky recipient
was William Tecumseh Sherman post at
rriend. The senate then took a recess for
an hour and a halt. On motion of Campbell
the thanks of the senate was tendered to
Lieutenant Governor Moore for his uniform
dourteer toward every member of the sen
at© and for the fairness of his rulings on
©very critical point The resolution was
adopted by a rising vote. At 4 o’clock, April
Cth, the report of the conference committee
had not been presented. There was then no
prospect of adjournment for at least three
Hours, owing to the immense amount of
work before the engrossing and enrolling
clerks.
House.—The house adjourned on the 5th
according to resolution previously adopted.
A large amou.it of business was transacted
on the last day. Among measures passed
were the following: To provide for the ed
ucation of children confined in the poor
houses. Btuefer's bill providing that the
county court may authorize the estates of
insane per»ons and spendi hrlfts to be mort
gaged. Senate tile 174. This is Smith’s me
morial asking congress to cede Fort Omaha
to tlie state of Nenraska. Senate file 104,
Hahn’s bill providing that tracts of land In
the same section, or lots in the same block
owned by one man shall be listed as one
tract. Graham’s bill relating to the admis
sion of imbecile children to the Beatrice
Institution. Attention was called to the
mutilated condition of the Omaha char
ter and a committee was designated to ;
investigate and report. The special com- i
mittee reported that they had examined |
the Omaha charter and found It to be O. K.
During the discussion on the prison con
tract Grow of Douglas and A. £). Heemer,
warden of the penitentiary, engaged in a
controversy. Crow accused Heemer of using
money in the interest of the measure. The
conference committee reported that the
senate had receded from its amendments to
house roil 607, the prison contract bill. (Ap
plause. 1 A committee waited on the gov
ernor and his excellency informed the house
that he had nothing further to communi
cate more than to thank the legislature for
its kindness and courtesy to him during the
entire session.
Joint Mission.—Immediately after the
reading of the journal in the senate on the
6th, senator Watson moved that the senate
proceed to meet in joint convention for the
purpose of electing trustees of the asylum
for the blind.
When the senato reached the hall of rep
resentatives, the joint con vent ion was called
to order by the lieutenant governor.
On roll call Harry of Greeley moved call
of the house, as provided by the rules.
Harrison raised a point of order that there
had been no rules governing the joint con
vention. :*enator Watson presented the re
port of the joint committee, naming candi
dates for trustees and moved the adoption
thereof.
These candidates were: W. L. Wilson of
Otoe, O. Horst of Otoe, I. L. Fish of Gage, G.
W. Crane of Keith, Webster Eaton of Lan
caster, F. E. McKceby of Webster.
Howard of Sarpy moved as an amendment
that the following be elected: Frank Deif
endort of Hutler, James Hughes of « olfax,
John Speodieof rarpy, James lvesterson of
Nuckolls, James Mallon of Dodge, Thomas
Sullivan, jr., of Dakota.
Harry of Greeley protested against the
proceeding, and had his protest spread on
the journal.
The committee candidates were elected
by a vote of 87 to 22.
Howard of .Sarpy offered the following:
“1 move that the thanks of this joint con
vention le tendered i resident Moore for
his kindness and courtesy to members; such
an exhibition of fairness being in refresh
ing contrast with tr atment. sometimes ac
corded gentlemen on this floor by presiding
officers.
The motion was declared out of order and
the joint convention adjourned.
Where the Seed Money Was Sent.
After remaining in session for nearly a
week the .*tate Relief commission, on the
2d, finished its work of apportioning among
the several counties of the state the $2.0,00.)
recently appropriated, and the results were
this afternoon reported to the senate. In
making the report Secretary Ludden says:
I um directed by the commission to add
this “Exhibit B” to our weekly report, it
being the division of the $20 ‘,000 appropri
ated to provide seed and feed for the desti
tute farmers in this state in accordance
with house roll 625. As soon as we had com
pleted the pro-i ating, the commission com
plied with section 2 and instructed the
president and secretary to make the proper
requisition on the auditor in favor of the
several treasurers of the counties entitled
to aid. We have complied with section 3
and appointed county relief commissions In
the sixty-one counties. In pro-rating we
followed section 7, but in arriving at the
number of farmers in need the commission
was compelled to use tables prepared show
ing the actual number of farmers in the
several counties;/he number of acres im
proved and unimproved land in each; the
actuul number of farmers as shown by the
records of the several county clerks; as a
xuriner neip we usea me total vote cast In
several counties in 1‘1M, and alsQ the school
census of 1MH; the number of families fe
ported in need in the several counties by
their respective county relief commissions,
in accordance with section 11: and from the
reports made by members of the commission
its :v result of their visits to the several
counties.
These several Items in the respective
counties applying for aid were carefully
tubulated, and the commission believes a
lust and equitable conclusion as to the num
ber of farmers actually needing seed and
feed in said counties and unable to procure
the same was reached. The money was
then apportioned in accordance with the
findings of the commission, pro-rated ac
cordng to the number of farmers in need of
aid in their several counties. Subjoined
please find counties and amount of the
a 200,000 that they will receive.
county. Amount.:
1 Adams.I 2,000,
Antelope.... 3.2‘>0,
Banner. 1,000,
Blaine. so •
Boone. 2,<00
Box Butte... 750
Boyd. 0,250
Brown. 2,000
Buffalo. 6,701;
10 Chase. 4,200
H Cherry. 2,650'
12 Cheyenne.... 2,000
13 Clay. 1,100
14 Custer. 15,750
15 Hawes. 3 0
Dawson. 5,300
Deule. 3,200
Dundy. 3,000
Franklin_ 2,400
Frontier. 5,3 0
Furnas. 4,400|
a Garfield. i.sool
Gosper. 4,200
Greeley. 5,500
Hall. 4,500
Hamilton ... 2,<00
Harlan. 4,750
Hayes . 4,2 0
Hitchcock... 6,750
' olt. 9,0X1
Hooker. 250
County.
Amount.
Howard.$ 7,200
Jefferson.... 750
Kearney_ 5,310
Keith. 3,000
Keya Paha. 3,700
Kimball. 600
Knox. 3,000
Lincoln. 3.000
Logan. 1,500
Loup. 1,900
McPnerson. 600
Madison.... 1,00)
Merrick. 1,501
.Nance. 1,750
Nuckolls.... 900
Perkins. 5,00»
Phelps. 5,300
Pierce. 500
Platte. .50
Polk. 1,000
Red Willow. 5,750
Rock. 2.30J
Sheridan_ 500
Sherman ... 5,700
Sioux., 500
Thayer. 730
Valley. 6,250
Webster.... 2,000
Wheeler_ 1,000
York. 1,00
Insane Person's Dower.
One of the biils which passed the house
was house roll 213, introduced by Sutton of
Douirlas, providing that in case of the in
sanitv or either husband or wife, the Inter
est of such insane party, whether of dower
or courtesy, may be barred at any time
during the life of the other party by deed
of t:<e lawfully appointed guardian of such
insane person. This shall be when it shall
be maue satisfactory to appear to the
court upon petition of one or the parties
mentioned herein that the other party is in
sane and that it is necessary, expedient or
beneficial to the interests of the party com
plaining to sell or dispose of any real prop
erty in which the insane party has an inter
est, either of dower or courtesy, upon ob
taining license therefor as hereinaf.er pro
vided.
The bill provides for the method of pro
cedure in the inquiry for notice to be served
personally on all interested parties, and
then if the court is satisfied that it is neces
sary, expedienwor beneficiul te the parties
that such real estate be dispossessed, the
authority to sell and deed the dower or
courtesy interest of the iusane person shall
he given to the guardian.
To Tax iDKurance Companies.
House roll 28, which passed the house, will
te of interest to it any towns in Nebraska.
It 19 as follows:
Belt enacted by the legislature of the
state of Nebraska;
Section 1. That the municipal authorities
ofanveity of the first class having less
than J6,Q00 inhabitants, or city of the second
class or village, shall have authority, by
ordinance, to impose a license tax of not
more than $5 per annum on each insurance
corporation doing business in such citv or
▼Mlage. for the use, support and benefit of
volunteer fire departments regularly organr
ixed under the laws of the state of Nebraska
regulating the same.
Important Question 8cttl«a.
London, April 4.—The settlement of
the Pamir question as announced in
the house of commons yesterday con
firms the Qranvllle-Oortchakoff com
pact of 1878. .
SAVED FRoiisJj
L,‘““ CU‘rt«*
Mne. Babyhood, "'a
!:ok- - cb..:r j
^•"‘r Veon—Botk .1
Asheville, if. c,
1 Is that true*’* «.• .
at Pelham’s pLm»kta «*■
a letter In the v£?acy’•»
te--Te8d.tUftome«8enW"
one of’our better
J. C. Fogleman .-heaas *
the proprietor*10’ pro«P
street. We all
man of his word " °w Pol
M Slad to hear I.
KheT^owXrf'N
over to ask you atX „
letter three times, bT
you.
too good to be true
letter said:
“Office of Pelhams Pl
f2 l°894aVepUe’.^hev11"
1 o4- Oentlemen-M
now 8 years, began che
when 3 years old by the
family physician ln
stronger stimulants
Thb w
■Mv j
the i
weeks ago I began' glvinM.
Bac, which I bought at p.i?
macy, and to my grfjf1
It Is needless to say mv
To-Bac completely cured hi
not seem to care for tob
very much improved t„
heartily and has amu'h
frnm"?inS Such remarkabiei
from the use of No-Tm
myself and It cured me
tobacco In all Its various
period of twenty years
“I take pleasure In makinr
statement of facts for
others. (Signed) J. c. FOG'
Yes, I know It’s a fact
of the strongest, truthful',
I ever read—and it’s true
him the No-To-Bac”
“What’s that?” asked Chief,
Hawkins, whose manly fon
ln the new police uniform, i
mon ln all his glory, came u
“Why, No-To-Bac cures"
“Cures? Why, I should »
nave used it myself. It curei
“Would you object to i
statement of the fact for pul
"Certainly not," and the
as follows:
“Asheville, N. C., Sept.
ham Pharmacy—I bought oi
No-To-Bac from you some t
After using No-To-Bac I to
lost the desire for tobacco
cured.
“I have used tobacco-chl
lng—for eight (8) or ten OH
“H. S. HA1
Everybody looked astcni
wondered what would next
“Suppose it don’t cure?'
asked. "Then they do the i
when No-To-Bac won’t cure
that?” asked the News ma
druggist ln America Is aui
sell No-To-Bac under an ate
antee to cure or money reft
To-Bao is made by the Ste
edy Co., general offices it
Montreal, and New York,
laboratory Is at Indian:
Springs, Indiana, a big he
they own; Its the place i
give Mud Baths for rheuu
skin diseases. You ought t
president, Mr. A. L. Thom:
& Thomas, of Chicago."
course I do. We get bus:
them right along, and they:
as gold. Well, give me thel
lng books and I will makes
in the paper about what yo,
me, for I know there are th
good North Carolina peopl
tobacco spitting and smo
lives away, and No-To-Bac
guaranteed cure, and the)
know it.”
A Deadly Drum*.
The following strange stall
of the manuscript of "Elaine, il
by George Parsons. It wss *
nnd produced by Miss Annie
but no sooner had the lady !^_
thus far than she was taken ill
entailed the withdrawal ofOtl
Thereupon Mr. Lathrop senutjl
Anderson—“Our Mary. ’as "1
countrymen affectionately c“|
She liked it, and was actually
tiation to procure it, when > 5
came ill—“desperately m- ‘
lucky author then tried Mrs
She was “enchanted” »D“
bring it out; when, lol the
was stricken down with le«r _
Finally the parcel of man»®J
dispatched to Miss JuliaMarJ
gardless of her doom, 1 J
boys, this “little victim «s J
playing to audiences in t“
She opened it and played n
season. Within a week sue
terly prostrated.’1
Beware of Ointments tor C*
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy' ,
smell and completely dwa”? b J
system when entering it “
cous surfaces. Such artiel I
bo used except on prescripts™ .J
table physicians, as the w 3
do is ten fold to the g0^.,' L-alarn|
derive from them. Han n?t ||
manufactured by h- •, ,.,rv 1
Toledo, O., contains no ^
taken internally, acting . ,«
blood and mucous surface* t, a
In buying Hall's (-ttt?r[^n iuterrj
get the genuine. It» ** y j
made in Toledo, Ohio, hy
Co. Testimonials free' nrice;;c
|3gr Sold by Druggists, price
Hall’s Family Fills, -x'
Hair Cut at
An English geniusha* ^,1
cutting scissors win ^ „f its A
the home-made hairntber‘3DtJ
With this tool the ® Ofto;>*
hair of her entire family o
as a professional bar ^ sid
----- using, the
'egs eng?*- ....
lut being screwe “P jCi
to be rigidly
length of haw' (
necessary to M P bjle
e head or face wn
idelpbia Becor4_____,
It is a tribute to Sir. ^
that when he acte s0 ?r-!
Waterloo” the other day
the emotion that ®e0 " ’ rforS»J
fainted, We r®ea first
M r. Irving during hi ^
country, when he ^ h3p:
I.” that the same >■ So "■ ■',
the Boston the*teth,t they. *;!'
some women weep 0f the !nel*«!
to the dressing roo® e>~
had hysterics all > uine
cVintrc ho\V IDUCB ?
shows how much 1? great3S «
been excited by th» icing
interpretation ®*
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