Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER.
I’UUMHIIKO EVI'KY THURSDAY By
Tub I'lioNTiBn 1’rintino Co.
O’NEILL. NEBHASKA.
OVEE THE STATE.
Two rare l;all clubs have been or
ganized in W’uhoo.
Tiif. dog poisoner is doing active
work at Nebraska City.
At this writing Saunders county lias
but ono prisoner in its jail.
I)li. It. il. Pai.mkr lias been appoint
ed a pension examining at Orlenns.
The Methodist church at Valentine,
costing about 34,ooo, lias been dedi
cated free of debt
Tiik Nebraska City assessors this
year will assess ut the rate of 20 per
cent less than in 1NU4.
Tiik railroads of Nebraska will make
reduced rates to the Thomas concerts at
Omaha, April Hi, 20 and 21
Work on the Oxford-lieaver City tel
ephone line is progressing favorablyl
and will be completed soon.
While boring a well for Dr. Uutchin
son of Madison, gold-bearing grave
was found at a depth of sixty feci.
Oi.ivkh F. Butt, one of the best
known railroad engineers in the state,
died at his home in Nebraska City last
woek.
There is a lockout of cigar makers in
some of the factories of lAncoln, a
strike having been ordered on account
of wages.
* Tho Bank of Axtell was unable to
open up for business last week. 'No
statement of assets or liabilities yet
made public.
Pnii.li' McNkii.i,, a farmer near Hum
boldt, while intoxicated, fell from his
t>u(Hry snd received injuries which
resulted in his death.
VV. C. Graves, one of tho pioneers of
Ooss county, recently died at the age
of 7tl. Ten children, soven boys and
three girls, survive him.
Chari.es Bosciiitlt, a wealty farmer
residing near Nickerson, is minus a
thumb from tho right hand. The cogs
of a corn shelter amputated it for him.
Tiik saloon business in Beatrice ap
pears to have been unprofitable, and as
a result there are but five applications
for a license, just half of what has been
heretofore. ,
John F. Monevhan, a former busi
nets man of Craig, who has been in
businesa in Iowa for the last few years,
has returned to Craig to again engage
in businesa
Tkacy Kei.i.kr, a young lady of
Houston, five miles northeust of York,
took a dbse of carbolio acid by mistake,
dying in twenty minutes thereafter in
terrible agony.
About fifty farmers in the vicinity of
Crete have decided to raise one acre of
sugar beets this year for the purpose of
testing whether it will pay to raise the
beets as a crop.
A Cherry county justice of the peace
is charged with charging a fee for mak
ing out applications for aid. This is in
direct violation of the law and the mat
ter will be investigated.
Lewis Kt.opsch of the Christian
' Herald recently forwarded another #500
cheek to the state relief commission,
making a total of #0,025 that has come
to Nebraska througli his paper.
auk wcarney council nas reduced the
Mluriee ot the city officials to the fol
• lowing notch: Mayor, #150 per year;
elerk, #200, treasurer, #100; city attor
ney, #350; councilmen, #100; policemen,
945 per month.
. A few days ago news reached Ash
land of the death by being thrown
from a horse, of Robert Vorso at Ray
mond, Neb. Young Vorse lived with
his parents In Ashland most of his life,
up to a few months ago.
Bn.t, Parker of Tllden went out in a
boat to fish and was precipitated into
the river. He saved bis life, but lost
his right leg in the water and had to
whittle out a new limb before he could
hop around as lively as ever.
A Crete woman, who had been a
helpless invalid for years, regained her
Strength the other day very suddenly
and is now engaged in her every dav
dnties in good health. She attributes
her recovery to prayer alone.
John Fahai, a farmer who resided
abouUeight miles southwest of Aurora,
committed suicide by hanging. lie
was found by members of his family
hanging in his corn crib. He was
•boat 60 years old and well-to-do.
The Union Paclfio is laying a spur
track to the Oberfelder stone Quarry at
Sidney and will develop that industry.
The production of this quarry ie said
to be a very high grade ot building
Stone, for which there is great demand.
A cow belonging to Nicholas Schri
vonea of Nemaha was attacked by ho
drophobia last week and was killed
after she had gone into spasms. A mad
dog had been loose in the town and it
is supposed that the rabid animal had
bitten the cow.
The new Catholich church at Gretna
will be dedicated on Wednesday, April
17. The order of exercises will be the
meeting of the bishop and clergy at
the depot, thence the march in proces
sion to the church, followed by the
ceremonies of dedication.
Charles Smith and Homer Call, who
pleaded guilty to breaking in a store at
Btromsburg,_ were brought before
Judge Wheeler at Osceola to receive
their sentence. The judge sentenced
Smith to the penitentiary for one year
and Call to the industrial school.
The Hank of Hladen was closed last
week by Bank Examiner Cline. Assets
comprise bills receivable to the amount
of #13,911 and cash and sight exchange
to the umount of #2,754. The liabili
■». ties are: Due depositors, #10,024; due to
other banks, #956. There is some pros
pect of depositors being paid, but it
will take time.
W. H. Davidson of Sarpy county is
putting out a thirty-six-acre orchard
this spring on his farm in Plattford
precinct. He has wisely come to the
conclusion that it pays to raise fruit in
this state and accordingly will have
one of the largest apple orchards in the
oonnty.
Six of the men arrested in Burt
eounty for the murder of Squutter
Phillips have been discharged upon
the motion of the county attorney at
Tekamah. There are five men still to
be tried for the crime, and it is under
stood that the men discharged will be
Used as witnesses for the state when
the cases come on, April 2a
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I CiMni.F." F. Ivrxrz sa, on old fanner
' residing In Nuckolls county, tried to
I jump over a barb wire fence and tripped,
breaking bis nock. Ills dead body was
found by bis family lying in‘ the field
and tbo coroner was notified, bringing
in u verdict according to the fucts.
Of.irEK F. lU'TT of Nebraska City
died lust week of heart disease, after a
long illness. The deceased for years
was in the employ of the U. A M., and
whs one of the best known railroad
men in the state. He went out during
the big strike and only a few years ago
was reinstated with the company. He
leaves a widow and three small chil
dren.
Senator W. V. Ai.i.en has written
Governor Holcomb that Thomas Don
aldson of Pennsylvania has twenty
five carloads of seed wheat for Ne
braska, and asking the governor to
name a consignee. He lias designated
the state relief commission. Six cars
will be sent to the Elkhorn country
and the reinuinder along the Hurling
ton & Missouri and Union Pacific rail
ways
P. E. Reardsley, stenographer of the
State Hoard of Transportation, died
last Saturday at his home in College
View. Ho haB been ill for several
months of dropsy, and last fall made a
visit to Texas for his health. He had
resided in Nebraska for thirt-six years
and was one of the best known steno
graphers in the state. Ho was well,
educated, an agreeable conversation
alist and a man of decided opinions.
A Fui.i.kkton dispatch says: Con
gressman Miklejohn has had a corps of
assistants at work for some days pre
paring his quota of agricultural seeds
for distribution in his district. He has
divided them equally among the coun
ties except Dodge and Cuming, who
waived their Bhare and consented to
have them distributed in the counties
that suffered more severely from the
drouth. He forwarded his entire allot
ment lust week, consisting of fifteen
sacks.
The quarantine proclamation against
Texas cattle, isstied by Governor Hol
comb, is in conformity with the order
of Secretary of Agriculture Morton of
February ft, 181)5. The new dead line
dividing the United States from east to
west is slightly changed, but not ma
terially from that established last year.
The northwest portion of Oklahoma,
equalling nearly one-half of the terri
tory in area, is now north of the line
ana excluded from the quarantine pro
visions
Uoi.onel William Dexter of Ash
land last week received a letter from
the family of the late Fred. Douglas
in response to a letter ef condolence.
Before Mr. Douglas had become famous,
while yet a fugitive slave, he found
shelter one night in the home of Col.
Dexter’s father in western New York',
where he remained for some time. The
colonel, then but a boy, remembered
the fugitive, and when he attended the
World’s fair he met Mr. Douglas and
had a talk with him, when he was de
lighted to find it was the same Doug
las, and that lie had never forgotten
the kind treatment he had received at
their hands.
The prospect of securing manufactur
ing industries at Chadron is causing a
great influx of people to the city, many
of whom are very undesirable. The
business and professional men receive
in nearly every mail numerous letters
asking about the prospects for laboring
men, etc.
Nebraska Crop Bnltetlo.
Weather crop bulletin No. 1 from the
Nebraska station says:
The season opens rather early, with
less than the normal precipitation since
laBt January, the deficiency ranging
from less than half an inch in the
western part of the state to nearly an
inch in the northeastern and two inch
es in the southeastern. t
A general rain over the state the last
week in February, followed by dry and
very warm weather the last of March,
put the ground in good condition and
made early seeding possible.
During the first half of the past week
hot, dry weather with high winds pre
vailed over the state. During the last
half gentle rains fell in all sections,
heaviest in the northeastern portion,
and thence southwestward toward the
middle of the state. Over this area
from two to three inches fell; it waB
least in the southeastern and in the
southwestern sections, where less than
half an inch fell.
Fall wheat generally suffered severe
ly from the warm weather and high
winds which prevailed at the begin
ning of the month. In the extreme
southeastern portion of the state it is
generally in good condition, but fur
ther west many fields of it are killed
and have been plowed up, while in the
southwestern section it is generally re
ported almost a complete failure. Rye,
on the contrary, has come through
generally in good condition and the
recent rains are bringing it forward
finely, as well as the wheat which has
survived the winter.
Seeding is well advanced; most of
the wheat is in the ground, and, in the
southern part of the state, most of the
oats, while in the northern part about
half of the oats have been sown.
There was some damage done by the
high winds uncovering small grain
that had been sown, but in general the
comparatively dry condition of the
seed bed when most of the grain was
sown, followed by a thorough satura
tion from the recent rains, have afford
ed the most favorable conditions pos
sible for small grain.
In many counties there will be a
smaller acreage than usual of small
grain and an increased acreage of corn
on accoun t of the scarcity of seed wheat
and oats.
Stock generally seems to have come
through the winter in fair condition,
though in some localities farm horses
are not as vigorous as could be desired
for the spring work.
Thk Butte papers have started in to
“show up" some of the people who
have been “working” charitable peo
ple m the east under the guise of re
lieving the distressed. One party living
near liasin wrote to Ohio parties for
assistance, stating that two persons
had starved to death near there. In
vestigation proved it to be a fake, and
there is some talk of prosecuting some
of the people who are circulating the
lies. Boyd county has had generous
treatment from every part of. the
country, and no cases of actual suffer
ing have been reported, although many
had to go on short allowance for a
time. ,
Bill* Approved by the Governor.
Governor IJolcomb* approved thirty-two
bill# on the luth, including the age of con«
sent bill, state tanking act, Omaha canal
bill, the nn.diflcd oleomargarine measure
which permits manufacture of oleo for ex
port, the blunket bullet bill reluting to me
marking of ballot# containing constitu
tional amendments, for free attendance at
public high schools, establishing u branch
soldiers’ home ut Milford, and house roil
No. 012, one of the miscellaneous claimc
bills. The list of bills signed *.y the gov*
ei nor is as follows:
House ioil No. 012-Making appropriation
for the payment of miscellaneous Hems of
Indebtedness owing by the state of Ne
braska.
l ouse roll No. 550— Prescribing the man
ner in which two or more proposed amend
ments to the constitution are to be submit
ted to a vote of the people.
House roll No. 15—Providing for the at
tendance of children of school age at a
s hool in a nearer distance than their own.
House roll No. ;>.«5-'io provide for the
method of purchasing supplies for the legis
lature and to regulate the use and the care
of the sumo.
House roll No. 110—Providing for the pre
servation of books for the registration of
vo:ers in cities of the second class having
over 7,000 inhabitants
House roll No. 84t>--To authorize cities of
t he second class and incorporated villages
to borrow money or issue bonds for the pur
pose of enlarging or or improving water
works systems.
House roll No. 382—Providing for the for
mation of new school districts and defining
the boundaries of existing districts.
• ouse roll No 2H;i—To provide for free at
tendance at public high schools.
House roll No. 892—To prevent the Intro
duction of contuglous diseases and to make
quarantine laws for that purpose.
House roll No. 457—Providing for the ap
pointment of officers In villages.
House roll No. 5 U—To appropriate the sum
of for additional shelving and vault
for the state library.
House roll No. 820—To provide for the re
lief of Dakota county, Nebraska.
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House roll ao. 501—To allow the board of
sunervisors of Flay county, Nebraska, to
compromise the tax sales, the unpaid tax
lor the y« ar 1.74 on certain lands m said
Flay county.
House roll No. 492—Appropriating 8100 for
a card catalogue for the state university.
House roll No. 87 To punish cattle steal
ing and to punish persons receiving or buy
ing stolen cattle, and to punish all persons
harboring or concealing thieves.
House roll No. C»42—Providing for the man
ufacture of imitation butter for exporta
tion outside the limits of the state.
ouse roll No 8ti5—To appropriate the
matriculai ion fees of the Nebraska state
normal school for a library fund for tho use
of said school.
House roll No. 254—Appropriating $88.40
for the relief of Mrs. Weiese.
House roll No. 59J-Authorizing the state
treasurer to transfer $10.0*1.7(5 from the Sa
line land fund to permanent school fund.
House roll No. 445—Fixing the boundary
line of Arthur county.
House roll No. 440-Defining the bounda
ries of Deuel county.
house roll No. 2.t8—To compel institution#
transacting a banking business to keep a
list of shareholders for the inspection of
creditors of the association.
House roll No. 447—Defining the bounda
ries of Grantcounty.
House roll No. 174—To provide for the ap
portionment of fines, penalties and license
money in cities and villages having a part
or all of two or more school districts within
their incorporate limit#.
House roll 101—To establish a state bank
ing board, define and designate state banks
and regulate said banks, whether commer
cial or savings.
Senate file No. '0—Legalizing orders, judg
ments, decrees and findings under the de
cedent law of 1887, and amending the repeal
ing act of that year.
House roll No. 848—The age of consent
i >ouso roll No. 455—Providing for the levy
or a tux tocreute a special fund for the
erection of court house and other county
buildings.
House roll No. 284—Establishing branch
soldiers’ and sailors’ home at Milford.
Senate tile No. 0.9—Authorizing the Issue
of bonds by counties, townships, precincts,
cities and villages, to construct or aid In
the construction of highway wagon bridges
ucross boundary rivers of the state,
tenate Hie No. 1st—The Omaha canal bill.
Senate Hie No. I'D-Authorizing cities of
more than 5,0 0 and less than 25,001 Inhabi
tants to acquire nnd maintain public parks
and borrow the money for such purposes.
ARE AFTER GREENHUT.
vnarged with Absorbing" 9223,000
■ Whisky Funds.
Chicago, April 11.—The direct charge
that Joseph B. Oreenhut absorbed in
one transaction 1225,000 and never ac
counted for it is contained in the papers
In the suit by Receiver McNulta of the
whisky trust and associated complain
ants against the president of the trust
and his fellow-directors, including Nel
son Morris, Sam Woolner, and P. J.
Nennessy. The bill alleges that in the
deal in 1892, whereby three distilleries
were purchased, the price charged up
was *1,986,407. The actual cost, the bill
alleges, was *1,685,000. Of the difference
the complainants swear Greenhut took
$225,000 and Woolner, it Is said, got *35,
000. This sensational suit, the first In
which oath is made of definite sums, de
clared to have been wrongfully taken
by the old management of the trust,
was filed in the United States circuit
court late yesterday afternoon. It had
been In course of preparation for two
weeks. _
Favors a Haiiruutl Commission.
Madison, Wls., April 11.—In the as
sembly yesterday petitions were pre
sented favoring the passage of Hall’s
bill to create a railroad commission sim
ilar to that in Iowa. They contained
over 70,000 names. In the senate the
bill to provide for the appointment of a
board of immigration and the advertise
ment of the resources or the state was
ordered to a third reading. The sen
ate passed a resolution for final ad
journment April 20. The assembly in
the evening killed both the railroad
commission bills by a vote of 61 to 18.
Iowa Mining Affairs.
Ottumwa, la., April 11.—The repre
sentatives of the Wapello Coal com
pany. Whltebreast Fuel company, Cen
terville Block Coal company, Sty mine,
Phillips Fuel company, representing,
with allied Interests, mines which em
ploy 8,000 of the 12,000 miners in the
state, have formulated their statement
of the causes of the present dissension.
They .assert that unless local operators
In the Appanoose district abandon their
position the mining interests of the
state must suffer Irreparable injury.
To Drape Monument In Crape,
Paris, April 11.—French socialists are
organizing a meeting to protest against
sending a squadron of French warships
to Kiel to take part in the ceremonies
attending the opening of the Baltic and
North Sea canal in June next. An Al
satian delegate proposes that the Stras
burg monument, in the Place de la Con
corde, be draped with crape upon the
day of the opening of the canal.
Robbed Uncle Sam.
Chicago, April 11.—Patrick C. Crane,
teller of the money order division of the
Chicago postoffice, was arrested yester
day afternoon, charged with the embez
zlement of *1,416.22. Until yesterday
morning there was not the slightest
suspicion of wrong doing attached to
Crane by his superiors in the postofflce.
He has confessed.
All Traffic Suspended.
Bluefleld, W. Va., April 11.—An un
precedented rain storm prevailed in this
section Sunday night. Houses were
blown down here. All traffic was sus
pended, but has been resumed.
BY THE LEGISLATURE
BRIEF RESUME OF THE WORK
THAT BODY DID.
A Total of 120 Measures Passed, Exceed
f log the Number of Any Previous Leg
islature for Many Sessions—The Con
stitutional Amendments to Be Submit
ted at the Next Presidential Election—
The Appropriations for State Institu
tions.
A Legislative Resume.
Lincoln Journal.
The legislature Just adjourned passed a
total of 139 bills, exceeding the number of
any previous legislature for many sessions.
The total passed in the 189J session wa< sev
ty. In the 1891 seventy-seven, and In the 1889
117. Of the bills passed this session seventy
four originated in the house and fifty-seven
in the senate. A few of the more important
are mentioned:
Of local importance to Lincoln are house
roil No. 434, appropriating3,<XJ0 for the new
university building. The judicial appor
tionment bill, house roll No. 184, gives an
other district judge to Lancaster county,
the only Increase made In the state. The
bill prohibiting tlftj sale or use of oleomar
garine and buitcrine audits manufacture
except for export, senate file No. 7f», was one
that effects Nebraskans as closely as any
bill that was passed.
The lo gislature also redneed the inter
est on state warrants lrom 7 per cent to 5,
which will make a very material saving to
the state.
'1 he Australian ballot law was amended
by senate file No. 231, so that hereafter no
one can run as a republican or democrat or
use any party name except the regular nom
inees, unless the words “by petition” follow
on the ballot, Tills is to prevent misleading
by the use of such designations as “straight
democrat,” “independent republican” and
similar designations. It also allows women
I to sign nomination petitions for officors for
whom they can vote at the election.
The age of consent bill, house roll No. 348,
makes more stringent tho laws protecting
girls, and places Nebraska among the very
few states, less than a half dozen in all,
I nimL1,lf? tll° a£e so high as eighteen years.
I he sugar and chicory bounty bill, house
roll No. t/7, has been fully discussed in the
press and Is well understood. Already
^^jntnunlcatlons are being received by state
officers from those interested in other
states, looking to the further establishment
of factories under this law.
Two very important irrigation bills were
passed, house roll Nos. 33J and 4.3, covering
every feature of irrigation as existing In
j Colorado, California and other states.'
Two important bills relating to township
organizations were also passed, house roll
Nos, t5tt and 77, allowing more nearly a fair
representation to inhabitants of towns, by
allowing a supervisor to every 1,500 inhabi
tants instead of 4,000, as now provided, and
making other important changes.
The state banking Dill, house roll No. 101,
Is the bill of interest to the l.unking inter
ests of the state. It creates a series of reg
ulations of stute and private banks and
creates many safeguards for those who are
the patrons and depositors of such banks.
»y the provisions of house roll No. 110 the
registration of voters is no longer nece>sary
in towns of less than?, 00 inhabitants, and
the number of days of registration is made
fiat rotwnat it ha-t been, being three days
In the fall and but one day for revision be
fore the spring or special elections. This
will make a saving to Lincoln of aiout$l,
500 a vear.
A list of stockholders In private and state
banks is required by house roll No. 2 .8,to be
kept for Information of the public at all
times.
Insurance legislation resulted tntwo bills,
senate tile 132 and house roll 240. These al
low the formation of assessment and local
premium life insurance societies and allows
the mutual lire insurance companies to ex
tend their operations to all property Instead
of being confined to farm property alone, as
now. It is also provided that if Nebraska
life insurance companies are any way dis
criminated against by other states that the
insurance department shall Impose the
same reductions on insurance companies
from such state seeking to do business in
Nebraska.
The i e are many estates settled under the
law of lbt»U relating to estates of deceased
persons, which was declared by the supreme
he unconstitutional, and bv senate
uio nu. iuuii court, proceedings under that
act are validated and declared leg il.
House roll No. 60 makes it unlawful to sell
to minors cigarettes or cigarette material
and Imposes a penalty.
There has been a nourishing Industry n
f* hf 11 U LO /if lntu In ^ V._I -
uuuiiBiuiiK mu us try n
Nebraska of late years In daylight burglary,
because If caught and convicted thehign
nptin tV fnr nn<A*1nn A. _J _ _
— uuuvieieu me nign
est penalty for entering or breaking Into a
house by daylight was three months in the
county jail, with free board at the county's
expense. Lincoln has haa a dozen of such
burglaries in the last year. It is now a fel
■Jny, punishable by imprisonment in the
n 1 rnntlorv funm ..^ __ _ . ..
penitentiary from one to^seven years, and
the horde or professionals who have been
:— a* piuicaaiuums wuo nave ueen
favoring the state with their presence will
probably seek new locations in other states.
Another law. house roil No. 87, is of pro
tection to the farmers. Hog stealing, like
daylight burglary has been much carried on
because It was only a misdemeanor when
the value of the property taken was $35, but
by the new law the stealing of cattle or of
hniTQ Vn laco a# trnl.tA 1. - J. _ . .
ir vi caiue or or
*alu^.is«m.ade a felony.
»aiuc, 19 luttuu a ieiony
io supreme court commission was con
tinued for another term of three years, by
senate file No. 9 and by senate tile No. 8, bills
of exceptions are ullowed in all cases tried
bv inferior courts or bodies exercising iudi
cfal functions. It applies to pending as well
as to future cases ana is of great, interest to
litigants in attachment cases in this state.
tt has been necessary under the decision
of the supreme court that county boards
Rnd let separately each
m}*" ,Senate .file Nft 258 provides
that the board may advertise and let by the
lineal foot all bridges to be built for a year.
This results in much cheaper bridges, it al
lows bidders to bid on all bridges to be
built Instead of dribbling the bids out by
frequent and small jobs, each one requiring
seoarate bids. s
It has heretofore been impossible for pub
lic officials to give as sureties on official
b^nds the guarantee companies that insure
the fidelity of private officials, but by sen
ate file No. HO, such bonds may now be ac
cepted.
Hereafter all attorneys in the state will
only by and in the supreme
court, instead of the district court, and
more stringent provisions and higher quall
fications will probably be the result or sen
ate tile No. 42
County boards are allowed by senate file
No. 19 to employ attorneys other than the
county attorneys when necessary. Dentis
try Is to be regulated by a state bo ird. b;
J — ivguiuicu ujr a
the provisions of senate file No. 29. The
ls to.!>© taken out of the pres
—*'.“**’ w loncu uui ui me pres
erjt hands, if possible, by house roll No. tU7
which provides for three appraisers, one ti
be appointed by the lessee, one by the boar,
of public lands and buildings and one b,
the governor, to appraise the value of thi
property and the state to buy It and tak,
charge of the convict labor itself for thi
next two years.
House roll No. 500 was prepared largely b'
Auditor Moore and requires a uniform «e
rles of vouchers for all claims against th<
state, properly sworn to, aud ull personi
who have any expectation of getting ant
““ef for services or material furnishet
will have to comply with Its provisions
School districts are hereafter requited t<
keep a register of warrants Issued and t<
pay them In their order, and to leglstai
them and to pay 1 per cent thereon, bt
house roll No. 117 and senate file No. 25. Ant
one who has school land leased will need ti
pay Interest only to the date of purchase
instead of for the whole calendar year &<
now required, by the bill house roll No. 1 i
House roll Na 13. allowing children Inti
school district that are nearer to the schoo
house in an adjoining district than to theii
own,to attend in the adjoining district
House roll No. 583, allows pupils to at tent
a high school out of their county on the
payment of tuition of a small amount when
there is sufficient room for them.
A board of immigration is created, with a
secretary to take charge of the bureau and
to Induce immigration and care for the in
terests of the state in seeking immigration
DT house roll Nn .>111.
>▼ house roll No. 540.
The countv depository law has beei
j . y uc|iusiiwry inw nus Dee
amended and strengthened, while the sta
depository law has been repealed so far :
•a® legislature was concerned by house re
Because so much comment has bee
caused by the purchase of supplies for ti
legislature in advance of its session, a ne
house roll No 5S5, prescribes that onl
f500 worth of supplies can be bought 6
the secretary of state, and that he sha
ttke charie of all supplies on adjournmea
ana keep t hem over for the next session.
,, A kjaBch of the soldier*’ home is petal
llshed at Milford* to be kept fmaof charj
for two yearn, by house toll No. 291, and the
building and grounds to be given for 1800 a
year rent thereafter if desired by the state.
The law of Nebraska has made marriage
between while persons and colored wersona
of more than one-eighth negro blooa void.
This restriction has been wiped out by
house roll No. 339.
The maximum rate case decided by Judge
Brewer, has been ordered appealed to the
supreme court of the United fetatcs and ap
propriations made therefor by house roil
No. 208.
A legal newspaper is defined to be one
having at least 200 bona fide subscribers and
having an existence of at least one year, by
house roll No. W»2.
Some of the larger counties are Interested
In house roll No. 500, which allows a county
to ».e divided by a majority vote Instead of
a three-fifths vote, as now required.
The bill nassed over the governor's veto,
house roll No. 139, vests the appointment of
the board of fire and police commissioners
of Omaha In the governor, attorney general
and land commissioner.
The twelve constitutional amendments to
be submitted at the next presidential elec
tion are all important ana provision is made
for voting for all by one single mark. They
are as follows:
Senate file »xo. 271. Proposed constitu
tional amendment providing for permanent
investment of school funds.
Senate file No 273, authorizing the legisla
ture to fix salaries of state officers.
Senate file No. 274, providing that govern
ment of counties and metropolitan cities
may be merged.
senate file No. 275. Two-thirds of a jury
may render a verdict.
senate file No. 276. Legislature may create
appellate court.
Senate file No. 279. Number of supreme
court judges to be increased from three to
five.
Senate file No. 281, providing tpr three
railroad commissioners to be elected.
Senate file No 283. Legislature may fix
salaries of judges of the supreme and dis
trict courts.
Senate Hie No. 284. Legislature may abol
ish any office that it creates.
8enate file No. 286. Legislature may once
each four years increase the number of
judges of the supreme and district courts.
Senate file No. 288. Votes may be by bal
lot or such other method (voting machine!
as may be proscribed by law.
Senate file No. 2'9, relating to donations
by city or county to works of internal im
provement.
There are many bills of Interest to the
state not mentioned above, but enough Isl
shown to ind cate that this session or the
legislature was a body that passed a great
deal of important legislation, in the rather
long session that began on New Year’s day
and closed on April 6. 8ome very bad bills
were defeated by sturdy opposition, and it
is to the credit of the legislators that they
were watchful against such pernicious
bills as uhvuys come before lawmaking
bodies. It is doubtful if any session of the
legislature of recent years has been any
more characterized by attention to busi
ness or has given more wholesome results
than the session just past.
The total appropriations made are not yet
tabulated, but It is known that institutions
were treated fairly and economically, and
the taxpayers’ Interests were regarded,
while the relief appropriations of 8250,001
were a heavy but seemingly necessary
drain, to care for the destitute and suffer
ing citizens of the state. The laws passed,
except those wiih the emergency clause, do
not take effectuntil August 1,189>.
FOR THE CURLS.
Large soft rosettes of velvet will be on
the early spring hats.
Velvet bouquets for the crush collars
and to wear on the wrap are as fash
ionable as for the hats.
One of the beauties of French millin
ery is that all the trimming of each
model seems to be made exactly for it.
Saltcellars first came into use in me
diaeval times; there was only one on
the table, and it held from two to three
quarts.
Silver powder boxes, lined with gold
are among the dainty articles of the
toilet. These contain a fluffy puff, with
silver handles.
Smoothing Irons were first used in
France and are supposed to have been
a French invention, being Introduced
in the sixteenth century.
At Copenhagen, N. Y., a young
woman who held a thief until the po
lice came was presented with a dia
mond brooch and a letter of thanks
from the director of police.
Mrs. Humphry Ward Is a wonderful
linguist, and Is versed In Spanish, Ger
man, French and Italian literature to
a marvelous degree. Her delightful
books are mostly written at a farm
near Haslemere, Surrey.
A row of tiny cups tied to a ribbon
and separated by about three Inches
may be looped across the top of your
dining-room door. An odd number of
saucers to match are placed on the
wall below. The effect Is very pretty.
M. Dieulafoy, who with his wife ex
plored the ruins of Susa, has been
elected to the French Academle des
Inscriptions. Mme. Dieulafoy not only
received the Legion cf Honor for her
share in the work, but also the right
to wear men's clothes in public.
around the mahogany.
Ice cream at dinner parties Is wholly
out of gastronomic fashion.
Excellence of our home beef is what
annoys our British visitors.
Colored hot water ever masquerades
at many hotels as a soup.
Canned terrapin Is what the Disagree
able Man will give to his friends.
Dried apples are the foundation for a
very good Imitation of fruit cake.
Sardine sandwiches should be eaten
in the solitude of some lonely cave.
Pies of the kind that mother used to
make are only read about in books.
Squab on toast are not so fortunate
as when they are on the old barn.
There are as many kinds of marma
lade as there are religious denomina
tions.
Artificial mint sauce Is a sort of parts
green without the suicidal Intent.
A disagreeable man can be made cor
dial by eating freely of banana pud
ding.
The French say the man who eats
smallest breakfast is he who lives
longest.
Superabundance of potatoes Is the
real trouble with the modern fish ball.
Not every man who asks for stale
bread desires It known he Is a dyspep
tic.
A dull knife will cause many to un
justly blame the butcher for tough
meat. ~
A study of the anatomy of the duck
will facilitate the carving of the same.
Gastronomic statistics show that
Americans are move and more lovers
of curry.
Importations of Spanish olives to this
country Increases every successive
year.
The eating of onions should be a
mutual arrangement between husband
and wife.
The correct way to serve rice Is when
each and every kernel Is distinct and
separate.
UNDER OTHER FLAGS.
A recent report on the new gold
fields of South Africa shows that the
gold belts have an east and west di
rection, and are from five to twenty
miles wide. At various places within
these mining belts ancient workings
have been discovered. These workings
are several hundred yards In extent,
and vary In depth from twenty-five to
Wty feet,
AWARE
EVEBY HONorari'
observes h1|L|e,
And the Lone Umb ,
»»»<« Either
(From the Journal t
Samuel R. Jordan i,a^>
Journal an account at
In view of his extremely k*/1
paet few years is
"I am 48 years
lived in New Portland ^
the army in 1862 a, "V'
pany A
in 1862 as a n* *
jcenj,
the tlmerwhenTuddet/'r
ago, I was prostrated Li?'
teers. My army exnen Mi
health toy somV*^
neaim to some extent
worked at blacksmith!”.' 1“a
thft time nrhoM__ “a &0n»»
ago, I was prostrated 'i,1?
physicians pronounced*
Ataxia. At first I c0l -
somewhat, yet the si15
quite rapidly until I^aTh"
S?“2S-!!i “y *«■ andtf
like sticks of wood, and IV?1,1
worse that I could not
years without help »s „
and friends could testify ,
several nhvaw._J 1
several physicians In myi!
medicines would not help
they could do nothing to Jr,
and that In time I ahouid L
tirely helpless, i became sfl
I ,waf » .peat care to a7*
friends. Shortly after I L
army comrade, Mr. All. p,S
dent of Madison, Me., and he*
mentioned how he had tried r
lams1 Pink Pills for a sel
rheumatism and a spinal ar
trouble, fhat he had suffered
sequent of his army life ,
greatly benefited by their use.
earnest recommendation I
to try the pills. After taklnr,
a time I began to feel prickly J
In my legs and a return of m.
I could move them a little tfi
weeks I began to fee! a nur
provement in my conditon I
enabled to walk around a i
the help of crutches. After t
some time I can now walk
crutches, my general health is
proved and 1 have regained
time vigor. I can walk about
life once more, for which I,
thankful, and this happy rescl
to the use of Dr. Williams' ft
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills fori
pie were first compounded
prescription and used aj
general practice by an
physician. So great was t
cacy that it was deemed
place them within the reach o!
are now manufactured by the
lams' Medicine company, Si
N. Y., and are sold in boxes
loose form by the dozen or him
the public are cautioned agaii
erous Imitations sold in this i
60 cents a box, or six boxes fori
may be had of all druggists or
mall from Dr. Williams' Med. I
Interrupted Explanitlot
“Apropos of the peculiar]; Is
tendency to explain thinga'i
saying, “there occurs to mem
attempt sometimes made to ■
for the derivation of the eta
word Welsh-rabhit I regretti
that Webster falls into the con
ror of considering the word n
corruption of rare bit Xow.si
by lexicographers who hare M
advantage of a technical acqna
with facts relating to, the orip
word, Welsh-rabbit is merely*
term and not a corruption ati
never was anything but We*
and in its genesis it was esses:
slang term, yet by reason of i
habitude in the language it to
outgrown what might be call!
coarseness of its origin, and isi
titled to a place in the accepted
ulary without any apology or i
explanation. In proof of toil
cite other examples, notably—
“Wendell,” interrupted the i
of the little Boston boy, %~Sm
the lady with your chatter. 0
now and play awhile.”—Chica?
une. _
#40 buys a good Top Buggy, *i®
Quarter Top. The Chicago Scale
the only ones who can sell at tlusp
furnish their customers a thousw^
at less than the usual prices paid «'■
It will pay to secure their ca™?*
they send free on application. 1°
pany is perfectly reliable and tt?'
specialty of supplying the wauW«"
“The Personal Recollection*
of Arc,” beginning in Harpers
for April, will show Joan asa®
of the people; the incidents o ^
hood among her rustic play®"
in the midst of bucolic a.
her childish superstitions. pe«P
earth with strange presences w
by fairy folklore and ston
saints; her distressful solici*
her county, fed constantly . '
of defeat that pierced “er
opened there the fountain P_
the heavenly voices and
nourished the hope ol' delw i|ir
should surely come tlir0“'h.rJ
conquest of a corrupt conn,
triumphs; her betrayal
dom.
This Mean. B«sW£
a“*sunr&jst*
these modern appliances » dal1
at high speeds has,r«^“dV
safety heretotore un'iD°' 3,ci
able on roads where they■«^
Electric lights and steami bes ^
Bible to dispense w ith the ” r(jji
car stove. Block signals 1
chances for collisions . lerTai £
maintaining an abso.ute
between trains. ___—
- Tat lt!
No fish gets away that bite*
look.
Pinter Tourist Tickets
Ballrosa ^ ^
fire now on sale to the jj
&re now on saie w . untii ''
the South, good re'“r.nc’“„"5ios
«5. Also Hxuvest E*£?01ldste ’
til points south on exc d
lition to above. Railroad
mion to suuv». ,h. UsixJ
dckets to all P®ln*6 “ grates FoLj
md Europe, at lowest r (n]
lickets, excursion d®**? SeeteP
ion or a copy of the H Farojfl *
•U at Watash Office, * ^
ir write
O.N.&*?)
N. W.P.A^
an extravagant man^oniy
fe on the teauty
--r~Tidvac
Patience is the road
J lines of —.——T^jf d
Nothing is more reason^
ian good manners
All great men are
fhe street is lull ol buali
-—TirTeSa*
(That we learn with I