g THE FRONTIER. rVBLISHEl/ BVPRY THURSDAY By Taa Fiioinin Priktiwo Co. O’NEILL, -> NEBRASKA. NEBRASKA. Dodge county will hold its fair this year Sept. -8, SO and 30. Et>. Cooper of Vesta has purchased amd cribbed 60.000 bushels of corn. Large flocks of wild geese hare foraged in the corn fields of Cheyenne county all winter. Tbs cattle fed by the Standard com pany at Ames consume S.S00 bushels every twenty-four hours. Lew Otis, an old-time lawyer and newspaper man, died at the home of his brother in Tecumseh last week. The people of Osceola and Polk county held a meeting for the purpose of taking action in relation to relief for India. Tub goods stolen from C. Roupp's hardware store at Bloomington re cently was fonnd in a haystack west of that place. The Chicago «fc Northwestern rail-’ road system has subscribed for $30,000 worth of stock in the Trans-Mississippi exposition. Several of the churches of Colnmbns are holding a series of union revival meetings, all uniting at the Presbyte rian church. South Omaha is short of school room, and a call has been issued for voting bonds in the sum of $13,000 to supply the deficiency. Sixteen families in Cedar countv are arranging to go south in search of homes, and will construct a huge raft and float down the Missouri river. >' ‘ Rev. W. U Nash, late of Fairfax, Mo., has accepted a call from the First Baptist church at Falrbury and com mences his ministerial duties at once. Work hu already commenced a pon the framework of the new coach shop to be erected by the B. & M. at Platts mouth in place of the one destroyed by fire at that point a month ago. Mr*. Ou N. Vaughts has recovered her two boys, aged 3 and 4 years, from the Mother Jewels home in York, by a writ of habeas corpus. Hhe claimed' they were placed in the home without her consent. Several petitions are being circulate ed throughout Cass county for signers to request the connty commissioners to call a special election April «, to vote on authority to expend $10,000 in the erection of a new jail. Bv an order from the United States court $7,001.13 back taxes due York county from the K. C. A O. railroad is noon to be paid to the county treasurer. The court ordered that this tax should be paid,out of the amount bid for the road at the recent sale. Two-ti?ird# of the biennial legisla tive session has elapsed and the work is far in arrears. In the forty, day* which have been spent in legislative . work since the session convened but three bills have found their way to the desk of the chief executive. Tire 13-vear-old son of Roy Haner of Cordova, died very suddenly last week.! He wa* kicked in the side by a horse, but the injnry was not considered seri ous, and only a short time before his death he was talking of starting to school. The jury in the case of the state Of Nebraska vs. Raymond Musser, who was being tried at O'Neill for the mur der of George A. Spence last Decem ber, after being out about five hours returned a verdict finding the defend ant guilty of manslaughter. If we are to have two soldiers’ homes in this state, says the Grand Island In dependent, we ought also to have two blind asylums, two deaf and dumb asylums, two penitentiaries, several reform schools and about a dozen in sane asylums. ‘‘ . . ... Tins proposition to give the Norfolk * Yankton railroad the bonds of the Norfolk precinct for $25,000 carried with a targe margin over the necessary two-thirds vote, the condition being that the road is to be in operation by the first of January, 1898. W. H. Mvkokr of Fremont last week took the .oath of office and became the judge of the United States district for Nebraska to continue during his natural life unless he resigns or u re moved for cause. At the same moment W. D. MfiHrfi. who on November SO last took a similar oath qualifying him to serve till a judge had been regularly nomins^^apd ebnflrmed, again be U Doluns of Cossd shipped 400 bushels of onions to the Omaha market. Onions were quoted at 91.80 per bushel, which would mean a handsome figure for the lot. He raised 000 Vushels last Tear off seven acres of land, devoting his own time to the onion crop and renting the balance of his land, which was planted to corn, his share being 9,000 bushels. He irrigated ^h crops. Oovebkob Holcomb is at work on a plan which, if carried into operation, ** to db; a . great: dosl .toward straightening oqt the state finances. The plan amounts to a practical fund ing of a largo part of the state debt. If it i— ■ " — - _t can be successfully accomplished it will reduce the floating debt of the state below the 91,000,000 mark and decrease the interest chargee by many thousands of dollars. v J As Mbs. Swrrs of Kearney was get tog into a buggy the horse started. Her arm was caught in the seat so she eould not release It and she was thrown between the wheels. She was dragged for over half a mile before being re leased. She Was found to be severely bruised about the head and body and her clothing was torn in shreds. No bones were broken, but it is feared •be may have sustained internal in juries. », - Followiso is the record of Platte bounty's mortgage indebtedness for February, 1007: Thirty-nine farm Mortgages tied. 838.069.74; forty-four released, 93S.447.at; fire town and city naortgages filed, 93.520; four released, •3,685; 112 chattel mortgages filed. •30,562.78; released, 99,368.01. Cxktkjtkz county farmers are vaccln ntogthetrcattlfi aa a‘sure safeguard against blackleg. This Gage county February mortgage record Is as follows: Farm mortgages •led, forty-nine, amount, 937,628; re leased, forty-four, amount 839,753; city Mortgages filed, six, amount, 92.750; .released, twenty-one, amount, 915,636. THROUGH THE HOUSi EXPOSITION BILL PASSES THE LOWER HOUSE. It la Enacted by a flbod Majority Xat< wilhitaadlBf Itronf Opposition Other Measures that Have Been Favorably Acted Cpon In Both Biniches — Notes. The Nebrasha Assembly. Sm«.-The senate on the 2nd wrestled with the stock yards hill, and after considera tion In committee of the whoW which con sumed practically the entire day. a bill to regulate stock yards was recommended for passage. Many amendments were offered and discussed until the noon hour. At the afternoon session Mr. tiondring offered the following as a substitute for all offered at the forenoon session: "And It shall la- un lawful for the manager, owner or pnprletor of any stock yard to take, make or charge any other or further charges or rates to the owner or shipper of live stock than In this act specified.’ The amendment was agreed to with but little (llHfMiMHlon. Mr. Murphy then offered an amendment to the hill to tin* effect that the provisions of the bill should not apply to jards which for the twelve months preceding do not have an average dally receipt of S00 head of hogs. He ex plained that the object of the amend ment was to exempt the Nebraska City stock yards from the effects of the lew. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. Howell then offered an amendment fixing the price at HO cents per 100 pounds of liny and 7.1 cents a bushel for corn. The hill pro vides that the price of hay shall lie AO cents per 100 pounds above the market price and com so cents a bushel above the market price. There was long discussion, taking wide range, on this amendment. Finally a vote was taken »«d the clerk announced It as standing 15 lo lft. The correctness of the count was chal lenged. and unotber vote ordered. The sec ond stunding vote failed to decide the matter and a third vote was challenged. Then the fourth vote was taken. Before It was com pleted. It was seen that unless Chairman Wat son, who was known to Is: opposed to the amendment, voted the final vote would stand letolftlnlts favor. Uondrlng Insisted that the chairman should vote and another scene of intense excitement ensued. Finally the chairman voted in the negative, thus making the vote a tie and defeating the umendment. The Mil wna then recommended for passugc And the committee rose. Kekate.—The flrat attempt to advance rad ical rut 1 road legislation was made in the sen ate on the ad. Senator K...u. „mu county moved to make the 2-cent fare bill a special order tor March «. While the attempt failed, the roll call showed a strong sentiment In favorof the bill. The bill Is as follows: “it shall tie unlawful for any railroad corpora tion, operating, or which shall hereafter op erate, a railroad in this state to charge, col lect, demund or receive for the transporta tion of any passenger over ten yours of age, with baggage not exceeding 200 pounds in weight, on any train over Its line of road In the state of Nebraska a exceeding 2 cents per mile." The bill will remain on general Hie. It Is close to the foot on the list with fifty-five bills ahead of It. It will require twenty-two votes to advance It ahead of Its regular place. The work of recounting the ballots cast for the constitutional amendment relating to Judges of the supreme court Is now In full swing. The count Is being conducted In the large committee room of the suite assigned to the secretary of state. The doors stand open and any one curious to see the progressof the count Is permitted to walk la and look over the shoulders of the commissioners until tired. It Is stated that at the present rate of progress the count may bo completed In two weeks, unless the ballots from Douglas and Lancaster counties are withheld By legal process for a longer period. 8k»ate—'The senate on the 4th gave. In the early hoars, consideration to the Lincoln charter bill, during which there was quite a good deal of excitement caused by an effort to advance the measure to third reading without due consideration. Mr. Talhot spoke long and bitterly against what lie character ised an attempt to railroad the charter through thq senate. Ills objections were so lffl VHirnn nf flint liln ■ ireLi,, n.t.... nil...I , l .... ■ vehement that Ills voice soon lllled the gal Kan . V..VU.W.V w.nv um Dfiup m«ni Illlt’U UK lories. At the end of his remarks Mr. nun som spoke brio Ay against advancing the charter. The attempt failed, for when the roll was called hut fifteen senators voted for the advancement of the bill, whereas twenty two were necessary. Henate Ale No. 84, In troduced by Mut/„ and relating to salaries of county superintendents of public instruction, was passed. The following measures were also passed. Senate Ale No. 160, by Canaduy, and relating to teachers' institutes. It makes £ f®w _tecli»ilcal changes to the law, Henate file No. 2!W. by K&nsom, relating to the manner of voting on proposed Amendments to the state constitution. House roll No. a. This is the bill repealing tbe law passed two years ago for t he pay meutof a bounty on sugar and chlchory. rhe senate practically reconstructed the WU as It passed the house and It will have to be let urn ed to the lower branch before It can go to the governor. The elections reform entitled “An act to prevent corrupt til’ll I un/l nalmnau alnatln.... ..... vi.nt.uu uvii ui ua'vvui corrupt Sraetlcea In general and primary elections J limit the'expenses of candidates, to pre scribe the duties of candidates and polltlca committees and to provide penalties a i< remedies for a violation of this act." wai taken up. The hill contains twenty-two see tioniL some of them long. It is practically divided Into three general divisions, the first nine sections pertaining to bribery of voters, the puishment for the same, and the legal expenses of candidates. The second division, embracing sections 10 to 17 Inclusive, provides the method by which cundidute> elected to office may bo unseated upon pmnl of fraud In the campaign. The third divi sion relates to the A ling of reports of treas urers of political committees. One or tw« amendments not materially affecting the bill were agreed to mid It was recommended foi passage. The committee then took up tlu contested election expenses claims and al lowed the full amount to the bailiffs stenographers and notaries, but cut tin attorneys' fees from $1,500 to $750 on eacl side. Senate. The proposition to abolish the soldiers' homo at Milford came up In the sen j ate on the 5th. Ever slue© the first- few days of the session a bill hus been pending to abolish the home. The bill has been in the hands or a committee on soldiers' homes, of which Mr. £ykes of Adams county is chair I man. Nothing has been heard of the bill, but this morning Pelt* and Grothan brought up ti»e subject and Insisted upon an immediate report. Their Insistence brought out an an imated debate, in which most of the senators on the floor participated. All the forenoon and part of the afternoon was consumed in discussion, Mr. Howell at a o'clock moved the previous question and It was ordered. The senate then adopted the minority report and the bill went to the general tile. The penitentiary bill had been made a special order for today and the senate, after dispos ing of the report of the soldiers’ home, went Into committee of the whole upon its consid eration. The bill was recommended to pass. Senate file No. 40. being an act to aut hori/.e the organisation of mutual hall Insurance companies was taken up. The committee made several amendments and recommended the bill for passage. Senate tile No. 7M, mak ing a slight amendment to the school laws was recommended for passage. On motion of Mr. Dundas the senate agreed that when the senate adjourn it will l>e until Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. The remainder of the 1 time was taken up In consideration of the Omaha charter bill, which was passed. House.—The house passed the forenmm on the 2nd In receiving reports from standing committees, und the afternoon In committee of the whole. It was a business day. Forty four bills were acted upon. Twenty-six were recommended for passage, four ordered to the general file and fourteen recommended for indefinite postponement. House roll No. 873. by Curtis, provides that the 12th day of rebruury. the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, shall be made a legul holidiyr. The report of the committee was for indefinite postponement. Jenkins moved that the report of the committee In* noncon- 1 curred in and the bill ordered to the general file. This motion prevailed. Huberts' anti cigarette bill, house roll No. 477. was the sub- ' jeet of extended debate. The committee bad 1 recommended It for Indefinite postponement. The bill provided for licensing the sale of j cigarettes and fixing the license at *450. The j bill was indefinitely postponed. The report : of the committee on house roll No. 3»$ was for'indefinite postponement. This Is Waite’s bill to repeal the law against horse stealing. Hordered to the general file. Wooster or Merrick rose to a question of privilege. , j He said that it had come to his knowledge I that tin* Trans-Mississippi exposition bill, . house roll Np. W, had been changed out l side the hall of representatives. He moved • tuat a committee of three be appointed to • Investigate the matter. The motion prevailed. » was moved and adopted that sessions bere fter tie held on Wednesday and Friday lights. House roll No. 281, by Eager, pro fiting t he useless waste of mutual artesian vater In the. state of Nebraska, was recom mended to pass. Senate file No. l, a conour •ent resolution, by Hearing, aimed at an al .eged combination of persons who control the price of grain and restrict competition in the myingund selling of the same, was recom mended to pass. Tlie committee's substitute for house roll No. 183. authorizing the organ .zution of mutual Insurance companies to in jure property, against loss by fire, lightning ind cyclones, was under delmte over an hour, and a large number of amendments were moved and adopted. The presence of several lobbyists on the floor against a strict rule adopted against them was the subject of com ment among the members. The bill as amended was recommended for passage. Among other bills recommended for passage were: To prohibit the manufacture, sale, providing and furnishing of cigarettes; au thorizing countv treasurers to Invest 75 per cent of the sinking fund in registered county warrants; reducing the salary of the com mandants of soldiers’ homes to 91JVOO per an num; to create municipal courts in cities of the metropolitan class: legalizing the regis tration of deeds; relating to the law of re demptions; granting to county courts the power to order a reference in certain cases of proceedings: autlwirlzlng county courts to require administrators with will annexed to pay money to said courts after Anal settle- I rnent of their accounts; relating to the fees of the sheriffs; to provide for re argument of i cases in supreme court. ! House.—As foreshadowing the coming of j the end of the session of the house, Speaker Oaffln on the 3d nominated the sifting com mittee. The hour having arrived for the special order the chief clerk read house roll No. 3d. by Hoderman. It provides for an act enabling women possessing the netessary qualifications to vote for certain purposes, and repeals any law inconsistent therewith. It provides that any woman the age of 21 years and upward Is authorized to vote for all officers and questions submitted to a vote of the people, except those voted for at a gen eral election. There was much discussion, many members taking part. Mr. Snyder of Sherman county made these remarks: ••Craw fishes Invariably go backward. Not being a crawfish I am In favor of going forward. If there Is a man In this house who does not ad mit that ho owes the element of his manhood to his mother, l am wady to kick him down stairs. And yet I am not spoiling for a fight.” Kobertson’s motion to indefinitely postpone was lost by a vote of 58 to 14. The bill was then amended by attaching an emergency clause, and providing that, women could vote for Irrigation bonds. The commtttee then recommended the bill for passage. House re heard. If it be found to tlie Interest of shippers that such junction should 1* formed the Itourd is directed to order the com panies to do so, and it is t he duty of said rail mad s to comply with the order'of the board. House roll So. 3, by Dobson, which was passed, provides for tne rei>enl of the sugar bounty law of 1895, sections 12.13.14,15. 1«. 17, 18, 19 and 20, of chapter vi, article lv. com piled statutes of IKtfi. The senate asked that tne house concur in t he amendment, chang ing the form, and the amendment was adopted. House roil No. 171, by Gaffin. is for an act to prohibit and punish the bringing of Illegal voters Into the state with the intent of having t hem vote therein. It provides for a fine of #1.000, one-half to go to the informer who may tiring suit to recover the same. It was recommended to pass. House mil No. }•* was recommended to pass, it provides that any person who shall by bribery. Intimi dation. threats of enforcing demands, with drawal of capital, closing up of business, or bringing suit, endeavor to impede voters in the light to vote, shall he imprisoned in the county Jail pot more than six months and pay a peualty of $500. BULL FIGHTERS KILLED. Contests at Durango, Mexico, Marked hy Fatality After Fatality. Torkkon, Mex., March *.—At Duran ?o yesterday the first bull that entered the arena gored one of the fighters to leath. Another Rian was killed by a •econd bull and a third bull killed two more men in quick succession. Eight bulls were killed and four horses were gored to death. Died Trying to Save Hie Child. Perry, Okla.. March 4 —John ft. Dcreman, a farmer living northeast of here, was drowned in the Arkansas river Sunday evening, with his 6 raontlis-oldbabe. Do reman was cross ing the river with his wife and two children in a buggy and strdek quick sand. The buggy went down and the mother dropped her infant. It sank in the sand and the father was drowned in trying to save it. The Liverpool consulship Settled. Washington, March 4.—It is whis pered about among the Ohio congres sional delegation that James P. Boyle, private secretary of President-elec! McKinley, will be appointed consul to Liverpool, succeeding James E. Neal of Ohio. The post is one of the best consulship; in the service. A CALL ON M’KINLEY, NEBRASKANS MEET THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE. rieorltd by Senator Thnnton. They Visit the White House and Enjoy a Cordial Interchange of Courtesies With the New Man Installed— Nebraskans* Departure. Nebraskans at the White Haase. Washington special: Residents of Nebraska and their friends sojourning in Washington were given a chance to meet President McKinley today through the courtesy of Senator Thurston, who conceived the idea that as many of the sojourners here would be leaving for their .homes tomorrow, it would be a gracious thing to introduce them to the president. Accordingly a telegram was sent to the white house asking if the president would receive the Ne braska delegation, and visiting friends at an hour to be named by the execu tive. At 3:30 o'clock a number of Ne braskans, including Church llowe, Attorney Atkinson of Lincoln, F. A. Collins, Henry T. Oxnard, General C. J. Bilis of Fairbury, L. L. Lindsey of Lincoln, and W. E. Peebles of Pender, with Senator Thurston as chief of the' delegation, called upon the president and were presented to him in his pri vate room. There was a cordial inter change of courtesies and chat on cur rent events. Senator Allen was in vited to attend .with the party, but he declined. Many of the Nebraskans are already leaving for their homes and by morning but few of the old campaigners will be left. Dawes County Farmer Finds Oil. Crawford dispatch: James English, perhaps one of the wealthiest farmers in this neighborhood, while having a well drilled on a piece of land about two miles southeast of Crawford struck oil. The well is now fifty feet deep. Rock was struck at about twenty feet, and the drillers reported indications of oil after they had drilled about twenty feet into the rock; they went down ten feet further that day and the next morning there was about ten feet of water in the hole, with over a foot of oil floating on the surfac. • The oil is as clear as refined oil, and a rag saturated with it burns up as brill iantly as if saturated with the best grades shipped in. English was in town yesterday and took out some ap paratus for gathering a quantity of the oil, which he will send to the state university. With the apparatus at hand here it is almost impossible to measure the amount of oil floating on the water in the well, but some re liable persons say it is about one-third oil. The report of the state university is looked forward to with much in terest. A Man of Extensive Travel. Since the death of Joseph Deunser at Fremont last week it has been ascer tained that he was a man who had traveled very extensively. He was a ’49er in California. He then went to Australia and spent several years in the mining camps and traveled about the.interior of the country. On his re turn from Australia he stopped for a time in Tahiti and other South Sea islands and lived for awhile in Hono lulu. Afte * putting in some time at various mining camps in Arizona, New Mexico and Montana he went back to Germany, from whence he returned and settled upon a farm in Saunders county, this state. PauM Over the Short Dine. General Manager Dickinson of the Union Pacific has just issued the fol lowing order: “By assent of the Oregon Short Line railroad company trip passes of Union Pacific issue to points west of Granger, Wyo., and north or south of Ogden, Utah, granted prior to March 16, 1897, will be honored up to the dates of their expiration, but no annual or tinje passes of Union Pacific issue will be accepted by the Oregon Short Line railroad company on and after May 1, 1897.” Bartley's Bandsmen. Ex-State Treasurer J. S. Bartley and his bondsmen appeared before Judge Corcoran and entered bond for the ap pearance of Bartley on April 19. The bondsmen and the amounts in which they justified are as follows: W. A. Buxton, 525.000; Webster Eaton, $5,000; W. A. Hackney, 51,000; B. R. Cowdery, 51,000: J. B. Trickey, 55,000; T. J. Majors. 520.000; R. H. Townley, 510,000; \V. A. llilworth, 53,000. Affairs In a Tangle. The state board of the league of American wheelmen, comprising A. It. Pease of Fremont, D. A. Finch of Grand Island, D. C. Eldrege of York, and D. J. O'Brien and E. B. Henderson of Omaha, held a meeting at Omaha. The affairs of the late secretary-treas urer, W. M. McCall , of Grand Island, are yet in very much of a tangle, and means were devised to straighten then: out. Tbs Omaha Exposition. Washington dispatch: The depart inents are going right ahead with their arrangements for the Omaha exposi tion as though nothing had heppened. and the officials in charge express not the least anxiety that anything will hold tip the appropriation for the gov ernment exhibit as soon as the new congress tackles the appropriation lulls. Great Is Nebraska, Nebraska is first on the list in a great many things, and now comes Omaha with anothei list of winners. The an nual bench show at St. Louis is on. and in the list of awards that city shows up with the entire winnings o{ the Newfoundland class, owned by Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jackson of that city. Comrades Disagree. The G. A. R. posts of Lincoln and Grand Island are at quite a divergence in regard to the establishment of soldiers' homes in this state. Farra gut post of Lincoln sent a letter to the Grand Island post in which it express ed sorrow and inability to “compre hend .he motive of any comrade or comrades who are seeking to adandon or in otherwise cripple or restrict sol diers' home accommodations for our aged, infirm and poor comrades.” Both homes are needed and needed badly for tbe present wants of our comrades and will be needed worse in the near future. THE SCHOOL FUND. ***or °f Joist Read at Ion Failed In the Senate. Joint resolution No. 20 was read the third time and passed in the senate on the 4th. It proposes an ammendment relating to the investment of the per manent school fund. The amendment proposed contains the following gen eral provisions: All funds belonging to the state foi educational purposes the interest and income whereof only are to be used shall be deemed trust funds held by the state and shall not be invested or loaned except on United States or state securities or registered county or school district bonds;provided that the board of educational lands and funds is empow ered to sell from time to time any of the securities belonging to the permanent school fund and invest the proceeds in any of the securities enumerated above bearing a higher rate of interest whenever an opportunity for better in vestment is presented; provided fur ther, that when any warrant upon the state treasury regularly issued in pur suance of an appropriation by the leg islature and secured by a levy of a tax fc r its payment shall be presented to the state treasurer for payment and there shall not be any money in the proper fund to pay such warrant the board of educational lands and funds may direct the state treasurer to pay the amount due on such warrant from the moneys in his hands belonging to the permanent school fund, and he shall hold said warrant as ■ an invest ment of said permanent school fund. Improved Bone Market. The usual spring1 demand for horses says a South Omaha correspondent, has set in and it appears much larger than for three years. The continued de pression in business for several years has caused people to economize by using old, worn out stock while wait ing for business to revive. Owing to the low value of all horse stock pur chasers all want the best and the present boom is only in ten grades.. The demand for cheaper grades is good but there is no advance in values. Heavy horses of quality, weighing 1,400 and upwards, have made a substantial advance, which has the appearance of being permanent. Baling of Attorney General. Miss Viola Coffin, secretary of the Omaha civil service board, has received a communication from the commis sioners at Washington, enclosing an opinion by the attorney general, re cently made, in which he passes upon the question whether the deputy U. S marshals are under the protection of the civil service law. According to this decision, the office deputies and members of the clerical force are so protected, but the other deputies are subject to removal at the whim of the marshal. Death by Suicide. Louis Johnson, a Danish farmer liv ing about five miles northwest of Kennard, committed suicide by hang ing himself in a granary on his farm. In the evening he left his home saying he was going to see a near neighbor and would return in a short time. About midnight his wife, becoming alarmed at his prolonged absence, in stituted a search for him, and about 7 o’clock next morning found him hang ing in a small back room in his gran ary. Exposition Knocked Out. The failure of President Cleveland, says a Washington dispatch, to sign the sundry civil bill knocks out the en tire appropriation for the Trans-Missis sippi exposition. The failure of three general appro priation bills settles beyond question the immediate calling of a special ses sion. The ground will have to be gone over again, but the Nebraska senators and house members are confident of their ability to get the appropriation for the exposition restored. Editor Given n Job. Judge Hunger has appointed T. J. O’Keefe, editor of the Hemingford Herald, as United States court commis sioner for Box Butte county and the adjacent territory. This makes a total of sixty-two of these commissions in Nebraska. Under a recent act of con gress the terms of all of these commis sioners will expire June 30 next, and new appointments must be made for a term of four years, dating from July 1. Want Milford Home Retained. The York post of the Grand Army of the Republic has passed resolutions condemning the proposed abandon ment of the Milford soldiers’ home. At their request ■Senator Conaway has introduced the resolutions in the state senate. The York post has always evinced a friendly spirit toward the Milford home and has made some sub stantial donations toward its support. Demand for Farm Landi. Clarks. Neb., March 4.—There is much activity among farmers of this locality. Every man in that line of work is preparing to do his utmost this coming season. The demand for land to farm was never so great here. Real estate agents can find renters for ten times the land at their disposal. It is safe to predict for the county the largest acreage of corn ever put in. Kothlng In the Report. Washington papers print the report that ex-Senator Manderson is slated for an important position. There is nothing in the report. Mr. Manderson announced months ago that he was finally out of politics and could not and would not accept any position of a political character, elective or ap pointive. A. Ahrens of Hooper has just learned of the good fortune of his father in Germany who has fallen heir to 120,000 marks. Mr. Ahrens will visit the old country soon. No Work In Sight. Secretary Laughland of the associ ated charities reports that a large number of men are arriving in Omaha in anticipation of employment on ac count of the exposition. There are a large number of them at the head quarters every evening for lodging and breakfast and none have been able to find the employment for which they were seeking. The idea that an avenue of employment is to be opened at this time is entirely erroneous, as it will be several months yet before the plans for the exposition will be so far perfected as to admit of the employ ment of any labor whatever. IT STANDS AT $200,000. THE,TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPO ' SITION BILL. Effort! for on Additional Appropriation,, of 171,000 Not Sncccufol—CongrcM man Mercer Present* Reaoona Why It ■ Should He Hade—Senator Alien to - Make Another Fight. The Trane-Mtiilpelppl Appropriation. Wasiiixgton, March 5.—The ques- - tion of appropriating $75,000 additional for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition came up in the consideration of the. sundry civil bill, and the house refused to concur in the senate amendment, by a vote of 4!) yeas to 92 n ays. Representa tive Mercer represented the reasons why this additional appropriation should be made, citing that the treas ury department has suggested that the additional sum should be appropriated in view of the larger cost in malting the exhibit on account of the distance, and that the original bill had failed to provide for the return of the exhibit. In addition to outlining what was ex pected of the government, he said: . “Now, this amendment, No. 48, says, ‘including the return of said govern ment exhibit.’ Of course, in Omaha we have a disposition to take every-.» thing which belongs to us, but do not I care to keep this exhibit any longer I than it. will serve the purpose of the exposition, and the treasury depart ment has informed me. and the expo sition managers have informed me, that . $50,000 of the amount originally provided is entirely inadequate to con struct a building for the fish commis sion and also to construct the adminis tration buildings. 1 do not think the members of this house desire tq see a peanut show or to see a peanut build ing there, and I think they are great enough and magnanimous enough to give the appropriation that is provided in these amendments, providing for the return of the government exhibit to the city of Washington and wherever else it comes from. -Mr. speaker, there will be an ex position of no mean proportions. It will represent the resources, industries and capabilities of twenty-four states and territories, and I desire that for once the people of the United States may look over the Allegheny moun tains and may travel there and take notice of the resources of that grand Trans-Mississippi country. We expect the east to come there with its capital, and with its knowledge, and we expect that after that exposition has been seen by the people of the United States, those grand states and terri tories beyond the Mississippi will have an opportunity to grow and prosper the same as eastern states have done. I trust that members of this house, irrespective of politics, will help us on these three amendments.” Mr. Cannon, chairman of the appro priation committee, fought the senate amendments at every turn, faking the ground that the bill only called for m 8200,000. Although Cannon was ar-JB rayed on the side of no increase, it is v thought that Mercer would have ear-' ried his point had not Hepburn‘of Iowa asked the question as to what Nebraska ■ had done for the exposition. Mercer was compelled to say that nothing definite had been enacted by the state legislature. The vote being taken the senate amendment was not agreed to. This, however, did not settle the matter, for the senate conferees have' for ten hours stood for 8275,000. .Sen ators Thurston and Allen are working hand in hand to secure this amount. Two conferences have been had and a. third will be ordered if necessary be fore the senate recedes to the house. Later in the evening the senate re ceded from the additional amount. Senator Allen immediately announced that he would make a fight for a third conference. The exposition amount of 8200,000 has been agreed to by both houses, although the senate insisted upon its amendment as long as it could con sistently without endangering the pas sage of the bill. Indian Police Arreit Boren. ^Pend£B, Neb., March r>.—Some ex- ■ eitement prevails in Thurston county over the removal of one J. S. Hogan and his family from their allotment se lection within the limits of the Farley -* pasture, on the Omaha reservation, by Capt. Beck's Indian police, under com mand of John Ililcher. Under instruc tions from the Indian commissioner at Washington to the former agent. Ash ley, Hogan and a few others were al lowed the privilege of making selec tions for future allfitments for their minor children, and this is the land they now occupy. The Indian police laid in ambush, expecting Hogan and his wife, who is an Omaha Indian, to return, which they did. A fight took place, and it was with considerable difficulty that Hogan was overpowered. He was bound in irons and taken to the agency. Kecoont Com Dilation Begins Work. Lincoln, March J. N. Compbell, populist of Nance county, was selected as chairman of the commission, and J. Oberfelder of Sidney, one of the demo cratic members, was made secretary. After much deliberation, it was de cided to proceed with the count with open doors, as long as there was no disposition on the part of outsiders to unduly crowd the room. The commis sion will not give out any of the daily lesults of its labors, giving as the rea son the fact that five counties have failed to forward the ballots, and that there might be danger that these bal lots may be tampered with if partial results are given out in advance. The five counties not yet reported arc Douglas, Lancaster. Nuckolls, Sherman and Keya Paha. Gus Schroeder of Columb’-s, a promi nent young man, died last week at the age of '27. At the Fremont factory- exhibit last, week there was a wonderful display of y homemade articles. Death claimed two boys in the family of A. J. Van Buskirk in Benkleman. Scarlet fever was the malady. An attempt was made to rob Farley's bank at Marquette. The outer door of the safe was blown open, but the burg lars were unable to open the inside doors and hence failed to get anything. Nebraska notes.