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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1903)
THE O’NEILL FRONTIER PUBLISHED EVERY THRURSDAY BY D. H CRONIN. f O’NEILL. - - - NEBRASKA. | BRIEF TELEGRAMS. | Congressman Littlefield says pub licity is the real trust remedy. The Chinese rebellion Is spreading and may excel In importance the Box er uprising. The L. 8. Smith & Bros. Typewriter company, capitalized at $5,000,000, was Incorporated at Albany, N. Y. David Vandolac, widely known as a breeder and importer of French draft horses, died at his home at Lexing ton, ill. The Utah senate passed a Joint reso lution memorializing congress to take favorable action on the territorial om nibus bill. Rev. W. P. Washington, colored, has been sentenced to an Indeterminate term in the Chester, 111., penitentiary for forgery. Afro-Americans have Issued an ad dress and appeal for the confirmation of Dr. Crum as collector of customs at Charlestown. Edmund W. Pettus was nominated as United States senator from Ala bama by the legislature of that state, in Joint session. The president has nominated Nelson E. Nelson of North Dakota to be col lector of customs for the district of North and 8outlvrUUu»ta. ' Judge JamjMT Fentress, for twenty five yeaiy/connected with the legal de partment of the Illinois Central rath way, died at his home in Chicago. The Minnesota senate adopted a Joint resolution requesting the sena tors and congressmen from Minnesota to favor the entire removal of the tar iff on lumber. The Jamaican papers express de dight. at the Bigning of the treaty be tween the United States and Colombia {providing for the completion of the Manama canal. ; Miss Ophelia Odell, the older sister bf Oovernor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., of New York, died at the home of her (father In Newburgh from oedema of the lungs, following the grip. • The tenth anniversary of the death tUflt pf Phillips Brooks, who for ( An’f Pe‘ rlod was Episcopal bishop ,|g Ma8sa' chusetts, was celebrated ii iston *£•11*1 Impressive ceremonies i a rlnlty phureh. cut ; Attorney General Miller 1’ given pn opinion that the election, wa*tenry JM. Teller as United State ^ *nator Trom Colorado is legal and nnsjernor jPeabody will sign the cerl •• te of his election. t. The name of C. Inman ntlVnard, Paris correspondent of the l»rt^ York Tribune, lias been added to those pre viously announced as having received the ranK of chevalier pf the Legion oi Honor. President Roosevelt has contributed $100 to the Christian Herald’s (amine fund for the relief of the suffering peasantry of Finland, 400,000 of whom are reported to be on the verge of starvation. • H. Cannon, who has been superin tendent of the car service of the Great Northern railroad for several jyears, has resigned to accept the same office with the Rock Island road with headquarters at Chicago. : The Birmingham Post says that the Japanese government 1b about to make a rigorous test of British, American and Japanese built locomotives, wittl jthe idea of placing extensive orders: ,for the class most satisfactory. The house of representatives harj inaugurated the experiment of hold, Ing memorial services for deceased members upon the Sabbath. It will b | followed hereafter during this sessio:^ and probably will become the gen^ eral practice in the house in the fuj ture. Count von Ballestrom nas resigned the presidency of the German relehs tag In consequence of disapproval o,( his attitude during the attempt, Jar( uary 20, of Herr Vollmer, socialist, til raise a debate in the house on the charges brought against the late Heri Krupp. At Copenhagen there is a report te the effect that American mining spec, ulators have made large purchases o iron and copper mines in northeri Sweden and northern Norway, and tha the great Scandinavian companies ari likely to be incorporated in the Ameri can copper trust. Colonel Henry S. Osgoode, frleui and campaign manager of James G Blaine, died at Portland, Me. Colone Osgoode had beeii manager for th American Express company in tha < ity for nearly a quarter of a centurj He also was principal owner of th Portland Evening Express. County Attorney Boarilman of Mil neapolis has brought suit for lift thousand dollars against the McClur Publishing company of New York Cit for alleged libelous statements pul llshed in the January issue of Mi Clure's Magazine under the captioi “The Fall and Redemption of Minni «.poli$.” TilE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Branches of the Twenty-Eighth General Assembly. SENATE. When the senate met on the 26th no j committees were ready to report and con sequently very little work was done. Sen ator O’Neill of Lancaster called the atten 1 tion of the senate to the slow progress of the committees. O’Neill’s bill to prevent the employment of elevutor conductors under 1§ years of age passed the commit tee of the whole after the lengthy discus sion. Hall of Douglas moved to amend to make the age limit 34, but this amend ment was lost. 8. F. 34, a Joint resolu tion to memoralize congress to establish ■ the status of the First Nebraska militia, passed the committee of the whole. Bills on tirst reading included: To amend scc , tion 3032b, chapter x, title 30, Code of I Civil Procedure, tenants to be responsible for reasonable dangers during the pen dency of action. To provide for establish ing a public road to and from lands sur rounded or shut out from a public road in certain cases. In the senate on the iu'n the committee on live stock and grazing, to which was referred Senator Dietrich’s land leasing bill, reported unfavorably on the bill and recommended that It be not passed. The committee Introduced the following Joint resolution: Whereas, A -Mil Is now pending in con gress, knoWn ns S. F, 6886, Introduced by HcinT Charles H. Dietrich, contemplating Abe leasing of the public lands within the state of Nebraska, as are In their natural condition valuable only for live stock, grazing purposes, and are not sus ceptible of Irrigation; and, Whereas, The congreslonal delegation of Nebraska now In Washington has peti tioned his excellency, Governor J. H. Mickey, to call the attention of the legis lature of Nebraska to this proposed na tional legislation, and requesting that such action be taken as will Indicate to our senators and representatives In con gress the wishes of the people of the state of Nebraska; and, Whereas, His excellency, the governor, has presented to this body such request with a recommendation that a Joint res olution be adopted disclosing to our sen ators and representatives In congress the attitude of the people of the state of Nebraska toward said land leasing bill; i therefore, be It Resolved by ilie house of representa tives of (he state of Nebraska, That we oppose the leasing of the public domain In Nebraska as proposed In 3. F. 6886. now pending In congress, for the reason that such legislation is Inimical, In our Judgment, to the best development of the state by actual settlers; be It further Resolved, That we favor and petition congress to amend the present homestead law so that the public lands within this state, valuable solely for U+e stock pur poses, and not susceptible to Irrigation, be opened to homestead entry, allowing each actual resident u homestead of 640 acres, Instead of 160, as now provided; and, be It further Resolved, That we favor the appoint ment of a commission, ns recommended by bis excellency, President Roosevelt, to Investigate and report as to the quality of said lands and the conditions that exist In said territory. In the senate on the 28th the following bills were reported favorably by the com mittees and pluced on general file: 8. F. 26, for the appointing of an Insurance deputy. 8. F. 61, fixing fees to be paid by foreign corporations to do business In the state. 8. F. 34, a bill to' memorial ize congress to establish the status of the First Nebraska militia, was reported favorably engrossed and later passed. 8. F. 40, to prohibit the employment of ele vator conductors under 18 years of age, was reported properly engrossed and passed. A motion was carried to allow all senate employes pay for six days a week except the postmaster, mall carrier and custodian, who are allowed six and a half days. Warner’s resolution to have a committee of five appointed to Investi gate the differences In rates charged by telephone qpmpunles in different towns carried without debate and the chair ap pointed Warner of Dakota, Meredith of Saunders, O’Neill of Lancaster, Glffln of Dawson and Brown of Keyn Paha on the committee. me Touowing duis were piaceci on sen atorial tile on the 29th: H. R. 60, appro priating $4,800 to pay incidental expenses of the legislature. It was amended to read $28,000. S. F. 38, entitled guardians and wards. S. F. 117, in regard to the Dietrich land leasing bill. The rules were suspended and the bill was placed at the head of the list. The following bills were reported back to the senate with the rec ! ommendatlon that they be passed: S. F. I 25, giving villages the same right to is sue bonds for heating and lighting pur | poses as cities of the first and second 1 classes. To compel the placing of planks 1 on bridges and culverts before crossing > with engines. Amended that one person | go 1(H) yards ahead of engines on the road to prevent accidents. Authorizing county boards to appropriate money for county I fairs. To provide for the appointment of \ an insurance deputy. Fixing fees charged insurance company and others for filing k papers. To appropriate $4,800 for inci dental expenses of the legislature was \ amended to read $28,000. An act relating . to township organization was referred 1 back to the committee. Hasty of Furnas * introduced a resolution to have a com " mittee of three appointed to investigate 1 the reason of the difference in taxes paid by insurance Companies in Nebraska and 3 in Iowa. In the senate on the 30th Secretarj Allen to the governor announced thai ' Governor Mickey had signed S. F. 10 0 • to legalize issue of bond by cities of firs y ! and second class. Lieutenant Governoi i- ! McGiiton signed S. F. 33, reducing schoo , investments to $50,000* to give school prlv lieges of normal schools. H. R. 67. com pelling the city council of Omaha to pur chase Omaha water works, was read j . third time and passed. S. F. 82, entitlei “An act to create a food commission.” and S. F. S3, providing penalties for adul terating food, were recommended to be placed on general file. Hasting’s resolu tion to have a committee appointed to investigate insurance companies’ taxes was called up and adopted. Bills were introduced: To establish a military code for the state of Nebraska and to provide for the organization, government and compensation of the militia and to pro vide for the enrollment of the unorgan ized militia, to conform with an act of the United States congress “to provide the efficiency of the militia and for other purposes.” S. F. 136, by Hastings—To pro mote the independence of voters at pub lic elections, to enforce the secrecy of the ballot, to provide for the selecting and nominating of all candidates for elec tive offices, except candidates to be chosen at any special election, or township or precinct offices or members of school boards not members of the boards of ed ucation, by popular vote at primary elec tions, and to provide for the manner of so doing: to provide what qualifications are necessary to entitle a person to vote at such primary elections, to provide for the placing of the names of candidates for nomination upon the primary election ballot of their political party and the manner of so doing, and to provide for the seelctlng and appointment of judges and clerks to serve at such primary elec tion, to provide for the notification to candidates at such primary elections of their nomination, and to provide the man ner of nominating candidates for offices to be filled at any special election and for township and precinct offices, and to pro vide for the order of placing tickets of political parties upon the ballot for pub lic elections, and to provide for the print ing and distribution of ballots to be used at public elections and primary elections for nominating candidates for office to be voted on at public election at public expenses: to regulate the formation of new parties and prevent in public elections or primary elections, and to provide for the punishment for the violation of the same. HOUSE. The house, on convening on the 26th, Im mediately took up Governor Mickey’s message on the Dietrich land leasing bill as the special order. After the reading of the governor’s message the resolution sub mitted Saturday by McAllister of Deuel was read and a number of resolutions on the subject Introduced. But on motion of Sweezy of Adams, consideration of the entire subject went over one day. The committee on public printing reported* in compliance with previous instructions of tho house, that the contract for printing house documents was let by Auditor Wes ton, Treasurer Stueffor and Secretary of State Marsh, as the State Printing Board, to the State Journal company at $1.34 a page of 500 copies, as compared with $1.18 last term, providing for the return of bills in their order and within three days after their delivery and a penalty of $25 for each breach of contract. The judi ciary committee was Instructed to exam ine the contract let by the State Print ing Board to the State Journal company and report as to its legality and binding effect. H. R’s. from 116 to 119 inclusive, 1 by Gregg of Wayne, relating to schools, were recommended for passage. IT. R. 26, by Hathorn of Red Willow’, for the relief of Russell F. Loomis, was also recom mended to pass. F. 35, by Fries of Val ley, substituted for If. R. 5, by Gregg of Wayne, at latter’s request, reducing from $100,000 to $50,000 the investment of normal schools before they shall be authorized to issue teachers’ certificates, was passed. New bills introduced included the fol lowing. Making it a penal offense to re ceive, conceal or buy any horse, live stock, mule, cow', steer, bull, heifer or calf, of any value, or any other personal prop erty of the value of $35 or more, which has been stolen in another state or ter ritory of the United States, knowing the same to have been stolen. To provide for the participation by the state of Nebraska in the Louisiana Purchase exposition, for the appointment of a state board of com missioners by the governor; to provide for a notification by the governor; to provide for the reimbursement of each member of said board, for hotel, traveling and in cidental expenses; to provide for a state exhibit at said exposition; to define the duties of the board of commissioners in relation thereto; for the payment of sal aries to employes and for the appropria tion of $75,000. This resolution was introduced In the house on the 27th: Resolved. That all professional lobbyists be excluded from the floor of this house, and all that part of the capitol building over which the house has jurisdiction; that it is hereby made the duty of the sergeant-at-arms and his assistants to enforce this resolution: Provided, that representatives of corporations may be heard in public committee meetings upon request the same as citizens of Nebraska or their representatives. Consideration was had of Governor Mickey’s message on the Dietrich bill. A half dozen resolutions, all opposed to the Dietrich bill, but differing in minor de tails. were submitted and precipitated a long debate as to the best means of dis posing of this matter. Finally the house adopted the substitute of Jones of Otoe to the McAllister resolution, openly and simply declaring against the Dietrich bill, without recommending the adoption of President Roosevelt’s plan as urged by Governor Mickey. McAllister’s resolution provided that the president’s plan be rec ommmended, having a commission of ex ports appointed to investigate and report to congress on the conditions of leasing and fencing grazing lands. This tlnallj and decisively settles the matter so fai as the house is concerned. The following were introduced: To provide for the bettei protection of life and property by estab lishing a board of examining engineers , t0 inspect s^eam boilers, and providing foi I* the licensing of persons to operate stean ♦ ators. and to provide for fines and pen alties for violations of this act. To ex tend the power of the mayor and council of cities of 5,000 to 25.000 population that they can extend the corporate limits so as to include additional territory, and to decrease the corporate limits by excluding lands not laid off into lota of five acres and less. The Perry resolution to exclude profes sional lobbyists from the house was alid on tlys tabic in the house on the 28th. There bills were passed: S. F. 10, by Marshall, to legalize the issuance of bonds for the establishment and main tenance of heating and lighting systems by villages and cities of less than 5,000 inhabitants; H. R. 67. by Gilbert of Doug las. the Omaha water works bill; H. R. 04, by Douglas of Rock, fixing penalties roll for carrying concealed weapons. H. R. 4, by Nelson of Douglas, the measure providing for a new codification of the laws regulating negotiable Instruments to be uniform with the laws of other states, has created more interest in the house than any other similar bill. Lawyers of the house take the position thate it con tains more legal questions than any other bill yet introduced or likely to be in troduced, and will affect the laws of Ne braska in the most vital manner. It has been referred back to the judiciary com mittee. Among new bills introduced were: Relating to the contracts for repairing bridges, culverts, etc. To compel annual statement of the condition of joint stock legal reserve life insurance companies. To prevent the organizing of credit guar anty insurance companies. To provide | for the funding of county indebtedness. -— H. R. 18, by Douglas of Rock, to entitle county treasurers to maintain official seals that would enable them to validate tax titles occasioned a heated and pro tracted debate in the house on the 29th. The bill was placed on general file. H. R 103, by Jones of Otoe, providing for the election of county commissioners by an entire vote of the county in counties not under township organization, was vigor ously assailed as a political measure. Reuse of Hall insisted that it was an at tempt on the part of cities of the class of Nebraska City to obtain control of the county board. Kennedy of Douglas said that from observation he was con vinced that regardless of the purpose, the practical effect of this sort of bill is poli tical, as suggested by Rouse. The com mittee on boundaries, county seats and township organization brought in an ad verse report on the bill, which was voted down, allowing the bill to go on general tile. H. R. 32, by Koetter of Douglas, compelling Omaha school board to buy its own books and H. R. 42, fixing salaries of secretary of school boards were passed. Bills introduced for first time were: To establish a military code for the state of Nebraska, and to provide for the organization, government and com pensation of the militia, and to provide for the enrollment of the unorganized militia, to conform with an act of the United States srress “To promote the efficiency of militia and for other purposes.” To punish the stealing of do mestic fowls and to punish perons Re ceiving or buying stolen domestic fows, making the offense felony. In the house on the 30th Speaker Mock ctt signed H. R. 67, by Gilbert of Doug las, the Omaha waterworks bill, which had passed both house and senate. The senate at this time sent in a communica tion that it had voted' to adjourn to next Thursday, the house concurring. The house voted to refuse to concur in the senate’s action. These resolutions were introduced by Christy of Nemaha: We, the undersigned residents, voters, citizens, taxpayers and merchants resid ing and doing business in Otoe county, realizing that our present laws regard ing exemptions are unjust and detri mental to the merchants’ interests and to the best interests of society, aiding and abetting dishonest debts, forcing merchants into bankruptcy and causing hardship to the people by an increase of cost in their supplies, petition your hon orable body to amend, modify or repeal our exemtption laws to such an extent at least that the merchants may have equal protection under the laws to any other class of citizens. Whereas, We have heard continued re ports of extortionate telephone charges, and as the senate has appointed a com mittee to Investigate such charges and 1 complaints. Therefore, I move you that the speaker j of the house appoint a committee of three to investigate and report on such charges to this house. New bills were introduced: To amend section 13 of charter Ixxxiia of the Com piled Statutes, entitled ‘’Soldiers and sail ors.’’ Provides for honorable burial of ex-soldiers and sailors by county board at cost not exceeding $60. Authorizing the construction on the state fair grounds of one fish building and one public com fort building with water closet arrange ments, and to appropriate for such pur pose the sum of $15,000. To provide for the erection of a fireproof building in the city of Lincoln to be used as a museum and library building by the Nebraska Historical society. Appropriates $85,000. BILL FOR GREATER OMAHA. Senator Howell of Douglas in the sen ate laid the first stone in paving a way for greater Omaha. S. F. 130, Introduced by Senator Howell, provides for a bill for a joint resolution to amend article x of the constitution. The amendment offered by the Douglas senator is as follows: ‘‘That where more than one-half of the inhabitants of any county shall reside within the corporate limits of some or ganized city the legislature may by law provide for the creation of such territory as may be designated within said county into one political organization to be known as the city and county of -, and to be governed by one set of officers, and the outlying territory, if any there be. of such county may by legislative act I be attached to the adjacent county or counties without the vote of the inhabit ants, and to such new municipal organiz ation the right to make its own charter by a vote of the people within such city may be granted and regulated by law. Upon the division of any county undei this provision the sections so separated shall each pay its just proportion of the general indebtedness, to be ascertained and provided for, as may by law be de termined. Sudden Death of Sporting Editor. NEW YORK—George Stackhouse sporting editor of the New York Trib une, died suddenly on Saturday. NEBRASKA BRIEFS. It costs all the way from $1 to $10 :o spit on the sidewalk in Fremont. The Zeller Stock Food company is i new industry for Hooper. Organized labor of Nebraska City las perfected the Central Labor un on. Pastor Jones of Nebraska City has •esigned and will remove to Okla '.oma. Farm land in Saunders county is ■eaching the highest figure known for rears. A telephone exchange has been es tablished at Ord with about fifty eus omers. An elevator with 100,000 bushels ca pacity is being agitated at Ellis, Gage county. Callaway has effected a brass band irganization. New instruments have oeen received. The Central Nebraska Teachers’ as sociation will meet in Grand Island April 1, 2 and 3. ' Of two tramps arrested in Fairbury, me of them proved to be a convict ‘rom Kansas, to which state he was returned. The only hotel in the town of West ern was destroyed by fire a few days ago. The owner will rebuild bigger and better. Mrs. Sarah Kerns of Pawnee county celebrated her 88th birthday with fifty-eight of her descendants seated about the festive board. Rudolph Wilke, aged about 2G years, and single, was thrown from his horse and fatally injured while returning home from a neighbor's four miles southeast of Crete. The vast acreage of wheat sown in ‘erritory tributary to St. Edward the last few years and the success in growing this grain justifies the owner of the flouring mill there in extend .ng the capacity of the mill. A team of valuable saddle horses be longing to B. F. Hefileflnger, who re iides a few miles south of Beatrice, was stolen. Two saddles were also '.aken. The theft is believed to be the work of local talent. Food Commissioner Bassett has had l test made of the brands of vanilla sold by dealers generally throughout the state and of the tests made he las found that three of the brands la belled vanilla were adulterated. A new telephone line is being con structed from Taylor to Brewster, the xmnty seat of Blaine county. In ad lition to the Bell and Adamson com panies at Taylor, there are .five lines iperated by farmers and ranchmen entering Taylor, thus giving the coun y seat of Loup county communication with the farmer as well as the outside, world. Senator Hasty of Furnas is very anxious that Nebraska should get nore money out of the insurance com panies doing business in the state, in the nature of taxes, and to find out ‘.he reason that Nebraska is not get-1 ;ing as much as its sister states he ‘ntroduced a resolution that a com nittee of three be appointed to in Captain F. M. Dorrington, register of the United States land office at Al •iance, died last week, death being caused by congestion, the small intes tines becoming knotted. He was ill only four days. Captain Dorrington came to Nebraska in 1860 and located where Falls City now stands. He owned and operated the first stage line between Lincoln and Falls City and prominently figured in the settling of western Nebraska. Farm land in Saunders county north and west of Ashland is reach ing the highest figures known in many years. David Wilson has sold his farm of 240 acres in Green precinct to Joel Miller for $19,00, or about $79.17 per acre. S. L. Will purchased a farm of 160 acres from E. D. Laughlin for $65 per acre. Land that would not command $30 per acre six years ago now sells for not less than $50, and one farm west of town recently brought $100 per acre. Warden Davis of the Nebraska state penitentiary has filed his report with the governor. From this it is gath ered that there are eight females—two white and six negro—and 278 males in prison. The total negro population is 34. There are 24 life men in the pris on. This state has one convict for every 3,816 of its inhabitants, and it is confidently believed that no other commonwealth in the union can make so good a showing. Certainly Nebras ua sets its immediate next door neigh bors too fast a moral pace. Iowa has a convict to every 1,937 inhabitants; South Dakota has one to every 2,769; Kansas, one to every 1,556, while Colo rado has one man in stripes to every 1,050 of its population. George B. Haynes, a prominent far mer in Butler county, dropped dead from heart disease. Fifty trade slot machines doing bus iness in Nebraska City must here after pay a tax or quit their opera tions. Hon. .John Barsby of Fairmont has been granted a franchise by the city of Geneva for an independent tele phone exchange and a good subscrip tion list has been secured. Work will begin as soon as all preliminaries can be settled. WOMEN SUFFER. Hard to attend to daily duties with a back that aches like the toothache. \ A woman’s kidneys give * her constant trouble. Backache is the first warning of sick kidneys, and should never be neglected. Urinary disorders an noy, embarrass and worry womankind. Dangerous dia betes, dropsy and Bright’s disease are sure to follow if the kidneys are neglected. Read how to cure the kidneys and keep them well. Mrs. James Beck of 314 West Whitesboro street, Rome, N. Y., says: "I was troubled with my kidneys for eight or nine years; had much pain in my back; as time went on I could hardly endure it; I could not stand ^ except for a few moments at a time; I mk grew weak and exhausted; I could not W even do light housework, let alone washing and ironing; I could not stocp or bend; my head ached severely; I was in pain from my head down to my heels; centering In the kidneys It was a heavy, steady, sickening ache; I could not rest nights, and got up morn ings weak and tired. I thought I was about done for, when I saw Doan’s Kidney Pills advertised for kidney complaints, and got them at Broughton & Graves’ drug store. Within a week after commencing their use,I began to improve, and from that time on rapidly grew better. I used five boxes in all and was cured. I have recommended Doan’s Kidney Pills to many others, and my case ought to convince the most skeptical sufferer to give them a fair trial.” A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine, which cured Mrs. James Beck, will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Ad dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price, 50 cents per box. When a chain of evidence has been x forged by a police lynx would a pris oner at the bar be justified in hiring a backsmith instead of a lawyer? Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Broruo Quinine Tablets. Price25c. When you meet a worthless man it’s doughnuts to fudge he can tell you a sure cure for corns. WHEN IOUB OKOl'KR SAYS he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he Is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. De fiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains 16 oz. to the package and lells for same money as 12 oz. brands. There is nothing like leather—not even the paper imitations. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an Infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. \V. S a n p g i., Ocean Grove, N. J.. Feb. 17. 1900. Wet hoots and expected pleasures are hard to put off. You never hear any one complain about ’’Defiance Starch.” There is none to equal it in quality and quan tity. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try It now and save your money. Matrimony can never be wholly a success until hubby forgets mother’s tooking. SHORT H A N I) ^V\A t>KOF. L. L. MARTIN, CEDAR RAPIDS. IOWA About the only satisfactory substi tute for wisdom is silence. Mrs. Winslows wootlilng Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces la* Humiliation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. You can’t tip a waiter enough to yj make him lose his balance. WABASH RAILROAD -SELL MOBILE and return,.128.89 MKW ORLEANS and return, - #29.50 HAVANA. CUBA, and return, #68.85 The above special rates and many others with long limits and stop-overs on sale Feb. 17th io 22nd inclusive. All Information at Wabash city office, 1601 Farnam 8t., or adaress, HARRY E. MOORES, Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. Omaha, Nebr. Single Tax in Practice. On the coast of Vancouver island, in British Columbia, the flourishing town of Naniamo, with its 6,000 in habitants has no taxes for municipal purposes save one on land values, lev ied alike on occupied and unoccupied land, according to the orthodox inter pretation of the single tax theory. The town is a miners’ town, where the doc trine of "three acres and a cow” is al most universally realized, as well as that of "every man his own house owner.’’ For this result the easy terms of the London syndicate which owns the coal and land in the neigh borhood are largely responsible. ,50. UNION MADE M W. L. 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