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PUBLISHED EVERY THRUR8DAY BY
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Levi Ankeny, senator-elect from
Washington to succeed George Turner,
la a millionaire banker and farmer.
The half-yearly report of the Re
public Iron and Steel company showa
net profits of |1,384,125, a gain of
,1451,000 •
General Funston has fully recovered
his health and expects that ere long
he will be assigned to duty in the
Philippines again.
Mrs. Margaret Allen, the oldest wo
man In the state of Washington, died
at the home of her daughter In Ta
coma, Wash., aged 104.
The Reading Railway company, dur
ing the month of January, hauled
down Its main line to tidewater nearly
1,100,000 tons of anthracite coal.
Charlemagne Tower, the new Amer
ican ambassador to Germany, has
rented a princely mansion on the Ko
nlgsplatz, close to the reichstag, In
Berlin.
Several thousand dyers at Barcelona
have struck In sympathy with the
Reus strikers. Their action will com
pel 40,000 spinners and weavers to
remain idle.
A bill providing for the abolishment
of capital punishment was introduced
In the New York state assembly. Life
imprisonment is proposed for murder
In the first degree.
The degree of LL.D. was conferred
on President Andrew Sloan Draper of
the University of Illinois at a meet
ing of the trustees and council of
Columbia university.
Representative Chipcrfleld has in
troduced in the Illinois house a bill
providing for the execution of crim
inals by electrocution. The bill is sim
ilar to the New York law.
Senator Thomas Patterson of Colo
rado says that one of the most en
joyable periods of his life was the
two weeks he spent traveling with a
circus in southern Michigan.
The members of the foreign lega
tions in Pekin are again embarrassed
by lavish gifts of game, plants and
trinkets from the dowager empress
on the occasion of the Chinese New
Y ear.
Joshua G. Dodge, who was an asso
ciate of William Lloyd Garrison, Wen
dell Phillips and other leaders of the
anti-slavery movement, has just cele
brated his 9Uth birthday at Arlington,
Mass.
General Gordon, commanding the
United Confederate veterans, an
nounces that the thirteenth annual
reunion of the organization will be
held in New Orleans May 19, 20, 2t
and 22, 1903.
' The porte has notified the embas
sies at Constantinople that it has re
ports showing that the Macedonian
committee is organizing several large
bands for the invasion of Macedonia
in the spring.
There is a strong current of feeling
in Mexico favoring the encouraging of
Chinese .emigration on a large scale
and securing an outlet in this way
for a considerable share of Mexico's
silver output.
John T. McDonough, former secre
tary of state, labor commissioner and
county judge of New York, may be
chief judge of the Philippine islands
if he can arrange his domestic affairs
to suit the position.
The supreme court of Missouri sen
tenced the following men, who have
been convicted of murder, to hang on
March 6; James L. Cartrell, in But
ler; John G. Taylor, in Kansas City,
and Charles May, in St. Joseph.
Because of inability of eastern roads
to handle all the traffic ofrered to
them, western roads have issued block
ade notices that affect several of the
necessaries of life. Among the Is er
is flour, which the northwestern roads
will not receive for delivery to east
ern roads until further notice.
The president sent the following
army nominations to the senate: Lieu
tenant Colonel Charles L. Cooper,
Fourteenth cavalry, to be colonel; Ma
jor A. Rogers, Fourth cavalry, to be
lieutenant colonel; Captain James
Lockett, Fourth cavalry, to be major;
First Lieutenant William D. Chitty,
Third cavalry, to be captain; Captain
Edward H. Humm, Tenth infantry, to
be a major.
The condition of freight congestion
in eastern roads is very much worse
than on western lines.
The international Epworth league
convention to be held in Detroit next
summer will begin July 111, and con
tinue over Sunday, July 19.
Ex-Governor George S. Boutwell of
Massachusetts observed his 85tli
birthday anniversary on Wednesday.
The German government has decid
ed to readmit the Jesuits who, since'
July, 1872, have been excluded from
Slrmany.,
AS TO STATEHOOD
SENATORS GROW TIRED OF VIR
TUAL DEADLOCK.
A SUBSTITUTE BILL PROPOSED
Some Members Wish to Consolidate
Territories Into Two States—Danger
of Split May Kill Suggestion—Re
publicans Seek Unanimous Vote.
WASHINGTON. — All indications
point to the conclusion of the state
hood debate during the present week,
but no one can tell at this time just
when or how the change will come.
If the plans of the republican lead
ers who oppoBe the bill are put into
effect the committee on territories
will bring in a substitute bill early
in the week providing for eonsolida
tlon and the udmission of two
Btates This will probably not be
done, however, until assurance can
be secured that the full republican
vote will be cast for the consolidation.
If this plan does not lake shape
Senator Quay is likely to press his
statehood amendment on the agricul
tural bill and a test of strength will
ensue. The vote on this amend
ment will be close, if taken, and
while the omnibus bill advocates
feel that they have a majority they
realise that It will not be so large
as It would be on a direct vote on
the statehood bill alone and by itself.
There Is some talk now of admit
ting only Oklahoma, but if this should
be undertaken It will be only as a last
resort and will be postponed until
toward the end of the session. All
senators are becoming restless under
the present conditions, which, it is
believed, cannot continue much
longer.
Monday, in accordance with notice
given by Senator Allison, the bill
making appropriations for the Dis
trict of Columbia will be taken up.
Some clauses will arouse debate, but
advantage will be taken of the oppor
tunity to further the efforts to com
promise the differences on the state
hood bill.
An effort also will be made to secure
consideration of the Cuban reciprocity
treaty, and a portion of the time next
Saturday will bo devoted to eulogies
on deceased members of the house.
The house of representatives Sun
day held a memorial session to pay
tribute to the memory of the late Sen
ator William J. Sewall and the late
Representative Joshua S. Salmon of
New Jersey. Mr. Parker of New Jer
sey presided.
The eulogists of the two departed
statesmen were Messrs. Gardner (N.
J.), Hull (la.), Syell (Ind.), Stewart
(N. J.), Foster (Vt.), Graff (111.), Wil
liams (Miss.), Warner (111.), Randself
(Tex.), Lloyd (Me.) and Ball (Tex.)
MUST CURB TRUSTS.
President Prepares to Call Special
Session to Convene on March 5.
WASHINGTON.—It can be stated
by authority that unless anti trust
legislation at least reasonably satis
factory to the administration is
passed at the present session. Presi
dent Roosevelt will call an extraordi
nary session of congress on March 5.
The president himself has told mem
bers of congress of his desire and of
his determination in this regard and it
is understood that the announcement
was direct and unqualified.
It is further stated that the de
termination of the president was
reached only after careful considera
tion of the strenuous efforts that are
being made to defeat any anti trust
legislation by congress. These efforts
have covered a wide range. They
were characterized by one prominent
republican leader: “The most re
markable of which I have had any
personal knowledge during my public
life.”
Passports Needed in South.
MOBILE. Ala.-—Information was re
ceived here Sunday from Honduras to
the effect that because of the revolu
tionary troubles, all persons coming
into that country must have passports.
Three passengers on the steamer His
panla, leaving for Puerto Cortez, were
required to secure passports before
the vessel sailed.
Petitions for Rosebud Bill.
WASHINGTON—Members of con
gress from South Dakota Monday pre
sented to their respective bodies a
memorial of the legislature of that
state urging congress to pasB the Rose
bud treaty bill.
Plague Condition Better.
MAZATLAN — There were two
deaths from the plague Saturday. Very
Satisfactory results are being obtain
ed by the use of the Yerzln serum.
Most of the patients to whom it is
given begin immediately to recover.
A number of hotels and boarding
houses are closed, the owners fearing
that in case the plague breaks out ir.
them the buildings will be burned.
The fire insurance agents are taking
no policies.
OAVES LICKING THE STAMPS.
Provisions of One t%" the New Post
office Bills.
WASHINGTON.—The postofflce ap
propriation bill passed on Thursday
by the house contains an important
provision that has not attracted much
attention.
The bill provides that hereafter
postoffl es shall accept for transmis
sion in the mails quantities of not
less than 2,000 identical pieces of third
or fourth class mail matter without
postage stamps affixed, provided that
the postage is fully prepaid. This ac
tion was recommended strongly by
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden in the interest of economy to
the government and to the business
public. Under its provisions, as urged
by the department, this proposed leg
islation will save the expense of man
ufacturing stamps, the sale of them
to the public and the subsequent labor
of cancelling the stumps on the in
dividual pieces in the postoffices after
they are mailed. It will also save the
public the work of attaching postage
stamps to the individual pieces of
mail.
Child Saving Institute of Omaha.
The Child Saving Institute of Oma
ha Is better equipped than any other
corporation for handling legal ques
tions concerning children and devotes
a large amount of time to the work
of rescuing children from vicious sur
roundings by legal processes. A re
cent appeal from Washington county,
Nebraska, was promptly responded to
and proceedings were begun in the
county court against a woman who
wa3 running a house of ill fame at
Blair, having with her four small chil
dren, the oldest one being a girl of
nine years. She made confession in
the court concerning her criminal life,
when she faced the evidence that was
presented, and then requested that the
Child Saving Institute of Omaha
should take charge of her children and
place them in homes. Three of them
have already found homes, and it is
expected, soon that a home will be
found for the youngest boy, who Is
only three years of age.
FRANK JAMES PUTS IN AN OAR.
Kicks on the Pardon Granted to Cole
Younger.
ST. I.OUIS, Mo.—Frank James,
brother of Jesse James, said Thursday
that the pardon granted Coleman
Younger by the Minnesota board of
pardons will, in his opinion, deprive
Younger of any way of making a liv
ing.
‘‘He Is not realty freed,” said
James. "He is 60 years old and has
been in prison a quarter of a century
and has no trade or profession. He
ought to insist upon being granted ab
solutely free citizenship, or perhaps it
would have been better for him to have
remained in prison.”
TURKISH ARMY MOBILIZED.
Sultan Concentrates Forces Along Bul
garian Frontier.
PARIS—The correspondent of the
Figaro at Philtpolis states that the
sultan Is mobilizing 240,000 men and
has commissioned all the steamers of
the Idurei Massousieh company to
transport these troops, who are to re
inforce the Second and Third army
corps at Adrianople Salonica and
along the Bulgarian frontier.
Commenting on this dispatch the Fi
garo says this action greatly compli
cates the situation in Macedonia. Di
plomacy will have great difficulty in
solving without, accident this new
phase of the eastern question, which
has exhausted all efforts for the last
200 years.
FORMER SENATOR DAWES DEAD.
Venerable Massachusetts Statesman
Passes Away at His Home.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Ex-United
Stnte3 Senator Henry Laurens Dawes
died Thursday morning at his home
in this city. He was 86 years of age.
Mr. Dawes had been ill since Christ
mas night, when he contracted a se
vere cold while driving. The cold de
veloped into grip, which undermined
his system.
Whe President Rposevelt visited
Pittsfield last fall lie called upon the
veteran statesman. It was while re
turning from the visit to the Dawes
house that the trolley accident occur
red in which the president figured.
IOWA STOCKMEN IN WRECK.
Accident Occurs on Illinois Central
Road Near Clovcrdale.
CHICAGO—Two men were killed,
five seriously injured, six others slight
ly, injured in a rear end collision on
east bound stock trains on the Illi
nois Central at Cloverdale on Mon
day.
The collision occurred in a dense
fog, which prevented the engineer of
the second train from seeing the train
J ahead until almost upon it.
THE NEBRASKA J.E(.ISLATfi
A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Branches
of the Twenty-Eighth General
Assembly.
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WOULD LET THE PUBLIC IN.
Lieutenant Governor McGilton has orig
inated a plan with reference to the con
sideration of bills before the legislative
committees which he thinks ought to be
incorporated in the rules of the senate
o\er which body he presides. The plan
provides a method whereby all parties in
terested directly or Indirectly in any
measure may appear before the com
mittee having the bill In charge and be
heard In the discussion of it.
Lieutenant Governor McGilton has
framed his idea in this manner:
All standing committees shall keep a
calendar of bills in the order in which
they are referred and consider the same
in such order, except where passed by
the vote of a majority of all members
of said committee, in which case the bill
thus passed shall not lose its place on
the committee calendar. Each standing
committee shall give notice to this body,
through its chairman, at least one day
in advance of the time and place of meet
ing and of the bills to be considered by
it, so tl^;t all persons interested may ap
pear and request a hearing, subject to
such limitations as the committee may
impose.
The lieutenant governor further outlin
ing his plan, says:
“The time to be heard on any bill Is
while it is before the committee. The re
port of the committee, while not necessa
rily or inevitably final as to its disposi
tion, always has a great influence on the
action of the senate or house, to which
ever body it Is made. It too frequently
happens that a bill gets past the com
mittee in the senate or house, before the
committee of .the w hole and is placed on
its final passage before outsiders who
have a legitimate interest in the measure
get the opportunity of being heard on it.
They have no way of knowing when the
committee is to consider the bill and
consequently no opportunity of giving
expression to their views. The adoption
of this proposed rule, which could be
used in the house as well as the senate,
would obviate all this, and, I think, be
a very good thing for many other rea
sons.”
TO GET INTO PRINT.
"I see that some adverse comment Is
attempted,” said Attorney Baldwin, ‘‘be
cause the railroad companies utilize the
newspapers to present their side in the
tax controversy, and because they ex
press a willingness to pay the expense of
printing. Why should they not. The ar
guments presented are unanswerable.
The outside counties of the' stat^ are vi
tally interested. The Omaha papers give
only one side of the question. The out
side newspapers are entitled to receive
information exposing the selfishness of
tin* Omaha real estate boomers. And the
railroads have a perfect right to pay for
the expense of printing this information.
‘‘The railroads have no newspaper of
their own to present the case, and there
is no one newspaper of wide circulation
standing up for the rights of the country
as against the encroachments of the large
city. The defense of the country must
come from the country papers. We can
not demand that they use their space
without recompense, although many of
them, recognizing their o^n local inter
est in the controversy, decline compensa
tion and freely open their columns to
forcibly express their opinions of the
Omaha scheme. The criticism from the
Omaha boomers is ridiculous. It sounds
like the plaint of a failing and hopeless
cause.”
WORKING ON REVENUE LAW.
** A revenue law having for its basis
tile constitution of the state will be re
ported by our committee to the legisla
ture when the legislature convenes next
week,” said Representative Loomis of
Dodge, the fusion member of the revenue
revision committee. ‘‘The reports that
have been published to the effect that
our bill will be modeled along the lines
of the present revenue law of Nebraska,
or of the Kansas bill, are alike incorrect.
Portions of the Nebraska law will be
used; portions of the Kansas plan will
be used; features will be incorporated in
the bill from the revenue laws of Cali
fornia, Indiana and other states; and
portions of the bill will be largely orig
inal with the committee. But as a whole
the bill will be built along no hard and
fast lines: it will be independently con
structed to meet the requirements of the
situation according to the best judgment
of the committee.
“While In a general way, the commit
tee is pretty well agreed as to the salient
features of the revenue law it will rec
ommend, I could not myself tell, at the
present time, just what those features
are. The whole work has been divided
among sub-committees. None of these
committees have completed their work.
Their work, when it is completed, will
be subject to review and correction by
the whole committee. Consequently noth
ing is fixed, nothing is decided on, and
no correct statement of the committee’s
work can be given out until the task is
completed.”
IRRIGATION LAW UTHELD.
The constitutionality of the law creat
ing and defining the powers of the state
board of irrigation is upheld in a deei
several letters from men in various lines
of business in his district, urging him to
push this bill, insisting that it was of
extreme necessity.
Mr. Currie’s bill provides that all farm
ers within the territory most affected by
these pests shall take proper means—and
these means are described in the bill—
for exterminating prairie dogs at the
proper season and imposes a penalty
upon all who fail to observe this law.
In the penal provision it Is ordered that
the road overseer shall be paid $3 a day,
or hire someone at that price, to dis
tribute the prairie dog killer for the
. farmer and assess the coi;t to the latter.
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! OPPOSE COUNTY OFFICERS' BILE.
The bill Introduced In the senate at the
request of the County Officers’ associa
tion is hung up in the committee, and
when it comes forth there will likely be
absent from it “that we recommend that
it be passed.” though the bill will be re
ported favorably. It is not the fact that
the committee does not favor a four-year
tenure of office, for a majority of the
committee does. Bur the committee does
nof intend to recommend that a county
officer hold office for a time longer than
the time for which he was elected. An
other objection is that the committee
does not favor having every county elec
tion held on presidential year or even
year, as provided by the bill. Said one
of the committee:
“We are in favor of county officers
holding office for four years, but I for
one do not want to tell a community
that the man it has chosen for two years
should serve three. It is the right of the
people to do that and not the legislature,
in my opinion. And if we make county
elections come on even years or on presi
dential years it will not, in my opinion,
serve the best interests of the people.
In presidential years, as a rule, county
and local affairs are lost sight of almost
completely, and persons who are entirely
unfitted for office could easily be run in
and elected.”
FRATERNALS OBJECT TO BILL.
At a meeting of members of fraternal
societies of York held at he city hall
the following resolutions were unani
mously adopted. The fraternal societies
of York will send delegations to Lincoln
to work with the representatives of York
county.
Whereas, Senate File 19, now in the
hands of the senate insurance committee,
is being urged for passage, and believ
ing that if the bill ever becomes a law
it will work irreparable injury to fra
ternal benefit societies for at least two
reasons:
1. It takes from the membership of
these societies a large portion of the
management thereof and transfers it to
the officers and committees appointed by
them.
2. It permits the management of any
scciety to invest the reserve fund of any
such society in buildings contrary to the
purpose for which said fund was raised.
Therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, members of Ancient
Older United Workmen, Modern Wood
men of America, Tribe of Ben Hur, Roy
al Highlanders, Woodmen of the World,
Knights and Ladies of Security, and
Bankers* Union of the World, lodges of
York, Nebraska, in mass convention as
sembled, hereby earnestly protest
against the passage of said senate file
19 for the reason that we believe that
it strikes at the very foundation stone of
fraternal benefit societies and destroys
our representative form of government,
so sacred to our organization. And we
appeal to the entire memebrship of the
state to use every honorable means to
defeat senate file 49. Be it further
Resolved, That our senator and repre
sentatives are hereby requested to use
all honorable means to defeat said bill.
REVENUE COMMITTEE’S WORK.
Whatever else may be said about the
revenue committee, whatever kind of bill
it subimts to the legislature, it cannot
be said that it has not worked faith
fully since the adjournment of the legis
lature. It has met morning, noon and
night and meeting, has worked. The
committee will stand by the bill it rec
ccmmends until the last. Word came
out from the meeting room that the
committee would fight to the end any
attempt to amend or strike out any sec
tion of the bill being prepared. The
committee speaks as one voice or it re
mains forever silent, and if a majority
say this is right, no other member will
object to it on the floor of the legisla
ture.
Chairman Brown said: We are w'ork
ing faithfully, conscientiously and, above
all, we are working harmoniously, and
I believe we will have the bill ready for
the legislature by the time it reconvenes.
We are studying each section carefully
and we are putting in some good, strong
points that I believe will be acceptable
to the people of the state. It is a most
difficult task to prepare a bill of this
nature in one week and whether it suits
or not, whether it is a good bill or a bad
bill, we have put our best endeavor on
it and that is all we can do.”
Member Sears is getting somewhat
pessimistic contemplating the manner in
which the bill will be received by the
people. "No matter what kind of a bill
we submit, whether good or bad, flaws
will be found in it and we are up for a
‘cussing’ from some quarter. But there
is one consolation, we won’t know any
thing about it a hundred years from
now.”
Alleged Noble in Toils.
ST. LOUIS—A man who styled him
self “Lieutenant Colonel the Honora
ble F. Seymour F. Barrington, of His
Majesty’s Horse,” and said he was
of noble family and had great wealth,
was found guilty of disturbing the
peace and fined $500, or in default
one year in the workhouse. Barring
ton’s arrest resulted from an encoun
ter with James F. Cochrane of Kansas
City, whose sister he declared had
been duped into marrying the Eng
lishman.
Express Company Tax Free.
HELENA, Mont.—The supreme
court has decided that no franchise
tax could be collected from the North
ern Pacific Express company by the
state of Montana because the concern
was engaged ia interstate business.
Speed Record in Novel Writing.
Although Marion Crawford now pro
duces on an average of two novels a
year, “Mraio’s Crucifix’* was written •
in ten days and his “The Tale of a
Lonely Parish,” a 120,000-word novel, *
was completed in twenty-four days.
It took him, however, eight months
to write “Via Crueis,” not including
the time spent in gathering the mate
rial for it. The story of George El
iot’s reading for “Daniel Deronda is
too old to repeat, but it shows that the
actual writing of a book is a small
affair compared with the task of get
ting ready to write one. Harris
Dickson’s "The Black Wolf Breed,
was written in a little over two
months’ time. Another piece of quick
work was Julia Magruder’s "Princess
Sonia,” completed in eighteen days.
No Public Library in Constantinople.
A petition for leave to establish a
public library in Constantinople was
*;cently refused by the minister of
public instruction, special objections
being made to several books on the
proposed list, among them the fables
of La Fontaine. The frequent refer
ences to the lion, the king of animals,
it was held, would be regarded by ig
norant people as degrading to the
kingdom and insulting to the sultan.
An Important Discovery.
Granton, Okla., Feb. 9th.—After ten
years E. H. Gosney of Granton has at
last found a cure for Kidney Trouble.
Mr. Gosney suffered very severely with
Kidney Complaint and some ten years
ago made up his mind to find a cure
if one was to be had.
He has tried and tried and experi
mented with every kidney medicine he
could hear of. Although he was always
disappointed he kept on trying till at
last his perseverance was rewarded
and he found a complete cure.
He is a well man to-day and explains
It as follows:
“Everything failed to cure me and I
was growing worse and worse till I
tried a new remedy called Dodd’s Kid
ney Pills and I had not taken many of
them before I knew that I had at last
found the right thing. I am entirely
cured and I cannot say too much for
Dodd’s Kidney Pills.”
The average wife dislikes to ask
her husband for money almost one
tenth as bad as he dislikes to have
her do it.
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Use Red Cross Ball Blije and make them
white again. Large 2 oss. package, 5 cents.
Those whom we love make life's
sunshine or shadows.
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WESTERN CANADA
HAS FREE HOMES FOR
MILLIONS.
Upwards of 100,000 American*
have settled in Western Canada
during the past 5 years. They are
CONTENTED. HAPPY,
AND PROSPEROUS,
and there Is room still for
MILLIONS..
Wonderful yields of wheat and other grains. Tho
best grazing lands on the continent. Magnificent
climate; plenty of water and fuel; good schools, ex
cellent churches; splendid railway facilities.
HOMESTEAD LANDS OE160 ACRES FREE,
the only charge for which Is «10 for entry. Send to tho
following for an Atlas and other literature. as wcllah
for certificate giving you reduced railway rates, etc.:
Superintendent ot Immigration, Ottawa. Canada,
or to W V. Bennett, 801 New York Life Bldg., Omaha,
Neb., the authorized Canadian Government Agent.
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