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D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
XNEILL. NE»R«KA
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According lo customs of Just a few
years ago larmers in this country quit
work as soon as the cotton was picked
and did nothing until about the first
of March, but luckily these old cus
toms changed. No plowing for the
next crop was done until spring opened
end the birds were singing, but this
is not so now. Farmers break their
land in the winter, turning all weeds
end trash under, thereby getting ad
vantage of an extra amount of fertil
iser and making the iand much easier
to work. Improved farming imple
ments have been introduced, the old
time single stocks having been dis< ard
ed. No other Industry has been ad
vanced more in the last few years.
Farming is now one of the best pro
fessions in the country and good Judg
ment is exercised by the boy who sticks
to the farm instead of going out as a
one-horse merchant or a Jack-leg law
yer. __
Wassily Safonoff, the Rusisan i«n
ductor, is prouder of his eight child
ren than of nil his achievements in the
realm of music. He never allows his
friends to forget the existence of this
happy family, which is still in Russia
In order to illustrate his enthusiastic
talk about his children, Mr. SafonofT
carries about with him a large photo
graph which shows the family lilted
tip like the pipes of an organ. It is
so divided that it folds into a size
that can be carried In the pocket.
Wherever he may be Mr. Safonoff
never fails to take out the frame and
exhibit his family to his companions.
Since 1870 there have been but six
seasons when the Mississippi did not
freeze over, these being the years 1873,
1875. 1882, 1891. 1902 and 1906. The
thirty times that it did close the Ice
•topped running thirty times in De
Sember, showing that this is the
month when the heavy cold usually
•ets in. The earliest date recorded is
December 4, 1872 and the latest Feb
ruary 24, 1889. One season, 1895-1896,
the Ice froze up tight and then moved
*lx times, the variation of the tem
perature for the winter.
If Paris had its brigands, as they
»re found In some southern Isles, they
Would have had a chance for a splendid
exploit the other day when a proces
eon of three wagons was quietly wend
g its way from the Gare Saint La
aare to a bank near the boulevards.
The little caravan contained 150,000,
MO worth of American railway secur
ities, which had been shipped from
New York on the Provence and have
been deposited In Paris. It Is needless
to say that the treasure was carefully
guarded by detectives.
There Is now' being built at Juvlsy,
in the outskirts of Paris, a station
which it Is believed will when finished
be the latgest In the world. At Juvisy
»ir the lines meet of the Parls-Lyons
Marsellles and of the Orleans systems,
about thirty pairs of rails being inter
laced. From this point radiate the
lines which carry traffic to southern
France, to Italy, to Spain and to Por
tugal. The new station covering all
these rails Is to be built on the latest
principles.
A new application of the motor cycle
to military circles has been Invented In.
Austria. In concerns the quick laying
*f telephone and telegraph wires. In
front of the cycle is Installed a cylin
drical roll or reel upon which the wire
Is wound, and a man sitting in the
bloving car lays the wire, by means of
a long pole, either In the tops of the
trees, or. If there are none, in ditches
»r gutters. With the new apparatus
Shree miles of wire may be laid In
twelve minutes.
During the twelve months ending
dune 30. 1905. fourteen persons were
killed and forty Injured from British
Steam plant accidents; In the United
States 3S3 persons were killed and 585
injured. The number of steam boilers
Bi the United States does not exceed by
Inore than 50 per cent, those In Great
Britain, so that, in comparison, the ac
tual percentage is ten times as great
In the United States as in England.
In proof of the assertion made by
the German authorities that all is well
»n Morocco, an officer of the recent
Berman expedition to Fez tells how in
the heart of Morocco he had met an
English woman touring alone. The
fearless woman Is Mrs. Frances V.
Bampbell. She is reported to have trai
ned all the Way across Morocco on
horseback, with no other escort than
a few servants.
Three notebooks which formerly be
longed to Shelley, the poet, containing
autograph manuscript, a considerable
portion of which has been published,
Were sold in London not long ago for
$15,000. The purchase is said to have
been made for an American. The man
uscript formed part of the library of
the la'e Dr. Garnett, keeper of printed
♦looks'*of the British museum.
The statement has been made that
•orses average from twenty to thirty
gears of life and dogs from twelve to
{ourteen years. A French encyclopaed
"t credits the horse with thirtv to
forty years, the dog with twenty to
twenty-four. There is a sufficient range
*f uncertainty In these figures to cause
4oubt whether detailed study lias been
tnade of the subject.
Diseases among children—notablv
•ore throat and bad eyes—caused
through dust raised by motor cars, are
nost rife where the schools are sit
tiated cm roads frequented by motor
ears, or where the children traverse
these roads. Jn one school the head
teacher point* out that thev have ten
eases of sore throat where five years
Ago they had one.
"No more trading stamps," Is the
•logan of a campaign which English
fxooerymen are carrying on. One of
hem. whose shop is in East Loudon
•ays: 'There is not a smalt grocer
111 England * ho eurrie is per cent- on
Imp capital. Ten per oetit. is average
•roflt. and the cost of trading stamps
leaves him only 6>i per cent.
The state of Washington produced
*0.500.000.000 shingles in
year, or SSt* i>er cent, of the total out
put of the United States Washington
has <;.» mills, with a daily output of
Jln-4®'^00, °r *? per c*n*' niore than In
190a. In no other state does the yearly
output approximate 1.000.000.000.
Ramon Pina, the new Spanish minis
ter to the United States. Is 4: years oid.
And has been in the Spanish diplomatic
service since he was 22 years old It
la understood that his appointment to
■Washington is a reward for his services
to the government as secretary to the
Algeciras conference.
Disappearing paper is a novelty for
use by those whose corespondents for
get to burn the letters after their util
ity has ceased. It is steeped in sul
phuric acid, dried and glazed, the add
being partly neutralized by ammonia
vapor. It falls to pat^es after a given
• time.
NEBRASKA SOLONS j
Proceedings of the Week in Brief in 1
Both Houses of the Legislature. J* ^ I
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j WEDNESDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
Unroll*. Neb.. Jan. 30—The joint
commit!*e on the railroad commission
has agreed upon a method of procedure
that has for Its first object the speedy
trial of all rate cases.
The commission shall take as maxi
mum rates the ones in force on January
1 of this year and shall have the power
to make new schedules which shall go
Into force at least sixty days there
after. This gives the railroads time to
file objection*. A hearing is then given
and If the roads appear, they must do
It before the date «et for the new rates
to go into effect. The hearing on the
appeal shall be In the district court
and upon Its merits. The railroads
must attach to any petition for an In
junction all of the evidence and the
findings of facts made before the com
mittee and no Injunction shall lssus
until after a trial.
Is a New Procedure.
This 's a new procedure In rale cases,
and prevent* any holding up of a rate
until after the equities have been fully
determined.
Reallxlng that fines against a rail
road company disobeying an order of
the commission are of little value as
deterrents, the new law will affix pen
alties upon officers, agents and em
ployes who violate these orders, fines
ranging from *100 to *5.000 for each of
fense. or Imprisonment from ten to
thirty days. The bill fixes the salaries
of commissioners at *3.000 a year.
The subcommittee has added a para
graph making the rate of passenger
'are 2 cents a mile.
THURSDAY’S PROCEEDINGS.
Lincoln. Neb.. Jan. 31.—The bill to
abolish capital punishment In Nebras
ka was favorably recommended in the
house.
The house by a vote of 61 to 36 went
on record today favoring an increase
In the salaries of members of the legis
lature from 35 to 36.10 a day. This
must be done by constitutional amend
ment and the fight came up on whether
a bill providing for its submission
should be definitely postponed.
In the senate two Important meas
ures were recommended to pass. One
Is Intended to prevent persons seeking
pardons for convicted persons from
privately importuning the governor. No
pardon can be considered without pub
licity and notice to the county attor
ney who prosecuted and the trial judge.
No statement of the case may be
made to the governor except under
oath at a public hearing. The other
bill is Intended to prevent the trusts
from selling standard articles of gen
eral consumption In one locality cheap
in order to drive out competitors while
recouping themselves by high prices
elsewhere.
Rising to a question of personal priv
ilege. Senator Wilsey denounced as a
new kind of faking the stories that the
Joint committee has been prodded Into
action. He said the committee had
been hard at work formulating sound
bills and that every party pledge would
be carried out in full.
FRIDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 1.—The house
Judiciary committee introduced an anti
lobby bill today. It provides that paid
agents of corporations and others
classed as lobbyists ihay talk with
members prior to the introduction of
bills in whioh they are interested. After
that they can consult them only in pub
lic and before committee hearings.
Heads and attaches of state institu
tions are unrestricted save that they
must not converse with members on
matters affecting their compensation.
After a tight in the house. Heffernan
secured a reconsideration and the plac
ing on file of the railroad measure that
had been indefinitely postponed a feu
days ago. The bill requires a railroad
to keep a registry at all stations where
shippers may file requests for cars.
I he same to be awarded in the order
of registry.
A bill making all county judges in
counties of over 15,000 inhabitants reg
ular atto-nevs was killed, tile farmers
declaring that it was an effort to fas
ten the hold of lawyers on county of
fices.
HARRIMAN SORE ON
UNCLE SAM, RETALIATES
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 3!.—The Or.iaha
Union Pacific and Northwestern rail
roads have refused to make any special
rates for a government shipment of
soldiers en route to the Philippines
to and fiom San Francisco, and the
quartermaster’s department of the de
partment of Missouri, is much disap
pointed, officers expressing themselves
In forceful language over the action
Of the railroads. The Harriman rail
roads are buying coal in Australia and
shipping It to the United States fo:
use in locomotives on the lints in the
system, foal costs the railroads J10
at the docks in Australia, and by the
time San Francisco is reached the
cost becomes enormous. But so scarce
are freight cars and motive power on
the Harriman system, it pays railroads
to pay this price for coal rather than
to lake ears and engines from the
general traffic and devote them to coal
business.
In Wyoming the great coal camps of
the Union Pacific are almost at a
stardstill.
LOVE IS TRuFbUT
SHE ASKS DIVORCE
Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 5.—“I
.UinJt just as much of him today as 1
over did and we could live happily if
It wasn't for outside interference."
This was tue dramatic statement of
Parma L. West, aged 64 who is suing
her husband. James F. West, aged 44.
for divorce.
The couple live at Edgerton and Mrs.
West brought suit in circuit court for
divorce on the grounds of cruelty and
nonsupport. On the witness stand she
attributed most of the trouble to her
■laughter-in-law. She. testified that
her husband is cruel and wishes to get
rid of her.
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4 jury r.■turned an inn. tme i uga r.st 4
4 Mai Ida 1 alley and Martin Movers 4
4 on charge of assault with intent to 4
4 kill 111 bury.ng alive th< baby of 4
4 ihelr 17-> ear-old gran.daughier. 4
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WHAT THE PRIMARY
LAW WILL CONTAIN
Nebraska Measure Which Will
Likely Be Enacted Is
Outlined.
INCLUDES U. S. SENATORS
Everybody on the Ticket Get* a Top
Place Here or There—Filing
Fee* to Be Required of
Candidate*.
Lincoln. Neb.. Feb. 5.—The Dodge
primary election bill, the essential feat
ures of which are in accord with the
state platform pledges and regarded as
likely to be incorporated into the pri
mary law that will be passed by this
legislature, provides <
For a primary to be held at the reg
ular polling places on Tuesday, nine
weeks preceding the general election in
November, for the nomination of all
candidates to be voted for at that elec
tion and I'nited States senator, which
day shall also be the first day for the
registration of voters where registra
tion is required. For city and village
■•lections the primary 1b to be held four
weeks before election day.
Notice is to be given by the secretary
of state to the county clerk, who pub
'ishes In at least two and not to exceed
four newspapers a notice of the pri
mary. stating when and where it will
be held. In case of city elections the
ity clerk takes the initiative and does
the work of direction.
nominations by petitions.
Nominations are to be made by duly
signed petition filed thirty days before
the primary. If for state office at least
1 ^>er cent, of the voters of the party
d such candidate In the state, covering
at least six counties. 1 per cent. In each
must sign. For congressman 2 per
cent, must sign. Any party that cast
1 per cent, of the total vote at the pre
eding election can be represented on
the official ballot. Nomination papers
may be filed for non-partisan candi
dates. containing at least 3 per cent,
of the total vote cast at the last pre
ceding general election in the subdivis
ion in which he is a candidate.
Presidential electors are to be nomi
nated in the same way as candidates
for state offices.
Provision is made for filing and pub
lication of names of all candidates.
Separate party tickets are to be
printed, uniform in slse and color and
modeled after the Australian ballot, on
which the offices to be filled are placed
in the usual order of importance.
The names of candidates under head
ings shall be arranged alphabetically
according to surnames, after which
they shall be rotated In this wise: The
form shall be set up with the names
in the order upon which they are
placed on the sample ballot. In print
ing each set of tickets for the various
election districts the position of the
names shall be changed in each office
division as many’ times as there are
candidates, as nearly as possible an
equal number of tickets being printed
after each change. The printer, in
making the changes, shall take the top
name and place it at the bottom.
All ballotF. blanks and other sup
plies to be used and all expenses nec
essarily incurred in the preparation for
conducting such primary shall be paid
out of the treasury of the city or coun
ty. as the case may be.
Filing Fees Required.
Filing fees are required of candidates
as follows: For senator. *100; for state
offices. *50: for congressmen and dis
trict judges. *25: for legislative and all
county offices, *10. No fee is required
from candidates for an office for which
there is no compensation. A division
of fees between election districts is
provided for.
The same laws that apply to false
personation and voting, to bribing and
accepting a bribe or committing elec
tion frauds, as in the general laws, are
re-enacted for this one.
In cities where registration is re
quired the polls open at 8 a. m. and
close at S in the evening. All present
close at 8 in the evening. In all other
Places the polls are open from 12 o'clock
noon to 8 o'clock in the evening. All
present at the dosing hour who have
not voted may do so.
llefore getting a ballot the voter must
State to the judges what political pm\y
he affiliated with and whose candidates
he supported at the last election and
whose candidates generally he intends
to support at the next one.
Restrictions on Voting.
In cities where registration is re
quired no voter shall be permitted to
vote the ballot of any party except that
which he was registered at the last
general election as affiliating with.
The county canvass of the ruurns
shall be made by the same officers and
in the manner provided in ihe law re
lating to the canvass of the returns of
November elections, and the state can
vass by the lawfully appointed board.
The city canvass is made by three cilv
contests.
The person receiving the greatest
number of votes shall be declared the
candidate, and his name placed on the
official ballot. If any die or decline the
vacancy will be filled by the majority
vote of the proper committee. If there
is no committee a mass convention can
perform the same work.
The members of the committee are
elected In the same manner, at the pri
mary, as candidates for office. In cases
of ties the canvassers determine. Con
tests are to be heard before county
Judges In the same manner as election
contests. h
All Get Chance to Vote.
Persons entitled to vote may absent
themselves from their employment for
that purpose for a period of two hours,
and their wages shall not be reduced
because of that absence, if application
to the employer is made the day pre
vious.
Electors are given an opportunity to
vote on constitutional amendments in
the same manner as for nominees and
If a majority favor it it shall be con
sidered a part of the party ticket at
the general election.
Delegates to national conventions
shall be elected at conventions of dele
gates chosen in a manner designated
by the committees. Provisions is made
for special primary elections and for
the formation of new parties.
SUES HETTY GREEN’S
NIECE FOR DIVORCE
Charles. Jlo.. Fob. .'.—Charles W.
ProsSer, c re of the ir.ost^ influential
citizens of St. Charles, has filed suit
for divorce.
* Is w ife was Daisy Kathleen Mul
vauey. of a prominent Michigan fam
ily. a niece uf Hetty Creep..
i’ro-ser charges she spoke of him to i
his family i.i disparaging terms and j
O.t.p. usel unvouth and at times d- !
"•OS', vulgar a in referring to l
ARRESTED FOR ELOPING
WITH HIS OWN WIFE
But W. F. Graham, of Lincoln, Prove*
He I* Not the Man the Police
Are After.
Lincoln. Neb . Feb. 4.—Mistaken for
another man. W. F. Graham was yes
terday arrested for having eloped with
his own wife.
A telegram to the police asked them
to arrest Ellsworth Bdckway and Ethel
Starrett. who had left Clay Center, af
ter having purchased tickets for Lin
coln. It was explained that each was
married, but not to each other, and
they had a 2-year-old child with them.
Four officers at the train found no
couple answering the description, but
the conductor pointed out a dark-haired
young man who had got on at Falr
bury with a woman and a small child.
The conductor said the woman and
child had left the train at a Junction
joint. The man. W. F. Graham, was
taken to the station badly flustrated,
but soon proved his Identity.
TEACHER HOLDS JOB BY
APPLYING TO THE COURT
Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 4.—Miss Jennie
Fitzgerald, a spinster of 45, teacher in
a country school In the southern part
of the county, has secured an injunc
tion restraining the county superin
tendent from revoking her license to
teach and the school board of her dis
trict from interfering with her In the
conduct of her school.
Miss Fitzgerald has been having all
sorts of trouble with her school, be
cause, os she says, she had a dispute
with one of the women with whom she
boarded around. The scholars testified
In a hearing before the superintendent
that she had called several of them
names not used in polite society. They
said she scolded them rep>eatedly. and
when they said they would tell their
parents she informed them that she
hoped they would, that she was Just
aching for an opportunity to tell them
that their children were the worst lot
she ever tackled, that the parents were
not much better and that the direc
tors were tarred with the same stick.
The school board, she informed another
scholar, was a bunch of babies, and
ihat if they wanted trouble she would
provide it for them In quantities tc
suit.
The teacher and the patrons appeared
before the superintendent with a law
yer each, but the hearing had not pro
ceeded far when the teacher declared
she could nor get an impartial trial
there, and had her attorney take the
matter Into court. The superintendent
says the woman has taught so many
years that she is suffering from ner
vous prostration, and he had about de
cided to revoke her certificate. Several
scholars said that she told them stories
about her experiences with other
schools that were preposterous, one be
ing that her schoolhouse was struck
by a cyclone one day and turned half
around, yet so perfect was the dis
cipline that no scholar even looked up
from his books.
SOUTH DAKOTA IN
GRIP OF BLIZZARD
Pierre, S. D.. Feb. 4.—A severe cold
nave, accompanied by a high northwest
wind and drifting snow, prevailed here
last night. The drifting is tying up
railway travel and nothing is being
attempted in the way of getting trains
In this direction from the east. The
severity of the storm is certain to cause
suffering in the little prairie shacks in
which many of the homesteaders live
west of the Missouri. It is by far the
worst storm of the winter.
Snow and Wind at Huron.
Huron, S. D.. Feb. 4.—A wind and
snow storm set in from the northwest
yesterday afternoon, developing into
ane of the severest experienced in sev
eral years. All trains are late and none
will be sent from here. The wind is
blowing at the rate of forty-five miles
an hour.
Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. 4.—A cold wave
descended on Nebrasaa yesterday, cov
ering a large sectioin of the state. The
first effects of the cold reached Lincoln
at 9 o’clock and an hour later it
was snowing and blowing hard. At
Alliance at 9 o’clock it was said that
a severe storm was raging. The wind
was blow ing a gale and snow was fall
ing. Reports from Billings. Montana
received at Alliance said a terrifit
storm was prevailing. At McCook at th<
same hour the temperature had fallen
25 degrees in less than two hours.
A special from Ainsworth, in north
western Nebraska, said the mercury
fell 43 degrees in three hours late in
the afternoon bringing zero tempera
ture, with the prospect of going much
lower. Nebraska towns, as a rule, arc
fairly well supplied with coal.
FLOOO SWEEPS AWAY
SCHOOLHODSE AND A
PAIR OF RESIDENCES
Village of Dorent, Mo., Far
From Railroad and Tele
graph, Hard Hit.
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♦ FLOOD VICTIMS 4
4 DANCE TO KEEP 4
4 UP THEIR SPIRITS. 4
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4 Carmi, ill.. Feb. 4.—Cut off from 4
4 the world by the flooo. and the coal 4
4 supply almost entirely gone, great 4
4 suffering is sure to result unless 4
4 trains can be gotten in this week. 4
4 Refugees camped on the hills near 4
4 here, are already using reduced 4
4 quantities of fuel and a pronounced 4
4 famine is sure to come. Tents are 4
4 pitched on Main street and dancing 4
4 is carried on night and day to keep 4
4 up the people's spirits. 4
tiilHUtmtlttmHMHt
Charleston. Mo.. Feb. 4.—News has
reached here that the overflooded Mis
sissippi river has swept away two resi
dences and a school house at Dorent.
a village twenty-five miles south of
here. It is not known whether there
was loss of life.
Dorent is far from any railroad or
telegraph line.
Memphis Levee Breaks.
Memphis. Tenn.. Feb. i. -Many per
sons are moving from their homes in
the northern part of the city as the re
sult of a break in the protection levee
built a year ago. The levee gave way
early today and the district north of
Poplar boulevard and west of Fourth
street is under two feet of water.
MONEY MARKET.
New York. Feb. 4.—Money easy*'
per cent.
Prime men-until • paper .'!4CCL p r
cent.
Sterling exchange weak. |f.84.G?<;
4.84.68 for demand; $4.SO.T1 I.S'.i 60 fn
sixty da; -.
FROST THROWS GAR.
INTO STORE, I DEAD
Slipping Omaha Rails Cause a
Wreck That Floods Several
Streets.
TWELVE PERSONS HURT
Telephone Withstands Several Well
Directed Bunts From the Car
and Then Yields—Hy
drant Smashed.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 2.—A street car
an South Sixteenth street this morn
ing got away from the motorman'a
control, tore at lightening speed down
the steep hill, left the tracks at the
corner of Pierce street and wrecked a
drug store.
Of a dozen passengers on board none
escaped entirely with out injury.
Sam Thomas, a teamster, employed
by the Baum Iron company, was kil
led outright and Otto Sellgren, motor
mar.. suffered a severe scalp wound.
A heavy frost on the rails was the
cause of the accident. When the car
left the track it first struck a telephone
pole several times and cut it in two,
and then smashed a water hydrant,
letting the water spout in a huge
ktream and landing in the center of
the drug store, amid a wreck of win
dows and show cases.
MAY HIT SALARY
OF A NATIVE SON
Nebraska Plans to Demand Re
duction of Paul Morton’s
Pay.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 2.—If the bills
introduced in the Nebraska legislature
at the request of the state insurance
department become laws. Paul Morton
will have to submit to having his sal
ary materially scaled, or else his com
pany, the Equitable, will have to quit
Nebraska.
One of these measures provides that
no officer or agent of any insurance
company shall be paid a salary in ex
cess of $50,000 a year. If it persists in
doing sc it shall be denied the right
to do business in the state.
Another provides that no corporation
or stock company shall be licensed as
the agent or representative of any life
insurance company in soliciting, selling
or in any manner placing life insurance
policies or contracts in this state.
Another provides that every policy
given or produced shall be used against
tain the entire contracts between the
parties.
Fixes Status of Agents.
Another sets forth that any person
who shall solicit a policy shall be re
garded as the agent of the company
i and not the agent of the assured. i
Another prohibits discrimination by
a life insurance company in favor of
Individuals in the same class and equal
expectation of life in the amount of
payment of premiums or rates charged
or in the dividends or other benefits I
and punishes by a heavy fine any re- i
i bating, with the right placed in the
I hands of the auditor to deny a new
license.
j Another inhibits the contribution by
any insurance company, including fra
ternal beneficiary association to any
political committee or party. Any of
ficer who violates this provision is sub
ject to a maximum fine of $1,003 or im
prisonment for a year. No* person, the
bill provides, shall be excused from tes
tifying or bringing books or papers into
court on the plea that such act would
tend to incriminate or degrade him,
but no one shall be prosecuted on ac
count of any matter concerning which
be may so testify and no testimony so
gi\en or produced shal be used against
film upon any criminal investigation or
proceeding.
Annual Accounting of Surplus
Another requires the annual appor
tionment and accounting of surplus of
life insurance companies as to policies
heretofore issued. Every companv bav
in force any such deferred dividends
policies shall also at the time of mall
: ing the annual premium notice enclose
; an annual statement showing surplus
i and the amount credited to the policy.
I This act does not apply to Industrials."
! Another provides that no life insur
ance company doing business in the
state shall issue or circulate or cause
to be circulated any estimate, illustra
tion. circular or statement of any sort
misrepresenting the terms of any pol
icy or the benefits promised thereby, or
the dividends or shares of surplus to
be received. A violation is punishable
by a fine of $500 ;«nd revocation of 11
; cense to do new business, while a six
months jail sentence may be given.
4 OUTRAGE TO SWELL 1
4 OYSTERS TO FATNESS 4
4 SAYS DR. WILEY. 4
4 Washington, D. C.. Feb. 2.—Dr 4
4 Wiley, head of the Bureau of ehem- 4
4 tstry. says: 4
4 “An oyster is dead an hour after 4
4 It is opened and is not good. It 4
4 loses Its flavor. They ought not to 4
4 be frozen. It ruins them and as 4
4 soon as they thaw they are danger- 4
4 ous." 4
4 He urges that oysters be shipped 4
4 alive and in the shell, and says the 4
4 greatest outrage of the oyster trade 4
4 is to soak oysters with fresh water I
4 and swell them up. making them 4
4 look fat Dr. Wiley says the oy- 4
4 eters sent out In tin cans are ;il] 4
4 rght. but in further denunciation of 4
4 bulk oysters shipped in tubs and 4
4 buckets, he adds: 4
4 “They are either preserved with 4
4 some preservative or are dangerous- 4
4 near the ptomaine line, one of the 4
I 4 two." ' 4
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RUSSIA DEPARTS
FROM MANCHURIA
St. Petersburg. Feb. 2.—The Hussiar J
evacuation of Manchuria began today
I with the departure of tine Moscow regi
! ment.
Premier Stolypin today issued a cir- ’
| cular emphasizing the government s de- :
I sire to co-operate with parliament. The
■ premier points out that representative* 1
of the crown arc forbidden to take pari
in party politics and urges local au
thorities :o assure full freedom In dec.
j lions.
FORMER RESTRICTIONS
NOW LOOK LIBERAL
Liquor Lobby at Lincoln Is
Trying to Save the
Old Law.
EFFORT SEEMS HOPELESS
Already the Senate Has Passed Thre*
Bills Requiring Publicity and
Bona-Fide Transaction in
Dealing in Intoxicants.
Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. 1.—The tamest
men about the Nebraska legislature
this year are those representing Uis
liquor interests.
Usually the liquor lobby Is asking
some amendment of the Slocumb
license law. which will make it easier
for them to sell their stuff, but this
year U says the Slocumb law is the
most complete and satisfactory law
that could be devised, and urging that
It be kept intact.
Notwithstanding this, however, the
senate has passed two laws that are
certain to hit the brewers and distillers
hard. One Is that all liquors sent by
express or freight anywhere In the
state must bear the legend on the bot
tle or box. as well as upon the outside
wrappings. "Intoxicating Liquors," in
larce letters.
A large trade has been worked up In
the dry towns and in others where the
drinkers buy their supplies for family
use from outside so that their neigh
bors may not know, but this will be
ended under this new law. It provides
also that such packages must be sent
to a bona fide person, to the one who
orders them, and delivery of packages
addressed to fictitious persons cannot
be made to parties who happen to have
the bill of lading.
Still another bill passed provides that
the place of manual delivery, where the
liquor changes ownership and where
the money is paid, shall, in law, con
stitute the place where the liquor is
sold. This means that if the brewer
sends a case of beer to the prohibition
city of York, he can be prosecuted for
selling without a license.
♦ 4
4 HARD BLOW STRUCK 4
4 AT TECHNICAL APPEALS. 4
4 4
4 Lincoln. Neb. Jan. 3,.—The sen- 4
4 ate has passed a law providing that 4
♦ hereafter the supreme court shall 4
4 not grant a new trial, in any case 4
4 appealed to It. upon a technicality. 4
4 where it is shown that substantial 4
4 justice has been done by the decree -4
4 of the lower court. This is a big 4
4- step forward in western Jurispru- 4
4 dence, and is to be supplemented by 4
4- other leglslat’on that will have the 4
4- effect of discouraging appeals and 4
4- make it impossible to prolong liti- 4
4 gation beyond reasonable lengths. 4
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MURDERED MAN WHO
EJECTED HIM FROM ROOM
Alliance. Neb., Feb. 1.—Roy Barnes,
assistant manager of the Burlington,
railroad dining room station, was shot
and killed last evening by Roy May
nard. a discharged employe. Maynard,
while under the influence of liquor, en
tered the dining room. He refused to
leave and when Barnes ejected him he
shot the latter three times. Barnes
died almost Instantly. Maynard was
arrested and put in jail.
OMAHA M’KINLEY CLUB
GIVES A BIG BANQUET
Omaha. Neb., Feb. 1.—The republi
can members of the Nebraska legisla
ture and many of the state officials, in
cluding Lieutenant Governor Melville
R. Hopewell, attended the annual ban
quet of the Omaha McKinley club at
the Millard hotel last night. Covers
were laid for 400. The principal ad
dresses were made by Mayor Sherburn
M. Becker, of Milwaukee, and Norris
Brown. United States senator-elect for
Nebraska.
COST EX-CONGRESSMAN
$1C0 FOR ACTION IN COURT
Omaha, Neh., Feb. 1.—Ex-Congress
man AY. J. Connell, who was Monday
adjudged guilty of contempt by Judge
Sutton, of the district court, after trial,
was sentenced to pay a fine of $100.’
Connell was charged with trying to
browbeat the court in the recent "coal
trust" trial.
FORMER CONGRESSMAN
GUILTY OF CONTEMPT
Omaha, Neb . Jan. fV. j. Connell, a
former congressman from Nebraska anil
for many years one of the leading attor
neys of this state, was adjudged guilty of
contempt by Judge Sutton, of the dis
trict court, after a trial lasting several
days. Sentence was reserved until today.
The alleged acts of contempt were com
mitted by Mr. Connell as attorney for
Presiden Howell, of the Omaha Coal Deal
ers' association, m the so called "coal
trust’ trial. Judge Sutton accused Con
nell of trying to bulldoze the court.
W. J. Connell served In the fifty-first
congress, being elected over J. Sterling
Morton in 1SSS. Two years later he was
defeated by IV. J. Bryan.
NEEDLE GOES IN FOOT
AND COMES OUT OF EAR
Derby. Conn., Feb. 1.—With the ex
traction of the point of a needle from
the ear of Miss Mabel Bishop, of Ivehy
ton. It is believed the cause of fifteen
years' suffering has been removed. In
1992 she ran the needle point into her
foot and soon began to suffer from
rheumatism that spread upward. Later
she had appendicitis and still later gas
tric disorders, followed by severe
pains in her chest, shoulders and neck
successively.
A year ago she began to lose iter
hearing in the right ear. Operations
?ll^l?„sive.relief until Dl William
J. O Neill with a powerful magnet
drew out the piece of steel, less than
an eighth of an inch long.
WOMAN NEARLY KILLED
IN MOTOR BOAT RACE
Palm Beach, Fla.. Feb. 1.— Just after
on. of the motor boat races today the
Bruiser, owned by James K. Clarke, of
Ardmore, Pa., and another racer col
11.1-d. Mrs. Clarke, who was on the
di in tbs re
volt! ag machinery and was h.i,i fast.
Stu- was rescued just be for. t Bruiser
sank The r.n ei whion c j w itty
t.i. I.routr alto tank.