-- 'HE O’NEILL FRONTIER O. H. CRONIN. Publisher. ■ ■ — -....- --- PNEILL, NEBRASKA | K' One o; me youngest a. -isi.ims .-■> Ipointed by Vassar - >lli*K" is •Vi;s: 1 fcrliss Babson, who has in '’. a : event ly np j i i tinted assistant in l’r:-. Iielicc ir. athletics. however, is no.I ss Baboon's only forte, for she ob ned the prize for the best class poenJ o yeais in succession. > I Tames ,Iiahln.an, the mayor of Om ;!&, was talking about bores. “I ui-edj [be pestered lo dcaLh with a bore.' Ini |ld. “My doorkeeper was a good n. j t'ed, obliging chap and he could neve I d It In his heart to turn Us- bnr> ,»ay. One day, after an hour's mar. I'doir! at the mans hands. I del $ned tu end that persecution. So J Sled TP’e doorkeeper and said to hlmj jl'Sterlously: "Jim, do you know uhat . j?ps Smith coming here so regularly I jjp,’ said Jim. 'Well, Jim.' said 1. 'hi i Her your Job.' From that day." Mayo.l Thlman concluded, "I saw no inorij j the bore.” ■Vilen the French government Is laud* Hfor having inaugurated 1 camp.iigii IsUnst gambling houses It mas; be reV limbered that It Is taking action onlyj alnst clandestine ones. The munlc | §1 gaming houses which flourish 111 I:**t of the resorts affected by foreign-! still exist In order to provide inu-| IpaJ funds. At such places the ca * a, with Its gambling privileges, Is letj to some speculator, and between It |ci the Monte Carlo establishment, tin J|y distinction Is that whereas there 1. [[cheating at the latter, this can hard jbe said of the fornyr. I'.signor urune, an Italian inventor,! ,'ose name Is associated with wireless,] fephones, has perfected another de-l fture In swift electric communication., ft new Invention Is one for sending] jephonlc and telegraphic mesagesj |iultaneously along the same wire by] inns of an arrangement setting in| Ition electric waves of varying en-s |y which neither overlap nor mingle, je control la so complete that mes jes can bo exchanged between any! f> points, notwithstanding that other' |Uons Intervene. | ’ewer marriages, fewer births and ter deaths are the rule In England 1 Wales, as compared with former I iges. In these countries there are ;>00,000 males and 17,600.000 females, thirty-five years the marriage ratei | decreased 22 per cent., nnd there » been a steady rise In the ages at ,fich mnrrlages have taken place. For irly 77.8 bridegrooms nnd 217 brides s 1.000 were minors; In 1906 those fig s were respectively 43.8 nnd 146.9. -- ♦ -- Educational papers credit the report t. Andrew Carnegie and his colossal] tune are behind the announced in iporatlon of the Andrew Carnegie verslty at Chicago, which Is to he site of the new institution. The teles state the object to be to estab-1 a university for the teaching of, jrticlne, dentistry, pharmacy, science] I arts, law, theology and all kln-; • d branches of learning, and that It ;I1 not be conducted for profit. j -he latest novelty In bazar attrnc i'ta is that Introduced by the Spring-1 jg Wesleyan chapel, Kawtenstall, Inland. A wedding cuke was cut: it] and In one portion was concealed wnurrlago certificate. It was an |ced that the bachelor or splnlster ihrlng the "chunk" containing thhe anoa, as the animal In question, jeh has some of the characteristics |he buffalo, Is called, may be gained ?n it Is stated that its height at | shoulder is only three feet and f Inches. 1 P the top of the dome of London's f Criminal courts building is tar. j, which Is lofty for London. The f condemned cell will be ''No. S.”l |r the main entrance la a figure of {'•Recording Angel.” The Judges in I several courts will have telephone jiectlon from the bench with the sneer so that he can regulate the jperature of the room to suit each. il remarkable court decision in a limy case has been handed down at fjgla, Italy, where Charles Ral t, a tailor, was acquitted of a charge having two wives on the ground that [has two hearts. Four physicians flned that Balliort had two hearts [ the court at once decided thut this It ample reason for him to nmrry h women. It the present time the greatest de hd is for autographs of the English I-ary celebrities, some of which bring lisands of dollars. Kents and Shei Icommand such high prices that they I, best abroad, where there are more lections. In London, Berlin and Its there are continual autograph ta during the season. lie Hon. Mrs. Beresford. better 1-nowtt Ijher stage name, “Kitty Gordon" Hrecovored from an Insurance coni |r $5,000 in an Englisii court, the ■p of a fur coat stolen from her |>k when she was on her way from If York to England. E copy of Goldie's painting of tho §t) of St. Francis Xavier—the great ■stian missionary to Japan and ■ka in the sixteenth century—has B ordered in Lond.-x by the Jap Be government for the public library Ifoklo. I professor at Berne University is I . Gertrude Woker. She Is twenty land passed all her examinations |p time ago with great, distinction. I] lectures on physics and chemistry. wery male in Russia over 15 years Bmvkes about 150 cigarets a week, ■rding to a British consular report ■Joiand and Lithuuniir tine porn 4 ■ibucco suffices far 1,(00 cigarets. | ■ tire last six year..: in the cours i ■'v?nty-lhic ■ w ars or ivih'arv , i.l Kl exp -.iiUoin in sir. . A fin. , | Ht Britain has had t.j't, men lti;u-J wounded. —————————— 'a PLATFORM WHICH HAS BEEN REDEEMED Nebraska Legislature Has Stuck Only on Pure Food Bill. AND THIS ONE MAY FAIL Expectation Now Is That Adjournment Will Be Friday—Some of the Measures Signed by the Governor. Lincoln, Neb., April 3.—'The Ne braska legislature has redeemed every pledge in the republican platform with a single exception. That is in the en actment of a pure food and dairy reg ulation law. Such a measure has passed the senate and is now pending in the house. It has been so amended by the latter body, however, that it is ! imffrobable that it will be accepted by the senate and if the house does not recede the bill may fall. Included among the most notable enactments of the present legislation are the follow ing law's: Clothing the elective railway com mission with power to control corpor ations. Anti-pass bill. State wide primary election bill. ' Two-cent passenger fare bill. Making the maximum freight rate on commodities 86 per cent, of rates In effect January 1, 11107. Anti-lobby bill. Employers’ liability bill. Child labor bill. flotnoulRorv education bill. May Adjourn Friday. But few* measures of state wide in terest remain to lie acted upon, though, of course, there are many pending which affect various localities and peo iple. The senate Is struggling with the appropriation bills anti probably get through with this work about [Wednesday or Thursday, so that If too much difficulty Is not experienced In coming to an agreement with the house on the amendments which are being made, adjournment may be expected Friday. Those who are interested in iappropriations which have been cut by the senate or on which the senate finance committee has recommended reductions are making n strong effort to have the bills reconsidered or the reports of the committee not concurred 1 in. The senate Is disposed to stand iflrm, however, and keep the expendi tures within the estimated revenue, [even thous some of the Institutions are made to temporarily suffer. No llegislature in the past lias ever ex ercised such care and the consequence Is that the state was laded up with floating debt of $2,000,000, which is nojv being paid off by making a special levy of one mill. Slashing Appropriations. As the appropriation bills were sent over from the house they carried a million more than the estimated rev enue and the senate is using the prun ing knife with great vigor. Items for 'permanent improvements are being most savagely attacked, the state uni versity being the heaviest loser. Build ing appropriations aggregating $180,000 were cut out of the house allowance, while $00,000 for a hospital for men nt the Lincoln asylum was also stricken out. The house gave the Hastings asy lum $25,000 for a tuberculosis hospital, but the senate turned it down, while the Beatrice Institute for feeble minded, which wanted $00,000 for two new build ings was given $20,000 for one. Other Institutions in various portions of the state suffered in like proportion. Governor Sheldon Saturday vetoed Ills first bill, It being an amendment to tin Omaha charter. The governor dis covered that the bill confirmed a num ber of gifts to parts of streets to rail way companies, the legality of which have been In dispute, and he declined to approve It. He has allowed two bills to become laws without his signature, one doubling the allowance of court re porters for preparing bills of exceptions and the other providing that when liquors are shipped, the container and outer package shall bear in large leg ible letters the words, "intoxicating liquors.” The following bills have been signed by Governor Sheldon: Signed by the Governor. H. R. 56— By E. \V. Brown. Providing lor the quieting of titles to real estate. H. R. 73— By Cone of Saunders, Prohibit ing the employment of night operatorn under 21 years of age. H. R. 23—By Culdiee. Providing no lia bility for villages from defective sidewalks unless notice is given within thirty days. H. R. 14(5—By Baker of York. Providing rules for cemetery associations. H. R. 19(5—By Bryan of Burt. Making pig stealing a felony. H. R. 207— By Graff of Cuming. Giving county hoards right to appropriate lands for building dykes, dams or embtnkments. II. R. 228— By Hill. A joint memorial to congress asking for aid for the Aliska Yukon-Paclttc exposition. H. R. 371 By Walsh of Douglas. Mak ing chicken stealing a felony. H. R. 469— By Doe of Omaha. Creating the office of comptroller of Douglas coun ty. H R. 470— By Dee. Providing that the county board of Douglas county shall pro vide an office and supplies for the county .comptroller. 11. R. 559—By Shubert. Appropriating funds received from the government as rental for forest reserves. H. R. 12—By Fries. Giving county boards power to levy a tux of from 5 to 20 mills for road improvement purposes. H. R. 179—By McMullen. Providing the university regents shall hold open meet ings except in special cases. H. R. 224—By Pilger. Limiting the amount of rewards offered by county boards for the detection of criminals to $300 H. R. 277—By E. \V. Rrown. To provide for the conveyance of the interest of an insane husband or wife in the hands of his or her speuse. H R. 27—By Thieseen. Permitting mu tual tiro companies to organize on the basis of the number of risks as well as the number of members. 11. R 106—By K, \V. Brown. Making It a felony to have custody or control of bur glars' tools. H. R 202— By K. p. Brown. Providing Elly taxpayer may appeal from the low made by the county board of equalization. II. R. -21 By Cillem. Requires abstrac tors to give a bond to guarantee the cor rectness of abstracts. H. R. 2SS—By Jom*. Amending the drainage law. —♦— CITIZENS FINED FOR SEINING IN THE ELkHORN Pierce. Neb., April 3.—Several citi zens have been arrested and tilled for seining in the Elkhorn river. One market man was lined for selling the fish. MONEY MARKET. New York, April 2.—Money steady at 2'[t 1 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, GtO'G1., per cent. , Furling t •,change strong at J4.S3.G7® ' 4.S3.70 for demand; $i.79©4.73.1(1 .or fei.ity days. * “IT'S A LIE”; “TAINT”; SOLONS SASS EACH OTHER AT LINCOLN Lincoln, Neb., April 3.—Stinging per sonalities were exchanged in the house this morning between Walsh, of Doug las, and (’one of Saunders. The house had under consideration 8. F. 25, a bill reputed to be in the interest of an eastern syndicate connected with the Omaha Street Railway company which desires to build a number of interur bans. (Tone proposed various amendments, to prohibit stockwatering and merging of parallel lines and requiring connec tion at terminal points with all com panies desiring them. The beneficiar ies of the bill did not want any of the amendments. After one had been adopted Walsh moved that the bill and its amendments be indefinitely post poned. This was done. During the debate that preceded this action Walsh charged that a month ago (’one went to Omaha and told the offi cers of the grain exchange that he con trolled sixty-one votes in the house, thirty-one fusion Ists and thirty repub licans, and that the grain exchange could get nothing through that he op posed. (’one denounced this as abso lute falsehood. Walsh retorted and the fuss became so great that Speaker Net tleton had to take the chair and quiet the men. The senate advanced to the third reading ihe house bill permitting town ships and precincts to vote bonds in aid of railroad construction. The senate passed house role 220 pro viding for 1,000-mile books to be sold for $20, good in the hands of the bearer and for as many fares tis he wishes to pay; appropriation bills for the South Bend fish hatchery; the investigation of animal diseases; improvements at the Norfolk asylum; and for a cot tage at the Kearney industrial school. The senate also concurred in the house amendments to the Aldrich maxi mum rate bill. HE WINS $6,000 LIBEL SUIT AGAINST HIM F. D. Fails Successful in Second Trial of Case Growing Out of Campaign. Ponca, Neb., April 3.—F. D. Falls has won In the second trial of the $6,000 libel suit brought against him by T. J. Shelbley, of this place. The action is based on the circulation of campaign matter by Mr. Fails who was republican chairman of the Third congressional district during the bitter fight between J. J. McCarty and Robin son for congress. Sheibley had secured affidavits to certain alleged reprehen sible acts on the part of McCarty and the congressional committee later made the open charge that the affidavits se cured by Sheibley had been irregular and were perjured. Sheibley promptly sued Chairman Fails for $6,000 libel and in the first trial won his case. The matter was taken (u tlie supreme court and the case remanded for new' trial on the ground that the burden of proof should be on the defendant to substantiate his claim that l fit? affidavits were perjured. In tlie second trial the court Instructed the Jury that the only way it could find for the defendant was if the evidence had shown that these Sheibley affi davits were actually secured bv fraud. The jury so held and decided for Fails it is expected the case will go to the supreme court again. Mr. Fails is now a resident of Sioux City. NO PICKPOCKET, SAYS CONFIDENCE MAN Pittsburg, April 1.—“Chappy” Moran, an ex-member of the old Larry Summer liold gang of New York, is in.Central sta tion charged with picking the pocket of George R Squires, a photographer of Alle ghqney, of $3 in a crowded street ear. Moran, who is known as one of the best confidence men in the United States, de nies his guilt. According to the prisoner he came here a week ago to trim a St. Louis merchant out of $25,000 by means of the old fake wire tapping game. The Crescent City Derby run at New Orleans was the race which Moran had convinced the sucker that they could beat. “Chappy” put up at the Fort Pitt hotel with a man who gives his name as William Williams. They waited for the St. Louis man un til late Friday evening and then, seeiti; that their victim had been lost somewher b' tween St. Louis and Pittsburg, they be came disgusted and got on a drunk. When their money ran out it is alleged they started to pick pockets. Moran is discon solate. “I would rather be convicted of bunco ing somebody than be charged with pick ing pockets, the lowest graft that is known,” he declared. “I cleaned up $2,6cm two weeks ago and went to Syracuse and played it all in on a brace faro bank. Now I haven’t got a cent and it looks awful bad for me.” FURNITURE TRUST ADMITS ITS GUILT, SENTENCE DELAYED Secretary Holbrook Enters Plea on Charge of Acting in Restraint of Trade. Chicago, April 3.-F. A. Holbrook, secretary of the combination in school and church furniture, wno was recent ly indicted by the federal grand jury on charge of acting in restraint of trade, today entered a plea of guilty. Sentence was deferred. Pleas of nolo contendere wrere en tered by the various companies indicted at the same time. INVENTOR DIES AS RICHES COME - I Pittsburg/ April 1.—John Brislin, 72 years old. inventor of the modern rolling mill machinery that made possible the 1 givat Carnegie fortune, died it now' ap- ! peats, from an attack of hear disease, brought on by a letter fr m Andrew’ Car negie bearing the news that the old man was about to receive his long delayed re ward for his Inventions. FAIRBANKS TIES UP WITH BURKETT Indiana Iceberg Casts CovetouJ Eyes on the Nebraska Delegation. BE A SAD AWAKENING Republicans Are Said to Be Strongl) for Taft, but Willing to Give an Attentive Ear to Roose velt’s Wishes. Lincoln, Neb., April 2.—Vice Presi dent Fairbanks is understood to be looking with covetous eyes upon the Nebraska delegation to the next na tional convention, and has taken steps to place his boom where It cannot be overlooked. Among the gossips the story is that Senator Burkett is likely to espouse the cause of Fairbanks, but about the only eveidence there is in support of this is that all dur ing the last session the vice pres ident was very attentive to Mr. Burkett and that the senator from Nebraska and the frigtd statesman from Indiana became very chummy before the ses sion ended. The gossip, however, has started a movement on behalf of the square deal crowd to see that the delegation is rounded up for Taft. The big majority of the legislative membership is for Taft, and so are 70 per cent, of the state officers. Senator Brown is understood to be for the big secretary as his first choice, and is ready to join in any movement to land Nebraska for him. If Roosevelt will indicate his preference it will go with the ruling element in Nebraska politics just now. They say that if Fairbanks believes that the real power is Burkett, he is doomed to a sad awak ening. PULLMAN FARES AND EXPRESS RATES CUT Bincoln, Neb., April 1.—The house passed a bill reducing Pullman car fares in the state 33 1-3 per cent. The senate passed a bill making ex press companies' charges 75 per cent, of the rates in force January 1 last. The house this morning devoted prac tically its entire time to the debate on senate file 25, the bill permitting inter urban railways to connect with street railway systems. The opposition claimed that the meas ure would give the Omaha street rail way company a virtual monopoly of the interurban lines of the state. The amendments which will likely prevail provide that there shall be no stock watering of interurban projects, no merger of parallel lines, requiring con nections for all companies and specify ing that street railways shall acquire no right outside of cities, and that in terurban lines shall acquire no rights within cities. The house passed the Gibson bill to put brewers out of the retail liquor business. The senate continues to carve, the slashing of appropriations from the figures- fixed by fhe house continuing today, with the following results: The senate finance committee recommended indefinite postponement of the bill ap propriating $25,000 for the establishment of a tubercular hospital at the Hastings asylum; one appropriating $20,000 for test borings for oil, gas etc.; one ap propriating $10,000 to encourage pros pecting for coal, and cut the Beatrice feeble minded institute appropriation from $60,000 to $30,000. In the senate the anti-lobby bill passed by a vote of 23 to 11 without the emergency clause. STATE WIDE PRIMARY WINS IN NEBRASKA Lincoln, Neb., April 1.—The state wide primary election bill, the passage of which was promised to the people by the republican, democrat and pop list parties, passed the house yester day afternoon as amended by the sen- i ate and probably will reach the gov ernor tomorrow. The vote to concur in the senate amendments stood 62 for to 23 against, and only Doran and Wil son of Custer of the republicans were counted with the minority. TRAVELING MEN WAR ON THE ROLLER TOWEL National Protective Association Will Seek to Efface It by Legislation. Malison, Wis., April 1.—"Individ ual wipes” will be the slogan of the Wisconsin convention of the Traveling men's Protective Association of Amer ica, when it assembles In Madison in April. The traveling men arc. becoming fas tidious and object to twenty or thirty yards of cotton goods with the ends joined and swung upon a roller as an accessory of the wash rooms in the av erage country hotel. They are going to bend their energies to work a change by asking legislation that the roller towel must go or the country bonifaces be boycotted. GRAFTED SKIN SAVES WOMAN, AGED 106 Philadelphia, April 1.—Skin graft ed from two resident doctors saves the life of Mrs. Sarah Flannery, aged 10G, in Hanneman hospital. She had been badly burned. KILLS HIMSELF BECAUSE HIS FRIEND DID SO Fort, Wayne. Ind., April 1.—David P. Murphy, a well known engineer on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, committed suicide today by swallowing ; carbolic acid. It is believed the suicide of “Chick" Stahl, the Boston ball player, who was an intimate friend of Murphy's, had some effect in giving suicidal impulse to Murphy’s mind. He left a note saying: "Bury me beside 'Chick.’” HALF MILLION I. 0. U.’S COMPLICATE COUNT CREIGHTON S ESTATE Omaha, Neb., March 30.—Half a mil lion dollars In “I. O. U.’s” form part of the assets of the estate of the late Count John A. Creighton, which is now being settled up by the executors. These bits of paper are made up in several forms, part being in the nature of notes, others a memoranda of loans, while others are mere written "I. O. U” and signed by the borrower. The mon ty all went to friends of the count whom he had staked in various enter prises, probably never expecting to get the money back. The executors find that there are several large amounts of hills receivable, the aggregate of which will make close to a million dol lars, half of which is rated as uncol lectable, and about $100,000 as doubt ful. There is little doubt but the dead philanthropist knew the exact worth of this paper and carried it simply be cause many of the friends to whom he extended help had refused to accept it without giving some indication of an intention to return the loan. The complete inventory of the estate will be made to the court within a few days, although no valuation will be placed on the estate. This will be done’ by regularly appointed appraisers. The amount is expected to reach an amount between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 Douglas county will benefit by the law which provides for an inheritance tax to the extent of from $30,000 to $40,000. PLUMBERS “STICK” THE OMAHA BUSINESS MEN Omaha, Neb.. March 30—The Busi ness Men's association has been "stuck" for $50,000 as the outcome of the union plumbers' strike. Contracts for a year were entered into with outsiders to tome here to break the strike. Now, however, the master plumbers aave deserted the Business Men’s asso ciation and settled the strike. The as sociation is left "holding the sack" and with the contracted sum to "dig up.” SPRAYING EXPERIMENTS ARE O BE CONTINUED Lincoln, Neb., March 30.—Congress man Pollard has made arrangements with the agricultural department to continue the demostration work in spraying fruit trees in this district that was begun last year. Samples of sprayed and unsprayed fruit were shown at the state fair last fall which clearly proved the value of this work. The following orchardists will co-opc - ate with the department in the sev eral counties: Michael Meliza, Verdon; Albert Steak. Burchard; Horace Shafer, South Au burn; Ira E. Atkinson, Havelock; Nel son Overton, Nebraska City. Experiments will also ' be carried on the development of an Improved variety of corn and also in developing a variety of both wheat and oats that will give a better yield and be rust re sistant. Still other experiments will be made with forage crops, summer and winter barley. The former is said to be similar to alfalfa. The following parties will co-operate with the depart ment in these cereal experiments. Oats—Frederick Scholl, Falls City; E. E. Willis, Waverly; E. G. Judy, Te curnseh. Ernmer, spring and winter varieties— John Gonzeies, Elmwood; J. M. Arm strong. Auburn. Durum wheat, also winter wheat— Clarence Wiltse, Falls City; H. K. Frantz, Prairie Home; J. C. Walker, Dunbar. Winter barley—F. W. Chase, Pawnee City. Corn—Charles Myer, Pawnee City; Charles Brush, Auburn. ♦ 4 4 AGED COUPLE REUNITED; 4 ♦ “HAPPIEST DAY OF LIFE.” 4 4 4 Lincoln, Neb.. March 30.—John 4 4 Elliott, a South Omaha business 4 4 man, gray haired and 58 years of 4 4 age, was married here last evening 4 4 to Margaret Elliott, his 50-year-old 4 4 divorced wife. Judge Waters per- 4 4 formed the ceremony, and when he 4 4 extended his congratulations the 4 4 man l-urst out; 4 4 "This is the happiest dav of mv 4 4 life. 1 wronged my wife six years 4 4 ago, and am glad to make this re- 4 4 paration. We are hippy again." 4 4 Ami his wife pressed his arm and 4 4 smiled up into his face in eonfirma- 4' 4 tion. 4 4 The couple's grand children 4 4 brought about the reunion. 4 —4— COUNTY OPTION IS ) AGAIN SENT TO MORGUE1 Lincoln, Neb., March 2 .—For the fourth time this session, county option was killed In the house yesterday. At the beginning of the session a county option bill was in troduced in each house, and in the course of time each branch sent the measure to the morgue. Then a modified bill was in troduced in each house and a few days ago the senate killed the one presented to it. The house has followed suit. Both houses have also killed bills for the sub mission of a prohibition amendment. The senate refused to appoint a com mittee to confer with a like committee of the house on a day for final adjournment, thus indicating that members do not ex pect to get through this week. The primary election law will pass the senate today and Is the last platform measure to be acted upon by that body. ' THROWS A FIT WHEN POLITICAL “FRIENDS" DESERT Lincoln, Neb., March 30.—Disappoint ment over the announcement of his defeat for councilman in the Fourth ward, caused Charles A. Whyman, a well known in surance man, to fall in a fit last night. It required the services of a doctor to re store him to consciousness, but he is con fined to his bed. Whyman was one of four citizens en gaged in a contest for the republican nom ination, and as he has always ben an ac tive politician, he expected the support of the politicians in the ward. This made him so confident of victory that when a friend telephoned to him that he had got but 82 votes out of 400. and was third in the race he keeled i>ver. He had been working hard all day and was not in good physical trim. NEBRASKA AND IOWA TO JOIN IN Y. P. S. C. E. MEETING Omaha, Neb., March 30.—Preparations are being made by the Omaha Christian Endeavor union to entertain the state con vention of Christian Endeavor societies next October, i nd incidentally, the state convention of Iowa will be invited to join the Nebraskans in one big convention in Omaha. The Auditorium will be used and will furnish ample room for the delegates from both states This commodious struc ture also has a seating capacity for sev eral thousand visitors, in addition to the 'Immense Hour apace for delegates. ANTI-PASS BILL IS SENT TO GOVERNOR Nebraska Legislature Finally Gets Together on the Measure. Lincoln, Neb., April 1.—The scnatci yesterday afternoon, by unanimous) vote, concurred in the house amend ments to the anti-pass bill and the' measure now goes to the governor lor his signature. The bill was passed ii» Its amended form by the house. The governor has signed the terminal) taxation bill. Appropriation bills were up for con * sideratlon in the senate today, thfj committee on finance reporting back a number of these measures, nearly everyj one of them being quite heavily cut$ The heaviest slash was on the stati* university, which was cut down $180,000. one item of $100,000 for an engineering* building being stricken out. An item of $20,000 for additional land at the Kear| ney industrial school for boys was also cut out, as was $9,000 of the $100,00J asked for permanent Improvements a4 the insane asylum at Norfolk. One ftp. propriation which was recommends. I for passage without amendment waj that of $1,849.42 to reimburse Thurston county for money expended in prose cuting certain Indians, the resources oi the county not being sufficient to stand the draft. Pure Food Bill Weak. The house has recommended for pass age the pure food bill, but before doin.i so it amended it so as to still furthef Joosen it up and make it more nearly conform to the national law. When this measure was before the senate, representatives of foods, liquors and medicines made a strong fight on it and succeeded in getting it amended so at to partly conform to their wishes. When it went to the house they imrne* diately went to work on the member:! of that body, and the bill comes very nearly suiting them in its present form. The senate passed a bill prohibiting boys under IS years of age from smok ing cigarets or chewing tobacco in pub lic and prescribing a tine of $i or two days in custody of the probation officer,, or both. BILL CUTS EXPRESS RATES 33 1-2 PER CE^T. Lincoln, Neb., April 1.—In the sen ate this morning the finance committee reported back the bill for appropria tions for current expenses with large amounts lopped off the sums that the house had indorsed. Keifer’s maximum rate bill applying to express companies, which reduces all rates uniformly by 33H per cent, from those in existence on January 1, was passed in the house by the unani mous vote. The railroad bond bill. No. 528, by Hamer, of Buffalo, went through. 68 to 14. It provides that any township, pre cinct, village or second class city may vote a subsidy in bonds to a steam railroad as an inducement for con structing a line. This bill repeals house roll No. 31 passed earlier in the ses sion, which took away the privilege. The telephone lobby has won out through the defeat of Jenison's anti frank bill. The word "service" is what killed it. The telephone lobbyists con strued it to mean that no service grant ed to one company could be denied to. another, which would mean compulsory connection. The real intent of the measure was to keep any company from giving free service. «A committee of the house presented the speaker with a fine silver, gold lined, berry dish and a silver carving set. Speaker Nettleton congratulted the members upon the fact that every pledge made to the people in the elec tion had been kept by them. COST THIS SVIAN $6,000 TO FIRE BOOKKEEPER Lincoln, Neb., April 1.—It cost It. K. Moore, Lincoln’s richest citizen, about $6,000 to employ as his bookkeeper, Clarence Reckmyer. Mr. Moore turned in an assessment of nearly $90,000 last summer to the assessor, which figure represented, he said, a fifth of his prop erty value, the basis upon which tax matters are«adjusted in Nebraska. Later Reckmyer, who had left Mr. Moore’s employ because of some differ ences of opinion about ethical and financial questions, appeared before the assessor and signed a sworn statement which he said he copied from Mr. Moore’s books, showing that in mort gages, etc., Mr. Moore had turned in only a portion of his holdings. Reck-' myer demanded an increase of $600,000 In the Moore assessment. The county officials and the city tax commissioner got together and figured out that Moore had returned a portion of it. but that he should pay taxes on $400,000 more. Mr. Moore strongly protested, and' after a lot of negotiations it was agreed, today that the assessment should be,’ increased $200,000, actual value, or $40, 000 taxable value. At the present tax rate Mr. Moore wall have to pay $6,000 additional taxes for last year. He did not adlmt that he had returned a wrongful assessment, and he had been advised by his attorneys that he could beat It in court, but he said he would rather contribute that much money to the city and county than pose in court’ as a tax dodger. —»— MILLIONAIRE REDUCES HIS LIVING EXPENSES Omaha, Neb., April 1.—“Tax Title’’: Seaman, the eccentric Omaha man who has a fortune of about $200,000, and has boasted that it cost him only 15 cents a; day to live, has decided that his living, expenses are too high for a man of his means and that he must cut them down. He never buys any but second hand clothing, but he says that this year he shall buy none at all. Seaman goes to Denver, Kansas City and other places to buy tax titles. He always walks when he goes on these Journeys and eats and sleeps at farm-.' ers' houses along the way, generally getting food and lodging without pay ing for them. He lives alone in a little dilapidated one-room hut near Benson, six or seven miles west of Omaha, walking to the city In the morning and back to his home at night. PAUPER TO LEAVE FORTUNE TO PAUPERS Omaha. Neb., April 1.—One hundred thousand dollars will be given by Pat rick Mulligan, an inmate of the Doug las county poor house, to establish a home in Omaha for old men. This amount has been left to Mulligan by the death of a wealthy uncle, and lie has provided in his will that the entire amount shall go to the building and support of a home of this nature.