Nebraska Newspapers

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'HE O’NEILL FRONTIER
O. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
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PNEILL, NEBRASKA
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One o; me youngest a. -isi.ims .-■>
Ipointed by Vassar - >lli*K" is •Vi;s:
1 fcrliss Babson, who has in <l'si..nii j
j J being the cfcainph a woman lii.aii
| Ira per. Miss Bubs, ■:> '’. a : event ly np j
i i tinted assistant in l’r<cid"nt Tayloi.
if graduate of the class o! liiOB, Ails:
mbsnn made In r wonderful jumping'
f -cord In the class garner of ISM. win
j |e cleared the bar at tear feet two and
[ :|e-huU inches, a lull inch above the
1st previous record by a woman K>:-.
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.
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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 th<i
jgument lmd the opportunity offeree!
gbe married free of cost within th.l
tft twelve months by the Uev
|8ennetts.
I he most curious story told of old,
n Bunyan’s life in Bedford jail U
It To pass away his gloomy hour'll
took a leg out of his stool and will]
knife fashioned it into a flute. Tht]
pers repeatedly searched Ids cell tq
■ the cause of the music, but when
hard them coming he would always
ace the leg In the stool, and they
er discovered how the music hail
n produced.
jelebes, an inland In the Malay arch
ago. has the distinction of being
• home of the smallest living rep™
pntative of the wild cattle. An Idea
she extremely diminutive proportions
>he 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.
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'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.
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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.
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“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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.