Nebraska Newspapers

    IHE O’NEILL FRONTIER
O. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
rNEILL, NEBRASKA
The British Income lax Is not only
the heaviest, but the hardest, most In
quisitorial In the world. The thr- c
year average having been don< awa>.
a man now Is assessed on his profits
or gains during the year of assessment
The death duties are a fearful burden
on all classes Since they were Im
posed, In J 894, they have yielded over
£ 220,00(1.000. Many landed estates
have paid twice or three times within
five or six years, with the result that
they are utterly crippled. Fim houses
have gone to ruin, and hundreds of
agricultural laborers have been thrown
out of employment. For a speeded tree
trade country, the duties are very high.
Even the kitchen can boast Its mar
tyrs. Chief among these was Vatel,
the chief cook of Conde, who ran him
Velf through the heart with a sword
because the fish had not arrived hi
time for a banquet which his master
was giving Louis XIV Vatd's pane
gyric is to be found lh the concluding
volume of the "Almanaoh des Gour
mands": "Ho noble a death Insures
you, venerable shade, the most glorious
Immortality! You have proved that
the fanaticism of honor can exist In
the kitchen ae well as in the camp, and
that the suit and the saucepan have
also their Catos and their Deciuses "
The suffrage papers of England re
port that the number of women elected
Co office In Ireland during the last 12
months has been gratifying to all ad
vocates of eyual suffrage. Five wom
en, Mrs. L. A. Barr, Mrs. Griffin. Miss
Hamilton, Miss G. Leake Griffin and
Lady Bockrell, were elected as urban,
district and town councilors. Forty -
three women were elected as rural dis
trict councilors, 20 of them for the first
time. As poor law guardians 103 wom
en were elected.
The Argentine government, during
the last year, has begun the develop
ment of a now petroleum field at Com
odoro Rlvadavla. on the Bay of St
George, east coast of Patagonia. The
first oil bearing stratum was found at
a depth of 1,77# feet, In a cretaceous
formation. The government well yields
13 or 14 tons of oil per day, without
pumping. The oil Is dark brown and
Very heavy, and seems especially
adapted for fuel.
The Floyd county commissioners, it Is
reported, "have ordered 10 dozen suits
it pajamas for the county’s convicts." I
Is there anether county In Georgia or
another penal Institution In the United
States that provides Its prisoners with,
the fashionable '■nighties?" says Sa
vannah News. Who wouldn’t rather
be a pajamaed prisoner In the Floyd
county chain gang than a no nightshirt
’reeman on the plains of windy Kan
sas.
No longer Is the Bank of England the
greatest Institution of Its kind. In vol
ume of business transacted, at least, it
Is surpassed by the National City bank,
of New York. Eighty millions of del-1
tars rush through this mlllrace every
day, and not one penny Is misplaced.
The giant safe, which Is protected by
a door -with 24 holts, contains a for-,
tune of $99,4tM),880 In gold and a half
billion dollars in first class securities. .
The traveler exhibited a peculiar
nervousness on seeing the long legged,
•11m, fierce looking liogs that roamed at
will over the country. At length lie
asked R native sitting on a fence by the
toadslde: "Aren’t these razorbaek
hogs rather dangerous?" ”1 never
heard of none of them doing any
harm,” remarked the native. “1 think
they must be safety razorbaoks."
A young woman, a public sc hool ^
teacher In a New York suburb, hue
formed a lunch club for the mothers of ,
her pupils, to assist them In putting up I
suitable school lunches for their chll- I
dren. She noticed that the majority of
her pupils brought a few cents to
ochool each day and with the money ,
bought their lunch at a shop nearby, j
As a rule they bought the very things
they' should not have.
The chief justice of the supreme court
Is Melville W. Fuller, and the associate
justices are: John M. Harlan, Ken
tucky; David J. Brewer, Kansas; Ed
ward D. White, Louisiana; Rufus W.
Peckbam, Now York: Joseph McKenna.
California; Oliver W. Holmes, Massa- !
chusetts; William R. Day, Ohio; and :
William H. Moody, Massachusetts.
At the battle of Marengo, the French
irmly was virtually defeated; and.
while Bonaparte and hts staff were con- !
sidering their next move, Dessalx sag j
gested that there was yet time to re- :
trleve the disaster Napoleon rallied
his men, renewed the battle, and won a
great victory over the Austrians,
though the unfortunate Dessalx lost his
own life on that field.
The biggest map in the world will be
constructed by the celebration commit
tee on the south side of Queenshoro
bridge, in New York It will bo 3.724
feet long and 89 feet high. The prin
cipal towns and cities affected by the
bridge will be shown by green lamps,
electrically lighted, and at night it can
be studied at almost any point along
the East river.
His wife’s mother had been visiting
mt the man’s house steadily for seven
months, On towards Christmas time,
she said to him: "John, l am going to
have my photograph taken as a Christ
mas gift for you and Minnie. What
dress do you prefer me in?” "Your
.■raveling gown, dear mother," the son
Inlaw replied.
Scotland long ago lost its forests
In the time of James VI it was la
mented that the country was almost
naked and “mony yeirs ago spoiled of
*11 the timber within the same." With
in the last hundred years, however,
great, tracts, notably in Perthshire and
Forfarshire, that once were bare, huvu
been reclothed with “tlmmer.”
Two London cabbies were glaring at
each other. "Aw, wot s the matter
■with you?” demanded one. "Nothing's
the matter with me, you bloomin' id
iot." "You give me a narsty look." per
sisted the first. "Me? Why, you cer
tainly ’ave a narsty look, but 1 didn't
give It to you, so ’elp me!”
The rise of bunking in London nmv
be said to date from 11172, when the
king confiscated the amounts outstand
ing at the credit of the wealthy gold
smiths. said Charles Welch recent I \.
■peaking at the London institution.
India’s accumulated hoards of wealth
locked up in strong Iron boxes and se
creted, amounts to *1,600.000,000. and
this vast sum is bring augmented an
aually to the amount of *66,000.000
The island of Mauritius has a new in
dustry—the manufacturing of »ii from
jitstaeohio nuts, it sells for 3 cents a
quart and is useful as a substitute for
Sard and inferior olive oil.
A single dealer in Madrid sells an
nually 30,000 larks fine lies and othei
email birds for food, and tin- total num
ber thus consumed Is estimated -t a
(million in that city alone
GOVERNOR WILL
APPOINT BOARD
UNDER NEW LAW
Will Name New Normal Board
•—March 30 Will Be Bate
of Adjournment.
I.incclu, .NVI... March :ia. ' la house,
in committee of the whole, yesterday
afternoon voted to abolish the require
ment that foods sold in packages must
be branded on tin* outside of the pack- j
ages with tin amount of the. net weight
or volume. It was amended to pro- j
vide that amount of contents need not'
be stated, but if stated such statement
must be correct. The influence of Gov
ernor Sh.dienb* rger whs behind the
amendment, which curried by a party
vot*.
Tin* Semite recommended tor passage
tie Rygland hill, >1. R. No. 2H, provid
ing that county commissioners shall b«
elected from districts instead of by tin
entire county. il also recommended
for passage the Talcott bill. H. R. No.
2K6. providing for the appointment by
the governor of a new normal board of
live mende rs. The governor at present
appoints llie normal board, but each i
man is appointed for live, years, the
term of no two expiring in the same
ywni. This bill will enable the gov*
ernor to appoint an ntin In* w bpard
at oi.ee.
The committee of tin1 senate appoint
ed to meet with a like committee from
the house and confei on a day for ad- j
jourmnent reported that March 150 had i
been agreed upon. 'I he senate decided |
that it could not finish business by that !
time, and instructed the committee to
confer again. The house had already
adopted tli«» report.
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NEBRASKAN GOES TO
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
Washington, March 30. Several im- I
portant changes nffeciing the personnel
of the interior department were yes
terday announced by Secretary Bal
linger. Joseph R. Webster, of ^Nebras
ka, was appointed an assistant attor
ney in the office of the secretary at a
salary of $3,750. Fred II Barclay, of
Wyoming was promoted to be assist
ant attorney In the office of the as
sistant attorney general at $3,500 per
annum
Lincoln. Neb., March 30. Joseph it
Webster, appointed yesterday to bp
assistant attorney in the office of the
secretary of the interior, is a pioneer
resident of Nebraska and still claims
Lincoln as bis home, although em
ployed in the government service at
Washington for a number of years. He
was attorney general of Nebraska in
the early days of the state, and lias
been a leader in the councils of the
republican party since the close of the
civil war.
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4 FIND BUFFALO HEAD 4
4 FAR UNDER GROUND 4
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4 Norfolk, Neb., March 30.—A 4
4 buffalo le ad was dug up out of 4
4 a Norfolk houseyurd Thursday 4
4 afternoon. It was at the home 4
4 of Frank H. Heels, Sixth street 4
4 and Pusewulk avenue, and eight 4
4 feet underneath the surface of 4
4 the earth that the head of the 4
4 pioneer and now nearly extinct 4
4 animal, once a rover of these 4
4 plains, was found. The horns 4
4 on the head measured 13 Inches 4
4 across. 4
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WIDOW ASKS $50,000
OF RAILROAD COMPANY
Rmcrsim. Neb., Mart'll 30. The wid
ow of Fireman Stouffer, who was
killed 111 the railroad wreck at Thurs
ton several weeks ago, has sued the
railroad company for $.‘01,0011 damages.
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QUARREL OVER FENCE
LEADS TO MURDER
15runt, Nell., March 30. Advices from
the town of Phoebe, in this (Perking)
county, nay that James Jones and Jo
seph Rowley, neighboring ranchmen,
quarreled yesterday over a division
fence and Jones shot Rowley, killing
him almost instantly. County authori
ties here were untitled and the sheriff
was asked to take up the pursuit of
Jones, whom it was alleged, had fled
to Chase county following the killing
EX-STATE OFFICER
IS FOUND DEAC
Lincoln, Ncli.. March 30. Frederick
\V. Miller, of Falls City, Neb., untli
recently deputy secretary of state for
a number of years, was found dead
In a room last night at the Royal ho
tel. He had locked himself in the
room on Wednesday and the exact time
of ills death is unknown. His demise,
1t is declared, was due to natural ■
causes. He was a man of consider- ,
able prominence in the state for many
years.
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♦ THIEVES CARRIED 4
4 STRONG BOX AWAY. 4 ;
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4 Ewing. Nel... March 30.—All 4
4 . fl'orts In secure a trace of the 4
4 parties who robbed .1. K. Hauer, 4 |
4 an old farmer, aged 70. living 4 I
4 near here, have failed, although 4 !
4 it is suspected that local tuleni i
4 did the work. y i
♦ Hauer, who feared hanks. -• !
♦ kept his mone\ in an iron box -•
4 and while tile family was nva> 4 1
4 Hie thieves carried a wax the 4
4 box which contained $333 4 1
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TEXAN FLIES IN
AEROPLANE 30 MINUTES;
GOES 12 MILES
Galveston, Tex., March 30. Hrentlc.
K. Neivman. of Hoxar county, made r
successful flight in Ills aeroplane, re
maining in 11m air 30 minutes. The ma
chine carrying its inventor, rose to a
height of about 150 feet and covered
a distance of 13 miles over a prairie
Newman appeared to have perfect
control of tile airship and circle,
around with apparent ease. He said
lie could have r< mained in the air long,
or but for some of the machinery being
u little stiff.
The aeroplane is similar to tile
j Wright brothers’ machine.
MME. EAMES AND BELLHOP
CLASH OVER A STORY
i I’lttsburg, l>a.. March 30.—Mine
Emma E.lines, the singei, and Valiev
Morgan, a bell boy. elasaed in the sing
er's apartments in tin Hotel Schcnley
last iiiglif la cause tin boi showed her
a paper containing a story of tin
| Karnes-l>e Cogorza troubles. In mak
, mg a liasly exit the bell box had his
J fingers pinched in the door ' Th ■ I)|.
xa's only injur; wus to in r feelings
MAN CONFESSES
TO MURDER OF
HIS COMPANION
Chased Across Continent, Mur
derer Admits Killing for
Small Sum of Money.
Val«-ntin*j. NVb.. March 29. The mys- j
tery attaching to the murder of Fred
Smith, of Grafton, Neb., last October,
was cleared yesterday when James
story. .»f Douglas, (Wyo..) confessed to
In sheriff and county attorney that he
diot and killed Smith and robbed him
• I ?4T» in cash and a certificate of de~
»osit for $340. The certificate he subse
quently destroyed.
Story says he and Smith wore trav
Mng together and he shot his com pan -
■»i while la* slept and threw the body
t«* the Niobrara river, where it was
■mill a few day s later. Story' was cap
•jred after a long chase at I^eGrande,
>re.. but protested his innocence until
yesterday.
r THE LEGISLATURE. J
Lincoln, Neb., March 29.—The house
this morning, by a vote of 52 to 41,
passed a bill granting municipal suf
frage to women. The senate has killed j
i similar measure.
The democratic majority redeemed 1
another platform pledge this morning
by ■ hissing a bill appropriating $100,000
for an agricultural school In western
Nebraska, and gave $2,000 to the Corn
Improvers' association to pay the ex
pens* s of lecturers and printing of ro
JM *i ts.
Another bill passed provides for the
summoning of a grand jury in each
county.
The senate passed the Donahoe l>iil
placing all public service corporations
unuer control of the state railroad
commission, the Lehligh bill making
the supreme court clerk a salaried of- i
lice at $4,000 a year, and two deputies j
at $2,500. Also the Ketchum bill es- [
t&bliahhiK H state dipsomaniac hospital,
and agreed to leave the South Omaha
Stock Yards company's railroad prop
erty out of those to undergo physical
valuation.
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AUTOMOBILE DEALER
TAKES OWN LIFE
Hastings, Nel>., March 29.—William
Hrummel, 44 years old, a dealer in auto
mobiles, was found dead Wednesday
night In his bachelor apartments over
his garage here. He was hanging In a
noose made of burlap covering for auto
mobile tires, and it is supposed that he
hung himself not later than last Friday
night. Financial difficulties made him
despondent, though so far as known he
never expressed his intention of com
miting suicide.
Ten days ago Brummell received a
shipment of automobiles, for which he
hoped to find a ready sale. One or more
cylinders In each ear was broken in
transit by freezing water having been
left in them when they were shipped
from the factory. The defects in the
cars caused Mr. Brummell to brood,
for they either delayed or prevented ne
gotiations for several sales.
BIGAMIST, PARDONED,
PROMISES SUPPORT
TO FIRST PARTNER
Lincoln. Neb.. March 29.—CJovernnr
Shallenberger toilay paroled Bigamist
Fred J. Vaughn out of the Nebraska
penitentiary. His llrst wife is living In
poverty In tills city. Vaughn promised
the governor that he would support
her and not take on any more wives.
PRISONER ATE THE
ELECTRIC LIGHT GLOBES
Lincoln, Neb., March 29. Wilber
Warner, a brokendown vaudeville per
former, literally chewed his way to
freedom today.
In police court Warner gave an ex
hibition by chewing several electric
light bulbs and swallowed glass, also
several tacks. Judge Kisser promptly
<iuashed the vagrancy charge against
him.
WIRELESS WARNS LINER
OF A GIANT ICEBERG |
New York, March 29. -The North (Jer- I
man Lloyd liner I'rinz Friedrich Wilhelm, I
which came Into pert from Bremen, re
ceived a Wireless message from the White
Star liner Baltic, which said: "i^ook out.
The re is a big- iceberg ahead.”
At about 2 o’clock in the morning the
loolftiut on the I’rinz Friedrich Wilhelm
reported a bright light on the starboard
how. When it was neared it was seen to
l»c the iceberg hr question. Captain Prehn
estimated it as 1,000 feet long and 400 feet
high.
The temperature of the sea through ,
which the liner was steaming took a sud- '
den drop and the cold water meeting the I
warm in the steamer’s track produced a !
sea that fairly boiled.
('uptain Prehn confesses that it was the j
choppiest sea he ever struck. It was so
choppy that it made the passengers sea
sick
YOUNG GRAFTER MUST
PAY PENALTY FOR FUN
New York, March 2B.—George Choever.
sun of a funner chief of police of Andover,
Mass., who has been posing as a Yale* man.
wan arraigned In court today anil held in
Il’.onO bail for trial on a charge of forgery.
Chooser, who is 24 years old, is said to
have obtained something like $20,000 in the
last six months by forged checks, mainly
from he fathers of college men. He boast
ed in court that ne had spent $25,000 in a
few months entertaining chorus girls and
placing the races.
One of his boldest presumptions hap
pened in April, 1907, when he entered Chl
cugo In a special train he had chartered
in Heaver, Colo. He got tin* train through
I loosing us a stepson of Vice President
1 Fairbanks. He was arrested, but the rail
road officials refused to prosecute and he
I was discharged.
PADEREWSKI. SUFFERING
FROM RHEUMATISM, TO
RETURN TO EUROPE
Now Voik. March ■-’».• Ignace Jan
I Paderewski, the pianist, has cancelled
1 the 1" remaining engagements of his
projected tour and will return Imme
diately to Europe. Thu rheumatism
In Ills right arm. which compelled him
to discontinue his tour at Minneapolis,
has grown worse and upon his physi
i Ian's advice he wilt stop playing for
a month or more.
NEW BILLS ARE
TABOOED BALANCE
OF THE SESSION
Sifting Committee Makes a Cut
Off—Suffrage Measure
Lacks Votes.
Umi'ln, March 27. -Commit
fees from each house of t;jf legislature
met Wednesday afternoon and agreed
that, beginning this morning’, neither
house should take up for consideration
any more of its own bills. Both houses
approved the agreement.
In committee of the whole, the hous<
recommended for passage the bill
granting to women the right of fran
chise in municipal elections. A simi
lar measure lias already been killed jn
ih'* senate.
The senate took the Howard house
bill, providing for a constitutional
amendment allowing women the vote,
from th*‘ sifting committee and ad
vanced it to third reading. It only has
10 votes, however, and 20 are required
to pass a constitutional amendment
bili.
The sen.ate also reconsidered the vote
by which it had killed the Shoemaker
house bill providing for the submis
sion of an amendment relating to cit
izenship. This bill provides that for
eign born men may vote upon making
their declaration of intention to become
citizens, but if, at the expiration of
live years, they have not completed
their citizenship, the franchise right is
to be lost. When this bill was being
considered in committee of the whole.
Brown had tacked on an amendment
cutting out the word "male,” and thiH
left it a woman suffrage bill. As such
Jt was killed, but by the action taken
yesterday it was revived, and it is
thought that, without the amendment,
it can pass.
Appropriation bills were considered
by the senate, and a number recom
mended for passage. Among these
were the bills appropriating $40,000 for
a new building at the Peru normal;
$50,000 for a new wing to the Kearney
normal; $70,000 for two new buildings
at the Beatrice institute for feeble
minded.
Lincoln, .V I).. March 27.—Lincoln's
now ( nailer, giving it a commission
form of government, was beaten yes
terday by the Douglas county delega
tion, and today Lincoln's delegation
mustered enough votes to prevent the
Kouth Omaha charter from getting
through with the emergency clause.
Senator Tanner, its author, says this
practically makes the bill of no effect.
The house recommended for passage
a bill inspecting all beer sold in the
state, charging 1 cent a gallon as fees.
It creates one chief and four deputy in
spectors, with salaries of $2,000 and
$1,200 respectively.
The house passed S. F. 18. creating a
state board of osteopathy, and H. H.
479, firing the state board of health sec
retary, now republican, out of office in
July and empowering the governor to
appoint a successor.
The senate.killed the woman suffrage
bill passed by the house. 15 to 16, and
passed bills appropriating $40,000 for
the Peru normal, $650,000 for the Kear
ney normal and $70,000 for the Beatrice
feeble minded institute, all for ne.w
buildings, and $5,000 for an experimen
tal farm in western Nebraska.
It also passed a bill allowing national
banks to reorganize under the state
bank guaranty law, which was signed
bv the- governor today.
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SHIPPERS WILL CONFER
ON COMMERCE RULING
Omaha, Neb., March 27.—A call has
been received in Omaha for a meeting
of Missouri river valley shippers, to be
held in Kansas Pity, to discuss the re
cent ruling of tlie Interstate Commerce
commission on rates to western points,
which it is said Is in the interest of
Chicago and St. Louis at the expense
of Missouri river points. The call for
the meeting lias not been made public,
and its date lias not been announced.
It Is intended to keep the matter as
quiet as possible. Omaha will be rep
resented at the meeting, which is called
for the purpose of talking over the sit
uation with a view to determining
whether or not any action should be
taken. It Is contended the ruling will
take a large section of western Ne
braska and Kansas and Colorado and
Wyoming out of the trade area of
Kansas City, Sioux City and Omaha
and give it to Chicago and St. Louis.
The ruling was Issued at the instance
of Denver.
ROBBERS HOLD UP AN
OMAHA STREET CAR
Omaha, Nob., March 27.—Three men
held up a Farnum street ear shortly
alter midnight last night, and took the
conductor's watch and absut $11.50 in
money. They were so nuiet that the
motorman was not aware that any
thing unusual was taking place. After
the valuables were secured the robbers
rang the bell and stepped off the ear
into the darkness.
CROWN PRINCE OF
SERVIA RENOUNCES HIS
RIGHT TO THRONE
Bolgrcd* . March 27.—George, crown
prince of Servia, has renounced his
right of succession to the Servian
throne. The action is the result of a.
bitter press campaign in which the
crown prim e is accused of the recent
death of orn of his servants, a man
named Kolakovit/..
Tn a letter to Premier Novakovitch
this morning, the crown prince an
nounces he has taken this step rather
than rest under suspicion of having
murdered his servant: that by the re
nunciation in foregoes all special priv
ileges and the immunity that attaches
to the person of heir to the throne. He
expresses a willingness to go abroad
for a lengthy sojourn.
WEALTHY WIDOW ELOPES
WITH A PRINTER OF 67
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I Aurora, 111., March Li Mis. Mary ,1.
Gray. Aurora's wealthiest woman,
eloped to Freeport last night with 1>
W. Tyroll, R7 years old. a DeKalb
printer, and married. Mrs. TyrelJ was
a widow of Virgil Gray, horse trader,
who amassed a fortune.
HOG CARVER IS CLEARED
OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
Chicago, March 27. Patrick Bren
I nan. president of the Independent Pack
ing company charged with cruelty to
animals in that lie allowed branding
hogs with a carving knife instead of
tagging them, was found not guilty by
a jury in the municipal court today.
Brennan < on tended it is more hu
mane to carve the letter? I p c" on
the hog's back than to pierce its cars
for the tag. as the animal usually lac
erated itself in trying t*» t» ai out the
tag.
GOVERNOR SIGNS
THE RANK DEPOSIT
INSURANCE RILL
Redeems One of the Principal
Pledges of His Party—■
Adjournment Talk.
Lincoln, Neb., March 26.—Governor
Shalb-nbcrger yesterday afternoon
signed the bank guarantee bill, house
record No. 432.
Upon motion of Uiers, a committee
of three, consisting of Diers, Tibbetq
and King was appointed to confer with
a like committee from the house on the
subject of legislation. It was the sense
of the senate that after today that,
body should take up no more of Its own
bills and that the house should consider !
no more house bills. The arrangement
of this matter, however, was left to
tlie committee. The senate has not yet
decided when it will be ready to ad
journ. but the house has accepted the
committee recommendation for March
30. It will begin today to hold night
sessions.
The senate in committee of the whole
recommended for passage five appro
priation bills including that for $75,
•ooo to aid weak school districts to hold
live months’ school annually.
The South Omaha charter bill, the
indefinite postponement of which al
most defeated the bank guarantee bill,
was reconsidered in the house commit
tee of the whole Tuesday afternoon and
recommended to pass. The Lincoln
charter bill, which has been antagon
ized by Mayor Brown, was also recom
mended to pass. It was amended, how
ever, so as to provide that a special
election shall be held within 30 days
after it goes into effect.
Lincoln, Neb., March 26.—The senate
today passed a bill providing for a
state grain market, prohibiting the sale
of coeaine or morphine save on a phy
sician’s prescription, and allowing
county boards to appropriate $1,000 to
conduct acre experiment tracts.
The house recommended for passage
a bill appropriating $100,000 for an ag
ricultural school in western Nebraska.
A big scrap came up over a bill to
appropriate $1,000 a year to distribute
reports of exports In corn culture and
to pay expenses of lecturers. Heffer
nan, a farmer member, led the fight
against the bill. He said most of the
experts were frauds and that the farm
ers were solving the seed corn ques
tion satisfactorily. The bill was rec
ommended to pass.
Attorney General Thompson today
gave the railroad commission un opin
ion that no telephone company could
give different rates for tne same ser
vice without subjecting itself to the
penalties ot the general discrimination
law. The case came up from Alma,
where former owners were being
served for less rate than the public.
The morning session of the house
came to a close with a fist fight be
tween Shoemaker, of Douglas county,
and Taylor, of Custer. The only blow'
landed was by Taylor, and his fist fell
full upon the cheek of the Omaha at
torney. The municipal suffrage bill
was under discussion and Shoemaker,
speaking in opposition, made a remark
about the attitude of women toward
gambling which led the peppery Custer
county man to ejaculate that It women
favored gambling Shoemaker would bo
supporting the bill. Shoemaker ap
plied an offensive epithet and followed
it up with calling Taylor several names.
"I won’t stand for that,” yelled Tay
lor and made for him. Members sepa
rated the two men before any further
exchanges.
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♦ ♦
♦ MAN DENIES THAT
♦ HE WAS HANGED.
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♦ Pilger. Neb., March 26— Cal ♦
♦ Matheson, a former resident of ♦
♦ this place, denies that he has ♦
♦ been hung in Texas. ♦
♦ Stories have been circulated in
♦ this county that he had met such ♦
♦ a fate and when the news ♦
♦ reached him at a ranch In Texas,
where he is working as a cow- -t
+ boy, he lost no time in getting -f
-f the word back here that he had ♦
♦ not been hung. ♦
PARDON IS DUE FOR
WOMAN SHOPLIFTER
Lincoln, Neb.. March 26.—Mrs. Mil
dred Boles Is to escape the year in the
state penitentiary she was given by the
Lancaster district court for shoplifting.
The prison doctor certifies that the
woman has so acute a sense ot the
shame and humiliation that has come
upon her by reason of her crime, that
she cannot sleep nor eat but a little.
The doctor has informed the governor
that h§ believes her health will be per
manently Impaired if she Is longer con
fined in the penitentiary. The governor
will give her a pardon Monday.
FREMONT DOESN’T WANT
STATE TO BUY THE
WAYNE NORMAL SCHOOL
Huuoln, Neb., March 26.—A delega
tion of prominent citizens of Fremont
is here to endeavor to <■ nvince the
governor that he ought nuv, to sign the
j bill appropriating $90,000 to buy the
normal school at Wayne. I p at Fre
mont there is a big private normal
school run by Professor Clemmons. It
Is the apple of the eye of Fremont
merchants. They figure that if it wasn’t
for the normal, there would bo a whole 1
lot less of Fremont, and the dry goods :
and groceries trades would be in bad
shape.
The competition of the Wayne nor
mal, when the late Principal Pyle was
in his prime, was vigorous, but in re
mit years the Fremont school has
boon forging ahead. The argument
used by the Fremont business men was
that if the state took hold of the
Wayne school, it would mean the ex
tinction of the school at Fremont In
time, as it could not compete In the
territory from which both would draw
their pupils, where the state paid most
of the bills. Ah Fremont doesn’t want
the normal put out of business, it is
urged that it either should bo pur
chased by the state or the Wayne nor*
mal proposition passed up.
BOY WEDGED IN FUNNEL,
NARROWLY MISSES DEATH
Norristown. Pa., March 26. —Raymond
Marple, 11 years old, was playing in the
hayloft of hi father’s barn, at Hickory
town. when he fell headlong down the
narrow funnel to the feeding bin. in which
he became so tightly wedged that he
would have died from suffocation had not
a stable man heard his muffled cries for
help.
The funnel had to be broken before the
unconscious boy could be gotten out. It
was at first thought ilia! bis neck v^a§
broken.
BANK GUARANTY
IS ALL READY FOR
THE GOVERNOR
House Fights Senate Amend
ments, but Finally Agrees
and Passes Them.
4 SENATE AGREES TO 41
4 ADJOURN APRIL 3. 4
4 4
4 Lincoln, Neb., March 25.—'The 4
4 senate has agreed upon Satur- 4
4 day, April 3, as a date for ad- 4.
4 Journment. This will mean that 4
4 tho upper house will work a 4
4 week long'd- thun the limit for 4
4 which pay can be drawn from 4
4 the state. The law has set the 4
4 time for the sessions at 60 days 4
4 and this will expire next Friday. 4
4 The bourbon members of the up 4
4 per house have held a consults 4
4 tlon in this matter and it has 4
4 been conceded that the work 4
4 cannot be completed before that 4
4 time. No official action has yet 4
4 been taken by tlie senate, but the 4
4 democrats arc .greed on the 4
4 time set. 4
4 4
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Lincoln, Neb.. March 25.—The sen
ate committee of tlie whole yesterday
recommended for passage the King
hill amending the pure food law; so
that the contents and the weight
or volume must he stamped on the out
side of all food packages. At pres
ent the law requires that "the con
tents, weight or measure” shall be
printed and the Food Commissioner*
Mains appointed by Governor Ehall
enberger has construed this to mean
that if the name of the contents Im
printed on the package, it is not nec
essary to so state the weight or vol
ume.
J. W. Johnson, the former commis
sioner, ruled that both the contents and
tho weight or measure must be stat
ed and as a consequence the cracker
trust and sonic other big institutions
quit doing business in the state. Since
the Mains’ ruling they have again
placed their products on the Nebras
ka market.
The bank guaranty bill was consid
ered in tho house yesterday afternoon,
and a warm argument was engaged in
on the senate amendments to the act.
Taylor bitterly attacked these amend
ments, but they were adopted by the
house and the bill is now ready for
signature.
The house passed bills establishing a
claims bureau with tho state railway
commission, creating a commission of
state officers to fix rates to be charged
by bonding companies, giving the gov
ernor the power to appoint the secre
tary of the state printing board.
The joint committee to fix a date of
adjournment reported in favor of March
30, but the senate decided this was too,
early and took no action.
A bill putting sheriffs on a fee basis
was passed.
Senate file 346. requiring the n*-t
weight and contents of a package to in
stamped on the outside, was recommit
ted preliminary to killing it.
In committee of the whole the senate
recommended to pass bills establishing
grain warehouses under state control.
Prohibiting the sale of dope unless by
prescription, and appropriating $5.u»n
for an experiment station in western.
Nebraska.
4 WILL NEW EXECUTIVE 4
4 NOTICE THE TRIPLETS? 4
4 4
4 Beatrice. Neb., March 25.—Mr. 4
4 and Mrs. M. M. Falk are the 4
4 proud parents of triplets, three 4
4 boys, born Sunday afternoon. 4
4 The babies are healthy and woll 4
4 formed and weight eight, seven 4
4 and six pounds, respectively. 4
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NEW CATHOLIC SCHOOL
LOCATED AT WINNEBAGO
Winnebago, Neb., March 25.— This
place has been chosen as the location
for a large Catholic boarding school
under the direction of Mother Kather
ine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the
Blessed .Sacrament.
A site will be furnished free by the
citizens of the town. The buildings*
which will lirst be provided for a
school, a church and a house fer
tile priest in charge.
ALTERNATIVE WILL
IS GAMBLING ACT
Verbal Contract Is Not Binding
as Against a Subsequent
Conveyance by Will.
Lincoln, Neb.. March 25.— -V promise
mutually made by husband and wife
that they will make their wills In favor
of each other, so that the survivor may
enjoy the separate property of both.
Is a gambling contract, contrary iis
public policy and incapable of enforce
ment by a court of equity.
So Judge Cornlsli decides in the case
brought by Mrs. Jennie Brown, widow
of a former lawyer and banker. E. K
Brown, to require his estate to perforin
a specific contract embodied In the
proposition laid down above. Mrs.
Brown told the court that Mr. Brown
made her the proposition some years
ago. Each had about $100,000 worth of
property. The wills were made.
Last fail Brown was visiting back
among friends and relatives In Indiana.
He fell sick and died before his wife
could reach him. Before death he made
another will giving all he had to the
relatives. She sought to enforce the
contract, blit the court holt's that to
permit a will to he set aside by urai
evidence of a different method of dis
posing of property would be to open
all estates to being raided.
There are villages in the Alps and
Pyrenees where electric power is so
cheap that it does not pay to turn off
'he lights on leaving a room.
He Could Not Swim.
From the Cleveland Leader
Mrs. McCarthy’s husband went out
in a boat alone, the boat overturned
and he was drowned. A friend met her
some w eks later.
"I hoar." said he. ’ that Pat left you
very well off—that he left you $'it .
000."
"True,” said .Vlrs. McCarthy; l.e
did."
■'How was that?” asked her friend.
’’Pat couldn’t read nor write, could
he?"
■’No." said Mrs. McCarthy. nor
swim.”