The O’Neill Frontier
dTm. CRONIN, Publisher.
O’NEJLL. NEBRASKA
Last winter the city council of Pltts
txta-c, S. C., rescinded an order prohi
biting shooting within the city limits,
so that people might shoot robins that
had been driven by a severe storm
Into the town to seek food and shelter.
/Vs a result of this action about 4,000
robins were killed In the town. The
mayor of Pittsboro, who was absent
at the time, learning on his return
what had been done, resigned his of
fice. _
The London Economist figures the
cost of the Balkan war, for 64 days’
lighting, at *125,000,000, or about *2,600,
D00 a day. This Is based on the ex
pense of maintaining 1,000,000 men In
the field at *2.50 a day each. During
eur time of storm and stress in the
civil war the expenditures of the north
alone were estimated at *2,000,000 a
day.
Justice Goff, of New York, deserves
the thanks of the United States navy
for his remarks In sentencing a way
ward youth who pleaded that, If let off,
he would Join the navy. "The navy,"
the Judge said, "does not want men of
your class. The time has gone by
when we can use the navy for refor
matory purposes. Our navy Is com
posed of self-respecting young men.”
The use of concrete has greatly sim
plified and, durability considered, cor
respondingly cheapened Icehouse con
struction, says an agricultural paper.
A modern Icehouse of this kind can be
built for $200. But whether of con
crete or boards, a good Ice house Is
becoming an Indispensable luxury on
most, farms.
Miss Mary Hildreth, of Butternut
Farm, N. H., and Plymouth, Mass., be
lieves that there is no real reason why
any woman should be lonely. Miss
Hildeth has adopted 14 babies, 10 of
whom are now alive and give every
Indication of becoming useful men and
women.
"Noblesse oblige" Is evidently the
motto of the queen of England, for
she is said almost constantly to be
seen with knitting needles in hand,
making articles of comfort that she
contributes to the London Needle Work
guild. _ _
Cleveland’s mayor the other day re
fused to permit the moving by a con
tractor of an eight-story building a
distance of four blocks because of the
danger to sewers and water pipes.
Even the postage stamp has caused
trouble and bloodshed. The first at
tempt to introduce It Into the hermit
kingdom of Korea In 1844 was attended
with a violent antl-foreign uprising,
•hooting and Incendiarism.
Princess Llchnowsky, wife of the
pew German ambassador to London,
paints, plays, sings, writes and edu
cates her children. Her most recent
work deals with Egypt. Her next book
la to be about children.
Grapeseed oil Is prepared In certain
parts of Europe. That obtained cold,
from the first pressing, Is edible. The
rest Is used for lighting purposes, In
the manufacture of soap and In var
ious Industries.
Dr. W. E. Getl, who In 1908 Journeyed
from end to end of the Chinese wall,
says that with Its extension Its total
length Is realty 2,550 miles, and that
originally 40,000 stone towers guarded
It
Europe Is building many other boats
more or less like the Selandla, the fun
nellesa vessel equipped with Diesel en
gines, whose Journeylngs have at
tracted attention In the shipping world.
Nellie was much interested In Aunt
Mary’s chandelier, and when she went
home, she exclaimed: “Oh, mother, I
do wish we had a place for our lamps
to roost on, as Aunt Mary has!"
W. H. Surber, the first policeman of
Seattle, recently celebrated his 78th
birthday. He was appointed In 1868,
when Seattle had but one street and a
population of only 200 people.
KrlUsh trade In 1812 aggregated T,
000,000,000. The output for each per
son employed In England was *610.
In Ireland 8390, and 8490 In Scotland.
In one of the parks of San Jose. Cal.,
there are benches which cannot bs oc
cupied until a coin has been dropped
in a slot provided for the purpose.
A Pennsylvania college maintains a
bituminous coal mine for instruction
In practical as well as theoretical min
ing, Including rescue work.
In 19 years American farms have
yielded produce valued at $106,000 000 -
222..J)?®. 1912 yleM u valued at $9,
<32,000,000.
Mlsa Emma Chater and Mrs. B. W.
Hathaway have completed 40 years of
service In Natick, Mass., as school
teachers.
The combined area of the corn fields
of the United States Is nearly equal to
the area of France or Germany.
^Th? receipts for passenger service of
the Swiss federal railways for 1911
were a trifle over $16,060,000.
The annual rain and snowfall of the
United States Is estimated to weigh
<.000,000,000,000 tons.
The restaurant privilege In the Grand
Central station, Now York, In valued
St 81,000,000 a year,
Nebraska has a publicity committee,
cne business of which Is to advertise
the state.
North Dakota farmers are turning
from wheat to cattle raising. It pays
better.
H. B. Lovelace Is walking from San
Francisco to Bangor, Me., about 3,000
miles.
The Catholic university, Washing
ton, now has Investments totalling $i,
888,350.
There are 1760.972,246 in national
bank notes in circulation in the United
Sltates.
Books will not become yellow if the
pages be exposed to sunlight occasion
Philadelphia is giving service badges
to^aU policemen serving live or more
The will of R. C. McQulllen. of Bos
ton, gives his widow $21,000 if she re
marries.
One New Tork office building has
more than enough electric wires to
■reach across the continent.
The St. Louis school board may low -
er the school age from 6 to 5 years
Wilmington, Del., may shortly add
sue or more women t<5 jolice fore*.
LEGISLATURE DOINGS
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4 February 12. 4
4 Senate tables a resolution to 4
,4 give each senator on roll call 4
4 privilege of calling up any bill 4
4 for consideration, thus nullifying 4
4 standing committees. 4
4 Solons have picture taken 4
4 standing In frQpt of $40,000 Lin- 4
4 coin monument. 4
4 February 13. 4
4 Omaha water board bill passes 4
4 senate. 4
4 Board of control matter up. 4
4 Winnebago Indians want 4
4 Shumway bill to become law. 4
4 Repeal of mortgage exemption 4
4 up In new form. 4
4 Senate and house bills ines- 4
4 saged to respective bodies. 4
4 Np one cftught by falling 4
4 plaster. 4
4 February 14. 4
4 Constiutlonal amendment for 4
4 Intermediate court. 4
4 Petitions roll In against 4
4 “corporation baiting.” 4
4 Board of control measure de- 4
4 velops “politics.” 4
4 Constitutional amendment to 4
4 raise salary of governor and 4
4 limit tenure to one term of four 4
4 years. 4
4 February 15. 4
4 University question made a 4
4 special order for February 27. 4
4 State aid for weak rural 4
4 schools. 4
4 Making it harder for boot- 4
4 legger to do business. 4
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UNIVERSITY QUESTION
MADE SPECIAL ORDER
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17.—The house
has set aside February 27 as the day
when It will debate the university
question. Two bills are pending, one
levying a 1 mill tax to raise a fund of
22.600.000 to bodily transplant the
university from the downtown to the
farm campus and one making a sim
ilar levy for the purchase of property
east of the downtown campus and
clearing It as necessity for use arises.
Apparently a majority of the legislature
thinks that removal Is a necessity In
order to stimulate the growth of the
agricultural college, which now has only
157 students, because they must divide
their time between the two Institu
tions to their great Inconvenience, but
they lack the nerve to start a move
that will cost the state 23,000,000 or
24.000,000 before It Is completed.
The senate killed the Grace bill that
would permit newspaper publishers to
collect from subscribers who take their
papers out of the postofflces after their
subscriptions have expired. Grace did
not object, having found that the news
papers were content with the present
law. A similar fate met Marshall's bill,
which provided that only noninterest
bearing deposits should remain undqr
the protection of the guaranty law.
GRANTS STATE AID TO
WEAK RURAL SCHOOLS
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17.—An important
measure to the rural school districts
of the state Is the Bushee bill passed
yesterday by the senate. This pro
vides that stato aid shall be given to
those rural districts where finances
are scarce, so that they may hold
school seven months in a year. The
present law gives aid only for five
months a year. It will take about
2160.000 for this purpose for the bi
ennium. It will affect 480 schools
scattered over about 34 counties. In
order to provide against prudent prop
erty owners cutting up their districts
so as to share In this distribution, It
Is provided that at least 12 sections of
land must be Included In the district.
BILL TO TAX PEDDLERS
KILLED IN COMMITTEE
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17.—The house
committee on Judiciary has recom
mended for Indefinite postponement a
bill asked for by the retailers' associa
tion which levies a practically pro
hibitive tax upon peddlers who travel
by vehicle through thq country dis
tricts selling the wares of manufac
turers and Jobbers. It also favors kill
ing a bill, by Anderson, to limit the
number of saloons to one for every 1,
000 inhabitants, on the ground that the
liquor issue ought to be kept out of
the deliberations of the legislature. It
has placed on general file, tvlthout rec
ommendation, a bill abolishing capital
punishment and one substituting elec
trocution for hanging for condemned
criminals.
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HAZARD OF BOOTLEGGING
ENLARGED BY THE SENATE
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17.—If the bill
passed by the senate yesterday becomes
a law, bootlegging will be a more haz
ardous occupation in Nebraska than
ever. At present the heaviest sentence
that can be inflicted upon the illegal
trafficker In booze is 30 days in Jail.
The senate bill makes it three months.
Senator Kohl, of Wayne, and three
members from Douglas county were
the only ones to oppose It.
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COUNTY STEWARD TO
BOARD PRISONERS
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17.—A steward
to be employed by boards of county
commissioners at a salary of 360 a
month to supervise the feeding of
prisoners In county Jails la the sub
stance of the provision in a bill In
troduced In the legislature by Senator
Dodge, of Douglas county.
The bill Is one of several introduced
by members of the Douglus county
delegation following the supreme
court’s decision declaring the unconsti
tutional^’ of the 1907 amendment pro
viding for feeding by contract on com
petitive bids.
That the Dodge bill Is the solution
of the Jail feeding problem for all
time to come is the consensus of opin
ion of board members In Douglas
county. All of them profess to be op
posed to the system heretofore In
force—feeding by contract with out
siders, and to the Idea of the sheriff
feeding the prisoners.
Petitions are piling into the legisla
ture from out In the state protesting
against the appropriaton of 32,500,000,
or any other sum. for the removal of
the state unversity to the farm campus.
The city council oT Lincoln has offered
a guarantee to the board of regents
that the extension of the downtown
campus. In order to take in six more
blocks of ground to the east of the
present location, will not cost to exceed
3200.000, or less than a tenth of the
removal cost. The general opinion is
that this practically ends the agitation
for removal. Four members of the
HOUSE HAS NEW BILL
ON MORTGAGE EXEMPTION
Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 17.—'The senate
has already killed a bill repealing the
mortgage exemption tax. but the house
pasr.ed a similar one and again put it
UP to the senate. The principal ob
jection to it Is that as mortgages
owned by persons outside the state are
not taxuble In the state, the result Is
to compel local money lenders to eith
er loan outside Nebraska or evade the
taxation law by devious means.
The house and senate have ulso de
1 elded to differ about the bill to In
board of regents and the chancellor say
that this will give the needed room, al
though the Ideal location Is at the
farm.
Wants Better Hours.
Simon, of Douglas, wants the house
to adopt better hours. He has a reso
lution that will be called up for action
today which binds it to meet at 9
o’clock In the morning and 1:30 in the
afternoon. The resolution recites that
more than a third of the session has
gone, with little done in the way of
bills passed, and that as the people are
looking for the enactment of much sal
utary legislation, more time must be
put In.
The contest between four different
districts over the location of the pro
posed reformatory for youthful offend
ers has proved so brisk that as a way
out of It and In order to get the bill
through both houses, the location will
be left to the board of control.
The proposition to order a three
quarter mill levy made, the proceeds to
go to the support of the normal schools
of the state, Is meeting with a great
deal of opposition, and the chances of
success are problematical. The Wayne
normal Is one of the objects of attack,
and the sentiment most generally heard
Is that the state has now more nor
mals than she needs.
EXPRESS COMPANIES PLEAD
FOR DEFEAT OF SMITH BILL
Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. IT.—Representa
tives of the express companies operat
ing in this state appeared before the
House committee on revenue and tax
ation this morning in opposition to the
.Smith bill providing for a 2 per cent
tax for local purposes on the gross
revenues of the companies
The measure has already passed the
senate and the attitude of the house
committee, as shown at the hearings,
indicates that it will be recommended
for passage in the house.
Before the house committee on tele
graph. telephone and electric compa
nies, representatives of the telephone
companies opposed the Fries bill re
quiring the construction of stub lines
to connect existing exchanges v/hen a
given number of patrons agree 1o sub
scribe for the service.
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SENATE BILLS SENT
OVER TO THE HOUSE
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17.—The senate
has passed the following bills and sent
them to the house for approval: Per
mitting payment of $3 poll tax In mon
ey or labor; providing that judgments
shall not be set aside for error unless
substantial rights are affected; consti
tutional amendment requiring foreign
born citizens to complete naturaliza
tion within five years in order to vote;
placing the approval of plans for school
buildings in the state superintendent;
providing an additional examiner for
county treasurers and requiring year
ly examinations; to require stamping
of cloth after January 1. 1914, to show
percentage of materials therein; in
creasing witness fees In district courts
from $2 to |3 a day; ratifying consti
tutional amendment for direct vote for
•United States senators: empowering
county boards to pay $10 a month to
parents of delinquent child for support
of such child at home; requiring fish
screens to be placed over the mouth of
Irrigation canals, and giving state
entomologist power to destroy nursery
stock, groves and trees to kill off para
sites and to eradicate plant disease at
owner’s expense.
House Bills Passed.
The house passed the following bills
and sent them to the senate: Repeal
ing the present law which exempts
real estate mortgages from taxation:
permitting the posting of notices of
sewer bond election In towns where
there are no newspapers published:
providing that cities between 2,000 and
5,000 inhabitants may adopt the com
mission form of government, the pres
ent law providing only for cities having
a population in excess of 5,000 inhab
itants, and giving the state surveyor
power to compel testimony in boundary
disputes.
PIECEMEAL AMENDMENT
TO THE CONSTITUTION
Lincoln, Neb., Peb. 17.—The house
will debate the question on February
20 whether or not a constitutional con
vention ought to be called. During the
discussion yesterday over the proposi
tion to Increase the salaries of every
officer In the executive department,
which requires an amendment to the
constitution, a number of members ex
pressed the opinion that final action
ought to be deferred until after the
house had decided If It should order a
convention. The Idea advanced was
that there are a number of things about
the constitution that should be
amended, in order to bring it down to
date, and as amendment piecemeal was
hazardous and uncertain and took too
long a convention should be called to
rewrite it. The house, however, fixed
up the pending amendment to suit it
self and then recommended the bill for
passage.
As finally decided upon no one In the
executive department of the govern
ment gets increases in salaries save
the governor, who is boosted from *2,
S00 a year to *5,000, and the attorney
general, who gets an increase from 52.
000 a year to *3,500. By an oversight
the house left in the newly created con
stitutional office of Insurance commis
sioner without anv salary being pro
vided. An amendment that bore no
name was sent up to the clerk's desk
cut off salary for all the others save
the two named, and suggested the
pleasure of serving the state would bo
enough pay. It was ruled out.
The senate this morning passed three
bills. One Increases the fees that sher
iffs may hereafter charge for services
from 5 to 10 cent3 per mile, due to
the use of the auto. Another provides
for the submission of a constitutional
amendment creating an Intermediate
court between the district and supreme
courts, which will have final Jurisdic
tion In specified cases, and another
providing that the burden of proof is
upon common carriers In suits for per
sonal damages
Governor Eberhart. of Minnesota,
spoke to both the house and senate
this morning, discussing legislation for
the prevention of disease, such as tu
berculosis. Aside from listening to the
governor, the house did little.
Governor Morehead this morning
wired the sheriff of Hall countv that
he had been Informed a prize fight was
to be pulled off there and Instructed
him that the law must be enforced.
The highest wireless tower in the
world is located at Nauen, Germany.
It is nearly 1,000 feet high and it is
expected that the company can send
messages as far as from Berlin to Chi
cago.
Hunger makes the brain heavier.
crease the mileage of sheriffs from 5
to 10 cents. The senate has recom
mended it for passage, while the house
is against it. The sheriffs' association
has been doing a lot of work on behalf
of the bill. The officers claim that
since the automobile has come into
use by during thieves it is necessary
for them to employ the same means of
pursuit, and besides, they can do more
work with a machine. The house is
willing to reimburse them for all neces
sary expense in running down crimin
als, but objects to paying them 10 cents
a mile for serving civil processes be
cause of the increased cost to litigants
DIES AND STACKS OF
COUNTERFEIT SILVER
WILL SENDMEN OVER
Machinery for Making Phony
Money Pound Along With
| - Bogus Dollars.
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Omaha, Neb., Feb. 17.—In the bot
tom of a small, black trunk In the of
fice of the United States marshal in
the federal building, neatly wrapped in
20 piles of $20, counterfeit, is the evi
dence which may send George Nichol
son and his three companions to the
federal penitentiary.
An invoice of the property seized by
Deputy Marshal H. P. Haze Thursday
afternoon, includes two sets of dies,
407 counterfeit dollars, a polishing ma
chine and a number of small tools. The
dies are made of metal, only a small
opening being left at the top, in which
to pour the metal. This gives the
counterfeit dollar a single flaw, which
can be readily detected. The milled
edge of the dollar Is smooth at the
point where the metal is poured into
the mold.
A number of letters in the trunk in
dicate that Nicholson, believed by the
officials to be the leader of the gang,
once lived at Casper, Wyo, and later at
Hecla, Neb., where it is said that he
owned a farm. When a deputy placed
the handcuffs on Nicholson’s wrist the
prisoner said that he had used the
bracelets before, but was always on
the other side of the game. He said
that he had once been elected sheriff in
Wyoming.
The counterfeit money was neatly
wrapped artd arranged to fill a large
tobacco box nearly a foot square. The
lid to the box was fastened with a
number of long screws, while the dies
were wrapped in pieces of newspaper
and thrown into another corner of the
trunk. Besides the ordinary lock on
the trunk, there was a hasp securely
fastened with a padlock. It is believed
that Deputy Haze will receive a re
ward for the recovery of the dies, al
thought the amount of the reward could
not be determined today.
ATTORNEYS EXONERATED
BY BAR ASSOCIATION
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17.—Whether or
not Frank Dolezal and F. W. Button,
Fremont attorneys, tampered with a
supreme court exhibit in the Rogers
murder case is a question the state
bar commission has Just decided in
their favor. Judge Sullivan, of Omaha,
and Judge Albert, of Columbus, ap
peared yesterday afternoon before the
commission and argued the relevancy
and force of the testimony recently
taken at Fremont, J. C. Cook, former
county attorney and complainant, ap
pearing against them.
Cook's charge was that Dolezal and
Button were responsible for the ap
pearance on the inside of a suitcase of
fered in evidence of a substance re
sembling blood in order that they might
argue the child’s body was brought
in it from Omaha, and that no murder
was committed by Rogers, who was in
Fremont at the time. The attorneys
denied that they tampered with the
suitcase and aver that it has not, in
fact, been changed in condition. The
action was in disbarment.
SCHOLASTIC DECREES
BY NEBRASKA UNIVERSITY
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 17.—Thirty-three
degrees were conferred at the mid
winter commencement of the Nebraska
State university last evening. Five oi
these were master’s degrees won by
graduate students, three were to young
women teachers, two to civil engineers,
on to an electrical engineer, three to
young, men in technical agriculture,
and one in forestry. Two graduated
from the law college. Fourteen of tha
graduates were from the college of arts
and sciences, eight being young men
and six young women.
Dean Stout, of the engineering de
partment, delivered the address on
"The Civic Engineer.”
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YOUNG MISS JOHNSON
CONTINUES ADVENTURES
Fremont, Neb., Feb. 17.—Gertie John
son, aged 17, who eloped to Council
Bluffs yesterday with R. N. Snodgress,
aged 21, falling to obtain a marriage li
cense because the written consent of
both parents was in the same hand
writing, indicating a fraud, ran awal7
from Omaha with a 16-year-old cam
panion a few months ago and after
baffling a police search for several days
telephoned her mother that she was
safe and sound in an Omaha hotel.
Miss Johnson is an unusually attrac
tive girl.
INSTANTLY KILLED
UNDER AUTOMOBILE
Fremont, Neb., Feb. 17.—L. B. Hast
ings, a real estate man, driving to
David City in an automobile last night
with a party of three, turned turtle
and Hastings was instantly killed. The
accident was near Weston, five miles
from Wahoo. Hastings came to Fre
mont from Osceola. He has britherf
inOmaha and Osceola. Other mem
bers of the party escaped. Hastings
was 40 years old and has a wife and
children living in Fremont.
HIS LOVE SPURNED HE
KILLS WOMAN AND SELF
Chicago, Feb. 17.—Because Mrs. Sadie
Kohlers, aged 25 years, refused to
marry him, William Jansen, 22 years
old, slashed her with a razor and then
fired a bullet into his head. Both are
believed to be fatally wounded.
Mrs. Kohler’s husband is a consump
tive now at Denver for his health.
BANKER HENRY WILL
FIGHT CONTEMPT CASE
New York, Feb. 17.—George Carr
Henry, of the banking firm of W. Sal
omoon & Co., of this city, who was in
dicted for. contempt by the federal
grand Jury in Washington, D. C., for
refusing to answer questions put to him
by the Pujo committee in the money
trust investigation, surrendered today
to United States Marshal Henkel. He
said he would fight removal proceed
ings. He was released under $2,000
bail for a hearing next Thursday.
THREEl/IORE dynamite
PRISONERS GIVE BOND
Chicago, Feb. 17.—Bonds for the re
lease of Richard H. Houlihan and Will
iam Shupe, of Chicago, and Paul Mor
rin, of St. Louis, labor leaders recently
convicted at Indianapolis of conspiracy
and the alleged illegal transportation of
explosives were approved today by
Judge Francis E. Baker, of the United
States circuit court of appeals. Mor
rin’s bonds were for $30,000; Houli
han's, $20,000, and Shupes, $10,000. The
three will b» released front the Leaven
worth penitentiary _tomorrow.
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES j
GRAND ISLAND—The local lodge of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen has
passed a resolution condemning the action
of the Commercial club in passing ad
versely on their 50-car length bill, and also
censured L. M. Talmage of the First Na
tional bank, for Introducing the resolution
The lodge appointed a committee to Inves
tigate co-operative jtores and draw plans
for the establishment of one Tiere'
ivuiAKrir,i—it. v. uiarK, tne newiy ap
pointed state Industrial school superin
tendent, who was to succeed C. B. Mgnuel,
formally took charge of that Institution
Saturday. No changes in officers are to be
made until Mr. Clark deems them neces
sary. One recommendation has been sent
to the governor for ratification and that
is the name of Dr. C. L. Bennett for
school health officer.
FREMONT—As an outgrowth of the
Sunday theater fight, R. M. Livingston,
manager of the Best theater, who led the
fight for the Sunday performances, has
sold his interests and will leave Fremont.
He will locate in Grand Island. Living
ston formerly for several years managed
the Boston Bloomer Girls Baseball team.
He recently sold the girls to a resident of
Calhoun, Ky.
NICKERSON—John Senn was found In
an unconscious condition on the farm of
Henry Panning, near here. Mr. Senn had
been cutting trees on the place. In some
manner he had been knocked unconscious,
sustaining severe cuts on the head, and
his right leg was fractured. Neighbors
found him. He has been unable to ac
count foe the accident.
AMES—In a runaway yesterday, when
& team they were driving took fright at a
man on horseback, J. Hoppel and John
Hager were seriously injured. Mr. Hager
regained consciousness after lying for
several hours at the home of hla brother.
The victims of the accident were picked
up by Ed Hanse, who happened to be
passing in his automobile.
M'COOK—The name of the Omaha-Den
ver good roads association, was changed
to Omaha-Lineoln-Denver association at
the annual meeting held in this city yes
terday. The amendment to the constitu
tion came as the result of a resolution by
Secretary Whitten of the Lincoln Com
mercial club.
LINCOLN—The supreme court denied a
rehearing in the Ryan-Pivonka fire and
police case from South Omaha. This
means that these officials will be ejected
from office at once, as there is no further
chance for them to delay the matter. The
appointment of their successors will be
put up to the mayor of South Omaha.
LINCOLN—Athletic authorities of the
University of Nebraska announced the
resumption of athletic relations between
Nebraska and Iowa. Under the agree
ment entered into a two-year football con
tract has been signed, whereby Iowa will
play on Nebraska field next fall and a re
turn game will be played in Iowa in 1914.
STANTON—At the last meeting of the
city council of Stanton an amended gen
eral liquor ordinance was passed to bring
about a better observance of the laws.
An ordinance limiting the number of sa
loons in Stanton after the 1st day of May,
1913, to three, was also adopted.
WAUSA—There is such a scarcity of
houses in Wausa that from present indi
cations March 1 will see half a dozen
families out in the cold, figuratively speak
ing. Farmers are buying residences and
moving in and every deal of thi3 kind
means one more renter in search of a
home.
FAIRBURY-Mrs. W. F. Wurth was
granted a divorce from her husband, Wm.
F. Wurth, on ground of physical cruelty.
Dr. and Mrs. Wurth were married by the
county Jqdge in Lincoln, September 13,
1904, and have lived here since. Both are
osteopath physicians.
M'COOK—The Nebraska state checker
association convened here yesterday for
their annual contest which will decide the
championship. The finals will be reached
today. Twenty-five of the expert playeus
of the state are In attendance.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Resolutlons of
the lower branch of the Nebraska legisla
ture to place members of the Nebraska
territorial militia on a pensionable status
were formally approved by the Nebraska
congressional delegation.
FREMONT—The Fremont Country club
is holding its annual fair at Masonic hall
this week and the function has been draw
ing big crowds. The proceeds will be used
in making improvements at the club
house.
HOOPER—Hooper has launched a move
for organizing a new band and it is pro
posed to employ an instructor. Hooper
formerly had one of the best bands in the
state, but It disbanded three years ago.
OXFORD—At a special election held
here yesterday for the purpose of voting
bonds to install a municipal electric light
ing plant, the proposition carried by a vote
of more than 2 to 1.
MADISON—Owen Wells, furniture deal
er, slipped and itell on the sidewalk at his
home resulting in a compound fracture of
the bone below the knee.
LINCOLN—George Mayor of North
Loup was appointed deputy oil inspector
by Governor Morehead.
f News Brevities j
KANSAS CITY—A Jury in the fed
eral court at Kansas Cltyv Karti, re
turned a verdict in the libel suit of Mrs.
Carrie E. Cope, of Topeka, granting her
damages in the amount of $1 against
Bishop David H. Moore, of Cincinnati,
but deciding she was entitled to no
damages from Mrs. George O. Robin
son, of Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Cope sued
for $50,000. The alleged libel grew out
of a famous Kansas church contro
versy.
BOSTON—The wearing by women
of hatpins that are a menace to the
traveling public must be prohibited in
this state. This is the conclusion of
a legislative committee which recom
mended the adoption of a law making
it a misdemeanor for woman to permit
the pointed end of a pin to protrude
more than half an inch from the side
of her hat, unless the end is covered
with some device rendering it harm
less.
WASHINGTON—The House bill provid
ing protection of the water supply of
Colorado Springs and Manltou. Colo., was
passed by the Senate. The bill set aside
from location and entry certain lands in
the Pike National forest in El Paso and
Teller counties, Colorado, for reserve
water supply purposes.
WASHINGTON—John Burroughs and
Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalists, are
in Washington to urge congress to enact
legislation designed to preserve bird life
in the United States. A bill which would
extend national protection to migratory
birds all over the country and provide for
closed game seasons is now before both
houses of congress.
WASHINGTON—The so-called "en
larged homestead bill” previously passed
by the House was also passed by the Sen
ate. This bill establishes the right of a
homesteader on western dry lands to se
cure a 320-acre farm through a residence
of five years
PACIFIC DISSOLUTION
EFFECTED AND HEADS
OF SYSTEM AT HOME
President Munroe Bkck From
Egg Unscrambling to Union
Pacific Lines.
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Omaha. Neb., Feb. 15.—President
Mohler, Vice President Munroe and
Passenger Traffic Manager Fort, of the
Union Pacific, have returned from New
York, where for more than a month,
in conjunction with Southern Pacific
officials and the executive committee
of the Harrlman roads, they had been
working out the dissolution of the
merger of the two Pacific lines, as con
templated by the order of the courts.
Relative as to what was accomp
lished at the numerous conferences
held between the railroad officials and
with Attorney General Wickersham,
President Mohler said:
“Everything that was done was given
full publicity by the press reports sent
out from New York and Washington.
There are still many matters of detail
to be worked out, but I am unable to
say just what they will be. or how they
will be handled. Those are things for
consideration as they come along in the
future.”
Branches to Remain Same.
Relative to the Union Pacific, it and
.ts branches will remain the same as
now and be operated the same and
without any change in the personnel
of the forces as far as Is known at this
time. The Central Pacific from Ogden
west to Oakland will be a separate cor
poration, but a member of the Union
Pacific family of roads, occupying a
position similar to that of the Oregon
Short Line. It will have its own presi
dent and its own officers all the way
down the line. These officers will han
dle the property Independent of the
Union Pacific, but with this road these
officers will maintain very friendly re
lations. '
Divorced From Southern Pacific.
The two roads will be completely di
vorced from the Southern Pacific and
between the two roads, the sharpest
competition will exist, each working to
secure the lion’s share of business in
and out of California. Owned by dif
ferent stockholders and officered by
men who will have no Joint interests
it is said that the competition will be
as spirited as between any two roads
operating into Omaha.
President Mohler, although he does
not make the statement, will continue
as president of the Union Pacific, and
there is nothing to indicate that there
will be any changes in the official fam
ily. These men will have authority
over the same lines that were under
their control prior to the dissolution of
the merger—no more and no less.
President Sproule having gone with
the Southern Pacific and the old Cen
tra) having become a road independent
of any other, naturally left this line
without an executive head. To bring
It into the Union Pacific family it was
necessary that there should be an ex
ecutive officer who would have full au
thority to act, consequently W. F. Her
rin, who had been with the company
for years, was elected to the presi
dency, but perhaps this is only tem
porary.
Dissolution Accomplished.
Vice President Munroe views the dis
solution of the merger as having been
completely accomplished, with the ex
ception of working out the details,
which will be gradually brought about.
As between the old Central and the
Southern Pacific, at the New York con
ference it was something of a game of
give and take.
The Southern Pacific takes the
Shasta route running north through
California and up to Portland. It also
secures trackage onto the Oakland
mole but not exclusive, by any means.
In order that it may be able to get
the grains, cattle and products of cen
tral and southern California up onto
the Union Pacific and to an eastern
market, it retains control of some of
the branches running south from Oak
land.
In this part of California the Central
and the Southern Pacific score some
points, for they secure one line running
down through the San Joaquin valley
and a line in the eastern part of the
state running from Mojhave, north.
CIGAR HYPOTHESIS OF
EXPLOSION DISPUTED
Fremont, Neb., Feb. 15.—At the In
quest over the body of Joseph Speil
man, a former Sioux City man, who
was killed by the Fremont Gas com
pany tank explosion, developed effort
on the part of the company officials to
show that the probable cause was a
cigar in the mouth of Mr. Spellman,
when he threw open the door of the
meter house. W. H. Merritt, manager
of the plant, and C. W. Gleasson tes
tified that Mr. Spellman was smoking
when he left the office. A teamster, J.
C. Peterson, who was one of the last
witnesses, balked the progress of this
hypothesis to some extent, by declaring
that he had talked with Spellman while
the latter was on his way to the meter
house and that he was positive Spell
man had no cigar. Attorneys for the
company on cross examination of Pe
terson drew a statement from him that
he was positive Spellman wore a pair
of mittens on his hands. Other wit
nesses, including the undertakers, de
clared that Spellman wore gloves. The
jury found accidental death, without
fixing the blame.
M’MAHON SISTERS
GET REAPPOINTMENT
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 15.—Governor
Morehead has given the plum tree an
other shake. He has appointed Lydia
McMahon as superintenednt, and her
sister, Minnie McMahon, as matron of
the girls’ ihdustrlal school -at Geneva.
Both of the women have served the
state in those capacities for years, and
their efficiency has made It impossible
for any of the recent governors to use
their positions to reward workers. The
same is true of Leah Ward and her
sister, Sadie, at the Milford home for
women who have gone astray. Both
of them were also reappointed by Gov
ernor Morehead. Dr. Frank E. Gordon,
formerly of Seward, but now of Davey.
was named for physician at the Grand
Island soldiers’ home.
SHOEMAKER WOMAN
LET OFF WITH FINE
Neligh, Neb., Feb. 15.—The case of
Mrs. Mary Shoemaker, who was
charged with the violation of the citv
ordinance in using vile and profane
language on the streets of Neligh and
also with an assault on the person of
Officer Jackson, was tried in police
court yesterday.
The court found Mrs. Shoemaker
guilty on both counts as charged and
Imposed a fine of J40 and costs. The
defendant's counsel claimed that the
case would be appealed to the district
court. Mrs. Shoemaker was released
on her own recognizance.