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Sydney Smith once made an elabor
ate calculation as to the way people
apportion their time In the course of
a Ion* life. When he was 72 he re
marked to a girl ho met: "Do you ever
reflect bow you pass your UteT If you
Uv» to be my age. which I hope you
may, your life Is passed In the fol
lowing manner: An hour a day Is
three years. This makes 27 years
Bleeping; nine years dressing; nine
years walking; nine years at table;
alz years playing wtth children; nine
years walking, drawing and visiting;
six years shopping, and three years
quarreling.”
Among the curiosities of the new
palace, Potsdam, Germany, Is a gene
alogical tree showing the name of King
David engrossed at the root of It, with
that of the kaiser at the top, the
descent being traced through his moth
er’s family. According to this geneal
ogy, the reigning house of Great Brit
ain Is descended from David through
the eldest daughter of Zedeklah, who
fled to Ireland in charge of Prophet
Jeremiah and married Heremon, king
of Ulster.
The original wild west show, says a
writer In the Dramatic Mirror, was
produced back In the '70a In the form
of a play by Ned Buntline called "The
Scouts of tlie Plalna” Almost the sole
surviving scout, Buffalo Bill, appeared
In this early play; but Its start was
Wild Bill, a prince of melodrama, says
his enthusiastic eulogist, compared
with whom Homer’s heroes were mere
ly ruffians.
Staveley Hill, M. P., while at Bush
bury, paid a peppercorn as rent. The
berry was placed In an envelope and
handed to Staveley Hill during a visit
he paid to the old village school. In
handing over the receipt he remarked
that he was probably the only man In
England who received such a payment
In kind._
A Bavarian newspaper estimates,
after a careful review of the wars of
the last 60 years, that over 2,000.000
men have been killed In battle. Two
conflicts which stand out above all
others In the number of lives lost are
tbe Crimean war. which Is held re
sponsible for 760,000 Uvea, and the
American civil war, 800,000.
Statistics of "aocldents In the air"
for 1912 show that one aviator In 62
was killed during the year. The United
States heads the list with 48 deaths
out of 100 aviators, Germany 64 deaths
among 1,600 pilots, and France 73
deaths among 3,000 "filers.” The total
number of aviators Is given at 6,300.
Not many years ago Russia was a
strong rival of the United States In
the production of petroleum. Now the
Russian empire yields only about 68
per cent as much oil as California
alone, and not much more than Okla
homa.
What most attracted the attention
of a party of distinguished Europeans
on an American tour was the absence
of fences and hedges and the univer
sal garden surrounding the suburban
homes.
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*' French people are learning to eat
bananas In great quantities, although
prior to 1908 they hardly' Knew what
the fruit was. The Canary banana,
which is small, is especially desired.
In order to determine the structural
quality of glass It Is necessary to cor
rode the surface with hydroflourlc acid
and thus reveal the interior .to Inspec
tion.
A new hotel being erected In Wash
ington will be operated very, largely
by the use of the telautograph, which
makes a record of every order or
transaction.
A four-mile tunnel through the Sel
kirks, built at a cost of *12,000,000, will
r eliminate the delays caused by land
slides experienced by a Canadian rail
road.
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The cost of glass would be much
cheaper if It were not for the great
amount of breakage In the manufac
ture and transportation of the article.
Leroy Drake, a blind New Yorker,
has invented a telephone recorder
which will, he says, write messages In
case the party called Is absent.
A method of hardening gold and sil
ver by Introducing a small amount of
titanium as an alloy has been patented
by a New York corporation.
The Ctneee official newspaper, which
has been published for 1,600 years, has
been put out of business by the new
administration.
Bolling a piece of glassware In a
weak solution of salt In water, and al
lowing It to cool gradually will make
it less brittle.
In France M.24 per cent of the pop
ulation Is engaged In farming, while
In England the percentage Is 6.68.
Enlargement of the arteries Is now
cured by the use of a glass tube In
serted In the affected part.
A Munich street car official mav
muzzle the hatpin of a female passen
ger if he regards It as dangerous.
Charlottenburg, Germany, has a four
story hotel for horses which will ac
commodate 2,000 animals.
Alex Rubushe, a Kaffir, aged 19
oomes from Africa to conduct religious
meetings In Xenia, Ohio.
Pressed steel is largely taking the
place of forgings In the construction
of automobile engines.
. RtehSJPd Fritz, of Topeka. Kan., has
dug 7,000 graves In 18 years, wearing
out 11 shovels.
. The color of a brick Is largely con
trolled by tbe temperature at which It
Is baked.
There are two motor cars to one
horse drawn vehicle on Massachusetts
roads.
Mias Elizabeth Harris, of Boston, is
oonductlng a burglary lnsurunce of
loa
At a Turkish bath In Bagdad the \va
Is drawn by a bullock on the roof,
Philadelphia may send a miniature'
replica of Independence hall to San
Francisco’s 1916 exposition.
J. Plerpont Morgan has given *200.
•00 for a library building for Trinity
college, Hartford, Conn.
Northern Pacific railroad has ordered
*,000 cars especially for handling fruit
Coot, (3,600,000.
Capt. C. B. Knapp has resigned after
40 years of service In Cleveland's fire
department.
H. T. Dickinson, uge 14. New York,
has fallen heir to }4,000,000.
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LEGISLATURE DOINGS
Lincoln, Neb., March 3.—No general
election will be held in Nebraska this
fall, K the senate will be kind enough
to pass the bill which the house adopt
ed yesterday. The bill is a novel one,
in that )t is an attempt to supply by
statute a defect in the constitutional
amendment providing for biennial elec
tions. The amendment was drawn by
a layman and as adopted left It very
Indefinite whether any election should
be held this year or not. The attorney
general threw up his hands when
asked to figure It out and the supreme
court judges declined to express an
opinion. The code commission came
to the rescue by drawing a bill which
definitely sets the date of the next
general state election for 1914. This
will be a welcome announcement to a
great many officeholders in the state,
whose terms will be automatically ex
tended for another year, Including one
supreme judge, two regents of the state
university and a long list of county
officers.
MEASURES FAVORABLE
TO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
Lincoln, Neb., March 3.—The public
ownership Idea seems to be a popular
one In both branches of the legislature.
The house has passed a bill allowing
counties to erect and operate telephone
systems, and now the senate comeB
along with two bills by Wolz. One
of them provides that any city may
levy 15 mills for the purpose or build
ing a heating or lighting plant, and
the other giving cities of 5,000 or over
the power to place public utilities In
charge of a city board of control.
The senate also passed a bill by
Dodge which provides that when a
prisoner Is discharged from the state
penitentiary he shall be given a ‘‘de
cent.’’ suit of clothes, an overcoat. 110
In cash and a btble. It also passed the
Dodge bill which permits the organi
zation of companies to build mauso
leums in the state. The constitutional
amendment creating an Intermediate
court between the district and supreme
courts may be recalled. Two members
who voted for It yesterday consented
to do so only to prevent a call of the
house that could not be raised until
members out of the city could be
brought back, but say they will move
a reconsideration later.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
NOW AS DEAD AS A DOOR NAIL
Lincoln, Neb., March 3.—The defeat
of the bill submitting a constitutional
amendment calling a convention to
rewrite the constitution, In the house
yesterday, was one of the rare oc
casions on which that body has agreed
with the senate. But It was a narrow
escape and due to the fact that the
senate, after once voting In favor of
It, changed its mind. The most potent
argument used in the house debate
was that It was all a scheme of the
lawyers to get a chance to fix the con
stitution to their liking. Inasmuch as
they would all be candidates and many
of them would be elected. The house
members, some of them, said the law
yers were not In touch with many of
the progressive ideas of the age, and
that the safest way to amend the con
stitution was to let the people change
It whenever thoy wished, by the ways
now open to them. The principal ar
gument urged In its favor was that
the people ought to have a chance to
vote on the proposition whether or not
they want a constitutional convention
called.
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PROVIDING A TAX FOR
EXTEN8ION OF CAMPUS
Lincoln, Neb., March 3.—The McKIs
slck bill, levying a half mill for the
purchase of additional ground adjoin
ing the downtown campus of the state
university passed the house yesterday
afternoon by a vote of 77 to 10. The
decisive vote is believed by opponents
of university removal to settle the
proposition, but they have yet to con
vince the senators that they erred in
voting, 21 to 9, for removal. It is
claimed that 14 of the senators have
agreed to vote for university extension,
but three more votes are necessary to
get a majority.
President Allen, of the hoard of re
gents of the university, has issued a
call for a special meeting on Monday.
The object is to line up the board
behind the extension program. The
board is on record as being In favor of
removal, but also stated that if *2,
500,000 were not appropriated for that
purpose It preferred extension. Some
doubt is expressed as to whether Re
gents Coupland and Haller, who have
been leading the fight for removal,
will agree to lie down, although the
other four.^who were against it two
years ago, gft\e In to them this year.
SENATE’S BATTLE AX
PUTS FIVE TO SLEEP
Lincoln, Neb., March 3.—Five bills
were put to sleep by the senate yes
terday. One was upon motion of its
author. It was to require the supreme
court to sit in two divisions to hear
cases In the hope of exploiting hear
ings. The court has already made such
a division of its work. One provided
an eight-hour day for all persons em
ployed by the state or by cities with
in the state. Another was a bill to do
away with the tiling of demurrers in
court, a prolific source of delay. A de
murrer confesses, for the sake of ar
gument. that the cause of action sets
up the true state of facts, but that
the true state of facts shows no cause
of action exists. Most of the lawyers
in the senate voted to kill the bill.
Another permitted trust companies to
receive deposits and limited the inter
est they might pay at 6 per cent. The
other one provided that the limitation
upon the Indebtedness of corporations,
that it should not exceed two-thirds
of the capital stock, should not ap
ply to corporations under control of
the state railway commission.
CONVICT EMPLOYMENT
A RESULT OF MUTINY
Lincoln. March 3.—The bill passed by
tlie senate yesterday providing for the
employment of convicts on public
works ami roads in cities, towns and
country Is an Indirect result of the
outbreak at the prison last March. At
that time It was discovered that much
of the 111 feeling among the men was
caused by the confining character of
their work In the broom making shops
and the prison reformers have been
busying themselves securing legal con
sent for their employment outside This
bill expressly prohibits contract labor
save where the public Is the employer
and the state Is to receive 75 cents a
day, while the cost of feeding and
guarding the men iB upon the em
OPPONENTS OF SUFFRAGE
PREDICT BILL’S -.DEFEAT
Lincoln, Neb.. March 3.—The oppon
ents of woman suffrage are confident
that the constitutional amendment giv
ing the ballot to the women will not
be adopted. The vote in committee of
the whole in the house, while favorable
to the measure, was 15 short of the 60
required, and as there were but 17
members absent It is unlikely (hut
when it comes to a vote it can secure
that number. In llie senate, accord
ing to canvasses made by both sides,
ployer. It Is also provided that the
warden shall use the convicts In mak
ing clothing, shoes and other articles
of wear, and 26 cents a day earned by
the convict goes to the support of his
dependents. The convicts may be sent
over the state anywhere to work on
roads, and where they happen to be
possessors of a trade and the state can
make use of their skill It must be done,
but only on state work.
“POISON” IN RAISED
LETTERS ON BOTTLES
Lincoln, Neb., March 3.—Among the
measures recommended for passage In
the house yesterday afternoon was one
that provides that all poisonous com
pounds shall be enclosed In bottles on
which the word "poison’' has been
blown In raised letters. In this way
It will be a double protection to the
person whose eyesight Is bad and to
the one who is careless about looking
at labels. The moving cause for the
Introduction of the bill was that a
Cedar county man got up In the night
not long since and sought a closet shelf
whereon reposed a bottle of whisky
along with other glass receptacles. He
wanted the whisky, but In the dark
ness he got hold of a bottle of car
bolic acid and drank a part of its con
tents, with disastrous results. If this
bill becomes a law anyone following
his example may feel assured if he
can spell out with his fingers the word
poison In raised letters on the bottle
that he has the wrong kind of medi
cine.
UNIVERSITY SITE WILL
REMAIN UNDISTURBED
Lincoln, Neb,, March 3.—University
removal was the subject of a vigorous
debate in the house that occupied all
of yesterday afternoon. There are two
bills pending. One provides for a half
mill levy to provide for extension of
the downtown campus and the other
for a mill levy for the next six years,
which would raise the *2,500,000 the re
gents say Is necessary to remove the
university from the downtown campus
to the state farm three miles directly
east. The house voted down a prop
osition to cut the extension levy to a
fourth of a mill and also voted down
a motion to cut the removal levy to
half a mill, Then the members plunged
Into a discussion of which was the
proper policy, to keep the institution
where it is or to remove it.
The house, after a four hours’ debate,
by a vote of 68 to 29, indefinitely post
poned the bill to remove the university
site from the corporate limits of Lin
coln. The house then took up the bill
to extend the campus in the city and
by a vote of 80 >to 18 adopted the bill
providing for an appropriation of one
half of one mill on the assessed valua
tion of the state for a period of six
years for the purchase of abutting
property to the present university site.
The action of the house definitely
kills the removal bill but the purchase
of additional ground must be concurred
In by the senate to make it effective.
The house this morning killed the
constitutional convention bill. 27 voting
for and 59 against It. It also killed a
bill permitting a saloon near military
jjosts, especially designed to locate one
close to Fort Crook. The Sunday base
ball bill was taken up in -committee of
the whole, the word “sporting” cut out
as likely to defeat the object of the
bill, and the bill ordered engrossed for
third reading.
The general maintenance bill, carry
ing appropriations for upkeep of all
state Institutions save normals and
university was reported thi§ morning.
It calls for *2,689,000 for the biennum,
of *50.000 jpqjt tigin tw0 years ago.
Two hew InstHutiijilS. The tuberculosis
hospital and the Curtis School of Agri
culture, have been added since 1911.
The senate passed bills closing the
saloons on Memorial day, and a consti
tutional amendment creating an inter
preme tribunals.
The railway commission has asked
mediate court between district and su
the governor to submit four bills to aid
it in its work. One provides for the
appointment of an attorney and an
other for giving public notice of hear
ings. The others refer to control of
stock and bond issues.
ALL SAVE TREASURER
MUST PAY OWN BOND
Lincoln, Neb., March 3.—The house
went on record as being opposed to
paying the premiums on the surety
bonds taken out by minor state offi
cials. The statute permits the state
only to pay for the bond required of
the state treasurer, the premium on
which is almost equal to bis salary, but
following a late fashion other state of
ficials. deputies and stewards of insti
tutions to the number of 40, ordered
surety bonds and told the companies
to send the bills to the state.
There are pending before the bouse
claims committee demands for $1,800,
premiums on these bonds. The house
committee that Investigated the matter
recommended that these claims be re
jected. and this action was approved.
■Which means that the companies will
either have to take their loss or the
bonded officials pay the money them
selves.
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SENATE AGAINST HANGING;
HOUSE WOULD ELECTROCUTE
Lincoln, N- b., Mch. 3—By a vote of 50
to 30 the lower house of the legislature
went on record In favor of abolishing cap
ital punishment, recommending for pass
age the bill pending since the opening of
the session. Within a few minutes there
after the house also recommended for
passage a separate bill substituting elec
trocution for hanging. The abolition bill
will come up for third reading ahead of
that for electrocution, and if finally
passed the latter will probably be aban
doned.
The house also today gave favorable
recommendation to the bill establishing a
state plan of live Insurance, but refused
to grant relief to members of the supreme
court by passing a bill limiting the num
ber of opinions they shall write.
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MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES
NOT CONVERTABLE TO STOCK
Lincoln, Neb.. March 3.—The house
has put a quietus on a bill that hobs
up serenely every two years. It pro
vides that mutual life Insurance com
panies may reorganize under the stock
plan. The expenses of organizing and
building up these companies has been
paid by the policy holders, being in
cluded In their payments for protec
tion. Now that they have attained a
substantial growth and are fully or
ganized, the officers of some of them
want their character changed, and
"hen the stock books are opened they
will step in and buy control. The bill
was indefinitely postponed.
there is a majority against suffrage.
The measure has been backed by a
number of suffrage leaders in the hope
that by securing the consent of this
legislature to submit the amendment to
the voters, they will be relieved of the
cost and necessity of getting up a peti
tion with something like 25.000 names
upon it, us will he required under the
Initiative and referendum. If the legis
lature refuses, an organized effort will
he made to secure the needed signa
tures through th# vsrlous local
branc;—
ODD COMPLICATION
OF LAW REFERRING
TO JUDGES TENURE
Will Judge Reese, Aged 80, Get
an Extra Six Years
of Office?
Lincoln, Keb., March 1.—The question
as to whether or not there shall be an
election In 1913 must be decided by
the supreme court, but before that de
cision is made, a study of the pro
visions of the constitution may be in
teresting and profitable.
The constitutional amendment adopt
ed four or five years ago provided for
additional members of the supreme
court, and increased salaries. It pro
vided for the selection of a chief jus
tice and since that time Judge Reese
has been that chief Justice.
The constitutional amendment adopt
ed In 1912. familiarly called the “bien
nial election law,” provided for the
election of three Judges of the supreme
court in 1916, and three in 1918, each
to hold for six' years; and for the
election of a chief Justice in 1920 and
every six years thereafter.
“Provided that the member of the
supreme court whose term of office ex
pires in January, 1914, (Reese) shall be
chief justice of the supreme court dur
ing that time until the expiration of
his term of office."
This plainly pointed to the expira
tion of the term of Judge Reese in
January, 1914, and therefore for the
election of a successor In the fall of
1913,
It will be noted that the legislators
who framed the biennial election
amendment followed closely the word
ing of the constitution of 1875. a
section which has stood for 37 years.
But they made the amendment more
specific in one particular, where they
declared that there should be an elec
tion In 1913 for judicial officers.
Failure to hold an election in 1913
would continue Judge Reese in office
until 1920, without the trouble of being
re-elected. It is preposterous to sup
pose that the legislators intended it
that way, and it is Just as preposterous
to suppose that the supreme court will
wipe the figures "1913” out of the con
stitution. thus prolonging the term of
one of the court members to such an
unwarranted extent.
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AGAINST ALBERT WELTON
Lincoln, Neb., March 1.—Acting un
der orders from Attorney General
Wickersham, the indictments against
Albert Welton, a former banker ol
Greenwood, will be quashed in federal
court. Welton was recently tried on
a number of counts, but, largely due
to the fact that the penalty is a heavy
one. the jury disagreed. Welton was
accused of various irregularities, prac
tices forbidden by the banking law, in
which his own cash and that of the
bank and some of its depositors was
mixed. Nobody lost money by the va
rious deals, and the lack of criminality
caused the government to lose its case.
The cost of a retrial would have been
heavy, and as there was no chance of
a conviction, the attorney general
recommended a nolle prosequi. Welton
belongs to a wealthy Cass county
family, one member of which is a
millionaire.
DAY DREAMS DESTROY !
MENTAL EFFICIENCY
Lincoln, Neb., March 1.—A course in
day dreaming will be offered by the
state university. Technically It iE
known aw mental hygiene, and the ob
ject sought Is to teach the conserva
tion of nervous forces by scientific and
direct control of the mental and emo
tional life.
Professor Lucile Eaves, who is at the
head of the practical sociological de
partment, says that this training
would have the effect of giving the
student power to pass over a great
many of the emotional affairs that
come up in school and every day life,
and would reinforce higher ideals. The
day dreams, which she says so many
of the students engage In, are not
necessarily harmful, but they tend to
destroy mental efficiency. A course
in mental hygiene for the first year
students is recommended by her.
U. P. PASSENGER TRAIN IS
WRECKED NEAR MADISON
Norfolk, Neb., March 1—Union Pacific
passenger train No. 29, was wrecked
one and one-half miles north of Madi
son at 10 o'clock last night. One pas
senger coach was derailed and the pas
sengers were shaken up a trifle. No
one was injured although some of the
passengers complained of some slight
bruises this morning. A broken rail
caused the derailment.
The passengers were loaded Into the
baggage car and brought to the city.
The two passenger coaches were left
at the scene of the wreck all night.
The wrecker was out this morning
clearing the track. The engine and
baggage car passed safely over the
broken rail, but the first coach went
off the track immediately. The train
arrived in Norfolk at 11:35 last night.
WHEN FIANCE SHOT
THE COUPLE BEAT IT
Omaha, Neb., March 1.—Surprised
when she saw her fiance, whom she
believed to be out of the city, enter a
Douglas street motion picture theater
with another girl, Bessie Gay. a pretty
19-year-old girl, living at 947 North
Twenty-seventh street, traded her dia
mond engagement ring for a revolver
at a nearby pawnshop and fired five
shots at Arthur Dlckman, of Fremont,
last night at Fourteenth and Douglas
streets. None of the bullets had any
effect other than to make Dlckman and
his companion flee. Miss Gay was ar
rested by Officer Mansfield.
The Identity of the other girl could
not l>e learned, although detectives
made a diligent search.
BURLINGTON CONTRIBUTES
TOWARD EXPERT FARMER
Walthlll, Neb., March 1—The Burling
ton railroad has contributed J150 to
ward a fund to be used in employing a
crop expert for Thurston county. A
farmers' soc-operative society is now
in course of organization, and the serv
ices of the agriculturist will be avail
able to all members. The expert will
be on the job as soon as spring opens
and by improving methods the results
of farming in this section will receive
a great uplift.
MOREHEAD AND STAFF OF
COLONELS GO TO CAPITAL
Lincoln. Neb., March 1.—Governoi
Morehead, accompanied by 40 colonel*
belonging to his start, all resplendent
in their bran new uniforms, which
assay 12 ounces of gold to the epaulet
pound, left this afternoon for Wash
ington to take part in the inaugural
Adjutant General Hall was in charge
At Omaha the reminder of the gov
ernor's start will join the party, to
gether with a number of democrats
They will reach Chicago Saturday
morning and Washington Sunday eve
ning.
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
LINCOLN—The Nebraska Conservation
•ongress elected the following officers:
president, W. G. Whitmore. Valley; vice
presidents, Mrs. H. L. Keefe of Walthill,
Mrs. F. B. Heald of Osceola, C. H. Cor
aell of Valentine, S. P. Delatour of Lewel
iyn, William Ernist of Tecumseh, J. A.
Dills, jr., of Ord, E. P. Wilson of Chadron;
lecretary, S. C. Bassett, Gibbon; executive
rommittee, G. E. Condra of Lincoln, V.
3. Wilson of Stromsburg, T. F. Sturgis of
;>maha, Mrs. Cole of Omaha, Mrs. T. J.
3ist of Falls City, W. B. Banning of
Union, Dr. W. H. Wilson of Lincoln and
E. A. Burnett of Lincoln.
DODGE—The baseball fair held here
proved a big success. Miss Josie Hrdlicka
was voted the most popular young lady,
| receiving a pearl carving set, and A1
Decker was accorded the honor of being
:he homeliest man in town. He received a
pearl handled knife. As a result of the
fair, Dodge will put a fast semi-profes
plorial ball team in the field.
CLARKSON—The Commercial club held
a big meeting last night at which was dis
cussed the good roads proposition, a bet
ter station for Clarkson, the saloon ques
tion and many other things of Import
ance, one recommending the passage of a
bill in the legislature providing a woman
physician or superintendent in the indus
trial home at Milford.
NORTH BEND—As a result of a gun
accident last evening Carl Redder will
probably lose his right foot. While plac
ing his gun in an automobile after a day'9
hunting on tfhe Platte, Redder discharged
the weapon and the shot tore away two
toes and badly lascerated his foot below
the ankle. He was taken to his home near
Ames.
FAIRBURY—The little 6-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lakin, living
eight miles northwest of Falrbury, is ly
ing in a precarious condition as a result
of playing with a box of matches. She
ignited several of them and the flames
caught her clothing. She was badly
burned around the face and hands.
BLOOMFIELD—With its usual way of
keeping ahead of the procession, Bloom
field had an out-of-doors band concert last
evening by the celebrated Bloomfield band
in full uniform. The temperature was
balmy and hundreds of people enjoyed the
airs by the popular musical organization.
TEKAMAH—Miss Ethel McCabe, the
Tekarnah girl who was Injured in an auto
accident here Monday night, died of her
Injuries. Gordon Bryant, who is still in
ihe hospital, will recover If complications
do not occur. The body of Miss McCabe
was sent to Omaha for burial.
HARTINGTON—The congregation of
Holy Trinity Catholic church, of this city,
has decided to erect the coming summer
a $12,000 priest’s residence.- The present
building, valued at about $3,000, will be
sold and moved. Dr. Ferdinand Schnuett
gen is pastor of the church.
FREMONT-Fremont labor unions are
particularly interested in the Omaha bill
providing for a state inspector of weights
and measures. The local unions have
been making a fight before the city coun
cil for an ordinance covering the subject
of scales regulation in Fremont.
CLARKSON—Last night wolves killed
three deer on the farm of Emil Hledik,
who had four of the animals. Mr. Hledik
took a good deal of interest in the deer.
FREMONT—A Washington’s birthday
program tonight at the Y. M. C. A. will
be the only observance of the 22d of Feb
ruary that Fremont will have.
J News Brevities
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—Charles E.
Palmer, of Tarrytown, has brought
suit In the supreme court for $25,000
damages against William Vincent
Astor, son of the late John Jacob
Astor, for injuries received September
|0, 1910. According to Palmer, Astor
ivas driving an automobile at a mile
l minute along Broadway in Irvington,
when, in turning out to pass a car, the
machine crashed into the motorcycle
Palmer was driving.
NEW YORK—Edward F. Mylius, the
English journalist convicted of libel
ing King George, of England, and de
tained by t}?e immigration authorities
lit Ellis island, obtained permission
Trom Federal Judge Coxe to enter the
United States. Judge Coxe sustained a
writ of habeas corpus. In his decision
he held that Mylius Anas not convicted
“of a crime involving moral turpitude.”
ROME—The exceptionally cold spell
prevailing throughout Italy reached
its climax last night in a snowstorm,
sifter the temperature had fallen sev
pral degrees below zero. In Messina
Ihe winter has been the severest in 20
rears. Mt. Etna is entirely white with
snow and presents a magnificent spec
tacle at night.
PHILADELPHIA—A perpetual in
junction restraining the Philadelphia
Jobbing Confectioners’ association from
maintaining a "black list” and “con
spiring” to withhold trade from manu
facturers who sell -din ly to retailers
ivas issued in the United States dis
trict court.
NEW YORK—Three hundred and
fifty clergymen of New York city, rep
resenting more than 40 denominations,
met at luncheon in honor of James
Bryce, who has announced his impend
ing retirement as ambassador from
Great Britain.
BOSTON—Governor Foss signed an
enabling act permitting the First
Church of Christ, of Boston, to accept
the bequest of $2,000,000 provided in the
will of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy.
FRISCO WINS OUT IN
HETCH-HETCHY FIGHT
Washington. Feb. 25.—San Fran
cisco's protracted fight for the use of
the Heteh-Hetchy valley as a reservoir
site was won by the city today as far
as the army advisory board, on which
Secretary Fisher’s decision will be
based, is concerned. The board de
clares that the Heteh-Hetchy project
is $20,000,000 cheaper than any other
feasible project for furnishing an ade
quate supply of water to the city.
COURT WON’T MEDDLE.
Washington. Feb. 25.—The supreme
court today declined to interfere with
the life sentence of George Mathewson,
for the alleged murder of Gus Lawless
at Chicken Creek. Alaska, in 1908. It
was one of the first cases to come be
fore the court from within the arctic
circle.
EMILY PANKHURST IS
HELD FOR BOMB PLOT
London. Feb. 25.—Mrs. Emily Pank
hurst was arrested today in connection
with the destruction of the country
residence of David Lloyd-George by a
bomb explosion last week.
Her arrest resulted from her declara
tion at a public meeting that she had
conspired with and incited her follow
ers to carry out the o”*rage
BIG COMPANY WITH
ALL KINDS OF COIN
DRAGS OFF MERGER
Detroit Concern With Large
Capital Consolidates Trac
tion and Power.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 28.—The state
railway commission's permission to the
interurban railroad to issue stocks and
bonds to the Northern Construction
company, under a contract by which
the latter will build the road between
Lincoln and Omaha in exchange for
$3,000,000 worth Of securities, has been
followed by the announcement that
that road has come under the control
of the same interests that dominate
the Commonwealth Power company
and the Lincoln Traction company.
The big financial backing behind all
three companies comes from the Moore
syndicate of Detroit, which is reputed
to have all kinds of coin. It furnished
the money for the Commonwealth
Power company, which obtained a
power grant on the Platte river at Co
lumbus and which proposes to furnish
electric current to run the traction
company's street car and lighting
plant and also expects to have other
lucrative contracts in eastern Nebras
ka. A few week ago it invested $333,
333 in traction company stock and sent
two men here, one to operate the line
and the other to be secretary of the
company. It is now furnishing the
money for the Northern Securities
company.
Thus has been established a commu
nity of interest between the three com
panies, the same group, with W. E.
Sharp, of Lincoln, at its head, own
ing the control in all three companies.
The combined capital is in excess of
$15,000,000.
GREWSOME ADVENTURE
OF YORK PROSPECTOR
• York, Neb., Feb. 28.—James Wyman,
of this city, who has just returned
from a prospecting trip in British Co
lumbia, is telling his friends of a
thrilling experience he encountered in
northwest Canada early this month.
Wyman went to Canada in January
on a tour of adventure and to pros
pect for gold. He w-ent into the wilds
of British Columbia without a com
panion. Finally he met a miner and
the two traveled away from all civil
ization for seven days. After they
found a place where they decided to
prospect, Wyman’s companion became
dangerously ill. In a few days pneu
monia developed. Wyman wanted to
go and search for help, but the miner
would not have it that way. "00 i t
desert me,” he entreated of Wymu.11.
Soon the miner died.
“There I was in that desolate coun
try with a dead companion,” Wyman
said in telling of his experience. “I
did not know what to do. My strange
friend had begged me not to leave him.
Could I desert his corpse?
“I finally decided to take the body
back to civilization. I strapped it to
n sled, with provisions enough to last
me for more than a week. I started
out across the plains, dragging the sled
after me. The body scon became frozen.
At night I slept in a heavy blanket.
"In this fashion I traveled for seven
days, when I reached a station occu
pied by the mounted police. I turned
the body over to the officers and it
was given a decent burial.
"No, I like adventure. I am going
back to prospect. Practically all of my
equipment is at that desolate spot
where the poor miner died, you know.”
—♦t
THRILLING ADVENTURE
OF EARLY DAY RECALLED
Lyons, Neb., Feb. 28.—M. S. Mans
field, a popular young merchant of
Winnebago, Neb., was in Lyons re
cently. His father, the late M. S.
Mansfield, made a wild and perilous
trip here over 47 years ago. In the fall
of 1865 the elder Mr. Mansfield was
detailed to carry the election ballots
for West Point from his home at De
catur. The country between the two
towns was a wild and uninhabited
land and when he reached Logan
creek on the subsequent townsite of
Lyons a great prairie fire overtook
him and he narrowly escaped with his
life, making Ills horse jump the Logan
and then riding at full speed down to
John Oaks', who lived on the present
site of Oakland. The next morning he
went to West Point and delivered the
ballots to Judge James E. Crawford,
returning by night, reaching Decatur
just as the polls were opened on elec
tion day, in November, 1865
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ASTONISHING AMOUNTS
LOST THROUGH BAD DEBTS
Hartington, Neb., Feb. 28.—Over
$25,000 has been found to be owing the
business men of this city by persons
who have failed to respond to repeated
requests for settlement. About 40
business men of this city recently
formed a credit association. At a
meeting held last night they totalled
up 4he amounts owing them from tile
debtors who had been found to be poor
pay, and were astonished to find it the
amount above mentioned. The num
ber listed as "poor pay” is nearly 2(10
and the amounts run from $7.50 to
$1,000. As this community is one of the
richest in the state, and is considered
gilt edge by loan companies, it indi
cates. that the amount lost in bad
debts by most communities must be
very much larger than is generally
supposed.
DELIBERATELY BURNS
IN A FLAMING BARN
Plainview, Neb., Feb. 28.—Disregard
ing a warning to leave the building, a
stranger stood deliberately in the burn
ing barn on the farm occupied by John
Katzenberger, Sunday morning, until
the blazing roof fell in on him and he
was burned to death. Two mules and
one horse also were burned.
The mystery surrounding the case is
increased by the fact that the two
mules had been harnessed, apparently
ready for hitching. Parts of the
charred leather and the metal were
found on the bodies of the animals.
Pierce county authorities have begun
an Investigation.
The searchers found the charred
body of the man after the flames had
subsided. On the side of the body that
was next to the floor, they discovered
a pocket. A letter in the pocket bore
the name "S. B. Cousins. Yankton. S. ’
D.” It is believed that this is the name
of the dead man.
CHILDREN GET MATCHES;
LITTLE GIRL IS DEAD
Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. 28.—Elda Oillim,
a 4-year-old girl, is dead from burns
inflicted upon her while she and a
smaller brother were playing with
matches. The two had wandered from
home, and. finding a neighbor's house
open, had gone in there to play. There
they found a box of matches The
girl was striking them, when a match
head lodged in her clothing. She ran
screaming from the house, her clothing
a mass of flames. A neighbor threw
a blanket about her, but he was too
late. The physician called could do
nothing, but ease the pain.