Th« O’Neil Frontier D. H. CRONIN, Publisher. O'NEILL,NEBRASKA Many Ingenious attempts have been made to Increase the usefulness of the walking stick. Sticks containing a •word were common enough In less peaceful times, and some were even made to conceal firearms. Henry VIH. for Instance, had a stick containing three matchlock pistols, and a clumsy •ffalr It must have been. More re cently, sticks have been fitted with •nuff boxes, scent bottles, watches, compasses, spirit flasks, and even telescopes. A decade ago there was a •hort lived carze for a stick, the knob of which unscrewed and formed a pipe. A great project for the communal bath of Vienna Is being elaborated. The bath Is to be completely Inclosed and to be arranged for use In winter also by a supply of warm water from the electricity works, which are some 8»0 meters distant. Tho present swimming basin Is to serve exclusively for water eupply of the electricity works, and the new bath is te be constructed above It. It will bo 250 meters (820 feet) long and 60 meters (197 feet) wide. After traveling by stage a distance equal to that from the earth to the moon and half way back again, George F. Crandall, of Norwich, N. Y., who aays he is the oldest mall stage driver In the stato, has retired. Beginning at tho age of 16, ho has driven 869,340 miles, and his salary In tills time has amounted to $34,700. On a branch of a St. Ixiuls trolley line an accident pulled down the wires, leaving a car stranded. The men pas sengers, accordingly, pushed the car, the women passengers remaining In side, until the main line was reached, where the wire was Intact Gambia, the smallest of the British West African colonies, the area being only 3,619 square miles, lies an either •lde the Gambia river, between Sene gal and French Guinea. The latest census (1901) shews a population of •TI.116. _ _ The School of American Archolegy has restored the historic palace of tho governors of Santa Fe, N. M., which was erected In 16t5 and was occupied !*s the home of government officers during the Spanish regime In the south west A farmer living near Brentwood, England, went to a moving picture ■how In that town during a visit and learned by a picture shown on the screen that a fire had In his absence destroyed the stables and sheds at his farm. A muling concern In St. Johnsbury, Vt., has been In the possession of the Ide family for an even 100 years. It was started In 1813 by Timothy Ide, and the granite grinding stones are still preserved, but used only as doorsteps. In North Devon, England, there Is a village called Mlddleham, where for three months In the year the sun Is never seen. The village Is so sur rounded by high hills that It Is night from November until February. An old deed, which was being trans ferred In Piscataquis, Mo., mentioned a custom qnce prevalent of digging a handful of dirt and breaking two twig? from a tree on tho estate from which a mortgage was discharged. When Gilbert Vennsse was accused of slandering a councilor In pamphlets which ho Issued In French, In Roches ter, N. H., he was found not guilty be cause Interpreters translated different ly the questioned passages. Statistics show that a workman Is killed In tho United States every 15 {minutes of the day, and every 16 bcc-, ends a mechanic is maimed, many; times so severely that he Is no longer able to pursue his trade. The highest determined point In Florida Is Mt. Pleusant. 301 feet above , aea level, according to tho United States geological survey. The approxi mate average elevation of the state Is j 100 feet above the sea. No American baking powder Is on ■ale In Amsterdam. Nothing of that nature Is found except what Americans would consider very Inferior substi tutes. An explanation Is that few fam ilies do any baking. Tho average pay of every man, wom an and child In the United States who Works for wages or a salary will this year be close to $610. In 1900 the aver age pay was only $479, and 30 years be fore that but $370. In some of the municipalities of Ger many the sight of a building operation 1s regarded In the nature of an eye sore, which is to be deplored and tho strictest regulations are mado to meet ■uch contingencies. A bill has been Introduced In the legislature of Manitoba to prohibit the employment of white women and girls In any factory or place of business owned or managed by Chinese or Japanese. There are no more cheap lands In tho West. Land that was sold 13 years ago for $1 an acre Is now selling at from $10 to $100 In sections where there are succeasful Irrigation sys tems. It costs Parts nearly 1100,000 a year to care for the trees on Its streets and boulevards and In its parks, more than 1,000 new ones being planted an nually. I>ast year the forest aervtoe dis tributed 116,000 basket willow cuttings 15,000 to the forestj schools, 20,000 to agricultural experiment stations and •1,000 to individuals. The Baptist union of England Is ■eeking to raise a sustention fnud of • 1 ,250,000 to guarantee a minimum wage to every Baptist minister. The largest steel Ingot ever oast was recently produced In England. It Weighed 150 tons, was 23 % feet long and 80 Inches wide. It has been unofficially estimated that the Ice cream consumption of the United States is about five quarts per capita annually. Am extensive dyeing works In Phila delphia Is conducted by Miss Katherine R. Alien, daughter of the founder of the business. Free dentistry for all railroad em ployes la contemplated by the railway ministry In Austria. Cables Unking British and North American ports convey about 30,000, •V0 words a year. More than 800 nurses are employed tn the Moscow hospital, the largest In feurope. The average pay of school teachers In bdoaeurl Is HI u month. MANY POINTS RAISED I IN COURT RULING ON UNION LABOR CLAUSE Justice Hamer Finds Provision of South Omaha Char ter Undemocratic. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 16.—A provision |n the South Omu’ha charter providing that alt contracts made by the city for public improvements shall contain a clause requiring the employment of union labor only and limiting the work to eight hours each day was knocked out by the supreme court. It held that this was violative of the constitution, and could not be enforced. The de cision was rendered Ln a suit brought by a taxpayer to enjoin a paving con tract that contained these provisions. Judge Hainer wrote the decision. lie finds that “the union labor clause is void because it is undemocratic In its plan, in conflict with the constitution of the state and contrary to the spirit of our republican form of government, [n effect the provision excludes the un billed laborer from the work to which ho is entitled and compels the tax payer to sustain the burden of an arbitrary rate not based upon the actual value of labor and without re ference to the going wages of the time, place and kind of labor to be perform ed. "It takes the private property of the taxpayer without due process of law, In violation of section 3, article 1 of the bill of rights. It undertakes to support a privileged class at the expense of the taxpayers and puts upon the latter a burden not contemplated by the laws of the state. It takes the property of one person and gives it to another without attempting Just compensa tion.” It Is also held that the con tracts are let under such terms as to exclude competition and disregards that section of the law which requires that such contracts shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. —4— RAILROAD COMPANY LOSES SUIT AGAINST SIDETRACK Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 16.—The Union Pacific Railroad company lost, in lupreme court, in its contention that the law passed by the last legislature to aid farmers' companies in getting tracks to their elevators unwittingly deprived the state railway commission of Jurisdiction over all side tracks. The railroad and its coadjutor, the Loup Valley land company, sought to tlx and determine Just how many towns should be located along Its Loup valley extension. They refused to give the town of Iloagland, located thereon by outsiders, any station or side track. They appealed to the railway commission, which made the order asked for. The land company went Into court to enjoin the rail road from complying, claiming it violated a contract entered into be tween the two which limited the num ber of towns. -4 GOOD STORY ALL RIGHT BUT LIKELY MERE “PIPE” Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 16.—One im portant thing is lacking to excite lo cal Interest In a story wired from Chicago that a former university of Nebraska student has fallen heir to $1,600,000, the fruits of a loan of $700 •Bade to a hard-up student In college days. The missing link Is that neither the testator nor the heir were ever listed at the Nebraska university. The alleged beneficiary is E. Q. Higley, a doctor at Glenn Ellyn, 111., while tho man with the grateful and interest bearing memory Is Charles Froehllch. The loan Is supposed to have been made 22 years ago. After they left college the men lost touch with one another, but Froehllch is said to have found liigley’s name in an alumni catalogue, and looked him up. He was not waxing rich at doctoring, and so Froehllch, who had made millions mining In Australia, made him his heir. —•♦— LAWYER WANTS ROSEWATER TO TRANSMIT HIS EVIDENCE Omaha, Neb., Feb, 16.—Thomas W. Blackburn, president of the Omaha Bar association, was a witness before the grand Jury, presumably at his own re quest. He called tho attention of the grand Jury to the fact that Victor Rosewater had made frequent charges through the columns of the Uee that a housecleaning of lawyers was needed in Omaha, but had failed to make public the evidence ho possessed. Mr. Black burn requested the grand Jurv to call Rosewater in to produce his knowledge of crookedness In the legal fraternity. Mr. Blackburn also gave some sug gestions as to lines of investigation that may be advantageously followed con cerning Jury bribing, the bribing of witnesses and other matters of miscon duct around the courts. LArsiNUi UULK ALIMONY BY ANOTHER MARRIAGE Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 16.—Remarriages after divorce will not relieve a hus band of his financial and legal obliga tion to pay his divorced wife alimony. That's what the supreme court says in tho case of Laura Winter vs. Leonard Winter, from Douglas county. Winter was ordered to pay $15 a month alimony when Mrs. Laura secured a divorce. After he married Jean Mc Nurncy a year later, he quit paying Wife No. 1 garnished his wages. He defended on the ground that the wages were exempt because he Is the head of a household. The district court said that tliis provision of the garnish ment law applied In his case, but tho supreme court holds that a man can not evade his liability for alimony by Interposing this plea. —♦ " NEW SYSTEM IN OMAHA EMBARRASSES SALOON MEN Omaha, Neb., Feb. 16,—Two police officers testified In police court that an effort to bribe them tiad been made by Samuel Jensen, a bartender, arrested 'n a saloon at Thirtieth and Spalding streets on a chargb of selling liquor after hours. Jensen denied the charge The officers. .1. S. Coffee and H A Cunningham, testified that Jensen was veiling liquor after $ o’clock in the eve ning. ,“When we arrested him," said Cunningham, “he asked us how much we wanted to settle. We refused to even talk about it with him." Police Judge Foster released Jensen, Baying there was insufficient evidence —♦— NORFOLK WOMAN WANTS BALM FOR ALLEGED SLANDER Madison. Neb., Feb. 14.—Catherine Rosales of Norfolk, a keeper of a boarding and rooming house, has com menced action in the district court against John Robinson to recover $6,000 damages to her business and good name. She alleges In her petition that defendant ha* wickedly and maliciously slandered her, bringing her good name into public si eiuIeI ar.t causing her to be susi LtteU vs a woi .an of bad char acter. ALL SOUS AGAINST TWO-GENT PAGE NOW WIPED OFF DOCKETS Railroads Made Tactical Error in Law Proceedings That Affected Outcome. Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. 14.—The last /estlge in the courts of the vain ef forts of the six railroads of Nebraska jo prevent the enforcement of the laws passed In 1907 reducing passenger fares (o 2 cents a mile and reducing freight fates on certain commodities 25 per tent was wiped out yesterday when the federal court judge dismissed tho remaining law suits, on motion of the Rate. Nebraska was one state where the railroad attorneys were worsted in tactics. The attorney general filed in the state supreme court, before they' ;ould file In federal court a petition for pn Injunction, a petition asking that tho roads be restrained from attacking tho constitutionality of the laws. The railroads Immediately transferred the cases to the federal court, and there filed cross petitions asking what the at torney general had temporarily en joined them from doing. The effect of the state's attorney’s move was to put the laws Into effect and keep them there while tho litigation was In pro gress. A mass of testimony was taken in two of the cases, but activity was sus pended pending tho decision In the Minnesota rato case. When this was rendered it knocked the pins out from finder the railroads, and they did riot Dpposo when Attorney General Martin asked that the cases be dismissed. PROTEST MADE AGAINST SUPREME COURT JUDGE Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 14.—J. J. Thomas representing appellees In the ancient case of various depositors against the directors of the old Capital National hank, has filed in the supreme court a protest against Justice W. 13. Rose Bitting In tho appeal. He avers that the justice is a brother of II. F. Rose, chief counsel for D. E. Thompson, one of the directors, and that he is prejudiced In favor of the appellant as against the appellees. It Is also charged that since the order of Jan uary 7, 1914 granting a rehearing there in. the appellees have been informed that Justice Rose assisted his brother In tho preparation of briefs at prior stages of this litigation, as well as oth er cases In which his brother appeared as counsel. Tt Is further claimed that Justice Rose had prior to the submission of the case unconsciously entertained a fixed und determined opinion upon the merits thereof, and is biased and prejudiced in favor of Thompson, and therefore disqualified to appear there in. It is further averred that in the consideration of the cases Justice Rose’s conduct has been that of a zealous advocate and Intense partisan rather than an impartial judge, and that his interest in the success of his brother in the case is as potent as though he had a direct personal and pecuniary interest in the outcome. This is a new angle to the big row that has been convulsing the supreme court. Justice Reese did not sit in the original hearing under the Impression, Which he now says was wrong, that he had, as a lawyer, been consulted by one of the plaintiffs before the suit was begun. The case was decided by a majority of the court in favor of Thompson. A motion for rehearsing was made, and the vote being a tie Justice Reese broke this by voting for ii rehearing. For this Justice Rose, so says Justice Reese’s friends, personally vbused the chief Justice and Insisted he was violating ills oath of office by voting for a rehearing. Later Thompson’s attorneys repeated this in a motion to vacate the order for a re hearing. HAVE AGREED PLAN FOR HANDLING AUDITORIUM Omaha, Neb., Feb. 14.—The city com mission has approved a plan for the operation of the city Auditorium, pro viding the voters favor the proposed {250,000 bond issue for the purchase ind repair of the building. The plan provides for operation of ihe project by a board of citizens ln Itead of by the council. The council pledged itself to a scheme for a board of nine members, one each jo be named by the following organiza tions: The city commission, the Com mercial club, the publicity bureau, the rentral labor union, the Real Estate Exchange, the Manufacturing associa tion, the Retailers' association, the jobbers’ association and the Federal vnprovement clubs. DUES DEAD MAN’S ESTATE ON BREACH OF PROMISE CLAIM Omaha, Nob., Feb. 14.—Suit against the estate of the late Joseph Wa.1 Secker, who died last June, for alleged breach of promise on the part of Mr. VValdecker to marry Miss Rosa H. Metzinger has been begun in district :ourt. The plaintiff is asking $7,500 damages and also tiled a claim for that amount in probate court. Miss Metzinger alleges that as a re sult of a promise to marry her, made tn April, 1012, she secured a trousseau in preparation for a ceremony to be held July 20, 1912. On July 4. 1912. she asserts, Mr. Waldecker left for Florida and remained absent. Both plaintiff and defendant made their homes in Washington county. ALLEGED SIOUX CITYANS ON SHORTCHANGING TOUR Spencer, Neb.. Feb. 14.—J. M. Carter and H. 11. Johnson, believed to be from Sioux City, and who are touring this part of the state in an auto, were ar rested at Naper on a charge of short changing the postoffice clerk and mer chants here out of about $35. They were traced to Naper and arrested by Deputy Sheriff Anderson and were brought back by Deputy Sheriff Heenan. They pleaded guilty to a charge in Justice court and were fined $10 and costs. After paying their fine they return ed to Naper where they had left their car. The same men are said to have secured $40 at Monowi by short change methods and they are believed to be working all the towns between Nor folk and Naper. —*— G. W. NIDIFFER, BRAKEMAN, IS KILLED AT FREMONT Fremont, Neb., Feb. 13.—G. W. N’id iffer, a brukeman on the Northwestern road, was killed under the wheels of the car of the freight train on which he was working near Bruno. Nidiffer fell from the top of the car and was ground to death beneath the wheels. His legs and body were horribly mu tilated and his head was crushed. Nidiffer was about 25 years of age and unmarried. His body was brought to Fremont, where it will be held pending the arrival of relatives. cc ID ON State Board Says It Is Not a Violation of the Con stitution. Line.,In, Neb.. Feb. 13. The state board of -ontrol, ne mg upon the com plaint of Charles Wooster, ex-editor and ex - legislator, ’.vlio lives at Silver Creek, has decided that the rule in vogue at the state penite.r.tiary requir ing convicts to attend chapel exercises invojves no violation of the constitu tion. Member Holcomb, who was for merly supreme justice of the state, wrote tne opinion. Wooster had interposed on behalf of Convict SI Clair who has since apol ogized and promised to he good, but who had preferred punishment to be ing compelled to obey the rule. Wooster had based his complaint on n section of the constitution that de clares no person shall be compelled to attend any place of worship nor shall there bo any interference by law with the freedom to worship or not to worship. Judge Holcomb says that the constitutional provision cited was intended to forever separate church and state, but ho does not believe this means that religious services at a state prison could bo abolished by an objecting taxpayer or a recalcitrant prisoner. He held that the state owes a duty to those who are involuntarily within prison walls to provide some means whereby they may have the privilege and benefit of such services as are held. No constitutional rights being invaded, the rule is held good. UNION PACIFIC PROTESTS AGAINST HEAVIER TAXES Kearney. Neb., Feb. 13.—Suit has been filed in the district court of Buf falo county by the Union Pacific Rail road company protesting against the payment of more than $5,000 in in creased taxation in the school districts of this county. The company pro poses to make the Kearney case a test case, and will pay increases in school levies in all other counties of the state Under protest, final payment being de ferred awaiting the outcome of the Buffalo county contest. A Union Pacific official visited the city some time ago with the view of ascertaining the school fund on hand in the various districts of this county, taking into consideration all the re serve on hand. The board of equaliza tion later increased the fund and an adidtional levy was placed by the county. It is the payment of this in creased levy over the funds on hand which the Union Pacific will contest payment on. It was stated at the time by the official that the case would mean thousands of dollars in taxation to the railroad throughout the entire state, and that they had been abused by a number of counties in the matter of increased levies of the school dis tricts and they proposed to fight the increase. WOMAN DEAD, CHILDREN ILL; RESULT OF POISON Omaha, Neb, Feb. 13.—-Mrs. Hen rietta Billings is dead and her 2-year old daughter and 20-year-old son, Clarence Shuman, are in a critical con dition from poison said to have been administered by young Shuman, who is now in the custody of the police. The discovery of the tragedy was made by F. C. Billings, the husband and father, who returned home for his midday meal. He is an employe of the gas company. Upon reaching his home Billings found the door locked and all the cur tains drawn. Becoming alarmed, he broke open the door and found death and havoc reigning. His wife was sitting upright in a chair in the kitchen and had been dead for some time. Shuman, his stepson, was lying unconscious on the floor between the two front rooms, and the baby girl, his own daughter, was also unconscious, lying in front of a gas stove in the kitchen. The young man at first admitted his guilt, but at St. Joseph’s hospital an hour later he said he only admitted the poisoning to make the doctors ’’quit pounding" his chest. He says the family was poisoned by eating beans. M’KELVIE ELIGIBILITY UP TO SUPREME COURT Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. 13.—Not con tent with the decision of the district court that he is ineligible to run as a candidate for governor. Lieutenant Governor McKelvie has appealed to the supreme court. Arrangements have been made for a speedy hearing of the matter, so that a decision may be reached before the primary ballot is made up. The point involved is whether the constitutional inhibition that a person holding an executive of fice is Ineligible to any other state of fice during the period for which he was elected, bars McKelvie, whose term expires with the inauguration of a new governor. LINCOLN WOMAN SHOT BY JAPANESE PARAMOUR Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 13.—Mrs.’ Beryl DeLong. a prepossessing young white woman, 24 years old, is lying in a dan gerous condition at a hospital as a re sult of being shot by K. Chikrasi, a Jap. The latter is under arrest. He frankly admits the shooting. He said that he had been living with the girl for three months and they had rep resented themselves as having been married, although they were not. Mrs. DeLong, he said, had refused to marry him and had also announced her in tention of leaving him and the city, taking the revolver away from him discharged the remaining chambers. The Jap Is a waiter and met the wom an while she was employed at the same restaurant. STUDENTS ARE LOYAL. Stockholm, Feb. 13 —Three thousand students from the leading Swedish universities, accompanied by bands playing i atrlotic airs, marched yester day through the streets to the royal palace, where speeches were delivered assuring King Gustave of the students' loyalty and devotion to, and their con fidence in his majesty during the pres ent constitutional crisis, which has re sulted from the demand of the land owners and farmers for increased arm aments. TWO QUAKE SHOCKS FELT IN BAY STATE i Pittsfield. Mass., Feb. 12.—Two dis tinct shocks, apparently earthquakes, were felt in this city at 4 and 4:45 o’clock this morning. POOR CHINA! ! Pekin. China. Feb. 12.—The Stand ard Oil company made a loan to the I Chinese government in return for oil concession which are described as very imuoiuuiL GRAND ISLAND—A tall, lank stranger, as to whose Identity or v< jation nothing can be learned, he having fold the police that they should “go to and find out.” broke into jail. He called at the Kau mann saloon and asked fc* work enough to get something tot eat The owners had no work for him and Suggested that he go to the horse sale s ables. He had been there, he said, and t was poor ad vice. The man left the apdoon and im mediately, upon reaching the outside, hit the painted eagle on the r|ate glass front a blow that took out melt of the main tall feathers and caused a Carrienation scare. MADISON—Prof. Ed M, jfehort, Beav er City, Neb., has been fleeted superin tendent of the Madison Ichools for the coming year at a salary 11,400. This action was taken at a sp«#al board meet ing Monday evening am §Mr. Short was selected from a list of 40 Applicants. The new superintendent has Jen at the head of the Beaver City schfflU for the past three years. The preserflfeuperlntendent, Dell D. Gibson, has be ll elected to the superintendency of the i&klredge schools for next year. SUPERIOR—Mrs.' R. Af* McMains, sr., living near Burr Oak, 'Jan., died Mon day of injuries she rectfved in a runa way accident last Thur Jay. A neighbor woman, Mrs. N. S. Hu»n, had been to her house to borrow so«$p dishes and she was accompanying her .'fii»me in the bug gy. The horse became lightened at the rattling of the dishes all ran away, and as it approached the Mjtton home both women were thrown adtlnst a gate and each sustained a broke# arm and leg be sides the fatal injuries A Mrs. McMains. MADISON—The dea fc of William L. Wills at his residence jtn South Madison marks the passing of a person familiar to Madison county people for upwards of 40 years. Wills was,born |.t Hubbarton, Vt., August 5, 1846. He settled on a homestead JO miles southwest of Ifijldison in Kalama zoo precinct in 1869, wttrere he resided for 10 years, since which ime he has made his iiome at MadisorJg January 26, 1873, he was married to fcjah J. Harris, at Madison. He is surviiAi by his wife aJid three daughters. LINCOLN—Arthur Jj Feldt told a pa thetic story in Justfccf Stevens’ court when arraigned on a Sharge of threaten ing to kill his fatherttilaw. He said that his wife way dying ai Bis home from con sumption, and that hejjyas physically in a bad way from constair# attendance at her bedside. He denied fta|ing threatened the life of her father, bJj| said the old man had been hanging arJftnd making himself disagreeable and caHt||ig him names and he wanted the court |© get rid of him in some way. & UKA itut t; Aiieg ng tnat owing to me fault of a defective Machine he was op erating he lost a pa?ffi of the index finger of his left hand, wjBter E. Phelan, the ;i7-year-old son of Brron S. Phelan of this city, has brought asflon for $10,000 dam ages against the Dea$fc>ster Mill Manufac turing company. 1 he accident occurred on (September 1, la:;fc when the boy was operating a leather iftamping machine in the factory. B FHEMONT-JamcAjoogan, a wealthy farmer of the Nor h Bend neighborhood, arrived home from ||eland, bringing with him a girlish lookii g. bride of 20 summers. Coogan is 72. He 1 as been a bachelor all his life up to foui weeks ago, when he was ready to star Sack from Dublin to America. < ’oogarW and the girl he brought from Ireland decided to make the trip together and were married the day the boat sailed. WAUSA — Despite the unfavorable weather, the secon V annual Wausa Farm ers* institute hen Bras a great success. The opera house vAk packed to the doors at every session. > The exhibits in the various departme Us^were much larg^r and of better qu^fqHHB^thope cf last year. Fred Duhr had 100 ears of corn, the same selling for $9.60 at the close of the Institute. LINCOL.N—Lincoln men are anxious to get a state bank into the field at Superior, following the closing of tlie doors of the First National bank of that city. Those who have just filed an application with the state banking board are W. G. Auld, L. J. Dunn, H. B. Grainger and W\ C. Harvey. The banking board has not acted on the application, but will do so within a few days. *» a x ej— x ins* iuw ii la a guuu mitral in terested in the fact that messages are now being received by wireless at the state normal school. For the past six weeks Professor Britell, of the department of physics, has been experimenting with a view to receiving and sending messages and has been getting responses for some ^ HIS LAW IS VINDICATED * . Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 12.—Senator Smith, of Seward, author of the law which he asserted would put the bridge combine out of business, is ready to submit some proof in support of his "flaim. At his home county seat the other day the four companies in the combine submitted bids. So did J. H. Sheeley, of Fort Collins, Cal., an otil- / sider. Sheeley’s bids totaled about half / that of his competitors. When they « discovered an outsider was in the com- / | petition they asked leave to withdraw f their bids and submit new ones, but f they were not permitted to do so. Mr.* / t Smith says that the reason why Shoe- < ley was able to bid was because of! ills new law requiring uniform bridge ' plans furnished by the state for e»ciy county. -■ o -- FILES SUIT TO BREAK RAILROAD MONOPOLY Salt Lake City, Utah, tfeb. H.—At torney General McRej^oJdi filed a Sherman law suit here /day to break the Southern Pacific’s •/ntrol over the Central Pacific railway and its suV i pldiary Pacific coast.gtate lines. HUNDREDS APE DRIVEN INTO STREET BY/IRE _* New York, /eb. 11—Six mundred men, women i/*1 children—If/ families _were drive/10 the street i* the snow by a fire which wrecked t live-story * \ factory bu/ding in Ea3t Ti'irtj-fourth street tod»l'- The building is in the heart of Corcoran's “Itoost.” and kui - rounded by lener.ients, all of which , ' were i/nptied. The loss is about 1 if *ioo.oo*. yfj I