Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O'NEIL FRONTIER.
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O'NEILL. NEBRASKA
There is very little uniformity In the
size or other characteristics of the
American county. It means some
thing entirely different from the Kng
llsh county, which will average 1,000
square miles an<! a population of 300.
000. The smallest county in the Uni
ted States is Bristol county. Bhode Isl
and, which covers 25 square miles. The
largest is Custer county. Montana,
which embraces 20,490 square miles.
The smallest In population is, or was 10
years ago, Brown county, Texas, which
had four inhabitants. The largest Is
New York countv. which contains be
tween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000. Before
Nevada was made a state it was Ne
vada county, of the Utah territory,
covering more than 100,000 square
miles. There is no question that in a
number of states counties might bo
much fewer than they are, with ad
vantage to everybody concerned, unless
perhaps the officeholders. We can make
this statement beseause in proportion
to population Massachusetts has a less
number than any other state, and ex
cept for topographical conditions they
would be fewer still.
The Japanese secretary of the British
legation In Toklo has recently summar
ised the teachings of the 14th century
writer, Kenko, on what is to be regard
ed as bad taste. The objects to tie
avoided as violations of taste are: Too
much furniture In a living room: too
many pens In a starid; too many Bud
dhas in a private shrine; too many
rocks, trees and herbs in a garden; too
many children in a house; too many
words when men meet; but "too many
books in a bookcase there < an never
be, nor too much litter in a dust heap.”
Uncle Sam’s army of laborers num
bers 38,167,338.
Nuremberg Is the world's greatest
hop market. For several centuries this
district and the northern portion of
Bohemia were the only considerable
hop regions. Although Nuremberg Is
favorably situated, It was not until
railroad transportation became general
about 1860 that other towns In the vi
cinity lost their importance as hop
markets and Nuremberg took the lead.
Since that time municipal authorities
have encouraged the trade and con
verted the old city warehouse atul ar
senal on the Kornmarkt into commo
dious quarters for hop merchants.
The least thoroughly explored and
worst mapped portions of the earth's
surface, according to a remark by
President Freshfleltl, of the Royal Geo
graphical society, are the heart of Ara
bia, the interior of New Guinea and the
upper region of the Amazon. In these
three areas are refuges for t lie Imagi
nation of the romancers. Before the
Roosevelt expedition Conan Boyle's
tale of "A Lost World” and Kingsley's
"Westward Ho!” found advantage in
the mysteries of the Amazon wilder
ness.
It was reported from London, a fort
night ago, that the newspapers were
returning to their normal appearance.
Articles an general subjects, besides
the war. were creeping back to their
old places, tlie daily essay in the Times
has been restored and the women's
pages were reappearing. Within a your
the Manchester Guardian has added a
woman’s page to its Monday issue, de
voted to fashions, food and other sub
jects of particular Interest to women
readers.
A South African tribe has an effec
tual method of dealing with bores,
which might be adopted by western
people. This simple tribe considers
long speeches Injurious both to the or
ator and his hearers; so to protect both
there Is an unwritten law that every
public orator must stand on one leg
only whea he is addressing an audi
ence. As soon as he has to place tho
other leg on the ground his oration Is
brought te a close.
English statisticians have calculated
that 52,287,637 bushels of malt were
used hi brewing their beer last year.
It Is estimated that every bushel of the
grain would have made at least 15
four-powad loaves of bread. This would
hare provided a four-pound loaf every
day for a year for the 2,000,000 lighting
In Bdtetani. with 1,000,000 loaves left
over for the hungry at home.
It Is known generally that many of
the later additions to Lord Kitchener’s
army have had to be oontent with navy
blue cftsthlng, while waiting for their
khaki uniforms. It Is not so generally
known, perhaps, that London postmen
have cheerfully consented to forego
their new winter and summer uniforms
for 12 months so that the material for
them could be given to the army.
The investigations of breathing air at
different temperatures and conditions
ef movement conducted by Dr. Leon
ard HIM, F. R. S., are confirmed by the
New Fork state commission on venti
lation in respect to Dr. Hill's statement
that chemical purity of air is not the
prime consideration. Coolness and
keeping the air in gentle motion are
the chief needs.
When a thief drove out of the town
of Sikrerfleld, Nev.. with a team of
horses belonging to Curley Jones, a
mine owner, he took with him the only
conveyance In the town. As a result,
Jones was compelled to walk 35 miles
over mountain and desert to notify the
sheriff.
A machine has been devised for imi
tating the noise of an aeroplane engine,
■with -the object of alarming hostile
troops. The Servian and Montenegrin
troops used a rattle during the Balkan
war to Imitate machine gun fire.
Should the eaves of a man's house
Sroject over his neighbors land, the
itter may pull them dow n at once, ac
cording to British law, unless they have
so projected for 20 years.
The keenness of birds in hunting out
food was once attributed to their
sense of smell, but It has been shown
that It Is due to their remarkable
Sight.
The Philippine government recently
granted its first concession to foreign
capital, an English company getting a
II year right to develop hardwood for
ests. _ _
The German crown prince will be 33
gears of age .ext May. He married
(he Princess Cecllle of Mecklenburg
sehwerln in 1106. and has four sons.
The leading newspaper of Prague.
Bohemia, was recently produced by
photography from typewritten copy
because printers were not available.
Draft is the distance In feet from
the lowest part of the bottom of a ves
sel to the actual water line at which
the vessel Is floating.
The total railway mileage of the
krorld is about 684,840 miles. Of this
Burope has 199.346 miles and the Unit
ed States 248,888 miles.
la Italy there are more theaters In
Proportion to the population than Ln
jay other country.
EASTERN SYNDICATE
GETS FORMER BOARD
OF TRADE LOCATION
Rumor In Omaha Circles That
Purchase Includes Control
of Prominent Bank.
Omaha, Neb., March 29. An casten
Syndicate has purchased tiie Board ol
Trade building at Sixteenth and Far
nam streets, which is being torn down
following the fire of some six weeks
ago. Harry A. Tukey heads the syn
dicate and represents them in Omaha,
The purchase of the greater part of the
stock of the Board of Trade Building
company means that the new concern
will go ahead, as soon as the old build
ing is town down, with the erection of
a new' building, which w'ill probably
be eight or 10 stories high and of mod
ern construction, according to Tukey.
"Who the. eastern syndicate is will
come out in due time," said Tukey,
"hut w'e are not mentioning names
yet.”
It is known that negotiations were
pending at one time for a purchase for
Ike First National bank, depending
upon the disposing of the Sixteenth
and Harney corner, bought a short
time ago, and the rumor persists that
the present syndicate represents First
National bank interests.
USED ACID ON LETTER
AND DODGED CENSOR
1/in coin. Nil/., March 29. -When J. G.
Mandallan, an Armenian student at
Union college, received a letter the oth
er day from his brother in Nicodemia,
|v Turkish province in Asia Minor, h<
found the greater part of It obliterated
py a great black blotch, the work of
tiie censor. Mr. Mandalian’s curiosity
was aroused. He secured some acid
from the laboratory chemist and ap
plied it. As a result he found out some
tacts about conditions that the censor
nupposed he had carefully concealed.
6s the writing was easily visible after
Ihe acid hail dried and been brushed
Jff. A part of th" supposedly obliter
ited portions reads:
“The European war, which has set
the whole world in trouble, lias done
ihe same here. All work has ceased,
trade has stopped and there is nothing
lining. Tiie people have been subjected
to utter poverty. The main revenue of
Ihe farmer is from raising cocoons and
Ihey cannot sell them. The price has
dropped to one-fourth of the ordinary,
jmd there Is no one to buy. There are
large quantities of tobacco, but there
|s neither merchant nor market to buy,
Itnd the poor people have been com
| oiled to cat bread at a cost of five
limes the ordinary price. If within 10
pr 20 days an arrangement is not made
jo sell their product the situation will
1/3 unbearable. Many of us are without
work and living on credit. Our neigh
boring towns are in dire straits also
tnd stealing of bread and flour is a
:ommon tiling, which has occurred in
5ur town, also."
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EUGENICS PROMOTERS
SECURING CONSIDERATION
Lincoln, Neb., March 29.—Yesterday
afternoon eugenic marriages had the
renter of the stage, H. It. 171-, the Mere
dith-Liggett bill, which requires a
physical examination of all male per
sons before marriage, being up in com
mittee of the whole. The bill provides
for a $5 fee for examination and an ad
ditional $15 fee for laboratory in case of
test. v
Nichols, of Madison, tried to get the
fee cut out entirely, and, falling to do
so. spoke aguinst the bill, declaring
that In Wisconsin, where there was
such a law. It had resulted In common
law marriages or a trip to some other
state where there were no restrictions
on the matter.
Tibbets wanted to make the law
apply to women as well as men. anti
succeeded in getting the amendment in
serted, but it lost out on a motion to
reconsider the bill, which was backed
by the doctors of the house.
The senate reached for passage the
veterinarian bill, which was Intended
to prohibit any veterinarian from
practicing unless he was a graduate of
some college. This would put out of
business the old time veterinarian
who had practiced for years and had
no certificate. The bill was amended
to allow the old men to practice, but
they cannot use any collegiate appella
tion which might give the belief that
they were college graduates, the name
“veterinarian" being all they will be
entitled to use.
MAYOR ASKED TO NAME
GUILTY COAL DEALER
Lincoln, Neb., March 29.—Mayor Zeh
rung la In hot water oecausc he ordered
the health authorities, who also have
enforcement of the weights and meas
ures ordinance, not to prosecute a coni
dealer against whom they had secured
evidence of short weighting. The news
papers published the fact, but could not
give the dealer's name. Several coal
dealers have written open letters to the
mayor, demanding that he name the
guilty man, in order that they may not
rest under the suspicion. The mayor
has so far met the situation by pub
lishing that tho writers of these letters
are innocent men, but they are not
satisiled at this amount of vindication.
OMAHA ATTORNEY GIVEN
DAMAGES AWARD OF $68,785
Omaha, Neb.. March 29.—A Jury ir,
the federal court returned a verdict ol
$68,785, last night, for John T. Moore
local attorney, In his suit against the
Union Pacific railroad for damages sus
tained in a train collision two years
ago. Tho case attracted a deal of at
tentlon on account of the array of legal
talent on both sides and the original
amount of damages asked. $150,000. Tin
Jury was out over 24 hours.
ANOTHER BLOCKADE ON
WESTERN NEBRASKA LINE
Lincoln, Neb.. March 29.—The west
end of the Burlington's O'Neill line waj
twice tied up by the snow of Thurs
day night, but snow plows have clearer
the tracks and the entire list is now
open to traffic. A brisk wind cause*,
the snow to drift in the cuts. As much
as four inches fell In many parts of tit
state, and. with the wind, this wa>
sufficient to cause a lot of trouble
Heavy snow storms are rare at thi*
season of the year.
NEBRASKA CURATOR GETS
NEW INDIAN COLLECTION
Lincoln. Neb.. March 27.—A new col
lection of Indian implements was se
cured by < -urator Gilmore on recent
visits to northeastern Nebraska. Among
them is a blood-letting knife, made of
the tooth of a rattlesnake as the
blade, fastened on a piece of wood. A
mallet wras used to drive tlie tooth into
a vein. A mortar of black walnut and
a pestle were also included. As show
ing that music was not unknown a
flageolet Is shown. It comprises several
notes on the scale. Phonographic rec
ords of some of the tunes played on
this instrument were secured.
HOUSE MEMBERS SIGN
FOR "FREEZE OUT" IF
SENATEGETS MULISH
Not Going to Be Bluffed Frora
Attitudes By Threats of
Long Session.
Lincoln, Neb., March 27.—The house
members, or at least 90 of them, are
willing to stay "until the last dog is
hung." Tills is the ultimatum handed
to the senate by the house in effect,
when the 90 house members signed a
petition to the effect that they would
not desert the legislative halls untit
(lie speaker had finally smashed tho
desk with his gavel and announced that
the house had adjourned sine die. Tint
proviso regarding excuses issued by th<< !
speaker is attached, however, to guard
against exigencies.
The speaker some time ago an
nounced his intention of withholding
his signature from the pay checks foi
the last months work until the legis
lature had actually adjourned, so at
to hold members to their tasks. In thy
past It has been the custom, in eased
where important questions are to hi
adjusted by conference committees al
the last moment, to flee for home oij
the pretext of urgent business, and
leave the bills to their fate, anothei
way of dodging the Issues when tin i
pressure gets a bit too strong.
Likewise, the senate has announced
that it may stay all summer rathei
than give in on several conference mat
ters which are sure to arise over uni
versify, normals, and general appro
priations, and this method is taken ol
telling the senate that the house ii
ready for the scrap.
The house passed another consolida
tion hill, uniting the stallion reglstra.
tion board and the live stock sanitary :
board under the state veterinarian. II i
also passed the bill providing for a ,
state budget and the measure to pro- j
vide for an efficiency survey com- I
mission, providing $4,000 for the yvorl
of this commission during the nexi
biennium. The normal school appro
priation, which It is believed will causy
a long drawn battle between the two
houses, was passed by the house, 90 tn
0.
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VETERAN FREMONT LAWYER
GOES TO SIOUX FALLS
Fremont. Neb. March 27.—E. F. Gray
dean of the Fremont bar, and one of the
oldest practitioners In Nebraska, has
departed for Hloux Falls, H. D., to make
his home with his daughter, Mrs. E.
O. Jones. Mr. Gray made the journoy
across the continent in an ox cart in
1859 to California, in search of gold.
The next year he did surveying work in
Oregon and Washington, studying law
when he could find time. He then went
to Boise City, Ida., and was admitted to
the bar. going to Lewiston he was
named district attorney of the Third
district, comprising a third of the state.
He drew the present criminal code for
the state of Idaho. In 1867 he set out
to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.
W. Gray, of Johnson county, Nebraska.
His father was serving in the Nebraska
legislature, then held in the capital at
Omaha. E. F. Gray was shortly after -
ward appointed district attorney, with
headquarters in Fremont and that was
tlie beginning of his residence here in
1S07.
C. W. BRYAN FILES AS
CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR
Lincoln, Nob., March 27.—C. W.
Bryan, brother of the secretary of
state, lias made good on his promise to
enter the city campaign as a candidate
for mayor if he could not induce some
other citizen to take up his “construc
tive program” campaign. In a state
ment issued, when he filed yesterday,
he said that he was moved to action by
the failure of the present city execu
tive to study out, present and back
measures for the development of the
city, which are the basis for business
success, personal comfort and improve
ment. Mr. Bryan was a champoin of
the adoption of the commission form
of government, and he says that the
present mayor has failed to live up
to its dominant idea, that of the chief
executive being a leader in progres
sive thought and action.
Mr. Bryan is an accomplished politi
cian, and is expected to make a strong
race. Two years ago he backed a slate
of municipal ownership candidates, and
put through one candidate even when
the public service corporations and the
wets combined against him. He also
opposed the adoption of a city charter
that did not meet with his approval,
and beat it badly. He also has to
credit at least one other municipal
victory.
MAY HAVE CHANCE FOR
COUNTY COMMISSIONS
Lincoln, Neb.. March 27.—If the sen
ate looks kindly upon the bill just
passed by the house, the various coun
ties of Nebraska will have an oppor
tunity of trying out the commission
form of government as It applies to
them. It provides for the adoption of
the system by popular vote, and creates
a board of three men, who will be the
only officers elected in each county. A
division of the duties now developing
upon the various county officers Is pro
vided for, each commissioner being at
the head of a department. They ap
point all subordinates and all necessary
assistants, and fix all salaries. A non
partisan bailot is provided for.
JUGGLING BOND ISSUE
OF "PAPER" RAILROAD
Lincoln, Neb., March 27.—Attorney
General Reed is investigating an in
formal complaint against an Omaha
casualty company that has some
peculiar angles. As the matter has been
presented it appears that the president
of the Omaha company has caused his
concern to take over the suretyship of
a $200,000 Issue of railroad bonds on
which an eastern company he had
formerly been connected with had
guaranteed the payment of principal
and Interest. The railroad company
that issued the bonds, it is represented
to the attorney general, exists only on
paper and because of the depression In
the money markets has little present
chance of being developed. The inquiry
involves the right of the Omaha com
pany to retain its charter under the cir
cumstances.
CLAIM DISEASE ANNULS
POLICY OF ACCIDENT
Lincoln, Neb., March 26.—The West
ern Travelers' Accident association re
fuses to pay the $5,000 claim that rela
tives of James W. Kerr, a well known
traveling man, are seeking to enforce.
Kerr had a corn on his big toe, and
while cutting it one day the knife
slipped. Blood poison set in and he
died. The association denies liability
on the ground that Kerr had diabetes
at the time, and under the terms of the
policy it is not liable when a person
dies of an accident while diseased.
TO STOP PADDING OF
PAYROLLS BY DIRECT
ISSUE OF WARRANTS
State Auditor Smith Will Dis.
continue Lump Allowances
to Departments.
Lincoln. Neb.. March 27.—Stat*
Auditor Smith lias issued orders that
hereafter a separate warrant will b*
Issued to every employe of the state,
as the law requires. In order to avoid
bookkeeping and extra clerical labor,
auditors have been issuing one stat«
warrant to the principals of norma)
schools and allowing them to distribute
the money to those who had earned it
This practice formerly existed with re
lation to the other state institutions*
but was abandoned some years ago lie
cause of tho opportunity it gave foi
stuffing the payroll. Auditor Smith
says lie cannot understand why anj
exception should lie made in the east
of normal school principals.
Principals have been either deposit
ing the warrant in the banks to theii
personal credit or handing it over tc
the registrar to do, and then giving
a, personal check to each employe
Hereafter warrants will be drawn upon
the payroll as certified by the business
agent of each normal and sent to hire
for distribution among the employes*
each of whom must sign a receipt fo.
It. Auditor Smith says it causes nc
more work for state employes to have
the auditor's office force draw the war
rants than for tlie payment by persona
checks.
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TEACHERS IN LINCOLN FOR
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Lincoln. Neb., March 27.—Teachers
from most of the towns and cities oi
southeastern Nebraska are here in at
tendance- at tlie annual session of tlie
Southeastern Nebraska Educationa)
association. Tlie regular work began
this morning with an address of wel
jome from City Superintendent Hunter
Chancellor Avery spoke on “Education
tnd Progress,” Dr. Henry S. Curtis or
“Education Through Play” and Dr
Charles H. Judd on “The Cultivation
of tho Initiative in Students.”
HUSBAND TOO EXPENSIVE;
YOUNG WIFE ASKS DIVORCE
Lincoln. Neb.. March 27.—As on)
reason why she would like to have n
pivorce, Mrs. Wiley ]<\ Robertson tell)
the district court that the pleasure <>(
Her husbands company cost her $5,00(
[or the last six month. They were mar
ried last July, and separated in De
.-ember, when he told her that it wat
none of her business when she inquire^
why he was writtlng endearing letters
to another woman. Mrs. Robertson ll
19 years of age, and received $7,0U«
[rom the railroad company for dam
ages occasioned by the accidental kill
ing of her first husband. Robertsoi;
was a boilermaker at the Havclocli
shops, but lie quit work as soon as be
was married, and purchased a honu
and automobile. After Robertson hat
gone she discovered lie had drawn out
rnost of their money and mortgager
their home. She received a divorce
and tlie title to tlie property.
TREASURERS ARE GUILTY
OF “MORAL DELINQUENCY’'
Lincoln. Nob.. March 27.—State
Treasurer Hall, in a statement just
Issued, imputes moral delinquency to
those county treasurers who have re
fused to obey his order to send in
monthly their collections of state taxes.
He says that the treasurer of Lancaster
county, for instance, makes $1,000 a
year in interest on the state money he
deposits, whereas if the state had
the money the taxpayers would get $1,
500 Interest. Mr. Hall intimates very
strongly his belief that the bankers in
the various counties are the men who
are urging the treasurers not to send
the money in monthly to the state
treasurer, in order that they may profit
by the deposits, the state getting 3 per
cent from it depositaries and the coun
ties but 2 per cent. Mr. Hall says:
“I deny that Treasurer Sommerlaad,
of Lancaster county is working for the
Interest of the people of his county
when he wrongfully takes a thing
which does not belong to them and
gives it to them. If I, as an employe of
the state, were able to and willing to
steal for mv state. I would be equally
willing and able to steal from my
state.”
NURSES AND ROMANCE
SOMETIMES AFFILIATE
Lincoln. Neb., March 27.—Nurses do
marry their patients, sometimes. In
proof of it, Miss Maude M. Kreamer,
who has been nursing James G. Given
for the last two years, married him yes
terday afternoon. When Given was
admitted to a Lincoln hospital two
years ago. Miss Kreamer was assigned
to take care of him. Since then, at in
tervals. she has nursed.him, relieving
his mother. The latter died a few
weeks ago. Mr. Given is still an in
valid, not able to be out of a chair.
LYONS—Peter Molsant, a former Lyons
citizen who recently moved to Burbank,
S. P., died while visiting his brother, John
Molsant, in Oklahoma, and the body was
taken to his South Dakota home for bur
ial. He leaves a widow and six children,
his daughter, Mrs. J. L. Moisant, residing
here.
LINCOLN—House bill No. 300 passed the
senate. The bill provides for the holding
open of primary and the general election
polls the same hours. The polls in both
eases will open at 8 in the morning and
close at 8 at night. However, In the case
of the primary, voters who are within the
polling place or are in line to vote when
8 o'clock comes will bo allowed to vote,
although they will not bo allowed to do so
In the regular elections.
LINCOLN—H. H. Wilson, one of the
Nebraska members of the National Red
Cross, received a check for $1,135 from the
Pacific-Panama exposition committee,
with the request that It be used for aid
of Belgians. The money was raised for
a Nebraska exhibit at the exposition, but
the plan was abandoned and the com
mittee suggested that it be sent to Bel
gium, which wUl be done.
FREMONT—Seventeen hours behind
schedule as the result of being stalled 111
a snowdrift near Gordon, Northwestern
train No. 6 from the Black Hills arrived
In Fremont Tuesday. While the train
was tied up In the snowbank food was
brought to the passengers on bobsleds by
farmers.
WIFE IS ACCUSED OF
COMPLICITY IN MURDER
St. Louts. Mo.. March 25.—Ralph S.
Holliday was named as the assassin
of Richard Randolph and Mrs. Ran
dolph was named as accessory before
the fact in the verdict of the coroner’s
Jury today. Randolph was shot late
Tuesday while in Ills wholesale store.
I The police are looking for Holliday.
Mrs. Randolph is under arrest.
At the equator the diameter of the
earth is 7.92G English miles.
OMAHA MINISTERS IN
REPORT TO ALDERMEN j
TELL OF_CITY EVILS,
Committee Finds 30 Places In
Which Illegal Conditions !
Are Observed.
Omaha, Neb., March 26.—The submits* ,
sion of a “vice report” by a committee i
representing the Omaha Ministerial un |
ion, to the city commissioners, brought <
forth a spirited discussion on the sub- j
ject of morals in this city.
The report handed to the. city clerk ]
by Rev. A. C. Douglass, president o< !
the Ministerial union, contained the i
names and addresses of about 30 places
where it was alleged investigators :
found violations of laws on recent date.
The tenor of the report had been
softened materially after several meet- '
ings of the special vice committee and
by the Ministerial union itself. The
ministers said they came to the com
missioners in a spirit of helpfulness.
The commissioners declared they stood
for enforcement of the laws and they
individually explained their view points
and conditions which must be faced in
a large city.
Commissioner A. C. Kugel. superin
tendent of the police department, said
that it takes public influence and publii
sentiment to properly administer tha
laws. Commissioner J. J. Ryder ven
tured tlie statement that conditions
might be even worse than represented
by the report of the ministers. Tha
mayor said he was not cognizant of tha
conditions outlined in the report.
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"WARM WORDS” COMMON
IN NEBRASKA ASSEMBLY
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—It is a very
dull day in the Nebraska legislature
when a sensation of some kind does
not develop. This time it was in the
senate, and Senator Grace, or Harlan
county, was the heavy villain in the
drama.
First he had a tilt with Senator How
ell, of Douglas, over a motion sent up
by himself to not concur in the action
of the house on the Omaha annexation
bill, but to send it to a conference com
mittee. Howell charged Grace with be
ing influenced by tile state chairman
of the democratic committee. W. H.
Thompson and Grace walked over in
front of the Douglas county senator and
shaking their fists in his face, told him
that such a charge was false. Howell
came back with the same tactics and it
was some minutes before the two men
let up in their talkfest, most of the
time both talking at the same time. Tha
matter finally was fixed up by making
consideration of the bill a special order
for Thursday morning.
Later in the day Grace accosted Rep
resentative Jerry Howard, of Douglas
county, in the lobby and demanded that
he go back to the other end of
the statehou.se, where he belonged. The
two men jangled for awhile and finally
shook hands, though Grace gave
Howard a parting shot by telling him
to stay where he belonged and mind
his own business.
OMAHA LIGHT PLANT BILL
IS APPROVED BY HOUSE
. Lincoln. Neb., March 26.—After one
of the hardest fights of the session the
Omaha water board electric lighting
bill was passed by the house yesterday
afternoon by a close vote, the con
stitutional majority barely being given.
Many explained their votes and the final
count gave the bill 52 votes for pass
age against 44 against, with four miss
ing. An amendment placed on the bill
allowing the water board to purchase
the old plant on an appraisal by three
enginers by the house will mean that
the bill will have to go back to the sen
ate, where it had formally passed, for
approval.
The house finance committee got in
some more of its economy work yester
day afternoon and reported out for
passage bills cutting down the state
university maintenance fund $145,000.
Normal schools suffer a cut of $1S6.
000. The house promptly acquiesced in
the slaughter.
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FINDS RELIGIOUS TURMOIL
IN UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
Lincoln, Neb.. March 26.—Prof. J. A.
Alexis of the University of Nebraska
has received a very flattering offer of
a professorship in the University of
Utah and was about to accept it when
he read In the newspapers that most
of the faculty there had resigned be
cause of trouble over religious mat
ters. Now he is trying to find out if
it is safe or advisable to make the
transfer. Four members of the faculty
of the University of Utah were re
moved some weeks ago because they
were charged with being out of sym
pathy with the dominant element in
Utah politics, the Mormon church, and
a number of other professors resigned
because of this summary action of the
governing board. Inquiries have come
to Nebraska to find out the religious
affiliations of Professor Alexis. Ho is
a member of the Swedish Luthern
church, in which his father is an or
dained minister.
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FURNAS COUNTY WILL BE
HAULED INTO COURT
Lincoln, Neb.. March 26.—The coun
ty of Furnas is In bad with the state of
Nebraska, and Attorney General Reed
is going to haul it Into court and com
pel an explanation. The state is
angry because the county has sold
some state land for taxes due the
county. Under the constitution and the
laws the state does not have to pay
taxes on Its land to anybody, and that
Is why tho state Is angry. The tract
In question Is an 80 acre piece of farm
land that once formed part of a sec
tion owned by the state school fund.
All the remainder of the section was
deeded to the Omaha & Southwestern
railroad many years ago as a bonus for
building its line. The county challen
ges the title of the state to this 80, and
has sold It.
LINCOLN—Mrs. Julia W. O’Shea was
found lying dead on her dining room floor
by her sister, who came to visit her. Mrs.
P’Shea was well to do and had a number
Df children who had besought her to make
her home with them, hut she declined to
Ho so because she preferred to remain
where the happiest years of her life had
been spent. She had not been well In re
tent weeks, and relatives were In the habit
it making it a point to call on her dur
ing each day. She had been dead about
'.wo hours when her sister arrived.
LINCOLN—Fifty ministers of the Chris
llan church, gathered from all parts of
the state, are In attendance at the annual
Institute which opened at Cotner univer
sity Tuesday. One of the addresses given
was by Rev. J. W. llilton, of Lincoln, on
the proper way to conduct a funeral ser
vice. Other addresses were upon evangel
istic methods, personal work among the
laity and studies of various books of the
new testament. The Institute will be in
session the remainder of the week.
MOUNT VERNON—At a mass meeting
held here an athletic association was or
ganized, with the following officers: Presi
dent. Professor Smith: secretary, Vern
Rich; floor manager, Tom Darmer. Spe
cial quarters will be secured.
DECISIVE ACTION
ON PART OF ITALY
IS EXPECTED SOON
Rome Dispatch Says Nation Is
Ready, But the English Press
Thinks She May Play Wait
ing Game Longer.
RUSSIA MENACES HUNGARY
Desperate Effort Will Be Nec
essary to Repel Invasion By
Slav Army — Inaction
on Other Fronts.
4 ITALY’S WAR STRENGTH. 4
4 4
4 Italy’s fighting force on land 4
4 and sea:
4 ARMY. 4
4 Peace strength, 300,000; re- 4
4 serves, 2,994,200.
4 Total war strength, 3,3S0,200. 4
4 Available for duty unorgan- ♦
4 ized. 248,60S. 4
4 NAVY. 4
4 Modern battleships, 7; other ♦
4 battleships, 8.
4 First class cruisers, 9: second 4
4 class cruisers, 5, third class 4
4 cruisers. 10. 4
4 Gunboats. 5; destroyers, 40: 4
4 torpedo boats, 75; submarines. 4
4 20. f
4 Total ships, 1S5. 4
4 Total officers and men, 36,095. 4
timuHiHttmt
Rome, (via Paris). Ivlarcn —
Every measure possible has been
taken by the Italian government
preparatory to the beginning of
hostilities bv Italy on the side of the
allies.
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London, March 29.—Decisive action
by Italy is regarded in Romo as im
minent. A brief dispatch from that
city today states that the Italian gov
ernment has taken every possible meas
ure preparatory to beginning war on
the side of the allies.
It is also said in Rome that there is
observable a tendency on the part of
Bulgaria to adopt a policy favorable to
the allies, and that tho government
hopes to act in conjunction with Italy
and Rumania. The attitude of Bul
garia has been in doubt on account of
the hostility toward the other Balkan
nations, which grew out of the second
Balkan war.
Russia Pushing On.
Russia today for the third time holds
the gate to Hungary, and British ob
servers are virtually united in the ex
pectation that the Teutonic allies will
make a supreme effort to prevent the
forces of Emperor Nicholas from again
pouring onto the Hungarian plains.
Meager reports from Vienna in
cate that there is some depression In
Austria on account of the fall of
Przemysl. but on the other hand tho
papacy denies that this has reunited
ih overtures from Emperor Francis
Joseph in any endeavor to obtain tho
intervention of the pope on behalf of a
separate peace.
So far. Italy and the Balkan states
are still “sitting on the fence,” which
position they will maintain, in tho
opinion of a notable section of the
British press, until such time as the
fighting in the Dardanelles has pro
duced definite results.
Advance By Belgians.
The only advance of the allies along
the western front consists of the cap
ture bv Belgian forces of a farm to the
north of St. George.
In England the labor unrest again
lias manifested itself. In this connec
tion, the belief is growing that the gov
ernment soon will take measures to re
strict drinking.
In Holland, there is a growing sense
of injure over tho unfortunate situa
tion of butch shipping, which a lead
ing Netherlands paper describes as
suffering from a “competition of Mle
gality in marine warfare.”
RUSSIANS ARE GAINING
IN BLOODIEST STRUGGLE
Geneva, (via Paris), March Dis
patches received by Swiss ne apnpcrs
continue to emphasize the success of
the Russians in the battle which is
still in progress in the Carpathians.
Tho struggle in TJjok and lai*d<i>w
passes on March 23 is said to have been
particularly desperate, with heavy
losses for the Austrians.
Sanguinary encounters also arc re
ported on the banks of the Biala (in
Galicia, 43 miles west-southwost »f
Cracow), where Austrian attacks are
said to have been repulsed with losses
placed at 8,000 killed, wounded and
missing.
The Russians are credited with suc
cess all along the line of the Prntli
in Galicia and Bukowina, where they
dislodged the Austrians from their
strongest positions.
FORTS OF DARDANELLES ARE
SILENCED BY SHELL FIRE
Paris, March 27.—It now has been
established that the forts at Dardn
nus have been destroyed and those at
Kilid Bahr have been damaged by the
operations of the allied fleet in the
Dardanelles, says a Havas dispatch
from Athens dated Friday. Ships en
gaged in mine sweeping were tired on
by the Turkish Held artillery situated
at Renkeul. but the batteries are said
to have been silenced by the lire "rom
the battleships.
According to a dispatch from Myti
lene, three British and two Frefcch
ships have anchored in the Gulf of
Smyrna with transports.
ALBANIAN REBELS BENT
ON ENDING TURK POWER
Rome, March 27.—Sixty thousand
Albanian rebels are said to be engaged
in the assault upon Durazzo, designed
to force the retirement of Essacf Pasha,
the Turkish provisional president The
bombardment of the port continues and
several persons are said to have been
wounded. The residence of Fssad
Pasha has been badly damaged by
shell fire.
BULGARIA IS SHAPING
PRO-ALLY POLICY, CLAIM
Rome, March 27.—Close observers
here of the Balkan situation profess
to see indications of a gradual tendency
on tlie part of tie Bulgarian govern
ment to adopt a pi- y favorable to tie
allies. It is believed Bulgaria hopes b
act jointly in that direction with Italy
and Rumania.