HE WON OFFICE. WONT QUALIFY Thurston County Man Can* not Now Take Place As Commissioner Walthlll, Neb., Feb. Walter K. Mitchell, who haa been one of the three Thurston county commission ers for the last eight years, and who won his election by nine votes last fall, now finds his office declared vacant becouse he failed to fils the required bond during January. Mr. Mitchell can only secure hts office now by appointment by the county clerk, county treasurer and county attorney. DIVORCECOOTS BEING BOOSTED Two Wealthy and Aged Ne» braskans Made to Pay Heavy Alimony Lincoln, Neb., Feb. % (Special.)—■ The high cost of divorce is being boosted by the supreme court. It has Just handed down decisions that cost Christopher Ticrnan $40,000 ali mony and Samuel White $17,000. Tlernan is 83 years old and White 72. Tlernan Is the wealthy owner of half a dozen business blocks In Lincoln, and had been married twice before he wedded (he woman who has Just got a divorce and $40,000. She had spent most of her life in a convent, and was less than half Tiernan’s age when married 1(1 years ago. While Is a wealthy Seward county farmer. He admitted having $200,- ' 000 worth of property. He was a widower and married a York school teacher who was under 40 years old. He tried to get the supreme uuurt to leave off Interest on the Judg ment because he had paid temporary alimony. NORTHWESTERN WARNED ABOUT OVER-CHARGES Lincoln, Neb., Feb. (Special.) — Hallway Commissioner Randall has written r letter to D. M. Davis, head of the freight department of the Northwestern railroad, notifying him that steps must be taken to Insure the Issuance of correct freight bills In the future, or drastic action will be taken to see that it is done. Mr. Randall charges that these errors, us represented in complaints to the commission, have been so nu merous, as compared with the errors of the other railroads, ps to suggest ‘hat the men who make out and collect the freight bills have received their instructions from men higher up. He says that It is fair lo as sume that many *)ave been over charged without ceing aware of the fact, and that if the road does not protect them from this the commis sion will huve to do something about it. Mr. Davis insists that the officials have given no instructions of tl\e character Mr. Randall Intimates, and that no greater number of errors are commuted by its agents than by agents of other roads. NtBHASKA ROAD TAX PLANS BADLY JUMBLED Lincoln, Neb., Feb, (Special.)— The good roads association repre sentatives at the legislature have abandoned their plan for a state highway commission to have charge of all the road construction in the state and to map out a six or eight year program. Uovernor McMullen’s opposition to any new boards and commissions, even though no pay is attached, forced relinquishment of that plan. The big fight now is over a division of the gasoline tax and license money as between the state and the counties and whether , to have a centralised authority or "not. There will be a two cent gasoline tax. The road committee will be against any exemptions, but the farm bloc Is insisting that tractors and cleaning establishments be ex empted. The committee is for cut* ting about $2 a year off the license fee, while the farm bloc Is opposed to any reduction in license taxes for pleasure cars, but wants farm tractors and trailers cut 60 per cent. In license. The committee U not sure about the division of gasoline lax and license fees, but Is inclined to give the state department most of It to spend. The farm bloc, on the other hand, is going to Insist on an eonal dlv'slon of both. The old question of whether to continue accepting federal aid or not Is also to be fought out. The fed eral government having changed Its policy and having decided to deat only with state Instead of county units. It is necessary te change the wtntutes, if Nebraska la to get fed eral aid after November 1, 1926. The farm bloc leaders aay that most of their members are In favor of quit ting the dollar-matching practice and that they will oppose an> change in the atatutes. i EMERSON PIONEER BUSINESS MAN DEAD Emerson, Neb., Feb. „ '—Word of the death of John L Davis, pioneer business .man here, has been received by Mrs. Rose Waggoner, daughter of the dead man. His death occurred In San Jose, Cal. During his SO years here, Mr. Davts was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. He also was a chicken fancier of note and captured many prises, among them a first with three Rhode Island Reds at the international exposition In St. Louis, in 1919. IS DEMANDING HIS OLD FARM Nebraska Man Who Traded For Colorado Soil Brings Suit Falls City, Neb., Feb '•.—Roland M. HUI, living near Humboldt, has filed suit to recover 1M acres of Im proved Richardson county land which he traded for a tract of Colo rado land ha did not properly exam ine, he alleges, "because there was a foot of snow covering It at the time." According to Hill, the transaction cost him f 11,000 because when the snow cleared away the land was not at all like It was represented to him. WOMAN HOMESTEADER DEAD; 92 YEAR8 OLD Grand Island, Neb., Feb. — Nancy Chapman Bhadduck, said to be the first woman homesteader In Thayer county, near Davenport, Neb., died here at the home of her nephew, at the age of 92 years. EXPECT FIGHT FOR THE CHILD Fremont Authorities Slow To Act on Demand of Her Mother Fremont, Neb., Feb. (Special)— City officials refused to consent to the removal of Emma Jessup, 12 years old to a home for children at Omaha, pending word from the girl's father, Reuben Jessup, at Carthage, S. T)„ but the mother of the girl who Is separated from Jessup, signed the necessary papers demanded by the ! home representative. Chief George Nagel, who knows the girl’s father, said he expected complications might arise when the father returns. The child was removed from Ingle-, wood to a hospital last week at the suggestion of her teacher, Retha Martin, and It was found that she was suffering from frozen feet. Em ma told her teacher and the city phy sician that her feet were frost-bitten when she went to Carthage. R. T>.. to testify at the trial of men who shot her grandfather and her father on their farm near Carthage. She said the frozen feet had never been given any attent'on. Rhe lived with her grandmother here. IT WA8 A MAGGIE J1GGS AFFAIR Newcastle, Neb.. Feb. N (Special) —The Radies’ Aid of the communist Congregational church here added some extra spice to a dinner held In the I. O. O. F. hall by staging, a “Maggie and Jlggs” program. The hall was decorated In colors and hearts appropriate for the season and Maggie and Jlggs were so well made up and acted their parts so well, per forming with rolling pin, silk hat, cane and cigar, that those who par took of the corn beef and cabbage said It seemed that Maggie and Jlggs were real. Mrs. Vaughn Sweet play ed the part of the Jlggs and Mrs. S. J. Ttlden Sloan acted Maggie’s part. The proceeds of the dinner amounted to about $50. EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE DATES ARE FIXED Madison, S. D., Feb. .—The third annual Eastern Educational confer ence between county and city sup erintendents of schools, the state sup erintendent of public Instruction, and the Eastern State Teachers college staff will be held at Madison on April 16, 17 and 18, It has been announced here by the committee In charge of arrangements. The purpose of the conference is to give opportunity to admlstrators In education to consider as a group problems related to their work Spec Its 1 emphasis this year wilt be given to the problems of arithmetic teaching, Inter-scholustic athletics for girls, and standards for the training of teachers. OMAHA LEGGERS REMEMBER FEDERAL JUDGE M’GEE Omaha. Neb., Feb. V—Federal Judge John F. McGee, who ended his own life Sunday In Minneapolis, was In Omaha but a few weeks during lust June and July, hut In that time established a record on the bench which won the acclaim of the church element, spread dismay in the ranks of the hoettorgOig fraternity, and made hlu name familiar In every household. He was called to Omaha to clear an overcrowded docket, and In rec ord time had sentenced nearly 100 persons, In each case dealing punish ment which In other cities had won him the name, “Ten-year MeCJee.” Some of tjm persons Imprisoned by him have been liberated, due to a decision of the circuit oourt of ap peals that he erred technically by not designating the order in which they should serve terms Imposed on more than one count of an Indict ment. The higher court ruled that because of this, the sentences were made to run “concurrently” Instead of "consecutively,” as specified by Judge McGee. REVEALS REAL NAME Waterloo, la.. Feb. *“ <1. N. S.) — I*ol1oe knew a prisoner's right name today through hls attempt at self destruction. Following an unsuc cessful attempt to dig out of Jail here yesterday, a man who was “registered” ns William Baxter’ of Chicago, sought to hang himself In h’.s cell. Olher prisoners gave the alarm, and police cut him down Whe'a his cell wag searched, the officers found a slip of i>aper or which the prisoner had wrttter “my real name Is William Baxtei , v< Columbus. Ohio” CONDEMN BANK METHODS USED Nebraska Supreme Court Gives Stinging Rebuke to Management Uncoln, Neb.. Feb. *. (Special)— Stinging condemnation of the meth ods of officials of the Gross State hank and of a national bank at Spen cer, particularly that of F. W. Woods, head of both Institutions, now de funct, Is contained In a decision of the supreme court denying the claim of E. A. OehlerkinK for reimburse ment from the deposit guaranty fund on *5,