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FAVORS BILL TO OPEN LAND Kinkald Says Congress Should . Pass Another Law. 1C10BRARA MILITARY RESERVE. ixth District Representative Dia cuttet Legal Aspects of Opening New Territory in Nebraska to Settle ment Precautions Against Sooner. Washington, July 1. There seems to be a divergence of opinion whether further legislation will be necessary to subject the lands in the Fort Nio brara military reservation to home stead entry. Representative Kinkald aid, In discussing this subject: "I regard it as very important that legislation be had opening these lauds to settlement, but even with an execu tive order from President Taft aban doning the reservation, I think nothing Should he done until congress has had As opportunity to act. I think that legislation 1b nocostiry In order to create free homes upon these lands originally set apart for military reser vation purposes. "Under tho existing law the original reservation would be sold to home steaders at an appraised value. Such acts as I have been instrumental in passing exempting the McPherson and 8herldan military lands from payment Of the appraised value will alHo be proper In the case of the Fort Nio brara reservation. "I called special attention' to this feature of this case in a writing which was considered at the first cabinet meeting giving the question considera tion. I pointed out that It was desired to make the better quality of the lands subject to entry under the old quarter section law and the more sandy lands subject to the one section law. I have asked that the opening of these lands to settlement be held In abeyance un til congress can legislate. The secre tary of the Interior agrees with me on this point. "Another reason for delaying the proposed opening Is the existence of the lease to the Nebraska state univer sity for an experimental station. This lease could at any time be suspended at the will of the secretary of war. I have ndvlsed with Judge Advocate General Crowell fully and satisfac torily on this phnse of the subject and nave also talked with the secretary of war. This lease will be preserved and the experimental station recognized by any legislation that may bo passed In which I mny have a hand. "Another matter which should en tage utlentinn Is to take precaution against 'Hooners' and make stringent laws to prevent any effort to secure 11 legal advantages." GEORGE GETS CASH IN OMAHA Goes Home From Metropolis With Pockets Bulging With Money. Lincoln, July 1. State Treasurer George has returned from Omaha with his pockets bulging, as a result of a bond delivery made to Douglas county and from which ho realized with the coupons In the neighborhood of $178, (00. In addition the state official re ceived from the county treasurer col lections for the state general fund amounting to $.15,000, making a total of about $213,000, which will go into tho Ktatu treasury from Douglas county- ... . O. A. Hanlelson of Center, who was recently appointed deputy state treas urer In place or K. S. Mickey, who re signed, assumed the duties of tho of fice today. DEMOCRATS PICK FREMONT State Central Committee Holds Meet ing at Columbus. Columbus, Neb..- July 1 Fremont whb chosen ns the place for holding the Democratic Hate convention at the meeting of the stato central com mittee in this city. IJneoln. Hastings and dinnd Island w re I'lso after the plum, but Fremont landed It without any dillculty. The representation will be on tho same basis as last year, one delegate for emh ISO votes cnt for presidential electos In 19'8 Chairman Byrnes, who Is Just uble to leave a sick bed, presided over the meeting and Leo Matthews wns secretary. Say Shotwell Talks Tco Much. Lincoln, July 1. That Secretary Franklin A. Shotwell ot the Nebraska Progressive Republican league Is just a little out of line with his associates In that organization was made plain at a tivetlng held heie. While no ac tion was taken formally repudiating tho pledges made- by Mr. Shotwell to President Talt while In Washington, speaker generally voiced the senti ment that Shotwell had tain J 1 loo much and that he did not have the Kupiort of the organization ho re pro bents in hi- promises. Runs Nude Through Street. Broken How, Neb., July J. John I launch, a farmei, who was brought to HroKen How tor a henrlng ns to his sanity, became entirely crazed while :tt one of the hotels here and ran Into the street without any clothing on, screaming that someone was alter hfm to murder him and his little girl. The hotel porter and others finally sub dued Mm nnd Mr. Hannah wus scut to th city Jail for safekeeping. YOUTH TAKES CLOUD TRIP Ransom Jones of Treynor Caught In Gu Rope of Balloon. Tf jnor, la.. July 1. The celebra tion at Treynor of the completion of a railroad to the town ended with a thrilling climax, in which Ransom Jones, eighteen years old, was given a balloon ride not on the program. With others, Joncg was assisting the aeronaut to inflate Jils balloon. Owing to the wind tho ascension was not made until dusk. Three thousand people stood about and when the balloon soared away they were horrified to see a young man dangling at the end of one of the guy ropes. Young Jones began to climb the rope hand over hand and was about to gTasp the release rope to the parachute, which would have re sulted In the fall and death of both men. The aeronaut cried to the young man to ride her out and, pulling the release rope himself, dropped to the earth. Jones rode her out he couldn't do anything else. After a four-mile ride, at tlmefj out or sight In the gathering darkness, he came down with the bal loon unhurt. IS RUN OVER BY ENGINE Nell Conroy It Instnafty Killed at Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids, la., July 1. The sixth violent death hero this week occurred when Nell Conroy, a well known local character, was run over by a switch engine and instantly killed. It Is said that Conroy had been drinking and fell on the track, where he was sleep ing when the engine struck hlra. ONLY ONEH ' ' FORAGAR PLANT Collins' Oiler ol $45,000 Held Up Temporarily. Chicago, July 1. Only one bid was made for the Agar packing plant prop erty at Des Moines before Referee In bankruptcy Sidney C. Eastman. This was tr,000. submitted by Richard J. Collins, a packer of Chicago. The creditors of the company protested against the acceptance of this bid, claiming It was entirely too low con sidering the assets of the company and the value of the plant. Judge Eastman decided that In view of the fact that claims against the company amounted to $54,000, creditors should be given a chance to secure a higher bid. If they are not successful in this within a reasonable time, the Col lins hid w ill stand good. . POLICE SEEK FIREBUG Torch Applied to Two More Buildings at Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids, la., July 1. The local police are searching for a fire bug, who, It Is alleged, has started severul fires In the city during the last few days. Two more fires, evidently of Incen diary origin, were extinguished before! much damage wns done. More than a half dozen flres have been started this week, the firebug confining his efforts to small buildings lu the business district. Iowa Msn Shot at Somerville, N. J. Somervlllo, N. J., July 1. William Malloy, forty five years old, who says his homo is in Shell Rock, la., was brought to a hospital hero In a sup posedly dying condition from a bullet In his abdomen. He was shot as he fled from a house Into which he had forced his way with apparently bur glarious Intent. Ray Anderson, whose houso Malloy had entered, did the shooting. CONDENSED NEWS Crazed by lu at, Mrs. McCrary killed her three children and ended her own life at Lockney, Tex. Using a pick and crowbar to pry open the vault, robbers broke Into the Stato hank of Hyars, Okla., obtained f 1.000 and escaped. With, the tinman aviator, with a passenger, flew from Munich to Bor lln, 345 miles. In fllve hours and forty five minutes, winning a prize of $12, 1500. Dr. Abrnham Jacobl of New York was elected president of the Amer ican Medical association. Atlantic City was chosen for the 1912 conven tion. The total reserve held by 7,277 na tional banks Is $1,478,140,795, an aver ago of 22.10 per cent, and $121,fi70,815 above the amount required to bo held by law. J. F. Truemnn of Wheeling wns killed and Edward Ward and Charles Irwin of rittsburg were fatally hurt In nn automobile accident near Hrnd dock, I'n. The express from Havre for Paris was derailed by train wreckers at I'ont de L'Areho, near lonlveres. All tho cars turned over, but none of the passengers wns seriously Injured. A tnnn believed to he David Caplnn, oeo of the allowed McNntnara dyna mite conspirators, Is under surveil lance In London. Tapers are being prepared for his extradition from En gland to this country. Expeditious at lion on the pending treaties vit!i Honduras nnd Nlcnrngua providing fr customs guarantees for foreign loans by those governments were urged by President Taft in a message to tho senate. PRIME OBJECT OF STEEL TRUST Big Corporation Organized to Re strict Competition. MUCH WATER IN THE STOCK. Commissioner of Corporations Smith Says Capital of $1,402,000,000 Repre sents Property Worth Only $625 000,000 Controls Ore Properties. Washington, July 1. Restriction of competition Is declared to have been the prime object of the organizers of the United States Steel corporation, which was capitalized at $1,402,000,000 and had tangible property worth only $(J82,000,0O0; the corporation having concentrated its efforts to secure ore properties, now owns 75 per cent of the lake ores, upon which the present steel Industry is based. These are some of the conclusions reached In the long expected report of Commissioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith on the steel Industry. Discussing in detail how "the Im pending struggle of the giants'" was averted, almost over night, by the formation of the great combination of combinations, taking in 250 subsidiary companies, controlling 60 per cent of the total crude and finished steel pro duction of the country, the report says: "Until 18U8 the bulk of the business was distributed among a very consid erable number of concerns. There was sharp competition, modified by frequent pools of greater or less dura tion and effectiveness." First Era of Combinations. Then came an era of great combina tions, the report continues, with cap italizations ranging from $30,000,000 to $100,000,000, mergers of many small companies, which Instead of elitninat lng competition," threatened to bring price cutting on a larger scale than ever before. In 189!) 1900 there were three great companies, the Carnegie company, Federal Steel and National Steel, dominating the production of crude and semi-finished products, and six concerns, the American Steel and Wire, American Tin Plate, American Steel Hoop, American Sheet Steel, Na tional Tube end American Ilrldge, con trolling the lighter finished products. This was the period when the "struggle of the giants" was Impend ing and when the formation of the United States Steel corporation was conceived and brought about. All nine of the coropnnles named were com bined, and later tho Union Steel com pany, the Clahton Steel company and, In 19(17, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company were taken over. The promoting syndicate putting the deal through netted $G2,500,000 In cash. Inning th? ten years of Its opera tion, the report says, the steel trust has paid avepnee annual profits of 12 per cent on the money Invested. Independent Output Growing. Since the corporation has been di recting its efforts practically toward acquiring nnd extending complete con trol over ore properties, Its percentage of production has decreased. As against '10 per cent of all crude and finished production in 1901, the report snys, the corporation now has not much over 50 per cent, indicating con clusively the continuous presence of strong and Increasing Independent production. However, the commissioner finds that competition, so far as prices are concerned, has been modified by the policy of "cooperation" Inaugurated at the "Clary dinners," about which so much hns been said before the con gressional steel Investigation commit tee. Control of Ore Properties. The report concludes as follows: "The dominating position in the ore Industry enjoyed by the Steel corpora tion through this great ownership of ore reserves Is heightened because of Its very marked degree of control ol the transportation of ore In tho Iike Superior district. The corporation controls two of the most important ore railroads, the Duluth and Iron Range railroad and the Duluth, Mis sabe and Northern railway. The ore rates on Ihese railroads are about 1 cent per ton-mile. Their operating ex penses are very low, that of the Du luth, Mlssabe and Northern In 1910 being below 30 per cent of gross earn ings as against an average of 66 per cent for all the railroads of the coun try. The net earnings of these ore railroads, which are chiefly from the ore traffic, are phenomenal. This has the practical effect of reducing the Steel corporation's net cost of ore to Itself at upper Inke ports and, on the other hand, of Increasing that cost to such of Its competitors as are depend ent upon tho corporation's railroads for transportation. "Honce, not only on account of Its great holdings of ore, but also on ac count of these peculiar advantages en Joyed In the transportation of the ore tho Steel corporation occupies an ex tremely commanding position In tho Iron nnd steel Industry. Indeed, Inso far ns the Steel corporation's position In the entire Iron nnd sjeol Industry Is of monopolistic character It Is chief ly through Its control of ore holdings and tho transportation of ore." The report Is the first of three parts of findings by the bureau or corpora tions in an exhaustive Inquiry Into the Steel Industry. MORE LANDS FOR SETTLERS Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Acres Available Oct. 2. Washington, July 1. Approximately 600,000 acres of land have been opened to settlers under the registration plan through a proclamation signed bj President Taft, 150,000 acres being within the Fort Berthold Indian reser vation of North Dakota and 450,00( in the Pine Ridge and Rosebud In dian reservations in South Dakota. These lands are to be opened undei the registration plan heretofore fol lowed. The registration for the Nortb Dakota lands will begin Aug. 14 at the towns of Bismarck, Mlnot, Plaza Garrison and Ryder, N. D.; and th registration for the South Dakota lands will begin Oct. 2 at the to win of Chamberlain, Dallas, Gregory and Rapid City, S. D. Each of these regis tratlons will continue for three weeks PLEADS GUILTY TO HAVINGTVO WIVES Grand Island Man Bound Over to District Gourtat Hastings. Hastings, Neb., July 1. Walter S Brunson, alias Alfred I Young, night ticket agent of the Union Pacific and St. Joseph and Grand Island railroads In Grand Island, was bound over to the district court on his plea of guilty to the charge of bigamy In the mar riage of Miss Jessie Riddile of this city on June 20. He was arrested Id Grand Island and confessed Immedl ately on his arrival here with Sheriff McCleery. His wife, Mrs. M. Iona Brunson, lives in Munroe, Mich. Miss Jessie Riddile is the daughter of Dr. J P. Riddile, a prominent physl clan here. She has been employed a; a teacher In the schools at Wood Rlv er, and became acquainted with Brun son on her frequent week-end trips home, which necessitated her chang ing cars at the Grand Island station, where Brunson was employed. Brun on formerly lived at Falrbury. French Editors Fight Duet. Paris, July 1. The polemics be tween the Matin and the Journal ovet the international aeroplane race, ar ranged by the latter, resulted In a dramatic sword duel between M Charlet, managing editor of the Jour nnt, and M. Jouvenal, editor In ctief of the Matin. Each received a wound Id the arm. The encounter was witnessed by a small army of journalists and photographers. Trevlno Candidate for President San Antonio, Tex., July 1. The can dldacy of General Geronimo Trevlno for the presidency of Mexico has been formally launched through the estab llshment of a Mexican paper in Sun Antonio. El Constitutional. The can dlda,te for vice president Is Fernando Iglesias Cahleron. The paper calls Francisco I. Madero a "traitor and a trensonlst." Snatched Flowers, but Wanted Purse Wichita, Kan., July 1. For stealing a boquet of flowers from a woman on the street In this city, Vincent Mc Artlng was given an Indeterminate sen fence of from one to twenty one years In the pcnlt ntiary. McArtlng admit ted thnt he Intended to snatch the woman's pocxethook and that he got the boquet by mistake. Grain Dealers Meet Beatrice, Neb., July 1. The mem bers of the Kansas and Nebraska Grain Dealers' association held a well attended meeting here. Secretary Smiley of the organization explained to the members a number of the new laws concerning their business. CONDENSED NEWS Archbishop Dennis O'Connor of the Romnn Catholic diocese of Toronto died of Blight's disease. IM ward Canfield hns been arrested In Vancouver, B. C, charged with murder In Atkinson, N. D. Canfield will resist extradition. More than 2,500 engineers of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad were granted nn Increase In wages amount lng to about 6 per cent. Because a girl who had typhoid three years ago was allowed to wash milk cans on her father's farm there Is an epidemic of the fever In Engle wood, 111. "McNamara stamps," bearing a por trait of J. J. MrNamara, are to be Is sued by the Federation of Labor, to be sold nt 1 cent each, the proceeds to go Into th defense fund. FoBlhltlcs In connection with the coronation of King George, so far as London Is concerned, ended with his majesty's treat at Crystol palace to lon.floo of tandon's poorest children. The death of Paul de Longpre at I.os Aniiclts removes from the art field one of its most unique figures and one who wns remarkably success ful In a ft mini In I way In the painting ol flowers Following announcement that the Catholic university nt Washington will heiu el'ortn open Its doors to wom en, It was stated that Sisters of Chat Ity of tho I'.lessed Virgin have coin pleted plans for a big co educational college in Cliicaso. That South Dakotans are entitled to 2! i cent passenger rate law, though a straight 2-cent law nt this time woild work a hardship on companies, U the finding of John H. Gates, special mas ter In the case of the Northwestern railway against the state. CONDITION OF COUNTRY SOUND Dun's Review Hakes Statement Hj G IRON AND STELL TRADE BETTER Steel Trade Beginning to Expand Ex port Commerce Creating Big Sur plus Big Gold Output Continue! and Money Is Plentiful. New York, July 1. Dun's Weekly Review of Trade says: The best de velopment of the business situation ai the opening of the second half of the year is the marked Improvement in the Iron nnd steel trade, in which there is a decided increase in confi dence and a considerable expansion in actual output. In view of the Important relationi which this great trade bears to all the business Interests of the country, both industrial and agricultural, this im provement is significant of a distinct change for the better all around. The condition of the country can be described as sound when Its steel trade is beginning to expand, when the export commerce is creating a big surplus in favor of the United States, when the big gold output continues, when money is plentiful, when Indus trial production Is being held to the limits of the consumptive demand, when stocks of merchandise are low on the shelves, when economy, per sonal and corporate, has been long practiced, and when many of the is sues which have been perplexing bust iicss men and retarding enterprise are past. HINES UNDER CROSS-FIRE He Denies Boasting That He Personal ly Put Lorlmer Over. Washington, July 1. Edward Hinei of Chicago was subjected to a rigid cross-examination by John H. Marble, attorney for the senate Investigating committee. Mr. HInes contradicted sworn testi mony by President Herman H. Hettlei of the Hettler Lumber company oi Chicago, that HInes had boasted te him of having personally elected Lorl mer. He denied that the lumber in terests raised a big sum to lobby foi tariff legislation in 1909 or that the lumber Interests had anything to dc with the Lorimcr election. Mr. HInes declared that he wa "absolutely certain" he was not mis taken about bis testimony that formei Senator Aldrich stated to him th president, was anxious to have Irl mer elected. Asked about a denial ol this from the White House after his testimony at Springfield, Mr. Hinet said that such a denial has never beer "called to his attention." Tho White House statement it question concluded as follows: "The statement by Mr. HInes that the president wns anxious for and was urging the election of Mr. I.orlmer is wholly unfounded." James Cowgill May Recover. Rochester, Minn., July 1. The con dition of James Cowgill, state trci-s urer of Missouri, who wns operated upon, Is favorable today, although h suffered considerably. !t was stated thnt ho would have to undergo anothei operation ns soon an his condition wiL permit. Cashier Adams Legally Dead. St. Louis. July 1. Philip S.Adams missing cashier of tho Fulton (Mo.) bank, which failed In January, 1902, it legally dead, and the New York Llf Insurance company must pay $1,900 tc his widow, according to a decision ol the St. Louis court of appeals. Stanley Dam Is Completed. Denver, July 1. The Stanley dam the largest of Its kind In the world Is completed. When Ha Was Bad. It has been said that you never know a man till you travel with him, and certninly traveling has a tendency to bring out nil the depravity Innate In human nature. Out of this test, how ever, Benjamin Disraeli emerged with flying colors. This Is what was said of him by Mrs. Austen, who with her husband traveled with him when he was quite a youug mau, as related la Mr. Monypenny'a biography: "Tour brother." she says (the letter was addressed to Disraeli's sister), "Is so easily pleased, so aeromuiodatlng, so amusing and so actively kind thnt I shall always, reflect upon the domes tie purt of our Journey with the grent est pleasure. Your brother has be haved excellently, except when there Is a button, or, rather, buttons, to be put on his shirt; then he Is violently bad, and this happens aluiottt dully." Stage Steeds. The steed Is iiIwh.vs a difficulty In staging MDou Quixote.' At the Thea tre de la Unite, in Paris, the Itosiuante in Massenet's oera grew so fat under the light work Hud good food thnt It wns found necessary to "paint pro truding ribs on bis rotund sides every night." Irvine's dillieully In London was In the oilier direction. He tuid engaged a peculiarly decrepit animal, t he i e erty of a tinker, for t tie part, but ou the morning or the rehearsal be round that It had been taken ty an elll'i-r of the S I. C. A to How street, where the magistrate ordered It to be killed. HERBERT KNOX SMITH. Whose Reoort Shows Monopolies Held by Steel Corporation. EIGHT WORKMEN CRUSHEDJO DEATH Root ot New Water Station at Buffalo, N. Y., Collapses. Buffalo, N. Y., July 1. Five workmen were crushed to death and four others seriously injured In the collapse of the roof and other portions of the Buf falo water department's new pumping station. The dead were buried in a pit where they were working beneath hundreds of tons of steel, brick and mortar. Most of the injured were at work on the roof, which was 300 feet long and 100 feet wide. About 200 feet of this suddenly fell in from some cause not yet determined. One of the injured died in an am bulance and two died at hospitals, making with those supposed to have been killed In the wreckage, a total of eight dead. RIOT IN MADRID 6lxty Persons Injured During Panic, Which Followed Explosion of Bomb. " Madrid, July 1. The government censor stopped all news dispatches filed with the telegraph companies which described disorders In connec tion with the eucharist procession. It is estimated that sixty persons received more or less severe bruises iu a street panic following the explosion of a bomb In Calle Bordadores, near the corner of Calle Mayor, at the mo ment that the parade was passing; through the latter thoroughfare. " ' A RISING FINANCIER. " He Has ths Right Idea and the Nerve if He Can Only Work Them. ' The old man wns perched upon a high stool, figuring up the day's sales of dry goods, groceries and hardware, when his son came lu with a rush. "Say, pop," exclaimed tho young man, "If I can buy a $300 horse for 150, will you take a chattel mortgage on him and help me out with tho cash?" "What kind of a boss, my son?" In quired the father cautiously. "Bay, four years old, sixteen bands high, weighs a thousand pounds arid is sound In wind, limb and bottom." "That sounds good to me, my son, and I want to do all I can to help yon along In the world." And he reached down Into the snfe for bis roll. "How much do you want?" "A hundred and forty-nine fifty." The old man gasped and caught bold of the desk. "Whntr be exclaimed. "A hundred and forty-nine fifty. I've got half a dollnr." Slowly the old man shoved the roll back Into the safe. "My son." be said softly, "you are wasting time trading bosses. What you ought to do is to go Into the Iobd and trust business." W. J. Lampton In Llppincott'a. Two Fatal Mistakes. Marie Antoinette, escaping from the Tullcries. turned to the right Instead ot to tbe left nfter passing the Inner arch. She lost her way, lost time and by this means lost ber own head and tbe bead of Louis XIV. So the story of Carlyle runs. Queen Draga of Serria meant to leave Belgrade, but waited for a golug away gown, being anxious that as a fugitive she should appear in becoming attire. It was a fatal delay. An Inexpensive Amusement. "Did you ever." snid Belinda, "try standing cents on edge? It can be done If the cents are not worn. They I enn most easily be made to stand on blotting paper, but they will stand on a smooth, polished table. Try It some time wheu other amusements flag." New York Sun. Naturally. A girl feels flattered when told she looks well In anything, but a wife thinks su h a compliment only a plot to get her to w ear old clothes. j' '