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THURSDAY, JANUARY 2g, 1915. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL VAC.K 7. r Copyright, 1914, by CHAPTER VIII. A Friend In Need. MOKK woke up. A. draft that possessed all tlie rigidity of an icicle was boring into the front of his nhoulders as he lay on his side facing the wall. When he had been tied into the bunk there lind been no such draft, and now the outside air was sufficient advertisement that some cue from without had pulled away the mo.-s chinking- between the logs. He Fijuirnied as far as his bonds would permit, then craned his neck forward .until his lips just managed to reach the crack. "Who is It?" he whispered. "J?rcck. He careful you don't make a iioise. Tin goinij to pass a knife in to you." "No gocl." Smoke said. "My hands are tied behind me and made fast to the leg: of the bunk. But something must Ik? dene. Those fellows are of a temper to hang me. and,, of course, you know I didn't kill that man." "It wasn't necessary to mention it Smoke. I wr.rt to pet you out of this. It's a tough bunch of men here TTieyTe shut off from the world, and they make and enforce tbejr own law Tliey handled two men already both grub thieves. One they hiked from capip without an ounce of grub and do matches. He made about forty miles and lasted a couple of days be fore he froze stiff. Two weeks :tgo they hiked the second man. They yave him his elituce no grub or ten lashes for each day's ration. He tfjood for forty lashea before toe fainted. And now they're got you. and every last one is convinced you killed Kinade. You see. things have been pretty mo notonous. They haven't located any thing Li?:. Scurvy is beginning to show up among them. too. and they're just ripe for excitement." "And it looks like I'll furnish it." was Smoke's comment- "Say, Breck. liow did you ever fall in with such a God forsaken bunch?" "I came up here by way of the Stew art, hunting for Two Cabins. They'd beaten me to it. so I've been higher up the Stewart. Just got back yester day out of grub." "Hold on," Smoke interrupted. "Wait a minute. Let me think." He was very much aware of the snores of the sleepers as he pursued the idea that had Cashed into his mind. "Say, lircck. have they opened up the meal packs my dogs carried?" be asked. A couple. They put them in Hard ing's cache." "Did they find anything?" "Meat." "(Jood. You've got to get Into the brown canvas pack that's patched with moose hide. You'll find a few pound of lumpy gold. ion ve never seen gold like it in the country, nor lias any body else. Here's what you've got to do. Listen." "My mind's made up right now. There ain't no loubt but what he kill ed Kinade. We heard the whole thing last night. What's the good of goin' over it again? I vote guilty." In such fashion Smoke's trial began The sieaker, a loose jointed, hard rock man from Colorado, manifested Irrita tion and disgust when Harding set his suggestion aside, demanded the pro ceedings should be regular and nomi nated one Shunk Wilson for judge and chairman of the meeting. The popu Iation of Two Cabins constituted the Jury, though, after some discussion, the woman. Lucy, was denied the right to vote on Smoke's guilt or innocence. While this was going on Smoke, jammed Into a corner on a bunk, over heard a whispered conversation be tween Dreek and a miner. "You haven't fifty pound of flour you'll sell?" Ureck queried. "You ain't got the dust to pay the prion I'm askin," wthe reply. "I'll give you two' mndred." The man shook his head. "Three hundred. Three fifty." At four hundred the man nodded and said, "Come on over to my cabin an' weigh out the dust." The two squeezed their way to the door and slipped out. After a few min utes Breck returned nlone. Harding was testifying when Smoke saw the door shoved open slightly and in the crack appear the face of the man who had sold the Hour. He was grimacing and beckoning emphatically to some one inside, who arose from near the stove and started to walk to ward the door. "Where are you goin'. Sain?" Shunk Wi!on demanded. "I'll be baf k iu a jiffy." Sam explain ed. "I jes' gl.t to g." Smoke was permitted to question the witness, and he was In the middle of the cross examination of Hardin:: when fiom without came the whining t dog-- in hames and the grind ;id i burn of sled runner. Somebody near C2 the Wheeler Syndicate j the door neeJ out "Its Para an his pardner an' a dog team hell bent down the trail for Stewart river." the una reported. Nobdy spoke for a long half minute, but men glanced significantly at one cnottc-r, and r. general restlessness per vaded the packed room. Out of the corner of his eye Smoke caught a glimpse of Breck. Lucy and her hus band whispering together. "Come on. you!" Shg-fc Wilson aaid He Wat Grimacing and Beckening Em phatically. gruffly to Smoke. "Cut this questlon Ln short. We know what you're tryin' to prove that the other bank wa'n't searched. The witness admits it. We admit it. It wa'n't necessary. No tracks led to that bank. The snow wa'n't broke." "There was a man on the. other bank, just the same," Smoke insisted. "That's too thla for skatin. young man. There ain't many of us on the McQuestion. an we got every man ac counted for." "Who was the man you hiked out of camp two weeks ago?" Smoke asked. "Alonzo Miramar. ne was a Mexi can. What's that grub thief got to do with it?" "Nothing, except that yon haven't accounted for him. Mr. Judge." "lie went down river. Dot up." "How do yoi know where e went?" "Saw him start." "And that's all you know of what became of him?" "No, it ain't, young man- I know, we all know, he had four days' grub an' no gun to shoot meat with. If be didn't make the settlement on the Yu kon he'd croaked long before this." "I suppose you've got all the guns in this part of the country accounted for. too." Smoke observed pointedly. Shunk Wilson was angry. "You'd think 1 was the prisoner the way you slam questions into me. Come on with the next witness. Where's French Louis?" While French Louis was shoving for ward Lucy opened the door. "Where you goin'?' Shunk Wilson shouted. "I reckon 1 don't nave to itay." she answered defiantly. "I ain't got no vote. an, besides, my cabin's so jam med up I can't breathe," In a few minutes her husband fol lowed. The closing of the door was the first warning the judge received of it. "Who was that?" he interrupted Pierre's narrative to ask. "Bill Peabody, somebody spoke no "Said be wanted to ask his wife some thing and waa coming right back." Instead of Bill it was Lucy who re entered, took off her furs aud resumed her 11304 by the stove. "1 reckon we don't need to bear the rest of the witnesses,- was Shunk Wil son's deciaJou when Pierre b.ad finished- 'V know they can only testify to the same faets we've already beard. Say, tforutea, you go an' bring Bill I'eabody back. We'll be votin' a ver diyt jiretty short Now, stratager, you can get VP an MZ your say concernln' what happeued. In the meantime we'll Just be savin' delay by passiu around the two rifles, the ammunition an the bullet that done the kHUn'." Midway in his story of Low he had arrived in that part of the country and at the point in his narrative where he described his own ambusb and how he bad tied to tba bank Sraeke was inter rupted by the indignant Shank Wilson. , l! '1 if1 if "Young man. what sense la there in you testifyin' that way? You're just takin' up valuable time. Of course you got the right to lie to save your neck, but we ain't goin' to stand for aucb foolishness. The rifle, the am munition an' the bullet that killed Joe Kinade is against you. What's that? Open tbe door, somebody! The frost rushed iu, taking form and substance in the beat of the room while through the open door came the whining of dogs that decreased rapid 1 with distance. "It's gorensen an' Penbody." some one erted. "a-tbrowin' the whip into the dawgs an' headin' down river!" "Now, what the" Bhnnk Wilson paused, with dropped Jaw. and glared at Lucy, "I reckon you can explain, Mrs. pea body." She tossed her head and compressed her lips, and Shunk Wilson's wrathful and suspicious gaze passed on and rest ed on Breck, "An' I reckon that newcomer you've been chinnin' with could explain if be had a mind to." Breck. now very uncomfortable, found all eyes centered uu him. "Sam was chewin' the rag with him, too, before he lit out," some one said. "Look here. Mr. Breck." Shunk WI1 son continued, "you've been interrupt in proceedin's. and you got to explain tbe meanin' of it. What was you chinnin' about?". Breck cleared his throat timidly and replied. "J was just tryiug to buy some grub." "What with?" "Dust, of course." "Where'd you get it?" Breck did not answer. v "He's been snoopln' around up the Stewart." u ruan voluutcered. "I run across his camp a week ago when 1 was huntin. An' I want to tell you be was almighty secretions about it. "The dust didn't como from there.' Brek said. "That's only a low grade hydraulic proposition " "Bring your poke here an" let's see your dnst,'" Wilson commanded. "I tell you jt didn't come from there." "Let's see it, Just the same." Breck made as if to refuse, but all about him were menacing faces. Re- luctnntly he fumbled in his coat pock ot. In the act of drawing forth a pep- J per can it rattled against what was evi deqtly a bard object "Fetch it all out!" Shunk Wilson thundered. And out came the big nugget, fist size, yellow as no gold any onlooker had ever seen. Shunk Wilson gasped Half a dozen, catching one glimpse. made a break for the door. They reached it nt the same moment and with curs! jammed and pivoted through. The judge emp tied tbe contents of the pepper can ou the table, and the sight of the rough lump gold sent half a dozen more to ward the door. "Where are you goin"?" Eli narding asked as Shunk started to follow. "For my dogs, of course." "Ain't you goin" to hang him?" "It'd take too much time right now, He'll keep till we get back, so I reck on this court is adjourned. This ain't no place for lingerin'." Harding hesitated. He glanced sav agely at Smoke, saw Pierre beckoning to Louis from the doorway, C x)k one last look at the lump gold ou the table and decided. "No use you tryin' to get away," he flung back over his shoulder. "Be sides, I'm goin' to borrow your dogs.' "What is it? Another one of them blamed stampedes?' the old blind trap per asked in a queer and petulant fa I setto, as tbe cries of men aud dogs and the grind of the sleds swept the silence of the room. "It sure is," Lucy answered. "An' I never seen gold like it. Feel that, ole man." She put the big nugget In his band The door opened, and Breck entered "Well." he said, "we four are all that are left in camp. It's forty miles to the Stewart by the cutoff 1 broke, and the fastest of them can't make the round trip in less than five or six days. But it's time you pulled out. Smoke. Jnst the same." Breck drew his hunting knife ncros3 the other's bonds. Smoke stood up, rubbing his wrists where the thouga had impeded the- circulation. "I've got a pack all ready for you." Breck said. "Ten days' grub, blan kets, matches, tobacco, an ax aud a rifle." "(Jo to It." Lucy encouraged. "flit the high places, stranger. Beat it as fast as God'll let you." "I'm going to have a square meal before J start," Smoke said. "And when I start it will be up the McQuos tion. not down. I'm going to search that other bank for the man that real ly did the killing." Half an hour afterward, with a big plate of moose steak before him and a big mug of coffee at hi lips. Smoke half started up from his seat. He had beard the sounds first. Lucy threw open the door. "Hello, Spike! Hello. Methody!" She greeted the two frost rimmed men who were bending over the burden ou their sled. "We just come down from Upper Camp." one said as the pair staggered into the room with a fur wrapped ob ject which they handled with exceed ing gentleness. "An this is what we found by the way. He's all in. 1 guesa." "Put hiiu in the rear bunk there." Lucy said. She bent over and pulled back the fura. disclosing a face com posed principally of large, staring, black eyes and of skin, dark and scab bed by repeated frostbite, tightly stretched across the bemes. "If it ain't Alonzo!" she cried. "You nore. starved devii!" That's ! man on flit ofh-r hunk.' Smoke said in an undertone tu Bivrk ' W- f::j:;ij it. r;;i'5u' it cache licit (iuiditig must 'a' made." on .,f uii'li was fil'lainlutf- 'II- wa tiH raw dour an' frozen bacon, mid uun we got 'm he was crj'lu' an' Mipitfalln' like n hawg. Look at htm! He's all ta rved. ' most of him trvttni. He"! kick at uy moment." Half mi hour later, when the furs had been drawn over the face of tin still form in the buuk. buioke tafned to Lucy. "If you don't mind. Mrs. Peabody, I'll have another whack nt that steak. Make It thick and. not so well doue. I'm a meat cater, I am." (To Be Continued.) Beware cf Ointments tor Catarrh That Contain Mercury as mrriiir vlll Kiirilj- di-ntroy tbo bPnsp t Kroell and fotuj'i.'lt'ly dt'ra:itE- tUe uIiuIl yteuj when viiieriuv it tUrounti tbe mucous urfuou. Sui'li rrtjili- kliuultl nvir liv u-d txct-t u prcscrlp ;iiU4 from ri fuuble iil),i lun, tbe tiatuatft tiif.r will A Is t-u fold to tlic Ku-U you can k siliiy diTivc from thtm. Hull s L'atrrU Cur manufactured by V. J. t'bfucy tc Co.. Toledo. C. contuius i: mercury, and is tak-n Internally, acting directly upon tbe- blixvl and irucou aiir f:uei t tin- ayaiem. In buying Haifa t'atarrli Cure l- aure jot. Ue genuine If la wken luti-rtially ami made in Toledo. Obio, by I". 3. bom y A. Co. Testimonials free. .Sold by bm-rglsta. Triee, 73c. per bottle. Tke Hall's familr Pills i.r cocstlnation. J-OR SALE Fine 3-year-old full blooded short-horn bull. Perfectly gentle. Iuquire of G. II. Tarns at the county farm. For Sale. A lot of onc-half-inch sofc cable, pood for hay forks and all kinds of farm work, at l4 cents per foot. Richardson & Doty, Missouri River Ferry, Hon. W. H. Puis, the Murray mer chant, was in the city for a few hours last evening en" route from Omaha to his home, lie spent a short time in the metropolis looking after some business matters. B. F. Crook was amor.jr those go ing to Omaha this morninfg, where he will visit for the da. Mr. Crook has just returned from Richardson county and reports the roads in the vicinity of Verdon as being thorough ly blockaded by the deep snow. Mrs. Anna Rockenbach of Alva, Oklahoma, a former Cass county lady, was here today attending a hear ing in the estate of her grandfather, George Reitter, sr., as were also her isters, Mrs. Adolph Herman of Hava- lock and Miss Olive Reitter of Lin coln. Overhaul Your Cars Now. The auto business is rather quiet now, but this is the time to have your cars overhauled, while I have men hired for the busy season, and wish to keep them employed during: the dull months. Your cars will be overhaul- id now at about one-half the price for the labor. See me. Sam G. Smith, Garage. FOREST KDSE; WAHOOMIU-CO. wahoo;nE3. ' Sold by all lead ing Dealers -BLACKSMITHING- ' MB ' HORSESHOEING! I am now prepared to look after all general blacksmithing and horseshoeing. Shop 4 I -2 niles west of Murray. JOHN DURHAM. L. J. Hall The Union Auctioneer Union, Nebraska All sale matters entrusted to my care will receive prompt and care ful attention. Farm and Stock Sales a Specialty! Rates Reasonable! te?" Address or phone me at Untou for open date. . . IN i'LATTS.MQUTH J. FOBTY YEARS AGO. .J. 1 9 9 9 . t f t 9 . . f . . f . . t f . t f 1 . . f . ? . I I i "ill V 4 4 4 4 " Miss Cora Wells has just recovered from an attack of diphtheria. Her little brother, Ernest, is now suffer ing under a slight attack of the same disease. Jo. Shera, the miller of Rock Bluffs, sends the Herald a sack of new superfine extra good flour of his own make. We had the madame try it, and positively declare we have not had such beautiful, white, light bread in months. This flour will be found for sale at G. Herold's store, flatts mouth. Pr. Livingston and Hon. Sam. M Chapman visited Liberty precinct on Monday evening last, in behalf of the Trunk Road, and report a very full and pleasant meetiner. and that the citizens of that region are deeply in terested in the matter and propose to form a committee among: themselves to raise a handsome subscription to aid the road. Geo. Donovan, our junior editor, tried to blow himself up on Thurs day. He had put some fine coal dust in the stove and on opening the door and giving the stuff a stir with the poker it flashed out in his face, burn ing him severely. If George only waits until he is married he can get blown up easier, and someone else may use the poker, too. Mr. M. Oelesdemier, one of Cass county's oldest and best settlers, call ed on the Herald Monday. Mr. Deles- dernier is a Nova Scotian by birth, but an American, full-blooded, at heart. He is one of our most promin ent public men in this region, always appearing at conventions and public meetings, a sound . republican and a true man. The Herald has his name spelled right, too, or else he don't know how to spell the same. During the hardest of the wind storm on Friday night an alarm of f;re was sounded. It was found to be in the chimney of Mr. Shryock's building on Main street, which had caught fire from Tailor Thomas' stove. Great chunks of fiery soot floated across tha street and for a few moments everyone held their breath, expecting to see the flames burst out and envelop the street. Fortunately someone climbed out of the gaunders House window promptly with a bucket of water and put the fire out. Hai the woodwork of the Sanders House once fairly caught, no fire extinguish ers we have could have saved the street from going. The some night Uncle Jake Vallery's chimney in the new house caught fire and the float ing bunches of flame commenced dropping on the stacks and straw covered outhouses lively. Uncle Jake ond all the folks were out in the blinding storm carrying water and stamping out fire for some time that cold night. And still another. The old Vanarta house chimney caught fire the same night and did some live ly sparking for a few moments. On the same night an alarm was given at the machine shops; chimney o.n fire. It, too, was fortunately put out by 'their own engine without catching anything further. Four fires in one night all from chimneys. People cer tainly ought to take warning and have these places cleaned at once. Wo don't patroniie Charley Brown enough. FIVE CENTS PROVES IT. A Generous Offer. Cut out this ad, enclose with 5 cents to Foley & Co., Chicago. 111., and receive a free trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs, colds, croup, bronchial and lagrippe coughs; Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cath artic Tablets. For sale in your town by all druggists. Hives, eczema, Itch or salt rheum sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch of your clothing. Doan's Ointment i? fine for skin itching. A.11 druggists sell it, 50c a box. v ! OR SALE Some fine B. P. Hock Cockerels. Inquire of Mrs. L. L Young, Nehawka, Neb. 1.21-2wks-wkly Can't look well, eat well, or feel well with impure blood. Keep the J.loo.4 nurc with Burdock's Blood Bit ters. Eat simply, take exercise, keep lean, and good health u pretty sure to follow. $1.00 a bottle. Call at the Journal PfUco and see the 7oc Initial Stationery that you can iiow buy for 50c. Far Salp. A high-grade piano for sale cheap if taken soon. Inquire at this office. HOWARD GIVEN BIG SURPRISE House Recommends His Mini mum Wage Bill For Passage. EXPECTED HEAVY OPPOSITION, Convention Bill Is Recommended by Good Majority In House Commit tee of Whole Norton Leads Fiflht For Bill. Lincoln. Jan. 2S. -The joke was on Jerry Howard when the house recom mended bis minimum wage bill for passage before Jerry could get the eye of the "speaker." Howard and Kagan of Platte have had several argument.-: over the bill, and as a result the form er came up to the state house loaded for the Platte county man. There were documents all around him, whlcji he proposed to turn loose on the mem bers, but Itagan got the start anl moved that the bill be recommended for passage. This sudden act on the part of How ard's fellow countryman rather too!, the wind out of the Douglas rounfy man's sail. After the house had had considerable fun at Jerry's expense. Kagan got his motion across to recom mend the bill for p-issage and the fun was over. Jerry Howard believes in the don trine of "live and let live." He would not have the wives and daughters of rich men ride around in pompous fash ion while distributing penny al"is while the husband and father is away making the money to give them style by grinding poor men and women un der his heel. Jerry Howard believes; in a square deal for all mankind, man and man alike, and the women, too. After a long discussion the house b.v an apparently good majority by a viva voce vote recommended the constitu tional convention bill for passage ir. cemmitte of the whole. Representative Norton led the fight for the bill, while Greenwalt opposed it in a speech which was loudly applauded. Members of the finance, ways and means tommitte of the lower legisla tive house are beginning this we?k to see what it means to keep platform pledges. They swear to a man' that its a mighty hard job and that there is much pain attendant upon keeping faith with tbe people and driving ap propriaticna down to a lower mark than last session. But it is going to be done. There will be some disappointments without a doubt, but the members of the com mittee argue that better it is to cause a few to be disappointed than to make such a feeling pervade the retreats of all taxpayers of the state. The activity it' Keeping faith can he called that is r.ci confine I to th majority party. The Republicans atc working aloTrg precisely the same line and they are to be found shoulder tc shoulder in their battle against those who want to run the government on an extravagant basis during the com ing two years. ! One thing is apparent thus fai ahead of the time for the committee to report. That is that the tost or! operating the state institutions wiiij be cut down appreciably under tnc able guidance of the board of control Credit for this will rest largely with Judge Holcomb. tro. because of hi.- insister.ee, together with that of Hen ry Gerdes, that the members listei to them exclusively during the session and not to any of the members from the districts where the various state institutions are located. In operation of the various depart ments of government that are loiatot! in thestate house there is some doubt as to the decrease of operating tost.-; The railway commission has asked foi more money lhan it had two year ago, because it wants lo extend its in veatigations into newer fields. It alr feels assured that the legislature wi'. put the enforcement of the warehouse law upon its shoulders and that, ol course, means the appropriation ot more money. The irrigation interests of thp state seem intent on appropriating t23.0'' to be used under direction of tle at torney general's office, for the proeru tion of cases now in the federal court in Colorado. Involved in these caj-es. are questions of immense important to the water users of this state wlf are located on interstate streams,, I- the first round of the litigation the state won out. Because so much ter ritory is affected and because the qucs tion very nearly spells success or fail ure for certain parts of the ptate. ?!k sum Is considered quite puny indeed But if it is appropriated it will meat that parts of the state worth nian times ever that amount will be pro tected from a real legal danger. One lone irrigator on the Ilepub Mean river fought the case throne! the courts at Penver, with help fron no outside sources. The fact that h won is encouraging the other watn users and they believe that the statt should bow take up the burden anr protect its people and its soil a the hould. Besides this there are other places where the lawmakers have chances u .. n n 1 ,U .1. Mnnna- O ... i W . ft T . . m'diu IUC1I IIIUUIJ. Olllllll 'I' V 11111111, , for instance, believes that a nienij packiBg plant, operated as a reforuia i tory. would be a good tlr'ns for tbt State and that it would hi! penal ue at this time. Very modestly, he limit. the territory 'or its t;sm w. t ic.i t.; Dodge. Stanton and Cuming (o .ri;i. He believes :.?( "rd in ' ti hi-- '"ii that $2i'.'"" would be er.o i-h iix.:try to put up the buildings for t!,. iiisiiu tion and to start it run::iui,' Rill desigued to do away wi'li the pernicious practice of nepotism are mi the houe and senat. . r'i'ig nr.Ml their need can bmonie bpp.rtnt o tbe lawmakers. It has not eca,:ed tU solans that state cruials :ae n very lax in the pa few ars in tliii regard and they intend to do aw:-y With this, if possible. Svini'- wa .- i gested that it would be well tor tl. lawmakers to st?.rt to wash their o n doorsteps and then to M n down through the departments of gm.rn ment until they have eov.i.d ce: thing with the anti-nep.it'sm er.a ments. Ainlay of Nance has the ditin-t;vi t introducing the most unuMi.tl bill yet thrown into the house h"pper. It if a much unnteded and unvaute.l measure unneeded because the ires ent method is all right and unwarned because it means a cost of prmtii t which is only bindeiisMU- to the ::. payers at this time. Mr. Ail Ijy wou'd change the method of seW"-! iim t'c seats of legislators. He unuM lac a lottery out of it .o that liie frt r. coine would not b- the fitrt to It served. .Members of the (on.mitiee ;q which the bill was referred this weeU reported it back, with the icom mendatioi) that it be imb-fiuitely post poned. Members of the committee were much incensed that n h a hi I shoird came before them. They d'.J not even deign to discuss it --although they did discuss its aithor with inor frankness than moderation. Because Lincoln commissi. -nci i agree not to reate a public we'fate commission. Omahans int rented in the Mine lint- of moral uplift ar m:i ing an extra effort to obtain Mich a body. It will be ?n adj n.M to th; city emmission of that large p!a and will serve to iron out sotiv of tl t wrinkles that have been i.otrd in tht government there for years and yeir past. The Lincoln pe-opl thought th: t the board was not needed but th Omahans believe that they need it ard they are going t woik Tor it with a vengeance. Whatever t!ie do will done from the shcild'-r. If is pro'-; b!e that the legislature will be h sieged from start to finish ocr ti-.i affair. Amendments to the primary l;,w nrt being given consideration by the 1 o :e this week. The measure upon which attention is focused is that evolved !J Darker of Franklin and Dafoe of .b'hn son. It allows state conventions to choose twice as many candid.ete:- foi each office as there are candidate-- 'c be picked by the people, from thes then the people make their el- e tion Other aspirants are not barred frcir filing. If they are dissatisfied with th result they may e t;me into primar) on an equal footing with the cthet seekers but the handicap of not hav ing the indorsement ot tucir pan conventiems. Presidential years under this !n would be busy ones and the jjr would te filled with the eries of oflic cseekerj from the early March thtws until the ides of November. The j inn i- to h i n statp nominating c nven'ion in Aur'i and then a sta;e platloti.i con vent br at the same time the pr s nt coum-h tion is held in the latter p?rt of .li!y Thus the county e onention wo il l b held in the same manner i'.nd tlice would 1p two of t'l'T.i insi ad of 0: 0 as under present laws. The law is not ir.Luie to apply to del ecates tu natie na! e euive-jtiuiis or tc national committeemen, for the verj simple reason that tlx at" cl oven :it one clcelion and there are no prit.i nrics 11 pen them. The mere pp-ferci tial ote does the busin ss with them If they do not survive the one eUctior they are done for. A reapportionment of s-'ate penatv! and representatives is virtually pro vieled for in the Dodge bill ino Jm ve in the senate this wek. The imimi' applies alcr.e to ltoig!.i county. !t divide that county into distrbts for the lee tion of the fhe senate rs ai.e the dozen representatives ,-md puts ft up to the eleetioti mni'ii i -s inner tc see that the districts are propel ly at portioned. The measure ha M: hue king of some of the leading ti er of the enate and of the f jty (,r (jm;-, ha It may uo the entire mntp wr out a great fight being made against If. Preferential otir.g. prmiding rr election a' which the prlm.-uy and fl. general election are e-ombijied. '., pr-i vieJed fir in a bill inrodneei th'' week by Maiteson of fhj. Tie iut-s ure provide s for expression in ord' t on al! candidates f r elc-p. Th vo?e fhoe:se. thf man h- t) ink.- woulef t best and denominate him No. 1. T!. next he calis Ne. 2 and so cm down th' line. The man having the bw : score then wins an 1 the man hiin the highest total loses, beanse tV voters think he.- is the least accepiab'f of all the candidates. Th gigi'iitic sc hool law re Sfnr bill has bcrri flung into the srna'e 'v house h')pp r and now rennin.-- to kc thf route rf the lawmakers. It is ar affair of t"3 sections and compriao comph te re-enact ment of al! si hon laws. Most of the charges thdt haw bpen made are biige'otiora of school laws revision c o:r.inh-.-itn. whicr was named by Gowrnor More head r year and a hnlf ajro at the behest ol the state senate. Chambers of PonslaE rour ty infm duced a bill in iU' l.o i.-e f-. pio;el for a sinking fund to e: .in- it funds r. ith which to b U a new. cat Itol building. 1 ; . t r . i