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Timely Topics Intelligently Dis
cussed By Bryan.
TKODORf ROOSIYET OS DUTY.
Something About the Prosperity of Some
Section of the Countrj Predlctloa
of Fanle By United State
Investor Notes.
Rooserelt on Duty.
The vice-president delivered a speech
& few nights ago before the Ilonie
Market Club of Boston. A perusal of
his remarks convinces one that he
shares with the president the tendency
to apply the term "duty" to those
things which be desires. lie says:
"For good or for evil we now find
ourselves with new DUTIES in the
West Indies and new DUTIES beyond
the Pacific. We cannot escape the per
formance of these DUTIES. All we
can decide for ourselves is whether we
shall do them well or ill."
The fact that these "duties' were
self-imposed and are clung to in spite
of the fact that they involve a violation
of American principles, cuts no figure.
It is all in the definition of duty. Ac
cording to republican logic it is very
wrong to steal unless you find some
thing which is very valuable then
larceny becomes a duty. The fact that
you may be compelled to take human
life in order to get the thing desired is
immaterial call it duty and sin be
comes a virtue.
A little later on in his speech the real
secret of the Philippine policy leaks
out. Mr. Roosevelt says:
"In developing these islands it is
well to keep steadily in mind that busi
ness is one of the great levers of civiii
zation. It is immensely to the inter
est of the people of the islands that
their resources should be developed,
and therefore it is to their interest even
more than to ours that our citizens
should develop their industries. The
further fact that it is our duty to see
that the development takes place under
conditions so carefully guarded that no
wrong may come to the islanders, must
not blind us to the first great fact,
which is the need of development."
. The reasoning is complete. Business
is a civilizer; the Filipinos need civi
lizing, and we are nothing if not business-like.
Therefore, it is to the inter
est of the Filipinos that we should
(develop them for their good. This is
strenuous life, and lest some might be
restrained by conscientious scruples,
the Vice President felt it necessary to
impress upon his hearers that "the first
great fact" is the "need of develop
ment." The "duty to see that the de
velopment takes place under conditions
so carefully guarded that no wrong
may come to the islanders" is simply a
"further fact" and, "must not blind
ns" to the principal thing "the need
of development."
Nowhere does Mr. Roosevelt discuss
(the effect of the new policy upon our
(theory of government; nowhere does
he attempt to explain why a colonial
system was wrong in 1776 and right
now. II is whole argument can be
summed up as follows: We are in the
Philippine Islands no matter how we
got there, we are there; whether there
or good or evil, we cannot get away;
t looks as if it were providential for
Jthem and, besides, there is money in
it for us.
The President Contradicts nimself.
At Decatur, Alabama, the president
took occasion -to defend the adminis
tration against the charge that it fa
vored militarism and viewed blood and
carnage with indifference. But in his
Anxiety to make the defense complete
te found it necessary to contradict
what he had said during the negotia
tions of the Paris treaty. The conflict
between the speech made at Decatur
and the instructions given to the peace
commission can best be shown by pre
senting the two:
Dkcatttk Speech.
We have never gone to war for con
quest, for exploitation or for territory,
but always for liberty and humanity,
and in our recent war with Spain the
people of the whole United States, as
one man, marched with the flag for the
honor of the nation to relieve the op
pressed people in Cuba.
Ijtstbitctioss.
United States Peace Commission,
Paris, Nov. 3, 1899 10 a. m. (For the
president. Special.) After a careful
examination of the authorities, the
majority of the commission are clearly
of the opinion that our demand for the
Philippine islands can not be based on
conquest. DAT.
Department of State, Washington,
Nov. 3, 1999. The president has re
ceived your dispatch of this date and
awaits your letter. Meantime, how
ever, the question may h ultimately
determined. He assumes you have not
yielded the claim by rigbt of conquest.
In fact the destruction of the Spanish
fleet on May 1 was the conquest of
Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
Hat.
Extract from correspondence be
tween Day of the Peace Commission,
and Hay, Secretary of War.
All the protection that an American
Industry neefls when backed by Amer
ican skill and ingenuity is protection
against the rapacityof modern jugglers
of financial stocks.
A London paper calls J. Pierpont
Morgan the "Bonaparte of trade."
Napoleons of finance have existed be
fore, but the St. Helena of bankruptcy
is covered with their botytsv.
The soundness of Senator McLaurin's
democracy may be measured by noting
that it is receiving the plaudits of the
men who have opposed democratic
principles all their lives.
Is This Prosperity?
The Philadelphia North American
In a recent issue gives a discouraging;
description of the depression which
prevails in the textile trade. The facta
and causes are condensed by it into the
following brief statement:
Total number of textile employes
in Philadelphia. 75,000
Number at steady work 30,000
Number on "half or "three
quarter" time 25,000
Number idle 15,000
Number unaccounted for 5,000
CAUSES OF DEFKKSSIOU t
1. Overproduction during prosperity.
2. Underconsumption due to low
low wages.
3. The war in China.
4. Competition of "substitute" com'
modi ties.
5. Change in styles.
6. Change in centers of textile in
dustry.
If we had a low tariff protectionists
would recommend a high tariff as a
remedy; if we had bimetalism the gold
standard would be proposed as a pana
cea, but as we have a high tariff and a
gold standard this depression will be
explained as one of those natural and
necessary conditions which cannot be
prevented by foresight or remedied by
legislation It comes, too, at a time
when the stock markets are booming
and when the speculators are boasting
that railroad 6tocks have gained more
than five hundred millions in market
value within a few months.
The North American gives interviews
with employers and employes. Here is
a sample from each side. John Hamil
ton, proprietor of the Montgomery car-,
pet mills, says:
"This thing is all a scare. The busi
ness is bad for some, and other manu
facturers are running about the same
as usual. We are running 6hort hand
ed, but that is because it Is the end of
our season. The talk about people
starving is only the vaporings of labor
agitators. There is no necessity for
people starving. If they can't find
work in the textile trades, let them get
to work at something else. I have no
reason to offer for the 'depression, be
cause there is no depression."
Mr. Hamilton is not worrying about
the lack of employment or the lack of
food complained of by some of the
others. It is evident that his salary is
paid regularly.
Edward Thornton, business agent of
the allied textile trades, is quoted as
saying:
"The 'busy season, so long expected,
has not come. Since November there
has been no season at all. In the up
holstery trade not seventy-five per cent
of the thirty-two mills are running on
anvthing like full time. A weaver in
tills line OI WOrit COUIU iuano i. a
week, but now the most skillful barely
average ?5 a week. The weavers can
make a fair wage as long as there is
work, but the periods of idleness are
disastrous. There has been a great
overproduction and a tendency to lower
the quality of the goodj manufactured.
The tariff on wool has played havoc
with the ingrain trade and has created
a field for Japanese and Chinese mat
tings. In fact people are not buying
carpets as they did at one time. As yet
there have been few appeals for help,
but this will come later if the depres
sion continues. Our men are living on
credit to a great extent, but this i
bound to end."
Predicting Fanle.
A marked degree of pessimism con
cerning business conditions is notice
able in many republican papers. This
is particularly true of great financial
journals. The United States Investor,
one of the leading financial publica
tions, appears to be particularly blue.
The Investor points out that the condi
tions at present are very similar to the
conditions of 1893, immediately prior
to the great panic of that year. It says
"The whole industrial and financial
structure in this country may be liken
ed to a man in mid air on a tight rope,
and it adds that the conditions "might
very well suggest to Wall Street the
advisability of getting things in snug
condition." '.
The United States Investor informs
us that trusts are the agency which
will produce the next panic in this
country, and the Investor is of the
opinion toat "the wreck will equal any
that have preceded it." How does it
happen, then, that the . financial jour
nals, like the Investor, that were so
anxious for the repeal of the purchas
ing clause of the Sherman law; that
were so bitterly antagonistic to any
thing in the form of bimetallism; that
held out to us such alluring promises
if we would but adopt the single gold
standard how does it happen that
these publications have no word of pro
test to utter against the system which
they now openly declare will be re
sponsible for a disastrous panic? When
they thought, or pretended to think,
that silver was responsible for our ills,
they didn't hesitate to speak out. When
they thought, or pretended to think,
that the prospect of bimetallism aggra
vated our conditions, they did not hesi
tate to protest against bimetallism.
When they thought that the single
gold standard would provide a remedy
for our financial evils they did not hes
itate to urge the application of that
remedy. How does it happen that at
this moment they are content with
making dire predictions as to the re
sult of the trust system without enter
ing any protest against the encourage
ment of that system?
The North American is a republican
paper and is owned by a son of ex-Postmaster-General
Wanamaker. Its
portrayal of the industrial situation in
one of the great trade centers will be
profitable reading for those republicans
who believe that universal prosperity
is the constant and necessary attend
ant of a republican administration.
Scientists are trying to frighten the
people by predicting the exhaustion
of the fuel supply, but it has no effect
on Messrs Carnegie, Morgan and Rock
efeller. They have money to burn.
APPALLING FACTS.
OUR TENANT FARMERS HAVE
INCREASED.
.Landlordism In Agricultural Districts of
America as Shown by L G. Powers,
Chief Statistician Division of Agricul
ture, C S. Census Bureau.
The Interest aroused in the subject
of farm tenure by the census statis
tics of 1SS0 and 1890 will without
doubt be increased by those of 1900.
No formal reports for the latter year
have been given to the public as yet,
but the census authorities have pub
lished sufficient facts to enable one
familiar with farm tenure to make a,
fairly correct forecast of the condi
tions existing in the nation. The
facts referred to are found in the
bulletins of population by minor civil
divisions and in the number of farm
schedules returned by the enumerators
and special agents.
The number of farm schedules is
5.786,907, which is two to four per cent
In excess of the actual number of
farms that will be tabulated. The
number of farms in 1900 will, there
fore, somewhat exceed 5,700,00. In
1S90 the census reported 4,564,691
farms and 4,767,179 farm families. Ac
cordingly in ten years from 940,000
to 1,140,000 farms have been added to
those enumerated In 1890.
North Atlantic States.
In the north Atlantic states Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu
setts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
the farms in 1SS0 numbered 696,139,
and In 1890. 658,569. In the latter
year the farm families numbered 660,
407; In 1900 the farms are, approxi
mately, 670,000. The figures quoted
make it clear that the number of
farms in these states, and hence the
number of families of farm propri
etors that is, of owners and tenants
has not suffered diminution in the
last ten years; but while the number
of families in these two classes did
not become less, the total rural popu
lation, including also the families of
wage laborers, in nearly all of the
states decreased. The decrease has
consequently been in families whose
heads or chief members gain their
support by working for wages on
farms.
Such a decrease indicates a shift
ing of farm population. Some famil
ies have moved from the country to
the city and some have left their na
tive states ior otner sections or the na
tion. These removals also have been
accompanied by an economic readjust
ment among the families remaining.
The net result of that readjustment
is the rise of a number of families
from the position of wage earners in
1890 to that of farm owners or ten
ants in 1900. Of those thus rising. It
is certain that a larger actual and rel
ative number have become farm ten
ants than have attained to the more
independent position of farm owners.
Under these circumstances it can be
declared with a large degree of cer
tainty that the actual and relative
proportion of farms operated by ten
ants in the north Atlantic states will
be found when all data are tabulated
to be greater than it was ten or twen
ty years ago. The percentage of
farms operated by tenants in the
states in 1890 was 16; In 1890, 18.4.
and we may confidently expect that
in 1900 it will be in excess of 2.
South Atlantic States.
In the south Atlantic states Dela
ware. Maryland. District of Columbia,
Virginia. West Virginia, North Caro
lina, South Carolina. Georgia and
Florida the schedules returned indi
cate the existence in 1900 of substan
tially 950,000 to 960,000 farms. The
corresponding number of farms in
1890 was 749,600. At the same time
772,596 farm families were reported.
The number of farms increased in ten
years between 190,000 and 210,000, or
from 24 to 27 per cent. Exclusive of
cities of 25,000 and over, the popula
tion of these states Increased in the
ten years only 18 per cent; but since
1890 the population In the smaller cit
ies and towns has increased relatively
much faster than the agricultural
population proper. The percentage
of Increase of that poulation cannot
exceed 13.
These facta make it certain that the
increase in the number of farms has
been much greater relatively than
that of the population engaged in till
ing them. The farm proprietors, own
ers and tenants as reported have,'
therefore, increased faster than the
farm families. They have been re
cruited in part from the ranks of
former families of wage earners.
Among the farm families of the south,
whose number includes very many
negroes, fewer relatively than in the
north have risen or are rising from
wage service to farm ownership, and
hence there must be a large relative
increase of tenant-operated farms.
In the "Black Belt."
The percentage of farms operated
by tenants, which was 36.1 in 1880.
rose to 38.5 in 1890, will doubtless be
found to have increased still more in
1900. In that year it will probably
exceed 45. This great relative esti
mated Increase in farm tenants Is
predicted upon the number of farm
schedules and the population. Many
of the 200,000 additional farms In
these states are unquestionably small
places cultivated by the members of
the families of wage-earners, and used
by them as homes. Others are smaU
tracts of land, without buildings,
tilled by unmarried men or women
who work as wage earners a portion
of the year. If this is not the case
then we have a substantial elevation
In ten years of over 100,000 farm fam-
1 Hies to positions materially above
those held by them in 1S90. It Ss
hardly probable that such a number
of negro families have realized such a
great advance. But, after making due
allowance for the small tracts of land
of the character mentioned, it Is al
most certain that the final figures of
the census will show a substantial
raise of a large number of former
wage earners to a higher industrial
station In life, and one of the most
prominent indices of this social uplift
is the relative increase of tenant-operated
farms.
Among; the Prairie Farmers.
In the north central states Ohio,
Indiana. Illinois. Michigan, Wiscon
sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kan
sas, Nebraska, South Dakota and
North Dakota there were reported in
1890 1,973,659 farm families and 1.923,
822 farms. Judging from the schedules
the corresponding number of farms In
1900 is substantially 2,190,000 to 2.200,
000. More than one-half of the In
crease of from 200,000 to 275,000 is
found in the newly settled parts of the
various states, in which the increase
keeps pace more or less closely with
the reported increase of farms. The
remained of these added farms are lo
cated in the older settled sections, in
which the rural population increases
more slowly, or is stationary or de
creasing in number. There will, there
fore, in these north central states be
a greater actual Increase of owners
than of tenants, and not the reverse,
as was the case In the South Atlantic
divisions.
The increase of farm owners is
largely confined to the newer sec
tions. In the older settled portions
a different situation exists. There the
relative changes in the population and
number of farms give evidence of the
uplifting of at least m few families
from the position of wage laborers to
that of tenants, and hence a relative
increase of tenant-operated farms, the
same as In the two specified divisions
of states. In 1890 the percentage of
tenant-operated farms in the twelve
states was 20.5, and in 1890 it was 23.4.
The data of population and the number
of farms give evidence of a percentage
in 1900 of more than 26.
Where Growth Is Rapid.
The settlement of Oklahoma, Indian
Territory and the newer parts of Tex
as, Arkansas and Louisiana, according
to the testimony of farm schedules,
adds over 250,000 farms, carved out of
the public or unused domain. The
schedules also give evidence or a still
greater number of new farms in the
other south central states Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi
produced by the subdivision of the
older plantations. In 1S90 the farms
in the south central states numbered
1,086.772. and the farm families 1.185,
932. In 1900 the farms will approxi
mate 1.639,000.
A very large proportion of the
farms operated by white men in the
Indian Territory and on the Indian
reservations of Oklahoma will be ad
ditions to the tenant-operated class,
since it is very difficult for such men
in thi3 section to become owners.
With the exception of the changes
due to this anomalous condition of
farms on Indian lands, the situation
so far as it relates to farm tenure in
the south central states, is intermedi
ate between that described in detal'l
for the south Atlantic and north cen
tral states. The percentage of tenant
operated farms was 36.2 in 1880. 38.4
in 1890, and will probably be over 41
in 1900.
Farms of the Far West.
The farms reported in the western
states Montana, Wyoming, Colorado,
New Mexico. Arizona. Utah, Nevada,
Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Cali
fornianumbered in 1890, 145.874,
while the farm families numbered
169,585. The schedules reported Indi
cate the probable existence in the
same section In 1900 of 245,000, or an
increase in ten years of from 75,000
to 100,000 new farms, all carved out of
the public domain. The growth of
rural population In these states has
nearly kept pace with the Increase in
farms, and hence we can in general
predict that there will be no great
change in the relative number of those
operated by tenants. The percentage
of such farms in 1880 was 14, and in
1S90, with the settlement of 62,155 new
farms, it was only 12.1. In the same
year the percentage of farm tenant
families was 18.9. With the large re
ported increase in the number of
farms In 1900 the relative number of
tenant-operated farms cannot be
greater than 20, and will not be less
than 13 per cent. The data of farm
population available are not exact
enough to make a more definite esti
mate. Summing up the foregoing estimates,
the conclusion is reached that of the
940,000 to 1,140,000 farms that were
added in the last ten years, substanti
ally one-half will be tenant operated.
This will be an Increase of from 40
to 50 per cent, or nearly twice the In
crease per cent of the population for
the nation, four times that of the
purely agricultural population, and
twice that of the farms operated by
their owners.
Greatest Increase Recorded.
It is an actual and relative Increase
of tenant-operated farms that has nev
er been equalled since statistics have
been collected upon the subject, and
yet this unprecedented increase is
predicted on the basis of facts that
show not a degradation of the rural
population, but an uplifting that has
raised not less than 100,000 families
from the position of wage earners to
the proprietorship of large tracts of
tillable land.
The man who spends his money like
water is supposed to liquidate his
debts.
STOCK GROWERS MEET
Many Cattlemen Get Together at Alliance
in Annual Convention.
TEXT Of SOME Of THE ADDRESSES
Busslan Thistle and Sorghum as Forage
Plants Control of Contagions Animal
Diseases Education For the Stock
man's Boy Discussed.
ALLIANCE. Nebr., May 15. The
Stock Growers' annual meeting is be
ing held here, a great deal of inter
est is shown in this association from
the fact that aside from the members
of the association present, a large rep
resentation was here from South Om
aha, Kansas City and other places.
Professor E. W. Burnett of the State
university made the first address, more
particularly cautioning the members
against overstocking the range; the
necessity of providing forage for stock
during the winder and advising experi
ment to determine what forage plants
could be successfully produced in this
locality.
Discussion followed by Zed Good
win advocating alfalfa to be raised on
the lower lands and showing by his
experience that this could be done. G.
W. Hervey related experience with
Russian thistle and also with sorghum
raised as a forage plant and showing
the latter'3 value.
Mr. Comstock, Air. Joy ana otners
took part in the discussion. Dr. Pet
ers of the Nebraska experimental farm
followed with a review of the advance
ment made in the control of contagi
ous animal disease in the United
States. Pleuro-pneumonia, Texas fev
er, blackleg and calf cholera were
touched briefly, after which an Invita
tion was extended by the doctor for
questions to be asked by any one in
the audience touching on these top
ics. G. W. Hervey asked the following
questions:
"What is the period of immulty fol
lowing vaccination for blackleg? How
has this been determined? What is the
effect of vaccination before the period
of immunity has passed on the ani
mal? Does the period of immunity
close abruptly, or is its security grad
ually releasea? What evidence can
we have that vaccination has taken
effect?"
These question precipitated a gen
eral discussion by the members. The
subject of cattie lice and cattle itch
was also introduced by Dr. Peters as
a prevailing trouble among range cat
tle. The remedy recommended was
the dipping of the cattle in disinfect
ants, such as an neptholeum and other
vermicides.
The evening session opened with an
address by E. Von Forrell, regent of
the State university, on the subject,
"Education for the Stockman's Boy."
Words commendatory of the work and
development of the State university
as a means of general education for
the Nebraska boy along the lines of
mechanical and agricultural training
were expressed by the speaker and the
importance of elementary agricultural
education in the common schools.
Test Small Pox on Calf.
BEATRICE, Neb.. May 15. City
Physician Walden bought a six-weeks-old
calf, and . assisted by Drs. Roe,
Fulton and Chief Ashenfelter, made
incisions in the calf's ears and flanks
and inserted the virus, which was tak
en from a postule off a severe case
of small-pox. Dr. Walden says that
if the virus is from a person infected
with small-pox the calf will die, oth
erwise the calf will live. There are
physicians here who assert that a
bovine cannot be innoculated with
human virus.
I? rot hers-In-Law Meet In Prison.
BEATRICE, Neb., May 15. Sheriff
Waddington took John Lutz to the
penitentiary at Lincoln yesterday.
Lutz- was sentenced to one year at
hard labor for arson by Judge Letton.
He Is a brother-in-law of Reddy Huff
man, who was sentenced to eighteen
months at hard labor by Judge Stubbs
at Wilber Saturday, and the two ex
changed greetings.
To Finish His Long Fast.
BEATRICE, Neb., May 15. Henry
Cordes, who has been fasting for thirty-eight
days, announced yesterday
that he would eat Thursday. His
time will be up Wednesday night, but
he says he will not eat any supper,
as he is not accustomed to retiring
upon a full stomach.
Coyler Bchuls Released.
LINCOLN, Neb., May 15. Cuyler
Schultz, one of the oldest of the pen
itentiary convicts, was freed by Gov
ernor Savage and left for Hastings,
where he has two married daughters.
Schultz was sentenced from Howard
county to a term of twenty years for
murder in tue seconld degree and en
tered prison in 1894. His crime was
the killing of Hiram Farr in a quar
rel over some of Farr's cattle, which
he had impounded.
BUTTER MEN WILL EIGHT.
Nebraska Dealers Bally to Defend Dairy
Interests.
OMAHA, May 13. The Nebraska,
Butter and Egg Dealers' association
and the State Dairymen's association,
representing practically all of the
dairy interests in the state, will give
united support to State Food Commis
sioner Bassett in his efforts to enforce
the law against the illegitimate sale of
Imitation butter and other imitation
dairy products.
Twenty-five members of the Butter
and Egg Dealers' association met la
Omaha in response to an emergency
call issued by the president and secre
tary of the organization, and with one
voice they agreed to stand by Commls
cioner Bassett in any step he might
take toward the protection of tfce dairy
interests. Mr. Bassett was appointed
food commissioner by Governor Savage
and it is said be will take charge of
his office in a few days. He will work
under the law enacted by the legisla
ture of 1897.
Morri3 Friend of Lincoln, represent
ing the Beatrice Creamery company of
that place, said to a reporter:
"There is no reason why the law
against the sale of Imitation butter
cannot now be enforced. The legisla
ture of 1897 did not make proper pro
vision for its enforcement, but this
year the lawmakers remedied the evil
committed two years ago, and, so far
as we know, the law will stand the test
of any court in the land. The trouble
for years was due to the failure of the
legislature to make appropriations for
the salary of the commissioner and hie
assistants.
"In brief, the state food law provides
a penalty for selling colored imita
tions of butter. It will allow the sale
of butterine, but only in its natural
color. This places both butter and but
terine on an equal footing. What the
dairymen object to Is the sale of but
terine or other butter Imitations that
are colored to resemble in appearance
the pure dairy product. It is this de
ceit that we want to stamp out, and
we are of the opinion that we have the
means at hand to do It with. The law
also requires restaurants, hotels and
other public eating houses that serve
butter imitations to give notice of the
fact by posting signs In a conspicuous
place setting forth that butterine, or
whatever the Imitation may be called,
is served in the place."
The State Dairymen's association
will probably fellow the example of the
butter and egg dealers and hold a spe
cial meeting within the next few days
with a similar purpose in view. The
officers of that association have already
signified their Intention of standing
back to back with the food commis-:
sioner in his effort to enforce the law,
but it is proposed to make the influ
ence of the organization still stronger
by calling a special meeting for the
purpose of taking united action.
The present indications point to a
clash with the imitation butter manu
facturers. They object most strenu
ously to the restriction against the use
of coloring, and It is possible proceed
ings may be instituted in the courts to
test the constitutionality of the act.'
Mr. Bassett, in his official capacity,
will demand compliance with the law,!
and if any violators are caught they
will be prosecuted. He will have the'
moral support of every butter and
dairy man in the state, and they to-j
gether feel they can wield a mighty,
influence.
Fifth Marriage at 87.
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb.. May 13.
The marriage of B. S. Hayden of this
city to Mrs. A. Shupp of Omaha at
Chillicothe, Mo., was a surprise to all.
This is the fifth marriage venture of
the groom, who is 87 years of age, and
the second venture of the bride, who Is
62 years of age. Both have been resi
dents of this city for many years and
have been engaged to be married be
fore. The groom is well-to-do, but not
Immensely wealthy as reported.
Bankers Elect Officers.
GRAND ISLAND, May 13. The Ne
braska Bankers' association In session
here elected officers for the ensuing
year as follows: C. F. Bentley of
Grand Island, president; F. M. Penny
of Wood River, vice president; W. H.
McDonald of North Platte, secretary;
Peter Mortensen ofc Ord, treasurer; F.
M. Rublee of Broken Bow, member of
executive council of state association.
Fine Besldenee Destroyed.
WAVERLY, May 13. An $8,000 resi
dence belonging to Miss Blanche Hlnes
was destroyed by fire. The house had
been closed preparatory to a summer
trip. The origin of the fire Is un
known. Nebraska at Washington.
WASHINGTON, May 13. Dr. R. M.
Stone of Omaha, who arrived in Wash
ington last night, called upon Com
missioner Evans of the pension office,
having one or two matters before the
department in which veterans of the
civil war are Interested.
JohnMallaiieu and wife of Kearney
are in the city on a ehort visit. Mr.
Mallalleu called on Director Merriam,
having been superintendent of the cen
sus for the Sixth Nebraska district