Kentucky
MAY BE BLOODSHED OVER THE
ELECTION CONTEST,
EACH SIDE DETERMINED
Taylor's Backers Say He Will Hold
on Regardless of Decision Goe
bel Men Demur.
4-
Frankfort. Ky., Jan. 16. The situa
tion In the contests for governor and
the state offices and the question of
what is going to happen when the final
result Is declared are fruitful of the
most extravagant speculation. If the
adherents of the contestees. the repub
lican Incumbents of the state offices,
sarry out the line of procedure thy
now threaten in case the legislature
decides In favor of the democratic con
testants, the situation will be serious,
and if the statements of some of the
men, high in the councils of the state,
are to be credited, this Is what they
propose to do.
K. J. Hampton, secretary of the re
publican state central committee, said
this afternoon that the talk of holding
an anti-Goebel state convention here
next week was purely an invention,
but h predicted that several thousand
anti-Goebel men from all parts of the
state would be here to protect by their
presence against unseating Taylor and
Marshal, and to sustain them if the
legislature votes to turn them out. He
denied that any of those here now are
oldiers in citizens clothes, as charged
by the Goebel democrats.
James Andrew Scott, one of the at
torneys for the contestants In minor
Itate contests, said:
"The importation of soidiers and
thugs here for the purpose of intimi
dating the authorities will not work.
They are bluffing and. no trouble will
occur. As for their threats, they will
hold on in spite, of the decision by the
legislature; tney may do this lor a
few days, but the courts would recog-
nize the regular state government, and ,
If Mr. Taylor does not then give in he :
will subject himself to prosecution and
all of the penalties for usurpation,
which I have no idea he will want to
encounter." Most of the democratic
leaders coincide. Ex-Governor Bradley
and ail of the republican leaders hold
that the contest proceedings are being
conducted in an arbitrary manner, and
without regard to the law. and that for
these reasons, the decision, if adverse
to Taylor, should not be binding on
him. They file a bill of specifications
as to their objections to the trial of
contests and the reasons why the pro
ceedings are all illegal. These are that
the democratic members of the legis
lator, with a few exceptions, had their
minds made up and were committed in
advance of the filing of the contests to
vote to seat Goebel and Beckham; that
the committees trying the contests are
fraudulently constituted and can have
no just powers, because of the fraud
ulent manner In which they were
drawn as charged by the republicans
and not denied by Clerk Leigh; that
the time allowed for taking evidence Is
so short as to practically amount to a
denial to the contestants the right to
prove their cases, and that the refusal
to accept their deposits as evidence op
erates in the same manner. The sum
total of all these, according to Govern
or Taylor's attorneys, brings the case
within some of the inhibitions of the
fourteenth amendment of the federal
constitution.
CHASIN6 THE FILIPINOS.
Americana Attack and Scatter Few
Bands of Natives.
Manila, Jan. 15. Advices from Cebu
report a sharp fight on January 8 be
tween a battalion of the Nineteenth in
fantry and a body of insurgents occu
pying a strong position in the Sudleon
mountains. The enemy was routed, the
Americans capturing a smooth-bore
cannon, some rifles and destroying the
fortifications. Four Americans were
wounded.
The Insurgent general, Flores. having
established a rendezvous with 100 men
at Humingan, province of Nueva Vis
caya. Captain Benson, with two troops
of the Fourth cavalry, was sent to dis
lodge him. The insurgents were scat
tered, thtjlr'" horses captured and the
position -was burned, the Americans
sustaining DO losses.
, The American forces have occupied
Magallancs; province of Cavite, captur.
lng twenty Insurgents, Including a col
onel. DRUNKEN SOLDIER'S DIS6RACE.
Disorderly Conduct Towards La
dles In Manila.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 16. First
Lieutenant John W. Lynch of the Ma
rine corps was recently convicted by
court-martial at Cavite, P. 1., of viola
tion of the regulations and sentenced
to be dismissed from the service.
It appears that In July last while
under the Influence of strong drink, he
attempted to break Into a private house
in Manila, occupied by a woman and
her daughters. They became frightened
and raised an alarm, with the result
that Lieutenant Lynch was placed un
der arrest
He waa very much humiliated over
the occurrence and handed In his resig
nation, but It was not accepted. He
was sentenced to be dismissed, but on
account of his youth and short experi
ence In 4 he service, the court-martial
recommended1 him to the mercy of the
reviewing officers. The sentence was
commuted to a loss of ten numbers In
his grade.
TKnEI PLAGUE CASES IN MANILA.
Serious Condition Reported From
Philippine City.
Manila, Jan. K. Three undoubted
cases of bubonic plague have occurred
within the city limits.
While a strict quarantine has been
established and hundred of Inspectors
are making Inspections of the entire
city, the population la frightfully con
gested and there la no sewerage system
here.
Horace are now being Inoculated to
secure anti-toxin serum. Dr. Eddy, an
expert, la unwilling yet to state that
there ia no danger of an epidemic.
West Petat, Neb The first case tried
hi Caaaias county under the new law
ail! if personal property waa
aeai of ba J edge K rake's court
in idin JJiwaTt.ru awed Baary Uhlag
e 4aaaM lor la juries te the plain
tJtm kr wtttfc had beea friga tewed
l S.S BT
KUITIN6 POTHERS II TEXAS.
Dof( Chewed Up But the Hunters
Have Royal Sport.
Han Anti.nio. Tex.. Jan. 14-One of the
panthers uhlih ha been ktllir.g liu
mock and fouls in this neighborhood
for two weeks was run don and killei.
m the southwestern edge of the city b
a party of young men of the tosn.
The successful hunters were Ki S il
kins. a son of Assistant Chief of Poiic
John WilKins; Hubert Campbell. AlfreU
Herman and a young man named Ha-r-ner.
The boyis got on the trail of the ani
mal In the western outskirts of the
city and with a pack of dogs trailed
their game for miles In and out of the
city limits, until they finally cornered
their panther and ended his career aft
er a desperate struggle with the dags,
by a rltle ball. The boys brought the
body of the panther to the city hall
as a trophy of their chase. The ani
mal was about half grown, though very
powerfully built. It Is thought that
this was the panther which some time
ago depopulated L. P. Sthaefer s hen
roost on Leal street to the extent 01
over loo fowls.
In the meantime another panther is
yet at large in the Dottoms oi me
Saiado, about five miles east of town.
This animal is being hunted day and
niKht bv a nosse of farmers of the
Saiado, headed by Mr. baglnius. The
animal was trailed with a pack of
hounds Friday from John Wilkin's pas
ture southeast of the city. The men
and dogs have been hanging on the
animal s trail tenaciously ever since.
Tho dogs got ahead of the party and
1 a sanguinary encounter took place be-
ten the hounds and the beast, in
ith one of the hounds was killed
ana another was so seriously clawed
that he, too, will die.
The animal escaped at the approach
of the hunters. Nee of the capture of
this one is expected at any moment.
LIKE THE AMERICAN MULE.
But the Muleteers Slip Through the
Lines to Aid Boers.
LIKE THE AMERICAN MULE.
New Orleans. La., Jan. 16. The lona.
Corinthian and Kildona, British trans
ports, which took out cargoes of mules
to South Africa, have returned for
more, which they have begun to load.
The Corinthian took out 1.180 mules and
lost eighty and the lona lost only
eleven mules. The Kildona had an
equally satisfactory trip. From one of
the men who had made the voyage it
was learned that the government was
well pleased with the expedition.
"Captown Is all .astir over the war."
he said. "The people generally are
frightened over the way'the Boers have
carried their ends and opinions are
rather pessimistic as to the result. On
landing our mules, the men who had
taken care of them going over were
Instructed to accompany the muleteers
on shore and assist In taking care of
the stock. We were given our pay be
fore leaving the ship and many of the
men went elsewhere and are still In
that country seeking to work out their
fortunes as best they may. Not a few
of them went out through the lines and
will join the Boers, as the majority of
them have all their sympathies enlisted
in behalf of that cause."
JEALOUS HUSBAND'S DEED.
Shoots Estranged Wife and Wounds
. Mother-ln-Law.
St. Louis,. ,Mo., Jan. 16. Edward
Haynes, a cpal miner, son of Hung
Haynes. a prominent citizen of St.
Ijuls. shot ils mother-in-law, Mrs.
Frank Arberr' Wolf, and fatally wound
ed his wife, f
One bullet nxiged at the base of Mrs.
Haynes' brain and the other entered
the left cheek. Doctors say she cannot
live. After the shooting Haynes gave
himself up.
Mrs. Haynes, who is 30 years of age,
and five years older than her husband,
comps of a well-to-do and prominent
family. Haynes was of a very Jealous
disposition and for some time he and
his wife had been living apart. He
went to Mrs. Wolf's house, where his
wife was living, and after a quarrel,
commenced to shoot. Haynes blamed
his mother-in-law for the separation.
ENGLAND WANTS WAR MONEY.
Great Britain Forced to Borrow
20,000,000 Pounds.
London, Jan. 13. The London Sun
today reports that on the reassembling
of Parliament January 30 the govern
ment will Immediately ask for a further
war credit of 1100,000,000.
An absolute yell has been dropeped
over the occurrences at the theater of
war and the country is In complete
ignorance of what Is happening. Fur
ther news of General Buller's move,
inents is awaited with eager anxiety.
One Hundred Thousand Lost
St. Loula, Mo., Jan. 16. The arrest
of John W Baker, head of the firm of
John W. Baker & Co., commission bro
kers, on the charge of using the mails
to defraud, has developed a surprising
condition of affairs.
From complaints In his possession
Chief Postofnce Inspector Dice esti
mates that Baker's out of town patront
have lost In the aggregate over 1100,000.
He thinks the figure mentioned Is small
and has decided to institute a search
ing Investigation to ascertain the full
extent of Baker's operations.
"The scheme," said Mr. Dice, "meas
ured from a financial standpoint, Is one
of the largest that has ever been
brought to the attention of this de
partment. For seven months we have
been looking Into the affairs of the
firm of Baker Co., but owing to their
methods and the fact that many of
their patrons were unwilling to prose
cute, fearing they would then lose the
entire amount of their Investment, we
were unable to make rapid headway At
core of places In Southern Illinois
persona were Induced to Invest their
hard earned savings on the promise
of handsome cash returns.
Hun By Hie Ear to the Calling
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 11 William Olad
lsh, the druggist at Twelfth and Dodge
streets, mounted a pile of boiea In bis
store to see how telephone linemen
were putting In a wire to hla store.
Raiting himself on tiptoe he noted that
the wires were being placed aa he
wished. When he lowered himself to
hit heele be uttered an exclamation of
pain and dismay. A number of brass
hooka for canary bird cagea projected
from the celling, and one hook had
Insinuated Itself Into the upper part of
one of hie ears. When he began to
descend the sharp point pierced the
ear and suspended him.
A telephone man had to cat the hook
to liberate Mr. Oladlth. The ear
looked aa If a ballet had gene throegb
It, bat H la hoped that danger of Mood
averts.
THE ISSUES.
BRYAN SAYS THEY ARE MONEY,
TRUSTS AND IMPERIALISM.
THREE GREATEST ONES
Opinions of Relative Importance
He Says Differ. But will All
Be In Campaign.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 16. So many
have been the errors that William J.
Bryan has discovered In Interviews
with him that when the Post-Dispatch
correspondent asked him at the Blos
som House. "What are the Issues of
1900?" he wrote the following inter
view: "At present It looks like the three
most prominent issues would be the
money question, the trust question and
Imperialism. Men differ as to their rel
ative Importance, but they will all be
In the campaign. W. J. BRYAN."
W. J. Bryan, when asked about his
Minneapolis interview, in which he was
reported as expressing views favorable
to expansion, said:
"I have not seen the interview as
sent out by the Associated Press. 1
saw it as It appeared In one of the
Minneapolis papers, and it contains
some things I did not say. I have for
one year been discussing Imperialism,
and I have tried to distinguish between
such an expansion of the nation's lim
its as would not change the character
of the government, and an expansion
which converts a homogenous republic
into a heterogenous empire. When the
annexation of any given territory Is
under consideration the question is,
first, whether the people want to come
in, and second, whether the people are
capable or sharing In the government
and destiny of this nation.
"I believe that all people are capable
of governing themselves and that the
Filipinos should be allowed to govern
themselves, but I do not think that
they are sufficiently advanced to share
with us In the government of the na
tion. If the Philippine Islands are an
nexed the people there must either
be citizens or subjects. I am not willing
to admit them at citizens, and do not
believe that a republic can have sub
jects, therefore, I want this nation to
give them independence and then pro
tect them from outside Interference.
Each proposed annexation must be con
sidered upon its own merits, but in con
sidering these merits, the condition of
the people should have more weight
than geographical position or commer
cial adevantage."
Mr. Bryan was non-committal on the
subject of the place where the demo
cratic national convention should be
held, and in response to the query,
said;
"I have no opinion. I have not heard
all the arguments and do not care to
give out anything at all. 1 do not even
know whether It Is best to have the
convention in the east or the west."
WHEN BRYAN GOES TO BOSTON.
Hs will Be Received with Open
Arms and Royal Welcome.
Boston, Mass., Jan. 16. At a meeting
f the executive committee of the dems
ocratic state committee for the purpose
of making arrangements for the coming
cf William J. Bryan to Boston January
30, it was announced that if assurances
made to the committee are carried out
John P. Altgeld and Congressman Lentz
of Ohio will be here with Mr. Bryan.
It Is expected that Mr. Bryan will
arrive here from Providence during the
forenoon ef the 30th. The Bryan club
of this city will give him a breakfast,
after which the state committee will
take him in charge.
The mass meeting In Mechanics' hall
will be held at 8 p. m. and the dinner in
Fanueil hall will be served at 10.
STONE AND M'LEAN WILL HELP.
The Co mmercial Travelers and Ho
tel Mens' Anti-Trust League.
New York. Jan. 16. The board of
managers of the Commercial Travelers'
and Hotel Hen's Anti-Trust league held
a meeting in this city. It was decided
to arrange a meeting of the committee
on 4egislation, of which Joseph J. Wil
lett of Alabama Is chairman, to be held
in Chicago February 12. The following
letter was received at headquarters
from ex-CJovernor William J. fcitone of
Missouri, vice chairman of the demo
cratic national committee:
"I have the honor to acknlwledge re
ceipt of your favor Informing me of my
election as a. member of the legislative
committee of the Commercial Travelers
and Hotel Men's Anti-Trust league. I
am willing to accept the appointment
and aid your league in its good work
as far as I can."
Other letters accepting membership
on the committee were received, one
being from John R, McLean, In which
he says:
"Anything I can do to help the com
mercial travelers 1 will gladly do."
. IMPERIALISM AND TRUSTS.
Naw York Democrate With Bryan
to Push These laauea.
New York, Jan. 16. In connection
with the approaching visit of W. J.
Bryan to New York, the Evening Post
(which la not a Bryan supporter) sayt:
"It was learned that great effort will
be made to get Mr. Bryan to epeak
while here, on the lines Indicated In
recent Interviews by Hllot Danforth,
chairman of the democratic executive
committee that it to treat imperialism
and trust as the main Issues of the
campaign and avoid giving undue
prominence to the It to 1 itaue.
"The dinner to be given to Mr. Bry
an by O. H. P. Belmont on January 22
will be a sort of preliminary. Many
of the party leaders of the state, as
well as representatives of the Chicago
platform democrats, will sit at the Bel
mont table and It la said an attempt
will be made to bring both wlnga of
the party together In order that a
harmonious delegation can be sent to
the national convention."
Sioux Falls. 8. D. (Special.) The
bearing In the matter of the appoint
ment of a receiver for the packing
plant located In this city, which Is now
la the bankruptcy court, has been con
tinued by Referee la Bankruptcy R. W.
Parllman until January tt la order to
allow time for the taking at depositions
la New Tork City to prove the claims
of ptoplt living la the east
Interacting Figures Showing How
Much we Ship Away.
Lincoln, Neb.. Jan. It A summary
of detailed reports of all railroad and
express companies doing business In
Nebraska, showing the total outgoing
shipments frofn ch station in the
state, now on file In the office of the
commissioner of labor and Industrial
statistics, shows that the business done
in Nebraska during 1898 was much
larger than in 1897.
Deputy Commissioner Kent Is entl
tied to much credit for the earnest ef
forts he has made to collect and place
before the people -aJuable statistics re
lating to the industries of Nebraska,
but he has been considerably hampered
because of insufficient funds to prose
cute the work as vigorously as Its lm
portance deserves. It is to be hoped
that future legislatures will see the
value of the work done by this bureau
and make ample provision for Increas
ing Its efficiency. In passing it may be
said that the reports of this bureau
are the only ones from Nebraska to be
found on file In the archives of all for
eign countries; in fact, they are the re
ports consulted largely by prospective
Immigrants to Nebraska, as showing
the resources of the state.
Relative to the statistics under con
sideration. It will be seen that the pro
ducts shipped out may be deemed "sur
plus products." or those sold by the
producers after retaining enough for
home consumption. Naturally, these
figures do iot include those products
hauled from the farms by wagon to the
nearby towns and cities and there con
sumed; neither is there any way to
eliminate re-shipments of the same
products from one town or city to an
other; but, on the other hand, the fig
ures do not Include Nebraska products
hauled by wagon across the state line
aad shipped from towns In Kansas,
Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota,
Iowa and Missouri. ,
It may safely be assumed that form
products in the main were shipped out
of the state; but of the manufactured
products a fair percentage were ship
ped to local points and consumed In
the state. The totals for 1897 and 188
are as follows:
1898 $187.83,461.96
1W 140,772,44 .42
Increase. 189 $ 47,080,967 . 54
The principal Items of Increase are:
CEREALS.
1898 ....$ 37,479,117.63
197 28,574,940.09
Increase, 1898 J 8,104,177.44
LIVE STOCK.
1898 $ 70,4:,418.95
1X97 47,529,680.00
Increase, 1898 1 22,929,738.95
MEAT PRODUCTS.
1898 $ 55.R44.4M.85
1897 42,530,068.05
Increase. 18fS $ 13.314,416. HO
The shipments for 1898 may be sum
marized as follows:
Cereals $ 37.679.117.53
MIhc. farm products 1,007.923.1:!
Live stock 70.459,418.95
Fruit 4S7.329.S9
Poultry and eggs 3.229,899.96
Iairy products 2,727.050.13
Flour and feed 1.506,895.03
Meat products 65.844. 484. 85
Other manufactures ..... . 1.093,711.85
Miscellaneous 13,817,630.65
Total , $187,853,461.96
The surplus wheat, amounting to 18,
466,665 bushels, shipped in 1897, was val
ued at an average of 65 cents per bush
el. That of 1898. ten million bushels
greater, or 28,653,026, to be exact, was
valued at 73'4 cents per bushel. Hence,
the gain may be states as follows:
Increased price $2,435,607.21
Increased production 6,621,134.65
Total $9,056,641.86
Corn was valued at 18 cents per bush
el In 1897 and 17 cents in 1898. The
loss on this crop In 1898 is as follows:
Decreased prioe $ 713,310.54
Decreased production
1,150,345.44
Total ,
Surplus crop 1897.
Surplus crop 1898..
..$1,863,655.98
.77,721,662 bu
.71,331,054 bu
Decrease
6,390.808 bu
The surplus oat crop was nearly four
million bushels greater In 1898, but the
average price was 1 1-3 cents lower.
The .net increase in value may be tab
ulated as follows:
Increased product $637,618.62
Decreased price 245,501.52
Net increase, 1898 $392,117.10
Speaking of prosperity, the gain in
the three crops mentioned may be cred
Ited thus:
Energy of Nebraska farmers
and the goodness of God ..$6,108,407.83
Increased prices 1,476,695.15
Total $7,585,102.98
STARTIN6 THE CAMPAIGN.
Hanna Lays Dows the Issues For
the Republicans.
Philadelphia, Jan. 16. The sub-committee
of the republican national cam
paign committee has begun the work
of laying plans for the presidential
campaign. .
In the party were Senator Hanna,
Chairman; "Joe" Manley, H. C. Payne
of Wisconsin, United States Senator N.
P. Scott of West Virginia, Richard
Kerens of Missouri and Charles Dick
of Ohio, the secretary of the national
committee; President Henry Burk and
Chairman W. 8. P. Shields of the local
citizens' convention association, and a
number of others.
THE CANDIDACY.
Senator Hanna, regarding the con
vention, said: "Of course. President
McKlnley will be renominated and
without doubt he will receive every
vote without convention; but when it
comes to choosing his running mate
and deciding on the platform there Is
likely to be an abundance of excite
ment." THE- ISSUES.
During the conference with Mayor
Ashbrldge, Senator Hanna made th
first statement which he has uttered
In his capacity as republican national
chairman, on the Issues and plans of
the coming campaign. He said:
"First The national issues will be
the prosperity of the working people of
the country.
"Second The retention of the Philip
pines, MONET WANTED AT ONCE.
"The republican party Is In pressing
and Immediate need of funds to carry
so the work of the campaign and It
most be begun without a moment's de
lay, The democratlo party has labor ag
itators at work throughout the west
and the republican campaign committee
Mads It necessary to meet them at
every point. "
HIS TACTICS
JOUBERT
USES VON
STRATEGY.
MOLTKE
TOO DEEP FOR BRITISH
One British Ceneral Now Insane
and Confidence In Several
Others Badly Shaken.
London, Jan. 16. It Is all war. Noth
lng else is talked about Letters from
the front are now pouring In and tell
the truth, which the censorship has
jitherto withheld. The effect is Intense
ly painful.
Private letters tell how the soldiers
at Methuen's camp are on the verge
of mutiny. They tell how the soldiers
are so Indignant that they refuse to
salute Methuen as he passes. Yester
day it first came out that Methuen Is
ill. People at the clubs muttered angii
ly that It was about time he was. and
everal others, too.
Gatacre, next to Methuen. In the pub
lie mind, is the greatest culprit.
Over the mahogany after dinner men
tell how Melhuen long ago was an ail
ing man, and infer he is mentally trou
bled and has become physically disa
bled by previous campaigns.
A grand howl Is going up about the
use made by the Boers of barbed wire,
of the original supply of which I have
already told you, as also of the enor
mous amount the Boers have.
From what Is told, however, the Eng'
lish have no right to complain. It ap
pears it was the English who fin, in
troduced barbed wire In warfare. That
was in the Matabele war. Today, too
Klmberley bristles with barbed wire
carefully and skillfully placed so as to
check the charges that might be made
It appears that the Boers have a re
spectful fear of this very barbed wire,
much more than they have of English
bullets.
In connection with barbed wire, which
is destined to play such an Important
role in war. It Is said that the stock
of wire shippers in London has been
entirely sold out, and that the Sheffield
factories are working hard to make new
ones and trying to keep pace with the
large demand.
A German officer, talking to me to
day on the Boer tactics, especially
thoee conducted by General Joubert,
said:
"Joubert Is a skilled modern tactician,
deriving the best of his schemes from
Von Moltke, of whom he Is an ardent
admirer and with all of whose writings
he Is thoroughly conversant.
"The attacking forces," he said,
'around Ladysmlth, Mafeking and
Klmberley are placed, according to Von
Moltke's most approved Ideas, on thre?
sides, which is today reckoned the best
method and surest means of Investing
with the smallest number of troops.
Those were the means adopted both
at KonlgHgrapz and Sedan. Aa to the
German officers they have done nothing
In the technical way, their efforts be
ing entirely confined to artillery, which
has practically taken no hand In tac
tics. "Joubert could give points almost to
any member of the Krleg academy,
Were he in the German army today he
would stand In point of knowledge In
the highest position."
TEXAS ASSESSING RAILROADS
Cross Receipts will Be Taxed In the
Lone Stir State.
San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 16. Railroad
men have been very circumspect con
cerning the attitude they will assume
toward the proposed tax bill which the
legislature has already been called In
special session to pass. A cursory ex
amination of the tax commission's re
port, even by one who is not an expert
in tax matters, is sufficient to show
that the Increase In the amount of
taxes the roads will be called upon to
pay In the event of the passage of the
bill will amount to thousands of dol
lars.
Perhaps the gravest danger to the
railroads lies In the fact that the pro
posed bill revolutionizes the present
method of tinting the property fur tax
ation. It goes much further and seeks
to have proirty rendered which the
commission claims has heretofore es
caped taxation. On this subject the re
port says:
'Lnder the present system of assess
ing railroad property, no method for
ascertaining the value of the property
Is pointed out to the assessors. The
property Is usually rendered at what
ever the assessor will accept, and is as
sessed at whatever the commissioner's
court will agree to, the averages per
mil for the different roads ranging In
1898 from $2,818 to $13,000. There Wing
no state board of equalization- and the
equalization of values being left to the
commissioner's court of each county.
It follows that valuations are very un
equal when the valuation of the differ
ent roads is compared. The lack of uni
formity of each separate road In the
diffrerent counties through which It
runs, Is bJbo very marked. It is not
known that the railroads especially ob
ject to this Inequality, It being the gen
eral policy to escape with as small val
uation and with paying as little tax
aa possible, each striving for a low
assessment In this particular the rail
roads are not an exception. It Is the
practice throughout the state."
It is this policy the commission as
sumes to provide a method for chang
ing, the Idea being to make the valu
ation more uniform. To do this it
would require railroad officials to file a
tworn statement with each tax as
sessor showing the total number of
miles of track owned In the state, In
cluding aide, second and terminal track;
the amount of capital stock authorised,
the amount paid In and Its market
value. The assessor shall add together
the market value of the tharet of paid
up capital stock and the funded or
bonded debt outstanding against the
entire line of railway and then divide
the value of such stocks and bonds by
the number of mllea of track In the
state, thua ascertaining the average
value per mile.
The commlaaton goes Into an elabor
ate argument to prove that Its method
It a proper way of arriving at the true
value and quotes numerous decisions to
prove It would be lawful.
Toledo, O., Jan. II W. W. Oage, cou
sin of Lyman J. Oage, died here. His
last act was to dictate a reply to a let
ter he had received from the secretary
f the treasury aa to hla ancestry Id
order to determine their relationship.
Deceased waa a consumptive and died
pesBllaeo
CEKEXAL 1EWS.
Hot Springs, B. D.. Jan. 11 A move
ment has been Inaugurated for securing
an Odd Fellows' hospital at this place.
It It proposed to Include Odd Fellows'
lodgea In the statet of Nebraska, Iowa.
Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming and
South Dakota. The various lodges will
be asked to subscribe for Hock in the
incorporated association.
Pierre. S. D.( Special ) The supreme
court has handed down a decision In
the case of the railroad commission
against the "Omaha" road, which will
compel the company to build a depot
at the town of Farmer. In Hanson
county. The railroad commission, after
an investigation, decided that the busi
ness of the place would warrant the
construction of a depot and so ordered,
but the company refused to obey the
order of the commlHSion. The circuit
court held against It on a demurrer to
a petition stating facts sufficient to
show the need of a depot.
Spearflsh, S. D. (Special.) The re
gents of education have pronounced
the new normal dormitory one of the
best public buildings In the state. It it
now completed and the large class In
model work is using some of the rooms.
The building cost $26,000 and has eighty
rooms. The citizens of Spearflsh gave
$1,000 toward completing the third
story. No roomers will be taken into
the building this term, but during the
year all the rooms will be furnished
and a matron will lie placed In charge
of everything next fall.
Des Moines, la., Jan. 1. The Young
Men's Christian association auditorium
was crowded for the mass meeting to
express sympathy for the cause of the
Boers. Judge W. T. Tiis presided ana
addresses were made by Judge W. A.
Spurrier, Mayor John MacVlcar, Itev.
I. N. McCash, Judge David Ityan, Col
onel Joseph Klbeek, Justice J. 11. Hal-
ioran, J. li. Sullivan and Henry .val
late. Judge Spurrier declared Iowa ought
to raise 6,000 men and $100,000 as its
contribution to the cause of Transvaal
Independence, and he was cheered to
the echo. The speakers, all of them
leading citizens, were received with the
greatest enthusiasm.
Anderson, Ind., Jan. 16. Casslus Al
ley, an eccentric genius of Pendleton,
has established telephone communica
tion between Pendleton and Anderson,
using simply a strand of barbed fence
wire along the line of the Big Four
where convenient and at places Jumped
to farm fences along the highway.
When he reached the corporate limits
of this city he strung about a mile of
wire to reach a store on the public
square. The test made here last night
was a surprlHlng success, connecting
stores In Anderson and Pendleton. Ev
ery word spoken was heard as plainly
as If over a copper service wire. Alley
has pushed his line west from Pen
dleton to IngallH and connected the
Wagner glass plant with one owned by
the same coiriany In Anderson.
Omaha, Neb. (Special.) Invitations
are no being sent out to some 15,000
retail merchants of the territory com
mercially tributary to Ornaha Inviting
them to enjoy the anual pilgrimage to
this city as guests of the Jobbers' and
Manufacturers' association of the Com
mercial club. Under this Invitation
the merchants and the Orn&ha Jobbers
and manufacturers, and the conditions
of the Invitation hold good from Janu
ary 15 until April 15. These Invita
tion the merchants are furnished free
to the merchants of tributary territory
In Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kanxas,
Houth Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah and Montana, and It Is confident
ly expected that they will bring to
Omaha during the spring months sev
eral thousand merchants on purchasing
expeditions among the Jobbers and
manufacturers of this city.
Denver, Clo. (Special.) A special to
the News from Alamogordo, N. M.,
says: Details of the blizzard which
swept over southwestern New Mexico
Tuesday andt Wednesday are coming
In and they Indicate that it was the
severest storm ever experienced in the
region. A stretch of territory fifty
miles wide, with White Oaks and No
gale for the center, seemed to suffer
the most, although the severity of the
storm was fully felt throughout the
Sacramento mountain region.
The velocity of tm- wind was terri
ble, and roads and trails were obliter
ated and the driving snow made It im
possible for travelers to see their way
in the storm.
When the storm abated wagons that
had been abandoned were found strewn
all over the section. Several fatalities
are reported, lnoltidlrig the driver of
the White Oaks-Lincoln stage.
It Is feared that many sheep herders
have lost their lives. Thousand of
head of stock perished, and It Is be
lieved that the loss will aggregate over
$500,000.
An old prospector found dead at the
the head of Fox Canyon, in the Sac
ramento mountains, has been Identified
as John Voss.
Between Csarrlzezo and Oh pi lan, on
the Kl Paso & Northeastern railway,
the snow was eight feet deep and the
down train to Alamogordo was In the
drifts a day and a half before being
liberated.
Topeka, Kan. (Special.) Dr. D. E.
Salmon, chief of the United Statef Bu
reau of Animal Industry, In an address
before the State Hoard of Agriculture,
declared that the farmer should go
before congress with a demand for re
taliation against the Kumpean gov
ernments that discriminate against
American farm products. In the course
of his remarks he said:
"The most difficult matter has been
to maintain our pork trade with the
continent of Europe. There have been
constant restrictions, burdensome fees
and slanderous charges to contend with.
We proved by the record of the Ger
mans themselves that their own meat
waa dlteaaed and ourt was not. But
till they exclude this product of ourt.
"What thall the attitude of this gov
ernment be If these unjust discrimina
tions continue? Shall we consent to
the prohibition of our meats on the
ground of trichinae, ualng borax as a
preservative, and alleged danger from
Texas fever, and on our part continue
to accept hides from cattle which died
of anthrax, or accept brandy made of
potato spirit and oil of cognac, wines
fortified with cheap alcohol and pre
served with borax T Are not French
peas colored to make them green T And
German sausages made from the meat
of broken down horse T Shall we con
tinue to accept tuch fraudulent and
dangeroua products aa dally come to
our ports and tee our beet meals ex
cluded from their market T"
Antwerlng hit own query, Dr. Sal
mon said the fanners should take a
more active Interest In national legis
lation and that when retaliation be
comes necessary to protest their Inter
est they should take the matter be
fore congress and egkt tor their in
terests. ,