THE NORTHWESTERN. BEN8CIIOTKR & OIKSON, E(U and Pubs. LOUP CITY, . - NEB. NEBRASKA NEWS. Table Rock Aas organized a hook and ladder company. Q. W. Gibson, a veterau of the civil war, died suddenly In Ashlaud of heart disease. He was a member of Com panyB, Fourth Minneso ta, and was 63 years of age. Mr. Reel, living west of North Bend, while attempting to thaw out his pump at hta barn set tire to the building a»d It was entirely consumed. The loss Is about $400 with no insurance. At Wymore while knocking the blocks from under an engine in tho Burlington shops a large sledge ham mer, which was being wielded by John Hook, Bllppod and struck Jack Currie, another employe, over the left eye, cut ting a fearful gash about three inches in length. The recent rich strike In the Isa bella gold mine at Cripple Creek, Colo., which Is said to be the greatest gold strike ever made, there being $5,000, 000 worth of the yellow metal in sight, has created considerable of a stir in Wymore, where about 7,000 shares in this rich mine are owned. The flro department of Falrbury was called out by a tire In Sarback's depart ment store. The blaze originated in a sleeping room In the second story and burned through the floor Into the store. It was extinguished, however, before much damage was done to the build ing. The stock was damaged to the amount of about $2,000. A fine new brick business block is to bo erected with the opening of the season In the very heart of the busi ness portion of Grand Island. Three frame buildings, now on the lot, the property of United States Marshal Thummel, are to be removed and Mr. Thummel will erect a building con taining three store rooms. Polk county’s mortagage record for Janust? Is as follows: Sixteen farm mortgages filed amounting to $24,055; thirty-three released amounting to $45,788; two city mortgages filed amounting to $1,429; six released amounting to $3,282; elghty-slx chat tel mortgages filed amounting to $25, 068; forty-two released amounting to $13,248. The mortgage report of Oage county for last month shows a continuation of releases over the filings, and Is as follows. Farm mortgages filed, 62; amount, $92,571; released, 84; amount, $105,889; city mortgages filed, 13; amount, $3,797; released, $17; amount, $3,677; total number of mortgages filed, 76; amount, $96,308; total number of release*, $101; amount, $109,566; excess of releases, In amount, $13,198. A Washington dispatch says: The last of the supply of postage stamps issued In commemoration of the Omaha exposition has been shipped from the postofllce department and all that re mains of that immense series are now scattered about the postoflires through out the country. On the last order of these there were 30.380,000 stamps, the total remaining stock on hand at the department sent out to fifteen post offices. Captain Edward Barry Murphy, a Teteran of the civil and Indian wars, died in Arapahoe last week. The rec ord of his services as captain of the Seventh Iowa and commander at Fort Kearney Is included in the history of the civil war. He was the founder of Arapahoe, and had the honor of nam ing the town. He was an invalid for eeveral years prior to his death, dur ing which time he completed a hook on the "Indian Wars of the West." The police of Fremont are try ing to locate Carl Hotisen, an incorrigible young man, who stole $21 a day or two ago from his mother. The boy spent a period in the reform school, but was not bene fited to any extent, and gave the officials there some trouble. During his term he managed to escape twice. The boy’s mother Is a hard-working woman and the money stolen was the savings for a long time, aud was to have been used to pay taxes. The long and the short man and an other man got in their work In Grand Island the other night. While coming home from Donnlphan and just after arriving In the residence portion of the city Charles Wostcott, liveryman, was held up by three masked highway men and robbed of |80. One of the men held the horses, one held a revol ver, and the other searched Mr. West cott, climbing Into the buggy to do so, while the man with the revolver Btood betwen the wheels and showed Mr. Westcott the revolver. Adjutant General Harry baa received from the Third regiment commander. Colonel Vlfqualn, at Havana, a com plete Hat of the members of the regi ment who have died In the service at the camps located near Jacksonville, Kavanuah and Havana. The list lu rhides thirty-one names, the deatha oc curring between September 6, 1HUH, and January 13. IH9» Second Lieu tenant William O. Thompson; Ser geants Hamilton Hurnett and A U Nelson Corporal Willla I* Hums, Mu sician Frank V. Colby, Privates Will iam Jeffers, James M Keane, Henn s A. Lynch, Harry H Clarkson. Charles K K Ian worth George Kuhnian. Jr.. Oru Thraumau. Charles Head. William Hudec. John Pruvaintc. F.dward Hare, l**hw Myall Axel W I,arson Frank 'H ad. riven Wilson. John A Iteynotds. Sydney K Johnson. Kmeat K l*iir rhase, William II Itensnn Albert Cen ter, James W. lioberte, Andrew Athoa. Leo P Ferroti Holx-tt H Keller, John T Kelllger. Frnest Hohle The Nebraska Telephone company contemplates. with the opening uf the essMMi. constructing lines from Grand Island 1'iui i •» i i Broken How. the lines will center and connect with ih Omaha and l.m coln lines la Grand blinl, »* also for the line west and south The other morning, nhsa teacher and pupils arrived at the place whsrn (he school house should he In district Ns 91, Nr miles south of Nehroaha City, they found It h*e any question as to Its constitutionality After some de bate Senator Currie's motion pre vailed The commute* on lodtrtarv reported on senate file No. &?. recommending Ind-finite postponement: on senate file No S3 favurahlv on senile Rle No Tfi favorsbli with ameb star Howard of Hamilton waa still absent on account of sickness t'pon motion of llntdermen of Paw nee the secretary of the senate waa instructed to take e complete tnven lory of (sails property »t, nell it u senate property'’ and enter the In ventory |n ike Journal. ■« that Ike next session mav know wkal property toe senate should kt«X The senate went Into committee of the whole with Pmut of Hate lx the chair It F M by From of (lag*, a curative act, was recommended to pass. S. F. 109. Introduced by Fowler of Fillmore, reducing the minimum dog tax from $3 to $1 in cities of the second class and villages, was recommended for passage. 8. F. 60, a bill tntrodueed by Tal t>ot of Lancaster by request, provides for the appointment of a state board of embalming, to regulate the embalm ing of dead bodies and provide for the registration of embalmers, to whom certificates shall be issued. Canaday of Kearney moved that the bill be Indefinitely postponed. Talbot of l^ancaster moved to amend that the bill bo reported for passage. So order ed. 8. F. 90, by Noyes of Douglas, which limits the amount of money that can be raised In school districts for main taining schools to $400 for districts having four or less pupils, and not to exceed $50 per pupil for all hi ex cess of four children, was recommend ed for passage. Dills were Introduced as follows: By Talbot: Creating a food commis sion, defining Its powers and duties and of the officers and agents thereof: regulating the manufacture and sale of foods, Including "Imitation butter" and "Imitation cheese” and dairy pro ducts: providing for a system of re ports, Inspection and permits and fix ing fees for the same: providing penal ties for violations of thL act; making an annual appropriation for carrying this act Into effect, nnd repealing all acts and parts of acts In conflict here with. To amend sections 26 and 134 of chapter xxvl. of the Compiled Stat utes of 1897, entitled "Flections." S. F. 255—By Talbot: To regulate the fees and taxes of mutual fire In surance companies. To amend section 6. 11. 21, 41, 59, 76 and subdivision vil, of section 69, chapter xlv., cities of second class and villages, article 1, less than 5,000 In habitants, Complied Statutes of 1897, To amend sect'on 88, chapter Ixxvlll, Compiled Statutes of 1897, and to re peal said original section, relating to eountles entering Into Joint contracts to build bridges between two counties. To amend section 104, of chapter Ixxvlll. of the Compiled Statutes for 1897, and to repeal said original sec tion 104 of chapter Ixxvlll. of the Com piled Statutes of Nebraska for 1897, relating to the payment of road dis trict warrants. Rome. Hibbert of Gage offered a resolu tion on the house on the 30th pro- i vidlng that hereafter all bills should j be printed in the order in which they \ were introduced. The resolution was adopted. After reading a few bills the J house took part in the joint session. ] The vote for senator resulting as fol- j lows: Allen 52, Hayward 31, Webster ; 10, Thompson 7, Field 5, Weston t, | Keese 2, Foss 2, Ilinshaw 1, Van Du sen 1, Lambertson 1, Aedams 1. Cor nish 1, Valentine 1, Norris 1. After recess the regular order waa bills on third reading. H. It. 22 was taken and passed by a vote of 81 to 3. The bill amends sections 30 and 31 of chapter xxiii of the statutes entitled, “Guardian and Wards,” and provide* for the arrest of guardians on infor mation showing misconduct, alldws for opportunity for defense and con cludes with: "If, upon the testimony adduced. It I appears to the probate Judge that the guardian is unfit, for the trust, and that the condition of such minor would be ameliorlated by the removal of such guardian, the judge shall re move him and appoint another in hi* place.” The principal object of the bill was to correct a defect in the original law. H. R. 31, by Evans, making a slight amendment to section 602 of the Civil Code, relating to the vacation or mod ification of Judgments, was passed by a vote of 87 to 0. H. R. 94, by Hathorn, provided that all moneys remaining in the hands of the state treasurer ut the date of the passage of this act belonging to the following funds—penitentiary, normal building, state bond, capltol building, reform school building, Institute for Feeble Minded, live stock indemnity, state relief, conscience and interest charged county treasurers, shall be transferred to the general fund, and all moneys coming into these funds hereafter from back taxes shall be credited direct to the general fund.” The bill v as read and passed by a vot* of 87 to 0. n. iv. vi, oy i nompson oi MerncK, requiring that assignments of mortga ges and trust deeds, to be valid as to creditors and subsequent purchasers, must be made In v/rlttng, signed by the usslgnor. In the presence of at least one witness, with Acknowledgement and recording the same as in other deeds, was passed by a vote of 80 to 7. H. R. 77, by I^ne, correcting an error In section 18, chapter Ixxvtil, Compiled Statutes, entitled "Roads," was passed by a vote of 85 to 3. The house went Into committee of the whole, with Prince of Hall in the chair, and 11. R. 171, the State un»- S varsity bill, by Clark of lamcaster, was taken up. Mr. Clark took the floor and explained the purpose of the biw. Lengthy debate followed when the rnotK ii to kill the bill was MmM by au overwhelming vote and the committee recommended It fur passage. McHluley of Otoe offered the follow lug resolution lu the house ou the 31«t and moved Its adoption: Whereas, The legislature of the state of Nebraska, at Its session in the ye tr 1893. enacted a maximum freight law prescribing the maximum freight raise to be charged by the laliroads lu Ns* breaks; and Whereas. Maid law has been declared to be const I* ut tonal by the supreme court of the I'nltrd Mtalre, but that un der the cuudittons thru exlsttug It see 8cul by said court to be Inoperative ou tbs ground* th t the rate* thsielu pre scribed would hot at that time afford adequate compensation to Ike railroad rompeslee, and \\ -rea» Conditions him material' ly improved so that said law ahouta be enforced, at least lu part; sad Whereas, H would t» svn*4-i' lit at thta time for the legtelature to attempt la enact new laws upon sa l subjs't ae low* as said law l* upon the statute hnarks ut thte elate, and Whereas, It is prescribed In paid law that the slate board of transportation has authority la reduce the rates us any rinse of tammodliy la the sched ule ut rate# hied la said hill; and Whereas, The supreme court of the United States has given permission to the said board of transportation of the state of Nebraska to apply for a modification of its decree at any time when the enforcement of said law would be Just and equitable to the peo ple of the state of Nebraska and to the railroad companies: and therefore be it Resolved, That the board ol trans portation and the attorney general of this state are hereby authorized ana Instructed to forthwith make applica tion to the supreme court of thp Unit ed States for a modification of the de cree heretofore rendered by It and in said case, should they deem it neces sary; and be it further Resolved, That in case said board Is unable to obtain a modification of the decree of the court so as to allow it to enforce said entire act, mat It is the opinion of this legislature that spe cial effort should he made to obtain e reduction of railroad rates on grain, live stock, coal and lumber, the four great commodities In which the peo ple of Nebraska are specially interest ed; and be it further Resolved, That said board la in structed to seek a modification of the decree of said court in such manner and to such an extent as to allow said board to enforce said act by prevent ing any railroad in this state from dis criminating In rates in favor of any other section of the state, and against any other section of the state; and be it further Resolved, That the board of trans portation Is authorized to employ counsel in tills case to assist the at torney general, should said board deem it necessary. After protracted discussion, partic ipated in by many members the reso lution was defeated. II. R. 43, by Grandstaff, providing a penalty of $200 or rne year in Jail for the crime of adultery, was recom mended for Dassage. H. R., by Prince, relating to fore closure of mortgages, was recommit ted on motion of the introducer. H. R. 114 was recommeended for no i-.gfi fro H. R. 93, by Weaver, amending sec tion 601-a of the Civil Code, making It unnecessary to have a complete record In the supreme court cases, ex cept in original causes, was recom mended to pass. H. R. 60, by Carton, repuirlng the expenses on peace warrants to be drawn from the general fund of coun ties, where not otherwise collected,was recommended for passage. H. R. 75, by Lane, to correct the wording in section 41, chapter xix, ] Compiled Statutes, was recommended for passage. H. R. 65, by Prince, providing that warrants and orders of municipal sub divisions less than a county draw in terest at 7 per cent after date of pre. sentatlon for payment, state warrants 4 per cent and county and city bonds at 6 per cent, was recommended for passage. The Joint ballot for senator today resulted: Allen, 58; Hayward, 34; Webster, 10; Thompson, 7; Field, 6; Weston. 4; Reese, 3; Foss, 3; Hin shaw, 1; Van Dusen, 1; Lambertson, 1; Adams, 1; Cornish. 1; Valentine, 1. The house on the 1st listened to the reading of a petition from citizens of Nemaha county asking for the pas sage of a law fixing a penalty of $100 for the killing of quail, prairie chick en or other birds except Kngllsh spar rows for the next five years and asked that one-half the amount of the fine In each case go to the informant. The following report on the post offlee case was submitted: Your committee to Investigate the allegations concerning the postoffice of the house reports as follows: That the letter was written by one member to his own wife, but was through error and good intention di rected to the wife of another by some person connected with the postofflee of the house and not by the writer nor the husband of the recipient; that the lady who received it knew It was not written ny her husband nor to her, but was intended by some other man than her husband and for the wife of the writer; That this should be a warning to alt persons who are supposed to be con nected with the directing of this let ter to the wrong person not to do It again and is also Intended to compli ment the sound sense of the lady who received the letter not Intended for her. ALLEN O. FISHER. J. H. CHAMBERS. R. OAWTHRA. H. R. 150, one of the bills killed, was the bill providing a penalty for failure to vote at general elections. H. R. 144 was a bill making cities ot 10,000 inhabitants cities of the first class. H. R. 145 designated cities be tween 5,000 and In 10,000 inhabitants to be cities of the second class. On third reading H. R. 36, the Oros venor inheritance tax bill, was taken up and passed by a vote of 62 to 28. House roll 114, amending the act relating to the appoimment of au preme court commissioners, was pas- j set] with an emergency clause. It Is as follows: Section 1—That section 3 of an act entitled “An act authorizing the ap pointment of supreme court commis sioners and defining their duties," ap proved March 9, 1893, as said section was amended by an act entitled "An act authorizing the appointment of su reme court commissioner* and defin ing Ihelr duties,” approved March 9, 1893. and to repeal said original sec tion, approved March 12, 1895, be und the same Is hereby amended so as to read aa follows: "fleetIon 3 -The said commissioners shall hold office for the period of three vears from and after their appointment, duilu* which time they shall not engage In the practice of law. They shall each receive a sal ary equal to the aalary of a bulge of the supreme court payable at the same time slid In the same manner as salar ies of the Judges of the stt rente court are paid tl-fore entering upon the discharge of their duilea they shall riih take oath provided for In section 1 of article atv. of the constitution of the state All vacancies In this ro at ml salon shall be Ailed In like man ner as the original appointment Pro vided. That upon the expiration of thn term* of said tommlsaloner* aa here inbefore provided and at the end of ea> h period of three yeara thereafter the said anprente court shall appoint three person* having the same quail ■cation* as required of those Aral annotated ns cum mission* re of ike •«*. prank* court for the ensuing per Its) of three year*, who*# duties and salar lea shall be the same as those of the commissioners originally ap olnted." Pollard of Cass moved that H. R. 137, the revenue bill, be made a special order for next Monday afternoon. Mr. Pollard exclaimed that the bill had been recommended for passage and was ready to be disposed of. After discussion it was moved that the spe cial order for 137 be made for one week from Monday. This amendment was adopted by a vote of 68 to 20. A resolution Inviting W. J. Bryan to address the bouse on the subject of the election of senators by a direct vote of the people waB tabled by a vote of 43 to 41. The Joint vote for United States sen ator resulted as follows: Allen 68, Hayward 36, Webster 10. Thompson 8, Field 4, Weston 4, Reese 3, Foss 3, Hhishaw 1, Van Dusen 1, Lambert son 1, Adams 1, Cornish 1. The resolution ottered by Swan of Nemaha regarding the Omaha expo -eltlon, came up the first thing in the house on the 2d, and on motion of Olmstead of Douglas the resolution was Indefinitely postponed without opposition. Previous to the vote be ing put Mr. Olmstead made a brief talk in support of his motion. S. F. 81, by Owens of Dawson, to make the law governing cities of the second class uniform by providing In all sections for the government of cit ies from 6,000 to 10 000 inhabitants by Its provisions, was recommended for passage. S. F. 68, by 1 albot of Lancaster, ono of the curative acts, was recunmcoded for passage. 8. F. 45, Introduced by Alexander of Adams, provides that Individuals shall be Joined with municipalities as " defendants in personal Injury suits, the former being owners cf the real estate In front of which the accident occurred. Crow of Douglas moved that the bill be Indefinitely postponed, owing to the difficulties in carrying out the provisions of the bill. The mo tion prevailed and the bill was killed. After recess the sergeant at arms brought Judge Sklpton of Fillmore be fore the bar of the house to answer the contempt charge. Sklpton an nounced that he had brought In the ballots wanted by the election commit tee and had turned them over to that committee. On motion of Fisher of Dawes the prisoner was declared purged of the charge of contempt and was released. Bills were Introduced as follows To authorize the board of public lands and buildings to purchase a tract of land not exceeding forty acres for gardening purposes for the Norfolk insane asylum and appropriating $4, 600 therefor. To amend section 7, chapter xxvl. of the Compiled Statutes of 1897. Re duces number of Justices of the peace from three to two. To amend section 2 of chapter 1 of the statutes of 1897. Amendment pro vides that liquor notices be published “In a newspaper In said county,” leav ing out. the provision that It must he paper of largest circulation. To amend section 592 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Amendment plac es limitation of proceedings to vacate or modify judgments at six months in stead of one year. 4 The Joint vote for senator resulted: Allen 57, Webster 10, Field 4. Reese, 1, Hlnshaw, 1, Var. Dusen 1, Cornish 1, Hayward 35. Thompson 9. Weston 4, Foss. 1, Lambertson 1, Adams 1. necessary to choice 64. In the house on the 3d standing com mittees reported H. R. 183. 101, 4, 190, 158 and 206 and S. F. 29 for general file and reported 120, 152, ISO, 73 and 175 for Indefinite postponement. All these reports were adopted, although there was a fight to have 120 and 152 placed on general file. H. R. 120 was to provide for the survey of a north and south railroad under the direction of the governor at a cost of $12,000, and 152 was a bill compelling railroad companies to build fences. H. R. 89, repealing the wolf bounty act, was re committed. El wood of Antelope offered the fol lowing resolution: Whereas, he opinion as expressed by this house that United States senators should be elected by a direct vote of the people; therefore, be it Resolved, That we hereby request our senators and representatives In congress to procure as soon as possible the submission of an amendment to the constitution of the United States for ratification, providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, be it further. Resolved, That a copy of these reso lutions be Bent to each of our senators and representatives in congress. Jansen of Jefferson moved to table the resolution, which was defeated by a vote of 60 to 19, and the resolution was adopted. Evans of Adams offered the follow ing resolution ; Whereas, The government of the United States and the government of Spain have, after long and careful ne notUtlons, agreed upon a treaty of peace and the terms of that treaty are. Id all Its substantial features, in ac cord with the terms proposed by the United States; and. Whereas, A failure to ratify the treaty by the senate of the United States would place me government of the United States in a ridiculous posi tion before the world In failing to ratify what it had Itself proposed; and. Whereas, The ratification of the treaty in no manner commits this gov ernment to the so-called policy of ex pansion nr imperialism, but almply puts an end to the war, and periut.d the nation to assume and perform the duties Inipwtl upon It by the results of the Suatush American war; there for a Resolved, That the house of repra sentatlvea of Nebraska hereby respect fully requests Senators Alien and Thurston to vote for the ratification of said treaty of peace The resolution was adoptrd II It tt>, by Rfurges*, to lequirs the auditor of public aecouai* to snaually ascertain sinking fund. Interest ac crued and to acrue upon all bond* reg istered In his office and report to the county clerk of same county, was ter* non ended to pass The Jotni *«** for senator resulted today 4lien M llayward IT, Thump M>n |u Webster 10. I mid 4, Weston I. >'«ms I Rees# I. I ann hen son I, Adam* 1, Hlnahaw I. Van l Mi sen |, Oumtak | Necessary ft* a choice, 04 The plumber Is the only man who is really Heaeiled by kitting Ik* pipe.