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THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Crtvnches of the Twenty-Eighth Genera.1 Assembly. SENATE. In the senate on the 17th. se.iate file No. 109, refieallng the free text book law, was reported back from the com mittee for indefinite postponement. 8. F. 142, relating to Insurance, and S. F. 85, also relating to Insurance, were re ported back and plneed on general file. Senator Jennings' resolution, asking for the appointment of a committee to In quire Into the affairs of the office of the commissioner of labor, was adopted. The chair appointed the following com mittee to act under the resolution: Sen ators Jennings. Hasty and O'Neill. The following bill was introduced and read the first time: To provide for and es tablish a state accountant and to fix a salary therefor, and to define his du ties and to declare an emergency ex isting. Providing that no neraon shall be considered e qualified teacher who has not reached the age of 17 years, •was considered In committee of the whole and reported back for indefinite postponement. Providing that petition ers who ask for more than one special election In one year shall deposit the cost of such election with the city or Village clerk, to be forfeited If they fall to carry the proposition which they fa vor. Repealing the law providing for the payment of bounties for the destruc tion of wild animals, wns reported bark with the recommendation that It be In definitely postponed. Providing the amount of fees to be coleeted by the secretary of Iho state hoard of Irriga tion, and S. F. 138, relating to the stor age of water for Irrigation purposes, were considered and reported back to he engrossed for third reading. In the senate on the 1st It S. F. 137 Water rights and irrigation passed. S. , F 49. providing that city treasurer shall 1 be ex-officio treasurer of school board and providing for boards, passed. S. F. 65. relating to marks and brands, passed. 8. F. 128, providing that state superin tendents shall prescribe general course of study, which school boards may fol low. Amended that no change In text books be required. Bill passed. Senate went Into a committee of the whole with Sloan of Fillmore In the chair. 8. F. 120, realting to school lands, and providing when they shall revert to the state upon non-payment of taxes or Interest, amend ed and ordered engrossed. S. F. 191, by Young (by request)—Joint resolution fix ing the amount to be set apart for the erection of a sodhonse and modern farm buildings, showing the progress of Ne braska, us an exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase exposition Mrs. Louise Bow ser wants the state to give her $2,000 out of Louisiana exposition appropriation. She agrees to erect a two-r.tory sodhouse. with a restaurant tn lower story, upper story to be open and public, all to cost $20,000. 8. F. 192. by Sloan of Fillmore (by request)—Re-enacting representative feature In fraternal societies. 8. F. 193, by Marshall of Otoe (by request)—Defin ing the name and purpose nnd providing for the government and maintenance of the Nebraska School for the Blind. S. F. 194. by Marshall of Otoe (by request)— Defining the name and purpose and pro viding for the government ami mainten ance of the Nebraska School for the S. F. 142, by Howell of Douglas, hod rough sailing In the senate on the 19lh and after a long discussion in the com mittee of the whole no action was taken, the bill to retain Its place on general file. The t)lll provides that before unincorpor ated mutual companies shall have power to Insure outside of the members of the company or to pay officers more than $2 per day or to employ solicitors, the com pany shall deroslt with the state a surety bond for $100,000. Standing committees re ported the following bills for general tile: Pellnlng dessertlon of wife, husband or minor child; regarding game and fish commission and season for killing game; no claim for subscription to news paper or magazine shall be valid except for time ordered; providing that courts may order Judgments paid In Install ments; providing for the supersedeas of cases appealed to supreme court; provid ing for bonds to be given by parties sell ing liquor; H. R. 114, providing for the printing of the report of state superin tendent. amended that printing be let by stale printing board—recommended for passage; H. R. 48. providing for cost of bonds of school board treasurers to be paid by districts—recommended for pas sage. The following bills were reported hack by committees In the senate on the 20lh. with the recommendation that they tie placed on the general file for passage: 8. F. 152, providing that the deposit of a. check or draft In a bank shall be deemed evidence of due diligence In col lecting the same; S. F. 128, providing that no judge, sheriff, clerk or consta ble shall be allowed to practice as an attorney In any court of the county in which they hold office; 8. I-’. Its, pro viding when an Injunction may he grant ed by the court; S F. 151, providing for a commission to revise the statutes; S. F. 87. providing that heads of families shall have exempt from attachment $300; 8. F. 118. providing a proceeding to re vive a judgment can only he brought within live years after the judgment becomes dormant; S. F. 125. providing the articles of Incorporation of a corpo ration may he amended by a vote of three-fourths of the capital stock: 8. F 155, providing when a defendant Is found guilty the court shall render Judgment. Including costs; 8. F. 158, providing It shall not he necessary to serve notice of suit on a minor child to he adopted. The following hills were read the third time and passed: Senate file No. 38. de fining conditions of child dependency prescribing methods of protection and penalties for neglect; senate tile No. 9S to prevent the mutilation of horses by docking: senate file No. 139, legalizing bonds for the construction of irrigatlor canals and works; senate file No. 120. providing If any lessee of educational lands shall be In default of payment foi | six months or any purchaser shall be In default for one year the lands shall be declared forfeited by the board of edu cational lands and funds: house roll No. .12. providing for district ownership of text books In cities; house roll No. 27D, appropriating SlO.oOo from the fund of the hospital for the insane at Norfolk, for use of the hospital for the Insane at Lincoln: house roll No. 12, providing for the organization of school board, salary of secretary, etc. IIOL'HE. H. R. 2b2, by flood of Nemana, ap piopriattng $2,800 out of the state library fi nd for a library at the Peru Normal, was passed In the house on the 17th. ns was also II. R. 27, by McClay of Lancaster, providing for state burial grounds for Inmates of Lincoln chart table Institutions. 11. R. 13T>, by Tooley of Custer, providing that one-fourth of the school apportionments to the vari ous counties by distribution among them on the basis of the number of school districts Instead of pupils, as now, was defeated by a vote of 48 to 41. H. R. 103, by Jones of Otoe, pro viding for district nominations and elec tion by the people at large of all the county commissioners, was recommend ed for passage. Bills were Introduced as follows: To require street car com panies In cities of the metropolitan class and of the first class to operate cars during certnln times after midnight, prescribing maximum fares and pro hibiting the collection of any fare from any passenger who Is not provided with a seat. Requires one car hourly from midnight to 6 a. m. and tlxes maximum fare at 3 cents, i'lne of $50 to $100 for violation. To entitle registered phar macists of five years' experience to a renewal of registration without exami nation. To repeal the law requiring constructors of street railways to ob tain the consent of the voters of the municipality before building, without wh'clt franchises may not be granted, and to repeal provisions requiring pre cise route and termini to be named in articles of Incorporation, the route not to exceed length of live miles. To au thorize the organization of mutual In surance companies to Insure property aRalnst loss or damage from tornadoes, cyclones and wind storms. In the house on the 18th IT. R. 265, by Burgess of Lancaster, providing for an appropriation of $85,000 to erect a mus eum and library building by the State Historical society in Lincoln, was rec ommended for indefinite postponement, as was also 1L It. 237, by Gilbert of Douglas, providing for a commission of engine and boiler Inspectors. The house took up a special order, the report of the committee on public lands and build ings that the Girls' Industrial home at Geneva be closed, on the plea that there are not enough Inmates to Justify Its maintenance, and that he inmates be re moved to the Boys' Industrial school at | Kearney. After discussion the report of j t lie committee was tabled. Sweezy moved that two items in the bill approved by the committee be stricken out. These items were $450 for blue books filrnished by the State Journal company and $437.50 for bills furnished by Harry Porter. Sweezy claimed that In th“ first place, the contracts for these supplies ought to be made by the house instead of the secretary of slate. He disputed the fair ness and justice of both hills, and de clared as to the tiles that, while they cost the house $1.75 each, they were worth not more than 30 cents. The mo tion was carried. New bills were Intro duced as follows: To license and provide against the extortion of pawnbrokers and to fix the maximum rate of Interest charged by them at 10 per cent per an num, and to provide that pledged articles j must be advertised 111 a newspaper of general circulation for four consecutive weeks before they can be sold. Penalties from $50 to $500. To declare void sales, trades or oilier disposition of entire stock of goods or merchandise, wholesale or retail, or portions theref, In bulk or otherwise than in the ordinary course of the vendor's business. Tite house convened nt 2 o’clock on the 19th and Immediately went into commit tee of the whole, considering bills on gen eral file. Among the Important bills acted on was II. R. 13fi. by Davis of Buf falo. providing for a lecrease of interest rate on county funds In banks from 3 to > per cent and that counties may deposit money within 50 per cent of the capital stock of the bank instead of 30 per cent, a- now. and that where banks located In the county refuse or neglect to bid on said money or where there are no banks In the county or none having suf tlcient capital stock, then any surplus over the 50 per cent ttiat .he county may receive shall be deposited in batiks out side of tlie county having sufficient cap ita! slock. This bill was recommended for passage, as was also H. R. 7. by Jalinel of Washington, changing the method of appraising ttie damages In e< ndemnatlon proceedings by railroads, and II. R. 51 by (btssel of Otoe, compell ing road overseers to op >n ditches in April and October, and II. R. 14.8 by Perry of Furnas, allowing uniform fees for sheriffs for service in justice, district and county courts. H. R. 9«. by Warner of Lancaster, precipitated the house into a brisk discussion in which Douglas county members, especially Kennedy, figured prominently, it provide* that I tie county supervisor shall be made the coun ty engineer and have charge of all the work devolving upon the latter. It like wise brought up the old bridge bill dis cussion and Kennedy opposed the bill, and finally secured the adoption of an amendment excluding Dougals county i frt tn the operation of the measure. which in Its amended form, was recom i mended for passage. _ Two eventful proceedings occurred tn tlie house on the 2fth. one an appeal fiom the derision of tlie speaker and the other a call of the house to note absentees and members present and not voting. Both came as a result of tlie tiltht over II. R. !03, by Jonc* of Otoe, the bill providing for the election of the county commissioners by vote of the en tire county, which had been denominat ed a party measure. Jones, the author, was absent and an effort was made to have the bill passed over until the au thor could be present. Sweezy and oth ers opposed this. Sweezy. who was against the bill, agreeing to pair with Jones. The speaker ruled that action on the bill should lie taken, and Spurlock n.' Cass moved t"» appeal from the de cision of the chair and was seconded by McAllister of Deuel The speaker was sustained. The other remarkable Inci dent was when the bill was put to a vote. Several members present refused to vote, whereupon Douglas of Rook moved the call of the house and the motion carried. The bill was llnally lost, fifty-one votes being necessary for pas sage. Tho house then took up the bridge bill, II. R. 112. and voted to recommit it. It passed H. R. 79. by Loomis of Dodge, requiring teachers In district schools to keep school the statutory term or make report showing the tax levy has been made and Is exhausted. The house In committee of the whole recom mended for passage II. R. 127. by Mere dllth of York, ns amended by Speaker Mockett. providing that no intoxicating liquors shall be sold on the premises or within two miles of any federal army post or fort: also II. R. 1R7. by Weborg of Thurston, providing for a memorial to congress for a constitutional amendment permitting the popular election of United States senators. TO COMPEL MEN TO VOTE. Representative J. A. C. Kennedy of Douglas county may Introduce a bill providing for compulscry voting In cities. He Is known to be Interested In the sub ject and Is said to be collecting data and information with a view of drawing up such a measure. A bill to compel every qualified elector In the country districts to vote already has been Introduced into the legislature by Representative Ellers, and Is known as II. R. 159, being now In the hands of the rommittee on elections and privileges. It provides a voting tax of J.1. a receipt for which shall be given by the judges of election when each man casts his ballot, the receipt to be ac cepted by the county treasurer In pay ment of the tax. The only other alter native than paying the amount is a sworn statement decalring physical dis ability on election day. Mr. Ellers also has Introduced II. R. \5S. which seeks to make the general election day eHch year a holiday, on which the schools and all places of labor shall be closed. To City Engineer Rosewater Is given the credit for originating the compul si ry voting Idea for cities, lie says: “It is one of the reforms that I would make to improve citizenship. If citizen ship Is good for anything It Is worth earning. I do not believe in sending carriages variously labeled for people on election day. “I do believe, however, that if every man is compelled to vote or pay a tine we will get an honest expression at all times, either In special or general elec tions. I would have a board of regis tration like a census board, to check over the list of registered voters to see wheth er each casts a ballot and to keep close tab on the eligible voters of the city. The fine that should be administered In case of failure to vote should be enforc ed by the board, and $7 for each offense would be the proper amount." TO CONSIDER BRADY'S BILL. Through the efforts of Senator Brady of Boone, a meeting of the Joint railroad committee will be held In the senate chamber on Monday. The meeting will be open to the public and will be for the pvrpose of considering 8. F. 102. which was introduced by Senator Brady. This bill provides that any railroad company operating within this state shall, when requested In writing, by the owner, own ers. or operators o. any elevator, at any station within this state through which any railroad Is operate), erect and main tain a side track of suitable length to approach as n<- <r as four feet of the outer edge of their right of way when neces sary. and In all cases to approach any elevator that may be erected adjacent to their right of way. for the purpose of loading grain into cars from said ele vator. The bill carries a clause providing a penalty of tl.000 for failure by any transportation company to comply with the law. In view of the great movement now going on in this state in the way of or ganizing co-operative elevator companies, it is thought, by those interested, that Hits hill is one of the most important, if not the most important, now before the legislature, especially to all country dis tricts. The recent organization of farm ers perfected in l.lncoln looks for Its hardest tight for life with the railroads on the very point answered by H. K. 102, and for that, reason It Is desired by the friends of the measure that all parties Inter ted will lend their weight to help carry »i through. TKI.EPHONE INVESTIGATION. The meeting of the telephone Invest! Ration committee developed some excite ment. Representative Mnrsman of Douglas Insisted on the right of cross aminatlon by' Morsman. The effect of City Telephone company, who had been hrought from Mlnepapolls by the so called Independent telephone people to testify as to rates. Senator Warner of Dakota, chairman of the committee, de nied this right, and then Senators O'Neill. Glftin and Meredith sided with Mnrsman and the result was that Jttd son was subjected to a rigid cross-ex amination by Morsman. The ITect of the cross-examination wns not encour aging to the Independents, but rather favorable to the Nebraska Telephone side of the controversy. At the ' inclu sion of the meeting Senator Howell of Douglas took occasion to resent u state ment made by President Yost of the Nebraska Telephone company t at he had come to Lincoln as representative of the Omaha Commercial club. NELSON'S BILL DOOMED It is said that Representative N 'son's negotiable instrument bill is doomed to postponement. The measure Is a long one, codifying the laws relating to paper of this character. It Is a copy of the Ohio law and In many ways Is a good nv inire. It is meeting the objections made against all radical changes. The members have not time to study it carefully, and besides the citizens are against Innovation- no matter how good they may be. Repre sentative Jouvenat of the committee on banks and currency is In doubt whither 111 -ive tlie measure h s support and oth ers have so indicated. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. ---- - - j There Is much sickness in and about Exeter, with some fatal terminations. Judge Geo. G. Bowman, a well known lawyer, dropped dead on the street in Omaha from heart trouble. The W. S. A. chib of Table Rock celebrated the 83d anniversary of the birth of Miss Susan B. Anthony. There is an epidemic of measles and scarlet fever in the vicinity of Taylor, but as yet no fatalities have been re ported. James R. Alexander and wife have sold to Edward Andrews 320 acres of land In township nine, in Otoe county, for 110,200. The York camp of the Modern Woodmen has passed a resolution op posing any change in the present sys tem of assessment. The fight for the rural telephone system in the vicinnty of Murray be tween the Bell and independent com panies is on hot, with the independ ents in the lead. Farmers in the vicinity of Vestra are practically starving in the midst of plenty by not being able to get cars to ship out wheat and corn to market. This condition has existed since last September. What appears to be a very rich de posit of lead was discovered in a quarry a few miles west of Barneston, Gage county, and considerable ex citement prevails in that neighbor hood as a result. Alonzo Wymore, a widower, aged about45 years, living with John Lar son, on the George Joyce farm near Alma, was found dead in bed by Mr. Larson. Heart disease is supposed to have caused death. William Webber, while working with a gang of men on the Burlington bridge which spans the Missouri river at Plattsmouth. fell to the ice below, a distance of about seventy feet, and was injured so badly that he died. H. A. Cheney, president of the Se curity bank of Creighton, has been named as receiver of the Bank of Ver digris, after a fruitless effort on the part of the owner to furnish a suitable bond to guarantee its liquidation by himself. W. J. O'Brien, superintendent of the state fish Iiatoheries near South Bend, received large consignments of trout eggs from Bayfield, Wis.. Manchester, la., and Leadville, Colo. This makes over 500,000 trout eggs now in process of incubation at the hatcheries. C. W. Kiser met with a singular ac cident at Howe. He and W. B. Cooney were digging the grave of Mrs. W. A. Wright. The ground was frozen haril. Cooney was using an ax to cut the soil and struck Kiser on the hand, splitting the hand open almost the length of it. Cyrus Kelley, aged fourteen, was out hunting near the home of his half brother, Jerry Kelley, on the Loup. Garfield county line. The gun he car ried was discharged accidentally, the charge striking him on the right side of the chin and ranging through the head. Death was instantaneous. Mr. HellfVv, a traveling man, in York, met a little girl near the post office who was not dressed very com fortably. and on questioning the girl she told him her feet were cold. Mr. Hellfly at once took the little girl into a shoe store and bought her a new pair of warm shoes. Rev. E. E. Wilson, who has been pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Nebraska City for the past five months and who, before coming, was a missionary in South America, has been selected by ihe Methodist Episcopal missionary board of New York city as missionary to Porto Rico. After being out five hours the jury in the case of,the State of Nebraska against Charles Cain, charged with robbing a Rock Island freight car at Beatrice last fall, returned with a verdict, finding the defendant guilty of petit larceny. Judge Letton sentenced hint to the county jail for thirty days at hard labor and ordered him to pay cost of prosecution. At Long Pine after driving his wife and stepson from the room with a revolver, Fred R. Ingalls turned the weapon on himself and inflicted a probably fatal wound in the head. The family was at dinner when the tragedy happened. Ingalls is the official watcli ntaker for the Elkhorn and has long been in business at Long Pine. An uncontrollable appetite for drink, which has ruined his health, was the cause of the deed. John Shoemaker, living one mile east of Bertrand, while working with a corn sheller at WMlliam Karstens, was caught in a shaft, breaking both bones of his right arm, causing a compound fracture and other bruises. Governor Mickey has paroled Chas. L. Sharp of Papillion. Sharp has been serving a sentence at the penitentiary for car robbing, committed on the Rock island. The parole was granted at the request of several prominent Papillion people, who have taken an interest in the man. THE LIVE STOCK IWAUKET. Latest Quotations from South Omaha and Kansas City. SOt'TH OMAHA. CATTLE—There was a fair ran of car lie here, and the market as a Whole was in very satisfactory condition. Hackers eeemed to- be quite anxious for supplies, so that a fairly early clearance was made. The beef steer market, though, was not quite as brisk as It was the day before on the good cattle. The heavy weights in particular did not sell very well, and on that class salesmen were calling the market a llt:le lower. The cow market was active and stronger on cutters and the better grades of corn feds. For the week the market on that class of cattle Is fully 25c 'higher and in some places more. Canners, however, have been rather neglected all the week end have not shown any Improvement. Bulls were not any- more than steRd/, with the demand' Indifferent. Veal calves sold freely at steady prlees. Sup plies of stock eatrte were limited, and, as Is generally the case toward the close of the week, the marekt was. If any thing. a shade lower, as speculators wrere afraid to get many cattle on hand for fear of being obliged to curry them over. HOGS—There was not an excessive run of hogs at any point, and as a result prices Improved a little under I he in fluence of a good demand. At this point the market was rather slow. Seilers hold fot a 5610c advance, and that wus the way the bulk of the hogs sold. The big end of the receipts sold from $6.95 to $7.05. The heavier weights sold mostly from $7.00 to $7.05. and as high as $7.15 was paid for prime heavyweights. The me dium hogs sold largely from $6.95 to $7.00. while the light hogs sold from $6.95 down. SHEEP—Choice western lambs, $6.(XKfJ 6.25, fair to good lambs, $5.656 6.00; choice native and Colorado lambs. $6.006 6.25; choice yearlings. $5.5065.76; fair to good yearlings, $5.006 5.50; choice wethers, $t.75 ®5.25: fair to good. t4.MMii.~o; choice ewes, $t.2564.50; fair to good. $3.256 4.00; feeder lambs. $4.006 5.t«); feeder yearlings. $.7.75 ru’4.00; feeder wethers. $3.756 4.09; feeder ewes, $2.2693.00. KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Fat cattle slow, steady; cows and heifers, steady to lower; Stock ers and feeders, active, steady; quaran tine, slow; choice export and dressed beef steers. $4.506 5.25; fair to good. $7.40 (04.50; Stockers and feeders. $2X4/4.40; western fed steers. $2.756 5.00; Texas and Indian steers, $7.0064.00; Texas cows, $1.90 67.25; native cows. $2.0064.05; native heif ers. $2.2564.25; canners, $1.0062.25; bulls, $2.2564.25; calves. $2.5066.00. HOGS—Market opened strong to 5c higher, closed weak; top. $7.20; bulk of sales. $7.0067.15; heavy, $7.106720; mixed packers. $6,956 7.12V light, $6.7067.05; yorkers, $6.9567.05; pigs, $5.856 6.70. SHEEP AND I-AMBS—Market steady; native lambs. $4.0066.65; western lambs. $7.856 6.50; fed ewes, $2.1566.00; native wethers. $7.5065.55; western wethers. $2.40 65.70; Stockers and feeders, $2.5063.65. PEACE POWERS’ PROTOCOL. Agreements Between Other Claimants ■*n«i Venezuela. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Among the callers on Herbert W. Bowen, Vene zuela^ representative, Friday, was Ferdinand Van Derheid, formerly charge d’affaires of Belgium to Vene zuela. who came with the Belgian minister, Baron Moncheur. Mr. Van Derheid has been designated as charge d’affaires to Chile, blit has stopped in \\ ashington to give what assistance he can to Baron Moncheur in drawing up the Bengian protocol with Mr. Bowen. The representatives of the various peace powers are having cable ex changes with their governments to guide them in the drafting of the protocols for the settlement of the claims of citizens of their countries against Venezuela. None of those protocols are yet in shape for signa ture. Minister Bowen, accompanied by Mrs. Bowen, made a formal call on the various diplomatic officials with whom he has been conducting negotia tions. Affecting Pension Laws. WASHINGTON, I). C.—Representa tive Sulloway on Friday introduced a bill reciting “that in the administra tion of the pension laws and enlisted man in the military service of the United States during the rebellion shall be held to be entitled to a pen sion for any disability contracted by him during any and all enlistments recognized by the war department as valid, provided his disability or disa bilities were contracted during the performance of military duty, within the meaning of the pension laws, any ruling or decision of the secretary of the interior to the contrary notwith standing.” Was With Roosevelt. DENVER, Colo.—Sherman M. Bell, a member of Roosevelt’s rough riders during the Spanish-Ameriean war, has been appointed adjutant general of the Colorado National Guard by Gov ernor Peabody. Says Sun Is Inhabited. LA PORTE. Ind.—Alexander Young of La Porte makes the announcement that from observations made by him he is confident that the sun is inhab ited. He claims to have seen on the sun's surface mountain sides with great and precipitous rocks, which glow with prismatic colors, blended with the greenness of a perennial vegetation and with a floral radiance more beautiful than that of the earth. i BttlfF lUEORAMS. j Bandits who held up a Burlington train in Mentana got but >7.50. Lieutenant Peary says he hopes tO' make another effort to reach the north pole.. Colonel Richard L. Walker, known to every politician in Kansas as "Dick” Walker, died in. Topeka. Arnold Green. LL.D., one of the mo3t prominent lawyers in the state and widely known as a sc holar, is dead at Providence, R. L The president will appoint James R. Garfield to the position of commission er of corporations under the new de partment of commerce act. Ex-State Senator C. H. Smith of Jackson, Mich., has wired to Wash ington his acceptance of the office of prosecuting attorney at Manila. The Standard Oil company has de clared a dividend of $20 per Bhare, payable March 20. This is $10 more than the last dividend declared. At Atchison, Kan., a verdict for $10, 000 has been rendered In the district court in the breach' of promise case of Miss Olive Sells against Peter W. Allen. By unanimous vote the Nebraska senate has adopted a joint resolution providing for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. It is reported that Hon. Edward H. Blake of Ontario has been retained by the Canadian government ar coun sel before the Alaskan boundary com mission. The United Railways company of San Francisco has applied to the New York Stock exchange to list $20,000,000 4 per cent sinking fund coupon bonds of 1927. Active preparations are being made for the early departure of the flagship New York and the cruisers Boston, Marblehead and Ranger for the coast of Honduras. By unanimous vote of the Athletic council Iowa State college has elected B. J. Wefers, once the world’s cham pion sprinter, as track team trainer for the coming season. The statement is made in London that. Lord Charles Beresford has ac cepted the command of the channel squadron. This will necessitate his re tirement from parliament. Nathan Doras, a diamond broker of Philadelphia, was robbed of $7,000 worth of diamonds within ten minutes after stepping from a train on his ar rival in Chicago from Cincinnati. It is the present intention of the navy department to order Captain Pur nell F. Harrington, now at the New York navy yard, to Bremerton, Wash , to take charge of the navy yard k n ♦ there. H. F. Kronskyn of Seoul. Korea, ar rived in Tacoma on his way to New York and Philadelphia to contract for idolB to be used in the heathen tem ples of his country as well as for China. There were three deaths from the plague Monday at Mazatlan. Mex. Two hundred and two patients with the plague have been admit ten to the laz aretto since It was established and 121 have died. J. S. Clarke, the Canadian agent in Australia, cables that a hot wave has f truck Australia and is burning up the vegetation in the pastoral districts and undoing advantage derived from the recent rains. Albert Pfaff, who decorated and fur nished most of the great trans-Atlantic liners of the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd companies, died in Berlin. He bequeathed about $500, 000 to various charities. A bill has been introduced in the Wisconsin senate to make the teaching of the doctrines of criminal anarchy a felony and punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten years or a fine of not more than $5,000, or both. Dr. William R. Brooks, director of Smith observatory and professor of astronomy in Hobart college, has been awared the comet medal of the Astro nomical Society of the Pacific for the discovery of his twenty-third comet. The Belgium chamber of deputies had a stormy discussion on a bill in troduced by the premier imposing a tax on foreign companies having branches in Belgium amounting to 2 per cent of their profits and requiring them to publish annual sheets. A commission was appointed to examine the bill immediately. Joseph Barry, the musical composer and director of the South Wales school of music, died in London. Jesus Urueta has been selected by President Diaz to represent Mexico at the International educational congress in Rome. The Colorado senate passed the bill appropriating $25,000 to defend the Kansas-Colorado water suit. Colonel R. H. Pratt has received of ficial notification from the war de partment that he has been retired as colonel. The closing of the United States na val station agreement with Cuba has caused a renewal of hopes among the 000 United States artillerymen still in Cuba that they will be ordered back to the United States within throe months.