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THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE t A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Branches of the Twenty-Eighth General Assembly. i SENATE. In the senate on the 21th Anderson of Saline Introduced a resolution that the report of the committees on deaf, dumb and blind asylums. Insane hospital, pub lic lands and buildings, reform school. Asylum for Feeble Minded and Home for the Friendless, Soldiers' home and state prison be made by March 5. The resolu tion was introduced so that the senate could intelligently determine the needed appropriation*. In committee of the whole the senate reported the following for grnernl Hie: Providing for notice to bo given before hearings In certain cases under code of court procedure. Provid ing when property may be siexed for per sonal taxes. Amending code of civil pro cedure relating to affidavits. Providing for compelling witnesses in certain cases and providing for appeal. Providing for the annexting of territory lying contlg ucus to a city or a town. Fixing salary of secretary of school board. Providing for dlstrf't ownership of text books In cities and towns. Providing for appeals to supreme court, except In criminal capes, was passed. Providing for the publication of the statutes. After a lengthy debate It was allowed to retain Its palce on general file and no action taken. Among bills introduced were the following: To /provide for appeals and for the reversal, vacation or modifica tion by the district court of judgments rendered or final orders made by tribun als Inferior to such district court In all cases except criminal cases and those governed by the provisions of the Crim inal Code. To prevent corrupt practices, treating and favoritism in the letting of contracts, and the transaction of business with county boards, city councils and school boards, and to provide a penalty for the violation of this act and the re moval of the offending member from office. To select grand and petit jurors, prevent favoritism In'their selection and providing for their qualifications. Tn the senate on the 23th Hall of Burl, Hasty of Furnas and Sloan of Fillmore Were appointed a committee to draft a bill In accordance with the resolution for the establishment of a bureau of roads by congress, so that Nebraska would lie prepared to benefit by the es tablishment of such a bureau, S. F. 31, providing that J. K. Oobbey be author ized to compile and have established the statutes, of which the state shall buy BOO sets at $0 per set, was passed. S. F. 11. providing that the supreme court shall have the power to reduce the number of commissioners to six or less If In the judgment of the court the business would Justify It, was taken up. Hasty of Furnas move 1 to make the number of commissioners three. Howell of Doug las moved a substitute that six com missioners shall be appointed for one jear and three for two years, making nine commissioners for one year. Both the amendment and the substitute were lost. The bill was ordered engrossed with the committee amendment as follows: Three commissioners and stenographers shall be appointed for one year and six for two years from and after April 10, 1903. unless the appointments be with drawn by the supreme judges. New bills Introduced Included the following: To provide for the regulation and winding up of the business of certain corpora tions engnged In the business of raising money from members or others by means of stated installments or pay ments, to be held. Invested nr distributed In accordance with certain plans or schemes: to designate such corporations as installment investment companies; to subject such companies to the supervi sion and control of the auditor of pub lic accounts, state treasurer and attor ney general; to designate the said au ditor of public accounts, state treasurer and attorney general as the state bank ing board. Prohibiting members of school board from being Interested In any contract let by board, and prohibit ang any member from being Instrumental in getting any relative a position In the employ of the school board. The senate on the 27th was up against parliamentary law. It all happened over the dtsousslon of the amendment to S. F. 11, recommended by the judiciary com mittee. The original bill provided that the supreme court should reduce the j number of commissioners to six or less , If the business of the court Justified it. j The amendment recommended by the Ju- ' dietary committee provided that three ; commissioners shall be appointed for 1 one year and six for two years. After being recommitted nt the morning ses sion the bill was reported back to the committee of the whole at the afternoon session, with Its former recommendation. After much wrangling the committee of the whole recommended that the bill be amended that six commissioners shall serve one year and three shall. serve two years. The report of the Torrens commission, which has been in the hands of the judiciary committee, was ordered sent to the Judiciary committee of the house. This was done at the request of the senate committee. A few reports of standing committees recommending bills for general file were received. New bills were: For the relief of J. it. Kmmett for money erroneously paid for rental of pub lic land amounting to $19.30. Repealing the law relating to written contracts be tween owners of land and brokers or agents selling same shall be avoided. To require the strengthening of bridges and culverts of the several counties of this state, and to regulate the crossing of them by steam threshing machines and gasoline engines. In the senate on the 27th the Brady ele vator bill, senate tile No. 102, was re ported back to the senate by the railroad committee with amendments. Senate tile No. 95. providing that Insurance com panies organised under the laws of Ne braska may transact a general Insurance business, and house roll No. 4S, to pro vide that school districts shall pay the cost of their treasurer's bond, came up for final reading and were passed. Sen ute file No. 22. providing that railroad companies organized under the laws of Nebraska shall not be subject to the j limit of Indebtedness which applies to other corporations; senate tile No. 43. which provides that landlords shall have a lien upon the crops and all personal property of their tenants, and senate file No. 182. providing for a soldiers and sail ors' relief commission. were reported bc.ck by committees, with the recom mendation that they be placed on gen eral tile for passage. In committee of the whole, house roll No. 40. providing that a lease to luke effect one year after making must be in writing, was consid ered and recommended for passage. At 2 o’clock the senate adjourned to the house to take part In the services in memory of J. Sterling Morton. The fol lowing bill was Introduced and read for the first time: S. F. 231, by Senator Hall of Douglas—To legalize acknowl edgements and oaths heretofore taken and administered by coaunlssioners of deeds. HOUSE. The house devoted the greater part of the day on the 24th to bills on second reading. In the list was house roil 344, the revenue bill, whose 30.000 words were ugain all read. The bill then was re ferred to the house revenue committee. It Is likely the committee will waive criti cal examination of the hill and sent It at once to general file. A motion by Sears was adopted to have 1.000 copies of the revenue bill printed. Koetter of Douglas presented a resolution saying that the Union Pacific had allowed its condition to degenerate so as to seriously Impair Its delivery of mail and calling on the postal department at Washington to compel the company to correct these conditions. New bills introduced includ ed the following: Defining a legal news paper for the publication of legal and other ojclal notices In the state of Ne braska. Must have a circulation of 200 copies and have been published for one year. Not applicable to counties of less than 3,000 population. For the relief of William Rochlltz. Appropriates $500 to pay for five head of horses killed by order of the state veterinarian as being afflicted with glanders. To provide for the estab lishment in cities of the second-class, having less than 5,000 Inhabitants, of a system of sewerage. To amend sections IK. IS, 20 and 2K, chapter Ixxviii, Compiled Statutes, entitled “Ror.ds," defining the proceedings necessary to lay out, alter or vacate a public highway. To reim burse consignees for coal confiscated by railroad companies or other common car riers. and providing a penalty for the violation of the requirements of this act. Requires railroad companies to pay con signee $1 a ton aside from paying for the coal. To protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monop olies, and to prohibit the giving or re ceiving of rebates on the transportation of property. Prepared by W. M. Spring er, president of the National Live Stock association, appropriating $10,000 to carry out the provisions named. In the house on the 25th these bills were read the third time and passed: For a concurrent resolution memorial izes: congress to establish the true mil itary status of the First Nebraska mil itia. Making sheriffs' fees the same in justice, district and county courts. Km powering mayor and council to extend the corporate limits of such city so as to include additional territory and to de crease the corporate limits by exclud ing lands not laid off into lots of live acres and less. Requiring the plaintiff In condemnation suits to procure right of way to deposit the cost of suit with the court. Requiring all county superin tendents to hold first class teachers' cer tificates. Making the county surveyor of Lancaster county ex-oflldo county engi neer In addition to his powers and duties as county surveyor. Regulating the vot ing and amount of school bonds, chang ing the latter in various districts. Pro viding that rood overseers shall open ditches, drains and sluices during the months of April and October. To appro priate to the use of the State university the money In the agricultural station, the normal and the university cash funds. Petitioning congress fqr a con stitutional amendment for the popular election of I'nited States senators, it be ing a concurrent resolution. Providing a health officer and board of plumbing In spectors for the city of Lincoln. Re ducing the Interest on the county money j from 3 to 2 per cent and enabling the ! county to place Its money in outside banks if those within that county re fuse to comply with this interest provi sion. Fixing the time and place of meet ing of the State Horticultural society. This resolution was Introduced in the house on the 27th: Whereas. The committee on metical so cieties and 'ey laws has under con sideration house roll 232. being a bill to regulate fees of the State Hoard of Phar macy: and Whereas. Said committee has endeav ored to ascertain the amount of fees col lected by said hoard and paid by said board Into the state treasury at the end of each year, as required by the law governing the State Hoard of Pharmacy; and Whereas. The members of said commit tee have discovered that the State Board of Pharmacy has for several years failed to make an annual report and render an account to the state auditor as required by law; therefor be It Itesolved, That unless said board fllcn its report and render an account to the state auditor within five days after the adoption of this resolution that proceed ings be commenced against the members of said board for Impeachment on the ground of malfeasance and neglect of duty. Bills were introduced as follows: Au thorizing the Board of Public Lands and Buildings to purchase and control a site and to erect a monument thereon with proper Inscriptions for the state of Ne braska, at or near Fort Calhoun In Washington county. Nebraska, commem orative of ttie place where Captain Meri wether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark’s expedition landed; whqre the counell be tween Is-wls and Clark and Ihe Indians was held on August 4, 1904, and where ' Fort Atkinson was afterward located, ■ and appropriating $5,000 to defray Ihe ex l«'nse thereof. To provide for the pay ment of the salaries of the officers of the state government. Authorizing the preparation of an official statute, making it admissible in evidence, and authoriz ing the purchase of a supply thereof by the state. Authorizing corporations to *aot as receiver, assignee, guardian, cur ator, executor, administrator, surety, bondsman, trustee, agent and attorney in-fact and defining their duties, privi leges and powers. To regulate and re quiring the branding of all articles and commodities made or manufactured in the penitentiary in Ihe state of Nebraska. Authorizing the governor of the state of Nebraska to appoint three commissioners to act with a like commission from the state of South Dakota in agreeing upon a boundary line between the said states. To amend sections 1, 2. 4. 10, 10 and 20. chapter xdiia. article III, Complied Stat utes, and to add section 20a to said arti cle. providing for the dlsnosltion of moneys paid under protest and providing for the filing in the office of the secretary of the Irrigation district of a copy of the tax receipt and affidavit. The forenoon was spent by the house on the 27th in discussing whether a Sat urday session should be held. It was finally decided that, when adjournment h* taken for the day. it be until 2:30 Monday afternoon. A half hour was spent in committee of the whole. The house and senate met jointly In repre sentative hall at 2 o'clock to consider the special order, resolutions of respect for the memor- of the late J. Sterling Mor ton, offered by Representative Cassell of Otoe. Governor Mickey occupied a chair beside the speaker. Mr. Cassell spoke briefly. He said he had been for forty six years a neighbor and friend of Mr. Morton and had learned to love him as a remarkable man, a staunch friend, a model husband, father and home-builder —a man of intense convictions, unswerv ing loyalty, broad mind and unquestioned rectitude. Mr. Jones of Otoe read an eul ogy that exalted Mr. Morton as pioneer, citizen, statesman, orator, philosopher and nhllanthroplst. Remarks were made by Clay of Lancaster. Spurlock of Cass, and others, after which the house ad journed until Monday. LEGISLATIVE NOTES. II. R. by Bacon of Dawson, providing for an aprpoprlation of $30,000 for the purpose of determining whether petrol eum, coal or gas exists and can be ob tained In paying quantities in Nebraska, has been recommended for passage in the house by the committee on internal Improvement. The plan of the bill is to sink six wells as a means of getting at the desired information. In the house Weborg introduced a bill to provide that the Board of Equalization shall consist of one member to be elected from each congressional district of the state, to be elected at the November gen eral election. Three members shall be elected each alternate two years there after. The first terms of those elected in even numbered districts shall ,be two years and those in odd numbered dis tricts four years. Thereafter each term shall be four years. The board shall have power to raise or lower county assessments. Senate file 203. introduced in the senate by Fries of Valley, is a second edition of the Tooley house bill, which was killed in the house last week. It Is a bill for the rearrangement of the apportionment of school money. It provides that one fourth of the money shall be given to counties according to the number of srhool district and the remaining three fourths shall be divided pro rata accord ing to the number of pupils. Senator Fries said he believed the bill was not thoroughly understood In the house, hence he Introduced It in the senate. It seeks to take from the larger school districts money that they now get under the apportionment law and give it to the smaller districts. The revenue bill introduced in the house on the 22d is entitled: "A bill for an act to provide a system of revenue and to repeal articles 1, 2. 3, 1 and 5 of sections 4, 5, 6, 7, S, 9, 10. II and 12 of articles vii of chapter lxxvii Compiled Statutes of Nebraska for the year 1901.” It was Introduced by J. A. Douglas, George L. Loomis, W. T. Thompson, W. G. Sears, F. A. Sweezy, C. .1. Warner and W. H. Wilson, the special house committee appointed by Speaker Mockett to act Jointly with Senators Brow'n, Pemberton, Fries. Saunders, Day. Ander son and Reynolds in the framing of a revenue bill. The committee has been at work about a month. TO REOFI-ATE THE TONTINES. The bill regulating investment compa nies Introduced by Senator Harrison ns S. F. 222 wns drawn up by several par ties interested in the building and loan business In this state. The bill is for the purpose of regulat ing so-called “diamond tontines” and "home co-operatives." It is claimed that this class of companies have done a large and lucrative business in this state with the laboring class of people and that the business has not always been to the benefit of the Investors. Reput able building and loan companies, it is claimed, are regulated by laws which provide that before they can transact any business they must tile a statement with the state hanking board setting forth the plan under which they intend to do business and that the permission of the board must be secured before any business can be transacted. It Is stated by the friends of the build ing and loan companies that the law has been proven a good one by the nourishing condition of the companies now doing business In the state. It is contended that any concern which seeks to secure periodical payments l >m the wage-earning class should be governed b> a law similar to the one wh; h gov erns the building and loan companies. Buttermilk ooup. Take two cups of finely cut German rye bread, add two quarts of butter milk and place over the fire and cook gently for one hour, then add a tea spoonful of aniseed and a very little sugar (not enough to make it sweet) and let it boil for five minutes; strain and just before sending to the table beat the yolks of three or four eggs and add to the soup. A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men if (hey know the preacher isn’t listening. It is not at all surprising that the girl who gets vaccinated on her leg is foolish enough to call it "limb.’ NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. An Omaha man Is about to drill for coal in Cass county. The retail hardware dealers will hold their next annual convention in Omaha. An ordinance has been passed rais ing the salaries of most of the city officers of Fremont. At Nebraska City Lee Dolan at tempted suicide by taking morphine. He was despondent from being out of work. Before the season closes it is esti mated that there will be over 75,000 oushels of corn cribbed at the thriving little town of Filley. Miss Peaker, employed in a steam laundry at Kearney, was caught in the machinery and so badly injured that she may lose her arm. While wandering about the streets of Wymore at 1 o’clock in the morn ing in a semi-lntoxicated condition, Everett Hanna of Table Rock, was held up by two unknown men and robbed of $180. Great anxiety is expressed at the home of Claus Eggers, a farmer north of Yutan, for the mental welfare of his wife, Christine. Her condition is such that she may have to be remov ed to the asylum. Goaded to desperation by unre quitted love, Jennie Thomas shot and killed her former lover, Fritz Broder son, in the latter's room in Lincoln. Broderson had seduced the girl and then refused to marry her. A quit claim deed was filed for rec ord in the register of deed’s office at Y’ork, which conveyed 4,120 acres of land in Baker, Brown and Hays town ships from Wm. Otto to ^is three sons. The consideration named was $500. The property is valued at $206,000. By the accidental discharge of a shotgun with which he was shooting pigeons, Rudolph Cizek of Lincoln was instantly killed. The charge struck Cizek in the forehead and tore off the entire top of his head, blowing por tions of his skull a distance of thirty feet. The doctors of Dixon, Dakota and Thurston counties met at Emerson and organized a tri-county medical association. Dr. O’Connell of Ponca was chosen president; Dr. Maxwell of Dakota City, vice president, and Dr. Rouse of Wakefield, secretary and treasurer. The National Reform association will hold a conference to discuss the Christian principles of civil govern ment in St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church in Lincoln March 10 to 12. Governor Mickey will preside at the first meeting and deliver an address of welcome. H. R. 371, introduced in the legisla ture by McAllister of Deuel, reappor tions the state into senatorial and rep resentative districts. It reduces the number of senatorial districts from thirty to twenty-eight and increases the number of representative districts from sixty-seven to seventy-four. Smallpox has broken out among the Indians of the Winnebago and Omaha reservation, in spite of the most earn est efforts to prevent the reappearance of the disease this winter. Last win ter the disease worked sad havoc among the Indians, and all that could be thought of was done to stamp out the disease. The following were the prize win ners at the annual declamatory con test of the school of expression of the Nebraska Wesleyan university: First honors, Miss Emma Smith of Cedar Bluffs; second honors. Miss Net tie Steinmeyer of Clatonia, and, third, Fred Winship of Grand Island. There were eight contestants. Ray Cook, living four miles south west of Gibbon, has lost twenty head of cattle and twelve more will die with a disease claimed to come from poison in the hay. It affects the rear extremeties, sometimes at the root of the tail, but generally in the hind legs. It eats off all the flesh and cords to the bone and some of them have broken off at the knees, and the cattle hobbled around on the bare bone joints until killed to put them out of their misery. J. C. Stevens, draftsman in the office of the state board of irrigation, has compiled a table showing the amount of water available for irrigation that is not used. The statistics, which run back to 1895, give a mean annual aver age of 6,854,000 acre feet. Measure ments were made in each case in the channel of the stream below the irri gated region so that the amount of water shown would be practically all available for irrigation. Calculating that, the amount needed for each acre would be two acre feet this water would irrigate an area of of 3,457,000 acres. A party of fifteen homeless waifs from the east will arrive in Blair March 5. They range in ago from 2 to 14 years. The society which has them in charge has requested that homes be found for them where they can grow up into lives of usefulness. Considerable farm and city property is changing hands at present in Gage county. It is thought this is due to the fact that quite a number of Gage county people have gone to Oklahoma and Indian Territory during the past few months. THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. Latest Quotations f-om South Omaha and Kansas City. SOr'TlI OMAHA. CATTI-E—There was a moderate run of rattle In the yards. As Is apt to he the case toward the end of the week the de mand was not quite as brisk, bnt still the prices paid for desirable grades were not much different from those in force yesterday. The beef steer market could be ouoted a little slow', but about steady. Handy weight cattle of fair to good quality sold without much difficulty at steady prices. Heavy cattle, howeevr, were rather neglected, and sellers found I1 a difficult proposition to get what they considered steady prices for that class. The cow market was also about steady. There was not the activity to the trade, though, that characterized the market earlier In the week, and In some cases salesmen thought they did not get quite ns much for their cows as they ought to have. As a general thing, though, the prices paid looked just about us good ns these of yesterday. The bull market was just about steady today, and veal calves also commanded as good prices as were paid yesterday. There were searcely enough Stockers and feeders In the yards to make a market, and as speculators sold out practically all the cattle they had on hand yesterday, they were wdlllng to pay about steady prices for desirable grades. HOGS—There was quite a run of hogs here and, as other market were quoted lower, prlees here also suffered a decline. Packers started In to buy their hogs 58100 lower, hut sellers would not lake off that much, and as a result the market was very slow from start to finish. In some eases packers raised their bids and bought the hogs only a big nickel lower, whiel In others they succeeded In getting the hogs 5810c lower. It w'as a rather uneven market and It was late before a clearance was made. Medium weight hogs sold largely around $6.S5. Good heavy hogs sold from $6.S5 to $6.95. SHEEP—Choice lambs, $6.50.. 6.75; fair to good lambs, $5.5098.25; choice Colo rado, lambs, $6.5087.00; choice lightweight yearlings. $5.658 6.00; choice heavy year lings, $5.4095.65; fair to good yearlings, $5.008 5.50; choice wethers. $5.2595.50; fair to good. $4.7595.25; choice ewes, $1,50'!$ 4.75; fair to good ewes, $•'!.7584.25; feeder lambs, $4.7595.50; feder yearlings, $4,258 1.75; feeder wethers, $4.0084.65. KANSAS CITY. CATTLE-Corn fed, higher; heifers, steady to strong; quarantine, active, strong; stockers and feeders, steady: choice export and dressed beef steers, $4.50®5.20; fair to good, $3.75 @4.50; stockers and feeders, $3,404$) 4.50; western fed steers, 12.80415.00: Texas and Indian steers. $3.o04i4.(H): Texas cows, 12.50®3.00; native cows, It.504i4.00; native heifers, $1.7.Vu4.4rt; dinners, $1.00® 2 10; hulls. $2.50®3.65; calves, $3.00®G.30. HOGS—Market opened steady; dosed weak to lower; top, $7.20; bulk of sales, $0.90®7.06: heavy, $6.!<i4i7.20; mixed pack ers. $6,754*7.10; light. $6.G5@6.95; yorkers, $6.85®6.95; pigs. $0.65®0.70. SHEEP AND IAMBS—Market steady; native lambs, $4.00®6.60; western lambs. .'$3.6.40; fed ewi I 13.00415.90; native wethers, $3.55415.40; western wethers. $3.44 @5.55; stockers and feeders. $2.50®3.60. THE FAMISHING FINNS. The Czar Intervenes in Their Be half. ST. PETERSBURG.—The czar has personally intervened in behalf of the famine stricken Finns, and has order ed that extensive relief works be staried without delay. Besides the immediate construction of the proposed Idensalmi-Kayana rail way, which wil cost $700,000, he has sanctioned the expenditure of $300,000 on the Uleaborg-Tornoa line, voted by the senate, but hitherto unapproved; the raising of a $2 oOO.OOO loan for other railroad construction, the estab lishment of a bank with a capital of $800,000, which sum is to be used in making loans to peasant farmers, and has approved an appropriation of $140,000 for public works, principally the drainage of swamps. FIGHT A BATTLE IN SALVADOR. Bonilla Defeats Sierra and Trouble Is Now Supposed to Be Over. WASHINGTON—A cablegram re ceived Friday at the navy department from Admiral Glass announces the ar rival of this flagship and the Boston and Marblehead at La Union, Salva dor. He said that communication by telegraph with Amapala was inter rupted and reported further as fol lows : “Battle on the main land on Febru ary 22 has taken place, resulting in the total defeat of Sierra, who escap ed with three or four hundred men. Bonilla is in pursuit. The capital is in the possession of the latter's adher ents. The fighting is supposed to be practically over. All is quiet here. The American interests are undis turbed.” Fire Destroys Hiyti Town. CAPE HAYTIEN.—A dispatch re ceived here from Gros Morne an nounces the complete destruction of Port de Paix, Hayti, by fire. Only tlie vessels belonging to the Haytien coni> pany were saved. Big Lace Curtain Exhibit. BERLIN.—Dr. Lewald, the commis sioner of Germany at the St. Louis ex position, held a conference with the lace curtain manufacturers of Plauen, Saxony, who decided to make a special exhibit at St. Louis. The lace indus try is now enjoying an unusual run of American orders and the manufactur ers therefore are more ready to incur expenses than those engaged in the metal trades. BRIEf TELEGRAMS. The daughter of W F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) was married at North Platte, Neb., on the 24th. Fire in the plant of the J. L Case Plow company at Racine. Wis,,. didi damage to the extent of $100,000. A joint resolution has been intro duced in the Hawaiian territorial, leg islature petitioning for statehood. Senator McCumber has introduced the p»tre food bill, as a propose*! amendment to the agricultural appro priation bill. Paul Grlnstead, editor of the Times,, was fatally stabbed by a drunken negro*, named Frank Warner, at Wathena, Kas. The International Wireless Tele graph company, with a capital of $7, 500,000, filed articles of incorporation at Camden, N. J. Dr. WT. B. Davis, one of the most prominent physicians in Alabamu. was accidentally killed by being run over by a passenger train. The president sent to the senate a veto of the bill to place Francis S. Davidson, late a first lieutenant of cavalry, on the retired list. Andrew Carnegie has added $125, 000 to the endowment fund of the Car negie laboratory of engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in New York. Col. Paul R. Hawkins of Springfield, Mass., was elected commander-in-chief of the legion of Spanish war veterans at the national encampment at Law rence, Mass. Secretary Moody ordered a general court-martial to convene at the navy yard, Pensacola, Fla., on or about March 6, for the trial of Ensign Ward K. Wortman. While a dance was in progress at the home of Sarah Anderson in Cov ington, Ky., a fight arose among the guests present and James England was fatally shot. The house judiciary committee re ferred all the resolutions bearing upon the subject of polygamy to a sub-com mittee, with instructions to report to the full committee. All conductors and motormen of the Topeka Street Railway company have received notice that their wages had been raised to $2 a day. They have been receiving $1.80. Brigadier General G. W. Baird has been placed on the retired list. For many months past General Baird has served as the chief disbursing officer of the army in New York. Sherman M. Bell, a member of Roosevelt’s rough riders during the Spanish-American war, has been ap pointed adjutant general of the Colo rado national guard by Governor Pea body. In the report of the health depart ment it is estimated that the present population of Greater New York is 3,732,903, an increase since the United States census of 1900 of 295, 701. The attempt to pass in the Delaware house of representatives a bill to re peal the voters’ assistant law bill, which the democrats claim favorable to Addicks to maintain his grip in Del aware failed by a vote of 17 to 15. The resolution which passed the senate providing that Rear Admiral Schley be given the pay and allow' ance of a rear admiral on the active list was called up in ttie house com mittee on naval affairs and tabled. Judge Monger, in the federal court granted a writ of injunction restrain ing the city tax commissioner and city council of Omaha from making an in dependent assessment of the Union Pacific and Burlington railway prop erty for purposes of municipal taxa non. Mrs. Coulter, the only woman mem ber of the Utah legislature, has In troduced a bill in the house limiting election expenses of candidates and requiring the filing of the same. The bill makes it unlawful for any candi date to give away or to treat to any cigars, drinks or other refreshments. Mr. Cortelyou's elevation to the cab inet adds another lawyer to the body. He is a graduate of the Georgetown university law school and has had the degree of master of laws conferred upon him by that institution. Includ ing Secretary Cortelyou, six of the nine members of the cabinet are law yers. Earl Woods, the 17-year-old son of a prominent farmer, living seven miles west of Frankford, Ind., killed hia father, shot and probably fatally wounded his mother and sister and then committed suicide. The motive of the boy’s deed is not known. John Page, an inmate of the sol diers’ home in Norton, Conn., who was charged with having obtained a pension by impersonating his father, who served in the civil war. was sen tenced in the United States district court to three years in state prison. The navy department has decided to send three more ships in search of the missing collier Alexander. These are the Hannibal, at Norfolk; Prairie, at Galveston, and the Topeka, at Kingston, Jamaica. The Lebanon al i ready is searching for the Alexander. I The houne committee on printing