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NEW LAWS OF NEBRASKA Complete List of Bills Passed by the Recent Session of the Legislature. (Continued From Last Week.) ^ Senate file No. 31, by Jackson of Gage, I •t bill providing regulations for the forma- : tion of sewer districts in cities of frbm 6,000 to 25,000 and allowing a majority of the residents to sign the petitions to create said districts. Signed March 50. Senate die No. 20, by Fries of Valley, ft bill permitting farmers to organize lr f%aium districts under the government Senate file No. 220. by Sheldon of Cass, ft biii limiting the state levy to 6 mills ftnd the school levy at not more than mills. SENATE BILLS ipenate file No. 43, by Senator Meserve Knox, a joint resolution authorizing governor of Nebraska to enter into id sign a compact with the governor of iutti Dakota, as agreed upon by a com Ission appointed by the governors to fix it boundaries between the states. Emer mcy clause. Signed February 3. Senate file No. 3, by Senator Good of enialia. a bill classifying property under the revenue law and authorizing the state jjgpDard of equalization to raise or lower the Hlpaluation by classes. Under the revenue law property could not be so classified and t raise in valuation by the state board of equalization had to be applied to all roperty, pro rata, within the county, ‘mergency clause. Signed February 23. Senate file No. 14. by Senator Jennings 9t Thayer, a bill allowing school districts ving 150 pupiis to erect school houses orth $5.00o and to vote bonds therefor. tJndei the old law the limit was So,(Ml for Ifuch 200 pupils. Emergency clause. Signed •bruary 23. gj§f Senate file No. 57, by Senator Cadv of '■..Howard, a bill for the relief of Daniel K. Johnson. The bill allows the board of edu utional lands and funds to surrender to ohnson a lease and issue a certificate of urchase for the southeast quarter of Action 36. township 13, north of range 12, west of the sixth P. M., at the appraised alue of $2,60o. Johnson was the victim f a clerical error in the lease. Signed larch s. Senate file No. 6, by Senator Mockett of ^Lancaster, the juvenile court law. This J taw auplies to all children under 16 years gt' pf age, who are inmates of any state in stitution or any training school for boys Dr girls, organized under the laws of the state. A dependent or neglected child is | flefined as any destitute or abandoned phild under 1C. Parents are declared to t>e negligent when th-y allow their chil k ilren to be surrounded by vicious or im moral influences. Children under the age Df S who sing, play or peddle on tne streets may be taken from their parents Hid placed under the care of a guardian. District courts of the counties of the state Shall have jurisdiction in all eases aris ing under the provisions of the bill. Where Ihere is no district judge the county' judge shall have jurisdiction In counties of more than 50,800 the probation officer shall have two deputies. Probation officers shall receive $3 per day for the time actually employed. Children under 12 years of age are not to be committed to jail nor con fined in any building with adult prison ers. Parents are responsible for the sur roundings of their children and may' be runished for neglect. The state board of harities shall have jurisdiction over the state institutions arid shall visit all chil flren confined therein. The probation of ficer is the executive official of the court and it is his duty to visit, prosecute and report on all delinquent children in the jurisdiction of the court. Emergency clause. Signed March 8. Senate tile No. 9, by Senator Thomas of Douglas. A bill exempting from the pen alties of embezzlement any agent or at torney who shall retain the amount due him for fees, commissions or charges on collections. It shall be no defense to a prosecution for embezzlement that the of fender was entitled to a commission out Of the moneys appropriated. The bill amends section 121 of the criminal code. Signed March 9. Senate file No. 62. by' Meserve of Knox. A. bill forbidding attorneys to practice in the state without being admitted to the Dar. A fine of $100 is provided, or imp’-is rmment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court. Signed March 9. Senate file No. 66. by Senator Jones of Otoe. A bill exempting boundary streams, with the exception of such portions as are within 100 feet from the mouth of any Stream tributary thereto, from the oper ation of the fish laws of the state. Emer gency clause. Signed March 9. Senate file No. 69. by Senator Jones of Otoe. Requires the county board of equali sation to hold a session on the first Tues flay after the second Monday of June in each year to equalize the valuation of per sonal property. Every four years, begin ning In 1904, the valuation of real prop erty must be equalized. This affords re lief, particularly to certain counties where whole precincts had been over assessed by error of the assessor. Provision is also made that in case of division of real es tate assessed as entities the board shall epportion to each parcel its just propor tion of assessed valuation. Signed March 9. Senate file No. 46. by Senator Shreck of Fork. A bill requiring railroad companies to issue return transportation to shippers Df live stock. One man may accompany two cars; two men may accompany six ears. Signed March 9. Senate file No. 200, by Senator Cady. franting graduates of osteopathy schools uthority to practice osteopathy' in Ne braska. Signed March 11. Senate file No. 44. by Senator Gibson of Douglas, the South Omaha charter bill. Emergency clause. Signed March 17. Senate tile No. 125, by Thomas of Douglas, a bill prescribing penalties for the neglect of children. Parents or guardians may be fined not to exceed J1.000 or imprisoned for not more than one year.. Emergency clause. Signed March 21. Senate file No. 34. by Giffen of Dawson, Authorizing publication of the biennial re ports of the state board of irrigation. Signed March 28. Senate file No. 107. by Cady of Howard, transferring $2,346.15 from the peniten tiary special labor fund to the general fund. Emergency clause. Signed March 28. Senate file No. 128. by Epperson of Clay, permitting the wife to be a witness against the husband in desertion cases. Signed March 28. Senate file No. 129. by Epperson of Clay, providing for remitting the sentences in desertion cases when the husband pro vides for the support of the wife. Signed March 28. Senate file No. 19. by Epperson of Clay, a bill to confine inebriates, dipsomaniacs and narcotic fiends in the asylums of the state. Commissioners of insanity in each county to hear the application, which must be made in writing by a relative or person who knows the dipsomaniac. The bibulous habits of the erring one must be proven and the dipsomaniac is con fined in the asylum until cured. He may be paroled on promise of good behavior, but must be instantly returned to the asylum should he lapse into drunkenness. Signed March 28. Senate file No. 63. by Jackson, a bill pro viding for the redemption of tax sale certificates and applying only to Gage county. Signed March 25*. Senate files Nos. 64 and 66 open the Missouri river to fishing at all seasons bv the use of seines or other legal meth ods. but except so much of the river as is within 100 feet of its tributaries. There fishing is prohibited during the closed season. Unconstitutionalitv is avoided by terming the Missouri "all boundary Btreams.” Emergency clause. Senate file No. 78. by Laverty of Baunders. a bill allowing the fish commis sioner to have charge of spawn. Emerg ency clause. Signed March 28. Senate file No. 111. by Meserve, a hill m&Kmg adultery" a teiony" and providing a penaltv of imprisonment for a term of two years in the penitentiary. Signed March 28. Senate file No. 123, by Thomas, a bill repealing section 4465 of Cobbey's statutes. This section authorized country attorneys to employ legal help in tax litigation. Kmergencv clause. Signed March 29. Senate file No. 11, by Sheldon of Cass, revising the Jist of fees for the Justices of the peace. Signed March 30. Senate file No. 13, by Laverty, a bill prohibiting the illegal expenditure of public funds. Boards in villages, cities and counties are forbidden to let con tracts when the funds for. the payment of the expenses are not available or au thorized. Signed March 30. Senate file No. 15, by Gibson of Doug las. a bill providing penalties for jurors or referees who receive bribes. Imprison ment from one to five years in prison is provided. Emergency clause. Signed Senate file No. 143, by Thomas of Doug las, a bill allowing the secretary of the Omaha board of education to be elected for a three-year term. Emergency clause. Signed March 30. Senate file No. 152, by Gould of Greeley, fixing a speed of eighteen miles an hour for the transportation of live stock to market. Signed March 30. Senate file No. 42. bv Senator Thomas, the Omaha primary bill. This measure places the primaries under the direction or the county officials, prescribes pen alties tor tne violation ot tne rules ana regulations and in addition pledges eacn °ne who participates in the primary to abide by the results. Each candidate must at least thirty days before the pri mary file a written application with the proper authority, requesting that his name be placed upon the official primary ballot and pledging hfhiself to abide by the results of the primary. These appli cations shall be filed in the office of the city cierk, for city offices and for mem bers of boards of education. Fbr offices whoiry elective in one county, except city offices, the papers shall be filed in the office of the county clerk. The filing fees shall be computed at 1 per cent of the emoluments authorized by law for utri-ueu oince aunng me term ior which the candidate would serve if elected and must he paid at the time of filing the petition. No films fee shall be less than Sid, except for offices without emolument, in which case no filing fc»e is required. Delegates to a convention shall pay a filing fee of 50 cents for each delegate. Nomination papers my be filed for non partisan candidates. Separate primary election tickets may he had by any poli tical organization represented on the of ficial l.allct t!/ last preceding general election, if anv of its candidates receive 1 per cent of the total vote cast at the last general election in the state. On the sample ballot the names of the candi dates for each office shall be arranged alphabetically, according to surname, no name appearing more than once on the same ballot. When printing, the fornx shall be set up with the names in th« order in which they are placed upon th€^ sample ballot. In printing each set of tickets for the various election districts tile positions of the names shall he changed in each office division as many times as there are candidates in the of fice division in which there are the most names, as nearly possible an equal num ber of tickets being printed after each change. The primary election shall be held in each district at the place where the registration of voters occurs for the election next ensuing. All primary ex penses shall be paid out of the treasury of the city or county, by the s ime officers as in the case of elections. Penalties for committing any fraud or wrong tending to defeat, the result of a primary election are fixed at fines of r.ot less than $M0 nor more than $.100, or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than sixty days nor more than one year, os both ;.t the discretion of the court. At all pri mary elections the polls shall be open in cities at 8 o'clock in the morning and close at 9 o’clock in the evening of the same day; in all other places from noon until 9 o'clock in the evening. In cities where a registration of the voters is - quired by law the city authorities in whom by law is vested the power to ap point registrars, shall appoint two resi dent electors in each precinct to serve as clerks of the primary, one of whom shall be appointed from the party casting the largest vote at the last general election in the state, and the other from the party casting the second largest vote. The reg istrars shall act as judges, but shall re ceive no additional compensation for their services. Any person desiring to vote at a primary election must first state to the judges what political partv he affiliates with and whose candidates he supported at the last election. A first voter need not state his past political af filiations. Emergency clause. Signed March 31. Senate file No. 155, by Jones of Otoe— A bill forbidding the killing of red fox ! or gray timber squirrels or for maiming or wounding them between the season of January 1 and August 31 of each year. The penalty for the violation of the act is a fine of $5. Signed March 30. Senate file No. 168. by Epperson of Clay—A bill abolishing the office of state architect. Emergency clause. Signed March 30. Senate file No. 184. by Gilligan of Holt —Forbidding horse racing. l»all plav make estimates of school district ex penses when the school districts fail to do so. Emergency clause. Signed March 30. Senate file No. 181. by Gould—Allowing a tax of twenty-five miles for a road fund In townships where the freehold ers desire it. Signed March 30. Senate file No. 233, by Hughes of Platte —oFrbidding horse racing, ball play ing or any game or sport on Decoration day. The penalty may he a lire not ex ceeding $100 or imprisonment not more than thirty days or both. Signed March 30. Senate file No. 284. by Beghtol of Lan caster—Milking the county surveyor of Lancaster and Douglas counties ex-of ficio inspector or bridges and judge of the material in county bridges. Signed March 30. , _ Senate file No. 74. by Thomas of Doug las authorizing the use of voting ma chines and allowing counties to buy the machines and expend the difference of the costs of elections for payment there for. Emergency clause. Signed April 1. Senate file No. 96, by Wall of Sherman, a bill giving district courts instead oi county commissioners jurisdiction over cases where charges are preferred against officials. Emergency clause. Signed April 1. * Senate file No. 138, by Tucker, a bill to quiet the title to land which has been platted and laid out in lots, alleys, streets and parks. The bill applies to cities of the second-class having less than 5,000 inhabitants and to villages where conveyances have been made with in the last twenty-five years. Emergency Senate file No. 174. by Gould of Greeley, a bill fixing the poll tax in cities of JjjiOO or less and providing that $2 may be paid in cash and the money to be ex pended In improving the highways ad jacent to the city or the village. Emerg ency clause. Senate file No. 122. by Epperson of Clay, a bill requiring the tabulation of the vote on constitutional amendments on separate sheets and that the results be sent to the legislature to be canvassed. Senate file No. 75. by Thomas, a bill codifying all the negotiable instrument laws'of the state. The revision of the statutes was made by the American Bar association and all the laws concerning negotiable papers are arranged under con venient headings. The bill takes effect August 1, 1905. Signed April 1. Senate file No. 14S. by Bresee of Sheri dan, a bill to make uniform the laws for the ’ laying out of roads. Grounds or flower gardens are exempt from condem nation for roads, and no roads are per mitted to be laid out when the existing roads meet all the exigencies of travel. Signed April 1. g,.nate file No. 1M. by Meserve of Knox a bill allowing small estates to be settled without the expense of administration. The estates must be free from debts •of the decedents. Emergency clause. Signed April 1. Senate file No. 149, by Thomas of Doug las. a bill to distribute the funds col lected under the terms of the defunct High school law. The funds are to be re turned to the school districts which have maintained free High schools for non resident pupils proportionately to the number of non-resident pupils instructed and the length of tbe time of such in struction. Emergency clause. Signed April L Senate file No. 173. by Dimery of Sew ard. limiting the fees of the clerks of the district courts. If the fees exceed <1,600 in counties having a population of less than 35.000, $3,000 in counties having more than that number, or $3,500 in counties having less than 50,000 and $5,000 in coun ties having more than loO.ouo the clerk shall turn such excess into the county treasury. Reports must be made to the county commissioners of all fees re ceived. Senate file No. 60, by Dimery of Seward, a bill raising the salary of the deputy game warden from $1,300 to $1,500 a year. Signed April 1. Senate tile No. 283. by Jones of Otoe, a bill permitting school officers to as sume the duties of truant officers out side of cities. Complaints may be tiled against parents who fail to send their children to school. Senate file No. 108, by Tucker of Rich ardson. The board of canvassers in elec tions must prepare a list of 500 voters. From these lists the grand and petit jurors are drawn. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 1%, by Cady of Howard, a joint resolution for a constitutional amend ment creating a railway commission. The commission is to consist of three mem bers to be elected by the people and to have general authority over railway traffic. Senate file No. 206, by Dimery, to permit the leasing of state property which may become vacant. Senate file No. 136, by Epperson of Clay, amending section 812 of the code of civil procedure so that three referees in partition must be appointed. Under the old statute the court was directed to ap point ’‘referees.” Senate file No. 7, by Sheldon of Cass, providing for a 1 mill levy to pay the state debt. The money derived from taxes must be used to pay interest and principal. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 18, by Gibson of Douglas, a bill defining the crime of jury bribing. This is stated as any overture which wrill affect or bias a verdict. Any person who offers such a bribe may be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not more than five years. Emergency clause. Senate fiie No. 150, by Thomas of Doug las, a bill revising the statute for burg lary and incorporating the statutes for housebreaking therewith. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 141. by Meserve of Knox, a bill regulating water works in small cities and Milages and requiring a two thirds vote instead of a majority to issue bonds. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 211, by Cady of Howard, relieving small cities from damages aris ing from defective sidewalks unless noth:® has been previously tiled regarding the condition of the walks. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 213. by Meserve of Knox, to relieve small estates of the expense of a4ministration when notice of the death of the intestate has been given and the statements of indebtedness published. Senate tile No. 256. by Epperson of Clay, a bill allowing county agricultural so cieties to receive aid from counties when detailed expense accounts have been filed. Failure to do this within two years results in the sale and execution of the property and a quieting of all titles in fee simple te the county. Emenrencv clause. Senate file No. 18s, by~Gibson of Douglas, the South Omaha charter bill. Citizens | and damaged persons may recover for j grading ami the damages may be assessed by three disinterested freeholders. Emer gency clause. Senate file No. 191, by Good of Nemaha, a hill allowing the deputy state superin tendent and the'deputy attorney general to give bonus for RO.oGO. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 280, by Epperson of Clay, a lull allowing an action against an insur ance company to be brought in the county in which the cause for the suit originated. Signed April 1. Senate file No. 255. by Hughes of Platte requiring a three-fifths vote instead of two-thirds of the voters to change the county seat of a county. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 236. by Meserve of Knox, permitting licenses for hshing to be Issued to non-residents tor The price was Jlo under the old law. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 166. by Harsh, a bill amending the Ramsey elevator law and providing for a site on railroad right of way for an elevator with a capacity of 15,000 bushels. The bill requires that cars be furnished pro rata to all shippers with out discrimination. Emergency clause. Senate hie No. 171, by Gibson of Doug las, requiring the redemption of trading stamps at their face cash value and pro hibiting their use unless so stumped. Emergency clause. Signed April l. Senate file No. 210, by Giffin of Dawson, to allow credit to Lincoln county for the money paid for the maintenance and sup port of insane patients who were not resi dents of the county. Senate file No. 117. by Thomas of Doug las, a bill making judgments good for five years. This is done by declaring that judg ments in Nebraska do not outlaw until they are barred by the statutes of the state in which they are secured. Senate file No. 56, b\ Sneldon of Cass, requiring railroads to keep depots open and to stop ali local trains for pas sengers. Senate file No. 187, by Gilligan of Holt, allowing the state to sell the Bovd county lands to the settlers. This bill is de signed to end the dispute between the state and the “squatters.” Senate file No. 238, by Meserve of Knox, allowing guardians and executors to maintain suits for damages for trespass on the property under their control. Senate tile No. 269, by iJresee of Sheri dan, requiring the state reports of the departments to be distributed to the county clerks to be circulated among the people. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 233, by Meserve of Knox, giving the county court the authority to let guardians sell the real estate of a ward. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 229, by Sheldon of Cass, limiting the senate employes to fortv eight. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 276 by Gould of Greelev compelling live stock companies to unload the stock consigned to them within an hour and a half. After that time a penalty of J2.ou per hour per car is as sessed. Senate file No. 214, by Thomas, describ ing the conditions under which real es tat6 may be sold for taxes. Senate file No. 215. by Thomas of Doug las, providing for the redemption of prop erty sold for taxes. * y Senate file No. 246. by Cady of Howard, allowing cemeteries to own eighty acres of land in small cities and in villages and permitting the municipality to own siich property for cemetery purposes. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 271, by Saunders of Douglas, revising the procedure in ob jection suits against assessments. Senate file No. 262, by Sheldon of Cass to allow the use of standard gas and electric light meters in cities Senate file No. 54, b'- Sheldon of Cass allowing the majority of the resident stockholders in cemetery associations to hold elections. Emergencv clausp Senate file No. 1S5. by Cadv of Howard repealing the 7-nfiI! lew limit of the revenue law. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 281, by Mockett, allow ing insurance companies to file an an nual instead of a semi-annual report Emergency clause. House roll No. 384, by Andersen—the * •maha charter bill. This measure em bodies a thorough revision of the exist ing charter, provides for an increase from nine to twelve councilmen, consolidates county and city treasurership makes county assessor city tax commissioner and abolishes the board of public works, giving more power to the mayor and city council. Emergency clause. Senate file No. 40. by Beghtol of Lan caster, providing penalties for crueltv to animals. Overworking, torturing and ‘tor menting animals may be punished by the fines and penalties for misdemeanors. Emergency clause. Signed March 30. In Defense of Husbands. Complaint is made of the men be cause they do not take their wives flowers as they did in their court ing days. But every woman knows that if her husband brought home a costly bouquet she would tell him It would have been more sensible to have brought home a new teapot or a ham.—Exchange. When you notice a vague accusa tion you give it a reality and turn a shadow into a substance. One Method. “How may men become more pop ular with the women.?” asks a maga zine writer. By being half as patient at a social function as they are in a poker game.—Washington Post. Removing Fruit Stains. Fruit stains can be removed with powdered starch, if applied at once. Some men never wander from their own firesides because they dwell in steam-heated flats. Ill-Omen for Family Dinner. We should feel sorry for any home whose daughter has no higher ambi tion in life than to paint a stork standing on one leg.—Exchange. The Egg Tree’s Farewell. “The darkest hour,” as the chicken remarked when the colored man r® moved it from the roost, “is Just be fore dawn.” Nothing beats a good wife—except a bad husband. THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA TO DEFEAT LAW’S PURPOSE Measure of the Laet Legislature Bar ring Sports. LINCOLN — Nebraska sportsmen, racing men and attorneys are holding lively discussions over what games of sport tend to disturb the public peace; also, who shall decide that the public peace is disturbed by such sports? The debate is caused by the bill of Senator Hughes of Platte county, which was passed by the last session of the legislature and signed by the governor. By this measure, horse rac ing. ball playing and other sports tending to disturb the public peace are prohibited on May 30. commonly known as Decoration or Memorial day. As it now stands the measure reads: “Section 1. Any person or persons who shall, on the 30th day of May, commonly known as Decoration day, engage in horse racing, ball playing, or in any game of sport, which may tend to disturb the public peace on the 30th day of May, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, at the direction of the court.” The Grand Army of the Republic is responsible for the origination of the bill which is meant to prevent the desecration of the day set aside to commemorate the deeds of the na tion's soldier dead. As it does not carry the emergency clause the law will not become operative until July 1. Some attorneys claim that the bill will be non-effective on account of de fective punctuation, which consider ably complicates its construction. ALMOST DOUBLE TRAGEDY, Mar. at Shubert Shoots Wife and Then Himself. STELLA—The town of Shubert. just five miles east of this place, was the scene of a terrible tragedy. George Quiggle, after a protracted drunken spree, got a revolver and went down to where his wife was hanging out the washing and after a few words pointed the gun at her heart, at the same time pulling the trigger. She managed to turn the point of the gun so as to receive the discharge in her hand. He then shot her in the side and another load in flicting a scalp wound. He then fired a shot at his own head which render ed him unconscious and from the ef fects of which the doctors say he cannot recover. He tried at several of the hardware stores in Stella last week to get a gun but was refused on account of being intoxicated at the time and also was refused the sale of cartridges. About five years ago he ran a livery barn in this place but for the last few years has been liv ing in and near the town of Shubert. He was a hard drinker and very quarrelsome and disagreeable to his family. It is thought she will re cover. Inverts Talking Machine. LINCOLN—The Duplexophone com pany of Lincoln has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The capital stock is $300,000. and the incorporators are C. E. Hill, president: J. W. Clark, vice presi dent; J. Y. M. Swigart, secretary and treasurer, and M. T^ensink. manager. The company will manufacture in Lin coln a new sort of talking machine called the dupiexophone. which differs from all other such machines in tak ing the vibrations from both sides instead of from one side of the dia phragm of the producer. Chamberlain Seeking Bondsmen. TECUMSEH—Charles M. Chamber lain is still at work in an endeavor to raise the $25,500 bonds the district court placed him under. He is mak ing the rounds of the business part of the city being escorted by an offi cer. He does not hesitate to ask the greatest losers in the failed bank to sign his petition, but his requests are not always complied with. He met an irate farmer on the street who pro ceeded to air his opinion concerning his actions. It is believed he is going to be able to give the bond, as it is said he has already secured $18,000 of the amount. BaM Fixed at $25,000. TECUMSEH—Upon the convening of the district court Charles M. Cham berlain, the defaulting cashier of the defunct Chamberlain banking house of this city, was taken before Judge Bab cock for bond. Judge Babcock fixed it at $25,000, which Chamberlain may not be able to give. Humboldt citizens will probably vote on a proposition to build a city hall. Seward has re-elected its present corps of teachers. Bui! Kills Farmer. FRANKLIN—E. L. Beck, a wealthy and prosperous farmer was killed at his farm three miles southeast of this place by a furious bull. Mr. Beck was out in the field working with cattle when the bull atacked him. He had a pitch fork which was found with tines bent showing he made a fight to save his life. The bull had been dehorned but used his feet, stamping his vic timb into an almost unrecognizable mass. It was several hours before his body was found and he was still alive but died soon after. Currie Makes Investment. BROKEN BOW—F. M. Currie, for mer state senator from this district, has purchased J. E. Adamson’s inter est in the Central Telephone com pany, which, outside of a few shares. Includes the whole plant. This pur- • chase is subject to an option held by the Co-operative Telephone company, which expires June 1, of this year. The purchase price, as offered to the latter company, was $31,000. If they do not raise the necessary amount of funds by that time. Mr. Currie will immediately commence making im provements STATE NOTES. At Wayne a woman’s relief corps has been organized in connection 'with the Grand Army. McCook now has a full-fledged, wide-awake, active commercial club. It starts with a membership of 75. J. H. Preston of Sarpy county has been pronounced insane by the ex amimng board and will be sent to the asylum at Lincoln. Annie Stindt., a five-year-old girl liv ing near Sterling, Johnson county, was severely burned and will proba bly lose one arm, if not her life. Prof. Myers has secured Senator E. J. Burkett to deliver the principal ad dress at the commencement exercises of the Oakland high school the latter part of May. Fire destroyed two large hay stacks, a cattle shed and a few other ! farm buildings on the farm of Carsten ' Bosselman. sixteen miles north of Grand Island. Bert Green, known as one of the ex pert rifle and pistol shots of the west, has resigned his clerkship at the Be atrice postoffice and will leave soon to join Ringling Bros.’ circus. The plans and specifications for the new Burlington depot at Beatrice call for a structure to cost $70,000. It is thought that work will be commenced on the station within sixty days. Blinn Sill of Hastings, for many years a resident plasterer and brick layer, and well-to-do, has gone away, leaving his wife and child, and in his wake a train of unsavory rumors. Anton Trojan, a well-to-do Bohe mian farmer, f.O years of age. living two miles northeast of Leigh, came to his death by drowning in a stock well on his farm. He fell in head fore most. The now brick church kncrwn as the Center Catholic church, three miles west of Brainerd, was totally destroy ed by fire. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss will be $14,000; insurance, $0,000. “Posey” Messersmith, who has been employed in the Burlington switch yards at Plattsmouth for thirty-one years, has tendered his res ignation and will engage in the chick en business. John M. Thurston, former United Slates senator from Nebraska, has been retained to press claims for in demnity on account of the massacre of several Americans, among whom was A. M. Call of Sioux City, in So nora. Mexico, January 17. The committee having in charge the business men's lecture course of Te cumseh has abandoned the plan of ex ttnding the course another year. Last season a $.“>00 course was given, which included five first-class events. About $130 was netted on the enterprise. Governor Mickey is considering the calling of an election for the' First congressional district for the purpose of selecting a successor to Senator Burkett. It is not improbable the time will be fixed some time in July, probably between the 11th and 18th. John Person, a farmer northeast of Norfolk, sent word to his wife in Nor folk. who had deserted him, that he wished to see her. When she arrived she found his head entirely blown off with a shotgun. His feet were bloody, indicating that he had walked around after once wounding himself. Despondency over losing his family and farm was the cause. C. M. Chamberlain, former banker at Tecumseh. who left the city upon the failure of his bank in August, 1902, and who has been charged with violation of the state banking laws, has voluntarily returned and is now in jail. The sheriff received a tele gram from Chamberlain from a city outside of the state requesting him to meet him at Lincoln. This the sheriff did and returned with Cham berlain to Tecumseh. The store building and general mer chandise stock owned and managed by Pat Rowley of Barneston caught fire about 1 o'clock in the morning and was completely destroyed. The fire started on the north side of the building and when discovered had burned into the store room. A strong north wind was blowing and the in terior of the building was soon a mass of flames. Loss on stock will be about $10,000; on building, $2,500. George Huiggle of Shubert, whose wife left him recently, went to the house where she was staying and found her clothes hanging on the line. Without her seeing him he shot her in the forehead. When she fell he held her and fired four more shots. After emptying one revolver he took another from his pocket and shot once more. Then he w-alked to his home and went upstairs, lay on the bed and shot himself. The ball en tered his forehead. It is believed Mrs. Huiggle %will live. Because of the increased cost of liv ing in Lincoln the Traction company voluntarily boosted the salaries of its men from 8 to 10 per cent, effective May 1. The new scale gives the be ginners 14 cents an hour and the five year conductors 20 cents an hour. E. L. Beck, a wealthy and prosper ous farm of Franklin county, was killed at his farm three miles south east of Franklin by a furious bull. Mr. Beck was out in the field working with the cattle when the bull attacked him. When found ne was still alive, but so badly injured that he died soon after. County Treasurer Morrison of Sar py county has begun the work of pre paring a list of property which will be embraced by the scavenger law. An extra force of clerks has been put on In that office in the hope of get ting the list out in the shortest time possible. At Nebraska City, in the district court, the divorce cases of A. L. Still wagon vs. Ida L. Stillwagon and May | Etta Swogger vs. James G. Swogger • were settled and dismissed, the par ties agreeing to live together again. The latter couple have been divorced twice and remarried three times. The Union Pacific motor car No. 1 1 FORTUNE IN FEW MINUTES Diver’s Fee of $25,000 Earned in Comparatively Easy Manner. The most remarkable of the few human fishes in the world, called deep sea divers, is Hal Lefton of San Fran cisco. He has dived for a living in nearly all the different waters of this planet. His specialty of late years has been “salving.” that is, recovering treasure from sunken ships. He gets a commission on whatever he brings to the surface. It was he who earned $25,000 in a single dive to the sunken steamer Rio Janeiro, which went down off San Francisco with all aboard, in cluding $2,000,000 in gold from the Klondike. His story as he told it to the writer was amazing. “There is much known sunken treas ure,” said Lefton, “which cannot be recovered by divers, because it lies at too great a depth. There’s the steamer Oregon, wrecked in 1886, with $1,000,000 in gold; and the Erie, burned to the wafer's edge in 1893— where she sank off Florida, there lies a fortune in gold cn the sea-bed. The marine insurance companies offer us big commissions to dive for those two deposits of treasure, but they lie too deep. Our average safe depth is 150 feet, but I have worked at 204 feet. “The Rio Janeiro, from which I made my big haul the other day, lies at about 170 feet, and some five miles off shore. There’s more gold there still, but after a dive like that of the other day I have to take at least a week's rest. I earned that money in exactly ten minutes, and this is how; “My tug anchored at the right place. Then 1 put on this diver's dress, weighing 170 pounds; it has been often described, for it is just like any other diver wears. Well, 1 dived. It took three of my precious minutes to reach the gold, which was in a cabin just behind the captain’s room. I had forced open the door of that cabin in one of the previous dives, so all I had to do now was to load the gold into a rope net which I had brought down with me, and w’hich. of course, could be hauled up by a rope by those on the tug above. “So I just worked with lightning movements, hustling the heavy boxes of gold into the net. one after the oth er. When I had thrown into the net all it could carry I used my electric lamp to make sure that all was right with the packing and the net; and then 1 used my telephone to tell the men on the tug to haul the net up slowly, but to pull me up as fast as they could, as my tenth minute was about to expire. “1 reached the deck of the tug be fore the net; but 1 went off into a dead swoon before I had time to see whether the net got up safely, and (xen before they could get my copper helmet off. “When I recovered consciousness I was ashore and in bed. And when they brought me the news that the contents of the rope net had been valued at the assay office, what do you think I did? I swooned again. For there was $250,000 worth of gold in those hexes, and my commission was 10 per cent. The very next cay the agent of the marine insurance com pany in San Francisco handed me my commission of $25,000 in gold. That's more than a first-class lawyer can earn in ten minutes, isn't it?"—Mon treal Herald. CHANGE IN COLLEGE RULE. _ Dr. Alderman First President of Uni versity of Virginia. When Dr. Edward Anderson Aider man was installed as the first presi dent of the University of Virginia the ceremony marked a change in the pol- j icy observed for eighty years. When the university was founded Thomas Jefferson established the plan that it should not have a president, this be cause of his idea of simplicity of gov ernment. The school has been manag ed by a board of regents that elected a chairman annually from among the j professors. Its development has made that plan impracticable. Dr. Aider man was formerly head of Tulane uni versitv. * At the installation banquet announcement was made that John D. Rockefeller had given $100,000 to the university “to found a school to be called the Currv Memorial School of * i Education of the University of Vir ginia. in commemoration of the great and disinterested services of Dr. Curry in behalf of popular education.” HAD TO G!VE UP CIGARS. Guests of Andrew Carnegie Bowed to His Wishes. Andrew Carnegie's pet aversion is tobacco. At his Now York residence j one evening recently he gave a din ner. and, as usual, was a genial host. After the coffee Mr. Carnegie con fessed his dislike of smoke in such a way that plainly indicated he would ! be displeased if any of his guests availed themselves of the opportunity | to retire to the billiard room. Two of the guests, hungry for a smoke, ignored the inference. Scarcely had the butter passed the spirit lamp when Andrew appeared at the billiard room door and informed them that a reading was in progress in the draw ing room: perhaps they would prefer to leave their cigars to hear it. The two never moved an eyelash. Within a few minutes the host sent the but- . ler twice to remind the smokers of the reading. In desperation they de serted Lady Nicotine, and now Mr. I Carnegie will have a hard time get ting them to another dinner. Returned- Home to Find Changes. Ten years ago Charles H. Jen nings, a Bridgeport. Conn., business j man. met with reverses and sudden ly left the city. No one knew whfre he went and it was thought he had died or met with foul play. Monday he suddenly put in an appearance, and one of his first acts was to hunt up creditors and pay up all he owed. He finds that his wife has secured a divorce and that his daughter, who was a school girl when he left, had been married, and that he is a grand father at 47. Japanese Are Alert. The Japanese Influence is being elt over the far East. Recently they otablished a Japanese museum at Jangkok, the capito] of Siam. It oc- | cupies large rooms in one of the busiest portions of the commercial city, where samples are displayed of almost every product of Japan. A corps of clerks is in attendance to assist any who may wish to look over ‘ the exhibits and purchasers can order goods from the samples. The museum is proving an increasing success. YOUNG MEN OF THE SOUTH. Business of That Section Very Largely in Their Hands. The young southerner is forging to rhe front so fast that it now is more likely that he will crowd the si rang ers out than that they will seriously rival him. The joung southern men. often mere hoys of 21 and 22. are running the banks, the s?ores the hotels. They are exploiting great tracts of lend, feeding vast forests into the sawmills. They are the rail road men. the promoters, the brokers Oil wells gush at their behest, towns rise at their command. By men under 30 the greater part of the business of the son'h is now being done. The northern who thinks of emigrating to the south because he believes he can surpass the natives in business capacity will find fverten worthy of his steel—keen, untiring and full of the nerve and entcusiasxn of youth. The south is the new park the young part, of our domain. The vest liar become staid and miduie-ageThe young man has come to the front in the south, and with him the south comes into its own once more.—Les lies Weekly. TROUELE M AY BE ADJUSTED. Lawyer Seeks to Effect Reconciliation cf the Wilmerdincs. Mark Alter, who says he is the at torney for Mrs. ‘ Ja^k" Wilmerding. the great granddaughter of Commo dore Vanderbilt, is rot as positive as he was tha,t there exists a possibility of a reconciliation being effected be tween Mrs. Wilmerding and her hus band. Mrs. Wilmerding escaped last week from the Hill sanitarium in Har lem and visited Alter, who suggested overtures looking to a reconciliation with her husband. She started for his office, but did net arrive. As to the plac° of residence of Mrs. Wilmerding since her escape Mr. Al ter professed to know, but refused to divulge it. “She is well taken care of.” he said. “In her fcehalf I will fight all attempts to place her again in a sanitarium. She is a much maligned woman, and her husband will come to take that view of it.” Effectually Suspended. Orly one dog has ever had the au dacity to ‘'nter par lament in London during the proceedings. A hundred years ago the lords were thrown into consternation by a dog’s entry. Lord North was addressing the house, and the dog promptly proceeded to bark furiously at him. Lord North, con-, siderably upset, moved that the mem ber who was interrupting him should be suspended. Thereupon the dog was driven out and suspended in such a manner that he never interrupted again. Author to Occupy Pulpit. Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady, the au thor. recently received a personal in vitation to take the rectorship of the fashionable Trinity church in Toledo, Ohio, and consented to accept it until the vacancy caused by the resignation of the rector should be filled regu larly. Dr. Brady is an Episcopal cler gyman, although he has for many years given his entire attention to writing and has no intention of re linquishing his literary work for the pulpit