EVENTS OF INTEREST OF MORE OR LESS IMPORTANCE. Taxes Will Scon Begin to Flow Into the State Treasury—Miscellaneous Nebraska Matters. State Treasurer’s Report. State Treasurer-Moftensen’8 month ly report shows that this is the "hard up” period for the state, but that taxes will soon begin to flow into the treasury. Notwithstanding the small amount of receipts, the treasurer re ports that he has $262,599 In state (le (pository banks, and, as usual, he gives .the names of the banks and the amount in each. There is only $1;60&&1- in the permanont school fund. During the month the treasurer received $100,556.05 and ptfld out $210, 329.20 on hand September 1. The bal ance on hand at the close of Septem ber was $266,194,82. The following tare the bank balances reported by the treasurer at the close of September: City National.$ 12,708.0?. 'Columbia National. Lincoln . 12,192.05 Warmers and Merchants, Lin coln . 8,045.57 First National, fdneoln. 14,020.21 Nat'l Bank of Commerce, ; Lincoln . 13.12S.00 ‘First-National. Omaha .. 14,290.06 J. L. Braudels & Sona. Oma ha . 6,112.39 Merchants National, Omaha. 11.864.15 Nebraska National, Omaha.. 12,039.29 :Omaha National. Omaha ... 12.390.91 United States National, Oma ha . 15,407.09 Alliance National. Alliance.. 4,009.32 Battle Creek Valley, Bat tle Creek . 2.104.83 Bank o£ Bcysile Mills . 1,000.00 Broken Bo\v State'. 3.000.00 Custer National, Broken Bow 4,016.90 Security State, Broken Bow.. 2,068.85 First National. Chadrou —. 4,128.08 !First National. Crete. 4,011.43 State Bank, Curtis . 2,499.42 Pannebrog State. Dannehrog 1,101.90 (First National. Fremont .... 6.247.G6 (Bank ot Glenvillo . 1.027.91 ’Commercial State, Grand Island . 3,316.94 Greeley State .2,510.13 Union State, Haravrd . 3,000.00 Harvard State. 2,002.08 First National, Hastings ... 3,885.92 German National. Hastings.. 7,454.43 First National. Ifoldrese ... 2,655.33 iState Bank of Jansen. 2,ft5UO0 (Central National. Kearney .. 4,000.00 Bank of Lexington . 2,000.00 First National, Loomis . 2,000.00 Newport State . 1,000.00 Norfolk National . 6,537.17 First National. Ord. 4,965.58 Ord Slate . 3,793.09 Pierce State . 3.096.80 First State. St. Paul . 3,058.00 First National, Seotls' Blurt. 2.000.00 First National. Superior. 4,074.78 Bank of Syracuse . 2.205.82 First National, Valentino ... 2,036.07 Valentine State . 4,168.31 Saunders Countv National. Wahno . 4.080.45 First National. Wayne . 3.017.88 West Point National . 5,000.00 Wolbacti State . 1.000.00 City National. York . 4.296.00 First National, York . -7,931.50 Total amount .$263,599.33 Rush Fcr Land at North Platte. ! NORTH PLATTE—A land opening occurred at the United States land of fice where a heavy rush was on. The land involved was about 100 sections, located in Scott's 1:1 off and Banner counties. The commissioner of the general land office designated Septem ber 30 as the date of the opening, but tthat being Sunday, the matter went over, when about 150 men had as sembled at the land office door, eager to get the first choice of this land. The land was mainly grazing, but fair ly valuable, ranging in value from $3,000 to $7,000 per section, if the land were deeded. This tract, never became ^abject to the Kinkaid homestead law 'until, nc,w the commissioner has, under the provisions of the ICink&id law, withdrawn the land for irrigation purposes. However, upon investiga tion, the commissioner ascertained that the land was nonirrigable and therefore restored it for entry. Stabbed While Hazing. 1 AUBURN—A stabbing affray took place on the high school grounds after the meting of the literary society. For some time some of the older boys have 'tried college pranks upon the younger classes and It was during one of these sieges that , Philip Horn drew a knife and stabbed Gene Mastin, who was as sisting in the hazing. He was not seriously injured. Girl Jumped From Window. OMAHA—Homesick and lonesome, Nora Mercell, a 16-year-old girl who was placed in the Good Sephard home. Fortieth and Jones streets attempted suicide by leaping from a fourth-story window of that institutoin at 3:30 o’clock in the morning. She was only slightly injured. Fremont Bonds Accepted. FREMONT—A telegram from Cleve land, O., announced to the city coun cil that the electjlc light bonds recent ly sold to a company thore had been ap proved. This is welcome news. The ~ building, of the plant has been held up a month' on account of the delay. Prosperous Madison County. . NORFOLK—Nearly fifty wagon loads of lumber were hauled out of Norfolk by farmers one day last week, from which the Press concludes that agriculture in Madison county is in a prosperous condition. Took Carbonic Acid tay Mistake. FREMONT—By a mistake Mrs. Frank Grenleaf, wife of the janitor of the Central school, drank a quantity of carbolic acid. Mrs. Greenleaf placed a bottle of sulphate of i>otash on a shelf beside the bottle of carbolic acid. During the night she got up and In the dark poured some medicine into a glass of water, which she began to drink. Discovering that if burned her mouth, she concluded she had got the wrong bottle and called for her hus band. Physicians were called and they saved the woman’s life. Perkins County Prosperous. GRANT—The first of October finds Perkins county with a well-matured crop of everything attempted in the agricultural line. There has been no frost yet and the corn is ripe, though still green In foliage* and the yield will be heavy. All snaU grain did well thia season and potatoes were never wo good before. Real estate has ad vanced rapidly and a great deal of land has been sold to parties who will settle there next spring. It la thought now that the population of the county will be doubled during the coming year. NEBKmSKA briefs. Lincoln business men will conduct a trade excursion to the Black Hills. The trip will take five days and the boomers will start October 15. Two Beatrice residents who care lessly enclosed a written note in a parcel of merchandise recently, paid $10 each for violating the postal law3. The city council of Columbus has just passed an ordinance against spit ting on the streets and the fellow that is caught at it will be fined $5 and costs. Schinstoei: Bros., toted horse breed ers of West Point, suffered a serious loss in the death of their best stallion from an attack of inflammation of the bowels. The animal cost the firm $2,800. Henry Oliver of Omaha, while get ting into a boat at Fort Calhoun lake was shot in the arm below the shoulder by the accidental discharge of his gun. He bled profusely and is in a serious condition. Thomas Kempster. the Plattsmouth Burlington storehouse keeper, is to be transferred to Denver, and W. A. Swearengen. the local station agent for the Missouri Pacific, is soon to be-, transferred to another point. . Adjutant General Culver has re ceived a special pamphlet from the war department describing the new methods of identifying soldiers. The imprint of the right thumb is to be filed with the enlistment papers. Little Orra Malone, grandson of Landlord Ester of the City hotel, Daw son, fell from the .second story win dow of the hotel to the pavement on the street below and sustained a la ceration on his chin and a fracture of the nose, but otherwise was not hurt. Secretary Adna Dobson of the state irrigation board has received the blue print of a dam which the Farmers’ Canal company expects to build across the Platte liver near the Wyoming I line in order to All their irrigation ditches, when the water in the river is low. Jay O’Hearn, convicted of murder j in the first degree in Omaha and sen 1 tenced to be hanged, last week, through his attorneys filed petition in error and a transcript in the supreme court. O’Hearn wes sentenced some months ago and since that time has been kept most of the time in the penitentiary. • State Superintendent McBrieu has notified County Superintendent Yoder of Douglas county that a school house ■must be built lor the pupils of the Nebraska district which lies on the Iowa side of the Missouri river. The district contains twenty-three pupils, and was separated by the vagaries of the Big Muddy. Prof. C. H. Bright, principal of the high school at San Isidro, Manila, P. I., and a former superintendent of Wayne county, Nebraska, saw a press report of Professor Greggs’ garden at the Peru Normal and writes asking for the plan, that he may teach the Filipino how to raise gardens accord ing to our system. State Secretary Bailey arrived in Beatrice to arrange for the dedicatory services of the Mary Young Men’s Christian association building, to be held the middle of next month. Eight days will be given to the dedicatory exercises, which win consist of en tertainments addresses and gym nasium exhibitions The effects of the- Sioux City, Homer & Southern Railway company were sold at sheriff's sale by Sheriff H. C. Hansen to J. A. and Harry H. Foye, of Sioux City, la., for 816,700. Three bids were made, the first by the Foyes, of $15,000, the second by E. A. Burgess, representing the Sioux City Bridge company, at $16,500 and the final bid of $13,700 by the Foyes. The trial in the county court, of Chief of Police Howell, for assault, was held at Tekamah the jury re turning a vbrdict of not guilty. ‘ This trial is the outcome of a free-for-all fight which took piace there one night during the races. In arresting the of fendes, Howell hi* a young man by the name of Allen several times with a heavy cane, indicting wounds which necessitated medical attention. T. C. Calvert of Lincoln was in Be atrice trying to locate L. P. Monlux and George Moore, solicitors repre senting an installment plan house. Calvert claims that the men have been making bogus contracts, selling these goods at half price and pocket ing the money. When the contracts reached Lincoln the deception was discovered and the company sent a representative here to investigate. Sparks from the engine blown un der the door set fire to a car of am munition and quartermasters’ supplies belonging to the Fifth cavalry and en route from frort Riley to Fort Des Moines. The ammunition began to ex plode and the train crew hurriedly cut out the car and switched it on a sid ing near Papillion. The fusilade of shots lasted from 6 o’clock in the morning until after 8 o’clock, fifty rounds of ammunition for the regi ment being consumed. Governor Mickey has appointed the assistants of the bureau of animal in dustry of the federal government in I Nebraska, assistant veterinary sur geons. They will assist Dr. C. A. Mc Kim In Ftamptng out the mange from the western part of the state. Changes of venue have been granted in four of the cases for embezzlement pending against Charles M. Chamber lain in the Johnson county district court. Chamberlain was cashier of the failed Chamberlain banking house of Tecumseh. The cases will be taken to Nemaha county. The large dwelling house of Mrs. E. M. Erb of Beatrice was badly dam aged by fire. The house was occupied by C. M. McNeill and W. J. Florida, and their loss will amount to about SI,000 partly insured. The damage to the building wll reach $1,200. At a special meeting of the stock holders of the David City Chaucau . ana association held In the courthouse I Postmaster E. G. Hall was elected a I member of the board of directors to fill vacancy, caused by the resignation of E, Williams' for a term of four years. ,1 Guess 'WS CAN Hou BERwIX^mth 7/f WOULD CURB BI6 FORTUNES PRESIDENT TO URGE REFORM IN MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. Will Recommend Enactment of Inheri tance Tax Law—Field Estate an Instance. Washington. — President Roose velt has inserted in the prelimin ary draft of his forthcoming annual message to congress a recommenda tion that a law be passed imposing a national tax upon inheritances. The president first called public attention to this idea in his celebrated ‘ muck rake” speech which he delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the office building of the house of repre sentatives April 14 last. Therein he expressed the view that ultimately the United States would have to consider the adoption of some such scheme as that of a progressive tax on all fortunes beyond a certain amount either given in life or devised or bequeathed upon death to any in dividual—a tax so framed as to put it out of the power of the owner of one of these enormous fortunes to hand on more than a certain amount to any one individual. Such taxation should be aimed merely at the inheritance or transmission in their entirety of those fortunes swollen beyond all healthy limits. He deeply regrets, for instance, that there was no such law to prevent Mar shall Field from tying up his estate in the way he did. The Field fortune is regarded as having ‘ swollen beyond all healthy limits” at the time of its creator’s death. It will be a positive menace by the time it is turned over to the heirs. If John D. Rockefeller and other wealthy meu of the country should follow the example of Mr. Field there would develop an oligarchy of wealth which would bring disaster to the American people. AMERICAN WINS BALLOON RACE. Lieut. Lahin Captures Contest for James Gordon Bennett Cup. Paris. — Uncertainty regarding the result of the balloon race for the James Cordon Bennet cup, started from here Sunday afternoon, was end ed at noon Tuesday when a dispatch was received by the Aero club an nouncing that Hon. O. S. Rolls and his companion. Col. Capper, in the bal loon Britannia, landed between Sand ringham and the sea at 6:30 Monday night, thus establishing that Lieut. Frank P. Lahm, Sixth cavalry, If. S. A., the American competitor in the race, who descended near Whitby Monday afternoon in the balloon United States, is the winner. Signor von Wilier 'of Italy Is sec ond, Count de la Vaulx of France third and Hon. O. S. Rolls of Great Britain fourth. The beautiful cup presented for com petition by James Gordon Bennett be comes a trophy of the Aero Club of America. The first cash prize of $2, 900 goes to Lieut Lahm. and the en durance medal to Mr. Rolls, who was the longest in the air. 26% hours. BRIDGE OVER FALLS COLLAPSES One High School Student Killed When Crowded Structure Givea Way. Menominee, Mich.—While a party of 25 students of Oconto, Wis., high; school were standing on a foot-bridge at Oconto Falls, Wls., Friday watching the falls, the structure collapsed, hurl ing the whole party 40 feet into the stream. William Ballou, aged 14 years, was killed and Viga Sentil, Ha zel Denizen and Frank Donlevy seri ously injured. Prof. Newcomb, the In structor, was badly hurt, and several others were slightly injured. Kansas Pioneer Dead. Kansas City, Mo.—William Weston, a pioneer who held many municipal of fices here, died, aged 75 years. Mr. Weston, who served through the civil war in a Kansas volunteer regiment, came of a family of soldiers. Old River Captain Dead. Watertown, N. Y.—Capt. William N. Visger, aged 49, owner of the passen ger steam yacht Idler, and one of the best known St. Lawrence river steam boat men, died suddenly Thursday at Alexandria Bay of heart failure. Opens Wisconsin Campaign. Milwaukee.—The Democratic state campaign opened here Thursday night when John A. Aylward, the candidate for governor, spoke on the principles of his party before an enthusiastic gathering in Pabst theater. Falling Slate Kills Three. Webb City, la.—J. Duffy, Arthur Moore and Albert Brackey were killed here Wednesday by falling slate in the Avondale mine and Newton Cor dell was dangerously injured. All are miners. Two Motor Cyclists Injured. San Diego, Cal.—Breed and Herrick, motor cyclists, who left here en route to Buffalo, N. Y.. were badly injured at Eseondidc. The pair were travel ing when the machine ran Into a walL COMING CABINET CHANGES. Secretaries Moody and Shaw td Re tire This Winter. Washington.—Two retirements frofn the president’s cabinet are slated for the coming winter. They are those of Attorney General Moody, whose resig nation will become effective about tfie 1st of December, and that of Secre tary Shaw, who, according to present intentions, will retire in February. For one of these vacancies to be cre ated, the president will nominate George V. L. Meyer, American ambas sador to Russia, but for the other he is not yet ready to announce a suc cessor. Mr. Roosevelt has sought to prevail on Attorney General Moody to re main in the cabinet, but the latter, be cause of business arrangements he has made, has found It impossible to do so. He also would like to have Secre tary Bonaparte take Mr. Moody’s place when the latter retires, but the former prefers the position at the head of the navy department, with whose workings he has become thor oughly familiar. Some suggestion has been made that Secretary Metcalf, of the depart ment of commerce and labor, take one of the positions to be made vacant in the proposed shifting of cabinet of fices. but he also has expressed a preference to remain where he is. POLICY KING KILLS HIMSELF “Al" Adams, of New York, Ends Life with Revolver. New York.—Albert J. Adams, who made a large fortune as the head of the policy gambling combine, shot himself in the head Sunday night at his apartmonts in the Ansonia, in this city. His dead body was found Mon day morning. Adams had been In poor health since his release from Sing Sing prison, where he served a term for having conducted a policy game in New York. At the office of the Colonial Secur ity company, of which Adams is treas urer, it was said Monday that Adams had been ill of diabetes for a year, and that it wa3 this illness which must have prompted him to commit suicide. New York.—Coroner Harburger, in a statement made Tuesday, gave an intimation that he was not entirely satisfied that the death of “Al” Adams, the former so-called policy king, was the result of suicide. DEAD AT BLUEFIELO MAY BE 70 Twenty-nine Bodies Have Been Recov ered From Pocahontas Colliery. Bluefleld, W. Va.—Twenty-nine bod ies have been recovered from the west fork of the Pocahontas Collieries com pany mine at Pocahontas, Va., and a conservative estimate places the total number of dead at 70. The rescuing party reached the scene of the explosion but the im mense amount of debris and wreckage has hampered the search for bodies. There is no evidence thus far of fire. Raton, N. M. — A disastrous ex plosion occurred early Friday in the Dutchman coal mine at Blossburg, a small camp five miles from Raton, in which 15 miners are supposed to have lost their lives. Three bodies have been recovered. Iowa W. C. T. U. Is Reunited. Des Moines, la.—By mutual agree ment of separate conventions held In this city Wednesday, two branches of the W. C. T. U., one known as the W. C. T. U. of Iowa and the other as the W. C. T. U. of the state of Iowa, were consolidated into one body. They were divided 16 years ago by a dispute over the question of affiliation or nonaffilia tion with the Prohibition party. Big Earthquake Registered. Washinugton.—The weather bureau Friday issued a bulletin announcing that the bureau’s seismographs re corded “another great earthquake” be ginning at 9:05 p. m. on October 1, but that the earthquake probably was not disastrous. Shaw Speaks in Ohio. Hamilton, O.—Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw addressed a large audience in Beckett’s hall here Friday. The secretary spent two hours at the Butler county fair, where he spoke briefly. Withdraws Hague Expense Bill. The Hague.—In the lower house of the states general Friday the govern ment withdrew the bill authorizing the expenditure of $15,000 for the reception of the members to the second peace conference. State Official Resigns. Springfield, 111.—R. Weldon, who has been connected with the state high way commission since its organization resigned to acecpt a place on the edi torial staff of an engineering publica tion In New York. Hoke Smith is Elected. Atlanta, Go.—The Democratic ticket headed by Hon. Hoke Smith for gov ernor. has been elected by the usual majority, there being no opposition except the Socialist ticket, headed by J. B. Osborne. SAYS ROOSEVELT NATIONAL SUPERVISION IS ONLY PROPER METHOD. REMEDY WITH CONGRESS Control of the Great Common Carriers of the Country Prevents Necessity of Considering Radical Theories. The government ought not to con duct the business of the country, but it ought to regulate it so that it sttall be conducted in the interests of the public. . . .To exercise a constant ly increasing and constantly more ef ficient supervision and control over the great common carriers of the country prevents all necessity for se riously considering such a project as the government ownership of railroads —a policy which would be evil In its results from every standpoint.—Pres ident' Roosevelt. Harrisburg, Pa.—President Roose velt broke the silence of several months to make an address at the dedicatory exercises of the Pennsyl vania state capitol, paying especial at tention to the problems involved in the centralization of wealth and of corporate power. The president talked strongly on the subject of placing a curb on the stupendous fortunes of the country so far as they are given a free field in the business world, and declared for national control of the concerns that do an Interstate business. But he made it quite clear that he believes there is no necessity or rea son for applying the principles to the extreme of government ownership of railroads. This he said was most un desirable and could only result in evil under any circumstances. He con tended that the restrictions Imposed by correct and conservative national supervision of these roads and of the large corporations would correct ob jectional acts and practices and make government operation uncalled for. Duty !s with Congress. Surrounded by an assemblage of distinguished citizens and officers of the Keystone state and talking to one of the greatest audiences ever gath ered at a state capital, the president spoke to the