Burlington Deducts Taxes. The 'Burlington railroad last week filed with the auditor for the use of the state board of equalization In Its assessment of railroads the statement of earningB for the year 1907. By de ducting from the gross amount of earnings for the year, the sum of $382,960.44 back taxes paid as a result ■of the injunction suits won by the stale, the total amount is sought to be decreased by this sum. The Burlington figures for the year compared with 1908 are as follows: jro£s t?Rrn .$19.166.3&S.47 $15,863.060.28 Operatii ‘j ex penses .. .. 10.709,500.37 3.224,049.60 _ $ 8,456,858.10 $ 7.639.010.68 Taxes . 494.380.99 466.579.81 Net carn ings . 7.962,477.11 7,172,430.87 Back taxes paid in 07 382.9C0.44 Tlie railroad counts net earnigs tor 1907 . 7,579,516.67 In 1906 the road deducted $1,176, 682.75 arbitrary of 4-10 of one mile allowed lines west of Missouri river on freight business. This left the net earnings for the road $2,066 per mile. Figuring the mileage at 2,611.23 for the state, the net earnings per mile not allowing the back taxes as an off set in thi6 year’s bu sines.;, were $3, 051 per mile. Figuring the net earn ings per mile according to the rail road method, they would be $2,902. The railroad schedule sets forth the net earnings for the year at the sum of $7,579,518.67 being the amount se cured by deducting the back taxes paid. Must Give New Bonds. The state depositories must give new bonds if ;hey desire to have state funds on deposit up to the full amount of the bonds given. This is the ruling of the attorney general. He holds that Tbe recent enactment or the legislature cannot affect contracts already existing between the state and depository banks. The bill that is now a law is S. F. No. 275 by Randall of Madison, and it applies only to state depositories. Under its provisions if a state depository gives guaranty bonds, as all do now, the state treas urer may deposit an amount equal to the bond. If a personal bond is given, the treasurer of the state may deposit one-half the amount named in the bond. Governor Sheldon vetoed S. F. No. 281. by Randall of Madison, mak ing a similar provision for county de positories. The governor signed S. F. No. 410 by Clarke of Adams, which permits county depositories to give two or more bonds, such bonds to be concurrent. Botn bills signed by the governor contain an emergency clause and the laws are now in force. In the bill relating to state depositories j there was a provision permitting banks ! to deposit certain securities in lieu of ' a bond, but this was stricken out in j the senate. The same provision was.; in the county depositor}- bill that did ! not become a law. Kearney File* Suit. The mandamus suit to compel Sec retary of State Junkin to certify that the bill carrying the $85,000 appprop riation for the Normal school at Kear ney. became a law by reason of the failure of the governor to take action within five day6 from the date he re ceived the bill, was filed in the su preme court by Oldham, Sinclair and T. F. Hamer. The decision in the case will determine whether the chief executive has five days after the leg islature actually adjourns, in which to act upon bills, or whether he must act within five days of the record ad journment of the legislature. The bill actually reached the governor April 4 at 11:45 o’clock and the records show it reached the office of the secre tary of state April 10, but as a matter of fact It was not actually filed in the office’until April 11 at 2 o’clock. Those bringing the suit will contend that the record made by the secretary of state Is wrong and will endeavor to prove the same. This will bring directly be fore the court the question whether a person can go behind the records on these matters. Young Greek Wants Pardon. Friends of James Touris, a Greek, serving a one-year term in the peni ^ tentiary for manslaughter, are trying to get Governor Sheldon |o pardon him before the sentence expires in older to prevent him from being sentenced to prison in Greece upon his return to that country. From An Escheated Estate. The state treasurer received a draft 1 for $771.56 from the county treas- j urer of Antelope county, as the amount i due the state from the escheated es tate of John Morley, who died with no known heirs. The money will be paid into the general school fund. Telephone Company Reports. The state railway commission has received the reports from twelve inde pendent. telephone companies in this state. They gace their rates and other information asked by the state commission. The NeDraska Telephone company has written the commission that it has an army of clerks at work preparing the schedule which will be presented as soon as made. They have about one and one-haif million different rates to record. Manager Vance Lane said, and he asked for the Indulgence of the commission. Limits Passes to Lawyers and Doctors In an opinion given to the county at torney of Cass county, Attorney Gen eral Thompson held that it is unlaw ful under the anti-pass law for an at torney or doctor employed less than half his time by a railroad to receive free transportation, even though he Is subject to call at any time by the corporation. He holds that the intent of the legislature was to prevent any one not exempted from the provisions of the law from receiving transporta tion at less than the rates charged the general public. Point In Two Cent Rate, The State flail way commies ton la' trying to work out a plan whereby the railroads will be compelled to sell tickets in Nebraska to points la other states at rates not more than the to tal of the local rates. Considerable can be saved toe traveler, the commis sion has pointed out, if he wUl buy his ticket to the state line and then buy a ticket to hiu destination, thus get ting the benefit of Jhe. 2-cent rate in this state. The railroads, however, are making tills rather inconvenient by compelling the traveler to purchase the separate tickets at the state line and also by re-checking his baggage, which will mean in many cases that he will miss his train. It may be that the commission will take the mat ter before the Interstate Commerce commission to compel the railroads to sell a through ticket, at least, not in’ excess of the total of the local rates. A member of toe commission has made numerous calculations on the total of the local rates and the through rates and in every instance the through rate is the higher. For instance, 'he dis tance from Omaha to Denver is 538 miles and the advertised rate U $16.15. The distance from Omaha to Halgler, this state, is 356 miles. At 2 cents a mile this rate would be $7.12. From Haigler to Deliver is 182 mllei;. At 3 cents a mile (Interstate business) the rate would be- $5.45 or a total rate, should the traveler buy his ticket to the state line of $12.58, instead^of $16.15 through rate. The total of The local rates from Omaha to Deadwood is $13.91, while the through rate is $17.05. Want Lapsed Appropriations. It is probable that a mandamus suit will soon be begun in the supreme court to determine whether approp riations made by the 1905 legislature lapsed March 31 of the current year,' as is contended by the attorney gen eral. Food Commissioner Redfern, who had about $1,800 left over from the last biennium, will in all likeli hood bring the suit. It was his inten tion to use the money to equip hrs of fice with laboratory paraphernalia such as will be required under the more amplified food, drug and dairy law. but by reason of the attorney general’s opinion, the auditor has re fused to draw warrants against the old appropriation. The state consti tution says that the legislature shall make appropriations to run untfl the end of the first fiscal quarter after the next legislative session. Thus appropriations made by the 1905 leg islature would be available until July 1 of this year. The appropriations made by the 1905 legislature, however, were made with the provision that they should cease March 31. 1907. It i* deemed questionable whether the legislature had the power to make any such limitation in the face of the pro vision of the constitution, and this is what the court will be asked to pass upon. Wants to Meet Competition. General Agent R. W. McGinnis o( the Northwestern railroad filed a re quest with the state railway commisr sion. asking permission for his road to vary from the straight two cents a mile rate published recently, that it may meet short line rates published by other roads. Assurance was given by the railway commission that per mission will be granted. This means that the Northwestern may meet the $1.10 rate of the Burlington betweer, Lincoln and Omaha. Death of Prominent Nebraskan. Gilbert L. Laws, for more than 30. years a prominet man in public af fairs, died in this city the past week after an illness of about six weeks. Mr. Laws came to Nebraska in 1876. In 1886 he was elected secretary of state by the republicans and in 1888 was chosen for another term. In 1889 he was elected to congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of James Laird. He leaves a wife and two daughters. After the Illinois Central The Illinois Central, which runs its trains into Omaha and South Omaha over leased tracks, has replied to a notice from the Nebraska railway commission that it has no tracks in Nebraska. The company does busi ness here and the commission does not intend that the railroad sliall de ny the jurisdiction of the Nebraska officers. Bad for Encampment. Railroad rate legislation has made it most likely that the state militia' encampment will be seriously impeded. Adjutant General Culver has been con sidering the question of railroad rates and location of the encampment, and can see small prospect of getting the lVfe cent rate secured for previous en campments. Wolf Vouchers Dead. State Auditor Searie has written each paper of the state asking them to announce that wolf bounties are dead. He states in his circular that the vouchers are still pouring into the auditor's office in an unobstructed stream, causing considerable trouble. A Change in Methods. The method of buying securities for the investment of the permanent school fund is to be revolutionised by the Board of Public Lands and Build ings. cutting out the middleman, who makes the profits, and by dealing di rectly hereafter with the state which has securities to sell. This the board decided recently, and Treasurer Brian left for Idaho to purchase Idaho state bonds, which the board has heretofore bought from brokers, who received a fat fee for making the deal, usually cutting from both ends. After Insurance Schfemea. The insurance department is taking steps to sit down on the stock com pany scheme when worked in connec tion with the sale of insurance. The Interstate Fiscal agency of Kansas City, Kas., is selling stock in Neth raska, and a report has readied the insurance department that agents are selling life insurance in connection therewith. If this report is true In surance Deputy Pierce will stop the insurance company back of It from doing business in the state, as he looks upon this as a special contract • e • VACATION TIME It COMIN& T*S fURHI5Hf(fqfd u eif 70*,$ 70 PV6AT 0*7ty "**?C**^ M/r*FJ flv/ 7*£7?Z mr/r rmKTj 7W£- y*/C£ v» 60 o#*ry 7At»*rtl INSPECTORS OF PORE FOOD A BOARD CREATED TO ENFORCE THE LAW. Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry on the Board with Dr. Dunlap as Assistant Chemist. Washington—Secretary Wilson has created by executive order the board of food and drug inspection, whose duty it shall be to administer the na tional pure food law. The board con sists of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, chairman; Dr. Frederick L. Dunlap, who is com missioned as associate chemist, and George R. McCabe, solicitor of the De partment of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson has found it prac tically impossible to take the required time to go into all the necessary im posed in the administration of the pure food law. The amount of ad ministrative work in this connection, he says, has been rapidly increasing, and to keep up with it he has found would take absolutely all his time. President Roosevelt heartily assented to the plan of placing the administra tion of the laws in toe hands of a board. The board of Dr. Dunlap was the direct result of correspondence the president has had with presidents of the larger colleges of the oountry. Dr Dunlap leaves an Important post in the University of Michigan, from which university he graduated in chemistry in 1892 and from Harvard in 1895, since which time he has de voted his time to college work in that science. Dr. Dunlap will receive a sal ary of |3,500 a year and will devote his entire time to the administration of the pure food law. To comply with the letter of the Secretary. Wilson will sign all administrative acts in connection with the pure food law, but says he will feel entire confidence In acting without investigation on the recommendation of the board. Here after the board will conduct all hear ings connected with the pure food law. Evades Poor Food Law. Topeka, Kas.—Dr. S. J. Gramblne, secretary of the board of health, an nounced Thursday that he had discov ered In use here a preservative for, meats, the manufacturers of which, he asserts, are openly defying the state and federal pure food laws. The pre servative is made in the east and chemical tests show that it contains charcoal and pure sulphur, which, when burned forms a sulphur diox ide gas that is absorbed by the meat and has the same effect as borax. Dead Letters Made Lively. Washington—All previous records for a day’s work in returning letters to writers from the division of dead letters were eclipsed on Monday last, when 20,368 letters were returned. The largest number heretofore re turned in a single day was 14,488 on March 28 last. The number of letters on hand awaiting return has been re duced to 63,000. A little over a month ago there were over 200,000 of such letters on hand. Loeb May Quit. Washington—According to a rumor which has been In circulation for some time and which was more defined Thursday, William Loeb, jr„ secre tary of the president, will next Jan uary become head of the Washington Railway ft Electric company of this city. Canada Buys Buffaloes. Denver—A message was received in this city Thursday to the effect that the famous Pablo herd of buffalo of the Flathead reservation, Montana, had been sold to the Canadian govern ment Howard Eaton of Wolf, Wyo., telegraphed W. F. Kendrick, a Denver mining man, that the Canadian gov ernment had paid a deposit on the herd. The bulls will be removed to Canada about May 1 and the cows and calves will be sent north in July. There are between 400 and 500 buffalo in the herd. Banker Must 8tay in Jail. Sioux Falls, S. D.—Charles C. King the Scotland, S. D., banker who was arrested in Chicago on Tuesday and brought here, has not been able to fur nish the $20,000, fixed by the United States court commissioner in Chicago. Nebraska Ex-Congressman Is Dead. Lincoln—Gilbert L. Taws former secretary of state and representative in congress from the old Second Neb raska district, died here Thursday after an illness of several weeks. THE PEACE TREATY IS SI6NED CENTRAL AMERICAN FACTI0N8 ' SETTLE DIFFICULTIES. Conference Held at Amapal and Terms Concluded That are Honorable to Both Countries. Washington—The State department has been informed of the successful conclusion of the peace negotiations at Amapala. A cablegram received from Captain Doyle of the United States cruiser Chicago dated, Thurs day says, “Peace conference agreed to treaty at 11 a. m.’’ Captain Doyle added that the peace commissioners and their staffs would embark last evening. It is understood from that that J. G. Gamaz. who rep resented Nicaragua, will be taken on the Boston to Corinto and that the Boston will proceed to Acapulcod, Mexico, on its way northward. Senor Barcia, the representative of Salvador in the conference, was to go aboard the Chicago and be taken to Acatujla, Salvador, and then the Chicago was to follow the Boston northward. The details of the agreement are lacking. San Salvador, Republic of San Sal vador—A treaty of peace between Sal vador and Nicaragua was signed at Amapola by ministers representing each country. The terms of the t >aty are honorable to both countries. The conditions proposed by Salvador were accepted, and the demands made by President Zelaya of Nicaragua for reparation for Salvador’s part in the recent war between Nicaragua and Honduras and that there be a free in terchange of commodities between Nic aragua and Salvador were rejected. Coatzacoalcos, Mex.—Former Presi dent Manuel Bonilla of Honduras ar rived here direct from his own country via Salina Crus. He declares he will await here the arrival of a steamer from the south which will bring a friend and then proceed to Belize and from there back to his own country to take up arms. He takes a most pessimistic view of the conditions and outlook in Central America and places the blame on in adequate governments. He declared that the presidents of the govern ments need someone stronger than they are to thrash them into what is right. THE CHEYENNE RESERVATION. Sioux Indians Willing to Lease 10,000 Acres. Washington—The Indian bureau has been advised of the willingness of the Sioux Indians at the Cheyenne river reservation to lease 100,000 acres of their land to the band of 300 Ute In dians who left their reservation in Utah last summer and who wintered at Camp Meade. Nothing has been heard as to the attitude of the Utes toward this proposition, but tho-Jact that they have expressed a determina tion to remain where they now are leads to the conclusion that they will accept ... , . Methodist Training School. 8t. Louis, Mo.—The general board of education of the Methodist Episco pal church in session here appropriat ed 50,000 for the establishment of a training school at Palo Alto, Cal., to be conducted in conjunction with Ice land Stanford university. Deadlock Unbroken. Madison, Wis.—Three ballots were taken Friday in the republican sena torial caucus, but the deadlock is un broken. Decision in Devlin Case. Topeka, Kan.—Over $300,000 worth »f indebtedness was wiped from the records of the Devlin Coal company and other Devlin corporations by a iecision of N. H. Loomis, special ref eree in bankruptcy, handed down Wed nesday. Des Moines, la.—It a letter addres sed to George E. Powers of Orange, la., Governor Cummins declares Pres ident Roosevelt should withdraw his statement that he will not accept a re nomination. Assassinate Prison Chief. Odesso—The chief of the political prison was killed here by four terror ists whose indignation he had pro voked by alleged atrocities \ipon pris oners. One of the terrorists com mitted suicide, another was captured ind two escaped. Dies With Fiah on His Line. Kankakee, 111.—With a fish struggl ing mi his line and the pole grasped in his stiffened fingers, George Powell, in aged fishermen, was found dead In ihe river near this city. DEADLOCK STILL ON. Outlcok in ths Central American Con trove ray. Washington—The Central American controversy is no nearer a settlement today than it was some time ago, ac cording to a dispatch received at the State department from Phillip Brown, the American charge at Guatemala, ca bling from La Union, Salvador. Mr. Brown stated that the deadlock is still on. He held out no hope o! an early agreement. Both the United States and Mexico are striving to bring some under standing between the belligerents. Conferences were held Tuesday be tween Assistant Secretary Bacon and the representatives of Mexico, Salvador and Costa Rica as a result of which it was announced that important devel opments may be expected within twenty-four hours. In the present apparently hopeless state of affairs it has been determined that the only way out of the difficulty is by arbitration of all the questions in dispute and therefore Nicaragua, Hon duras and Salvador today have been urged to agree to a proposition of that nature. Should it be accepted there Is no question, it was stated from author itative sources, that President Roose velt will be asked to sit in judgment on the case. Mobile, Ala. — Passengers arriving here from Honduras say President Ze laya will declare war against Guate mala in about two months. They say the natives of Port Barrios believe this fervently enough to begin work on sandbag fortifications fronting that town. The general opinion is that Zelaya will now turn his attention to Guatemala. All traces of the recent trouble have been smoothed over and the Nicarguans are theoretically in control. Peace is only kept by the present of American marines, the gun boat Paducah lying in the harbor of Ceibu and the Marietta patrolling the coast. MOTHER OF GOVERNOR DIES. Aged Pioneer of Nebraska Succumbs After Two Weeks Illness. Lincoln, Neb.—Mrs. Julia Sheldon, mother of Governor Sheldon and widow of the late George Lawson Shel don, died at her home in Nemaha Tues day, after an illness lasting about two weeks, which began with an attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Sheldon was a pio neer settler of Nebraska, having come to what is now Nehawka from Ver mont in 1867. With her husband Bhe settled on a horhestead, which was her home until the last few years, when she moved across the town to her late residence. She was the mother of five children, Frank Sheldon, Vilas Sheldon, George Lawson Sheldon, jr., now governor. ENDORSEMENT FOR TUCKER Stockholders in Oil Company Say the Corporation is Solvent. Kansas City,—One hundred and fifty stockholders of the Uncle Sam Oil company from Illinois, Iowa, Okla homa, Missouri and Kansas met here and passed resolutions endorsing H. H. Tucker, the indicted manager, and insisting that the company is solvent and should not be reorganized. Plea for a Prisoner. Kansas City—The Missouri house of representatives at Jefferson City, Tuesday, by a vote of 64 to 30, joined in a petition to President Roosevelt to pardon W. C. Anderson, who was ar rested in Kansas City last Friday and taken back to the federal peniten tiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kai., from which institution he had escaped nine years ago. Anderson was convicted of breaking into a postoffice in Sweet water, Okla., and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. After serving three years he escaped and came to Kansas City, where he went into business, married and raised a family. Around the World in a Boat. San Francisco—Jack London’* sail boat. the Snark, started Tuesday for Honolulu, the first port to be touched on a six years' cruise around the world. The vessel is forty-five feet long, ketch-rigged, and it* occupants, beside London and his wife, are Her bert S. Stoltz, a Stanford graduate and athlete; Roscoe Baines, captain; Mar tin Johnson, the cook, and Hileshisa Tochigi, cabin boy. River Towns in Conflict. Washington—A rate war between ♦he cities of Sioux City, la., and Sioux Falls, S. D„ has been brought to the attention of the interstate commerce commission Jn a complaint filed by the Sioux City Commercial club against the Rock Island and other railroads, Sheldon Will1 Name Delegates. New Tork—-Governor Sheldon of Nebraska, Johnson of Minnesota, Beck ham of Kentucky and Vardaman of Mississippi have accepted invitations to send delegates to the national con ference on trusts called by the na tional civic federation to meet in Chi cago in May. New Minister from Sweden. New York—M. De Lagercrantz, the first Swedish minister to Washington since the separation of Norway and Sweden, arrived Sunday. MILLION FOR NEGRO SCHOOLS. Philadelphia Woman Gives Large Sum for Education in South. Philadelphia—A gift of $1,000,000 for jkle establishment of a fond for rudimentary schools for southern ne groes was announced here. The donor is Miss Anna T. Jeans, a Quakeress of this city. Booker T. Wagihngton, head of Tuskekee Institute, and Hollis Burke Frissell, president of the Hamp ton Normal and Industrial institute, are named as trustees of the fund. Buffalo Bill's 8how. New York—Indians bit the dost, rangers galloped across the tanbark plains and train robbers were punc tured with bullets Tuesday night in Madison Square garden, where Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show opened before thousands of spectators. Primping is Barred. Washington—Primping among the women employes of the government printing office must cease. An order has been issued removing all mirrors from the big building. i THE LABOR CHICLES' FEWER CLOUDS IN THE INDUS-i TRIAL HORIZON. THE BEUTMNS HARMONIOUS Nearly- All Trade Agreements in Chi cago Have Been Renewed-Outlook in- SL Louis and New York. CMcaiEO“-Ttie relations between em ployers and employes were never so harmonious in Chicago as now. In the past'on May 1 there has always been some, sort of struggle going on be tween-Jhe. lal»or unions and the em ployers' in Chicago, but this year thereMs scarcely a cloud on the indus trial .horizon. Every union in the building industry, with the^exeeption of the structural iron workers, has re newed jcontrscts with employers, and the iron: workers expect to reach a set tlement. without a strike Machinists haveufemanded an increase at 25 cents in wages^hut the indications are there wlH pritcticahy he no trouble in putting thenewr schedule into effect. Most of the larger firms in the city have signi fied *'Willingness to grant the demand, and if any strikes ere called. May 1 they *111 be confined to individual firms, 4 Agreements covering all the wood workers^ mills and factories have been entered into ,io that them will be no trouble in that line of industry, while the brickmakers are now holding con ference. with their employes and will undoubtedly reach a settlement before next week. St Louis Scales Signed. St. Louis—Employers and labor lead ers of.Ef. Louis and the southwest re port labor conditions better for May 1 this year than for many years past. Practically all wage scales in St. Louis and the surrounding territory for 200 miles- are signed. I» St. Louts alone thi&r includes 120,000 union men. The Inioas allied with the Building Trades’ council here are all signed for the year with tba. exception of a very few men employed, in small shops. There are about". 40^)00 men in these unions. Otherjjranchos of trade show similarly good conditions. The brewery work ers, who-were on a strike a few months ago* are now signed, as are also the other"important trades. Bright Outlook in New York. NewJEork—The opening or the out of-door construction season finds New York, both city and state, without ap prehension of serious labor troubles. In thehuilding trades, especially, p.-os peraus- and reassuring conditions pre vail!. There is a large and well-met demand.for both skilled and unskilled labor, due to the extensive private con struction projections now under way and. the tunnels, railway terminals and other undertakings of a public or quasi-public nature. MORCPAY FOR RURAL CARRIERS. Graded. Schedule Provides for Quite an Increase. Washington—Postmaster General Myer' has approved the detailed ad justment of salaries of rurai free de livery carriers, as submitted by As sistant Postmaster General DeGrew. TheTiew schedule, which will become effective July 1 next, will make a graded- increase in the compensation of carriers of from 9 to 25 per cent, based-upon the number of miles tra versed*, The readjustment adopted, wlttC the increase of upwards of |G, 000,000'made in the appropriation by congress, will involve an aggregate expenditure tor rural service during the next ftscs.1 year of nearly $35,030, 00