THE UNWRITTEN LAW IT IS UPHELD IN CASE OF JUDGE LOVING. JURYACQIIUS IN SHOOT ORDER The Slayer of Theodore Estes, Wo man Assaulter, Let Free by a Jury in Virginia Courts. Hoastoa, Va.—After being ift the jury room thirty-five minutes the jury returned a verdict of “not guilty” in the case of former judge William G. Loving of Nelson, manager of the Vir ginia estate of Thomas F. Ryan, who was placed on trial here for the mur der of Theodore Estes, son of Sheriff M. K. Estes of Nelson county. Judge Loving shot and killed young Estes April 22 at Oak Ridge following a boggy ride Estes had taken with the judge’s daughter. Miss Elizabeth Lov ing, who toid her father that her es cort had drugged and assaulted her. The jury retired at 4:45 and from that time until the verdict was re turned the defendant remained in the same seat he had occupied since \he trial began, surrounded by members of his family with the exception of his daughter. At 5:2ft a loud knock was heard on the door of the jury room and Judge • Barksdale cautioned the cr^wd not to display their emotions when the deci sion of the jury was announced. The verdict fas read by Foreman 3. C. Mc Craw. Judge Barksdale thanked the jurors and declared that he believed the verdict was in accordance with their conscientious views. After the jury had been discharged Judge Locing, his wife and other relatives shook hands with and thanked each juror for the verdict Tears streamed from the eyes of both the defendant and his wife. Judge Loving was congratulated by many of ms friends, though there was no de monstration. Foreman McCraw. a merchant and farmer, said tnat when the jurors re tired one ofthqm did not understand all of the instructions of the court, which were read to him. Mr. McCraw said he then called for the vote, re questing all who favored the acquittal of the defendant to hold up their right hand. Every hand promptly went up. When asked what the basis of the ver dict was. he said: “Insanity.” The stress, he said, had been brought on by the story told the judge by his daughter. The following statement was given out by counsel for Judge Loving: “Within half an hour after the ren dition of the verdict by the jury and the adjournment of court, counsel for Judge Loving were called on by two cf the jury, who stated that they had been appointed a committee represent, ing the entire jury to convey to Judge Loving and his wife and daughter the information that while they believed that Miss Loving's statement on the witness stand of what she had told her father was a true account of what she told to him. yet not for a moment did the jury entertain the opinion that an actual assault had been committed by the deceased upon the young lady, but on" the contrary they were fully sat isfied that no actual assault had been committed, but that there had been an attempted assault. Counsel for Judge Loving, upon being interviewed in this connection, said: “ ‘The conclusion of the jury to the efftct that no assault was committed was absolutely correct.' ” TAFT IS THEIR CANDIDATE. Republican Committees at Bowling Green Endorse Secretary. Bowling Green. Ky.—At a meeting of the republican county and execu tive committees a resolution was adopted endorsing the candidacy of William H. Taft for president of the United States. The meeting was at tended by sixty-eight members of both committees, a majority of both com mittees being represented. Deputy Public Printer. Washington—Public Printer Stilling announced the appointment of Cap tain Henry T. Bryan, at present chief clerk of the government printing of fice. as deputy public printer at a salary of $3,000 per annum, to take effect July 1. Thaw Anxious for Trial. New York—Counsel for Harry K. Thaw procured an order directing District Attorney Jerome to appear in the supreme court next Monday and show cause why he should not move the second trial of Thaw at the Oc tober term of court. Japs Across the Line. San Antonio. Tex.—Immigration of ficers here have received information that there are 4,000 Japanese in Mex ico awaiting a chance to slip into the United States. The news comes from the construction camps. Wife Demands an Inquiry. Washongton— Mrs. William F. Tucker, wife of Lieutenant General Tucker, deputy paymaster general, now on duty at Chicago, has made ap plication to the war department for an investigation of the conduct of her husband at Manila and between Ma nila and Chicago. This announcement was made by Secretary Taft following a visit to his office on Saturday of Mrs. Tucker, who was accompanied by Senator Cullom of Illinois. Mrs. Tucker is a daughter of Mrs. John A. Logan. New York City in Peril. New York—New York City is exper iencing an impressive demonstration as to what extent the comfort of the millions is depended upon the hand ful. comparatively, of citizens ordi narily engaged in collecting garbage and delivering ice. Two thousand gar bage collections and an equal number of ice wagon drivers are on strike and the city is in peril of an epidemic of disease. The garbage situation is the more serious and unless speedily rem edied the possibilities of evil arising therefrom are startling. FIGHT TO A FINISH* That is What Baldwin Srys Railroads Must Oo. Omaha—■'"Present and receat legis lation in western states will most in juriously and seriously affect rail roads," declared John N. Baldwin, general solicitor for the Union Pacific railroad on his return from the east. “The representatives of the rail roads'in the east are deeply concerned regarding the greatly adverse condi tions whjch have arisen in the midst of this era of prosperity. Taxes have increased *0 to 25 per cent, material 30 per cent and labor 12 per cent At the same time freight rates have been cut an average of 15 per cent and passenger rates 33 per cent It is a condition of affairs that spells ruin. “In Nebraska our rates have been cut to such an extent that strictly intrastate business is not remunera tive. ‘But you are paying dividends,’ the people say. Yes, we are, but it is our interstate business which earns them. Eighty-five per cent of our business is interstate and only 15 per cent is business within this state. “But this argument that we are paying dividends is invalid, ftx the supreme court has said that the state cannot point to interstate business producing profits as an argument for lower rates any more than the carrier can point to its losses on its interstate business to justify higher rates on its intra-state business. “Governor Hughes of New York vetoed the two-cent fare bill in that state aud he did so on the broad ground that it was arbitrary legisla tion. He said it might become confis catory. New York has 160 people to the square mile. Nebraska has’ less than fourteen people to the squa e mile. In other words, New York has 8,297 miles of railroad, ibO people to the square mile and 10.8 miles of rail road for each 10,000 people, while Nebraska has 6,411 miles of railroad, io.89 people to the square mile, and 60 miles of railroad for each 10,000 people. Density of population of a country through which a railroad runs, of course, has a great deal to do with the profit of such a railroad. Yet we have the two-cent fare in Nebraska, while in New York it was considered unfair. “The two-cent fare has been found a failure in Ohio. It will prove the same in Pennsylvania and others of tne states even where the population is comparatively dense. "The only thing for the railroads to do is to fight. And the fight will oe begun with all possible dispatch.” AIM AT EXPRESS COMPANIES. Complaint Filed with Interstate Com merce Commission Under Law. Washington—Ono of the most im portant cases yet filed with the inter state commerce commission under the new railroad rate law was on Friday presented. which alleges that the ex press companies, through their power and facilities as commorf"carriers, are usurping the prerogatives of the bank ing associations and at the same time, employing the capital of the banks in the conduct of their business. It is alleged that the exchange business of the express companies and the rela tions which they have with the ral roads enable them seriously to dis criminate against regular commercial institutions. Stories Falsa Says Tc.ft. Washington—“It is a tissue; of false hood,” said Secretary Taft when his attention was called to the reports of dissatisfaction on the part cf the ad rainistraaon of the management cf af fairs under the Isicmian Canal com mission aid cf the intention of the officers engaged in that work to relin quish it and ret era to the United States. The secretary was very em phatic in his declaration that he had not received a single comm unit atioi fiom General Goetha’s showing in any way that he was dissatisfied or de sired to end his connection with the wont. Conspiracy and Fcrgery. New York—Ihdictments charging conspiracy and forgery against George R. Scrugham. manager of the Interna tional Policy Holders' committee, and Charles R. Stirrup, an employe, and one for conspiracy against Charles Carrington, another employe were re turned by the county grand jury. The charges grew out of the recent elec tion of trustees of the New York Life' Insurance company. American Scldier Killed. Havana—During a clash with police at Holguin, Santiago, resulting from the alleged refusal of four American soldiers of the Eleventh infantry""to pay for drinks. Corporal P. J. Green was shot and mortally wounded and his companions were arrested. Freight Up Five Per Cent. Chicago—Freight rates in the terri tory between the Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains will be ad vanced 5 ptr cent, by the action of the western railroads in raising the min imum on carload shipments and oth.r changes in the classification. Refuse Permits to Jags. San Francisco—The board of police oommissioners on Friday denied the application of five Japanese for the privilege of renewing their permits to keep intelligence offices in this city and refused two Japanese applicants who desired to obtain new permits for the same business, on the ground the applicants were not citizens of the United States and that heretofore the policy of tho board had b.sen always to give the preference in the- privileges to citizens against these who are not and cannot: become citizens. Standard Jury Dismissed. Findlay, O.—The jury in the case cf Ohio against the Standard Oil com pany, charged wkh violating the anti trust laws, reported to Judge Dun ran that it had been found impossible to agree upen a veuiict. The - court thereupon’ ordered the jury discharged. According to rumor, tfc$ ju*y stood s:x for conviction and six fa* acquittal. Subsequently, ic hi said, the jury sto:d eight to four for acquittal and when the disagreement report was brought in the vote stood seven tc Ore. CUDAHY STANDS PAT AS TO THE POST-MORTEM IN SPECTION RULE. BUYING TODAY AS HERETOFORE Has Not Broken Away From the Other Packers and Will Purchase She Cattle. Omaha—“So far as the Cudahy Packing company at South Omaha is concerned It will buy she cattle and other cattle Monday under the same regulations as it bought Saturday and it has not there or elsewhere, so far as we are authorized, made any change in its position on this matter of post-mortem inspection of dairy cows. We have not broken away from the other packers. We stand by the agreement..” This statement was made by M. R. Murphy, general manager of the Cud ahy Packing company at South Omaha with reference to the story from Kan sas City to the effect that that com pany would buy cattle at the Kawville yards Monday morning subject to the old conditions, regardless of thfc post mortem inspection. “We might agree to such a compro mise as was effected at St. Joseph," added Mr. Murphy. "The exchange and commission men in other cities condemn the action at St. Joe as a betrayal of their inter ests by the exchange there,” he was reminded. "Betrayal how?” he asked. “It’s not a betrayal.” When it was suggested the com mission men took the view that if they gave in on the rule as to dairy cows it would be only a matter of time un til they would be forced to yield with reference to other cattle, Mr. Murphy said: “They have no right to assume any such thing.” Asked what effect the controversy was having on the market, Mr. Mur phy said it was making it decidedly ir regular and added: “It Is hard for anyone to tell just where we are ‘at,’ I think the result in South Omaha will be some 3uch compromise as was effected at St. Joe.” “St. Joseph is eff the live stock map,” is the cry that has gone up. And the feeling in other cities and throughout the country where cattle interests are paramount appears to be growing more bitter toward the action of the St. Joseph exchange daily.” Text of the Resolution. Here is the compact the St. Joseph exchange enter into: The Live Stock exchange agrees, at its own expense, to place at each cat tle scale in the stock yards, a compe tent inspector to be mutually agreed upon, who shall examine all cattle at the time they are brought up for weighing, and designate any that, in his opinion, are diseased or unfit for food, or suspicious. "Any animals thus designated by the inspector are to be taken by the buyer subject to post-mortem examin ation by government inspectors. “It is understood that the above in spector shall represent the joint in terests of the commission men and the buyer, and find any animals that might be termed as ‘suspects,’ to the best of his ability, and will take eognizance of any information given by buyers of post-mortem condemnations that occur from time to time, and will use such knowledge to the best advantage. “The Live Stock exchange further agrees that it will sell subject to post mortem inspection all cows commonly known as dairy cows and canner cows, and all dairy cows and milch cows driven into the stock yards.” The above does not refer to ranch cows. OMAHA GETS ST. JOSEPH STOCK. Heavy Consignments as Result of Lat ter’s Action. Omaha—The only apparent change in the business of the South Omaha packers Monday in relation to the post-mortem inspection fight was the receipt of heavy consignments of cat tle from territory heretofore exclu sively St. Joseph's. This was attrib uted wholly and directly to the action of the Live Stock exchange at St. Jo seph in breaking away from exchanges in this and other cities and adopting the pcst-mortem inspection for dairy cows. War in Central America. Washington—The State department received a cablegram from the Ameri can minster at Guatemala City stating that the situation in Salvador is dis quieting and that Guatemala and Sal vador are sending troops to the fron tier. v General Logan's Brother Drops Dead. Murphysboro. 111.—Thomas M. Lo-_ gan, brother of General John A. Lo gan and the owner of one of the best racing stables in the middle west, dropped dead at. his home, aged 80 years. Case Against Holmes. Washington—The government haa concluded the presentation of its case against T. S. Holmes, jr„ known as “the cotton leak" case, and immedi ately afterward the attorneys for Holme sentered upon an argument for dismissal of the case on the ground that there is no law that applies to the offense of giving out departmental information. Attorneys Lester and Worthington both spoke and the latter had only commenced when court ad journed for the day. Goes to Philippines. Washington—Col. George R. Colton, the retiring American administrator of the Dominican customs, has ajrived in Washington, and after a month’s vacation will proceed to the Philip pines to assume the duties of collec tor of customs ttiefe. Millions in July Dividends. New York—The July dividend dis bursement this year by various corpo rations will reach a grand total of $182,881,849. This is $18,573,878 greater than the aggregate of last year. HALCYON DAYS IN THE SIGN SHOP. * NEBRASKA SHERIFF IS SHOT — JOHNSON COUNTY OFFICIAL AT TACKED BY DESPERADO. After Wounding the Sheriff He Makes His Escape, With a Determined Posse in Pursuit. ' Tecumseh. Neb.—Simeon Hudson, the name given by*a desperate bron cho buster who arrived in this locality last week, at 7 o’clock Thursday even ing shot Sheriff H. U. Miner through the shoulder while resisting arrest on the charge of forgery and made his escape. Posses are now pursuing him. ‘ Hudson, who has relatives in this locality, arrived from Iowa last week. He at all times' carried a knife and gun and appeared to be a much expe rienced man for one of 25 years. Thursday he developed into a whole sale forger. He started out with two checks bearing the forged signature of E. W. Fuller, a wealthy lumber dealer of Vesta, near here. They were made payable to John Zigler, a fictitious per son in this locality. One for $22 he passed on the Citizens bank of Te cumseh and the ot^er, for $18. on the Tecumseh National bank. The bank ers grew suspicious, compared notes and started officers in pursuit. It was found that Hudson had taken L-e train to Sterling. There he rented a horse for twenty-four hours from W. E. Miller, a liveryman, and rode to Cook, where at a local bank he prestmted a check with the forged sig nature of Jacob Finzie, a Tecumseh business man, but was turned down. He then went to Burr, ten miles fur ther on, and at a local bank presented another forged check and was again turned down. Suspecting that he had gone to Lin coln, Sheriff Miner telephoned de scriptions to that city and followed himself. Returning home in the evening un successful. he found that Hudson had returned to this locality and was stop ping at the home of John Kramer. The sheriff drove out, accompanied by Ellmer Nelson. Kramer came out and denied the presence of Hudson in his house when asked. While con versing with him the sheriff noticed Hudison escaping by the back door and across the back yard. He gave pursuit, when Hudson turned on him with a 44 caliber revolver and shet him in the left shoulder, the bullet passing through the fleshy part of the arm and glancing upward, striking the sheriff again back of the ear. He then stood off the sheriff with his re volver until he could mount a horse and escape. CABINET CRISIS IN FRANCE. Groups on the Extreme Left Turn I Against Ministry. Paris—The premier, Eugene Clem enceau, may have to face one of the most serious ordeals of his remarkable career. All the extreme left groups with which he has been affiliated in the past are now on the warpath, be cause, as they allege, he has turned his back on his former associates and since May 1 has resorted to methods of repression. The entire representation In the rebellious region of the south, irrespective of party, is also against him Almost a score of interpellations have been introduced in the Chamber of Eeputies, covering the general pol icy of the government, the employment of troops, the bloodshed in the south and other matters, and M. Blanc, un ified socialist, was dissuaded only with difficulty from demanding M. Clemen ceau's impeachment TWO-CENT FARE IS ENJOINED. Baltimore ft Ohio Road Brings Suit ' Against New Act Union town. Pa.—In an effort to have the 2-cent fare law (in Pennsylvania declared unconstitutional, the Balti mote ft Ohio Railroad company, oper ating the Pittsburg ft Connellsville railroad, has filed an equity suit here asking that the law be declared void and that the court of Fayette be par petiiaily enjoined from recovering from the railroad. Burgess Gets Lincoln Job. Oyster Bay, N. Y.—President Roose velt on Thursday appointed Henry C. W. Burgess to be surveyor of the cus toms at Lincoln, Neb., and Lyman W. Wakefield to be register of the land office at Phoenix, Ariz. Washington.—A contract has been awarded H. T. Adams of Belle Fourche. S. !D., for a portion of the distribution system of the Belle oFnrche irrigation system, known as the Johnson lateral. This „worh involves die excavation of H4I54 cubic yards of materiaL . : . ■■ ■* iir- -V" ■ ' M* OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM WEAK WASHINGTON BANKER CONDEMS GOVERNMENT METHODS. Says That in Time of Distress Aid Should Be Extended to Avoid Financial Disaster. Cincinnati, O.—Before the Ohio Bankers' association, Milton E. Ailes, vice president of the Riggs National Bank of Washington, spoke on the fin ancial system of the United States. Probably not since the days of An drew Jackson, Mr. Ailes began, has the public interest in the relation of the government and the banks been greater than during the past year. Mr. Ailes pointed out the singular fact that while America was quick to adopt modern methods in almost every field of endeavor it had been slow in working out a financial system that i would keep pace with the extraor dinary developments of the country; that while we here taught the old countries new methods in arts and in dustiies our currency and banking laws had remained crude. ‘"They do not belong to this era of modern enly be conjectured pending a state nent, but a well defined rumor is cur rent that an 18,000,000. brewery com bination is being effected. Jftines S. Brailey of Toledo, Ohio, is here and it a stated he Is a moving factor in lonning the alleged consolidation of line SL Louis breweries. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF NEWS N0TE8 OF INTERE8T FROM VARIOU8 SECTI0N6. ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON Religious. Social, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. - i The late hot weather was a great booster for the corn. A heavy hail storm played havoc with window lights in Beatrice. Three men were severely hart at Valentine by the falling of a scaffold. “Ten thousand in 1910” is the slogan of the West Point Republican for that town Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Wilson Grain company of York. Omaha banks refuse to pay more than 2 per cent interest on state funds. The First Methodist church of Mon owi, built this year, was dedicated last Sunday. The Woman’s Christian Temperance union held a very successful meeting in Valentine. Mrs. Parker, wife of Rev. L. G. Par ker, pastor of the First Methodist church of Geneva, died last week. Word has been received in Omaha that a man named Zook, a former resi dent of that city, was murdered in Topeka. Frank Steepy, an Omaha electrician, suicided by cutting his throat. He had for some time been unwell and feeling despondent Recent warm weather has brought corn forward so that in many localities it is neaarly as far advanced at is was at this time last year. Brace Boucher, 17-year-old son of Stephen Boucher, a farmer of Cedar township, Nance county, accidentally shot and killed himself. The Hastings Chautauqua opens July 19. It is expected to be better this year than last, when visitors thought it was excellent Henry Davis, for twenty years night, engineer at the Cooper & Linn mills in Humboldt, was found dead in a chair in the engine room. He was born in England and was 72 years old. A proposition to vote $15,000 of bonds to either build an addition to the present high school building or a new independent building will be sub mitted to the voters of Sidnev. Alleging that rates on petrol?um are higher in Nebraska than in any neigh boring state, the Marshall Oil com pany has filed a protest with the rail-' way commission against the railroads. A man was found in a box car at Fairbury almost dead from a beating he had received. It is not thought he can survive. A man who acknowl edges he made the assault is under ar rest. Elder A. G. Smith of Clay Center. who has been pastor of the Christian church for over three years, will sever his connection with the church at that point on August 1 and move to Enid, Okla. Mrs. W. W. Wright of Beatrice re ceived a telegram stating that her cou sin, Carl Kirschner, of Liberty, has' been drowned near La Platte, Wyo.., where he was employed with a Bur% lington surveying party. A bunch of twenty Custer county citizens left Broken Bow for Mexico' to see the country and inspect the gold mine in which F. M. Currie of Broken Bow and B. F. Young of Calla way are two-tenths owners. The farmers in the vicinity of Cedar creek have started a movement for organizing a co-operative elevator company. About sixty-five farmers are interested in the project and about SLOW.- in stock has already been sold. Another forged check for $100 on the Hastings Furniture company has turned up at Hastings. The check was cashed at El Paso, Texas. A dozen such checks have been returned and the Pinkerton detective agency has been put to work on the case. The poet hall of A1 Shaffer at Hum boldt was robbed of $15 in bills dur ing the noon hour, while the manager was at dinner, some person cutting out a pane of glass and gaining en trance without being detected. The work was done by home talent. Senator Burkett has wired the sec retary of agriculture asking him to lo cate the chemical laboratory, which he has announced would be establish ed somewhere in the west, at Omaha. This laboratory is to be for the anal ysis of food products under the pure food law. General Manager Mohler of the' Union Pacific has informed the rail road commission that it would be un profitable to maintain a depot at Loma, - in Butler county, as tbe„ inhabitants of the place demand. He asserts that' but 520 passengers purchased tickets at the station during 1906. \ Burlington freight train No. 6 run forty miles an hour from Patrick’s siding to Fremont with a blazing box car. The car, all ablaze, presented a lively sight in the wind. The fire de partment was in waiting at Fremont and quenched the blaze. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Clark of Co lumbus have received news from Man itoba, Cannda. of the death of thedr son Harry- Only a few days before they received a very cheerful letter from him saying that he was in goxi health. The l>ody was brought to Co lumbus for burial. The Tecumseh. city council has called a special election to vote on a |16,000 bonding, proposition for a new electric lighting plant for that city lfcr Inly 9. Crop conditions in Jefferson county are more than flattering at the pres ent time. The wheat harvest will not be more than a week late and the ciop promises to be abundant and of a good quality. This crop has made a wonderful development since the re cent drought was broken and many farmers expect this year’s yield to eclipse last year's harvest