Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXV LOI P CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 14, l7 IN CONGRESS. Tin hou.se agreed to the conference report on the army appropriation bill, which now goes to the president. Of tile fT.Obit.OOO provided for increased pay enlisted men will receive approx imate !y $3,000,000. Five Republican congressmen were named to prepare a financial bill which recognizes commercial paper through clearing house associations as a safe ana logical asset for emergency ■currency. The house voted against the re establishment of the canteen in na tional soldiers' homes. The senate passed the Gallinger bill to regulate the employment of child -labor in the District of Columbia. The horse committee, on banting and currency tabled the new Vreeland financial bill. The house overrode the committee ■on appropriations, adding $250,000 to the sum called for ia the civil appro priation bill. The senate passed the house resolu tion appropriating 1250,000 to relieve the recent cyclone sufferers in Ala bama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisi ana. PERSONAL. P. J. Mnldoon. auxiliary bishop of Chicago, was appointed bishop of the new ttict/ese of Rockford. Prince Philip Zu Eulenburg of "Germany was arrested as a result of the court scandai -exposed by Maxi milien Harden. Ore W. Paulson, former alderman of Rockford, 111., pleaded guilty of brib ery and was fined $.7>OOl Wiiiiam Montgomery, cashier of the Allegheny iPa.) National bank for over 20 years, was arrested on a charge of embezzling $429,000 of the bank's funds. Edward E. Brennan, a lawyer of Btit’e, Aleut., was arrested in the office of F. Augustus Heinze in New York, charged with attempting to extort SlO.irr. front Mr. Heinze. Young Alanuel was proclaimed king -of Portugal after he had gone through the sc >mn and picturesque ceremony of swearing allegiance to his people. Secretary Taft was indorsed by Re publican state conventions of Connec tion and Alabama. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans re sumed active command of the Atlantic batik ski; Beet and the big vessels, fol lowed by the torpedo flotilla, sailed from Santa Cruz for San Francisco. Calvin Demurest of Chicago won the international amateur biiiiard cham pionship at New York, defeating Re rolle, French champion, in the final game. Rev. Dr. William. T. Manning, vicar of St. Agnes chapel in Trinity parish, New York, and assistant rector of the .parish, was unanimously elected rec tor of Trinity parish, to succeed the late Dr. Alorgan Dix. Sherman Cass, principal of the Tolono (111.) schools, who whipped a pupil, compromised an $1,800 judg ment for $SO0, after seven months «n jail. GENERAL NEWS. Secretary of the Navy .Metcalf re viewed the combined Atlantic and Pa cific fleets in San Francisco harbor. Admiral Evans was unable to take part in the ceremonw and later relin quished the command to Rear Admiral Thomas and left for Washington. Dr. J. Sanderson Christison, a noted alienist, committed suicide in Chicago. Members of the Russian duma made violent attacks on the Jews, urging their exclusion from the army. Fire in Atlanta. Ga.. destroyed two uiocks c: uusiuess uuiicuugs, we loss being $1,250,000. The Wabash river levee broke near Vincennes. Ind., and a serious flood was expected. School children of Chester, Pa., struck because two teachers rode on street cars manned by strike-breakers, and the school board ordered the teachers to apologize. The government's crop report for May gives winter wheat's average condition as 89 per cent, of normal. Gov. Gooding of Idaho granted a re prieve to Harry Orchard to July 2. Secretary of War Taft and party ar rived safely at Colon. Fire in New Orleans burned out F. F. Hansell & Bros., Booksellers. and Stevens & Co., clothing, the loss being $490,000. Bert Devanev, a horseman of Wash ington Court House, O., killed a col ored girl and a man and committed suicide after a company of militia had surrounded him. Burton Koch, a Denver fireman, shot and killed his wife, wounded his mother-in-law and committed suicide. Two privates of the Porto Rico pro visional regiment were shot during a clash between soldiers and the insular police, and one of the soldiers died. Three persons were injured when a five-inch shell, a civil war relic and supposedly harmless, explode?, in Armory hall in Riverside. CaL Five bodies of persons supposed to have been murdered by Mrs. Belle Gun ness were dug up near the house, a mile northwest of Laporte. Ind., where she and her three children recentl.v perished in flames. It is believed she also caused the death of her two hus bands. Ray Lamphere is suspected of having been her accomplice. Four more bodies wrere dug up in the barnyard of Mrs. Guinness' farm, near Laporte, Ind., making nine found so far. The mystery of the “death house” is growing deeper, though there is evidence that the bodies were shipped to Mrs. Guin ness. probably from Chicago, in trunks and boxes which draymen tell of carting to her house. Another of the bodies dug up on the farm of Mrs. Guinness near La porte. Ind.. was identified as that of Ole B. Budsberg of iota. Wis., whom the woman lured there by a matri monial advertisement. New witnesses against Roy Lamphere were found. Another body was dug up on Mrs. Guinness' farm near Laporte. Ind., making ten found. More incriminat ing evidence against Ray Lamphere was obtained. Seventy-two men who for more than 2-4 hours had been facing death in the raging sea near Fire island, were rescued from the crumbling hulk of the big German ship Peter Rickmers. Charges of rioting against Univer sity of Michigan students were ail dis missed after the boys bad reimbursed the county. P. b. Sullivan was burned to death at Glenwood. Minn. Juan Durand, one of the leaders of the recent abortive revolutionary movement in Peru, and ten of his fol lowers, have been captured. The Euclid Avenue Trust company of Cleveland. O.. made an assignment to the Cleveland Trust company, in the insolvency court. Eight thousand men from tie com bined Atlantic and Pacific fleets pa raded the streets of San Francisco, es corted by thousands of men of the regular army. National Guard and civic societies. One hundred men were in great peril on board the stranded steamer Peter Rickmers on the Long Island coast which was going to pieces in a gale so violent that life-savers could not reach the vessel. Train robbers who boarded Denver & Rio Grande train No. 4 at Castle Rock, Col., shot to death Express Mes senger Charles H. Wright, aged 60. and looted a small safe in the baggage car. from which they took less than $100 in currency. W. E. Loueke, his wife and baby were killed at Reedlev. Cal., when their automobile was struck by a train. t'tah Republicans declared Roose velt their first choice and Taft their second choice. Taft instructions were given by the Republican conventions of Wyoming and Kentucky. Massachusetts Democrats instructed their delegates-at-large for Bryan. Irene Doiph. 17 years old. was sen tenced at Clinton, la., to eight years in prisou for killing her husband. Aldermen Carty and Reynolds of Rockford. 111., pleaded guilty of ac cepting bribes and were fined. Gov. John A. Johnson carried thb Minnesota Democratic primaries against William J. Bryan. President Roosevelt and his family and guests went to Pine Knot, Va., for a brief outing. Four persons were killed and 12 in jured in a fire believed to have been of incendiary origin, and which de stroyed a five-story tenement house in New York. The famous Pequot house at New London, Conn., was destroyed by fire. Led by the Connecticut, with Rear Admiral Evans on the bridge, the bat tleships of the Atlantic fleet passed slowly through the Golden Gate and anchored in the harbor of San Fran cisco. while many thousands of people watched the magnificent spectacle. Democrats of Iowa nominated Jnd son Harmon for governor and elected Bryan delegates. Prof. Gilbert M. Gowell of Orono, Me., a famous poultry expert, commit ted suicide. Political prisoners at Alexandrovsk. Russia, attempted to escape and seven were killed. Sixty Afghans were killed in a fight with British troops in the Khyber pass. Gen. Domingo Yasqufez, former pres ident of Honduras, denied that he had been organizing an insurrection against the government of that coun try. uov. narns or umo oraerea Aajt. Oen. Critchlield to send state troops to protect the towns ot Aberdeen and Higginsport. in the Burley tobacco dis trict. Threats had been made to burn these towns, as a result of the tobacco war. By the explosion of a charge of dy namite in the gangway of the Draper colliery at Pottsville, Pa.. Andrew Cav alage was tilled and three foreign la borers were so badly injured that they are not expected to recover. Loss of several lives and much dam age to property were caused by violent wind and rainstorms in southern Illi nois. Missouri, Arkansas and Missis sippi Judge Ball of Chicago held that mar riages of divorced persons within one year after the decree is granted are invalid in Illinois, even if the cere mony occurs in another state. The business districts of the towns of Walkerton, lnd.. and Coalton, O., were destroyed by flames. Peruvian insurgents are reported to have gained possession of Cuzco. The Atlantic battleship fleet was united once more, at Santa Cruz, when the ships of the second squadron ar rived from Monterey and the flotilla of six destroyers joined it from San Pedro. FRISCO ! I — NEBRASKANS WERE IN LINE SAIL WiTKIN GOLDEN GATE ACCORDED PLACE OF HONOR IN THE BIG PARADE. Eight Thousand Blue Jackets March With “Fighting Bob" at the Head of the Line. San Francisco.—Included in the big parade which took place here Thurs day in celebration of the safe arrival of the Atlantic fleet after its trip around the Horn was Governor Sheldon of Nebraska and his staff. They were given a prominent posi tion in the procession, and as their carriages appeared word went down the lines that the visitors were com ing. “A cheer for the guests,” shout ed an enthusiastic man in the grand stand and in an instant a shout went up from every person in the crowd. Nebraskans along the line of march recognizing their home folk kept up the cheering and for a moment they i shared honors with Admiral Evans I and the men of the cruiser California. The governor and his staff attended the official reception and ball given the night before at the Fairmont ho tel and their handsome uniforms even in that brilliant assemblage attracted a great deal of attention. Eight thousand bluejackets and ma rines—the largest armed , force the American navy has ever put ashore in time of peace or war, were landed Thursday from the combined Atlantic and Pacific's fleets, now lying in the harbor, and inarched through the streets of San Francisco in the most notable parade the city lias ever known. For four miles and a half, along streets lined and canopied with colors and in review of a never-ending crowd, the fighting men of the fleet made tlieir way to the martial tunes of their shipmates’ hands, to the cheers that began with the first com mand to march and ended only when the sailormen had again embarked ia the small boats that returned them to the battleships and armored cruisers in the roadstead. Twenty-five hundred soldiers of the regular army in full dress array graciously acted as an escort to the visiting men of the sea and were liberally applauded. Rear Admiral Evans, commanding the fleets, and the six other rear admirals in command of squadrons and divi sions, rode in carriages. Admiral Evans was quickly recognized by the thousands in the immense reviewing stands and bowed a constant recogni tion of the cheering as his carriage slowly moved at the front of the marching columns. Secretary --of the Navy Metcalf. Governor Gilette of California and Major Taylor of, San Francisco rode | in the parade and afterward reviewed it as it countermarched down Van Ness avenue. Airship Flies Thirty Miles. Norfolk, Ya.—The Wright brothers, aeronauts, who are experimenting with their aeroplane at Kill Devil hill, near Manteo, N. C., made their third successful flight covering thirty odd miles and ascending to a considerable height. The absolute control of the machine shown by the aeronauts was the feature of the experiment. It glided easily from the ground, the aeronauts taking a fifteen-mile dart seaward, probably going 2,500 feet in the air, circled and followed an el liptical course back to the. sta-iing. Child Labor Bil! Passed. Washington—The senate passed a bill prohibiting the employment with in certain hours of children under 14 years of age in the District of Co lumbia in any factory, workshop, etc. Canning Stock is Scarce. Kansas City—Being amble to get a sufficient supply of canning stock the Armour Packing company will shut down its canning department. This will throw 225 men out of employment temporarily. Cleveland Still Improves. Lakewood. N. J.—"Mrs Cleveland says that the former president con tinues to improve in health and'that his condition is in no way alarming,” said Manager William Becke;- of the Lakewood hotel. THE BIG FLEET GIVEN GREAT RECEPTION IN 'FRISCO. Thousands Upon Thousands View Grand Soectacle and Extend an Enthusiastic Welcome. Saa Francisco.—Through the tower j ing rocky portals of the Golden Gate. : heavy laden with the romance of the j centuries, into the harbor of the city | of a hundred hills; into a new San j Francisco risen from the ruins of two years ago. the Atlantic battleship fleet steamed on Wednesday in review of a multitude unnumbered. It was the same imposing pageant of immacnlate white ships that sailed from Hampton Roads nearly five months ago in the wake of the president's flag, but with rhe splendid accomplishments of i record-breaking cruise of more than 14.000 miles and three weeks of . won derful target work behind it. The white-anchored, four-starred blue flag of the secretary cf the navy, flying from the mainmast of the trim little gunboat York tow;., fluttered the wel come of the navy, while the governor of California, the mayor of San Fran cisco and the people cf- a hundred towns and cities voiced the greetings of the enthusiastic west. San Francisco. Oakland and other cities nearby all took a holiday to wit ness the coming of the feet. There was a complete cessation of business and the streets jn the downtown sec tions were absolutely deserted. Mote people came into the-city last night and this irornir.s than left during the terror and homeless days following the fire. A few remaining scars of a city shaken and burned 'appeared' rose tinted in the joy of general celebra tion. A welcome sign spelled in let ters fifty feet high topped the heights of Telegraph hill. The sun. which all morning long had been obscured by heavy gray clouds, broke through just as the ships were passing by the gateway and shone in noonday brilliance on the pageantry of fighting craft. Th“ battleships, having the right of line, were first to let their anchors go. The sixteen veterans of the Atlantic cruise, augmented by two battleships recruited here for the remainder of the trip around the worlds— the Nebras ka and Wisconsin—occupy the two in side lines of the four columns of ships now in the harbor. The armored cruisers of the Pacific fleet have.: the line nearest the Oakland shore, while the little black destroyers of both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets are berthed close in toward the Saa Francisco wai er front. PASS DOES NOT EXEMPT ROAD. Conductor of Empire State Express Gets Big Judgment. New York—The view that a rail road employe v. ho is riding on a pass is entitled to damages if injured, has been upheld in the supreme court-1n White Plains. Damages of $17,500 were awarded to James A. Halley, formerly a conductor in the employ of the New York Central Railroad company, who was injured in the Brewster express wreck on February 18. 1007. Halley had been a conductor for more than forty-four years and- at the time of the accident was con ductor of the Expire state express. Taft Welcomed at Color. Colon—The United States auxiliary Prairie, with Secretary, of War Taft aud the members of his party on board, arrived here Wednesday. The secretary was welcomed by Officials. BILL FOR LEASING COAL LAIRDS. Hall Introduced Measure-Providing for Payment of Royalties. Washington—Representative flail of .South Dakota introduced a bill provid ing that all public, lands and lands in cluded in a national forest reerve con taining workable deposits of coal are to be classified coal lands and shall only be disposed of by leasing. No person or corporation shall acquire a J lease upon more than 2,560 acres. BIG MEN ILL MEET GOVERNORS TO MAKE HISTORY AT CONFERENCE. WILL BE MUCH DISCUSSION Expected to Overshadow All Other Gatherings. Rivaling Adoption of Federal Constitution. Washington—History will be made at this week’s white house conference on natural resotuces. unless all signs fail. For history making the condi tions are remarkably favorable. Never before has a president of the I'nited Slates conferred with all the gov ernors of the states. Nevet before has the white house, with its long record of social and state functions, sheltered a large convention called for the con sideration of a great public issue. And never before has the whole broad question of the conservation of this country's natural resources been brought before a great deliberative body as the sole subject of its con sideration. The reception accorded this project indicates that the people of the coun try expect definite results of a far reaching character. But no cut-and dried program will be presented for the consideration of the governors and delegates. After hearing from experts the condition which the country is fac ing the members of the conference win themselves decide wa?tner any thing ought to be done, and what. Some have suggested the advisability of forming a great national organiza tion to carry forward the plans ori ginated in the conference. The prob ability is that, at the least, tome basis will be laid for future co-operation be tween the federal and state govern ments in a vigorous policy of con servation. for one of the things which will be shown most forcibly at the conference is that neither the states nor the federal government can make satisfactory headway independently. The present situation is much the same as was faced just before the adoption of the federal constitution, and the more enthusiastic believe that the coming conference will have just as far-reaching results, and become unite as historic, as those meetings which led up to the formation of the constitution. They recall that the whole question of a constitution had its direct origin in a meeting promoted by George Washington for the consid eration of the control and develop ment of the Potomac. That confer ence met at Alexandria in 1785 and consisted of representatives from Vir ginia and Maryland. But it was de cided that the questions involved were too extensive for two states to handle, and so'another conference was called to meet at Annapolis in 1780. More of the states were represented here, but still not enough. And so the third conference was called to meet the fol lowing year in Philadelphia. This con ference. at watch all of the states were represented, developed into the con stitutional convention and became the most important meeting in American history. SUPPLY BILLS NEARLY READY. Indications That Congress Will Ad journ by May 25. , Washington.—The supply bills of congress, in which appropriations are to he made for the suuport of the gov ernment for the next fiscal year be ginning on July 1. are in such condi tion in both houses that if no com plications arise in connection with oth er legislation it will be possible to reach a final adjournment by the 25tli inst. There are fourteen of these gen eral measures, carrying an aggregate , of almost $1,000,000,000. Water in Big Horn Canal. Basin. Wyo.—Water was turned through the entire fifty-four miles of the Big Horn county canal for the first time Saturday. It will irrigate 30.000 acres of land on the west side of the Big Horn river. The canal cost 400.000 and it required three years to construct it. Bryan Will Go Eastward. I.incoln.—William Jennings Bryan will leave Monday for an extended eastern trip. He expects to he in Washington. D. C.. May 12. 12 and 14. May IT he will he in Chicago. He will sneak in Baltimore. May lit and at Hagerstown. Md.. May 20. Aurora Boy for Annapolis. Washington.—R. A. Hail of Aurora. Neb., who was nominated by Senator Brown as midshipman at. Annapolis, has passed both his physical and men tal examinations, and leaves for Ne braska for a month’s leave prior to beginning his studies at the Naval academy. Montana 3ad Man Killed. Willistown. N.D.—“Pigeon-toed Kid.” one of the few remaining bad men of eastern Montana, was killed by Deputy Sheriff Calderwood at the Bonnable Tanch in Valley county, Montana. Death of Frederick K. May. Newark. N. J.—Frederick H. May. formerly vice president anfi general manager of the American Rapid Tel egraph company, died at his home in this city. Russell Takes Vacation. Willemstad.—W. W. Russell, the American minister to Venezuela, sailed from here Saturday on the steamship Caracas for the I'nite-d States, where he will spend his vacation of two months. I I SILVER SERVICE HANDED OVER. i 1 Gov. Sheldon Presents It to the Ship Nebraska. San Francisco.—The generally ac cepted theory that the people of the interior were lacking in enthusiasm regarding the United States navy was almost eliminated, when 200 repre sentatives of the state of Nebraska, headed by their governor. George L. Sheldon, presented to the battleship Nebraska a beautiful silver service, j the state and national colors and a large Bible. The ceremony of presentation In it ! self was without note, differing in no wise from other gifts of a like charac ter; but the attention was attracted by the remarkable enthusiasm of the donors, the spirit of loyalty and patriotism which permeated the entire occasion. The whole was rampant Americanism, i hey spoke of ‘ our” navy in a manner almost truculent, as if defying any living man to take from them one iota of the glory of American citizenship. They were emphatic in their demands for a bigger and better navy and. what in some instances might have been considered as spread eagleism. they accepted as simple truths, applauding with the vigor of the prairie-born. It mattered not that but a few had seen ihe sea before and fewer still had trod the decks of an American warship. They claimed their own with an inspiring tenacity. A sharp bugle call opened the cere monial. The Nebraskans, who had been looking ovpr the ship, took up their positions on the front deck and Governor Sheldon stepped forward to make the presentation. \\e rome wan greetings irom Ne braska." said he. "with greetings to the officers and men of the battleship Nebraska. It is a great event for us of the interior to see this wonderful armament lying around us and from the sight we received impression which will make us better citizens. "I was somewhat surprised to hear at a recent banquet in San Francisco that the people of the interior were lukewarm toward a bigger and better navy. I say here that as far as the people of Nebraska are concerned we desire to see a navy strong enough and big enough for any and every purpose, but primarily of the great purpose of insuring peace. I feel sure that the state I represent is with me in my utterance and one of the most pleas ing things I have learned since com ing to San Francisco is that the sail ors hailing from the interior rank among the best in the T'nited States navy. Should the need arise I am confident that my countrymen from Nebraska will give their full quota of recruits to the service. "This silver service." lie continued, “is a token from us. ' It is to remind you that the people of Nebraska are thinking of you and that you will be in their thoughts on your trip around the world. If. when ypu make use o7 it. the remembrance of the well wishes and deep interest of the people of my state will give you any pleasure then it will have served its purpose.” Capt. Nicholson, commander of the battleship, responded to the address of the governor. "Your present." said he, “will serve as a reminder that the thoughts of the people of the state are with us on our cruises, and we will endeavor to war rant the confidence placed in us. I can assure you of one thing and that is the name of Nebraska will never be tarn ished through the battleship.” MUCH WINTER WHEAT KILLED. Seventy Thousand Acres of Winter sown Has Been Destroyed. Springfield. 111.—The buletin of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture on the crops, shows that the May 1 con dition of winter wheat in this state was very goiod. the average condition in the state being 98 per cent of the normal. There are 1.248,671 acres for harvest, but 70,800 acres having been winter-killed or destroyed by floods. WHEAT CROP IS OFF. Estimate for May 1 Shows 4.2 Per Cent of Acreage Abandoned. Washington—The department of agriculture in its summary of the May erop report places the total area of winter wheat standing < n May 1 to be harvested at 29,751.Oi'O acres which is 4.2 per cent, or 1.318.000 acres less than the area reported as sown last fall and 5.8 per rent or 1,610.000 acres more than the area of winter wheat harvested last year. The average condition of the grow ing winter wheat on May 1 was 89 per cent of a normal as compared with 91.3 per cent on April 1 and 82 9 per cent on May 1. 1907. In rye the average condition of the crop was 90.3 per cent of a normal as compared with S9.1 on April 1 and SS per cent on May 1, 1907. Mrs. Sage Offers $500,000. New York—The American Bible so ciety has received from Mrs. Russell Sage an offer to contribute $509,000 toward a permanent endowment far the society on condition that an ad ditional $500,000 be contributed. Victor Bender Takes Stand. Washington—Victor E. Bender, pub lisher of the Daily Nonpareil. Coun cil Bluffs, la., was the only witness examined by the special committee of the house that is investigating the wood pulp and print paper question. He testified that ten years ago he paid $1.70 per 100 pounds for paper delivered in Council Bluffs and that his present contract called for $2.50. The committee left Washington for Corinth, N. Y.. where they will inves tigate the Hudson Paper mill and ex amine some of the operatives there. • NEBRASKA IN BRIEF NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON Religious. Social. Agricultural. Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. Business men of Adams will hold a picnic and carnival August 11th. The first annual pet stock show i' Lincoln was a great success. Five proprietors of meat market- in Heatrice were violating the pure food law. A negro who broke out of jail at Valentine, returned and Mirren. re i himself. A seriea of revival meetings have commenced in Tecumseh and will last three weeks. Mr. Gore, elected county sun ;- it last fall in Johnson county, lias re signed^ his office. Ainsworth people are preparing ; > give Hon. W. J. Bryan an enthi « tic reception May Hath. A number of meat dealers In i:. rice have been rounded up for using preservatives in food products. All saloons in Elgin have been closed. Pool halls will be permit'* ! to run. wortv nas open resumeu on in*1 Young Men's Christian association building at Fremont At Beatrice Henry Frerichs is ma i ■ defendant in a breach of promise ■ uit for $20,000. Two Omaha boys have started for San Francisco on bicycles. They ex pect to arrive about July 1st. A prominent fruit grower at Ne braska City gives it as his opinion that fruit prospects have been greatly lessened by cold weather. The Nebraska state eclectic societv indorsed Dr. G. H. Brash of Beatrice for reappointment of his ]>osirion on the state board of health. Lightning struck the large barn on the John Majures’ farm, one-half mile northwest of Rulo and burned it to the ground. J. P. I-atta. a democratic politici;'*i of Tekamah. has announced It is can didacy for congress for the Third c u. gressional district. Jubilee exercises in honor of tl; • fiftieth anniversary of the Firs: Pres byterian church in Plattsmouth were held last week. ■ Railroad employes are being fined up in opposition to lowering of freigh* rates. They were given the hunch some time ago that they must b* and about their employers' busine A shooting affray occured Sutuiav at the Dave Jock farm, two miles .-imrh east of Brcck, in which Emile M . or was killed by his brother-in-law. I.nfc Huttcn. The shooting was th nr come of a family feud. The Belmont Irrigation Canal an! Water Power company which now lias 27.000 acres under irrigation, wi headquarters at Bridgeport, has ap plied to the state board of irrigation for additional water. The Missouri Pacific Railroad com pany and the Western I'nion Tele graph company both deny responsibil ity for the closing of telegraph offices along the lines of the railroad in Ne braska so far as such stations are closed to commercial business. W. D. Fleak of Chicago, a represen tative of the "cigarette trust." was in Lincoln trying to “work tip trade.” He argues that the law passed by th - last Nebraska legislature forbidding the sale of cigarrettes is a dead letter and that no effort is being made to en force it. THE MIDWEST LIFE of Lincoln sells life insurance at as low a cos: as the same kind of insurance can he bought anywhere in the i'nited S'ate Patronize an old line Nebraska Com paq* and keep the money in this state to develop cur own enterprise and business interests Lo^al ae-nts wanted in every town in Nebraska. Write for an agency. A. O. Wilson of Lincoln, who president and general solicitor for the Nebraska association for the promo tion of the instruction of the blis 1 intends to ask the next legislature to provide a new state institution f " the blind. He has the recommenda tion of Principal J. T. Morey of the* state school for blind at Nebraska City for the proposed state insti'a tion. Frank Larson, a Northwestern fir man of Fremont, has received a medal from the t'n'ted States government for his bravery in saving the life of a year-old boy near Exeter. Neb., in Jan uary last. The medal is of silver, and accompanying it is a gold button to b** worn bv the holder. The medal and button were received together with a letter of transmission from th< secretary of the Interstate Commerce commission under date of April 27. 1908. and also a letter from President Roosevelt. Thirty-four school districts of Rich ardson county have risen up in their might, and in a meeting held at Falls City raised $170 to test the constitu tionality of the present high school law* which allows all schools to attend city high schools, their tuition being paid by the district from which they come. Pictures of a bust of Abraham Lin coln by Charles Henry Xiehaus of New York City have been received by Secretary Wait of the Lincoln monu ment assicoation. Mr. Niehaus is one of the sculptors who is willing to make a Lincoln monument for $25,000.