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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVIII. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 17, 1910. NUMBER 15. fcCNATE COMMITTEE PERFECT* RESOLUTION THEREFOR. BEARS NAME OF MR. ELKINS T-e inquiry to Be Conducted by a Select Committee of Seven Senators. Washington—Harmonizing the ee» <ral reaoluUun* introduced in the son ata directing an investigation into the ■ jat of living, the republican loaders in conference, perfected a resolution on that anbject. which was later pre dated to the senate by Mr. McCum b*r of North Dakota It was referred to the committee on contingent ex p- which will consider the ques 'i iB m conducting such an inquiry. The resolution bears the name of .senator Elkins as author and ern jdle* the principal feature# of the •.liber resolution, aa well ns some o* thoM- < octamed in the one intro uuced by Mr Lodge. Tfc* inquiry i# to be conducted by a —-i.i t nutmillri- of seven senators, and it is planned to assemble all of the matter bearing on the increased -rest at article.' of food since UMM1. and rejnn-t. i! >. at the present ses sion of »-ongross. In n ik i.g the investigation it Is :• <1 tp . :ai attention shall To the following subjects: »e- salaries and earnings and . • • the r» _ ‘n them has kept e th the Increase in the cost of li • mg In* rcased prices of such articles as at. sra:n provision*, cotton, wool, thing, rents, lumber, coal, irou, oil. • ri k and <■* went. !’• i •- to tin- producer. the whole ■ or jobber, the retailer and the ■ rtsunwr at which articles included th.- .iv -s'lgatum were distributed a. a Mild in the year IkOO and the - e for their d: position at the pre sent time. Whether such articles have been in ■•a#* d m pr.* e by rva-on of the :n reaeed production of gold throughout the world and the expansion of our i t. r in the L'rited State# or by tariff her 1 •!»:.on of congress, or by »• t a. in ■;<>•» combination or con r • » i uvrol and regulate or re n :«. .. »t or foreign commerce in distriln'ien or sale of sacb art ■ - of food products on the i s parts of the United State • i' jit:' -s of such food pro ir the wholesale trade centers jf the l*n' -d Staten. Retail pnees of such food products tt the targer cities of the United #tales and also a comparative state u..-ct -hosing the cost of production •r. tne farm The committee is ordered to report it the -• nate suggestions or recom .• -ndations as to the remedy to be ap • <1 to reduce the cost of living and „ , aijiany its report with drafts of t. is for #uch legislation as will, in the t. -n cf the committee, correct and -ni-dy the causes which have en »t *-d the prices of tee necessaries of life. RECEPTION FOR ROOSEVELT. Saw York Republican Club Will Have Charge. U'jt-f inp: >n —John A. Stewart, pre dent trf th«- New York League of Re p .t-.ican <lub*. arrived here and will • -mx with President Taft regarding <• hum*. «ming celebration in honor if former President Roosevelt. A cablegram was received in New York trotn Mr. Roosevelt accepting th. rspubllcan club's proposition to t. :m a reception committee with rep *-->*-ntat:ie* from ail over the country ( > m-~et Mr Roo.ievelt on his arrival 'u New York harbor some time be tween June 15 21 next. (T. -idem Taft is giving his hearty ’ ’ the plan for a nation-wide i ereption. Rostand's Play Prove* Profitable. Part* The receipts derived from the first regular performance of tan! ulcer Rdtiumd Rostand's new lay which wa* given in the Porte St. art in theater, amounted to $15,600. This sum has been donated to the triad for the Paris flood sufferers. TESTIMONIAL TO PEARY. t* C'ven $10,000, but Turns It Over to Geographical Society. New York.—Before an audience of m-.re than 4."00 |~-rsous in the Metro l»!itan opera house. Commander Robert K Peary, discoverer of the north pole was presented with a $10, rsfci check on behalf of the citizens of New York, but Instead of retain ing it for himself the commander an r.i d im mediately that he would contribute it towards the south pole expedition as planned by the National typographical society. Cook's Friends Preparing Appeal. City of Mexico.—Whether or not James A. Cook, the American railway ed u<-tor whose guilt on a charge of nminal negligence in connection with •is robbery of his train appears to -ate been established to the satis isrtioa of Judge Palafox of the Third -inunal court of the state of Jalisco, will ha.e to serve an additional term in the penitentiary depends now on Ui> r» suit of an appeal which is al ready Using prepared. This is the in formation received on Tuesday from SuadalaJaraL BOOST FARM TOPICS. Secretary Mellor Suggests a New Clrriculum. W. R. Mellor, secretary of the state board of agriculture, has au idea that people are moving front the farms into the cities because of the lack of agricultural education taught in the schools. Mr. Mellor got an opportunity to present his ideas to a number ot school people imd others, making up an audience of 600 at Hebron. Along these lines he said: "One of the best incentives for im proved agriculture in Nebraska would be to turn from dead poets, dead generals, dead kings and 'Beyond the Alps Lies Italy’ subjects and impresii upon the minds of the school teacher the advisability of having the pupils prepare essays on 'Weeds That Grow in Thayer County and the Best Method of Destroying Them,’ ‘Root Crops. Their Selection and Uses,’ 'What Vegetables Should Be Grown and Why,’ ‘Description of Grain Grown on Our Farm,’ ‘How to Tell Different Kinds of Fruit Trees,’ ‘What Varieties of Apples We Grow. With Description.‘ ‘Why the Kind of Poul try Raised on Our Farm Is the Best,’ ‘Is the Dairy Cow or the Beef Bred Type the Best for This Section oi Nebraska?’ ‘The Kind of a Farm Horse We Should Have.’ To these, subjects might Is? added a thousand others touching seeds, preparation of the seed-bed. planting, cultivation, conservation of moisture, soil fertil ity. gathering and storing the cropg and numerous other farm subjects. "Get a score card for live stocl. and teach the pupils how to judge tiie good qualities from animals e* hibit- d before them at specific inter vals. Learn to distinguish breeds of horses, bow to tell Shorthorn cattle from Red Polled. Aberdeen-Angus from Galloway, a Poland-China hog from a Berkshire, a Southdown sheep from an Oxford, and so on through numerous vital matters of import . . e with which the farmers of ] i . er county should be thoroughly | com i rsant. ' !t is strange that a child grown j in an agricultural community such as \ i- : nind all through this part of j Nebraska knows so little about the j very tilings which are matters of ev- i ery day contact.” Western Rate Question. The state railway commission has been asked to join with the railroad heard of Kansas in intervening in j iiie case of the Colorado Coal Traffic I association against the Colorado & ; Southern. Denver & Rio Grande, Chi- j cago. Hock Island & Pacific and the j a liggton. The complainant is go ing before the interstate commerce commission on the ground that the rates c-harsed by the defendant lines from the Wahlsenhurg district in Colo rado to Nebraska and Kansas points j are too high. Handling the Eye Disease. Superintendent Stephens says that the eye disease situation is being; han dled successfully. Those families in which trachoma exists are being kepi under close supervision by Health Of fice- Rohde, who regularly makes the rounds to see that proper medical treatment is given the afflicted chil dren. Mr. Stephens said that ne un derstands that the disease is infect ious only during a certain stage. Af ter that stage the disease continues and the harmful effects on the eyes continues, but there is then no dan ger of others catching the disease. Woman Hangs Herself. Mrs. Josephine Church, the wife of A. E. Church, living at University place, hanged herself. She had been suffering from nervous collapse for several months past and though she had requested her physician and oth ers to give her some means with which she could take her life, it was not thought necessary to watch her and her husband did not suspect that she had actually contemplated sui cide. Declines to Call Election. City Clerk R. C. O/.man declined to call a special election under the refer endum act to allow the voters to pass on the sal'Kin question. He said that only 150 of the 3.500 men who signed the petition are legal signatures un der the provisions of the law, the re mainder having failed to write “Lin coln. Neb.," after their names. The advocates of saloons will appeal to the courts School for the Blind, n. O. Dwyer of Plattsmouth has been appointed member of the board of trustees of the Nebraska School for the lllind at Nebraska City and the School for the Deaf and Dumb at Omaha. He takes the place of W. R. Patrick of Sarpy county, who resigned some time ago. Penitentiary Report. T. W. Smith's report for the Ne braska penitentiary during the month 01 January lias been filed with the governor. There are now 435 inmates. Thrte hundred and thirty-four prison ers are white, ninety-seven are col "red, four are coppercolored Indian:; ad there is one lonesome Jap. Y. M. C. A. Building. The contract has been signed for the construction of the new Y. M. C. A. building. Gerstenberger & Good en are the contractors. Something over twenty points in the contract are still optional, so that parts of thfe building as planned may be left out or other parts may be built, each such optional part having a specified price in the contract as it now reads. The bid made by the contractors was practically $95,000. This does not represent accurately the price the building wil' eventually cost. LAND FOR LANDLESS UNCLE SAM PROVIDES FOUR MILLION ACRES. F0RES1 RESERVES RETURNED Joint Effort* of Secretaries Wilson and Ballinger Approved by the President. 'Washington.—More than 4,000.000 acres of land will be stripped from the forest reserves of the United States in the near future and restored to the public domain for homestead settlement through the government’s policy in carrying out Gifford Pinchot’s idea as to the classification of forest lands. This is the initial result of President Taft’s approval of a plan, jointly submitted to him a few days ago. by the Secretaries Wilson and Ballinger, for the re-classification of these lands. The lands involved in the restora tion for settlement are those not suit able for forest purposes and represent more than 2 pof cent of the total forest area. As "three-tenths of the forest do- j main still is unclassified, it is difficult to estimate what will be the total elimination when the whole area has been mapped out. It cannot be stated at this time what withdrawals will be made from the public lands for forest purposes in accordance with the policy of classification. The subject is under consideration and lands which are best adapted to forest purposes will be added to the national forests, but the matter has not yet reached concrete form. The great area, it was announced, which will be eliminated from the forests, is scattered throughout the reserves. Tracts in the interior of the forests and much land along the edges will be lifted out of the confines of the re serves, establishing with greater ex actness the boundaries of the forests. Some land eliminated is suitable for dry farming, though the greater part is grazing land. These lands, more suitable for tilling and grazing than the growing of trees will now be placed to profitable use instead of lying in • waste within the national forests. In Id^’no, which has a large national forest area, about 470.000 acres will be eliminated, of which 34 per cent is 1 tillable. • Elimination in similar pro portion will be made in a number of the other states. The forest service has been at wort: since last May collecting the data to determine the proper classification of the lands within the national forest domain and the plan evolved by the interior and Agricultural departments is expected to insure the amicable ad ministration of i.~e public lands by th* general land office and the forestry bureau. POULTRY STORED FOR MONTHS. Goat’s Flesh is Sold for Lamb in New York. New York.—Provision dealers de nied that turkeys are ever kept in storage for two years and put on the market when they were mouldy from age, but admitted that poultry is some times held from six to nine months and that goat's -flesh has been sold for lamb. This testimony was ad duced at a hearing before the com mittee of the Board of Aldermen, which is considering an ordinance providing that all foods held in cold storage must be tagged with the date on which they go into storage and the date when they come out. Nomination Confirmed. Washington.—Seth Bullock of South 1 Dakota, an intimate friend of former President Roosevelt, was confirmed i by the senate for another term as United States marshal. Hayward for Congress. Lincoln, Neb.—The Journal publish es the formal announcement of Wil liam Hayward that he is a candidate for congress in the First Nebraska district. Mr. Hayward is secretary of the republican national committee. The Death of Swobe. Kansas City.—Colonel Thomas H. Swobe came to his death by reason of strychnine administered in a capsule by Dr. B. C. Hyde, husband of the millionaire's niece, according to the verdict of the coroner's jury in Inde pendence. Hyde is under arrest. American Employes to Leave. Mexico City.—On the eve of the counting ballots cast by the American '-onductors apd engineers of the Na tional railway on the question of re signing because of the railroad’s re fusal to grant their recent requests, it t; considered certain now that more than the necessary two-thirds majority in ;!-n affirmative will be the result Of th.Feen men who left here a week ago to : oil the lines, ten are back and three a • expected on Monday. The ballots ill be counted at once. Naval Dispute Compromised. Washington.—The long drawn out dispute in the house committee on na val affairs over the subject of endors ing the plan of Secretary Meyer for the reorganization of the navy is prac tically settled, and the committee will take action which will be in effect a tentative approval of the secretary’s ideas. The secretary will be given an opportunity to demonstrate the worth of his plans. Representative Dawson of Iowa furnished the suggestion by which an understanding was finally reached. • ME IN COURTS UPPER HOUSE DISREGARDS THE SUPREME TRIBUNAL. ACONBFTHE LOWER BRANCH Cato Arises Out of Joint Committee's Award of Contract for Paper for Government. Washington.—After six hours’ de bate, which included a night session, the house voted to permit its mem bers of the joint committee on print ing to obey a summons of the su preme court of the District of Colum bia. This action was exactly the re verse of that of the senate during the afternoon, and in consequence Repre sentatives Cooper of Pennsylvania, Sturgis of West Virginia and Finley of South Carolina will be the only members of the joint committee of six to appear in court in mandamus pro ceedings instituted by the Valley Pa per company of Holyoke, Mass. The senate gave positive instruc tions to Senators Reed Smoot, Jona than Bourne and Duncan Fletcher not to respond to the order Issued by Jus tice Wright of the supreme court of the District of Columbia directing them to appear before him. The pro ceeding grew out of a suit instituted by the Valley Paper company of Holy oke. Mass., as the result of the com- j mittee’s award of a contract for fur nishing paper for the government : printing office. The refusal of the senate was based ; on the plea of the constitutional pre- j rogatives of members of congress. The senate took the position that as it was a co-ordinate branch of the , government the court had no right to ] interfere with its business affairs. In- ! cidentally, the question was raised as j to whether Justice Wrignt was in i contempt of the senate or the senate j in contempt of Justice Wright. Senator Nelson sought to have the j resolution adopted by the senate as j to permit the senators to appear only ' for the purpose of testing the court's | jurisdiction and in doing so said that if the recommendation of the judiciary committee was correct Justice Wright might be called before the senate for contempt. Mr. Nelson did not defend the court's jurisdiction, but said that as the printing committee had acted under a statute and not as the or dinary instrument of congress there was ground for doul<t. Senator Root took the position that the court’s ac tion was an intrenchment on the in dependence of the senate. Sustaining the action of the court on the ground that the printing award was an administrative rather than a legislative act, Mr. Sutherland advised the committee members to appear in court and plead their privilege. Senator Bacon declared that the exercise by the court of such power as it claimed would result in the over throw of the powers of the legislative department. The Nelson amendment was voted down, 14 to 45, the original committee resolution being adopted without divi sion, as was another resolution direct ing the secretary of the senate to com municate the views of the senate to the court. Gaynor for President. New York.—Mayor Gaynor is likely presidential timber in the eyes of some Missouri democrats. He received a letter inviting him to attend a din ner in Springfield, Mo., April 15, the 167th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson, and the invitation intimates that he is looked on in Mis souri as the national leader of demo chacy for 1912. The mayor has not yet signified his assent, but it is un derstood arrangements are under way to launch his boom whether he at tends or not. Bills for Congo Reform. Brussels—The government ha* elaborated a series of measures for reforms in the administration of the affairs of the Belgian Congo. The question of labor and the system of land taxation has received special at tention. PRESIDENT TO CONFER. Series of Meetings to Consider the General Situation. Washington—A conference held at the White House between President Taft and Senator Aldrich was onl/ the forerunner of others in the fu ture, the outcome of which probably will be the early issue of a statement dealing with a situation which is dis cussed here wherever two or three are gathered together; yet which ap parently thus far nobody has deemed it prudent to make the subject of public utterance. That situation re lates to the possible consequences, financial, industrial and political, hanging on the decisions of the su preme court of the United States in the pending cases of the American Tobacco company and the Standard Oil company. Captain Sharp Dead. Washington —■ Captain Alexander Sharp, president of the navy inspec tion board, and recently captain of the battleship Virginia, died at the navy hospital in this city. Paper Plants Merger. Portsmouth, N. H.—The $10,000,000 plant of the Publishers’ Paper com nanv on the Piscataqua river, which had been idle since the panic of 1907. massed into the hands of the Colonial '’aper company of Cincinnati and will be operated within a short time. BOOST FARM TOPICS SECRETARY MELLOR SUGGESTS A NEW CIRRICULUM. TEACH SOMETHING PRACTICAL Farm Subjects In the Country Schools —Miscellaneous Matters at the State Capital. W. R. Mellor, secretary of the state board of agriculture, has an idea that people are moving from the farms into the cities because of the lack of agricultural education taught in the schools. Mr. Mellor got an opportunity to present his ideas to a number of ^-hool people and others, making up an audience of 600 at Hebron. Along these lines he said: “One of the best incentives for im proved agriculture in Nebraska would be to turn from dead poets, dead generals, dead kings and ‘Beyond the Alps Lies Italy' subjects and impress upon the minds of the school teacher the advisability of having the pupils prepare essays on ‘Weeds That Grow in Thayer County and the Best Method of Destroying Them,' ‘Root Crops, Their Selection and Uses,’ ‘What Vegetables Should Be Grown and Why,’ ‘Description of Grain Grown on Our Farm,' ‘How to Tell Different Kinds of Fruit Trees.' ‘What Varieties of Apples We Grow, With Description,' ‘Why the Kind of Poul try Raised on Our Farm Is the Best,’ ‘Is the Dairy Cow or the Beef Bred Type the Best for This Section of Nebraska?’ 'The Kind of a Farm Horse We Should Have.’ To these subjects might be added a thousand others touching seeds, preparation of the seed-bed, planting, cultivation, conservation of moisture, soil fertil ity, gathering and storing the crops and numerous other farm subjects. “Get a score card for live stock and teach the pupils how to judge the good qualities from animals ex hibited before them at specific inter vals. Learn to distinguish breeds of horses, how to tell Shorthorn cattle from Red Polled, Aberdeen-Angus from Galloway, a Poland-China hog from a Berkshire, a Southdown sheep from an Oxford, and so on through the numerous vital matters of import ance with which the farmers of Thayer county should be thoroughly conversant. “It is strange that a child grown In an agricultural community such as is found all through this part of Nebraska knows so little about the very things which are matters of ev ery day contact.” Handling the Eye Disease. Superintendent Stephens says that the eye disease situation is being han dled successfully. Those families in which trachoma exists are being kept under close supervision by Health Of ficer Rohde, who regularly makes the rounds to see that proper medical treatment is given the afflicted chil dren. Mr. Stephens said that he un derstands that the disease is infect ious only during a certain stage. Af ter that stage the disease continues and the harmful effects on the eyes continues, but there is then no dan ger of others catching the disease. Woman Hangs Herself. Mrs. Josephine Church, the wife of A. E. Church, living at University place, hanged herself. She had been suffering from nervous collapse for several months past and though she had requested her physician and oth ers to give her some means with which she could take her life, it was not thought necessary to watch her and her husband did not suspect that she had actually contemplated sui cide. Declines to Call Election. City Clerk R. C. Ozman declined to call a special election under the refer endum act to allow the voters to pass on the saloon question. He said that only 160 of the 3,500 men who signed the petition are legal signatures un der the provisions of the law, the re mainder having failed to write ‘'Lin coln, Neb.,” after their names. The advocates of saloons will appeal to the courts. School for the Blind. D. O. Dwyer of Plattsmouth has been appointed member of the board of trustees of the Nebraska School for the Blind at Nebraska Ci'ty and the School for the Deaf and Dumb at Omaha. He takes the place of W. R. Patrick of Sarpy county, who resigned some time ago. Penitentiary Report. T. W. Smith's report for the Ne braska penitentiary during the month oi January has been filed with the governor. There are now 436 inmates. Three hundred and thirty-four prison ers are white, ninety-seven are col ored, four are coppercolored Indians and there is one lonesome Jap. \ Y. M. C. A. Building. The contract has been signed for the construction of the new Y. M. C. A. building. Gerstenberger & Good en are the contractors. Something over twenty points in the contract are still optional, so that parts of the building as planned may be left out or other parts may be built, each such optional part -having a specified price in the contract as it now reads. The bid made by the contractors was practically $95,000. This does not represent accurately the price the building will eventually cost. NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTE)}. Items of Interest Taken From Hors and There Over the State. The new bank at Morrell has com menced business. The new passenger depot at Blair is nearly ready for occupancy. Mrs. A. E. Church of University place, Lancaster county, hanged her self in the cellar. Parties have been looking over tha situation in Beatrice with a view of putting in a street railway system. Farmers in various sections of the state are now busy gathering corn that cold and snow interfered with in securing earlier. Snow being about off the ground, farmers are getting busy with un husked corn, of which there is a great deal throughout the state. Dr. Person of Stanton found an egg of unusual size, laid by a black Lang shan hen, which contained one yolk and another yolk in a separate shell. The house on the farm of Wilber Tsley in Island Grove township, Gage county, was destroyed by fire. Mr. Kuhn had considerable difficulty in rescuing his family from the burning building. Edward S. Miller, whose corn mills were destroyed by fire in Beatrice about two months ago, has purchased the corn mill at Firth, Lancaster county, and will locate in Lincoln with his family. The largest deposits known in the history of Minden were shown in the reports of the two national banks, they having together nearly $500,000. Seven other banks in the county are equally well situated. Petrus Olson, aged 25 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Olson, was buried at Stromsburg. His body arrived from California, where he was acci dentally killed by coming in contact with the electric wires. A. P. Libby, former deputy county treasurer of Johnson county, but re cently in the general merchandise busines sat Powell. Wyo., has suf fered a fire in which he lost his store building and stock of goods. A shooting affray occurred at E. Torrey's, about ten miles north of Oxford. Ira Torrey, a son of E. Tor rey, about 20 years old, shot and seri ously wounded his brother, Ernest. It Was the outcome of a quarrel. Preston Bryan lost his life by suf focation in a fire in a rooming house at North Platte. He had been sick for a few days and a lamp was left burning in his room. Evidently he overturned the lamp, for it was found on the floor. At a meeuiig 01 me city council of Nebraska City the city attorney recommended that the permits of the druggists be revoked and they put out of the liquor business because they were selling too much and were sell ing it on Sunday. The large frame building of J. D. Kuhn in Island Grove township. Gage county, was burned to the ground. The fire was started hy the explosion of a lamp in the sitting room. The fire spread so rapidly that the entire contents were burned. Henry Hoxie, a pioneer of Holt count}", died at his home two miles east of O’Neill. Two weeks ago he injured his leg and foot by crushing them in a hay baler. The limb was amputated and complications arose which resulted in his death. While en route to Columbus D. C. Westfall of York died on the Norfolk passenger while the train was be tween Tarnov and Platte Center. At the latter place a physician was called, but he was beyond relief, death being caused by apoplexy. Mr. nnd Mrs. Fletch Whitcomb of York have been very much worried over their daughter, Miss Byrd Whit comb, on account of the great floods in Paris, where Miss Whitcomb is studying music, but they received a letter from her saying she was safe. One of the most successful farm sales ever held in the state of Ne braska was the Chester R. Sutton sale, five miles north of Blair, when twenty-four head of mares and colts averaged $200 per head and one-span of mares brought $620. The sale amounted to $7,000 and every dollar was paid in cash. Two boys who were “bumming” across the country were run over by train No. 16, west of Benkelman, one lad losing both legs and the other, whose name is Fritzel, his remaining leg, the other having been taken ofT some years ago in a street car acci dent in St. Louis. Fritzel is dead and the other boy is in the hospital. Riley S. Har of Burt county is hav ing lumber sawed from the cotton wood trees planted on the homestead he filed on in 1S66 when a young soldier fresh from the civil war. He will use this lumber to build a new house in Lyons for his old age. In these days of high priced lumber this, he considers, is a good object lesson for land owners. From Sunderland it is reported that range cattle have stood the hard win ter pretty well and the abundance of feed which was put up in the fall has been utilized to the best possible advantage. The grass on the prairies “dried up” satisfactorily, there being very little rain or moisture in the fall, valuable sustenance thereby be ing conserved. Mrs. Benton Kinkead of Platts mouth, aged 60 years, was found dead in her bed by her husband. She had been in the best of health and death was evidently due to heart trouble. Numerous homesteaders who filed under the Kinkaid one-section taw several years ago are now making five-year proof on their claims. The increase in value of real estate since settlement was made has made many of the claims more valuable than was hoped for at the time of filing, and many of the settlers have reason tc rejoice because of having taken uj claims. THE WATERWAY BILL BIG LOT OF MONEY FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS. REPORTED TO LOWER HOUSE Largely an Annual Budget, and Effort Will Be Made to Expedite Its Passage. Washington. — Waterway projects throughout the country at a cost of $42,355,276 of which $7,206,430 is for continuing contracts, are provided for in the rivers and harbors appropria tion bill reported to the house by the committee on rivers and harbors. The bill will be called up in the house Monday in an effort to press the meas ure to passage as expeditiously as possible. The $7,000,000 odd outside the cash appropriations Is for ex penditures which hereafter may be made under the continuing contract system. The bill is theoretically an annual budget, although no regular rivers and harbors bill has been re ported since that approved March 2, 1907. In the great haste with which the bill was prepared the totals in the report of the committee disclose a number of minor discrepancies which it was impossible to correct. The figures as given are according to those furnished by the committee. All the projects already under Im provement aggregate $252,$17,400, in cluding the Mississippi river from Cairo to the head of the passes. Further projects favorably reported by the engineers, but not yet adopted by congress, amount to $87,548,000, or a total of $339,566,000, including the projects provided for under the pre sent bill, which would leave $29,000, 000 yet unacted upon, if congress adopts the present measure. The total amount required to com plete adopted projects, except the Mississippi river, foots up $70,820,100, and for the Mississippi river $17,501, 650, from the mouth of the Missouri to the mouth of the Ohio; $18,500,000 thence to St. Paul and $59,550 from St. Paul to Minneapolis. Besides this the cost of projects, which congress, having started, pre sumably intends to complete, is es timated at $9,346,500 and the canaliza tion of the Ohio for a nine-foot depth, practically adopted in the bill ap proved March 3, 1909, is placed at $60,280,600, making a total of $177, 617,400, which “congres may be con sidered as committed to." Norfolk, Va.; Mobile, Ala.; New York harbor, the great lakes, the De-^ troit river and other sections receive! great attention. The Missouri river gets $1,000,000 and for the Ohio approximately $5,i 000,000 a year for twmlve years is contemplated. Protest Against Railroads. Washington. — Representatives of humane societies and live stock as sociations were before the house com mittee on interstate and foreign com merce protesting against the manner in which the railroads handle live stock en route to market. One wit ness declared that 100,000 head of stock were taken from the cars dead every year as a result of inhuman handling. The loss in money was es timated at millions in the killing of stock and in the shrinkage of weight. Says He Didn’t Say It. Washington—Food Inspector Dodge declared he never testified to the con gressional committee on the cost of living that beef “ready to fall to pieces” was served at the White house during President Roosevelt’s administration. Big Verdict for Woman. New York.—A verdict of $75,000, said to be the largest ever rendered in an alienation suit, was awarded to Mrs. Charles C. Hendrick of Brook lyn, against Laura Biggar, the former actress, accused of alienating the af fections of Mrs. Hendrick's divorced husband, Dr. Charles C. Hendricks. Mrs. Hendrick sued for $100,000. OCEAN LINER DESTROYED. Only One Passenger Out of 157 Saved. Palma. Island of Majorca—Driven helplessly from her course in one of the wildest storms that has swept the Mediterranean sea in forty years, the French Transatlantic Steamship com pany’s steamer. General Chanzy, crashed at full speed, in the dead of night, on the treacherous reefs near the Island of Minorca and all but one of the 157 souls on board perished. The soul survivor is an Algerian cus toms officer, Marcel Rodel, who was rescued by a fisherman and who lies in the hospital at Ciudadela raving as a result of the tortures through which he passed and unable to give an ac count of the disaster. Victory for Mrs. fngersoll. Boston, Mass—Legal services of the $170,000, rendered by the late Robert T. Ingersoll, were recognized in a lecree by Judge Hammond of the lassachusetts supreme court. Mrs. 'ngersoll, wife of the former lawyer ind orator, is benefited by the deci sion affirming the decree of the pro late court directing a distribution of he Massachusetts portion of the es ate of Andrew J. Davis, a former cop er mine owner of Butte, Mont., by horn Ingersoll was retained as an attorney