Nebraska Newspapers

    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