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'H ::b<1 every ap AWttoChMft 4>-«t cs " * I _, i ■;* .. or «ri . *»' i- prprest r»:ed jy ,4®§epa*£.. Ascot* tlMKe oa t&e I t.r. : : . nr. tfc- oej'rj.). cud a vi . « tt frcii. -arii sect Mm ot th -- r * • • •■- - • -p jk Mbfeelp i « : r its. - - : r g« :• rui . • • r at.d .:• .• .•>; • l‘ ad- "trial t»c»1cai«nx*l . ard public ’! —i : • i. ;■ • '"i ■ fc.alth sad me* loud. f»*r»»j4ry. aad ;noi road*: r-u-aa- Bin* i»d n!frp>verf sop ■ and state advertising and set kSKtst of iatv. lauds r£Ac LOCK JAW CCR SULLIVAN P-,*.;i«s Aecrt Dz--.tr c* Brad Pc see.. But Say Tatar is **ay Set In. L f V: fa' Slat T Hilly 5. .ai., % eteras tat t her of tbe t'fci ,c*j Wi.it* S'a - ...t-d* rrotr* treai :.' * J •• ' ;. a S .,• p;-4 -ts a rusty an-' Saturday at .Arst-» p*.rt and »»» striefcen with Okmc poisouan* Ac operstiot: yes terda *ner~aa.e this, but tbetr is still earn.- r * 'eta as d* pint Fr euds jf s-ci.: ae *:■*• bcra-«* alarmed at .a net1!- w. tel-uraTibed his wife to use at ■ r""* The plater's physic ans dr»*n ;t . the cou; • b.ood-c otored ct d ap dead tor stx days, were found »? 'rs TT* *- tj?T> dr narfmont ts bAiV—d -.a •-kite a na-tive for the crime or i dew tu the iBWdenets Dr. E3*z~C S. Cowles Arrested, ctssfweu "Mat it—To bis own testi jtoey pit a a: Mm* rec‘-at court har tal «•! Paya»artt-c Oprp i* jr - v ' - >: \ ;; -tolurntt. r 5 X. st the Chari. wn M' J=rd. !»r Kdmard j; Comtes mo his arrest us an indie.a -at mar -an: chardns tia. *• b ;>ra« Heirs necKier- T-ttb 'it i-fSnp 'vjn.-ierr d Scuba's Oiujrter is Divc—ra Btw. Mar. I*—lie dab Btnbbf. Sun b rtaei nnd*rlnnd. on tbe crouaad* of croetty. leered *m a lb ream. Tulsa. Obh*. Var IT - Mr* l». T Conus » of the eovcrn t-* ,:g..nst the S'. • dard Oil cor poration of New Jersey. ’■> •■n ...tons' b viy will r ader :ht * ore ■::«« ns derision that will ■ r perpetuate the great Korkt te} ' i ,011.1 or else dismember it. s a f.r ’hat the court will make kit. ' .. tenii good pleasure. , CSos-vg Arguments Are Bitter. Th«- , u... • _ arc :r..-:>ts in the <:tse • re h-tter charges to be made in the . r<.- M-e of the suprerre court—bitter .;*■ • t par; of both the government and the corporation Attorney Gen r..i \V,< kersl am the highest law of • nat-.i bes ght the court ‘Toot p this gigantic monopoly t.at tl.teatens tim very life of the ua " and to ’tear from it the fruits of its . :id ' v •. > John (I. Johnson, ae ■ lim. .: •!> greatest corporation law yer t. 'he land, charged the (tovern r:et t wit! the- attempted confiscation ol a -tt< at property b..i!t t:p by imius trr. •' rg> end. he declared. with honesty That to dissolve the holding corpora ’ :t t N'cu Jersev would be the con Standard Oil ■ -riv was the one leading conten •ior. ot the • ■orporalion’s lawyer. D T V’at.-o' argued that in concluding i is -neerh ji d Mr. Johnson, who - d he are u nt. dwell upon it at ler.c- \!so. both contended that the Sh-tman act does not and that con eress cannot limit the amount of i wealth an h stitution may accumulate. ■ r ’h that is ;o be made of that w ealth. TAX CASE ARGUMENT BEGUN O-atcricai Battle Is On Before United Strtes Supreme Court on Tariff Law Provision. " ■' - Mur Is Tic supreme owt of the I'nlted States was the -tag- of .mother titanic legal contest x hen *>.e tight over theconst itutional a' the corporation t.ix provisions i ' ’ I'v X drich tnriff low was Iks ! guts. Tit contest is uttnttiug almost as Ult»ch attention ;.s the Standard Oil ..sjo nK'u ecse. heard in th<- court »arlit i in -hr »iil T:‘ rases involving the question >>f tie- validity of the tax hare been * ..it far final judg ment X I were aux-mced for an early !. arms and consolidated in order to avoid givi:.g 1:, days to the subjert, wunh « uld ba\>' Icon necessary if each ts»* bad mv» luard separately. a - s foi Fighting Top of Maine. V ■ V irk. Mar. is Petitions are ; ’•> • g cit> a la ted in Jersey City urging <>»n£!ess to Hare the wreck of the ' a.tie rais d and asking that the util ary iv.ist and lighting top of the bat ■ ship Is- sent to Jersey City tor er» -u; u a pro ived military park Jealous Man Kills Wife. Tuscola. HU Mar 18 -Zina t'ut wrsln »f Mount Mark- i> in jaii here charred with shooting and kii'ing his wife n a room at the Peach house bee 'c-Kiusy is said to have prompt, ed hint t« take her life Robfcer Snoot* Three Men. Bast St lamb*. HL. Mar 18 - WR l an O'Brien was shot in « revolver duel with two policemen after be had >' ct r.nd rerku -ly injures! thus mon. in robbing wa ;»’uoaa ard is dy ing • of his -ounds ROOSEVELT FAMILY LEAVE FOR NORTH Takes Special Train Cat cf Khcrtum After Tv*o Days of Sight seeirg. XI rrum. Mar. lv—Co! Theodore R.-o-t veit. accompanied by his wife, v. r::.it and .Miss Ethel. left here on a special train for the north. After two days of sightseeing the i ..el tuned resolutely early in the .ay to tiic work that htid been piling up b- lore hint and gave over the whole ■'< eroon ir writing. The answering of his correspond ence alone is a task that might dis couragt one less energetic, atsd in ad lit :cn to this the finishing touches re mained to be put on several addresses, while there uss other work of a lit erary character to be done. For sev eral hours the former president la bored away undisturbed In the afternoon, however. Col. Mo,>.>■ veil again-joined his friends At I 1. .It) o'clock he had the other rr.eru beis of the expedition with him at | luncheon iu the sirdar's palace, where the Roosevelts have been made cotn : tenable. At three o'clock he attended a gar den party at the Grand hotel. On this occasion the band of the Thirteenth t Sudanese regiment furnished music | and a party of natives danced. The entertainment proved enjoy able to the Americans, who included i Mis Roosevelt and her son and daugh ter Later in the afternoon Col. Roosevelt visited the Egyptian offi cers' club. CARNEGIE TO SEE COMET One of Party Which Started for Ob servatory on Summit of Mount Wilson. California. Pasadena. Cal.. Mar. IS.—Andrew Carnegie, accompanied by Mrs. Car negie and daughter; George E. Hale, director of the Carnegie Solar observa tory; Dr. ,1. A. It. Scherer, president of Throop institute; Dr. H. F. Pritch ett. president of the Carnegie Founda tion; Horace White, editor of the New York Evening Post, aud Samuel Itarr of l*ittsburg started on a wagon trip to the summit of Mount Wilson. feet above sea level. The Carnegie Solar observatory, which is a part of the Carnegie In stitution in Washington, is located on the top of the mountain. The most interesting feature of the trip will lie a peep at Halley's comet through the big lens. The party will spend two days on the mountain. TEACHERS ~ LOSE ON PAY New York Board of Education Votes Down Women's Petition for an Inc'-ease. Now York. Mar. IS.—"Equal pay for equal work.” the cause of woman teachers in the public schools, has been defeated in the board of educa tion by a vote of S3 to lk. Of the four woman members of the board, three voted against their sisters. Both sides look upon the derision as final, for both had urged that the matter be settled once for all at the special meeting called for the purpose SAM LANGFORD WHIPS FYLNN Colored Pugilist Knocks Out His Op ponent in Eight Rounds at Los Angelas. lavs Angeles. Cal.. Mar. 1$. -Sam Langford, the colored fighter, knocked out Jim Flynn In the eighth round of their scheduled 411-round contest in Jeffries pavilion at Vernon Although Flynn put up a game fight in every round the black man showed his superiority over his white an (agonist at all stages of the gait:*. Girts Riot in Reformatory. lies Moines, la.. Mar 17.—A riot started by 30 girls at the state re formatory at Mitchell rill* was quiet.>4 w hen eight ringleader* were arrested. The girl* declared Miss Harrison has taken away every privilege granted them by her predecessor in chart*. TAFT ISIN CHICAGO PRESIDENT MAKES IMPORTANT ADDRESS ON CONSERVATION AND THE TARIFF. IRISH CITIZENS HIS HOSTS Visit of Chief Executive Occasion for Memorable Observance of St. Pat rick's Day—Is Honored 2t Recep tions and Banquets. Chicago. Mar. IT—With President Taft as a guest of the city. Si. Pat rick's day in Chicago will go down in the annals as one long to be remem bered by the Irish Fellowship club which claimed the greater share of the chief executive's attention after his arrival at eight o'clock this morn ing. President Taft came into the city on a private car attached to a Penn sylvania train. He left the car at the Thirty-third street station where a great crowd had gathered to greet him. As the president stepped to the platform of the car. the celebrated Taft smile showing, the crowd sent up a roaring cheer, which caused the smile to broaden. Old friends rushed forward to shake the presidential hand. The police and soldiers quickly cleared a pathway for the president and members of his party, and they were led to waning automobiles. Bands Play Irish Airs. The sons and daughters of old Erin have been plauning for weeks their greeting to the president and all along the line of march to the hotel the president was greeted by bands playing Irish airs, waving of the stars and stripes and green flags and a dis play of shamrocks. rise Seventh regim tit. Illinois Na tional Guard. Chicago's crack Irish reg inient. acted as the escort from the station to the Hotel I.a Salle. The president's flag was waving from the hotel flag pole ns the Taft auto drew up at the curb. Secret serv ice r.’.en were everywhere, and scores of detectives were in the crowd that was held back by bluer oats and sol diers. Talks on the Tariff. The president rested in his apart rner.ts. received visits front personal friends, state, city and national offi cials. and at 12: SO was guest at a luncheon in the hotel, given by E. M Hines, chairman of the presidential reception committee. In an address at the luncheon the president talked on the tariff. Shortly before three he again en tered an automobile and was whirled to the Auditorium, where he spoke to a crowd that jammed the great as sembly ball. The president talked of conservation of the natural resources and his hearers were not long in dis covering that the 'policy of Theodore Roosevelt on the great national ques tion is still that of President Taft. The Ballinger-Pinchot quarrel, which re sulted in the ousting of the latter and a congressional probe of the methods of the former gave the president op portunity of saying some pointed things about his plans for the future and what already has been done Receptions and Banquet. Following his speech the president was hurried to the Hamilton club, where a reception in his honor was held. Then he was whisked back to the Hotel Er. Salle in the big auto and the Irish Fellowship club of Chicago gave a reception for him. This was followed at sis o'clock by a banquet at the hotel, given by the Irish Fellowship club. Here the president delivered another address RIOTS RENEWED IN BOGOTA Serious Mob Violence Follows an At tempt to Resume Street Rail way Service. Bogota. Colombia. Mar. IS.— \n at tempt to renew tbe street railway service caused serious rioting, which is still iu progress Thus far toe mob has respected the American legation. which is under police guard. The Colombians employed by the American company owning the rail way system are in serious danger. The homes of the employes and the offices in which some of them have headquarters were stoned during the day and much damage was done The Bogota City Railway Company Is composed of Americans, who re ceived a concession from former presi dent Reyes. The grauttng of the cor. cession proved unpopular. CAR PEACE NOT IN SIGHT But Little Effort Is Made at Phila delphia to Settle Traction Troubles. Philadelphia. Mar. IS Peace ceg\s tiatious in the street car strike arc still dragging wearily along Transit officials are making but weak efforts to settle the trouble, while the union men announce that unless peace is reached by Monday the statewide strike will be declared Vote Fund to Lift Maine Wreck. Washington. Mar. Id—The house committee on naval affairs, acting on a recommendation from the navy dc par:ment that the wreck of the battle ship Maine constitutes a menace to ’navigation In the harbor of Havana. Cuba, voted unanimously tor the Loud blU, which provides an appropriation of gfW.OOO tor the raising of the wreck. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Paris judges have ordered Anna Gould to pay a lump sum of to the parents of Count Boni de Castel ane. and also a $5,600 annuity Mrs. Hetty Green is reported to have given to the Christopher Colum bus university in New York city a plot or land worth $500,000. The report is : not verified. VY. Frank Wilson of Buffalo. N. Y.. assistant general manager of the New York Central Railroad Company's fast-fn ight lines, died suddenly on a train near Ctica. N. Y. F. M. Baker, formerly a non-com missioned officer in the marine corps. ; has been discharged dishonorably from the navy for deserting to join Aguinaldo's Filipino army. A manual of economy in cooking | the cheapest cuts of meat has been prepared by the depan mem of agricul ture at Washington and may be tad by housewives for the asking. One of the two American woman tourists in the holy land w ho were shot by a fanatical Afghan, has lost an eye. The Afghan, who has been arrested, has confessed the attack. Sixty million gallons of water will be drained from a reservoir at Yon kors, N. Y„ to discover whether a body is hidden there or whether a note describing a suicide was a hoax Beth Lawson, fishing from a skiff off the ocean end of the San Pedro (Cal > breakwater, hooked a 6o-foot brown whale, which later made for the open sea. carrying pole and line with it. Walter Phelps Dodge, millionaire New York lawyer, who married Helen Steck of Pittsburg. Pa., in London .Ian uary 3. is to emulate William Waider: Astor and shake the dust of America from his feet forever. Announcement has been made at Mexico City of the appointmen; ol Paul Morton, president of the Equit able Life Assurance Company, as vice president of the Pan-American rail road, with heaquarters in New York Commodore Hovgaard. the Danish Arctic explorer is dead He was prom inent in the plans to honor Dr Fred eriek A. Cook upon his recent visil to Copenhagen and was one of the fi'-st to credit the claims of the Amer ican. rending the announcement ci th« secret verdict in the death inquiry a Manila, P. I., the widow of Lieut Clarence M Jannev has been request cU by the authorities to defer hot return to America. She will testify at the inquest. in a statement at Detroit. V.h. Rev. Newell Dwight Hiilis of Brook Ij'n. N Y.. says Speaker t'. ancn it the most unpopular man in the eoun try to-day," and that Taft will "fal lamentably with weights like Cannot Aldrich tied to his feet.” King Victor Emmanuel w ill be rep resented at the international expos* tion s»i Buenos Ayres by the duke © the Abruxxi. who will sail In Apr! aboard a battleship, either the Rev.', or the Pisa. On the homeward trij the duke probably will vis-.t the I'niiev States. PACKER “PLEADS NOT GUILT* Lemuel B. Patterson. Vice-President of National Packing Company. Released on $7,500 Bond. New York. Mar. 1?.—Lemuel B l'at terson of Chicago, one of the indicted members of the beef trust, viee-presi 1 dent of the National Packing Com pany. voluntarily surrendered himself to the court of common pleas of Hud son county. New Jersey, and pleaded not guilty to the indictment charging him w ith conspiracy to manipulate the price of foodstuffs. He reserved the right to change the nlea or demur, and was released on bail. The voluntary appearance of Mr Patterson was taken by the Jersey City authorities to indicate the inter* tion of the other Chicago beef million Hires who were' indicted to surrender to the New Jersey courts. Leap xc* Ltwjpx Knobel. Ark,. Mar. IT.—Four pop so«s were injured in jumping from ' the upper windows of the iron Mown tain hotel to escape death from ire THE MARKETS. \ Y ' t.ivi: stock st.ni p : n • v u»k* Sleep . ..... >1" io» ■ Kt.OVK Winter St r» Is his S 2" |i . V WIIKAT May .... t «\>i:n m.« phn <* ■ i its Natural Whtl 5“ a Wl HTK N « ■ " «*e: lil'TTKU Orenmetx »< ROOS . At II SI OltKKSK * *• B OHICAOvA I x'ATTl.K Prime S’, err . .« i s 3 IX .hum !>• 0"e.t Xexx* O' < * <»' i\>*s plain i«> Knaex »>' n t » Oh.xioe Heifers . •• 'A' t» * . »*alvv« . •« a ti'' *' HiHtS Prime Heavy l - » 'A Medium We»*m Hut ’ ■ d p»»* h " »* ” t'1 m'TTKK t's am. r\ . ** 1 ? ; Ivvtrx - ’ * 1 IVK laM l.TltV J? !» K KOOS . . ’• t* — i otaToKj^ b’u.» v* 1 n.vM'K Spins e-i.S| *A ;• * *' j OR.VIN Wheat. Max l '-x t t v'ern Max - I Is vials Standard J* r Kye . . w « * ; KANSAS y'lT\ ttlt AIN Wheat. Nw ; Hard It m * IU ; V.v i Ret „ I h » IS vvm Nxv s White . C 1 «CS 0*t*. Nxs S White . « (I £ Kx.x .. Ti * w I ST l.Ot'IS. v'.aTTUK Native Steers * A jsV ] Te\a* S'>*rr* i* tJ If HvVtS |x».Aer» ... hi te »Jx> ,t R«teh*r* .. tew *. h' S' . t' fthti , £HSKP Wether* T M (ON 1 NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS, State News and Notes in Condensed Form. Lyons farmers are of E'.ks have decided to erect a business, building. The Hastings Country club has been reorganized for he •-on: ir.g club year. The Peru . acnir.g factory has just been reorganized w. h au authorized capital of Slt'.OfH*. Sutton is circulatit.g a petit on ask* ing that water works bonds >. voted oi: a: the spring elections. Ben Cherrington of Omaha has be- a selected as coach for th» Sta e Uni versity Cornhusker track team. The grand jury a: Wesson is trees* tigating alleged infractions of the $ o'clock closing law at that place. The new Lir.dell hotel at Lincoln was opened with some ceremony Tues day. after a long siege of remodeling The southwestern Nebraska checker association held a tournament at Ed - son last week with twenty-two o: restarts. The Auburn Christian church has decided to, erect a Stic chur, h building, and work will be begun as soon as pos'sihh About thirty thousand' brook art! rainbow- trout have been placed in the Blackbird creek, near l.y».ns by the state fishery d- parttr.cn Reports from large w ii-su growers in the neighborhood of Kearney are to the effect that Vrt per cent of the winter wheat has been fro.en. The stone from the shipmates of Harold Medley, who died while in the navy, has reached Peru and will bo placed r.t the head of Ms grave. Chancellor Davidson or the Wes leyan university at Lincoln has start »-d on a lecture tour of the state, to comprise a twelve hundred mile trip The committee in charge are mak ing every arrangement ;o outdo all termer enorts at tne no«stnu . xpo si;kn to be held at th. auti:.onium ’.a Lincoln in May. The Missouri Valley M. dtea! asso ciation is try;r.< to locate Or. Cook ©: Amit fame, that it tray deliver cor gratnlatory resolutions adopt -4 at a meet ins; some time aye tleorjse Rorrell of Hastings has sold a half-section of laud to Fred Grot hen for $ I0,ft9ii This is otic of the most notable real estate transfers ever re corded tr. Adams county. A contribution hex for the poor, hearing the inscription. "Of Thine Have MV Given Thee." was stolen • day Iron S sida'ene's Catholic chnrrk at Omaha. Joseph H. Slum, alias McCarthy, who was serving a five year sentence in the penitentiary for ctnberiStrjt funds of the estate of the late Helen Horn a; Lincoln. died of ty rhotd fever. The seventeenth animal session of the Suutheua era N Rduca tiowal association will V held in Rea ’rice March 5ft. 51 and April 1. Many prominent educators of the state w.11 appear. From "O.rtftft to $5.0*0 har-els of ce ment. equal to $t*ft or Soft carloads, was consumed in Lincoln last year, a eordius to the estimate of a firm which handles lam. quantities of that article. When Sheriff Hoacland of l-ancas ter connty went to his barn the other morninc he found that every strap of his harness had been stolen Thieves had sa:n.d entrance through the lame doors. which were hooked on the in side. Correspondence has been star ed by the Lincoln Traction company with posimuaters. business men and farm ers in and around nine towns alone the route of the company's propos.-d internrhan electric line coaueettan Lincoln with Auburn. The Smithson:an ins. tu:«- at Wash ingtoti needs a tinner and a tinner * assistant, ar.d the chance is o^rno for tody tr. Nebraska who would 11 to work in the establishingnt t'tvii service examinations tor the two places will be he'd on March So at Lincoln, Otnaha, Grand Is'and, Noe folk and North Platte. It appears to be the opin',; at wl the majority of farmer* in Johnson county that the wheat crop is badly damaged Fields that looked nice a few days aco are now btxrwn and dry While there are' some holds of good wheat, it will invariably be found upon new ground. That upon the old ground has practically all been kilted Some days ago Mrs C. A Sweet of Palmyra was bitten in the hands by » tn't svptirtx'l of one of the mem hers of the family. The squirrel acted so quecrly that its head was seat to the Fas.cur institute for examination and on receiving their report. Mrs. Swce went to t'htcago to reveivv thetr treatment This is the second ease of persons w ho feared rabies, that have gone to t'hhuso within the past vear At a luncheon ,\' directors of the Kearnev commercial chib a watt mite tee of th"ee was appointed to send a resolution. similar to the oae adopted by .he One ha club, pry testing agains the advance in freight Tata's on dre>>cd meats shipped west of Otua ha The committee was mstm-ted to aev at once, sending a copy of the rv'svvl.uk'vs to the commercial cfnb in Omaha and to the railroad bead quarters. The committee ut the kva tbrn nf new' Indus.-Vs was tnstmnted to do ail it could la securing the Hah hatchery, hr wV,h fSMht has just •on rppcvH'rtated.