Loup City Northwestern VQI.l Mi: XXVIII. LOUP CITY NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , MAY 19, 1910. _~~ NUMBER 28. IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK LATEST -A.PPES NC.S THE WORLD OVEN TOLD Ik ITEMIZED FOkM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE C*-^*-*aew l-t* m Fe» Lnw fvr thm k*-M*a. a* tna •-«. Man— Lm: Riiaunk Infjr PEkSOkAL The* *b« Shakespeare** asd run tcr actor. who gate tcp W*»< !h«l U4 Barren, a senoasty * a fccwwit fco^sal New Tork. Paymaster G*«f» PerelvaJ Add of t’f-d Sr« marts* corps. who •o pehBc Ktit* far harts* ■ Dr E 8 CowAea « a saiy iis-* ta*t December 5* to marry Mm# Mac*ii»e Swift day*fct*r ctf Rear Admiral WsHtam Swift. CSX. retired, asst mosth. at Trtkhfiaa, D C 3* the — ’ini at Stamford. Cobs. f Miss Em-fy Brews. a school tract «. te Normas. Prwat. nda a root st; Bklrt >*aa before the Otfl war. tit f«o S* x* sweetheart* wbe* Ptv •**: eaRsool is the oalao army. PspBTtii published ts Paris ard else where Thai Princess Jsliaxa. ~H©3h '-mx£* baby." »u arrians^ UL are d» ;ss*d by -he tact that the mother. - tees Wilhehsfaa. 'oak tbs little aae for a 4 -;ift was carried from the death ~iiimhi r tc the throce room off Buck ‘.ts .» ;thce. where be will Be ia rrsrste state. T *t hn-dred monkeys, a part off the cargo of tie taer Graf Waldereee. whack ha* reached Xew York from liaateef*. are rens gned to the Rocke 'HBer XsUtade where they are tt» he uaad for »nperim* ntaaoa ' FO»*-tem fTaie a chestnut roit four .gears old Woolttarj«e-r**fctenable warn the Oeu-agotitaa handicap at Bel meat Park. New York. Prince Im r-ertai was seeate Jack Atkla. bird The t at. 1 17 H. warn the fastest ■“ter tete* by a wikner X this exeat ClarcBte s Barrow at Chicago said at *te conference X the aatlonal ne gro eosasfttra X Xew York that raca ia Sga rag lea would Xu the negro prcbPtR. .„ • 1st spec:** pi:: jury at t : capo which to to*e*a*stirs* the Urbery *:Mtof eonaected with the eleetioa at retted Suit Senator Uruser has besua csesxioaiac KepuhHcm* tae m ktn ad the state kfUtetsrt who rated for Mr Uortmer wbea the deadlock waa broke* at SprinsSeld Tahiti* Irma the aboaiden of Secre tary B»I iM*t ah the bias* (or the Hear ttottaf' at the C nnclccfcam Alaska coal ria.aw. H H Schwartz, rhtof td the Seid serrice ta the tts era! land «Sre. lock the entire rwspaa r.tRWy at the traas? ttoa be rare the r A sens* as Heinz* was acquitted ta New York at charset at auaappiy i* the foads at the Mercantile Na th* taaotatton la 1M7. aad he was ieares cd the chars* <* o» er-certify - :ac the check* af kto brother's trm. One Hears* k Oa Mr* Vary Fneod. Mrs Caroline a Martin and Miss Virginia, aged sis 1>T*. were placed on trial in Newark. N J, charged with the murder oi Ocey W Snead, the daughter of the first named, who was found dead in a hath tub last November. The Nutlonal Association of Manu facturers met in New York to dis ' uss 'he prevention of accidents in industrial establishments, employers' liability aad Industrial Insurance. The biggest convention of Socialists ever held In the United States opened :» Chicago w:-h delegates present from every state and territory and from Europe. The seventh annual session of the National Conference on Education of Hacks ard. Truant. Delinquent and De ;»od-ct Children began in 8h Louis !?y a vote of ST to Id the senate at Wasting-on adopted a modifiei fora of the Dixon long and short haul amendment to the railroad bill. The amendment represents the combined efc-ns of Republican. Democratic and Insurgent lewder* A hill to authorize the United Stales Steel corporation to reclaim hundreds of acres of the submerged bed of Lake Mich.gas at Gary. Ind. and to extend a series of gigantic docks T..CM feet into navigable waters passed the senate at Washington. U •t still pending in the bouse An inspection of terminal property at Port St Joe. Fla, by New York Central officials leads to the belief that the railroad is planning a south 's’ re line to handle Panama traffic when the canal is finished Tieodcce Roos-rv- r. ffriitewd a lec ture cw “Tie World Movement" at tbe Cmversity off Berlin and received from tbe university tbe honorary degree of doctor off philosophy. Emperor Wil iam hocored tbe occasion with his presence It was the first time that ha majesty had pared a conferment and the courtesy was significant la view off the fact that the German court Is in mourning far the monarch's ancle. King Edward. A buIK fired at thieves la Philadel phia by a polireman s'ruck a trolley pole, glanced off and killed John Gal lon. forty-«iv years ©Id Bandits masked and mounted, blew tbe post office safe at Mount Pleas ant Mich, securing j; 00ft is stamps and money and terror:;.n; the entire town. John D Rockefeller, always popular uu«g th- people off Tarrytown. X. Y . a here be tires. Is adding to that pop ularity this spring by his fondness ‘or taking his friends and neighbors oat driving Not a pleasant day goes by without tbe oil king Inviting some aff them men women and children, to nde with kiss la automobile or car nage. and it Is safe to say that the ln ifiith— are se.dom declined, for bis vehicles are the best to be had. and the drives around Tarrytown are beau tiful Mr. Rockefeller, before starting ’or a ride, always dans a paper vest, de claring It a great protection against colds, and he insists that his guests do tbe same. After the ride he refuses to lake back tbe garments, and conse quently to nearly every home in Tarry town may be frond a paper vest pre served as a souvenir of a delightful ride with the culU-mESionaire. Throwing rings at knives or canes at country fairs or other places of amusement is not gambling within tfie law. but a test of skill, according to an opinion issued at Albany by the attorney general of New York state. Kenosha. Wis. has followed the ex ample of Chicago and has appointed a woman to head its public school sys tem. the hoard of education selecting Mrs Mary D trad ford, now in charge off the teachers training college of the state normal school at Whitewater. An explosion in the Wellington coal mine at Whitehaven. England, cut off the exit from the 125 miners who sere w or lung below the surface. Rescue parties succeeded In saving four men who had been working at the bottom of the shaft. Rocking the boat to fr.ghten the girls caused the drowning of six girls and tso boys out of a party of 12 on an old mill dam at Huntington Mills, a country tillage 15 miles from Wilkesbarre. Pa. The four who es raped are boys and they got to the shore exhausted after a vain effort to save tbe girls. me new *-.ory omce Du:.a:ng oi The Brotherhood of Locomotive Etgl ceers Is Cleveland. O, was dedl rated, n.acy prominent un.on labor leaders and about 4 convention Mrs Ella S Stewart, wife of ex-na tional chairman of the party. Oliver W Stewart, was nominated for trustee ol the state university Coincident with the celebration ot pis eighty-fifth birthday. Professoi George Laridson. the California scien (1st and author, has recovered hit sight, after being totally blind for al most s year Colonel Roosevelt's voice showed th< elect of the strain he has been snb Jeering himself to. and which resulted in a severe case of bronchitis, when h< delivered his lecture on "The Worlt Movement" at the University of Ber tin. Mr. Roosevelt was unable to glv< • he clear and distinct enunciation at ; harocteristlc of him. The entire northeastern part of Min pesots is smoldering mad smoking east timbered areas in Wisconsin art being swept by flames, several village) Kkreateaed with destruction mat losses seem Inevitable from for DELEGATES FROM OVER THE STATE GATHER AT OMAHA. _ HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE; What Is Going on Hero and There That la of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Ne braska. Omaha. Neb.—Delegates from all over the state, representing the sev eral councils of the Knights of Colum bus in Nebraska, met Tuesday morn ing in Knights of Columbus hall in the board of trade building, for the annual state convention. The gathering s as presided over by State Deputy Arthur F. Million of j Lincoln and the various district depu ties and state officers made their re ports for the year. Officers sere elected as follows; Arthur P Mullen, O'Neill, state dep uty; Mark Burke. Columbus, secre tary; Joseph H Schmidt. Omaha, treasurer: James McNulty. Wvmore. warden; Frank Beal. North Platte ad vocate; Rev. William Wlndorf. Creigh ton. chaplain; W. E. Straube. Lin coln. delegate to the national conven tion Omaha was attocted as the place for holding the next convention. ———— Next Meeting at Lincoln. Fremont. Neb—The convention of the grand lodge of tie K of K. in Fre mont came to a close Wednesday afternoon with the installation of of fleers, which were elected just before the noon adjournment, are as follows: Grand chancellor. Will I. Allen of . Schuyler: grand v .re chancellor. J. W. Long of Loup City; grand prelate. J. F Madgett of Hastings; grand keeper of records and seals Will H. Love of Lincoln; grand master of exchequer. John B. Wright of Tjncoln. grand mas , ter a: arms. J W Fetter of Norfolk; grand inner guard. W. S. Pettit of I Fairbury. grand outer guard. J. M. Lumbers of Decatur; grand trustee, three years. Leo Lowenberg of Fre mont. Mrs. Minerva Bushnell of Fremont received the highest honors that can be conferred by the Pythian Sisters in her election to the office of grand chief, The vote was unanimous. Fallowing are the officers elected by ; the Sisters: Grand chief. Minerva Bushnell. Fremont; grand senior. Lena Lamb. Omaha; grand manager. Mrs. Wilson. Broken Bow; grand matron of records and correspondence, Mary j Stoddard. Auburn; grand matron of finance. Ada Leyda. Falls City; grand protector. Mrs Allen. Schuyler; grand guard. Miss Deles Denier. Elmwood. Four Stores at Daykin Robbed. Fairbury. Neb.—At an early hour Wednesday morning four stores In Daykin. a little town In Jefferson county, eighteen miles northwest of this place, were broken into, but the robbers failed to get away with much. The list comprised two general stores, one owned by E. Hemenover and the othey by Empy £ Sanders; a drug store owned by Robert Christian and a hardware store operated by Apking £ Hummel. A hurried invoice was taken and all that was found to be missing was a few revolvers from the hardware store. The robbers left no clue. _____ Found Dead In His Officu. York. Neb.—Frank B. Daggy was found dead in his office at an early hour Tuesday morning, having hanged himself. A note written by him said; "See Evening News for statement." Not coming home at the usual hour his wife became alarmed and sent the son to search for him. He had driven two large spikes over the door, at tached a rope and slipped off a chair, life being extinct when the body was cut down. No inquest will be held. Mr. Daggy had been in poor health for years. He was sixty-two years of age and leaves a wife and son. He came to York and went into business in 1STS. Compulsory Attendance Law Arrest. Fremont, Neb.—The first arrest un der the compulsory attendance law was made Tuesday on complaint filed I by County Superintendent Matzen at , the request of Superintendent Water house against W. U Lisk and wife. The defendants are parents of a ten ' year-old girl, who is not attending school, according to the statement of i the city superintendent. Planning New Court House. Hoidrege. Neb.—The county board of supervisors met Tuesday in sptecial session and made disposition of gev j eral matters in connection with the ( erection of the new court house. I Architect W. F. Gernandt of Fairbury was in attendance and went over the plans of the structure with the county oScial;. Work will start very soon. — Preparing for Convention. Beatrice. Neb.—President B. H. Be gole of the Commercial ciub has ap pointed committees to solicit funds for the pmrpoae of defraying the expenses nf the state Sunday school convention to be held in Beatrice Jane 7. 8 and 9. The program for the convention is oow out. Three international workers will be present, Mrs. Mary Foster Bry ner, elementary superintendent; Wil liam A. Brown, missionary superin tendent. and W. D. Stem, the* adult class worker. NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS. State News and Notes in Condensed Form. Robert Moakler. a Fremont boy, died at Los Angeles. CaL The body will be brought to Fremont for inter ment. Four hundred acres of land owned by M. D. Haddox, four miles northwest of Chapman, was sold to W. M. Colton . 'or York for f 40.000. There are but two cases of typhoid ; fever at the institution for feeble ; minded youth at Beatrice at the pres- j ?nt time, according to Superintendent G. L. Roe. The funeral of Mrs. Charles Phillips, j who died Sunday morning at Kearney, was held at the home of her parents. ; Mr. and Mrs. C. P- Lindercrantx, in Holdrege. snenn uauman oi rremont receivea a telegram from the chief of police at j Cedar Rapids. Ia.. stating that Clar- | enee Waite. «anted at Fremont on a j charge of grand larceny, is under ar- j rest there. Programs and invitations have Just been issued for the 1910 commence ment exercises of the Central City high school. The class is composed this year of eighteen members, twelve girls and six boys. On the night of February 2. 1910. j the court house of Chase county was ' destroyed by lire, and on Tuesday, i May S. 1910. the county voted bonds tor $25,000 for the purpose of erecting a new county building. A sub-station of the United States ’ weather bureau will soon be estab lished at Hastings college. Flags will be displayed daily to indicate changes in the weather. Daily observations of temperature, wind velocity and precip itation will also be made and reported to section headquarters at Lincoln. C. J. McCall's barber shop burned at Loup City Thursday night. The building belonged to George Wove-; nick. Both the building and contents were entirely destroyed, but both j were well covered by insurance. The absence of wind and prompt work on the part of tha fire department con fined the flames to the one building. Rev. William J. Riggs, astronomical Instructor at Cretghton university, an nounced Thursday that computations from observations of Halley’s comet1 made recently, show that the tall is j fully eighteen million miles in length and that it will not only envelop the earth when the comet passes on Mas 19. but will extend four million miles beyond. C. M. Linn’s elevator and its con tents at St Mary burned to the ground about midnight Wednesday night The cause of the fire Is unknown, though i It is thought It was from a spark from a passing Burlington locomotive. The elevator was worth $5,000 and wm built In 1SS5. The contents included ! 6,000 bushels of com and some 600 or TOO bushels of oats, machinery, etc. Julia Corcoran of York died Thurs day morning, aged seventy-three years. She came to York with her husband Patrick Corcoran, who survives her. thirty-two years ago. The children who survive her are: George, judge of the district court: Daniel, editor of the Democrat; Mrs. J. P. Nugent. Chicago; Mrs. J. J. Keefe of Lincoln, and Miss Mary Corcoran, who resides at home. Tecumseh claims to have the young, est civil war veteran in Nebraska in William I. Philpott. who was not yet sixteen years of age when the war closed, but saw practically two enlist ments. totaling nineteen months in that struggle. Mr. Philpott was sixty one years old on April 22 and cele brated his birthday by joining the G A. R., of which he had never before become a member. Earl Roberts of Beaver City, an amateur chauffeur, overturned a new car which he was running at a speed of fifty miles an hour and he and a companion escaped with slight in juries. The machine was being tried out for the first time and Roberts lost control on a steep hill and tc avoid coming in contact with a team turned, striking a bank. The car was badly wrecked. Ex-Senator w. \. Allen of Madison will be the orator of the day Memorial day in Omaha. The general commit tee met in the city hall Monday even ing and arranged the final details fot the observance. It has been decided to carry out the ritual services at the several cemeteries this year over ac tual graves instead of as heretofore Derforming a meaningless ceremony at “the unknown grave.” The thirty-sixth annual meeting ol the Nebraska Homeopathic Medical society sill be held in Lincoln at the New Lindell hotel. May 25 and 26. The day meetings will begin at 9:30 a. m., and will last through both fore noon and afternoon of each day. Lin coin physicians wftl give a banquet May 26 at 6:30 p. m. to visiting at tendants at the New Lindell. Dr. F. A. Marsh of Seward is president and F. S. Whitman of Omaha is cor responding secretary. A rather lengthy program has been prepared. A special census taken by Franklin citizens to check np the work of cen sus bureau enumerators, just complet ed. shows that town to have L005 in habitants. This is a growth of more than 250 in ten years. The greater ; part of the growth has been in the past three or four years. While working with four horses on a disc at his farm east of Fremont, former Representative Joseph Roberts had a runaway in which one of the horses wss killed and two others badly hurt Mr. Roberts escaped without injury. STEAMER SINKS; 13 DROWNED MISSISSIPPI RIVER PACKET STRIKES A HIDDEN ROCK. Boat Carrying Fifty-Seven Person* Goes Down Within Reach of Land. St Louis.—By the sinking of the steamship City of Saltillo In the Mis sissippi river at Glen Park. Mo. Wednesday night when the boat was hurled against a hidden rock by tbe swift current 13 persons, seven of whom were passengers, lost their lives. Glen Park is 24 miles south of St Louis. The boat carried 2? passengers, most of whom were women and chil dren. and a crew of 30. She left St Louts at seven o'clock, with a heavy cargo, including a rumber of cattle and live stock, and the voyage was considered precarious because of the amount of driftwood floating in the river, due to the annual spring rise. Shortly before reaching Glen Park the Saltillo encountered a shoreward draw, which was fought frantically by the pilots. The engines were reversed, but the eSorta to prevent the col lision were unavailing. With the noise of rending timbers and the shrieks of the women sad children passengers, the cries of tbe crew, and the bellowing of the cattia, the vessel struck a hidden rock and sunk In reach of land, at a point where the water was 20 feet deep. Passengers and members of the crew clung to the timbers, while those more fortunate lent their aid immedi ately to the rescue of the helpless. The majority of the passengers wera in their cabins. The collision came as suddenly they were plunged into the water before they knew what bad happened. BANDITS “SHOOT UP” TOWN Rob Mount Pleasant (Mich.) Poet Office of $3,000 in Cash and Stamps and Escape. Saginaw. Mich.—Bandits, masked and mounted. Thursday blew the peat office safe at Mount Pleasant, a city of $.000. securing $3,000 la stamps and money and terrorising tbe entire town. The robbers, numbering seven or eight, are believed to have hatted near the south limits unttl their plans were complete, when they rode through the main street tn old-time border fash ion. shooting and shouting. Secret service men took up the trail and it to believed that arrests are Imminent. The post office often contains as high as $10,000 tn cash and stamps. The police believe the post office safe had been blown and rifled before the robbers began shooting and that they would have made their escape less spectacularly had It not been for the noise made by the explosion of nitroglycerin. This caused several men to start an investigation and as soon as they appeared the reign of terror began. Tbe fusillade of shots fired by the men as they endeavored to cover their escape so confused those In authority that It was subsequently impossible to discover whether the bandits had turned their horses loose outside the town and escaped on the train that passed half an hour after the explo sion. or whether they rode away on their own mounts. HAYTI SHAKEN BY QUAKE Many Persons Reported Killed and Injured at Puerta Plata, San Domingo. San Jose. Costa Rica.—Heavy earth quakes were felt here Wednesday. Thousands of persons are leaving the city in alarm. Santo Domingo.—A severe earth quake shock was felt here Wednesday. There was no loss of life nor damage to property in the city. Puerta Plata. San Domingo.—An earthquake which caused a panic among residents here Wednesday is reported to have resulted in heavy loss of life and damage to property in towns in the interior. Many persons are reported to have been killed and many more injured. Only vague reports have come In so far. but it is feared the casualty list will prove a long one. The shocks were felt here about 3 a. m. and were so severe that the people were aroused from sleep and fled terror-stricken Into the streets. MINE BLAST TRAPS 136 MEN Work of Rescue of Entombed Miners in English Shaft Is Hampered by Gases Manchester. England.—An explosion In the Wellington coal mine at White haven Thursday cut oK the exit from the 136 miners who were working be low the surface. Rescue parties suc ceeded in saving tour men who had been working at the bottom of the shaft. They were prevented by the gas from penetrating to a point where the main body of men is imprisoned. Gas Explosion Injures Seven. New York.—Escaped gas exploded on the fourth floor of a tenement house in East One Hundred and Thir teenth street Thursday, injuring seven persons, two of them children. The 35 families in the building fled in a panic to the lire escapes and the root. Big Sawmill Is Burned. Winnipeg. Man.—Burrows' big saw mill at Grandview, Manitoba, with a large quantity of stock, was destroyed by lire Thursday. The loss is esti mated at 3100,000 JT HEAD Wood and Ainsworth for United States Army Chiefs. Nation's Fighting Force* Will Be Un der Two Physician* Who Never Had Any Training at West Point. Washington.—When Maj. Gen. Leon ard Wood, now tn command of the department of the east. Governor's Is land. New York, becomes chief of stafT. April 22 nest, the United States army will be headed by two doctors. The other is Maj. Gen. Fred Crayton Ainsworth, adjutant general of the 1 army. Neither Is a West Pointer. General Wood is the ranking ma jor general of the army, and Maj. Gen. Ainsworth is nest in number. There is only eight months difference in their rank, though ten years differ ence in their length of service. Ains worth entered the army ten years be fore Wood, but Wood was promoted to be major general eight months be fore Ainsworth reached the rank. The two doctor generals have been per sonal friends for years. The careers, capabilities and char acterlstics of the two men—both of whom entered the army as civilians —are so nearly parallel that the close relation Into which they will be thrown has escited great tntereet In army circle* In Washington. “What will the two doctors do with onr army?" is the question agitating not only West Pointers (from gea erals to new second lieutenants), but »- VS VI " /- /: 1 Gen. Frtd Ainsworth. thetr wires; because what happens la the army ts as much of a domestic 1 as an official affair. Both men are surgeons and the extraordinarily rapid rise of the two doctors has never been regarded with enthusiasm by those of the line. Both men are re markable for their executive ability, and are regarded with great friend liness by statesmen. Both are New Englander*. General Wood being a Massachusetts man. while General Ainsworth was born In Vermont. Only one man who entered the army as a medical officer has traveled further than General Ainsworth. That man Is General Wood. General Ains worth Is a native of Woodstock. Vt.. and was graduated from the medical school of the University of New York In 1874. He immediately entered the army as an assistant surgeon. In j 1S92 he was made colonel and chief of the record and pension office of the war department From that time on his advance has been by leaps and bounds. He was made a brigadier general in 1899. and in 1904 was made a major general and military secre tary of the army. It was while serving as chief of the record and pension system that Ains worth first attracted the attention of army officers and politicians and gave evidence of the unusual exec utive ability which has been largely responsible for his rapid rise. ne was one or tne Orst officials of the government to evolTe and perfect a card system. Some say that be is an even better card Indexer than Postmaster General Frank E. Hitch cock, who has gained fame in that role. He did away with an inanity of useless red tape and abolished many cumbersome methods that he found in vogue. In a short time and with apparent ease he built up a sys tem of 50.000,000 record cards by the use of which he could find out in two minutes all about any man who ever served in the United States army or nary, either as a regular or as a vol unteer, from the days of Bunker Hill to the days of Kettle Hill and later. The fame of his system soon made General Ainsworth popular with all who had business with the war de partment When a senator or rep resentative receives a request from some woman in his district for the record of an ancestor in the Revolu tionary war, upon which she depends to get into the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution, the worried legisla tor telephones General Ainsworth and within an hour General Ains worth has the record ready for him. In consequence of his executive abil ity and willingness to oblige he has hosts of friends in and out of congress who are glad to advance his fortunes in any way possible. General Wood's most powerful po litical backing was due to his close friendship with Theodore Roosevelt which greatly accelerated his rapid rise in the army. The two met in the west and later nerved together in the Spanish war. I NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY Items of Interest Around the State House State Fair Gives Rates. The board of managers of the stats fair met Thursday afternoon at the state house and approved the contract made by Chairman C. H. Rudge and President O. P. Headers hot for the appearance of the Wright Brothers' aeroplane at the state fair which is to be held at Lincoln the first week in September. The board members pres ent were President Hendershot of Hebron; Chairman Rudge of Lincoln; G. W. Hervey of Omaha; Peter Youngers of Geneva; L. W. Leonard of Pawnee City, and E. t. Russel) ol Blair. The air ship Sights promise to ba one ©f the beat attractions the board bas ever engaged. Flights will be made both in the forenoon and after noon of each day of the fair. Yaude ville acts will be given at the grand stand on the race course each fore noon. afternoon and evening. Night races will be a feature of the fhir this year for the first time in addition to fireworks. To light the track at night for racing electric or gasoline lamps will be used The trouble over securing Lons Vartio's band and grand opera com pany has been settled and the band and singers will appear at a Sunday afternoon concert in the auditorium at the fair grounds. The manager ol the organisation desired to give • Sunday concert at another city, but the board proved that the original arrangement called tor a Sunday con cert in Lincoln and he agreed to com, and sign the contract. The organ;sa tfau comprises 44 Instrumentalist*. 1 grand opera singers and 1* chorus singers. Four concerts daily will he given .Monday. September l. will be I mum day. acd tbe fair board baa decided to give special inducements for labor ing men and old soldiers lb attend on that day. The admission fee foe Sunday and Monday will he only *3 cents, half the usual rrtce. For Sc cents one can stay all day aad remain on the grounds during the evening on Monday. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday an admission fee ot 7-' cents will be charged after S p. a This fee is made low for the benefit of those who desire to attend the e-rntng entertainments only. The board has decided to change the form ot its tickets this year, tn addition a season ticket will be sold for IS Tbe board aleo contemplates putties in cash turn style* at all of the outer gates so that the ticket sellers sad gate keeper* may be abolished The kind ot apparatus in view will tui only when a patron drape halt a dob lar in a slot. National Guard News. Adjutant General Hart lean haa swarded marksmanship prises to com panies and enlisted men ot the Ne braska national guard. The prise* were for the highest sa erage of marks manship In the use of the gallery tar get between January 1 and April 1. The three prises for companies were awarded in the following order: Company 1. Second regiment. Alma, whose average was 83.85. 558; com pany C. First regiment. Beatrice, aver age. 50.17. ISO: company K. Second regiment. Schuyler, average. 44 34, 120. Brocse medals were awarded to e» listed men as follows: Sergt. E. A. Miller, company U Second regiment. Alma, average 3S; Sergt. I. W. Flink. company K. Sec ond regiment. Schuyler, average 38; Sergt. Roy Schook. company C, Firs! regiment, Beatrice, average 32; Sergt. Alva Ik Nicholas, company G. First regiment. Geneva, average 31; Private Monte Norton, company K. First reg iment, Wymote, average 81. The adjutant general has mustered out company F. First regiment, at Madison, on account of Inefficiency. Major Charles E. Fraser, formerly captain of this company, has been authorized to recruit a new company Adjutant General Hartigan and Capt Lon Kesterson have returned from Beaver City, where they must ered a new company of flfty-flve men , . Dr. J. R. Cameron, who served in company H of Nelson during the Phil ippine war, was elected captain of tbe new company. Two Dean* Created. On recommendation of the teachers* committee. Dr. W. A. Clark, head ot the department of education at the Kearney state normal, is to receive the title of dean and an increase ot salary State House Briefs. The state railway commission haa authorised the Gage County Gas. Light and Power company to sell $13, 000 of stock Tuesday was sophomore day with the secretaries of the state board of health. Seventy students appeared in representative hall to take an exam ination for advancement. The state normal hoard win meet at Kearney May 25, which is the data of commencement nt the Kearney state normal school. The state hoard of irrigation has approved the actioa of Secretary Simmons in granting the application of Miller A Freshman for 500 cubic feet per second from the Blue riTer for power purposes. A protest by Henry Steinmeyer was overruled. The successful applicants desire to build x dam across the river near Beatrice to supply power and light to that city.