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Loup City Northwestern
LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , MARCH 2, 1911. NUMBER 17.
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''' lei. the Van Buren county circuit
our*. criened at Clinton. Ark., for
* .at.-y-eigttn consecutive term A
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a-ion ir admission -o the bar Mr.
Ailer mowed a license 6igned by the
sa;>r« me our of Kansas dated 18M
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tiOB
The est of a new treaty with
JapMi m ended to replace that of
:v.-a i.i.ti drawn with the special de
t eliminating the ’-estrictions
rr.v.. cra-ior -ontained In that
"•a"- *ar laid before tbe senate by
l*residen: Taft
A - r ting tr a statement of Albert
l. : :.ai. a Philadelphia artist, testi
ng fv.re tne national bouse com
m. tte. rnrir -i,- hearings on the sud
Justice Harlan of
a. supreme court has
• - 'en a:.;. • save enough from
■j.ar ■ , a> Si 00 • borrowed wher
: • was married if. years ago
w • a vi-tor-> when the in
--•at* muieree c 'mmissior. decided
••• a.-’-rn and western railroads
a. n advance "heir first-class
ra'*e an. must reduce their
as tariff- b? March 10 The
t: r - • - that the carriers
a-- etuit-i.-iy prosperous and do not
■: - tie pro;- .--it advance for mam
'a:: tag their credit
4rt - - tbe Hungarian ;»-ace
• .■ was -l.e target of a furious
"a" >:• b- • S.a\> a: Chicago
v t t- a ir- Tbe police were
- h r ’ bs to rescue the
from the rowd
•- - me-. ts in New York
*- • u ra-mona! to Pe».ing officials
.tig *..a* a bold stand be made
It tseta despite "be fact of
• • vet-..---? being framed
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: * •. -e ir.vs-- .out 7 leces of
*■ - -• • tie proper!> of Mrs
' . *ciic. !.' • at present claimed
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be so,d a: auction in Sew
York
I - d-awr and amended charges of
•i and offi tai misconduct
ta’e b»*n -pre'er-ea by Governor
f 'uers of Vjr .anu against the
iiai'tnn > boa i of . stmissioners of
police.
F' ■■ * Attorney Uaunc a- Dan
• i>-t.<« > a r'.or to the effect
*k»' -- ml> -merits against rote aell
r» bad in- f , >». He said the
- d jar? mad* .. mistake in an
oout- ;ne the number
A *•»-.mated a! $50' (»<»' was
1 - ’-J a- I•onaicsonrille. lx when
Sam*- originating in the kitchen of
the • hoi» ho'* a. mas: destroyed
busies - d.ftrirt of the city
Tb-e* ’itee were lost
F:**een passengers were injured in
’’ * ■ ** » ' SaL'a Fe train No 2
:*- an.. Los Angeles Chicago
•oa-.»- tii er The a -idem occurred
a- Gama. 4f. mijes wes* of AIbu
•jaerque. N M
After fasting for 36 days for the
-re of a oerv us breakdown. Miss
K at Mas erson of St Paul has ree
amended an t a ourse to ailing
fnenda
Final de -ee was slimed by Federal
’■■id#* Speer a- Savannah. Ga.. cover
r.g the de< is.ons and agreemen-s that
ha- • bM-n tea* aed in the litigation in
roivtn# apt Oberlin M Carter in
that district.
A T« rtnaner.' Injun*-ion has been
grtn'ec :n bwon rei• -ainlng the sale
: an • or of certain letters and man
use-:;.** wn• • *r. b? the late Mrs Mary
Biker Kddy
Personal
'■ '• L-'ael for IS years
re * >• Luke * -hutch. Scranton.
*a> out-* -aied firs' bishop of
•: 'to'**-*: • Episcopal diocese of
trie
~"be -‘-cents of • :.c f Diversity of
■ a-t. anneur -e "ha- R P Lamont
< ‘ uro has t.IT.’red the university
:• a -• of land subject to the mort
»• ‘or use 1 ■ the observa
tory ..
• • •
' ■ >* T V arver. the Harvard
: *3 -• and so lolopst. in a state
re Misl.ed poses the recent
fctfTJti rt for ii.rc* families made by
- f-t.r Emeritus Charles W Eliot
ot Harvard
bastes T‘ No— or., secretary to
? ' T if: wi’.: be vice-president
Pits: Nat tonal bank of New
tori. upon i.’.s retirement from the
*. . ■ no* hois.- It is understood
• :.*• ;>•*. : l* *.•«!. olfe-ed to him
tad he has accepted it.
• * •
T*-- ? dec Tap a as the rues* of the
j Masonic fraternity in Alexandria. Va.
Sn.- •• of the rraad jorisdirtioas of
the country sent representatives to a
convent ion. the purpose of which is
raise funds for the erection of a
Mason* memorial to (leorjEe Wash
' ; or ta Ai- iandria. which .f but a
»• or- distance from Sit. Vernon
' * *
tte'ere a jta hennr of hinh prelates
and I pri-pty P.t Rev John Ward,
li V was conaecrated bishop of the
Leavenworth diocese at Leavenworth.
' Kan
WASHINGTON MILLIONAIRE PAYS
$300X00 FOR THE ILL
STARRED GEM.
RUiN FOLLOWS IN ITS WAKE
Kings. Officers. Women and Jewelerr
Dealt Death and Misery by "Hoo
doo" That Curses the Jewel—New
Owner Not Daunted.
Washington.—The famous Hope tiia
mond. which left death, misery and
ruin tit its wake from the time it was
stolen from an Indian potentate two
centuries ago. has been purchased by ,
Edward H McLean for $300,000 iron:
a syndicate ot New York jewelers.
The glittering gem weighs 44to
arats It is supposed to tie followed
by -he wrath of the Oriental god from
whose shrine it was taken by the
-tiler of a North Indian province.
Mrs McLean was the former Evelyn
W alsh, daughter of Thomas F. Walsh, j
the multimillionaire, and is the mother
of Washington's famous $100,000
baby, who will inherit the Walsh mil
lions as well as those of John R Mt
I^ean. -ather o: Edward McLean.
Whil* the elder McLeans were rush
ing about* reviving the history of The
gem Ldward McLean was preparing
to get detectives to guard the jewel
To keep the stone will cost him $24.
2"; a year 1- will necessitate ti\*e de
tectives in the .McLean home. The
rents of cost are $1S.""0 interest on
$ .uO.ooii: $4..Mm tor persona! taxes,
and $-.7u0 for the salaries of the de
'ectives.
The stone w hich is one of the
world's most lanious gems, has left a
• - at! of death and blasted romances
since the Ume it adorned the neck of
Marie Antoinette to the time the for
mer actress May Y'ohe. wore it as a
gitt from be: erstwhile husband. Lord
Hope
This is a resume of the tragedies
*o ownership of the Hope diamond:
Jean Raptiste Travernier, a ped
dlar. supposed to be a thief, who
sold, it to King Louise XJY. of France,
was tom pieces by dug*.
Madame de Montespan. who wore
the jewel, was abandoned by the king
Nicholas Fouquet, superintendent
of jewel, was abandoned by the king
Princess de Lamballe. who wore it, 1
■Jim in1
/iJ'iniHiiiitmi
The Hope Diamond.
was tore to pieces by a French mob.
Louis XIV., the owner, was be
headed
Wilhelm Fais. who recut it. died in
poverty
His son, Hendrik who stole it. com
mitted suicide
Francis Beaulieu, who sold it. died
in want.
Henry Thomas Hope, who bought
it. suffered many misfortunes, includ
ing the tragic death of a son.
Lord Francis Hope, his grandson, ■
suffered bankruptcy, scandal and an
unhappy marriage.
May Yohe. his wife, who wore it,
suffered disgrace and unhappiness.
Simon Frar.kel, New York broker.,
bought it and had financial difficul
: ties.
lacqu*-# Colet. another owner, be
i ame mad and killed himself.
Prince Ivan Kanitovski. next own
er, was killed by revolutionists.
Mile. Laurence l^idue. to whom he
loaned 1: was murdered by her sweet
heart
Simon Montharides. who sold it to '
the sultan of Turkey, fell over a
precipice while riding with his wife
and child ail killed.
Abu Sabir, who polished it. was tor
•ured and imprisoned
Kuiub Bey. who guarded it. was
hanged by a mob.
The keeper of the vault was
strangled by a mob
Selma Subayba, the sultan's favor
ite. "ho wanted it. was shot by her
muster. Sultan Abdul Hamid, its
owner, was dethroned
Selim Habib, who bought it from
the suitan. was drowned in the wreck
of the steamer La Seyne off Singa
I>ore.
Us last owner. M. Rosehau of Paris,
a jeweler, who bought it from Habib,
was continually uneasy over having it
in his shop.
It is hoped the list of tragedies
ends here
The world will be watching the
luck of the McLeans, whose son and
heir will be one of the wealthiest of
America’s rich men, and future gen
erations will tell if the weird spell
of the hoodoo gem is broken.
WEALTHY MARBLE MAN
WIELDS A HORSEWHIP
COVERS BANK CLERK WITH RE
VOLVER AND THEN SWINGS
A HEAVY BLACKSNAKE.
Knoxville. Tenn.—John M. Ross,
wealthy marble quarryman of ibis
city. walked into the Third National
bank and asked to speak to J. Fred
erick Baumann, the bookkeeper. Mr.
Baumann invited Ross into the di
rectors' room in the rear, and. before
he understood his visitor's intention
Ross had drawn his revolver and !
placed it at Baumann's heart and then ]
with his free hand swung a black- !
snake horsewhip violently across j
Baumann’s head and shoulders, mean
time berating the young bookkeeper
for aiding Miss Margaret Ross, the
Horsewhips a Bank Clerk.
beautiful eighteen-year-old daughter,
to elope with William J. Cummings.
On finishing the beating Ross retired
to meet almost the entire banking
force, who had been drawn from their
cages by the unusual noise. Then he
made them stand back with drawn re
volver end lie rs'.k >-iro^_ thv. hank
to the Mechanics' Bank and Trust
company to make inquiry as to the
residence of Rev. Leroy C. Henderson,
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presby
terian church, saying that he would
treat the minister to the same dose.
Rev. Henderson having performed the
ceremony.
ADVENTIST SENT TO PRISON
German Soldier Refuses to Obey Or
ders on Saturday Despite Two
Sentences.
Berlin. — Private Naumann has
every prospect of spending the re- j
mainder of his life in prison because
he persistently refuses to submit to
military discipline on Saturday.
Naumann, who belongs to the sect
known as the Adventists, declares that
Saturday is the real Sabbath, and that
any kind of work on that day. even
the lightest, is in the highest degree
sinful. When he became a soldier in
1907 he refused to obey any orders
between sunset on Friday and sun
set on Saturday.
He was in consequence sentenced
to three months' Imprisonment, but j
when released resumed his mutinous
conduct and received a second sen :
tence of two years' imprisonment
When released again he refused ohedi
ence and was sentenced to five years
imprisonmeir
On appeal, the higher military court
retried the case Questioned by the
presiding officer of the court. Nau
niann declared that as a Christian sol
dier his duty was to obey the religious
law and refuse al! work on the Sab
bath. A systematic study of the Bible
had convinced him that it was wrong
to regard Sunday as the Sabbath,
which was really Saturday.
It was pointed out that continued
persistence in this attitude would In
evitably result in his spending his en
tire life within prison walls, and the
presiding officer asked whether Xau
rnanr. was prepared to accept such
consequences. Xaumaun replied:
"Yes. certainly ”
Questioned whether in war he
would refuse to fight on Saturdays.
Xaumann replied that he would then
obey orders because the danger to
the Fatherland would justify it.
GIRL'S FICKLENESS CONDONED
Nebraska Judoe Holds Fiance She
Concludes Finally to Accept
Is Bound.
Papillion. Xeb. — The Xebraska
courts have held that a Xebraska
man cannot escape c promise to mar
ry. even if his fiancee is engaged to
a dozen men at the same time, provid
ing she demands that this particular
suitor makes good.
L. If . Sautter promised to marry
Miss Susie Elsass. Later he discover
ed she was engaged to another young
man. He broke the engagement and
Miss Elsass sued for $".000 damages.
A verdict for the full amount was re
turned. Judge Troup in instructing
the jury said:
"Miss Elsass might have been en
gaged to a dozen men. but still her
engagements would not have freed
Mr Sautter from his obligation, pro
viding she asked him to do so, wltfch
the evidence showed she did."
EXPLOSION TERRIFIC
ACETYLENE GAS WRECKS HOUSE.
BUT OCCUPANTS ESCAPE.
HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE
What it Going on Hero and There
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Holdrege.—A terrific explosion o:
acetylene gas took place in the home
of Aaron Steel of this city Nine per
sons were in the house when the ex
plosion occurred and that not one was
hurt or injured seems nothing short
of a miracle Two young men were
blown through the window, and two
others were blown to the ceiling, es
caping to the yard when they came
down The turee young daughters fell
partly through holes in the floor, bu
were soon rescued.
Excitement in Auto Garage.
Grant.—Excitement was caused in
this city when Frank Yenne. who runs
the auto garage and repair shop, was
soldering a leak in an automobile tank
which exploded with a report that :
sounded like a cannon and could be I
heard all over the city. The glass ir. I
the front of the building was broken j
and parts of the machine were torn •.
loose and bolts and glass scattered all
ore- the room. Fortunately Mr. Yen
ne was unhurt, sate a hair singe, al
though standing very near the tank.
Neligh Wants Capital.
Neligh—Now comes the Booster
club of Neligh and wants to raise Oak
date's bid on the removal of the state
capital from Lincoln to Neligh. Res
olutions were passed to raise the cash
bonus from Si". to $40 i*00. and
in addition to furnish light, heat and
water for a period of 100 years for
the faithful performance of contract.
\
Towns north of Fremont ileus the
Burlington route are asking lor im
proved train service.
Pythians from every district in the
state were in attendance at a banquet 1
in Omaha Monday night.
A. T. Hill and Frank Ellsworth of ]
Fairbury have nought a Curtiss fiy-.ng
machine, and will indulge in aerial ■
joy rides.
At a specia t lection held at Chap- i
pell the bond ; ro;>osition for munici- :
pal water arc tiectric lights carried
by a majority r: 20 to To.
Mrs. George Brown of Nebraska
City, in a fain tins: spell Jell against a
stove, broke her nose and cut a long ]
gash across no: orehead.
An institution to be known as the
German-Ame: a n Safe Deposit and
Trust compan; has been organized in 1
Beatrice with a capttal stock of $200 -
000.
James Stingier a veteran of the
civil war. about eighty years of age. >
was instantly killed by a Union
Pacific fast mail train near Silver
Creek.
Holy Rosar; Catholic church at Al
liance was totally destroyed by fire
one night las- reek. The loss on the
building is between $4,000 and SJ.OOl'
covered by in?-.ranee.
Murray and Brown, two young men
who started from St. Johns. New- j
foundland. or. a 25.000-mile walk, to
be completed in four years' time,
have reached Nebraska.
Would-be jokers at Geneva displayed
their talent b> stringing wire across j
the walk and got lots of fun of a
questionable character from the re- j
suits. Several pedestrians narrowly ;
escaped serious injury.
The Minden volunteer fire depart
ment held their annual banquet on
Monday night. About 100 plates were!
set. The firemen and their wives and
the city count:, and their wives were
the guests.
Gus Lumbard and Floyd and Fred
Hatcher were rescued from an island
In the Platte river three miles below
Fremont by County Attorney Cook,
who went to their aid in a boat. The
boys were hunting on the island when
the ice broke up.
Beatrice has two boy wireless tele
graph operators who are talking to
each other at a distance of over a
mile with instruments they have made
themselves The boys are Harold Bur
gess and Henry Schlacter, aged fif
teen and sixteen years respectively.
J. Meyen. a cement worker, fell
from The seventh to 4he third floor of
the First National bank building at
Lincoln, through an open pipe duct. '
and still lives. When assistance
reached him he was sitting up and Sr j
a puzzled manner was rubbing his
shad.
Thomas Coyle, an old resident of
McCook, is dead.
The seed laboratory of the state j
university in co-operation with the U.
S. department of agriculture, is anx
ious to arouse a greater interest in '
corn improvement among Nebraska
farmers, and has arranged to make
germination tests of seed corn, not I
to exceed fifty tests for each person. 1
By sending your address to the Ne
braska Seed Laboratory at Lincoln
you will obtain small envelopes in
which seed samples may be sent to
the laboratory, it is most important
that this be done at once.
SENATE DISCUSSES THE OLLIS
BILL AND DEFERS ACTION. -
Shall the stock yard? companies of
Nebraska be subject to physical val
uation and placed under the control
of the state railway commission for
rate making purposes is the question
squarely before the state senate.
Oliis of Valley championed his own
bill. S F. 115. in committee of the
whole and was supported by Skiles
of Butier and opposed by Bartos of
Saline and Morehead of Richardson,
the ratter being president pro tern of
the senate. Hoagland of North Platte
?poke for ar.d against the bill but is
said to be in favor of its pa.-sage.
Adjournment was taken for the day
before action was Liken on the meas
ure.
Both sides claim to have enough
votes to win The opponents of the
bill have a list showing seventeen
votes against the measure. The
friends of the bill have another list
which they say shows the same num
ber for the bill. One mac who is
counted to vote against the bill is
said to have made up his mind to
vote for it. The vote on the bill is
awaited with anxiety by friends and
foes.
Flowers for Sartos.
Bartos or Saline, who made a plea
last week for a bill that would permit
the senate to pay its employes $5 a
day was the recipient of a splendid
bouquet to which was attached a card
bearing this inscription. From $3
senate employes who vote on election
day." The inscription is supposed to
e a gentle hint to other senators that
their employes propose to vote on
election day without the aid of any
vehicle or any other artificial means
How they intend or for whom they
intend to vote is not disclosed by the
inscription.
Scheeie Gets the Seat.
When the Scheele-Wertman contest
case came up. the votes were almost
entirely along party lines, with the
democrats easy victors. This result
had Wren «r*y tame.» and although
the reports of the committee which
had investigated the claim of 'Wen
man to the seat were made the occa
sion for many speeches the anticipat
ed result occurred. Scheeie was de
clared the legal occupant of the seat,
which wrung from that gentleman the
exclamation. ‘ Thank God. 1 am a tree
man at las:."
County Option Bill.
The Judiciary committee of the
house me* and took up Norton's coun
ty option bill, H. R. No. 392 After
some discussion, and with but one
dissenting vote, that of Prince of Hall,
against it, the measure was recom
mended for engrossing preparatory to
third reading. Though the supporters
of the measure have no hope of pass
ing the bttl they mean to fight for it
as hard as though they had a chance
to get l; through the legislative mill.
More Time for Homesteaders.
Hoagland of Lincoln secured the
adoption of a resolution asking con
gress to pass the Kinkaid bill which
seeks to ertend the time in which
homesteaders will have to pay for the
lands they hold under the government
reclamation act. The resolution recites
that settlers on the land under the
government irrigation project in west
ern Nebraska have had poor crops,
the government first failing to supply
water for their needs and that the
land wil! not be productive until al
falfa has been grown upon it for
three years.
To Commemorate Gettysburg.
The senate has adopted a resolution
introduced by Senator Horton at the
request of General C. F. Manderson.
asking that the governor appoint a
commission of five soldiers, who
served with distinction in the civil
war. to serve with commissions of
similar nature from other states in
preparing for the commemoration of
the fiftieth anniversary in 1913, of the
battle of Gettysburg.
An effort was made to revive in the
house the bill by Senator Varner rais
ing the amount of home made wine
which can be sold in a single package
without licensing from one to ten
gallons. The bill was reported indefi
nitely postponed by the judiciary com
mittee Friday. It required fifty-one
votes to secure a reconsideration, so
that the bill lost, only thirty-seven
voting for it.
To Increase the Salaries.
Aft^ desultory debate the senate
recommended the Tibbetts bill, in
creasing the salaries of county super
intendents. for third reading.
A memorial addressed to the sen
ate was read from the Retail Hard
ware Dealers' association, wherein the
passage of good roads legislation, the
universal hunting license law and the
$?,000 appropriation for the fish
hatchery were recommended.
An effort Is being made by nearly
every county officers’ association of
the state to obtain the passage of
bills raising salaries of county offi
cers. This effort is meeting with con
siderable resistance in the legisla
ture.
IB FORTIFY CANAL
HOUSE VOTES FAVORABLY BY
LARGE MAJORITY.
fHREE MILLIONS FOR WORK
This Action Practically Settles the
Question, as the Senate is for
Fortification.
Washington — After nearly five
sours of debate, the house of repre
sentatives shortly before 10 o'clock
Saturday night voted overwhelming
y for fortifying the Panama canal
end appropriated $".000,000 to begin
work, the total cost of which has
•ecu estimated at $12,000,000.
The action of the house practically
settles the question of fortification,
for the sentiment in the senate is
said to be more than two to one in
favor of protecting the isthmian wat
erway by seacoast batteries.
The real test came on an amend
ment pro)»osed by Representative
Tawney of Minnesota, chairman of
the committee on appropriations. The
amendment provided that no part of
the money set aside for fortifications
shouid be used until the president
and attempted to negotiate treaties
with all of the leading maritime na
tions guranteeine the neutrality and
international protection of the canal.
Representative Sherley of Ken
tucyk attacked this amendment and
warned members that it had been in
troduced for the sole purpose of de
feating the appropriation. The Taw
ney amendment was then voted down.
130 to 63. A motion by Representa
tive Keifer of Ohio to strike out all
provision for the fortification of the
canal was lost by a vote of 135 to 51.
The real interest in the debate
seemed to center in the Tawney
amendment and the speeches made
for and against it by Mr Tawney and
Mr. Sherley.
Mr. Tawney. a stalwart republican
looked to the democratic side for
sympathy and applause and received
both.
Mr. Skerley. one of the democratic
| leaders of the house, was accorded an
ovation by the republican members.
When it came to voting the republic
ans generally supported the fortifica
tion of the canal and the democrats
opposed it.
The defection of about twenty re
i publicans from the general policy of
fortification was offset by a similar
defection on the democratic side in
[ favor of fortification.
The fortification of the canal was
provided for in the sundry civil bill,
but was considered In the house prac
! tically as a separate measure and af
ter all of the other features of the
sundry civil bill had been disposed of.
Norris Resolution Reported Favorably
Washington.—The house commit
tee on judiciary ordered favorably re
ported the Norris resolution instruct
ing the attorney general to send to
the house any information he has re
garding the alleged monopoly of the
coffee trade. The committee amend
: ed the bill by omitting references to
| Brazil.
Hears His Funeral Songs.
Owosso. Mich.—A phonograph will
i furnish sacred music at the funeral
! Monday in the Methodist Episcopal
church of 'William Henry Faxon, a
nonagenarian who lived near here.
The records to be used were made
for the funeral by Mr. Faxon when
he was SS years old.
American's Meet the Pope.
Rome.—The pope Sunday received
in audience Monsignor Kennedy, rec
tor of the American college who has
returned from a vacation in the Unit
ed States. Monsignor Kennedy found
the pope looking quite well and
bright, notwithstanding his recent at
tack of influenza.
Railroads Are Retrenching.
Chicago.—Following the recent rate
decision of the Interstate Commerce
j commission, E. W. McKenna, vice
| president of the Chicago, Milwaukee
£ Puget Sound railroad, ordered that
i retrenchment be begun and that ex
! tension work be "forgotten" for the
| preset.
Out of Senatorial Race.
New York.—Edward M. Shepard in
! a letter to Montgomery Hare an
nounced his retirement from the fight
j for the United States senatorship to
| succeed Chauncey M. Pepew. He adds
that in his opinion William F Shee
han's retirement is imminent.
Forestry Has Come to Stay.
New Haven. Conn.—“The national
fight has been won for us, and forest
1 ry has come to stay." said National
| Forester Henry S. Graves in his ad
1 dress at the closing exercises of the
i Yale forest school.
Roosevelt o<* t-ong Trip.
New York.—Next Saturday Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt
and their daughter. Miss Ethel, will
start on a long trip throughout the
west. The Roosevelts will go by the
southern route, among the important
stops being Atlanta. New Orleans and
thence to southern Arizona. Colonel
Roosevelt will deliver a series of lec
tures at the University of California
during their stay of about a month
on the coast. Leaving there about
April 1, the colonel expects to tour
I the northwestern states.