Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1911)
Loup City Northwestern VOI-l MK \ XI \_LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY" MARCH 16. 1911. NUMBER If. NEWS or A WEEK III RECORD C r ROS* WPORTANT tvtHTS ▼OCO N ERJEFEST «ASS£R ROSS 6t-E AT HOWE A*D ABROAD "9# T>at A-r Rj- 'S ** ■*»*> — G#t*#**s ffer A i iao't*-* e* t*v# Gob# l it- - a Re* LRm » » r ’ toy t vat* *f *. •*» i .ladaptcdt n loin* r#*c*lu"aoc £ *~d iuitrs S*-u:ot t ■ - .1.* :s :*:iv’T -f tear *££ Of r*f .of -ilLUjf aAC ImK. ■ :;:iij: Anuifpr La FoH**f’»• lor Lit t'Cff* *4> USltlNHaA,f " ? «• HhSKHi# tokm • • • ..!% ifJtitf a* in*- i*m mmtom of . f*c 1. «*'• •■42 as* ■««*« ■« ?: *•* nwiufc to* «4-ft*amrii»4tJ*»« Ta«»e> t* Min :***Uit* At-4 Lt 1 »!-£»** *■ Of 'A4<:-mti »«-?* I,t inaar and rafitem l*e*c ** r* T« «f* - 1 * • dt * 14* 11 >ffiW* ftf •***1 ■•" *taaa* i rant • • • 1Sr-u Hu*. -* :. «&> qju1« at «> wu*- Hu-ui-r -ti! A**u<:z'* -Tut I.Jur*' : iiT-Arr E H iifttf til* l’nisf"d tolmum §g~ tm&r cotr !•*<**:* d»-#ig: Ut:>nflt At LA4A 3f '!<■ ewaML.»*.*iB tc ^ .:_ <.*** jwata** r » *.to Zi^h&L im*-* 9 9 • .«*.£« “* It *L# * U’f ti. L if* ^mptomiii in :L* aut* u- 'L* * ;*rr? r. *JA# *strm t-at nr' a ttiart L.;,|« ft> ;•♦*"«► Cl fc T':,.ff 1-8* Will roaftaa Tlnei: -A* *► • *J>- :or:t% qan tt. *l-. « -- *L* :s*o.T* cs#wSt ;^a4v I 'oCam • 99 Do mestic TU »w 4* r+r* " In# o;r#f"r*A tt.iafcitiitiig ix. T«ii# vme«A C»4> ■ -. i..: r' / .ryt#r -r, - .. irt !* 8_— * k- b e< f/s -I m-ltt **" ^ ^ # *..f .01 O .» #**3UPMC • • • .. -r.>: :-■■*-*■ z o' h*r it? on* ; : - >• r iJ Ot :.**• t L-". ZJC to k .r.-ID -**•„ ;• re; t fc . « -it of S* :.oo j If** abac be r*'r«rme’:a Stall.., • » >at«)4 bnde of as "«* at • • • t* ■ r j la. * z .dine I'oioMf RiJpr rale of Du . Or. OL. »r. .r. _. >-d t' -e Vera..1.os '-oua *-■ - >rn jury "try are -.anted * -.a • » •• • —d p_y • from ran lx*--* r- rttoae -be tadtcrurata : St*-t Ml • e’.r w*» • • m Tit pc er plan of the Milwaukee — Ha -k> a Li*f t-ompany at its 1»» »a »a* ct-e-royed by fire raucta* a lo** of 5 ".fr '.«P“ Tfce entire Stf» *41* -f* :t darkness and trHfioat a*-w car aerrste • 0 9 a t a • on .< k’fc ■ «e o* »i*tr at ir-a: ;r ;#r ? **» of taif a mt> iKa. do._i-» • -it -e m:r.*-r* and t nti.i* as . n. era Itour of -.5* havoc wroytl' by the storm. •Ottbe*-.t*rr Keanda !* ;n tbe snp y a It tiar.; * filet raced more t* e ■ ant e*truici*'.r!y tfcar any «t- *s, t that reaton Is c ary year* • • • A* .* in *br trip of a violent earth yule ■ "i.< k*r »*» shaker, to «t» too Lvut «ben the La£;a Rand -t*drr - -a- Re,satt Prart*. near K' - tu «A' ■ t-ipiad* . an; mere 4e*m .e> '.me employe of the pow -• r.. • a a* s; -d > tie soman et : -fee • hoc* c, erv ns sere In Jare.-i I>* person* art borne.e*r.— Ttr in Pleasant P^iirse jr«t< a HrlatoS; a pnjer*- »* of 51 t* kf resulted. Ibtf stale* »ere ebaset. -•brae are «e«ne aff the result* of the explosion Ftf** rtolanon# rf ♦*# federal 14-boar -»■* tu# *3#c#d .n a aul* fci#<5 b? 't» r«u:#4 S>»T*f district at tors#y a- »• Los:* 1*2:0* »h# Wa bias n rttaC Tb# rov^rta**: atkl for prcaitJ** >amm'!Kf to t:* _iOO • • • 'Be i-id "tirty-ST# •tV.Ed bob %aa*-4 a T«nl bairi# la ?h# Wsdut* Ham# for the Bi-id kilt ’ roam:' ,#b* k* *#apo&* Tfc# rur t:i *it#i #d by polio# r# •FfTM * . • . Tb* *m#T»ra» -oidior 11 *b# Ptullp ptw» » *« ~*~t :a military auir# and m aoida-r;* a 4#j<or*a.«-tr tha? r.is Mb* wsvtwi *hoj',.d •-#: ;»rt>3d *f hut Tti* • Th* aabatsBre of a ‘n m MmJ G#* J Frasklia C*6 it --twBmaaid of ?b# pt *«^—nnr • • • T*a*ty Br*r Maarr <*..>*# cts 9#**-» or* r d: «rj* # b##*sa# ;b#T ti»« :T-*lr»#« sr«a twarts* • modiS art** at th* -fc*-#m »k?r- Tb#y tad W-ot mformad that tk#y mot •“* appaar u. pobiir ib th» n#w at Or*. • • • Th# trt Valptraifo ualrer «*r ta tedtaBa #*#r exp#rttm#*d de al*W*< Lock*!#* a»d Windsor halls OB* bvBdrod i-udest* tt# major por Oct at »~ofc. - at all :b#-r p#rsotml rf*-' trMBaaduad :n o'*#r Is at address before the Southern i mmerctal Congress at Atlanta. Ga^ Hr- . s- Taft declared that the fail are to enact reciprocity with Canada he greates- disappointment of the Sixty-first con press and that the c*-e *»- a v as the ratifica tion of the treaty with Japan • • • Governor Cruce rd*-red out three ■”r eat!*-' of "he Oklahoma National »u*r. to prevta- rioting in connec- j t> 2 with -he sire-• car strike at slat n.M ■ t> The order followed n < arr.e as a result of an efetnj • to operate cars after a set *-: f the '-rike had been agreed • the company and the m*-n. • • • t .t* as to -he purpose of the — ::>ent tr. sending _ -*<•■> troop.s M-xicai :-order has at last way The I'nited States . that the revolution in • . u to -he sou'h muf' end. An.* Tear troops have been sent. * - a - td mlh-ary wall along • K --ai.te to sto; filibustering c. r ha- "here :s no further .it np f arms an ! men across i* tr- rua"local boundary. • • • Vt* Harporis Humes Lov. who is - :.e :.* r t - and Sidney C. Love, a - .*■ - Ken f Ct ago for diver*-* u- fiMdMM county IS. Y I ha* obtained a re 'ralmn. • rd*-r to prevent her bus -r : • Tying »o ge- possession at fi* tr 1 -ti- daughter • • • • . - : ■ r ' . • t fc . - rtiml’t-d su. . ;* Vv ti pi-r^ue. N M by open-; t.e . lood vessel in his wrist A .. t o :ha- 11 health led to he deed • • • V . np •> adv *-e» which reached i. vc navy ya*d the govem • u . ap- .-ed the thief who stole t- ■■ ron 'he strong box of the bat .- u.; G- rg.a a- Guantanamo bay - weeks up T is said that he a: : to tee paymaster and non- | ■oni missioned >- ■ break .p an alleg-d ''buiid :* New Y<*k hits teen be ~ ' :: the ' tilted j?-;.'es t ;r« us* court -• *•-. r: ar. i ;-ers of building " ■ th r gh -h- Ameri Art tatior. • • • P"*- .. nt ~att will have a chorus -r >’Bger> sing :>efo*e him at a t. .eu a: ■ to be given: at the ■ Ah •* House \!a* if* The eh iru« will I - : of - id^nts **- the e . e. uag- ii on - • " "be S’a'es • • • Personal ~ . re tn.nary to a rive work - * *v taken t- tt - t'arnegie endow r -: for Internationa! peace at the --- tsee- rg o the board of trustees n 'A ushir.gton Senator Eiibu Root • : I resident of the endow nent • • • The pre- dear-, of ’he Missouri Pa tf. *>af *o succeed George Gould tea} !** Here : to John AY Kendrick y ft.' ago vice-president of the ^trbison To;»eia A Santa Fe. it is said • • • f.dw ard E McLean of Washington -.as d— ided that he does not care for th* supposedly hoodooed Hope dla m.f: d bu* the firm w hich delivered it to nm has sued for {180.000, the price if *he famous getn • • • A' a onventlon of Episcopal church men and laymen at Kansas City, c shop Sydney C Partridge of Japan • es • ie. -ed bishop of the diocese of Kansas City to succeed the late H’.shof Edward R At will. • • • Mi Gen Frederick D Grant, at .reset ■ commanding the department of he east has been selected as military ltd n the staff of John Hays Ham tan. "he special ambassador to repre ven* President Taft at the coronation K r.g George V m m m Ki S-nator Th m.as H Carter of uon-una has accepted a place on me '< 5:r -sum established under a treaty »i*h • anada for the adjustment of •tltr-.. • rsies over the question of •n* verse* of 'he question of *E**r mu es and bihe* border priv ifges • V 9 Foreign British natal *s- mates provide for he expenditure of S-Iil.iKid.MO. an in reuse of 11 ?.<•'«.. ov.jr the pre<-ed ng year The -ost of new construc ion is fixed at ST r.. T1 **.3S' • • • A severe epidemic oc ’he bubonic wi- if reported at Siokhe. a village if the Interior 5t> miles from Amoy. ~T.‘na SSokbe is the seat of a mis sion station of tbe board of foreign missions of the Reformed church in America. • • • Herent rumors that a number of > r t -tc b • n massacred a; Kief? are mine. According tc a cablegram re «-.ied by the state department from he A men-, an ~onsul at Odessa • • • Laron Vincenzo Paterao. who will ne tried for the murder of Princess Trigooa di Sant Kiia at Rome, has been acting strangely for several lays The attending physicians be Aeve be is simulating insanity. • • • Senor De La Barra. Mexican ambas sador to Washington, gave out a d» fiant statement declaring that Mexico • ill repent any intervention by the I'm led State* or any other country Tor the purpose of protecting the livea -nd property of their citizens resident b Mexico. BURGLARS AT WORK1 _ postmaster frightened then WITH ALARM CLOCK. HAPFENINGS OVER THE STATE What is Going on Here and Thors That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Fremont.—Burglars w ho cleaned uf I^skara. burglarized three stores and breaking into the fourth, were fright er.ed away by Postmaster Oie Nelson w:.o set off an alarm clock and held it out of his window in order tc s.a:e ’hem away. The burglars, whc had just entered the Feuerstein gen | era merchandise store, heard the 6ound of the bell and fled The? took with ’hem J1.10 in cash and a quanti’j of liquors, a gold watch and a d aniond ring. Largest Ear and Yield. Hastings—In a local store there is on display what is said to be the | largest ear of com ever produced in this country. It came from a field in North Carolina which produced tits bushels to the acre, satd to be the largest yield of corn j>er acre ever recorded According to scientific test, the ear contains Pd per cent com and but S per cent cob. This is attracting quite a bn of attention among the farmers. _ -V *■ New Delivery System. Grand Island—A merchants deliv. ery system is being installed here designed to take up into one system the deliveries about the city of the various merchants joining in the er. terprise. Several systematized deliv eries are to be made in one day. No CrimNial Cases. Vork—For the first time in the his tory of the county there is not a criminal case on the district court j docket. _. The re it iio; a » «•*'*: i- mr.ra- in Nt ligh. Niobrara has organized a fire de part men*. Four brick blocks are to be erected at Fremont thi6 spring. Tiie next convention of the Royal Neighbors will be held at Omaha. Kenesaw s new electric light plant is completed and ready for operation. Grand Island residents have pe- j tioned the council to extend the water 1 mains A rea' estate dealers' clearing hous«- 1 association may- shor^v be established in lancoln. Daniel Goodman, a prominent farm er near Adams, died Sunday at the age of 68 years. The proposed franchise for the York Water company was defeated by a vote of 546 to 400. ' Mother Lc*shen of Hildreth cele- ; brated her 88th birthday anniversary by doing the family washing. Mrs. H. Shaffer of Franklin, wha was seriously injured in an ante acci dent last week, is recovering The board of education of Diller has re-elected Prof J A. Eastwood superintendent of schools for another year. Boys and cigarettes are supposed to be the cause of a fire that de stroyed a half block of buildings at Crete. i ne AeorasKa j>peed association will , hold meets at Beatrice. June 13. 14 1.'.; Friend. JuDe JO 21. 22: Fremont. 1 June 27. 28 20; Tekamah. July 4. 5. 6; j West Point. July ll. 12. 13. Fiftj-three horses perished in flames , which completely destroyed the Ed Tanner livery barn and nearly all its equipment at Hastings Friday night. Seven horses were rescued, but one which was badly burned was shot to end its suffering. John MrI>eod. a Lincoln real estate , broker, who formerly lived at Neiigh, was found dead in his office by his j stenographer. He had apparently committed suicide a shotgun being 1 used, some time between noon and : 7:30 p. m. Sunday. Miss Hazel Robinson and Miss Mae Brennan of Hastings were run into by an automobile and knocked down. The car passed over Miss Robinson and severely injured her. the rear wheel striking the side of her head, almost tearing the ear off The coroner's jury at Lincoln in the case of John H. Eastwood brought in a verdict that Eastwood came to his death at the hands of some unknown person. I: was at first supposed that 1 he had met his death by fa’.Iin? through the worn floor of his black- j smith shop into the basement below. Mrs John Wharton of Auburn was knocked down by a runaway team and probably fatally injured. The Waverlv farmers' institute held Tuesday attracted many farmers. A free lunch was furnished by the business men at noon. Elder W. T. Maupin. the aged father of Will Maupin. editor of Will Maupin's Weekly at Lincoln, died at Hennessey. Oklahonia, Thursday. The patrons of the Beatrice post office. by a vote of 2,722 to 11. have voted to sustain the request cf the postal employes for a closed office on Sundays. HOUSE PUTS THROUGH INITIA TIVE AND REFERENDUM. After a two hours" deadlock in the house Tuesday morning the support- j ers of the amended Hatfield initiative ; and referendum bill won a complete j victory over the opposition and passed j their measure by a vote of 75 to 23. This result was not accomplished : without the most tense situation seen in the house during the session. Men j were corralled in every part of the i house by groups of other members, who were pulling them this way ana pushing them that way in an effort to persuade them to change their votes. The result was that the supporters of the bill were the only ones who se cured chances, the opposition failing signally. The fight is not yet over. After the bill was passed the house, on motion of llerdes of Richardson, asked the committee on constitutional amend ments to rei>ort the senate bill at once and made the consideration of that ! measure the special order for Wed nesday. Although the bouse bill uas 1 _ - ■ ■ ■ JOHN A. MOREHEAD. Senator Fir»^ 0«*ri= and ?re*W*r.ti Pro Tem ot Senate none to the senate, and although the senate bill was passed in that body ( with only two amendments of conse quence. the opponents to the bills as they stand, who had strength enough vesterday in the house to block the passage of the Hatfield bill for two hours, will attempt to insert their amendments into the senate bill Bridge Bill Passed Cronin of Holt carried to a sue-! ressfu! termination his effort to se-1 cure state aid in the construction and ! maintenance of bridges "over streams more than 175 feet in width. It had been anticipated by many members that the bill would never get through on third reading but Cronin was able 1 to count fifty-six votes The bill pro vides for a state levy of one-fifth of a mill, or approximately $100,000. for j the biennium for aid in construction and maintenance of these bridges. Pure Food Legislation. The senate committee on medical societies was surrounded Monday by j i crowd of able lawyers and lobbyists ! who represent manufacturers through-' out the country. The lobbyists direct-1 ed their talents against H. R 276. a bill that requires goods in package] form to bear the net weight, measure or numerical amount. The committee listened to argument and took the bill j under consideration. Defeat of County Option. Every member of the house who voted on the county option bill when it came up for third reading stayed by his pre-election pledge, without a single exception. But two members were absent. Regan of Platte and San born of Sarpy, both of whom were pledged against the enactment of rottnty option legislation. The house passed bills all Monday afternoon with ninety members pres ent. It killed the Moody pool hail bill and the Grossmann wage exemption bill, and saved the life of the initiative and referendum bill only through a hasty adjournment. An agreement j was made by forty-one members to vote against the house bill, and to try to amend the senate bill when it comes up in the same manner that< the same men had failed on the house bill two weeks ago. The Shoemaker bill, abolishing the office of fire warden in Omaha, was passed by an over* helming vote in the house. It carries the emergency rlause and if passed by the senate, will become effective immediately. The Old Ones Won Out. A proposition to extend the age limit Tor eligibility for jury service to men of seventy, occasioned a lot of good natured badinage in the house be tween the gray whiskered patriachs on the one side and the youngsters on the other. Age finally won out. A Pure Seed Bill. A pure se*d bill, house roll 219. has been recommended for passage in the house after a rather beligerent pre sentation of the case by the sponsors 3f the bill. * REBELS ABE ACTIVE INSLRRECTOS ARE CAUSING PAN IC ON EVERY HAND. PLAN RETALITQRY MEASURES Chihuahua ar»d Sonora are the State* Where Greatest Activity is Shown by Rebeis. _ EH Paso. Tex.—Conditions border ing on pack reign almost throughout i northern Mexico. Stirred by the belief that the revo lutionary niovea-'n: had reached a critical stage the insurrectos in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora are j re;-orted to have reached activity in tearing up railroads and telegraph j wires. Numerous towns, according to reports, are under siege by the insure' tos and thousands of women and children cut off from tood sup plies are rendered helpless . Following the receipt of correct ed details concerning the battle at j Casas Grandes. a town of about 300 i population at>ou: l.e- miles south- j west of El Paso. «here y> men w ere kiliea last Monday news reached j » er« oi a figlr a' A ;g;‘ Prieta on the border across the river from Doug- : las. Ariz. Five hundred insurrectos j r*l tr repulsed with a total of 33 dead and wounded on both sides. The fight ing was short and the insurrectos. armed only with rifles, soon scat tered under the tire o- a machine gun. What is believed to be i reliable re port of the casualties at Casas Gran des says that fifteen Americans were killed and seventeen Americans were taken prisoners. The following at first reported to have been killed are know a to have. escaped: Colonel <I spl.; Garibaldi, Raoul Maderu brother of Francisco I. j Madero. providential president of the ) insurrec'os- Captain Guitierrtz de 1-ara and Lieutenant I. Valencia of El Paso. Captain Eudaro Ma .de. a Mexican j of Mader.i’s jversonal staff, was not killed, but was taker prisoner. Raoul j Madero was wounded R F. Harrington. ion. - sergeant in th«*i*nited States army, who lived ! *rt El pc' •: p i.ee •*a»ietf Evans cm San rra** , Glenn, a boy of Mineral Springs. Tex., were killed The names of the Amer icans killed and taken prisoners are not known. A letter written by Madero was re- i ceived here in which he denies he made another attack on the town af- j ter he was driven away. He asserts, j however, he has gathered a force of 1.090 men and is new within a few miles of the town. MURDERER SAWS FROM PRISON. Jesse Smith, Convicted of Killing in Omaha and Comrades Escape. Lincoln.—Jesse Smith, serving a ; ten-year sentence for a murder in Omaha, and three other convicts es caped from the state penitentiary near here at 4 o'clock Sunday morn ing. Foliowing are the men who es caped with Smith: John Hayes of Box Butte county, serving a three years' term for robbery. Joe Bush- : neil of Jefferson county, up for four years for burglary. Charles Peabody, sent from Cass county, serving a five years' term for forgery. Eleven Killed in Battle. Douglas. Ariz.—Eleven federal sol diers dead, eleven wounded, with the losses to the rebels unknown, is the result of a battle just east of Agua Frieta Sunday The opposing forces were 590 insurrectos under General Jose de la Luz Blanco and a federal force of 300 directed by Colonel Mora. The battle was spectacular and was witnessed by several thousand Ameri- j cans, many of whom rushed close to 1 the battle field while the firing was at its height. Money Dropped From Train. Yankton. S. D.—Express Messen ger May on the Great Northern. I dropped a package containing $1,000 while in the toilet near Tea. the sec ond station this side of Sioux Falls, and the morning passenger train was delayed while the lost money was searched for unsuccessfully. Vesuvius Again on Rampage. Naples —A severe earthquake, ac- j companied by strong detonations from Mount Vesuvius, occurred Sunday eve ning. Investigations showed that a great land slide had dropped from the upper part of the crater. Madero Killed in Battle. E ^Paso. Tex.—Raoul Madero. brother of Francisco L. Madero. was i among the insurrmo officers kilied in the fight at Casas Grandes Mon day morning. Chinese Will Try Electricity. Amoy.—A company composed of Chinese has been organized to equip and maintain an electric lighting plant for Amoy. Will Not Talk to Insurgents. San Antonio. Tex—Colonel Roose velt will not talk with any represent ative of the Mexican insurgents on his trip through Texas. He made this statement because of rumors that some son of a conference had been arranged by friends of the in •armsts CORPSE FOUND IN THE RIVER IS LOST AGAIN FISHERMAN LANDS CASKET BUT LOSES THE BODY IN HIS EF FORT AT RESCUE. West Point. Ga.—A fisherman dis covered in the Chattahooche river a casket containing the body of a young woman. In removing the casket from j the stream, the lid became uatastened allowing the body to fall back into tie stream The officers at once be gan a searching investigation into the mystery. The body had been in the water probably a week The casket is i costly one. being trimmed with ex luisite material So far as cotsld be ■earned n woman is missing from the -ommunit: who would fit the descrip tion of the body given by the man who made the discovery. In draining a fish basket from the stream, the casket became enmeshed Corpse Found in the River. with a lot of driftwood hanging tc he line, and was dragged to view In :ent cn pulling the uncanny find ishore. the fisherman, witn difficulty got hold of one end of the casket. Ir irawlng it up a steep bank, the weigh i of the body forced the lid off. allowing » form, handsomely clad in white, tc drop back inio the river. The fisher man says he got a good view of the body ' pr,+f ft 6c:?“ -''r*r.Vrcr ‘ ' -r Southwestern Genius Invents a Device by Which It May Now Be Conserved. Kansas City. Mo.—Always. Just when the world seems about to 1 breathe its last gasp, someone comes along with an idea designed to give 1 the poor old creature a new lease on life. This has been true in many in stances—if the theories of the inven tors be accepted. Say in the case of the porous plaster, the gin rickey. the Boston trot, the tried oyster and the spit ball. Now a southwestern genius has once more revived our hopes of a continued existence by inventing a de vice to measure and store the power heretofore wasted in the mastication of chewing gam Jaw- units are the basis of computation. They are reg istered by a mechanism somewhat iike that which records temperatures, height and weather conditions for bal loonists. It is very small and is con cealed at the point where the wire comes in contact with the band around the neck as shown in the illustration. A somewhat similar arrangement on the other side of the lady's neck, and which would prove worthy of exam ination if she only would turn around, stores the power This miniature storage battery is 1 detachable. When a battery is filled it can be taken off and put in the pocket and another connected with the machine The power may thus be utilized for winding the clock, put- ! Conserving Wasted Power. fcn« out the cat or performing othei household duties A sufficient amount of it, withdrawn from its original storage cases aad concentrated, might oe used in operating a moving picture machine or In other ways adding to Jie merriment of nations. The inventor believes that if he can get orders in sufficient quantities, he ran bring the cost of construction down to a point where the computing and generating machinery can be given free with a package-of chewing gum. He points out that once the ar ticle is introduced the money will fair ly roll in for the manufacturers in the sale cf additional storage batteries. I Pupils Kick on One-Dollar Gowns Pittsburg. Pa—Graduation gowns tc ! cost not more than one dollar are to be popular among teachers and parents oi j Pittsburg. Hundreds of young women are in tears, however, over the stand ; a ken by the parents and principals. ' ind many warmly declare that they i will not try to pass the examinations for graduation if they cannot wear something better than a "cheap old dollar dress." The principal reason .'or the move is that a great jercentage ft those who are graduated cannot af ford to spend *25 or *50 on a gradua tion dress, as do the richer girl*. SKOWHEGAN DOG HAS TOBACCO HABIT INTELLIGENT CANINE HAS BEEN AN INVETERATE SMOKER FOR THREE YEARS. "BUSTER" ENJOYS HIS PIPE First Induced to Whiff the Weed by Mischievous Boy and Afterward Got the Habit—Taxes Daily Smoke With His Master. Skowhegan .Me —There are a great many dogs in Skowhegan. but only one has the tobacco habit. This dog Buster by name, is owned by Arthur Morrisette Buster learned to smoke about three years ago. His master was pro prietor of a clothing store and Buster was somewhat of an assistant man, ager Mr Morrisette had trained the dog so that when he wanted to have a special sale, he could place a blanket n th- dog with lettering advertising his business and hoist on bis back a banner fastened to a large standard, rois attracted a gr* at deal of atten tion. Alter a time Mr. Morrisette thought It would add to his assistant man ager s appearance, as he went through the streets, to have a pipe in his moutfc So in time the dog learned to 'arry the pipe. For a joke one day. as Buster was attending to his business, a boy caught him and filled the pipe with to bacco aud then lighted it. Buster took it and appeared to like the taste of it Soon hs returned to the store and acted sick His master, looking at the pipe saw what had happened. The dog wrs sick for several hours, but the next day he came to his master begging for something After a time Mr Morrisette saw that the dog want ed the pipe'. He gave It to him. with cut the tobacco, but the dog dropped it Then his master filled It with to __ "Buster" and Hie Pipe. bacco. lighted it and gave it to him. Buster enjoyed it and is today an in veterate smoker He smokes every day-in the morn ing with his master. Buster has been taught to get the mail and carry it home and if sent with a note to a store will bring home any package tied to his neck. GRIPS HOT PIPE FOR LIFE Locomotive Fireman Has a Thrilling Ride—May Lose His Badly Roasted Hand. Pittsburg. Pa—Clinging with one hand to a raasting-hot steam pipe on the side of a locomotive, John Stutler. a fireman on the Pittsburg & Hake Erie railroad, rode three miles in three minutes before he was discov ered. It is probable that Stutler's hand will have to be amputated. To let go the hot pipe would have result ed In his death. Stutler. shortly after leaving New Castle Junction. Pa., crept out upoD his running-board to tighten a leaking union on an injector pipe. His foot slipped, and to save himself he grasp ed the hot pipe. His other hand clutch ed the side of the running board tc keep his feet from being crushed in the spinning drivers. After three min utes the train was brought to a stop by a red light, and Stutler’s plight was discovered by his engineer. THE MARRIED MAN'S HANDICAP Washington Benedicts Fear Bachelors Will Be Given Preference for Jobs Involving Risk. Spokane. Wash.—An employer’s lia bility law is under consideration by the Washington legislature that, if adopted, may make It difficult for a married man to get employment w re single men can be. obtained. fcis is because of a marked excess .In the damages to be paid to a mar ried man or his widow over a single map in case of disablement or fatal in jury. Tudor the proposed act every line of industry employing men around machinery or On risks deemed at all hazardous wiil^ be assessed a percent age based on pay rolls for three months preceding October 1 c: each year. The revenue thus derived > j ; te bandied by a commission v hi.h will have sweeping powers in executi g the provisions of the act.