Nebraska Newspapers

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J W Bt'HUZlGF!. Publisher
Coup city, * - Nebraska
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Washington
Ai£>ms the run argued before the
laienute . omurrrt rum mi as ion was
ik* proposed incre ase in railway rate*
«n amk rattle and sheep against
which various chambers of commerce
in the at -die west have protested
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» J Bryan will be the first wit
ness summoned before (he national
bouse committee on banking and cur
rency to t entity in the money trust"
tat *»r cation which the Democratic
cam- • repudiating Mr Bryan's de
mand for a special committee, re
(erred to standing committors of the
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Five rtg.men's of cavalry were
dropped from the army list whea the
house at \Yhing^on passed an amend
ment to the Ha? military bilL This
means the mustering out of hearty
OM eni Med men the absorption of
*te aCccn into other tranches of the
net vice, toe an annual saving in pay
ar.c equipment of more than ll.iOO.
Mt.
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Every railroad in the l'u*»«d Sates
that i*9..r* free transportation will be j
prose* sted by the interstate commerce ,
nmaiMMM An order ncitifyire ail
sa: roads to appear before that body
and g ir evidence cn this point has
been sent oat.
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Piw dent Taft's meditations on fill
ing the present vacancy in the Su
preme »urt were momentarily din
turbei by a ccminuts -ation lion the
Wonsan Suffrage Association oi the {
District of Columbia suggesting that
a woman be appointed
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Intervention 1*/ Mexico by the l ei- '
'•d States is not intended fc» any
twi..iuUuR, of troop# that might be
mad aga. j along (be southern border.
This sajfthe attitude of the state
department telegraphed to various
dipk^atsr representatives in Mexico
v'j Lil complained that intervention
talk there was fostering a dangerous
anti Americas sentiment.
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• harie. M Sensab. the steel mag- j
Late, lev Bed befor.- the senate fi
nance committee, in Washington, that
the probable effect of the house Dem
ocrat steel bill on larger steel prod
ucts would be of most serious conse
la t e to the business in the eastern
state*, and thst without protection he
would east so financial interest in
Hear eg of tes'tmony la the scan- :
tonal Investigation of Senator Lore
caera election has been concluded.
Attorney Hsneer * as given permis
tsa to file a brief and also prevent a :
idea of res adjudira Final action by
tbe senate is not expected before
Jus*, although tbe preparation of its i
report will be begun at once by the ‘
committee
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Tbe nomination of former Got My- I
roe T Herrick of Ohio to be ambas
sador to France has been sent to the
senate by President Taft. He will suc
ceed Hebert Bacon, resigned
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Secretary of Bute Knox. In a note
to tbs German ambassador. m;.ke» pub
Be the fact that the Vnlted States has
insisted on the reaffirmation of the j
open door policy whatever may be the
fats of tbs present Chinese empire
The Knox note is n warning of hands :
•8 to all the powers that seek special
aggrandisement la Chinn.
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Tbe American Numismatic society
has presented to tbs American Red
Cross at Washington, a series of fine
designs modeled by the sculptor.
Goaon Borgiam. for medals to be
given for meritorieos Red Cross serv
ing.
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Domestic
St. Lc..ls physicians received let
ters from tbe city health commission
er warning them of tbe dangers of an
epidemic of meningitis.
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Cfcauncey Hammond, who in 1910
*u acquitted of tbe (bars# of flea!
Inc a I1T.0M pay roll from a Detroit
automobile concern, was convicted of
ftoaBtr an adMtoailf He will be
sentenced later Hammond was ar
rested in Co'ambus. O.
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Charles W Morse returned to New
York from Atlanta. Ga . where be baa
been bHd a United States prisoner
since January. 1910. He will leave In
shorn two seeks for Ilad Nauheim,
Germany
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State Auditor of Public Accounts
McCullocnb baa filed suit for Sa.ddO
tbe Western Union Teiey-upi,
*T at WprlnsSfll. III. because
_’ boy on n bicycle ran into
him. injuring him
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Shltoh. “the Holy Ghost and Us"
entany near Brunswick, lie, has not
Cipitulated to Rev Arthur Hersee.
went from Vancouver to take
Frank W*. Sand ford s -place as
i Heroes styles himself itosn
tbe Son of Thunder
Sixty-two miners entombed in the
Bunker Hill mine for 23 hours by a
cave-in in the mouth of the shaft at
Suter Creek, Cal., were rescued, after
desperate work by miners from a
near-by mine. None of the men was
injured. Several were weak from lack
of food, but none will suffer any per
manent ill effects.
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A cordon of policemen and detec
tlvea paced the streets surrounding
Bellevue hospital. New York, through
out the early morning hours to guard
an expected attack on the institution
by gangsters, who. it is said, weir
planning to rescue from the prison
ward of the institution a man who
waa abot in a street fight January 26.
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it is announced at The Hague that
the third peace conference of the pow
ers will not assemble before 1915. It
is hoped that the Carnegie palace of
peace will be ready for opening about
the middle of 1913.
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The five bandits who held up Rock
Island train No. 43 near Hurlburt,
Ark., were poorly recompensed for
their efforts, according to express
company officials. They deny there
was a large amount of specie on the
train and postal officials say but one
pouch of trail is missing.
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The collier !>eonidas has arrived at
Annapolis. Md., loaded with relics of
the wrecked battleship Maine, which
are to be distributed among rnunicl
palitiee. societies and relatives of sur
vivors of the Maine.
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Colon labor officials and agents
whom the government bolds criminal
ly responsible with the McNamaras
and Ortle E. McManigal for perpetrat
ing more than 100 explosions which
occurred in cities from Massachusetts
to California in the last six years, and
in which the wrecking of the Los An
geles Times building was an incident,
were indicated by the federal grand
jury at Indianapolis. Thirty-two in
dictments were returned.
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The death rate in New York state
for 1911 was the lowest ever recorded,
w. !e -he number of births and mar
r ages increased substantially, accord
ing to the annual report of the state
ommissioner of health. The death
rate was 155 a 1.000 population,
against 16.1 for 1910. Births ex
ceeded deaths by 75.300.
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Arrival of the steamer Devonian
with her cargo of 90,000 bushels of
potatoes from Liverpool brings the
foreign shipments of the tuber Into
the port of Boston since December 1
to 330.000 bushels, a new record.
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Foreign
A clash occurred between United
States and Honduras authorities at
Puerto Cortez. Honduras, over en
forcement of a government decree di
recting representatives of \V. S. Vai
entice to sucrender to the government
authorities the railroad, wharf and
other properties held under lease by
the Valentine syndicate. Seventy-five
marines from the United States gun
boat Petrel landed and seized the
w harf and railroad.
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Twelve men were killed and five in
jun-d by a premature explosion of dy
namite in the construction camp of
Johnstone & Carry on the Canadian
Northern railway near Fort Francis,
Ont.
The meeting of tlie Interparliamen
tary Peace union at Brussels is re
garded at Rome as highly important,
owing to the decision of the Italian
group not to participate and to sever
connection with the union if the meet
ing insists on condemning the action
of Italy in the conflict with Turkey.
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New s was brought to Victoria. B. C.,
by the Canada Maru of the arrival at
Yokohama of the Teyo Risen Kaisha
steamer. Klyo Maru. from South
America, without fuel. Chief Engineer
Yamashita committed suicide by jump
ing overboard. A note he left says
he did so to atone for his fault for
the fuel shortage.
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The evening edition of the Novoe
Vremya. a St. Petersburg newspaper,
sad the Octoherist organ Goiosmesky
a Moscow publication, were confis
cated for describing Gregory Rasputin,
a reputed mystic who is wielding enor
mous influence at the court, as "a
corrupter of bodies and souls.”
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Winston Spencer Churchill's incur
sion into Ulster, which threatened at
one time to cause sanguinary rioting
and serious loss of life, ended with
out even a broken head. The first
lord of the admiralty and John E.
Redmond, leader of the Irish nation
alists, spoke from the same platform
at Belfast on the home rule bill,
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Tbe king and ]i>een of England ar
rived at Spithead from their Durbar
trip to a blinding snowstorm.
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Doctors say that the condition of
; Baroc de Rio Branco, the Brazilian
foreign minister, who was stricken
suddenly at Rio Janeiro with uremia,
has become so critical that his death
may occur at any moment
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Actual Invasion of the Republic of
Mexico to protect American interests
is being prepared This came fa the
| order by the war department at
Washington that 5,000 men be held In
readiness for a hurry order to pro
ceed to the border. Another 5.000
men will be beld in reserve.
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Personal
Free marriage licenses are offered
| by County Clerk Singleton of Padu
’ rah, Ky.. to all girls in "Jackson's
! Purchase.** who will make affidavit
| upon application that they proposed
i to their fiances. This offer stands, the
! clerk says, until February 28.
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Brig. Gen. Charles H Whipple, pay
' master general of the army, applied
I to be placed on the retired list under
; the thlrty-year service law.
CLAY CENTER FEED BARN DE
STROYED BY FIRE.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
What Is Going on Here and Thers
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Fremont. — Eph Johnson, who dis
covered coal on his farm in the north
ern part of the county, says further
investigation has convinced him that
he is in a position to lay claim to
the state's offer of $4,000 for a coal
vein over twenty-six inches thick, as
the vein on his farm is thirty and as
much as thirty-five inches thick in
places. Below is is a clay like sub
stance. Above is a shale, resembling
the shale from which cement is made.
Twenty Horses Cremated.
Clay Center.—A large farm barn
belonging to George Schlyck, three
miles southeast of here, was burned
with all its contents. There were
twenty horses in the barn and all per
ished but one. A large quantity of
grain and other property was con
sumed. The cause of the fire is not
known.
Mrs. Fletcher Sisson Dead.
Fremont. — Mrs. Sisson, wife of
Rev. Fletcher M. Sisson, pastor of the
First Methodist church, is dead here
after a protracted illness covering six
years. Mrs. Sisson was sixty-one
years of age. She was well known
through Nebraska and on account of
her books, througnout the middle
west.
Lost Arm in Corn Shredder.
Beatrice.—Loren Reimund. aged
thirty-three, suffered the loss of his
left arm from a corn shredder acci
dent. Reimund was feeding the ma
chine when the fingers of the left hand
became entangled in the feeding j
mechanism and pulled in to the shoul
der.
Neck Broken by Fall.
Columbus-rJohn Kipp, night watch
man at the water company station at
Platte Center, was found dead in the
basement of the building, his neck
having been broken by a fall. Mr.
Kipp was a single man. and had held
his position at the plant one year.
Omaha —Prof. H. R. Smith, retiring
head of the department of animal hus
bandry of the University of Nebraska,
was the guest of honor of the live
stock exchange and other South
Omaha interests at a banquet here
" ednesday evening. Scores of live
stock dealers, who have been acquaint
ed with Professor Smith during his
service in bettering meat producing
conditions in the state, were present.
NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE.
. H. Smith of Seward, secretary
of the senate at the last session of the
state legislature, has filed as a candi
date for the democratic nomination
for state senator.
As president of the Red Cross so
ciety, Mr. Taft has informed Governor
Aldrich, ex-officio president of the so
ciety in Nebraska, that famine suffer
ers in China are in need of aid. it is
suggested that the governor may de
sire to supplement this appeal by
issuing a proclamation.
Prof. L. L. Zook, a corn specialist
in the department of agriculture at
\\ ashington. w*ill visit Nebraska and
accompany the seed corn trains,
which will tour the state the last
week in February. Professor Zook is
deemed one of the greatest corn spe
cialists in the country. . His visit to
Nebraska at this time indicates that
the urgency of the seed corn situation
is recognized at Washington.
In reply to complaints which he
has received from citizens over the
state. Chancellor Avery has written
a letter setting forth his view of the
water situation in Lincoln. He calls
attention to the fact that the Rice
well, now shown to have been re
sponsible for the epidemics of dis
ease, has .been closed for several
weeks and that every effort has been
made to check further diseases.
These efforts are proving successful,
relates the chancellor.
State Auditor Barton has received
several thousand dollars which offi
i cials of the Union Fire Insurance com
pany are placing in his hands pending
the solution as to its ownership.
Three machines for making shoes
will be purchased by the state for in
stallation in shops at the Kearney in
! dustnal school. The institution in the
past has been turning out between 500
and 700 pairs of shoes each year, the
product of the hand labor of the boys.
All of the footwear used at the insfi
tution is made by the boys themselves.
State Senator J. A. Ollis. jr„ of Od
declares that he will not be a candi
! date for the state railway commission.
State Auditor Barton has prepared
a statement from records in his office
j showing that bonds aggregating $$,
| ‘.‘43.030 were registered in his office
J from January 1. 1909. to January 1.
1912. He has no means of knowing
how many bonds were paid off and
j cancelled during that time. He askeu
j the legislature to pass a law to re
quire counties, precincts and other
subdivisions of the state to report
bonds paid and the amount of the re
maining banded debt.
Governor Aldrich has received and
will probably accept an invitation to
l k® the speaker before the Progressive
: Republican league of Cincinnati at its
banquet on Abraham Lincoln’s birth
day. February 12.
Pure Food Commissioner Nels ?.
Hansen will test seed corn submitted
to his office for examination, despite
previous intention to the contrary. The
offer of an Iowa company, which will
donate the use of two of Its corn
testing machines to the state, enabled
the commissioner to change hia for
r?r opinion.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
Beatrice will organize a camp of
Spanish-American war veterans.
Plans for holding a modern county
fair at 7ork next season are under
way.
The Methodist church at Howe will
install a gas lighting system in the
building.
The Nebraska Retail Hardware
Dealers' association will meet at Lin
coln next week.
A call has been issued in Fremont
for funds for suffering Chinese in the
famine districts.
Harold Lehr, son of Superintendent
Lehr of the Pender schools, broke
his leg while coasting.
Thurston county farmers have or
ganized an elevator company with
headquarters at Pender.
Gage county fruit raisers have
taken steps toward the organization
of a horticultural society.
The Odell farmers' elevator com
pany has declared a 6 per cent divi
dend for the annual business.
Fred Ratcliff has bought the opera
house at Gothenburg and will turn it
into a moving picture show house.
John Russell of Callaway was se
verely injured when a heavy piece of
steel rail slipped and fell on his foot.
John B. Donovan, a well known Ne
braska newspaper man, is dead of
heart disease at the home of his sis
ter in Omaha.
Wolf hunts are becoming fashion
able over the state and are a means
of reducing the volume of a serious
menace to farmers.
Charles Bachle, a farmer living ,
near Beatrice, while herding cattle [
was thrown from a horse and sus
tained serious injuries.
Harry Condron, a conductor on the
Union Pacific, was struck by a switch
engine in the Fremont yards and
will probably lose Lis right foot.
The ladies’ aid society of the Meth
odist church at Crete has issued the
"Crete Cook Book" and created quite
a source of revenue from its sale.
The Blue Valley Mercantile com
pany, wholesale grocers at Beatrice,
held its annual meeting and declared
a dividend of S per cent on common
stock.
The Commercial club at Kearney
was host at a "get acquainted” ban- ;
quet which was given for traveling j
salesmen who make their home in
that place. About seventy were pres- |
ent.
The Malmo cornet band, assisted
by the Prakup orchestra of Waboo.
gave an enjoyab!* concert at the 1
former place to a big house and con
siderably augmented its exchequer
thereby.
A fife and drum corps of twenty
five pieces belonging to the National
Association of Civil War Musicians,
will be one of the attractions at the
Grand Army encampment at Beatrice
in May.
A petition is being circulated
among the business men of Hastings
asking the city council to take the !
initiative toward securing for that
place the municipal ownership of a
gas plant.
The committee in charge of the
Grand Army of the Republic encamp
ment, which will be held at Beatrice
in May, is making arrangements to .
have Daniel E. Sickles of New York
attend the meeting.
Following the snow fall last week ;
each member of the Fremont council
appointed himself a self-constituted
policeman to see that the ordinance
relative to the cleaning off of side
walks was enforced.
Business men of DeWitt are con
templating the organization of a stock
company with $10,000 capital for the
purpose of building a dam across the
Blue river in order to furnish light
and power for the town.
Chris Spaas, a section hand at Fre
mont, failed to stop work just when
"time” was called and was hit by a
passing train. He is now in a hos
pital. victim of his ineonoclasm in
shattering a long established prece
dent.
The steel for the extension of the
Kearney and Black Hills branch of
the Union Pacific from Callaway to
near Gandy, the county seat of Lo
gan county, is now being unloaded.
The Bridge gang has completed its
wcrk as far as Arnold and the lay
ing of the steel will begin March 1.
The Southwest Nebraska Teachers'
association will meet at McCook, j
March 27, 28 and 29. The best meet
ing for many years is being planned.
A contractor estimates that should
the month of February prove a fa
vorable one. there are 300 to 400 men
in Hastings now idle who will be
able to secure work again.
After a life of hard work, in which
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McKain of Lin- !
coin have participated, the couple have
fallen heirs to a legacy of $15,000 left
them by the death of a sister of Mrs
McKain. .
According to Chairman Strader
who is in charge of the movement tc
secure a half million dollar endow
ment for Wesleyan university, scores
of responses and words of encourage
ment are coming in from all parts ol
the state and he feels quite sanguine
as to its successful result.
Jefferson county farmers are ex
periencing unusual trouble with
wolves this year. The animals are
plentiful and very bold.
Mrs. Casper Sands, one cf the old
est settlers in the eastern part ol
the state, died at her home in Ne
braska City, Sunday. Her funeral !
took place from the St. Benedict
Catholic church.
One death, a twenty-year-old daugh
ter. resulted from the trichina poison
ing in the family of Fred Nickel, neat
Central City, who were stricken about j
a month ago as the result of eating
poorly cooked pork sausage.
Nearly 200 were present at the third
annual banquet of the Plattsmouth
Commercial club, and many speeches
were listened to with interest.
Prof. George Martin has tendered
his resignation as superintendent of
the public schools at Nebraska City to
accept a situation at the state univer
sity.
J. E. Beltier, manager of the Ne
braska Indian baseball team, has
made arrangements for a three-week
camp training at Crete. Manager
Beltaer said he was expecting re
cruits from California. Minnesota
western Nebraska and Oklahoma.
CONGRESS FACES A BIG WEEK
OF BUSINESS.
ALL EYES ON THE CAM
Tariff, Arbitration, Senatorial Elec
tions, Agricultural Disputes and
Other Matters to Consider.
Washington.—Congress will work
this week with the tariff, arbitration
treaties, senatorial elections and army
and agricultural controversies.
Republicans and democrats are
looking sharply- ahead to the coming
national campaign. The presence of
presidential candidates on both sides
of the capitol lends keen interest to
the increasing congressional activity.
Both parties in the house are tilting
for advantage, with nearly every
move aimed at the effect on the polls
next November. The problem in the
senate is the exact position which the
progressive flank of the republican
party—the balance of power in the
senate at this and the recent extra
session—will assume when the test
comes on the steel bill and ou the!
other tariff revision measures which
will be sent over by the democratic
house.
The exoneration of Senator Steph
enson from the charges of corruption
in the use of 1107,593 in the primary
which resulted in his election will be
rejtorted to the senate, possibly Mon
day. Senator Heyburn. chairman of
the subcommittee which conducted
the inquiry, will make the majority re
l>ort.
House democrats will caucus this;
week on the chemical tariff revision
bill which would reduce duties on
chemicals used in paints and for other
common purposes, but raise the
tariff on soajts, perfumes and
other luxuries. But before the caucus
the house is existed to dispose of
the army appropriation with its train
of controversy over army revision and
consolidation and following that the
agricultural appropriation bill will be
taken up.
The senate finance committee will
resume its hearings on the hcuse steel
tariff revision bill on Tuesday. The j
hearings may continue two weeks. ;
The bill will be negatively reported by |
the committee.
The house will be busied during the '
week with its variety of investiga
tions. including the Florida Evergla
des affair and the money trust by the
banking and currency committee.
Taft Headquarters Open.
Washington.—At a conference be- i
tween Charles D. Hiles. secretary to |
President Taft, and Representative ;
Wiliam B. McKinley of Ilinois plans j
were completed for the opening Mon ;
day of a Taft headquarters in a down- j
town- hotel. The headquarters will
be known as the Taft renomination
bureau and Mr. McKinley will assume
charge as director.
Wreck of Maine Floats.
Havana. Cuba.—The wreck of the ;
Maine floated free of the mud Sunday j
night when water was turned into
the dam surrounding the wreck. The
water within the dam is about four
teen feet below the harbor level at ,
low tide. It is the intention Monday to ,
admit the water more rapidly, so that
by nightfall the wreck will be raised
to the harbor level leaving nothing
more to be done except to break the
dam and float out the ship.
Deputy Warden Killed.
Lincoln. A'eb.—As the prison chap
lain was about to pronounce the ben
ediction at the close of the Sunday
morning chapel service at the state
penitentiary, Albert Prince, a negro 1
under sentence for assault with in
tent to kill, stabbed to death Deputy
Warden E. D. Davis. The warden re
ceived six wounds, three of them se
vere gashes in the abdomen. Davis
died Sunday night at 11:45 o'clock.
Roosevelt Gets Medal.
Paris.—Theodore Roosevelt. ex
president of the United States and
big game hunter, has been awarded
the special grand medal of the Society
d'Accimation.
Halbert Switches to Roosevelt.
St. Paul, Minn.—Hugh T. Halbert,
who resigned from the board of diree- ;
tors of the Minnesota republican
league following the board's endorse
ment of Senator Robert W. La Fol j
lette for the presidential nomination
before the Chicago convention, an
nounces himself for Roosevelt.
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New Ambassador on «</ay*
Honolulu—Viscount Stemim Chindn. j
the nemly appointed ambassador from
Japan to the United States, arrived j
on the liner Mani. He will reach
San Francisco February 15.
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Acquitted of Murder.
Sioux City, la—The jury in the case
of Mike Dirsa. accused cf killing his
sweetheart, Karoline Gribauczuse. (
August 16, 1911. returned a verdict
of acquittal. The jurors deliberated
fifty-six hours before reaching a ver
dict.
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Fifteen Midshipmen Fail.
Annapolis, Md.— Fifteen midship
men of the fourth class of the navai
academy failed in the semi-annual
examinations and were forced to re
sign, leaving the institution.
Attorney Forever Barred.
Des Moines. I&.—W. T. Maxey, a
prominent local attorney, is forever
barred from the practice of law in
any courts in Iowa. An order disbar
ring the attorney was signed by the
five judges of the Polk county district
court.
Nome, Alaska, Out of Coal.
Washington—Nome, Alaska, on the
border of the Arctic circle, is report
ed entirely out of coal, according to
dispatches to revenue cutter head
quarters, received a few days ago.
! SPENDING A FORTUNE TO TELL
OTHERS HOW TO GAIN WEALTH
This is a story of how a comfortable
little fortune was spent in three weeks:
It wasn't squandered, and in its way
that fortune put potential wealth into
the hands of more than 155,000 per
sons in Chicago.
To begin at the beginning: When
the third Chicago Land Show was be
ing planned the Union and Southern
Pacific railroad companies began to
plan also how they could attract their
share of the hundreds of thousands
that would visit the show, to their ter
ritory. Many things were discussed—
the first being the idea of booths in
which to display the products grown
along the lines of the railoads.
"That won’t do,” said Gerritt Fort
and Charles S. Fee, passenger traffic
managers of the Union and Southern
Pacific railroads. "We’ve got to have
something different this year. Last
year we showed what our farmers
can do. This year we want to show
what all of us can do.”
Plan to Spend a Fortune.
And right there began the plans
for spending this fortune. After a doz
en different suggestions had been
thrashed out there was evolved the
one used, that of having two moving
picture palaces built Into the Coliseum
at Chicago and there showing stereop
ticon and moving pictures not only of
farm life but of town and city life
along the Union and Southern Pacific
lines.
Twenty thousand dollars was the
sum decided upon as necessary to
make the display. The space at the
Coliseum that was allotted to the rail
roads was put in the hands of a mov
given in the two theaters in the 22
days the Land Show was open—or an
average of 23 lectures a day. Thirty
different men and women from differ
ent parts of the country sent out the
call for their particular sections; each
presenting in his or her own way the
advantages to be derived from resid
ing there. v
Governor's day at the Land Show
was November 28, and on that day
the Union-Southern Pacific companies
threw open their theaters to the gov
ernors of ten western states, welcom
ed them there, and it was there that
the messages of these states were told
to Chicago. Other distinguished visit
ors were invited, and they also talk
ed to thousands. On the special days
of the states represented at the expo
sition the programs were given, as a
usual thing, in one of these theaters.
Men stood at each door of the two
theaters all day long with counters
in their hands, and every person that
entered was ticked off on the little
watch-like machines they held. At the
end of each day the total was taken
from each and they were set back to
zero again ready for the next day.
In this way accurate count was kept
of the 155,003 men, women and chil
dren who were told the message of
the west.
Message Straight to Hearts.
“We found that we sent our mes
sage straight into the hearts of the
land hungry,” said an official of the
railroads who was present during the
land show. “They came into our lit
tle theaters with their eyes and feet
icg picture architect—a specialist in
the designing and building of motion
picture houses—and he was told to go
ahead and build two of the best ones
he ever planned.
The result more than repaid the plan
ners. When the theaters were turned
over to the railroads they were fully
up to expectations. The entrances to
foyer of the two was from the main
body of the Coliseum and the two wide
doorways were brilliantly lighted with
electric signs. The foyer ran the full
length of the Coliseum Annex and was
wide. Under foot was a soft carpet,
and on the walls were scenes of farm
and home life in the west.
Theaters Are Resting Place.
The theaters themselves also were
reached by two broad doorways each.
Inside they were carpeted and fitted
with comfortable wide armed opera
chairs that furnished the grateful rest
ing place to the thousands that had
been "looking around" in the big Coli
seum and standing about on the con
crete Boors until their feet ached. The
walls of the theaters also were cov
ered with paintings of western scenes.
In addition to the farm scenes were
views of several of the immense irri
gation projects, and a number of the
scenic wonders of the world.
The "cages" for the moving picture
operators were fireproof, so that in
case of accident no flame could reach
out into the body of the bouse. The
ceilings of the two halls were beamed
and paneled and the interior decora
tions were equal to those of any thea
ter in Chicago. In the front of each
room was the platform on which the
lecturers stood, and to the left of this
was the screen on which the pictures
were thrown. This was one huge sheet
without seam to mark or mar it, and
the reflections cast were as clear as it
was possible to make them.
Five Hundred Lectures Given.
Five hundred and six lectures were
Sun a Lamplighter.
In the acetylene burning lighthouses
along the Panama canal will be in
stalled copper cylinders exposed to
the sun. When the sun rises in the
morning and the rays fall upon these
cylinders they will expand and close
valves that admit gas to the burners.
As night approaches and the sun's
rays diminish in power the cylinders
will contract and again turn on the
gas. which will be ignited by small
pilot jets.—Scientific American.
Signs of a Winner.
"Does your wife win at bridge?"
“1 don't know for sure.” replied Mr.
Meckion, "but I think so. The women
all look as if they disliked her very
much, but they keep on inviting her
to play.”
One Waa Lacking.
Head Clerk (to applicant for gov
ernment post)—Are these your iden
tification papers?
Applicant—Yes. sir.
Head Clerk—H'm. your death cer
tificate is missing.
The true man is one who will neith
er seek an indirect advantage by a spe
cious word, nor take an evil path to
secure a good purpose.—Scott
Let us then be what we are. and
thus keep ourselves loyal to truth.—
U- W. Longfellow.
tired from the sights they had seen
and the hard floor they had tramped.
They sank down into our comfortable
seats, rested their feet on our padded
floor, and just listened. Then when the
lights were lowered and the beautiful
ly colored stereopticon pictures were
thrown on the screen, their eyes were
rested by the soft colors of the flow
ers, the waving grain and the hand
some homes shown them. In the mo
tion pictures they were shown the
methods of farming, the scenic won
ders of our lines, and the many cit
ies which we reach. Altogether, I be
lieve that we reached the people in
this way better than we could in any
other.” •''j
* Thousands Get Literature.
As the throngs passed from the the
aters after each lecture they were sent
out through the front of the rooms,
into a wide hallway between the audi
toriums. On one side of this hallway
was a long counter where literature
descriptive of the Union-Southern Pa
cific territory was handed them and
tens of thousands also registered their
names and addresses. These will be
turned over to the communities in the
railroads' territory for their benefit in
’order that they may get into direct
touch with persons seeking new
homes.
The cost of space, fitting up and op
erating the two theaters was a heavy
one, and at the end of the 22 days of
the exposition the men behind the ex
hibit discovered that their little for
tune of $20,000 had been spent
With the close of the land show
workmen tore out all the handsome
paintings, and the chairs and other
comfortable fittings, and within a few
hours nothing was left except that
which the railroad men wanted—the
memory, planted deep In the minds of
tens of thousands of persons, of their
part of the West and its opportuni
ties.
Quite the Contrary.
Being anxious as to his prospects in
one of the early attempts to enter par
liament. Herbert Samuel consulted his
agent, who said the chances were not
r>sy, because he was a "carpetbagger.”
Mr. Samuel thereupon promised to
live in the division if he were success
ful, and bills were immediately posted
that “if Herbert Samuel is returned
next Tuesday he will come to live
here.”
Some of the other side, however,
posted one of these bills on a pigsty.
Mr. Samuel did not win the election.
—London Telegraph.
The Difference.
"After all, there isn't much differ
| ence between the editor and the office
boy.”
"You're joking."
“Not at all. The editor fills the
. waste baskets, and the office boy emp
j ties them.”—Life.
Bostonese.
Hokus—So that Boston girl said I
wasn’t worth my salt, eh?
Pokus—Well, she did remark that
you were in inverse ratio to our chlor
ide of sodium.—Puck.
Damp One.
Mrs. Suburbs—I'm going down cel
lar.
Suburbs—Well, bou voyage.—Har
per's Bazar.