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NEWS lltFli TOLD
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COVERS WIDE AREA.
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tnaluCea S>j! If Coir.g On at Watl*
ir.gtsn ard in Otti»r Sections of
the Country.
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Tl< miir a<t,i- rand for a day on
fctcuU «i the d* -tii of Senator Ta>
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er h >u»e Mac.- ywgrnive republi
can* totitic wf*h the democrati.
11 liou-e V. _>* and Menu rom
■dttie wilt take no i united tain action
ca cotton tariff tw bedule revision.
7 Be tweet and a an.- f«t«ar growers
prutrv't^ acair.>! bo.se :iw - ;-»r bill
before the senate Ilc-ame comiu.ttre
Tbe house j a»-ed 173 to IT. a bill
creatine a ttuicini/a l> ireau a tee
Drparuonnt of «'o*ui«-r< r and Labor
Pr»sld*ct Taft in n.« .nt*-d
fto-.v* of lear.vlatnn to promote
e .tioa) and eftf-‘*-tsrjr cn aor r-.ment
•rn ne
«4 a Ml. approved by the UfpjnaiMit
of Justlcn, d« ‘.FL~< to brea* . p flrip
V r * jxioia u4 twuhcrt.
K«|w<wiiMlSn- OiTiiiw of Massa
deV-„<ie-t the )od.ciary in a
H-<cti an<l took with the dJO
U r.e of the recall of judges.
Ti» “nrlfiefcwv* m j* which haf
br*-a j*rconbcled .n the senate for
some lime, was ratified without the
formality at a rent call.
ltTers'.ato c oa.tuerve couiUiitfen fa
ionblj reported a bill to amend in
terstate e one Bierce law and } rovido
fare men for empress comtaoie*
Majority Leader I'nderwo-d an
aounsd the logician-e program of
tie bou*e from cow on would be con
f to api<ropra’ioa and supply
Mia.
Presided Taft in m»-r ace urged :m
a»dis:e appropriation of to
rrengthen le-vee* on Mississippi and
M.-«oan rort to prevent urther
8 «d damage
An appropriation of $:'".0dd for the
aid of a rerro expos.ii.ro in 1A13 to
rt >Urate live fiftieth anniversary ®f
la&ioln’ft emancipation p*<« arnatioc
a a* passed by the senate
The tnre:rn affa.r* ncicittee of the
aouee derided to report favorably res
atj'ion direc'.ns fitat- de;urru.en: to
upon immeilafe settlement by
VVi.<«« cf claim* of Am- riean?.
Hirer*, and harbor* committee de
cided to report favorably Representa
tive Kansdrll'm bill appropriating
$:>.«•* for strengthening levees in
Kisstscippi. Missouri and Ihio rivers.
The senate Judiciary committee or
dered favorably reported the employ
ers' “ability and workmens compen
sation bill as recommended by the
Employers' Liability- commission.
Representative Henry of Texas,
wne kas a bill to change inauguration
day from March 4 to the last Thurs
day ia April introduced a resolution
to provide for early action in the
boose.
ttWWfl.
TW rrj territorial fOBW
tiot radomd Hr»i4»ai T*!t for an
mu; term
Pour hundred union carpenters of
Iw went on n strike for 65
nati aa boor.
Go* R S Vessey t*lH’.rd Itf lit*
lor Soatb Dakota's building for the
faatan Pacific exposition.
*v >rdr of bitter la Fertile were used
by attorneys in summing up their
ease in the sugar trial.
The miners federation, after a long
eotileresire. decided to aJiire all the
miners in Great Britain to re-ume
mrrfc
Preasdeot Taft -eni to the s« n-te
the nomination of Kdward P. Stark
able to be roliertor of customs for
I la nr ail
r«jrt:."T Governor tbarlei B Avrwk
cC North Carolina <ir«»pi» 1 dead at the
JeS.rwor. theater. Mrmins-hnm. Ala.
vail* addrwrtnr tae Alabama * dura*
tfcmnl ajnoriat.oo
Wist is uvtu'-d a “fir* d* cam
pis ga" has been undertaken by the
committee of eastern ratiriad man
agerr vho are in <ontroversy with
the brotherhood of locomotive < a--in
ten cm the subjec t of wage*.
A hill to provide direct appeal to
the supreme court of the I'aited
States from the highest tribunal or a
•tale when question* affecting the
J»4er*l constitution are concerned,
mas favorably ""ported by the senate
Judiciary committee.
The remains of the heroes recotr
rred from tbe wrecked battleship
Maine, in iiavara barbo*. were laid
to rest at Arlington.
Dispatches from Gyanr' T‘be»,
•ay the Chinese have e*lavished a
representative council cut I.ha-3, the
angtol of Tibet, and pr.» laimed l
(trpubttr
tri-mr raftc members of the house
Judiciary committee agreed to report
• bill rsUt nc to restraining orders
and ta) unctions in accordar.ce with
Mm direction of the democratic plat
form adopted at the Den>er convea
tsos M !*<*
Former Governor Bate* of Masra
rtiurtti and others before the public
health committee opposed the hill
•mating a department of health.
(•and Army veterans urged before
Che public buildings committee i>ass
age o- the Sutherland bill for a me
ppna. .mpnilhenter a: Arlington Ka
Ctttr*1 cametery.
The democratic tariff wool bill
passed the house Monday.
Japan has secured no base on Mag
dalena bay. Mexico.
I-ricac * r <rer.rrr.I A. R. Carey, U. S.
A. retired died at bis winter home in.
Florida.
industrial workers of the world are
noi wanted in Pacific coast cities.
President Madero says peace will
be speedily restored in Mexico.
Porto Ricans protest to Secretary
Knox against free sugar tariff.
A bill designed to break up the
shipping i-ools was offered in the
house.
There is no previous record of such
a Hood as nou prevails in the lower
Mississippi valley.
A bill authorizing the appointment,
of dental suigecns in the navy was
passed by the s' ttate.
Senator Bailey blamed woman and
labor agitator- for the v.ar declared
i>a phowphe ms matches.
Accord!:;s t<> a Ion-cast at Washing
ton tl: • lower Mississippi floods will
be the worst cn record.
• : !• the avri*
<• .Viral do. ann,. ut's actions in the
Florida evt rgladt s case.
So r< n.isays a majority of
the republican national committeemen
are favorable to Ta.t.
Senator Pixels pronis-s "big
speeches" by <olonc! Roosevelt in his
coming tour of the south.
t'aptain V ship returns from'
south polar region with news that he
is still far Irom the pole.
Cas.s involving the power of the
states over railroad rates are before
the federal supreme court.
Miners in both anthracite and bi
tuminous held cease work, pending
settlement of wage dispute.
Twenty-one thousand settlers for
th.* Canadian northwest arrived in
Winnipeg from the old country.
Socialists were defeated in Mil
waukee and LaFollctte ran well ahead
in the Wisconsin statewide primary.
Miss Katie ,'landell. en route from
Russia to Omaha, but detained at Eilis
island, has been order, d release-d.
The house ]>assed. 172 to 17, a bill
creating a children's bureau in the
department of commerce and labor.
The fourteenth annual convention
of the National Association of Re
tail IJruegi-ts will be held in Milwau
kee, August 2C-3I.
Rear Admiral Nicholson assumed
command of the- newly organizes
“China squadron," and raised his Hag
on the Rainbow .
national ana -ate uaiins io me
mimtifr of 3.000 or more will be ic
teiTOKaiHl by the house money trust
a' estimating committee.
The East< rn S*ar Masonic home, an
it-titution tor old members of Mason
ic and Eastern Star orders of Iowa,
burned to the ground at Boone.
Funeral services for Galbraith P.
Rodgers. the aviator, were held in
Pasadena. Cal.. ar.d the body was
sent to Pittsburgh, Pa., for burial.
James Wilson, secretary of the De
partment of Agriculture, delivered his
first sp- ech in Illincis in favor of the
re-election of President Taft of Cham
paign.
Senator Crawford's bill, looking to
an international inquiry into the high
■ ost of living, was ordered favorably
repotted by the senate committee on
foreign relations.
Comm: nder Spencer S. Wood of
the navy. Admiral Dewey’s aide from
P.*i<4 to l‘*08. will get no additional
pay for those services, according to
a supreme court decision.
It is arainst the law for a lodge or
club t > sell intoxicants in a county in
Mis.-ot::i which ha voted out saloons
an jrd.ng to a decision of the Kansas
City court of appeals.
Beatrice Anna Baldwin Turnbull,
alleged daughter of Elias L. (Lucky)
1 Baldwin, has lost her long fimht in the
' ourts to get a share of the $30,000,
; ”oo estate left by the famous turfman.
This Is what Madero of Mexico
j says: "Whatever happens I shall be
t found at my post. I shall not resign.
Reports that have been published that
I intend to 1< ave the presidency are
untrue."
As a result of the alleged insubor
dination of Privates Frank Carroll and
Prank Cunningham. Sergeant Clarence
Britten, who is in charge cf the Yel
lowstone National Park, asserts he
was compelled to shoot both men.
Senator Ashbur.-t. one of Arizona's
first 'lumbers in tile upper house of
eongres-. said he would soon intro
duce a bill for the recall of judges,
hut would not include the supreme
court of the Pni’.ed States In its pro
visions.
Secretary of State Knox visited the
country which gave birth to L’Ouver
tiire. Dessalines and Christophe. the
three great negro revolutionists of
Havti. and at the presidential dinner
gave some advice to the present-day
negro republicans as to how to obtain
prosperity through internal peace and
international good behavior.
Personal.
Aviator Cal P. Rodgers was killed
by a fall at Long Beach, Cal.
General Grant, not in good health
has gone south to recuperate.
\Y. J. Bryan crltised both Taft and
Harmon in his Des Moines speech.
In the Vermont primaries Taft got
4111 and Roosevelt 245.
I.ast words from Capt. Scott put him
150 miles from the south pole.
The senate has just been enlarged
by four new senators from New Mex
ico and Arizona.
Webster Snyder, one of the builders
of the t'nion Pacific, died at Dallas,
Texas.
The daughter of Senator Ija. Follette
is ntikirs some addresses in Xe
j bra ska.
Lasted States Senator Taylor of
Tennessee died in Washington Sun
day.
General Leonidas Piaza has been
elected president of Fduador.
Governor Foss had his name with
drawn from the Massachusetts ballot.
Colonel Roosevelt discussed the
rights of popular rule in a St. Louis
speech.
Emperor Nicholas will meet the Ger
man emperor in Finnish water in
July.
Mr. Roosevelt says the president
mistakes himself when he says he is
a progressive.
Senator Stone of Missouri placed
the brand of party traitor on both
J Harmon and Wi*on»
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TO MARK MERIDIAN ROAD FROM
WINNIPEG TO THE GULF.
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE
_
What is Going on Here and Thera
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Lincoln — Fire originating in the
kitchen of "The Inn" restaurant on
South Twelfth street did $40,000 dam
age in the Funke block Monday morn
ing. It was not controlled until it
had been fenght by tiie entire depart
ment for more than three hours. Ex
tensa e damage was sustained by
every tenant in the south half of the
building, and water and smoke dam- i
age extended north to the front. At |
one time a large section of the entire
block seemed certain of destruction.
John Smailc Died in Denver.
Fremont.—News has reached Fre
mont of the death in Denver of John
Smsftls, a brother of Cashier Will ;
Sniails of the Farmers & Merchants |
National bank and N. \V. Smails, for- |
mer editor of tire Fremont Herald, i
The deceased was a soldier of the i
civil war and was captured by the i
confederates in the battle of Bull Run.
lie served two years in a rebel prison.
Peculiar Joy Ride.
Gretna—Two young men, Roy Dris
coll and Joe Schmitt, starting out for |
a joy ride in a tank here, were swept
out into the current of the tiood and
carried down stream, unable to control '
their unwieldy craft. They were res- i
cued by George Humphrey, who threw I
them a rope from the Elkhorn bridge
and towed them to shore.
To Mark Meridian Road.
Strotnsburg—The Meridian road, ex
tending from Winnipeg. Canada, to the
Gulf, passes through Stromsburg. and
at a meeting of the commercial club j
a committee was appointed to put in
place road marks made for this pur
pose by the .Meridian roan association. !
Harbinger of Spring.
Exeter.—M. S. Rasmussen, a rural
carrier, brought a small grasshopper
to town the other day. It was found
and captured while out enjoying the
sun. He is being exhibited us a proof
1 that spring is here.
Mr. Bryan to Speak at Peru.
Peru—W. J. Bryan has been secured
to deliver the commencement address
at Peru on the 24th of May. His sub
ject will be "Signs of the Times."
NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE. |
The records of the secretary of state i
| show that the state university ex- ]
1 pended for all purposes, except build
ing. a total of $105,003.37 during the
month of March.
State Pood Commissioner Hansen
, an<l State Chemist Redferu have gone
to Manhattan. Kas.. to inquire into
the work of the food commissioner of
Kansas, who has made much advance
i tnent in the regulation and control of
| creamery companies.
I Deputy Attorney General Ayres, in
j reply to a question from Seward
I county, has said that a county judge
w ho is doing an abstract business and
I who has given bond under the law
! regulating abstracters, has a right to
j retain fees which he collects for the
j making of abstracts of title outside
of his official work.
State Land Commissioner Cowles ,
and Adjutant General Phelps held a !
conference in regard to the list of j
new articles of kitchen and dining >
room furniture needed at the peniten
tiary. ‘ The state will not buy Havi
land china for the convicts' dining
table, but will probably replace gran
iteware with aluminum trimmed with
gold,’’ remarked Mr. Cowles.
cuuie iroasurer ueorge s monthly
report shpws that there was $570,
699.94 in the treasury at the close of
j March, of which $295,758 is tempo
I rarv school money and must be paid
out to the different counties for the
support of public schools some time in
May. The amount on hand the first
of March was $61S.624. Of the funds
now in the treasury $5,740.37 is cash
on hand. $504.262.9S cash on deposit
in depository banks and $60,696.59 con
sists of state warrants on hand.
James Walsh of Omaha, who re
cently tried to present to the governor
a fine specimen of the Chinook salmon
from the Campbell river, British Co
lombia. and who failed through the
ignorance of cold storage men who cut
off the head and tail of the fish, suc
ceeded in his second presentation.
The fish given to the governor will be
presented to the university museum
to be mounted. It weighs forty-five
pounds and was caught by Mr. Walsh
last summer and has since been in
cold storage.
That Tom Davis, who slashed the
throat of a fellow-convict, John
Strong, intends to fight his case to
the finish when he is arraigned and
later tried was evidenced when he
asked Warden Melick to summon
Allen Field, jr„ to act as an attorney
for him. Mr. Field was called and
entered into conference with the pris
oners. To prison otficers Davis re
fuses to discuss the murder of Strong,
and further than the statement made
that he got Strong because Strong
had threatened to kill him nothing
will be said by the convict murderer.
Governor Aldrich has received a re
quest from ten members of a grand
jury that convened at Alliance to in
stitute ouster proceedings against
Mayor Fred W. Harris and Chief of
Police John B. Hunsacker and Night
Marshal Floyd R. Donovan of Alliance.
State Game Warden Henry V. Miller
has received word that the grand jury
of Saunders county has returned an
indictment against Dick Sutton and
his oldest son, Tom Andrews and Al
fred Larson, for shooting and killing
a deer near Wahoo last fall. The in
dicted men have given bonds in the
sum of $500 to appear for trial.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
There are said to be over 130,000
Catholics iu the territory of Nebraska.
Mrs. Catherine Xeligh, the first
white woman to settle in Cuming
county, is dead.
A Wesleyan endowment banquet
was held at Arlington. Tuesday night,
with an attendance of fifty men.
A new public drinking fountain for
the accommodation of both man *ud
beast is to be installed at Callaway.
Fremont is the first Nebraska city,
with the exception of Omaha, to put
the Bertilliou system of measurements
into use.
One hundred and forty-seven hunt
ers in York county have taken out
licenses tor 1913 since the first oi
January.
Mrs. Petersen, the aged woman w ho
fell and broke her leg at Daunebrog.
has since died. She w as ninety-three
years of age.
While working with a stubborn
gasoline engine at Winside. Henry
Waicker had the bones of his right
hand broken.
A tin shower was given to Mr. and
Mrs. George Harris at their new home
at Shubert by sixty of the young
couple's friends.
Alliance Elks will have a fair. April
15 to 20, proceeds to be applied to the
building fund tor the contemplated
hall in that ptaee.
Frederick Sudman, one of the
pioneers of western Nebraska, .died
at his home at Chappell after an ill
ness of one week.
Jacob Sollenberger, aged eighty six
years, died at York Sunday night.
Mr. Solicitbergei had been in feeble
health for some time.
Nearly a hundred ministers and
delegates were present at the Nebras
ka conference of the Swedish Luth
eran church at Axtell. just closed.
Prof. W. C. Noll, principal of the
Fairmont high school, has resigned
his position to accept the position of
principal of tjie McCool public schools
April 11 and 12 are the dates set fer
the annual conference of ministers in
the Omaha district of the Methodist
church, whiclt will be held in Fremont.
The board of directors of the Stan
ton County Agricultural society has
fited the dates for the holding of the
Stanton county fair this year as Au
gust 27 to 33.
Beatrice has aa aero club, which is
devoted to the serious purpose of pro
moting aeronautics, and the members
of which have already produced sev
eral machines which actually fly.
Will Johnson, a former Hastings
boy. who is now in the Pacific roast
league had the distinction of being
the first outfielder to be definitely
piclted from the bunch of San Fran
cisco recruits.
Dr. H. H. Waite, city bacteriologist
has reported to the Lincoln city coun
cil that since his last report, a month
or more ago. he has made fifty-eight
tests of water samples, and has found
most excellent conditions.
A mule owned by George Meyers of
Johnson broke one of its legs while
playing in the lot. Instead of shoot
ing him Mr. Meyers set the bones,
built a box around the broken member,
and the mule is getting well.
An order has been placed for a
Fertillion system outfit for the Fre
mont police station. The city and
the county will install the system to
gether and both the police and sher
iff's offices will have the use of it.
Farmers and cattle raisers around
Nebraska City are becoming alarmed
over the shortage of hay. Many of
the stock feeders will have to ship to
market because it is almost impossible
to get hay at any price near their
homes.
The Rev. G. L. Graham of Russell.
Kas.. has been secured by the I’nited
Brethren church of York to fill the
vacancy in that pulpit caused by the
death of the Rev. Mr. Arnold a few
weeks ago. Mr. Graham will take
charge about the first of May.
Miss Amelia Wille. principal of the
Greggsport school, while on her way
home in company with Miss Stahlhut.
was attacked near the postoffice by a
man who ran up behind her, grabbed
her pocketbook. threw her down and
made his escape before anyone could
come to her aid.
Hereaner tramps win prooaoiy re
ceive a pretty cool reception when
they visit York, if the ruling of the
board of supervisors is carried. It
has been the custom heretofore to
have meals and other good things
handed to the fraternity charged to
the county. The board will refuse to
pay in the future and the city of York
will either nave to pay these bills or
send the "bo" on his way unfed.
A temperance ticket will oppose
the citizens ticket at the spring elec
tion at Callaway.
The weather observer at Wahoo
reports that six feet of snow has
fallen at that place since October 1,
1911. This is equivalent to nine
inches of water.
With no new cases of cerebro
spinal meningitis reported in Nebras
ka for three weeks, physicians of the
state have now no fear that the dis
ease might secure a foothold in the
state.
Martha, the two and one-half year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Sherman, residing near Cortland, was
severely scalded about the arms by
falling into a boiler of hot water.
As a result of a chicken incubator
exploding in the house of William H.
Hare, near Fairbury. a disastrous fire
was barely averted. Mrs. Hare was
awakened by the smell of blazing pine
and on investigation found a sheet of
dame rolling up the walls of the
kitchen near the incubator. The little
stove had exploded and the building
was on fire. By hard work the blaze
was extinguished.
Plans for carrying out more goc-d
roads work in the county during the
summer will be made by members of
the Dodge 'County Automobile asso
ciation.
E. H. Purcell of Broken Bow has
kept a flock of 110 pullets over win
ter. They were healthy young hens
of a superior breed and had just ar
rived at the laying stage. On opening
the poultry house door one morning,
Mr. Purcell was amazed to find his
flock piled up over the floor, the
greater part of them dead and others
in a dying condition. It is believed
they were poisoned.
FLOOD IS TERRIFIC
THOUSANDS OF SQUARE MILES
ARE INUNDATED.
MHT OF PEOPLE HOMELESS
Levees Are Constantly Breaking and
Around Cairo, III., tne Country
is One Big Ocean.
Cairo. 111.—Thirty •thousand persons
homeless, 2.t>0!) square miles of coun
try inundated, thirty persons drowned
and a financial loss of $10,000,000 con
stitute the result of a two weeks' flood
iu the Missouri valley.
These figures were arrived at by
government engineers and officials of
state levee boards engaged in battling
the ravaging sweep of tile Mississippi
river from points in Illinois to threat
ened places in Mississippi and Arkan
sas.
Water is pouring into Arkansas
through three new break in the levee
south of Memphis. These gave way
and several hundred square miles are
subject to flooding.
Railroad traffic in these sections is
practically paralyzed. Hundreds of
persons still are menaced by the tide
of the river at points in lower Mis
souri, northwest Tennessee and Ar
kansas. They are marooned on house
tops, in trees and on anchored rafts
directly in the sweep of the river.
Conservative judgment at Memphis
last night was expressed in belief
that the great majority of these flood
prisoners would be rescued.
The most dangerous jioint in the
flood situation Sunday was at Gold
en lake, the Arkansas levee guarding
the pressure of the Mississippi. Had
this embankment been breached it
would have added to the tide already
sweeping through northwest Arkan
sas. At U o'clock at night the Golden
lake levee held and as it continued to
baffle the swirl of the flood danger in
the southern part of the valley in
creased. As long as the flood remains
in the levees north the strain on the
southern embankments increases.
Hourly the danger zone works
southward. In their upper reaches
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers are
practically at a standstill. This moans
that the flood's crest now is exerted
on the dikes from the Missouri line
southward.
There has been suffering among
thosands of refugees gathered in the
towns in the flood district. However,
this situation cannot continue, be
cause officials of the slate and federal
government are working to carry food
to the homeless.
State and levee board officials in
the districts south of Memphis have
been laboring to top the threatened
levees. Mississippi state officials think
their embankment will hold. Never
theless the menace to states border
ing the Mississippi south of Memphis
will not have ceased until the great
river's rushing waters have hurled
themselves into the gulf.
Cairo at this time is an island city,
surrounded by an ocean of water, the
crest of which is ten feet higher than
the average level of the city. In
many places this wall of water stands
twenty feet higher than the street
Generous donations from all ]>arts of
Kentucky are being sent to Hickman
to aid the 3.500 flood refugees who
have struggled into that city.
Workers Want Free Speech.
San Francisco. Cal.—With the
events of the last week, the struggle
between the employers of the Pacific
coast and the Industrial Workers of
the World, has narrowed.
A manifesto issued by the San
Diego Free Speech league says the
league is making the tight to spread
open shop propaganda. The question
of higher wages and shorter hours
has been eliminated, at least tempo
rarily, in the northwest by the stand
of the strikqps on the sole issue of
recognition of the Industrial Workers’
organization.
Sergeant Walsh Claims Record.
San Francisco.—Sergeant Clem
ents Walsh, aged 61 years, claims the
record for the walking round trip
from San Francisco to New York,
having arrived at the Presidio late
Sunday. The previous record, held by
Edward Payson Weston, was eighteen
days longer.
Governor Wilson Robbed.
Chicago.—Thieves, apparently with
political affiliations, broke into the
rooms of Governor W oodrow Wilson
of New Jersey and stole a suitcase
full of private correspondence and
papers belonging to Governor Wilson.
Mother Found Guilty.
North Yakima, Wis.—Mrs. Eva Bet'
lalon. on trial for the murder of her
in an irrigated ditch, was found
in an irrigated dittch, was found
guilty of manslaughter.
Riot Cases Are Dismissed.
Albert Lea, Minn.—On the motion i
of the county attorney “the Glenville
riot cases" were dismissed in the dis
trict court here. Nearly one year ago
Dr. J. P. Freeman of Glenville was
tarred and feathered as he left his ,
office for his home.
Again Under Arrest.
Chicago.—Alfred H. Monroe, presi
dent of the Globe asscciation. was ar
rested by United States officers on a
warrant charging he was about to for
feit his bonds of $5,0(H).
Crazy Snake Reported Dead.
Oklahoma City, Okl.—Crazy Snafle,
the Indian responsible for the last
rising in Oklahoma, died here Friday
according to a report received from
Vioeta. The old chief’s end came near
Old Hickory, the stamping ground of
the Creeks in 1908.
Four Delegates for Clark.
Milwaukee. — Latest returns from
the state preference primary show
Champ Clark will have at least
four delegates to the national demo
cratic convention.
WALLS OF CHINESE CITIES
Immense Structures to Be Demolished
to Make Way for Modern
improvements.
Shanghai. China.—The decision to
demolish the ancient wall surround
ing Shanghai city is an interesting
sign of the times as well as the pre
liminary to an ambitious scheme of
development. J
Scores of coolies were at work,
says the North China Daily News,
with pick and shovel on that portion
of the city rampart which faces the
street leading to the old yamen. The
Cojyri^fct. I'ruierwuod «£. I'Dtl* rwuod, N. Y.
Fort on the Great Wail.
~a!l itseif is several times wider than
the alley ways along which pedestrians
and rickshas make their devious and
difficult way in that part of the city.
The space acquired by the removal of
the wall should therefore, if used to
best advantage, be of considerable
value.
It appears to have been suddenly
discovered that the wall is useless as
a means of defense and that it is an
ugly impediment to the development
and improvement of the native quar
ters. The work was put in hand im
mediately the order went forth from
the town hall works department that
it was to be executed without fail.
The owners and inhabitants of
shanties on the wall have been or
dered to remove these, and any
fences, material, etc., which would
impede the progress of the work. An
outcry might have been expected,
since the scheme had been strongly op
posed, but the order has been quietly
accepted. In fact very little Interest
seems to have been aroused by the
work, even though it inaugurates a
striking change.
Two of the principal gates in the
city wall of Hangchow have been
removed. At Canton the republican
government has ordered an investiga
tion as to the population and the num
ber of houses along the wall inside
and outside the city. The officials
deputed to the work are to report
in a month, submitting a list of the
houses and residents, together with a
scheme for the demolition of the en
tire city wall.
RISE AND FALL OF MINE TOWNS
Bubble of Popularity Frequently Is
Quickly Punctured in Many
Gold Camps.
Vancouver, B. C.—"It don’t take
long to puncture tbe bubble of a
town's popularity,” remarked Paul C.
Stephens, formerly of Washington, at
the New Ebbltt. Mr. Stephens has
been in nearly every mining camp
which has sprung up in recent years
in the west, Alaska and British Co
lumbia. "The average person in the
east," he continued, "does not com
prehend what great gold mines there
are in the small places of the west
about which one hears but little. Take
Nevada, for instance. I think the
largest gold producing mine in the
world is located there, near Goldfield,
which yields more than $1.000,000 a
month. In Colorado there are scores
of mines that are yielding fortunes,
but they are rarely heard of. Gold
field, Nev„ at the time of the boom,
grew into a city of nearly 30,000 popu
lation. Today, with the fever gone, it
has scarcely 3.000. Rawhide, which
was another of the great gold •finds/
had at one time more than 20,000 peo
ple, but there are not more than 300
or 400 residents there today.
“The realty values of Goldfield have
depreciated so much that property is
worth comparatively little. Lots that
were selling during the boom for as
high as $50,000 are offered now for
$2,000, and there are no buyers. It is
almost sad to walk the streets of
Goldfield and see the vacant business
blocks that were erected by investors
who were carried away for the mo
ment by the gold craze.
"In British Columbia, on tbe Frazier
river, is a little place called Barkers
ville, which is populated by perhaps 75
or 100 persons, mostly Chinamen.
There was a time when Barkersvllle
had 30,000 people in it and was a
thriving mining camp.”
TEETH WORTH SI .500 EACH
Mao Who Lest Eight Is Awarded
$12,000 Damages by New
York Jury.
New York.—It is very expensive to
knock eight good teeth from a man’s
head, as the Brooklyn Heights Rail
road company learned In I.ong Island
City, when a jury brought In a verdict
of $12,000 against the company. The
jury decided that each tooth was
worth $1,500.
The case was that of Axe! Home
stead. an insurance man of Rrooklyn.
He was about to board a trolley car
In October, 1910, when he was struck
and knocked down by another car.
Thieves Burn Man’s Hands.
New York.—Vincenzo Glardaneesco,
explaining why he needed his burned
hands treated, told Harlem hospital
physicians that two men demanding
money of him tried to set him on fire
when he refused It
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The woman who suffers in silence
usually manages to make a lot of
noise about it.
Poor Fellow!
“He has n8 control over his limbs."
“You wouldn’t if you had had your
leg pulled as often as he has.”
Defined.
Freddie—Say, dad, what’s morbid
curiosity?
Cobwigger—That’s what the fellow
has who butts in ahead of yon and
keeps you from seeing anything.
Extra Inducement.
Cohen, the clothier, followed a cus
tomer out to his buggy.
“Dot's a pretty fine horse you are
driving,” he commented approvingly.
“Yes, he’s a good one.”
"How much would you sell him for?”
“Seventy-five dollars.”
“Mein Gott! is he silk lined?"—
Everybody's.
Demand for New Alloy.
Although the early expectations of
the wholesale substitution of alum
J inum for steel and iron have not ma
terialized. the demand for the new al
| loy has grown enormously. FTom a
I production in the United States of
j less than 100,000 pounds in 1883, in
1S93 the output had grown to 350,000
j pounds. 1903 to 7,500,000 pounds and
today it is in excess of 50,000,000
pounds.
His Number.
He gazed tenderly into her eyes as
she spoke.
"Life," she murmured dreamily, “Is,
after all, nothing but a romance In
which we are characters, moving hith
er and yon as the supreme author of
1 our being directs."
i “And in the novel of 7our life,”
I said he tenderly, "where do I come
in?”
"You,” she answered with a smile.
"Oh, you are—let me see—one, two,
three—you are Chap Seventeen.”—
Harper's Weekly.
Shocked.
He—Well, my dear, what did the
landscape gardener I sent out from
town say about making the artificial
lake where we wanted it?
She—He was most profane about it.
He told me the site we wanted wasn’t
worth a dam.
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