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The Loup City Northwestern i. W. BIHLElCn. Publisher LOUP CITY, . • NEBRASKA i I NEWS ttlil TOLD INTELLIGENCE HERF GATHERED COVERS WIDE AREA. 6BEATEB OB LESSEB IMPORT Inglodoa What la Going On at Wa»lv lagtcMt and In Other Sactiana ef th« Country. Pottical Notea. Woodrou Wilson spoke at Buffalo, Ke» York. Labor day. f'ol Ruoaete!; has started on a political tour to last a month Governor Johnson, progressive can didate ‘or vu*~president, spoke at Lincoln The Nebraska progressive party in ••ate eonveei'ion rndoraed the repub- ' liras ticket. Eugene V Ilebe. socialist candidate for ike presidency, addressed a large croud is Portland. Or*. Roosevelt. principal speaker at the Missouri progressive convention, as ao’Wd Wilson and Arrhbold There uaa no majority for governor In the Vermont election and the ley H 1st ore mil have to decide it. Maine a upon the last seek of the campaign preceding the state elec >oa os September 9. when state < ffi i -r» and four members of congress till be chosen - i A large tarose mt UbtcIb. Neb., witnessed the unveiling of the Lin coln statue The i tilted State* la expected to refuo* to arbitrate the canal dispute v-i.b Great Britain President Taft made a talk to fed eral employe* on making appoint ments and the civil service. Acting Ieiucrni Chairman McAdoe sees no prospect of the presidential •lee- mmi going into the house tisirrsor Woodrow Wilson weighs ITT pounds, n gain of seven pounds Move the time of his nomination. There are only half n dozen state*. Colonel Roosevelt said, which he be lieve* President Taft has a chance of earrviag One of these, be said, is Two an t»r» burned to death In : the Central hotel at Bellevue. Idaho, when tor of them upset a kerosene lamp The fire destroyed an entire Idoca at building*. rres.a--! Jiaoeru telegraphed his j congratulations to President Taft on escaping injury at Columbus, (j. when n woman armed with a knife lay in wait for him John SeaH president of the Mag aolia Petroleum company, charged in aa Indictment returned at Dallas with'notation of the federal anti-trust ’ law issued a statement denying the j allegation A complete disapproval is given by f * Britieh 'oresga office of the so called official announcement -hat the ! British government would formally demand arbitration on the Panama canal foUs question. Jan.es H Brady, former governor • of Idaho for nest president, and Wichita. Kan. for the nest meet,tig | glare of the Trabsmissiastppi Com- j mrrc-ai congreg*. were at the Salt j Lake convention. It is possible That the American cavalry along the Mexican border line will base to be increased, according to a dispatch received at the War de- \ partment from General S:sever, com ■landing tbe Department of Texas The declaration that the protective lar.fi system was directly responsible j for campaign cotunbution* from cor porations was made at a democratic i rally m Bangor. Me., by Governor Thomas If Marshall of Indiana "la sixty days we will base' edu- ; rated the people of the (’sited State* S quarter of a century is advance of where they have been before.** said ( Governor I!tram W. Johnson of Call- • forma in aa address in Salt I-akr City. At FI.at. \2.cb . in tW of , hundred, of persons. fourteen year-old ' Cheater Betts. ass accidentally j caaght by tbe guy rope of a balloon aad carried about 2.0*0 feet in the air before tbe rope untangled and buried him to his death Mrs Frank Lankford and her three children John. 21 year*. Mabel. 12 year*, and Francis. 4 years old. a ere drowned three miles below Lansing. Iowa, ahea their boat aaa upset in a collision *:th a gasoline launch driv en by a younger aon •’ M Wood, president of the Amecwan Woolen company, pleaded not guilty in the superior conn at Hcaam to aa mdic’ meet charging him with conspiring to distribute dyna mite in t .a ■ fence during the textile strike la that city last winter. John A Flack, defaulting cashier of the AbUene t Kansas >. State bank, ar med from Ne» York and was ar raigaed oa a charge of forgery, waived extradition and mas bound over for trial In the district court. Flack ass released on tk.MNi bond. A temSe eieetneal and rainstorm aver aeotent Pennsylvania tied up traffic ai d crippled wire communics Uoa at many points Secretary of State Phliander C. Knot, aba stopped at Honolulu en (•ate to Japan vat enter*ained at a roreptiee by Governor Krcar. at the tatters home. George C Perkins. Cnlted States senator from California, announced aa bts ret am from Washington hia Intention to ret ire from political life, •failing health and the tsCrwliies due to oNI age were given aa the reason Cor this decision Former Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana will take tbe stump for President Taft early hi September Belated dispatches received at tbe Plate departn.«at told of tbe failure to establish telegraphic and railroad nommaalratioo hetwoaa Managua and the aeacoaat towns. Mrs. Edna Hutt, wife of Henry Hutt, the artist, was denied s decres of divorce in district court in Reno. Mexican rebels have surrounded Cananea. where many Americans are located at the copper campp, and sn attack is imminent The women of Ohio failed on Tues day in their effort to gain the ballot, according to early returns. The business portion of Malstone. a town in Fergus county, Montana, was destroyed by fire. Funds for circulating petitions for the recall of Governor Oswald West of Oregon are being sought in Port land. An expedition to climb Mount Me. Kinley next spring has been organ ized by C E. Rusk, an editor of Prosser. The American Rid Cross society allowed fl.Wt for the purchase of food supplies for the suffering people j in Nicaragua. Further evidence was introduced in I the government's anti-trust suit j against the lumbermen's association i of the northwest. The balloon Kansas City II. John Watts, pilot, won The ballon race for the Antlers' trophy which started from Colorado Springs. Colonel Roosevelt »ill be in Omaha on September 20. remaining over meht. according to advices received at the offices of the Burlington. Mrs Anita Calvert Bourgeoipe of St. Louis, attorney, genealogist, bio- j grapher and suffrage orator, will en 1st as a campaign speaker for Wood- ; row Wilson. Accompanied by Empress Augusta ! Victoria. Emperor William celebrated ■ the eve if Sedan day by attending di- I vine service held in the’open air in j 'he Tempelhofer Fold. Governor Woodrow Wilson talked ! abouT trusts with Louis D. Brandeis of Boston and expressed himself on immigration before a delegation of Italian* from Essex county. New Jer- | sey. To prepare for the opening of the j Panama canal, the coast survey has made a thorough examination of the Pacific entrance to the waterway and the charting of the harbor will be un dertaken at once. President Gomez sent a lca*t apolo getic cable dispatch to President Taft j ■n connection with the attack on Hugh > Gibson, the American charge d'affaires at Havana by Enrique Ma ta. a newspaper reporter. As a result of several conferences between the officials of the Chicago. Peoria A St. I.ouis railroad and a committee of carmen the railroad company granted an advance of 2 cents an hour in wages. Salomon Luna, millionaire banker and sheep owner, for sixteen times republican national committeeman for New Mexico, was found dead in a dipping vat at hi* sheep ranch, sev enty miies from Magdalena. N. M. Five detectives returned empty handed last night after following sev eral false clues as to the where about* of "Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty Louie." the two missing gunmen wanted tn the Rosenthal murder case. Secretary Knox refused on his ar rival at Honolulu to make any com ment on Theodore Roosevelt's denial ! that he had ever said in the presence of Mr Knox that letters to George B. Cortelyou were written “to make good the record.” Emphatic demands upon the Pan ama government to control the Pan ama police and put an end to the gross brutality with which Americans, soldiers, sailors and civilians, have been treated, have been issued by the American state department. In an interpretation of the contract eight-hour law Attorney General Wickersham has decided that the government may enter into contracts "Without restricting the hours of labor for the purchase of supplies and other articles exempted by the act. Two secret indictments were return ed b> the Suffolk county grand jury in connection with the alleged con spiracy to distribute dynamite in 1-awrence during the textile strike there last winter. One indictment contained the name of one man, and the other named three men. Republicans of North Carolina came to the parting of the ways and two siate conventions were held, one by 'he supporters of President Taft and another hv the followers of Colonel Rtiosevelt. As a result of the clash •here will be two electoral and two state tickets in the field. • losing hours of the Missouri stats progressive ronvention at St. Ixiuis , witnee.~ed a sharp debate over the < nomination of three non-partisan candidates for the supreme court. I The matter was finally settled with the nomination of progressive candi dates. along -with a full state ticket beaded by Judge Albert D. Nortoni of the St. Ixrnis court of appeals. An offer of support from republi cans of Missouri was rejected by Colonel Roosevelt. It was learned, on the terms under which It was ten dered. The offer was that if Colonel Roosevelt would induce the Missouri progressives to refrain from putting a full state ticket in the field and would endorse the republican candi dates the sunoort from republican woirres would be given. The conditions in Nicaragua are re assuring with ‘Rear Admiral Suther land in supreme command. Personal. President Taft is not going to make any speeches during the campaign. The body of Gen. Booth lay in state two days before burial. Woodrow Wilson is in favor of the public using school buildings for meeting places. George C. Perkins, I'nited States senator from California, announced his intention to retire from political life. The people lend too ready an ear to demagogues, says Senator Suther land in address before bar associa tion. Woodrow Wilson advises people to use school houses for community gatherings. Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin, reported quite ill, has started on the road to recovery. P C. Dodge, head of the linotype trust, has been granted a divorce from his wife, who deserted him. President Taft has ordered an in vestigation of the board of general appraisers. PROGRESSIVES MEET! ASSEMBLE IN LINCOLN AND EN DORSE REPUBLICAN NOM INEES. NAME TWO NEW ELECTORS But the Six Said to Be Opposed to President Taft Are Given Endorsement. Lincoln.—In a lengthy session, in terspersed by a long recess and by an eloquent address on the issues of the day by the progressive candidate for vice president, Hiram Johnson of California, the progressive party of Nebraska figured out what it consid ered its salvation, says the Lincoln Journal. It endorsed, or renominated as its candidates. Congressman G. W. Norris for United States senator. Chester H. Aldrich for governor, and the entire republican state ticket, re gardless of the fact, known to the con vention, that four of the candidates have a personal preference for Presi dent Taft. It endorsed six of the re publican candidates for presidential electors, those said to be opposed to President Taft and who are said gen erally to be ready to refuse to vole for him if elected, and named in place of the two Taft adherents on this ticket two known progressives. It presented a platform which aided in cementing the progressive faction of the republican party by embodying in this declaration of principles most of the planks of the republican plat torm adopted on July 30, and adding Just a few new ideas. Called nrst to oraer snoruy a:>er noon Tuesday the convention did not adjourn until almost midnight. A: one time during its deliberations the floor reserved for active participants in gathering contained about 800 per sons. a number of w horn were women who could not legally be counted as having a voice. Many of these left the hall at the conclusion of Gover nor Johnson's address, and the real business session was transacted by a number which towards the end was reduced to not more than 250 persons. The gathering was conspicuous for the intermingling of persons of differ ent former political faith. There were men who had been most active in the pre-primary republican fight, several of them having been delegates to the Chicago convention. There were pop ulist who have many years have been closely identified with the fight of that party, such being C. B. Manuel and John C. Sprecher. There were democrats not far removed from act ive effort in that party. E. O. Gar rett, democratic candidate for lieuten ant governor in lb08. took an active part in the debate. Henry C. Richmond, democratic candidate at present for state auditor, was mingling with the delegates in the lobby of the hotel, attended the non-partison reception to the chief speaker of the day. and was an inter ested onlooker at the convention. Sev eral republican candidates for state office visited the hotel at times dur ing the day. Two or three of them watched proceedings from the galler ies. The candidate for lieutenant governor, S. R. McKelvie, was wear ing a bull moose badge during the day although he was not present in the convention hall. E. R. Bee of Fairbury and other members of the present state committee of the repub licans were onlockers. and in appar ent sympathy with the movement. Harry Sackett of Beatrice, prominent in republican politics of his county, made an especial trip to watch the convention, and to take part in the re ception to Governor Johnson. As the progressive ticket will be made up when it is presented to the secretary of siate for a place on tho November ballot and for a party des iui.aron tb.eieon, it will contain the names cf tnese candidates for ^lect ors: A. \. v>ease of Faubury. W. J. Broatch of Omaha. W. E. Thorne of Bladen, A. R. Davis of Wayne. lien Johnson cf Fremont. George S. Flory of Daw-nee, City. W. O. He-iry of Oma ha. and O. G. Smith of Kearney. The latter twe will not have the republi can designation after their names, they having been named as progress i\es aione to take the plac?3 cf Wes ley Wilcox of North Platte and A. C. Hennery of Omaha, republican elect oral candidates who are for Taft. Aside from these two changes the ticket will be identical with the re publican state ticket. Pau! Clark was nominated by the progressives of the First district as their candidate, but no other congressional conventions wpre held. These decisions did not come with out a lively tilt, which apparently end ed without any sore spots. A com mittee on nominations had been nam ed shortly after noon and was in ses sion most of the afternoon. It recom mended to the convention the action California Primaries. San Francisco.—Figures received at this meeting from primary election indicated that Taft congressional nominees had carried the Third. Fourth, Sixth. Seventh and Eighth districts. Roosevelt republican can didates won in the Second. Fifth, Ninth and Tenth districts. The First •and Eleventh are in doubt. In 588 precincts the total republican vote was 30.066; democratic, 3.874; socia list, 1,606 There were democratic contests in only four districts of the state. Mr. Leavitt Again Marries. Fort Recovery, O—W. H. Leavitt, divorced husband of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of W. J. Bryan, was married here Sunday to Miss Ger trude M. Leeper, daughter of Rev. Edward Leeper, the bride's father per forming the ceremony. Only the bride's family was present. Miss Leeper is a graduate of Oberlin col lege and formerly taught sjnusic at Houston, Tex. Mr. Leavitt, who gave his residence as Newport, R. I., was exhibiting his painting “The Last Supper,” when he met Mias Leeper. that was finally taken. John C. Sprecher of Schuyler, & member of the provisional executive committee, led the fight to secure the passage of a resolution asking the six electors to withdraw from the republican ticket and to run as straight progressives. The committee recommended the endorsement of Governor Aldrich and Congressman Norris. Approval was secured without debate and without a dissenting voice. It recommended the rest of the state ticket in a lump. Mr. Van Deusen. who was opposed to this, said that he had been asked to see the state officers and find out their positions. He reported that Ad- i dison Wait, Grant G. Martin. W. A. j George and W. B. Howard were Taft i men, and that the others favor Roose- | \elt. The Taft candidates desired the progressive endorsement and admitt ed that without it they had little chance of election. They promised j to remain neutral as candidates and ' to give financial aid to the party. Van Deusen said that personally he was against Mr. Howard, but That he thought the entire ticket should he nominated. This statement led G. L. j Klingbe’.l to read a telegram from Mr. Howard in which he admitted he was for Taft, but promised to be neutral during the fall neither giving aid to Taft nor fighting Roosevelt E. O. Garrett rose valiantly in defense of Grant Martin, telling of the progress ive fights he had made with the at- ; torney general when both were popu lists and Bryan men. The resolutions were adopted with out a dissenting voice and without de bate. Chairman Don L. Love read them and received only a reasonable amount of applause as he made the points. The preamble expresses an abiding faith in the national platform of the party and in Roosevelt's con fession of faith, and pledges the par ty in, Nebraska to aid in carrying them out. The plank relating to in surance was amended from that of j the republican platform in that prom ise was given state insurance com panies of legislation to protect them from the inroads of foreign com panies. For the most part the platform was so similar to the republican state platform that it contained the same language. These planks are new in the progressive platform as compared with the republican platform: Offifficial publicity pamphlets. Open school houses for public meet ings. state-wide registration. Limitation of use of money in cam paigns. and stringent "corrupt practic es. Continuing, the platform embodies the following: "We believe in the principles brought forth by our great leader, Theodore Roosevelt, in his confession of faith before that convention, and we pledge ourselves to embody those principles in the statutes of the state of Nebraska, as far as it is possible to. "We believe in a permanent non partisan tariff commission, and we demand that tbose schedules of the present tariff which have already been proven exhorbitant be imme diately reduced. “While we believe in the strict en forcement of the Sherman anti tax law. and the prosecution and impris onment of all violators thereof, we do not believe that this will settle the trust problem, and we believe that non-partisan industrial commis sion should be created, with the same point over the monopolistic trusts that the interstate commerce com-; mission did oVer the railroads, be cause we do not believe that the common people of the nation will per manently permit any set of men to , control the output of any commodity, as well as the price. “We believe that the people who elect presidents have the right to nominate them, and we call upon con gress to speedily enact a general pres idential primary law. “We believe in the direct election of United States senators. “We can not ignore the fact that all over this land there is a growth of distrust of the federal judiciary, and we demand that congress enact a law limiting the power of inferior federal courts to set aside statutes of sovereign states, and we advocate the passage of a law that will require the president of the United States in sending to the senate a nomination for federal judge, to send therewith all the endorsements, written or oral of said candidate and objection there to. *"We believe in a thorough revision of our public road laws, looking to a more efficient system of road admin istration. to the end that the farmers may b? *ster means of transporta tion from their farms to the markets. “We believe in equal suffrage of women, and we pledge the progress ive party of Nebraska to do all in the power to bring it about. “We favor the enactment of a uni form marriage and divorce law. United States Senator Newell San ders of Tennessee, who obtained his j place recently by appointment, an nounced he would not be a candidate : for re-election. | Big Fire i« Beach Resoi'w. Los Angeles.—Fire, which originat ed from a defective flue at the Casino j cafe on the pleasure pier at Ocean park caused one death- and property loss estimated at $2,250,000. For a time it threatened to devastate the twin beach resorts of Ocean park end Venice, eighteen miles from Los An geles. High wind spread the flames so rapidly that seven men were caught at the end of the Frazier pier, on which the Casino was located and were forced to jump into the breakers to save themselves. Thirty-seven Believed Lost Lens, France.—Thirty-seven coal miners are believed to have been till ed in an explosion of Are damp Tues day afternoon in the Claence coal mine near Bruay, in the department of Nord. The explosion badly wreck ed the mine. Seventy-three men were working in the pit at the time. Thq work of rescue was started without delay, but proved extremely difficult, as the passages of the mine werq filled with a dense black vapor and the wall were about collapsing, mak ing the situation dangerous. Ml STATE TICKET IOWA PROGRESSIVES CONCLUDE TO GO IT ALONE. J. 1. STEVENS FOR GOVERNOR Col. Roosevelt. Beirg in the City, Spoke to 15,000 People in tns Coliseum. Des Moines. Ia.—The progressive party of Iowa gave Roosevelt a big demonstration Wednesday, pledged support to him and nominated a part of a state ticket, with Judge John L. Stevens of Boone, member of the national committee, as candidate for governor. Others on the state ticket are: W. S. Bemis. Spencer, ! lieutenant governor; H. A. Morey, Waverly,' secretary of state; N. F. Baker. Chariton, treasurer; C. J. My er. Elkader. auditor; John S. Ste vens, Mason City, railroad commis sioner; Henry Michel. Dubuque, and E. J. Stason, Sioux City, for supreme judges. No nominations were made for attorney general or state super intendent. The matter was fought in conven tion at length and the opposition to a state ticket made a desperate ef fort to prevent action, but was de feated overwhelmingly. About 501 j delegates participated. Selection of the ticket was made by a select committee, which reported the name3 of Judge Stevens and O. J. Moore of Sioux City as available | for govenor. but a telegram from 1 the latter declining left it to Stevens. The latter has said he would not ac- I cept. but a'ter the nomination, took it back and will make the race. A platform was adopted affirming : state and national platforms and de- ! glaring that a fall state ticket should be supported. Kooseveit speaks. Colonel Roosevelt spoke to 5.n00 persons who filled the Coliseum, de voting most of his time to the man ner in which he says he was cheated out of the nomination at Chicago and answering the statements of Penrose and Archboid as to contributions. He expressed pleasure that Senator Cummins had come out in his favor, hut declared that the progressive party is to be a permanent party. Congressional candidates were named by caucuses for five districts as follows: v Second. Herman J. Zeueh. Daven port; Third, R. E. Reach. Independ ence: Sixth. J H. Patton. Grinnell: Seventh. George C. White. Nevada; Eighth. R W. Ratighlin. Mount Ayr. H. B. Beatty of Davenport was permanent chairman of the conven tion . The convention was preceded by the holding of the caucuses and they proved to be stormy ones. In every ; caucus th“ question of whether or not a state ticket should be named was brought up and a hard fight fol lowed. for those who cnposed a state ticket were determined in spite of the fact that the convention had been packed in the interest of an entire state ticket. A compilation of the votes taken in these caucuses where votes were taken showed 434 for a state ticket and 301 against. - i OUTCOME IN VERMONT. Not Much Change From Figures That Were First Reported. Whie River Junction. Yt.—The full report of the balloting ia Tuesday’s election in Vermont was compiled ( Wednesday without altering to any : material degree the general figures as 1 indicated by the early returns. The : unofficial total vote for governor reached 65,033, the largest in a state election in a presidential year since t 1904. There was no election by the : people, but a sufficient number of re- ' publican members of the legislature i were chosen to insure the seating of j Allen M. Fletcher in October, as well as the remainder of the republican state ticket. State Fair Visitor Killed. Minneapolis. Minn.—Frank Andre, aged 55. a state fair visitor from j ('harles City, la., was killed in a fall from a third-story window of a local : hotel while seeking relief from the ; heat. Dozen Persons Missing Los Angeles. Cal.—Twelve persons. Including one woman and the six chil- . dren of S. J. Zarde. a wealthy sum mer resident, have been missing since j outbreak of the flames that destroyed the entire amusement section of Ocean park. Dead From Eating Fungi. Posen. Prussia.—Seven persons are dead and four more are dying as a result of eating poisonous fungi, gath- i ered as mushrooms. All the victims were of two families. Welcome for Speaker Clark. Bowling Green. Mo.—Speaker Champ Clark, who arrives with Mrs. Clark and their daughter tomorrow for his first visit home since his de- | feat for the democratic presidential nomination, will he given a rousing , welcome by the “home folks.” Peterson Is Made Candidate. ravenport. la.—Walter H. Peterson of Davenport was nominated for con gress at the congressional convention in the Second Iowa district. There was no primary candidate. Suicide in Chicago Hotel. Chicago.—H. H. Adams, ?>5 years old. whose home was in Macon. Ga., committed suicide at a downtown ho tel by shooting himself in the right temple. He left a brief note asking that his father. C. M. Adams of Macon, Ga., be notified. Many Miners Are Killed. Lens, France.—Thirty-seven coal miners are believed to jiave been killed in an explosion of fire damp Tuesday in the Clarence coal mine near Bru&y, department of Nord. State Oil inspector Husenetter has received scores of letters during the past few weeks protesting against what the writers say is gasoline short age in the state. Labor Commissioner Guye has gone to Chicago, where Le will head a homeseekers' excursion which is to leave there September 3 for the pur pose of looking over Nebraska home stead land. State Veterinarian Bostrum is in Indianapolis. Ind., where he will at tend the meeting of the American veterinarians’ association. The Ne braskan is secretary of the organiza tion. In company with Labor Commis sioner L. V. Guye. the governor will head a special land seekers’ excur sion which is to leave Chicago on Sep tember 3, running over the Burling ton to the North Platte and sand hill territory of Nebraska. The state of Nebraska reached 200. 000 people by farmers’ extension work last year, and by an expenditure of $15,000. according to Professor Pugs ley. which is 13 cents a head. This is less than the similar expenditure of any of the other agricultural states. Dr. Gaines of the animal pathology department at the Nebraska state ex periment station, and State Veterin arian Bostrum will conduct an ex hibit at the state fair. Considerable attention will be given to hog chol era. and information on the disease and methods of {retention will fea ture the exhibit. Several county assessors neglected to report national bank stock, tele phone stock and other items of a like nature to the state board of assess ment. The error has been discovered by the secretary and the information has been asked for in order that the books may be closed up and the re ports completed. The state food commission will have an exhibit at the state fair, according to announcement made by the head of the department. The exhibit will consist of products of common sale in the state and will contain both pure and adulterated matter along this line, together with several exhibits which are calculated to be object les sons to those who view them. Chancellor Avery has received the report of ('apt. H. H. Tebbetts of the I'nited States army, who inspected the university cadets last spring. The report is highly commendatory of Captain Yates and the university manag-ment. and states that the cadets were neatly dressed and seem ingly well fitted for the tasks of a soldier. The completed abstract of reports of county assessors, compiled by Sec retary Henry Seymour of the state board of equalization, shows that the assessed valuation of improved and unimproved lands increased nearly IT per cent under the valuation of last year, while the valuation of lots in creased a fraction over 11 per cent and personal property decreased near ly 3 per cent. Tn order to obviate poor seed corn next year, if possible, the state uni versity and the publicity bureau of the Commercial club of Omaha are planning a seed corn selection week this fall. Prof. C. AY. Pugsley, head of the extension department of the state farm, will compile the necessary suggestions for the selection and proper care of seed corn, and the bureau of publicity will endeavor to distribute this information to the citi zens of the state. I There are 16.07S automobiles listed on the 1912 state assessment roll, j while records kept at the office of the ' secretary cf state show that the num ber there registered exceeds 26.000. deducting about 5.500 motorcycles which are owned in the state. The difference in the figures has been the cause of much speculation over the state and there have been a multi tude of guesses hazarded as to the reason for it all. A more or less friendly controversy between Superintendent Kern of the Hastings hospital for the insane and Warden Melick of the penitentiary has arisen over the custody of “Faint ing Bertha" Liebke. Dr. Kern be lieves that Bertha, who was sent to his institution in July. 1911. is nearly cured and that she can safely be sent back to the penitentiary, where she was beginning a three-year term of imprisonment. Warden Melick. how ever. does not want the woman and demurred when the matter was sug gested to him by the Hastings man. More information regarding the state's assessment roll has been given out by Secretary Seymour of the state board of assessment and equal ization. On the lt>12 roll, according to the figures, there are 3S.094.777 acres of land, both Improved and un improved. which has a total assessed valuation of $249,269,045. There are 556.S40 lots, having a total assessed valuation of $69,730,582 The 924.756 horses in the state have a value of I13.51S.705 in the eyes of the assess ors. while 91,690 mules are valued at $1,652,992. Secretary of State Walt has re ceived official notice of the nomination of W. H. Taft and J. S. Sherman The notification came from Elihu Root, permanent chairman of the republican national convention, and Lafayette B. Gleason of Delhi. X. Y„ secretary of the convention. It is supposed that the notice was sent to the secretary of state for his information in making up the form of the official ballot in Nebraska this fall, but as the names of the candidates for president are not permitted on the ballot, the notice will not be of any use to Secretary Waite. WERE NONEXPERTS PECULIAR ACCIDENT THAT NEAR COST LIFE. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What is Going on Here and There That is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. Greenwood.—Cracksmen who blew the safe of the Farmers’ Lumber & Coal company here Wednesday night and took sixty dollars from the cash drawer were not experts. They left plenty of evidence behind them to prove that assertion. Nevertheless they got away with the spoils. The safe was blown with black powder, an explosive that the professional would not care to use. A safe in another lumber office was inspected but was not tackled, detectives believe because it looked too formidable for a black powder job. Peculiar Accident. Falls City.—Paul Fisher met with an accident one night the past week that nearly cost him his life. He was riding on a wagon loaded with fertilizer, and in driving to the side of the road, the wagon overturned and Fisher fell underneath the load, and the team ran away, l.ater two Rulo men in passing came onto Fisher. When they dragged him out he was unconscious and almost smothered. Delegate at Lincoln’s Nomination. Lincoln.—Secretary of State Wait has received a letter from E. Al. Jenk ins of Kenesaw in whiih the latter stated that his father, now more than 91 years old, would likely be an at tendant at the Abraham Lincoln statue unveiling to be held here. The elder Air. Jenkins was a delegate at the Chi cago convention of 1860 when the Illi noisan was nominated for the presi dency. He was a prominent member of the convention and was acquainted with "Uncle Abe.” * Circus at Sheriff's Sale. Fairbury.—Action for the recovery of $4,S00 has been brought in district court by Lee Greer, one of the part ners in the Campbell Brothers' shows. This show was stranded in Fairbury August 10, when John Heasty, trustee for a number of creditors, filed a writ of replevin on a $5,000 chatel mort gage. Air. Heasty will sell this show at sheriff's sale in Fairbury, Septem ber 9, for the amount. Crushed By Hay Stacker. Cambridge.—Albert Brown, a farmer residing two miles southeast of this city, was killed while stacking hay. The stacker, made of heavy timbers, broke and in falling struck Air. Brown on the head, killing h.m instantly. The deceased was one of the pioneer set tlers of Furnas county, having lived here since 1874. He leaves a widow and nine children. Indian Powwow at Walthill. Walthill, Xeb.—A large number of Omaha Indians have returned from Oklahoma, where they have been vis iting for several weeks with the Pon cas. They brought five carloads of horses with them—gifts received from the Oklahoma Indians. The last of August will see the Omaha pow wow and celebration open. It will probably be held in the vicinity of Walthill. Hildreth.—The harvest jubilee was a success. Thousands crowded the streets by 9 o'clock a. m. The parade of the German soldiers. Germans, school children and floats was the best ever seen in Hildreth. * 1—S ••• * » * * t » » 1—(—» » * * * TTT I T | STATE BASE X BALL NEWS + v«4 ++++ ->-M-+-:-:-++++ 4-+4-+4-+-M Kearney at home Tuesday defeated Fremont. 9 to 8. Seward at home Tuesday lost to Hastings, 8 to 3. Hastings shut out the home town at Seward Monday, 9 to 0. Grand Island at home Monday took the game from Columbus, 5 to 1. Hiawatha shut out Auburn Wednes day in a hotly contested game. 3 to 0. Auburn at home Thursday shut out Beatrice, 4 to 0. Superior at home Thursday lost to Grand Island. 7 to 1. Beatrice at home Wednesday took the game from Auburn, 13 to 1. In an eleven inning game at Hast ings Wednesday, Columbus was shut out. 1 to 0. In a double-header at York Monday the home team won first, 7 to 4; Su perior second, 9 to 4. Pitcher Sullivan, formerly of Wichi ta in the Western league, has been signed by Manager Shaner for Hast ings. Falls City at home Tuesday lost to Humboldt, 8 to 3. Grand Island was defeated at Col umbus Tuesday. 8 to 4. York at home Tuesday took both games from Superior, 4 to 3 and 6 to 1. Kearney at home Monday broke even in a double header with Fre mont. 6 to 9. In the annual game of ball between the fats and leans of York the leans went down in defeat before the heavy weights, the score at the end of the seventh inning, when the game ended, standing 18 to 17. Humboldt was shut out at Falls City * Monday, 4 to 0. In the final game of the series of five games. Central City, at home Sat urday. defeated Clarks by a s^ore of 7 to 1> Beatrice at home Tuesday- lost a double header with Auburn, the first by the score of 6 to 4. and the sec ond 4 to 3. Both games went ten in nings. Nebraska City at home Tuesday won from Hiawatha, 8 to 3. Rumm cleared the bases with a two base hit to center in the fifth after two were out.