Che Loop City Northwestern X ar. BTKLEICH. Publisher LOUP CITY, . « NEBRASKA 1 THE BUSY MAN NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON Z.Z COMPA8SEO. MANY EVENTS ME MENTIONED Me— e and Foreign Intelligence Con densed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs. Political Note*. Pre* dent Taft declared himself a ecu vert to tbe budg-t tvstern. South Dakota republican* and progressives may work in harmony. Champ Clark opened tbe Kentucky campaign with a speech on the tariff. (loieruor Joitaaon said between Taagait and Healing Indiana was boss Tidden Horscve • prgreseive rdndidate for pr«*idea:, spoke in Omaha on tbe Mk la his speech at Denver Roosevelt replied to Its questions pul to hiui by ftrvac Mr Bryan ia a speech at Boze man. VI<»ntan... denounced the Jioofce vet: ambition released from an Irish prison on account of ill health due to her refusal to eat and hav ing had to be fed forci bly Claims lor $3,006,000 resulting from depredations on American property In Mexico, have been filed against the Madeto government. Moore are apt to come. Former t'ongreaaman S. Adam Bede of Minnesota, and John Harlan of Chicago, folio* ing Theodore Rooae velt through Arizona in the interest of President Taft spoke ;n Tucson. A portion of the books and records kept by Cornelius N Bliss, as treasu rer ad the republican national commit tee la the 1S94 presidential campaign probably hate been located. Governor Woodrow Wilson struck the trnil at Colonel Roosevelt for the Aral time in the campaign when be whirled * trough a program of speech es and receptions in Minneapolis and Kt Paul Bankers are applying to the Treas ury department for deposit* of public looey to be used ia connection with Ananciag the big crops Applicants. »t Is said, however, have not yet lais ed the cry of stringency. People crowded mo at the funeral in Chlrago of the white wife of Jack Johnson that the police were called to clear the sidewalk in front of the " hoes* Several thousand people were la the street when the iKiboe arrived At Pittsburgh Pa . two little girts girts dressed to represent angels, were bang aastieaded by ropes ever an im provised altar at a churebfest, and am the fathers are under arrest for cruelty. Dora Kodrigue*. an 1* year-old Am sterdam girt, reached Washington, on the last lap of her walk around the world She walks alone nrr in* a revolver os her hip She says she Was never accosted by any man ex cept ia New York Promotion for 11.006 railway postal Herbs on October 1 will be provided 1a orders issued by Postmaster Gen eral Hitchcock Two persona vert killed, two aer lowaly hurt and several others slightly Injured when a Cairn Pacific train hit a street ear at a grade crossing in Ibatrr A dispatch from Constantinople to l.oadra says that a serious engage meat has occurred at Beraai. near the Moat a sens frontier between Turkish troops sad rebellious Malisaori tribes men Fifty-seven Turks and 317 tribesmen were hilled Frank .-leboid SS years old. publish er of a weekly newspaper ia St. l-oit* la tinder arrest at Chicago on a 'hat' of bigamy Howry Kerr, a player oa the Green getd (la i team, died as the result of being hr oa the baud by a swiftly pt'rbrd ball during a game between CreeaflelJ sad Coming. Colonel Roosevelt accused Governor Wilson of being a novice. Farmers in the southwest will oe able to ship corn into Mexico tree of duty until the end of this year. Governor Glasscock has started his Inquiry Into strike conditions in West J Virginia. Eugene Chaffin, prohibition candi date for president, invaded Delaware I on a speaking tour. Mrs. Helen Pierce Gray was ar rested in Washington at the behest of i the Indian office. Governor Wilson twitted Colonel Rooseveit about the alleged growth of trusts during his administration. The sale of the New York Press, a morning newspaper, by Henry L. Ein ' stein, to Frank A.- Munsey, is an nounced. Forage poisoning, which has caused heavy mortality among the horses '• of Kansas and Nebraska, is reported prevalent in South Dakota. The party of American geographers touring the Vnited States accompan ied by members of the American geo logical society, arrived at San Fran | cisco. Immediate withdrawal of the armed forces of the I’nited States now in Nicaragua is demanded in a circular drawn up by residents of San Jose, i Costa Rica. The first stone of a monument to Victor Hugo was laid at Wateroo, Belgium, on the battlefield immortal ; ized b> the French poet and novelist in “Les Miserables.” Oyster beds in Jamaica bay. Long Island, and the Potomac river, seven . ty-five miles down from Washington, 1 1 are endangered by typhoid germs, ac cording to the secretary of agricul- I ' lure . Major General James Shipttyr • Coast Artillery corps, now stationed j at Angel Island. Cal., was designated military attache of thr American le gation at Buenos Ayres. Argentine 1 Republic. Thirteen million bushels of grain < received in thirteen business days in j Minneapolis was the crop movement I which shattered all records after the railways had reported in 1,543 cars of grain. Armed with a stout club Weldon B. Cooke, an aviator of Oakland. Cal.. defended his w recked aLSISpiane for j several -hours in_ Chicago against a crowd 'Several hundred souvenir hunt«v An amateur parachute jumper was killed at the column of victory in Ber lin. He was a paper hanger named Bittner, who climbed to the summit of the column to experiment with a selffinvented apparatus. At Springfield. 111., the early home of Abraham Lincoln. Governor Thom as K. Marshall Of Indiana declared that the martyred president was a de- i mocrat at heart. His declaration , startled his audience. The postal authorities in Russia have called a conference to formulate regulations for government supervis ion of wireless stations and for the 1 use of wireless .telegraph on foreign i ships in Russian waters. Fifteen Mexican rebels were cap tured on American territory thirty 1 mil^s southwest of Tucson. Ariz.. by-i deputy Bheriffs. The rebels were be lieved to have been on their way to ] Casa Grande to obtain ammunition. Washington during all of this week j w ill be the health rnecca of the world, j There have gathered from all quar ters of the globe thousands of experts on health and vital statistics to at tend the fifteenth International Con gress on Hygiene and Demography. Secretary MacVeagh is wrestling with the question of whe*her to admit free of duty food for us * on board American ships under the amend ment to the Panama canal act abol ishing duty on all ship building ma terial and equipment imported into the I'nited States. Plans for an advertising campaign in behalf of the Panama canal have ; been formulated. Secretary of the Navy Meyer announced that with the cruise of the Atlantic fleet to south ern waters this winter, he will arrange the schedule so that all sailors and officials will visit the canal. Mrs Helen Pierce Gray, known as a champion of Indians before con gress. has been arrested on a charge of concealing public records. Mrs. Gray admits that she took the Crew tribe allotment rolls, involving lands worth flOO.OOO.ooo. because she was afraid they would be destroyed. Housewives of Philadelphia are en joying the lowest prices in produce known there for years. Produce is abundant, cheap and of high quality. Market experts declare the potato crop is larger than in ten years; apples the best since 1896, and on ions are four times as plentiful as ever before. At Hichmon. Va.. Charles O. Berry, president ol the National league of Postmasters, in an address before the* convention urged an increase of Sal aries in third and fourth class offi ces “The official register." said Berry, "show s that out of 49,817 fourth class offices. 2.7.817 pay less than $21)0 ( a year. In the Third district 6,188 pay less than $1"*> per year, and in the - Kighth district. 905 pay less than $100 a >esr. Nebraska building and loan asso ; ciations have $;ut 000.000 of the peo ple's money in their keeping Personal. Hon. \Y. J. Bryan characterizes Roosevelt as a dangerous man. President Tatt celebrated his .".5th birthday by a visit to Aunt Delia Tor rev This week Gov. Wilson will make speeches in Iowa. South Dakota and Minnesota Governor Wilson has called upon of ficers to investigate alleged rice in Newark. N. J Campaign managers at the threo Chicago headquarters are showing ac tivity. Postmaster General Hitchcock is to put into effect the new law govern ing newspaper publications. Vice President James 8. Sherman is slowly recovering from his nervous breakdown. The Rev. C. S. l.iles of Ia>gan. Ia., was found guilty of “high impru dence and untninisterial conddct. New Hampshire has three candi dates for the governorship. The reg ular republican nominee is Prank • Worcester. DISEASE SPREADING HORCE MALADY GOES TO NORTH PART OF STATE. LINCOLN MONUNIENTACCEPTED ] Statue Cost, All Told, $36,000, All of | Which Has Been Paid But About $2,000. Dr. Drofitrom, state veterinarian, reports tbe horse disease spreading to the north part of the state. He is of the opinion that it is a bacterial disease. He says there is no doubt j that the brain and spinal cord of j horses are highly inflamed and he pronounces it spinal meningitis j though this condition can be pro- j duced by at least three causes. The , government theory that it is a fungus j pcison in the pasturage or hay or grain, is not accepted by Dr. Bto rtrom. He admits that the germ may be found in grass or bay. but that j does not prove it to be a fungus poi- • son. The government's theory that the poison comes from a fungus growth in pasture and its growth is j fostered in damp places is not borne out by the tact that the disease ap pears in both damp, low ground along j the Missouri river and also in the diy sand hill region where grass is too 1 short and the weather has been too ; dry to promote such growth. Dr. Davison and his assistants of ; the government service are still in- j vest iga ting in Nebraska and have assigned to new stations. One went to Shelton. Kim Creek and Lexington, another to York, Thayer, Bradshaw and other towns in York county. An- j otner went to Fremont and Dodge county towns and another has been sent to Beaver City, XVilsonville, Ked Cloud and Superior. Accepts Lincoln Monument. The beard of public lands and build ings formally accepted the Lincoln monument and returned a bond to Daniel C. French, the sculptor, to gether with commendation of liis work and the work of Mr. Bacon, the architect who designed the architec tural feature of the monument. Mr. French received $20,000 for the sta tue of Abraham Lincoln and subcon tractors received various sums mak ing a total of $36,000 paid out by the j monument commission. The conimis- i sion has at its disposal $34,000. being made up of a state appropriation of $20,000. an appropriation by the city of Lincoln of $5,000 and private dona tions amounting to $0,000. leaving a balance of $2,000 not provided for. It is said private parties will subscribe this sum and perhaps the legislature w ill be called upon to reimburse > them. The resolution adopted by Lana Commissioner E. B. Cowles, Secre tary Addison Waite. State Treasurer Walter A. George and Attorney Gen eral Grant Martin, is as follows; “Resolved by the board of public lands and building that we accept on behalf of the state of Nebraska, the. statue and monument on the state house grounds in memory of Abra ham Lincoln, and commend the work of Daniel Chester French, the sculp tor. for his excellent statue of the martyred president, and commend al so the architectural design of the ac cessories by Mr. Bacon and the secre tary of the board, is hereby instruct ed to forward to Mr. French, his bond given to the state for the satisfactory fulfillment of the contract.” Bank Incorporated. Tbe“+'armers’ State bank of Tal tnage has been incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000. The officers are B. C. Marquardt. president; Adolph Ritter, vice president; E. G. Spencer, cashier. Morrill to University. Prof. Walter J. Morrill, for several years in the forest service of the government in Colorado, has been selected to head the department of forestry at the state university. He arrive! in Lincoln a few days ag* and has been getting acquainted with the work here preparatory to the be ginning of the school year. Prof. Morrill is a graduate of the Maine university and of the forest school at Yale. Cattle Also Dying. Govtrno" Aldrich received a mes sage from ex-Mayor McConaughaj- of Holdrege saying that eight head of cattle had died a few miles from that place vith a disease which had all the symptoms of the horse disease that i£ rag!ng in Nebraska. Suppressing the Horse Disease. Peter Youngers of Geneva, accom panied by Mr. Brown, called at the office of the governor to ask for aid in suppressing the epizootic in Fill more county. From forty to fifty horses have died daily . Care of Insane Patients. Douglas county is anxious for the state to take care of iusane patients in that county who are now kepi in the county hospital. Robert Smith, clerk of the county insanity board, has written lj»nd Commissioner Cowles that thirty four nis^i and nine teen insane women are in the hospital and recently several insane killed themselves. This self destruction, the clerk says, was simply 'because the county has no means to give them proper care. When new buildings are ready patients Tvill be received. Quarantine Against Horses. County commissioners of Sedgwick county, Colorado have established a quarantine against horses from Ne braska according to word received from Julesburg. This quarantine pro vides that no horses from this state shall pass across the line and notices have been posted on the roads lead •■It Into the county from this state to that effect by the sheriff. So far only one case of the horse malady has been reuorted in the county but stren uous efforts tre to be made to keep it fron- spreading farther. WILL COMBAT CLAIM. Attorney General Say* The State Owes Nothing. Deputy Attorney General George W. Ayres is prepared to go into the su preme court at the next session to combat the claim of Sam Patterson of Arapahoe, who sued the state for 56,000 salary alleged to be due him because Governor Shallenberger ap pointed him secretary of the state banking board when the former was in office. Because the new banking •law was suspended by the circuit court of the United States Mr. Pat terson did not get to serve. In the district court of Lancaster county the state won. and the suit has been appealed by Patterson to the supreme court. Basing its argument on the admitted facts in the case the state contends: First. That Edward Royse was either the de facto or the de jure sec retary of the state banking board during all the time for which the plaiutiff claims the emoluments of that office. Second. That having paid him the salary of such office, the state is not i compelled to pay same a second time . to another. Third. That irrespective of the pay ment of the salary of said office to said Royse, the plaintiff, in view of i the peculiar wording of his appoint- : ment and in view of the fact that he j performed none of the duties of the office, is not entitled to recover com pensation therefor. Deputy Attorney General Ayres says i in his brief. win uc rememucreu i.iai piaiu tiff's commission from the governor to hold the office of secretary of the stale banking board names no specific date at which his term of office shall continence nor how long it shall con tinue. It merely states that he is appointed to said office for the term beginning from and after taking ef fect of said act 1909 for such time as be shall satisfactorily perform all the duties impcsed upon s>;ch officer by law, not to exceed, however, a pe riod of tv. o years ' Inasmuch as the law to which ref erence is made in the plaintiff s cer tificate of appointment never became effective, so far as the carrying out of its provisions was concerned, until long after the plaintiff had withdrawn his bond and virtually abandoned all claim to the office, and inasmuch as he never, even for an instant, per formed any of the duties of said of fice, it is clear that he is not enti tled in any event to recover a salary as such officer. To hold otherwise would be to hold that the law took effect at a time when all the officers charged with its execution "Vere en joined by a court of competent juris diction front enforcing any of its pro visions and that the plaintiff was per forming all the duties of said office in a satisfactory manner when in j truth and in fact he was not perform- I ing or even attempting to perform \ any of them, being enjoined there from by tile order of a court of com- j potent jurisdiction. Employes’ Conjpany Appeals The National Employes' association has appealed to the supreme court : front the district court of Lancaster I county. The association insures its policyholders against loss of work. As j this does not come under the regular insurance law, the auditor denied them a license to do business in this state. The lower court sustained the act of the auditor. Believes Worms the Cause. Worms in last year’s corn crop are believed by one Lincoln man who owns a large number of valuable horses to be the cause of the disease which is carrying away so many horses in the state. He has spent more than a hundred dollars during the past year in having his com care fully sifted and the ends of all the ears cut off before feeding the corn to his horses. — August Weather. August, according to the report of I the weather bureau, was a cool and J wet month. The mean temperature was a trifle over 71 degrees and al most a whole'”''degree less than the average acquired in the thirty-seven years that records have been kept. In the southeastern portion of the state the mean temperature rose above the normal, but this was offset in the western part of the state, where the average was two and three degrees lower than the thirty-seven-year aver age. The warmest period of the month was the«last nine days, when in several parts of the state the mer cury mounted to the 100-degree mark. Asks Release of Property. A motion to have the United States marshal release property belonging to Campbell Bros.’ circus on the ground that it is still in the hands of the state courts was tiled before Judge T. C. Hunger. Several days ago an action was brought by a lith. ographing company of Kansas City to collect a bill for $9,000 from the cir cus. State University Filling Up. If the registration of students the first day at the State university is any indication of what the attendance will be this year, the tecord win be broken by a considerable margin. The first day's registration this year shows the healthy number of seventy two, while last year the first day only 296 registered. This year there are only four days for registration pur poses, while last year five days were given to the work, which may j«os sibly account for the tt.sh on at this time The Burlington Sued. George Trippel is plaintiff In s $3,000 damage suit which has been In stituted in district court against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail road company, the ground upon which the action is based beiJg the allega tion that Trippel was through the negligence of the defci dant thrown from the top of a passenger coach where he was at work, teceiving per manent Injuries. The cident is al leged to hare occurred tn the pass enger yards of the defendant in Lin coln on December 30, 1903. f LIVING COST RISES WHAT IS DISCLOSED BY A RE CENT INVESTIGATION. 6ATHER STATISTICS IN CITIES V * Fifteen ^ticles of Food and Coal Considered, Potatoes Being the Worst Offenders. Washington—Marked upward trend of the cost of living is disclosed in tne federal bureau of labor's report of au investigation of prices for the last ten years conducted in the important in dustrial centers of thirty-two states. Fifteen most important articles of food, as well as coal, comprising two thirds of a workingman's needs, were investigated. In many cities the in vestigators gathered statements of merchants on the cost of living and i specimens of these are published in the report. On June 15. 1912. the report shows, fourteen of the fifteen artices of food ! were higher than a year before, and ' ten had advanced in the last ten years j more than 50 per cent over the aver- j age retail price for the ten-year pe riod, 1890-1899. During the last decade prices of po- : 1 tatoes changed most and sugar tne ' I least. Their advances were 11.9 and 1 8.5 per cent, respectively. During the last year bacon, which decreased just 1 ' one-tenth of 1 per cent, was the only : ; one of the fifteen principal articles of j food that showed a decline in price, : | while nine of the fifteen advanced ; j more than 10 per ceut, varying from j ! 2.4 per cent for milk to 18.6 for round j steak. Of the fifteen, only eggs, but ; ter. milk and sugar were lower, but the price of three of these four is nor mally lower during summers than [ during winters. Specimens of the statements of merchants in various cities, published in the report follow: New York—Meats in general are so high that if prices continue much longer will be obliged to close up j business. Have aready lost about ! $200 since advance in prices. Chicago—Jobbing price on flour h3s advanced So cents per barrel and un less there is a decline in the near fu ( ture retail prices will advance. Boston—First: Cheap sirloins are . so high and poor that 1 am not cut ting any at present. Both grades of \ cattle have gone up and the above i prices just about let me out without ; ' profit. Second: Beef, especially on , j cheaper cuts. 10 to 20 per cent higher. ; Third: The high price of meats is ! i causing us to close our place cf busi- j ! ness on or about July 4. Salt Lake City: Everything seems to be at the top, but nothiug shows I any decline. IT WAY MEAN WAR. . i Ulster Unionists Will Rebel Against Asquith-Redmond Bril. Tendon.—On Saturday, September . 28. unionists of the northern counties i of Ireland propose to register their . I formal defiance of home rule. Gather ing in halls and market places, even 1 in churches, the men of Ulster will ; sign a covenant pledging themselves never to submit to any government from Dublin, which may be imposed ; upon the country by the Asquith-Red- . mond home rue bill passed in the ' House of Commons. "Ulster day” is : I the designation chosen for this re- • markable political sacrament. 1 _ I Allen Trial Soon On. Roanoke, Ya.—Handcuffed and guarded by ten detectives, Sidna Al- 1 len and Wesley Edwards, arrested a ’ week ago in Des Moines to answer * ! for their part in the Carroll county j 1 i court house murders, were taken to 1 ; Hi’lsville Sunday. They will be ar- 1 | raigned there Monday. It is probable 1 | a change of venue to Wytheville will ' j be ordered at the request of the com I monwealth. : I Face Severe Investigation. Chicago.—Chicago’s police depart ment is facing the greatest upheaval in its history as a result of the scan dal growing out of the recent escape i of two Canadian bank robbers from Lieutenant Burns in a Wabash ave nue saloon. Believe Italian Has Leprosy. Washington.—The health author ities c-f Spokane, Wash., have appeal ed to the public health service to is olate the family of Antonio Volcano, an Italian, on the ground that Vol cane and his 11-year-old son are suf fering from leprosy. A Suffragette in Hospital. Dulin.—Mrs. Mary Leigh, the suffra-! gette hunger-striker, was transferred \ from her cell to the prison hospital j dangerously ill as a result of forcible | feeding. j, School Boys on Strike. Baltimore, Md. —Because negroes were given their building and they were compelled to walk longer dis tances to school, boys of school 91 went on strike. They marched to the I city hall, told the mayor about it and 1 invaded school headquarters. — Killed By Bootleggers. Coffeyville, Kas. —Two officers were killed and two wounded in an ambush by bootleggers. The officials in an auto were patroling roads over which lic quor is illegally carried. To Be Kept in Jail. Fort Worth. Tex. —The state will combat John Beal Sneed's effort to obtain his freedom on bond writ of habeas corpus because another-assass ination is feared if Sneed is released. The Bocye family has sworn venge ance. Chicken Thief Drowns. Cumberland. Md. —Attempting to evade arrest for stealing chickens. Joseph Snyder plunged in Willis creek from the West Virginia side and drowned. GOES BACK TO YEAR 1716 Oldest Structure In Berks County. Pennsylvania, Was Built by Swed ish Settlers at That Time. Douglasvilje. Pa.—Of much interesi to automobilists passing through the Schuylkill valley is the old Swede house here. The historic structure, the oldest building in Berks county, marks the northernmost settlement In the state of the Swedes, who were the first white settlers of Pennsylva nia. The building was erected in 1716 and with the exception of slight al terations stands as it did nearly two centuries ago. The Swedes who penetrated the un known wilderness were a part of the colony which effected the first settle ment on the Delaware in 1638. At that time this section of Pennsylva nia was known as New Sweden. The juestion of encouraging the settle ment of this region by the Swedes Oldest House in Berks County. had been considered by the king of Sweden a decade prior to that, but bis war with the Germans and his subsequent sudden death delayed and nearly ended the project. A part of the congregation of the Did Swedes' (Gloria Del) church, which is now embraced in Philadel phia. under the leadership of Andrew Rudman, made an exploration of the Schuylkill in 1701 for the purpose of establishing an inland trading post with the Indians. They found suit able land several miles north of the ttanatawnev creek, where William Penn, the new proprietor of Pennsyl vania. granted them 10.000 acres. The settlement was named Moriat 'on and the Swedes lived in harmony with yie Indians and thrived there ong before the advent into the region Df the English and German settlers. Their descendants are found in the ocality to this day. Some of them, whose names are still perpetuated, were Andrew Bankson. Benjamin Bur len, Peter Boon. Benjamin Boon. Jus- | in Justason. Mounce Jastice. John I "ock. Peter Cock. Otto Ernest Cock, I lacob Culin. Matthis Hulston. Morton » Wurtis. Peter Yocum and Mounce lones. The old house above mentioned was built by Mounce Jones, who had Dne of the largest tracts under cul :ivation. It stands on the east bank if the Schuylkill, hidden on all sides by large trees. A road connecting he two highways on either side of the river now passes directly in front of t. from which the old date stone in ts upper walls, bearing thp date 1716. s easily decipherable. The building s now used asVlie headquarters of a Doai club. HIS TRUST IS IN THE BIBLE Kaiser Declares He Solves All Ques tions, Even of a Political Na ture, by the Scriptures. Paris. France.—Rene Puaux, *the military expert of the Temps, who was in close contact with the German emporer during the recent maneuvers of the Swiss army, quotes the emperoi as summing up his satisfaction with the work of the troops in a eouversa lion with President Forrer in tb« words: "Your army saves me six army corps.” The emperor in conversation con stantly insisted upon the necessity oi understandings as the best means oi dissipating suspicion, and declared his personal desire to maintain peace. On : one occasion, in emphasizing this in conversation with President Forrer, | the emperor, intimated to the president that Jie acquired, much of his inspira tion from the bible. "1 don't care mych for priests and clergymen." said the emperor. "They dilute the gospel with too much ol their own dogma. 1 hold to the bible, which I constantly read and reread. In it one find the solution of every difficulty, of every problem, even of a political description." It is known that the emperor's main J object in attending the maneuvers j was to convince himself of the ability of the Swiss army to make the neu j tralitv of the country' respected in j case of war. and his remark is inter preted to mean that by the Sw iss army forming a screen to prevent the French from invading Germany through Switzerland, the Germans could release army corps in south Germany for service in Alsace-Lor raine or along the Belgian frontier. Makes Plea for Alaska. Seattle. Wash.—"I think it is unfor tunate that powers so limited have been granted the new- Alaska legisla ture, that laws to meet our needs can not. be passed.” said Gov. Walter E. Clarb^pf Alaska, who. accompanied by his wife, arrived here today on the revenue cutter McCulloch from fit Michael. "To develop any country, the first things needed are means of transpor tation and communication and for this reason I expect more from the newly created Alaska railroad commission than from our legislature, although the commission is powerless to do anything but recommend to congress The big problems in Alaska today are railroads, coal, lumber and the fish Industry, but our new legislature wi' have no power to legislate on any these subjects. It will not have as great power in Alaska as a council has In a city of 10,(100 people In the Cult ed Stated.” NO CLEW TO HISTORY STUDENTS OF ARCHEOLOGY ALL PUZZLED OVER YUCATAN. Art and Architecture of Once Great People Are There, but Hieroglyph ics Baffle Ail the Knowledge of the Scientists. Pittsburg.—Through the efforts of Henry Hornbostel, head of the build ing bureau of the Pittsburg Carnegie Institute of Technology, there will oe in the Carnegie institute before a great while specimens of distinctive American art and architecture, the legacy of that mysterious people who lived ages ago in America, attained a high degree of civilization, devel oped a beautiful and cultivated art, and then passed away, leaving only these treasures of art and architec ture to tell what their ctv\lization had been. Already Mr. Hornbostel has fceen instrumental in arousing the Carnegie Museum of Washington to an interest in this field and it has set aside an appropriation for explora tion of the art of Yucatan. In com panw with Lloyd Warren, Mr. Hornbos tel made a pleasure trip to Yucatan during a recent vacation, going far into the interior of the country where lies waiting a storehouse of material for students of archaeology with ref erence to hieroglyphics as well as art and architecture. The hieroglyphics are all the more alluring because of their baffling conditions, with never a clew yet discovered to work from in deciphering their meaning, which would reveal to us the minds of the wonderful ancient inhabitants of America. The priceless heritage has lain neglected and crumbling to ruins while at the same time huge sums are being paid by our museums for repli cas of works of art of the eastern hemisphere. With the completion of the Panama canal all signs point to a vast in flux of northerners into these south ern states and an awakening of inter est in the study of the arts. Their pottery and decorative designs are al ready being made use of by enterpris ing dealers and advertisers in all kinds of wares as souvenirs of the celebration of the opening of the great canal. "The day will soon come," says Mr. Hornbostel, “when excursioning to the ruins of Yucatan will be made as easily as to the Holy Land or to Egypt. It is now impossible for pet ticoats to travel into the interior af the country, as it is as wild and flensely forested as the interior of Af rica. Mr. Warren, myself and our guide made the journey from Merida, the capital of Yucatan, in the most m _ I •: -Wv-... .y-j.v-- - - jm i On the Plains of Yucatan. primitive of wooden wagons drawn by three burros, and because of the loose construction of its wooden wheels and axles, which allow it to wobble from side to side without injury, wonder, fully adapted to the rough stone roads of the country." Two absolutely unique characters, tics of the ancient people who built these ruins thousands of years ago, and of whom they and the pyramids on which many of them are built are the only trace, were noted by Mr. Hornbostel. The first Is that the towns were built without walls or fortifications of any kind, there were no roads and the houses were far apart, making them indeed garden cities, and there were no beasts of burden. "This vanished race was a peaceful people." said Mr. Hornbostel. "and such architecture of a primitive race is absolutely unique in history. They had no fear of an invading army and no preparation to repulse one. They had no means of moving either an army or supplies." The second pe culiarity noted by the travelers is the original form of architecture in the construction of the buildings, which are made of small stones, cut and dressed, with an original cantilever construction of arches. This struc ture, Mr. Hornbostel claims, he has not found anywhere else in all his study of architecture, ancient, medie val and modern. FINED ONE CENT FOR TALK Attorney Draws Crowd by Argument, Obstructing Sidewalk—Will Appeal Case. Crawfordsville, Ind.—Wilbur f}. Houk. charged with obstructing a pub lie sidewalk, was found guilty and fined 1 cent and costs, the latter amounting to $30. Houk, a local at torney, was arrested by Officer Ike Walderlip for obstructing the side walk by collecting a crowd in front ol the Crawford, house by having a heat ed argument with a traveling man. At torneys for Houk state that the cast will be appealed. Rat Attacks Sleeping Girls. Nanticoke. Pa.—Cries of his two little sisters. Mary and Anna. age< five and seven years, summoned a older brother to their bedside. He found them bleeding profusely fronr wonnds on the face and arms and fighting desperately the attacks o.' a large rat, which was gnawing theti flesh.