the Loop City Northwestern 5 ” J. w. BURLEIGH, Publisher -- Loup city, • • Nebraska EPITOME OF EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. IRE SHORT BUT INTERESTS Brief Mention of What is Transpiring in Various Sections of Our Own and Foreign Countries. Congress. Senator Hoke Smith spoke in sup port of the Lever agricultural educa tion extension bill. Senator Bristow introduced a. bill for preference primaries for appoint ment of postmasters. The senate passed the bill appropri ating $5,000 for a statue of Pocahon tas at Jamestown, Va. The house passed the Burnett liter acy test immigration bill to bar im migrants over 16 who cannot read. President Taft submitted for ap proval of the senate nine names for members of commission to industrial relations. Senator Bourne was elected chair man of joint congressional commission to promote federal aid in highway con struction. The house convened at noon on Thursday and adjourned at 12:17 p. m., owing to lack of quorum, until noon, January 2. • The house agriculture committee by ft tie vote deferred action on the Le ver bill framed to encourage the oleo margarine industry. The senate court of impeachment resumed trial of Judge Archbald at 1:30 p. m. Thursday, and adjourned at 3:46 .p m. until January 3. A message from President Taft per taining to postoffice, interior, agricul ture and commerce and labor depart ments was read in the senate. William H. Hearst, testifying before ♦he campaign funds investigation committee, produced several new let ters bearing on political activities of John D. Archbold and Standard Oil company. The Interior department expendi tures committee of the house adopted a report censuring Robert G. Valen tine, former commissioner of Indian affairs, for his conduct prior to his resignation. The house banking and currency \ subcommittee decided to report un favorably the Levy bill to relieve (stringency in the money market by placing $50,000,000 from treasury in na\i°nal banks. v Genera*. Oa/verncr Wilson admits he Is at ■wofirk framing up a cabinet. A seizure of eight cars of ‘ sweated" oranges was ordered at Chicago. The first step was taken in the house looking to the inauguration of Mr. Wilson. President Taft explained to people of the south his purpose in visiting the canal zone. Congress must amend the seal act if herds in the north Pacific are to be protected. Justice Emlin McLane, of the Iowa supreme court, has been invited to fill the temporary vacancy of the Ice land Stanford university, according to an announcement at Iowa City. Joseph Lomax, who is said to be the oldest Mason and also the oldest newspaper editor in the world, cele brated his one hundred and third birthday at the home of his daughter In Indianapolis. According to the final returns can vassed by the state board of can\as sers, the equal suffrage amendment lost in Michigan by a majority of 760. A decision to permit the confirma tion of army and navy appointments before the holiday recess was reached by a caucus of democratic senators. The government, began suit against the Southern Pacific Railroad com pany at Los Angeles to recover lands. Cherokee freedmen are declared to have equal rights with full bloods in distribution of land. As a result of the anonymous threat to dynamite the Denver mint. Direc tor George E. Roberts has warned the superintendents of all mints in the country to observe rigid measures of precaution against violence. Among tne forty live blue iox from the Aletian island which arrived in Seattle, bound for a breeding farm in New Brunswick, are a number of sil ver greys, which the owner values at more than $1,000 each. Incoherent speech, cut short on his lips when the hangman slipped the black cap over his eyes and sprung the trap, Carlo Battista, a member of the black hand, met death on the scaffold at Montreal for the murder of Salvatore Mariano. Russia is obstructing the negoti ations in connection with the loan to China of $125,000,000. In a short time the common drink ing cup will have been abolished in all the Burlington trains and depots in Nebraska. The entire male Greek colony of Keokuk, la., numbering 100, will sail from New York to take part in the Balkan war. The sale of Red Cross Christmas 6eals throughout the United States this seasonn will bring between $400, 000 and $500,000 to aid in the fight against tuberculosis. His majesty King George V of Eng land was elected an honoorary mem ber of the New York Yacht club. Everett P. Wheeler of New York argued in favor of sending the canal dispute to The Hague court of arbi tration. Brigadier General Theophilus Fran cis RodenboouTh, U. S. A., retired, died at New York in his seventy-fifth year. The lord lieutenant of Ireland au thorized a denial of the report that the Irish crown jewels, mysteriously stolen from Dublin castle in 1907, had been replaced. Five men terroized a Missouri town and robbed a bank of $5,000. Comptroller Murray says hia plan is to make every bank a strong bank. The United States is unlikely to be called upon to mediate in the Balkans troubles. John P. White, pres'dent of the unit ed mineworkers of America, has been re-elected. Chief of Police McWeeny says Chi cago can have a wide open New Year’s eve celebration. J. P. Morgan told the house com mittee there could be no such thing as a money trust. Former Senator Foraker says the letters Hearst read were stolen from the Stanard Oil files. Capt. John Watson, of the Eighth cavalry, stationed at Augur barracks, Jolo, was killed by a Moro. With nothing to gain by delay. Turkey is expected to be willing to resume peace negotiations. Thirty-five horses were burned in a barn fire at Hastings, Neb., causing a loss of perhaps $40,000. Peace negotiations at London were delayed because of Turkey’s disincli nation to treat with Greece. Commissioner Dennett, of the gen eral land office, says “professional lo caters” prey upon the public. President Taft will not delay in ap pointing a successor to Whitelaw Reid as ambassador at Ixtndon. A portrait of Benjamin Franklin, painted by Chamberlain in 1762, was sold at auction at London for $14,000. President Taft told congress he was not playing politics in placing fourth class postmasters on the classified list. The board of estimate voted to spend all the money necessary to give New York City one of the largest municipal dock systems in the world. It is said that President Taft will leave to President-elect Wilson the appointment of a successor to White law Reid as ambassador to Great Britain. Clifford Wood, a Des Moines sign painter, chose the exit of a crowded street car as the place to shoot his divorced wife, and there and then kill liitnself. The proposed law against dime novels and senational literature has been received with favor by the ma jority of the federated states of Ger many. The Portuguese government has au thorized the American and British Protestant missionaries to undertake the teaching of natives in Portuguese Africa. Frank Crouch, accused of having kidnaped the grandson of L. I). Gale, a wealthy New York banker, ob tained a license to marry the mother of the child, Mrs. Laura Gale in Den ver. Secretary MacVeagh has again sus pended the Treasury department or der, which was to have become effect ive Friday, imposing a countervailing duty on split peas and flour from Germany. Eighteen women participated in a conference at Topeka, Kan., of about 200 state leaders of the progressive party, at which a provisional organi zation was consummated. The Pan-American Society of the United States and the Mexico Society of New York joined in honoring Don Pedro Lascurrain. Mexican minister of foreign affairs, at a luncheon. John D. Rockefeller, who for several years has been a golf devotee, played the best game of his life, he says, on the links at the Pocontico hills, cov ering the nine-hole course in 43. One man was killed and two oth ers injured when a runaway freight car, after going two miles at terrific speed, crashed into a caboose of the Kansas City Southern railway at the depot at Neosha, Mo. Counsel for John Robert W. Arch bald made a vain effort on Thursday to conclude examining witnesses for the defense in the impeachment pro ceedings against him. When it be came evident that this could not be accomplished the court adjourned to January 3, when Judge Archbald will take the stand. The validity of the Chicago city or dinance, fixing the size of loaves of bread was argued before the supreme court. Harry Duddenson, in behalf of Mathias Sehmidinger, a baker, con victed of having made a seven-pound loaf when the ordinance limited the size to six pounds, contended, among other things, that the ordinance was discriminating against Poles and oth ers of foreign birth, who are accus tomed to buy bread in seven-pound loaves. John T. Butler, one of the dynamite defendants, was ordered sent to jail for alleged perjury. Personal. President Taft appointed a commis sion to make a study of air craft. Judge If. H. Knight of Chicago, who went to Florida to spend the winter, committed suicide. Robert G. Valentine, former com missioner of Indian affairs, was re buked ire a committee report. Turkish Admiral Hali Pasha was killed in the recent naval engagement with the Greeks. President Tatt’s trip to Panama will keep him away from Washington until December 31st. Miss Helen Gould's marriage will take place sometime in January. * President Taft's Christmas will be spent on the isthmus of Panatna. Senate republicans are insistent that some action be taken on presi dential nominations. Theodore Roosevelt spoke at a sil ver jubilee reception in Huntington. N. Y., in honor of Dean John C. York. Rear Admiral Andrews would re vive historic uames for new battle ships. President Taft left Washington for his tiual look at the canal Woodrow Wilson feels his reform work should begin’ in New Jersey. A. G. French of Elindale, N. D., under indictment for embezzlement, was arrested in New York. The socialist candidate for congress from the First South Dakota district, EM M. Jacobson of Sioux Falls, spent 2 cents for his campaign. President Taft commuted to one year the two and a half-year sentence of Clarence D. Hiliman, a wealthy real eatate dealer at Seattle,, con victed of using the mails to defraud. STAB BOH COW SHOWN AS UNPROFITABLE AND SHOULD BE SOLD. WHAT TESTINC HAS REVEALED Two Hundred Thousand Bovines That Do Not Give Proper Recompense for Their Feed. Two hundred thousand Nebraska cows do not give enough butter fat in their milk t*o pay the feed bill and the product of 500,000 more can be easily doubled by proper methods of care and feeding, says Prof. J. H. Frand sen, head of the dairy husbandry de partment of the University of Ne braska. This statement is based upon the work of the Douglas county Cow Testing association for the past year, The farmers of this county have been tveigning milk and testing for butter fat In co-operation with the experi ment station, and valuable data havfe been obtained. One herd of ten cows shows a net profit of $1,032.88, while another similar herd of ten shows only $57.82 profit. The scales and the Bab cock tester show the difference and identity the unprofitable cow. “Sell the Star Boarder,” says Frandsen. The creamery butter product of Ne braska is now in excess of 30,000,000 pounds annually and is increasing rapidly. This does not take into ac count the ordinary product known as “country butter,” The dairy experts clairt} that this amount can be easily doubled without materially increasing the expense of operation, by better methods of feeding and care and the use of the test for butter fat. The results of the cow testing work In Douglas county have been publish ed in Bulletin No. 129, which may be obtained free by addressing the Ne braska Experiment Station at Lin coln. Rsfuses to Build a Depot. Edson Rich, attorney for the Union Pacific railroad, was at the state house and served notice on the railway com mission that the company would re fuse to obey the order of the commis sion to build a depot at the town of Gandy. The Union Pacific line passed by the town, which is the county seat of Logan county, and built its depot at a new town called Stapleton, about three miles away. The business men of Gandy entered a protest before the railway commission with the result that the road was ordered to build a sidetrack and small station at the nearest point to the townabout a mile distant. The matter will probably go to the supreme court. South Omaha Officials Ousted. For misfeasance and malfeasance in office, Police Commissioners John J. Ryan and Joseph Pivonka of South Omaha were ordered ousted from office in a decision handed down by the state supreme court. The decision took the nature of a confirmation of the opinion of Referee Silas A. Hol comb of Broken Bow and practically marks the close of one of the most bitter fights between the friends of law and order and “gang” politicians of South Omaha. Big Exhibit for Lincoln. A big exhibit for Lincoln at the first annual show of the Nebraska manufacturers' association in Omaha next March is to be planned at a meet ing of the industrial extension com mittee of the Lincoln Commercial club. Eight Lincoln manufacturers have rented space at the show and the plan is to consolidate this in one part of the Omaha auditorium. Governor Prints His Message. Governor Aldrich will have his mes sage printed in pamphlet form and presented to the members of the legis lature, when the session begins. In this way he believes much time wrill be saved as formerly the legislature has had to wait until after the mess age was printed before they could get it into their hands. More Taxes In 1912. Forty-five counties of the state paid more taxes for the years 1912 and 1911 than for the years 1910 and 1909, ac cording to a report made by State Treasurer George. The remaining forty-seven counties paid less taxes during the same period than for the previous two years. County Treasurer to Meet. County treasurers, numbering about one hundred strong, are to gather in Lincoln January 28, 29 and 30, for an nual convention. Such was the word sent the Commercial club from P. A. Sommerlad, who Is president of the state association. County Seat Decision. The act of 1895, providing for re moval of county seats, was declared unconstitutional by the state upreme court and the act of 1875 was held to be operative in this state. The opinion was given in the Franklin county seat fight which has been waging for the past year. The void act provided that three-fourths of all the votes cast cn the question should be necessary to removal of a county seat where it had been located in one own for ten years or more previous to the passage of the act. Marsh-Burke Gets Verdict. The Marsh-Burke Coal company was awarded damages of $38,000 against J. H. Yost, owner of a string of Ne braska coal yards. H. L. Laird, secre tary of the Northwestern Coal Deal ers’ association, and Harry M. Boyer, sales agent of a producing company that was alleged to have cancelled its contract with the Marsh-Burke com pany, were also defendants. The ac tion was brought in district court. The Marsh-Burke company charged that a conspiracy had been formed to ruin Its business. MUCH MONEY WANTED. Demand for Two Million More Thart Last Season. If the coming session of the legisla^ ture listens to all the state depart ments and state institutions and votes the appropriations the amount will run up to $6,873,968, according to re ports now filed with the governor! This is nearly $2,000,000 more thaq the total appropriation of the last ses sion. Among the larger amounts that will be asked for by the different depart ments are: StaSe University .$1,529,800 Normal training in high schools . 125,000 Aid to school districts. 125,000 Institution cash fund. 245,24^ Orthopedic hospital . 130,600 Insane hospital, Lincoln.... 305,00f| Insane hospital, Norfolk. 166,400 Insane hospital, Hastings.... 445,200 Institute Feeble Minded.... 164,600 Boys’ Industrial school. 163,000 Kearney Normal school. 159,200 Peru Normal school . 197,300 Wayne Normal school . 124,020 Chadron Normal school .... 96,500 School for the Deaf . 97.800 Penitentiary . . 147,000 Soldiers’ home. Grand Island 184,800 Soldiers’ home, Milford. 66,900 Railway commission . 100,500 Supreme court . 114,080 The different state officers are ask ing for amounts as follows: Governor ....$25,080 Treasurer . 26,280 Auditor . 37,400 Insurance department . 25,680 State superintendent . 26,280 Secretary of state . 39,300 Land commissioner. 26,800 Attorney general . 39,680 The increase in appropriations ask ed in many of the state institutions is due to the fact that they have been enlarged during the biennium just closing, and therefore the expense of conducting them is greater. There two new institutions which were not in the list two years ago, the tubercu losis hospital at Kearney and the state xtormal school at Chadron. The Chadron school is asking $96,500 and the Kearney hospital $41,240. Prison Board Report*. Secretary Joel A. Piper of the state prison board, in his biennial report to the governor, states that the parole law and the indeterminate sentence law have brought good results, and the board is well satisfied with the record made by paroled prisoners. Up to the present time 88 per cent of the prisoners paroled have led good and useful lives. Since July, 1911, the, prison board has recommended par dons for twenty-nine prisoners and. paroled eighty-three. “Since organi zation, 375 applications have been filed for their consideration, classi fied as follows: For pardons, 113; for commutation of sentence, 02, and for parole, 200.” Favors Missouri Plan. The Wisconsin plan for an amend ment to the constitution of the state to better provide for taxation legisla tion, giving the legislature wider scope in taxation matters, was adopt ed at a special meeting of the Tax Reform club in Lincoln. This amend ment will also be favored by the tax ation commission of Nebraska, and a committee from the tax club went to Omaha to urge the Omaha Economic ! club to get behind the movement for its adoption. ______ Good Roads Bill Drafted. Legislative committees represent^ ing the state automobile association, count}- officials' organized good roads association, conservation bodies, or ganized agriculture and simliar inter ests held an all day meeting in Lin- 1 coin last week at which provisions of , a good roads law were discussed and ! agreed upon. Considerable progress ; was made, but more work is necessary before the bill is shaped for action. Boys’ Corn Samples* Samples ot corn grown by the Ne braska Boys’ Com clubs in competi tion for the Union Stock Yards prizes continue to arrive at the general of fices of the yard company in South Omaha. Elton Stone of Lyons, who has. held the record until now with 103 bushels for an acre yield, has had to give way to two other lads. Paul Kruse of Ulysses, who now holds the enviable record as the best corn far mer in the state, grew on his acre a few pounds more than 112 bushels. Will Ask For Appropriation. The board of control of the Home for Dependent Children will ask an appropriation of $42,000 from the leg islature for the next biennium. At the beginning of the biennium there were 281 children under the care of the home and 141 have since that time been admitted. Of those dis charged fifty-one have gone out by adoption, seven have died, one mar ried, thirtyjthre