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    The lonp City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA
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ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention of What is Tranapirlng
in Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countries.
CONGRESS.
President-elect Wilson has not yet
decided what legislation he will recom
mend to the extra session of congress
besides the tariff.
George P. McCabe, solicitor of the
Department of Agriculture, has pre
sented to Secretary Wilson his resig
nation. It has been accepted.
The soaring price of crude oil is be
ing nvestigated by the department of
justice in connection with its inquiry
to determine whether the decree dis
solving the Standard Oil company had
been violated.
Opponents of the bill to appropriate
$2,000,000 for government participa
tion in the Panama-Pacific Internation
al exposition practically forestalled ac
tion at this session by a filibuster in
^ie house.
The supreme court of the United
States held in effect for the first time
tiat the Sherman anti-trust act does
hot forbid the mere combining of non
tompetitors in an industry. The de
cision was given in the shoe machin
ery trust case.
President-elect Wilson's attitude on
Panama canal tolls and free passage
for American coastwise ships is ex
pected to have an important bearing
upon the senate’s action on the Root
amendment proposing the repeal of
the free ships provision passed last
August.
President Taft signed the resolu
tion providing for the erection in
Washington of a memorial to Presi
dent Lincoln in Potomac park. The
plan approved by congress will re
quire a $2,000,000 appropriation which
will be made later.
Federal officeholders and employes
who have been solicited to contribute
to the national campaign funds are to
be summoned as witnesses by the sen
ate campaign expenditures committee
when it opens its investigation into
the campaign expenses’ of the general
election of 1912.
A constitutional amendment which
would restrict the president of the
United States to a single term of six
years and would bar Woodrow Wilson
and Theodore Roosevelt and William
H. Taft from again seeking election
was approved by the senate by a ma
jority of one vote. After a three-day
fight, in which the progressives joined
with many republicans in opposing
the restricted presidential term, the
senate adopted the original Works
resolution by a vote of 47 to 23. The
measure now' goes to the house.
SPORT.
Jack Johnson will meet A1 Palzer in
Paris on June 25.
The preliminary baseball season
has already opened in California.
Johnny Kilbane of Cleveland, feath
erweight champion, outpointed Young
Driscoll of Brooklyn in a ten-round
bout in New York.
Manager Kellogg of Iowa has made
arrangements with Nebraska authori
ties for a foot ball game between
Iowa and the Comhuskers next sea
son.
A new rule prohibiting bouts be
tween white persons and negroes,
otherwise known as “mixed bouts,”
has been adopted by the New York
State Athletic commission, which con
trols boxing In that state.
Bombadier Wells, the English
heavyweight champion, and Luther
McCarty have been matched to box
ten rounds in Madison Square Gar
den. New York, the latter part of
March or early in April, according to
cable reports from Ixmdon.
Athletes from Japan and China and
other oriental nations, gathering in
Manilla for the far eastern Olympic,
were welcomed by Governor General
William Cameron for the United
States. There are sixteen Chinese
and sixteen Japanese entered, as
well as representatives of Siam and
many sections of the Philippine
islands.
Tbe organizers of the proposed new
Western association to include Okla
homa City, Tulsa, Muskogee, Joplin.
Shreveport, Little Rock, Fort Smith
and Springfield, will ask Judge Kav
anaogh of the Southern league to ac
cept the presidency. An organization
meeting will be held early in Febru
ary.
Eastern railway firemen have voted
to go on strike.
GENERAL.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pass Inspector Boyd is in Omaha test
lag tiie -free transportation market.
A report of Illinois some time ago
stated that in the last twenty years
30,000 country churches in Illinois had
closed their doors.
A great many of the farmers of
western Iowa are turning away from
the raising of corn, —norting that it
is injurious to the land, according to
Lewis Abbott of Ctarlnda, la.
Cleveland expects to completely
equip its fire department with auto
mobile apparatus.
Taking of testimony has started a
second time in the third trial of Dr.
B. Clarke Hyde for the murder of Col.
Thomas H. Swope in Kansas City.
A voluntary advance of 10 per cent
tn wages has been granted to all em
ployes of the Interborongh Rapid
Transit company of New Yerk.
Probable abandonment of Fort Mac
kenzie. Wyo., in pursuance of the con
centration policy of the War depart
ment, is a topic of current interest in
that state.
St. Louis street cars in 1912 killed
forty-one persons.
Newton, Mass., rs to have a dental
clinic for pupils of public schools.
In McComb City, Miss., high school
boys work in railroad shops on alter
nate days.
Both houses of the Missouri legislat
ure took a recess of thirty minutes
while Dr. Anna Shaw spoke on woman
suffrage.
Both houses of the Iowa legislature
passed a concurrent resolution to in
vestigate the Iowa state board of agri
culture and the state fair board.
W. B. Hogan, accused of swinding,
who escaped from the detention hos
pital at Sioux City, la., while suffer
ing with a virulent case of smallpox,
was canght at Sac City, la., by
Sheriff J. \V. Criss of Sac county.
Frances E. Warren of Wyoming
was elected to the U. S. senate at
Cheyenne for the fifth time, he hav
ing already served twenty-four years,
by seven majority over his demo
cratic opponent.
A bill to discourage divorce seek
ers frotn going to Nevada, by extend
ing the period of residence from six
months to one year passed the as
sembly by a vote of 30 to 26. It is
made effective January 1, 1914.
Details of the wreck of the schooner
Granada on the bar at the entrance to
Colorado river, received at Bluefields,
Nic., say that twenty persons were
drowned. Of the fifteen passengers
who perished, several were among the
most important citizens of the repub
lic.
A definite line of action to do
away with the middleman and build
up a co-operative system whereby
farm products may be sold and de
livered by the producer to the con
sumer was adopted at a recent ses
sion of the fortieth annual convention
of the New York state grange.
About $3,000,000 was spent last year
by fraternal organizations, labor un
ions and insurance companies in spe
cial funds for the treatment of their
tuberculosis members and policyhold
ers, according to a statement issued
by the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
A boy's cry of "fire,” and the smoke
from an exploded reel of a motion
picture machine in a New York thea
ter resulted in a panic among the
audience of 400 persons and a rush
for the exits in which two women
were killed and eleven other persons
so badly injured that they had to he
sent to hospitals.
uiiirs ui wuc
leading from the powe<r station at,
Needles to the gold mines at Tom
Heed has been stolen and eight tons
of it shipped to Los Angeles, ac
cording to a report to the sheriff.
Even the poles were taken by the
thieves. The wire was of heavy
copper, valued at $1,000 per mile.
According to an agreement reached
between the attorney general of the
United States and counsel for the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific the
latter road will turn over to the Union
Pacific the railroad .known as the Cen
tral Pacific, which connects Ogden,
Utah, with San Francisco, thus giving
the Overland a through line to the
coast from Omaha.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany paid the government $500,000
more than necessary that it might
avoid a conflict with the government
and repetition of the publicity attend
ant on the weighing fraud scandals.
This was the testimony of James P.
Gerry, a former employe of the cus
toms division of the treasury depart
ment before the ways and means com
mittee in Washington.
Herman Rosenthal’s one-time part
ner in gambling picked up the brok
en threads of Rosenthal's story and
told the aldermanic committee investi
gating graft in New York, a tale of
money paid for police protection
eclipsing that of Jack Rose, Charles
Becker’s collector. For seventeen
years, James Purcell said, he had paid
for the privilege of running a gam
bling house making a hand book, or
conducting a pool room. In all he
gave the police more than $50,000. he
declared, in this period.
Federal aid for vocational schools
received a substantial boost in the
United States senate by the passage
of a bill carrying $12,000,000 for dis
tribution among agricultural and vo
cational schools in the states which
are now receiving federal aid. The
bill is a substitute for a measure
passed by the house of representatives
and goes back to that body for con
currence. Three million dollars is ap
propriated annually for the mainten
ance of instruction in agriculture, the
trades and industries and home eco
nomics, the allotment to be made to
the states in proportion to their dodu
lation. For the maintenance of in
struction in trades, industries and
home economics in separate industrial
and home economics schools an appro
priation of $3,000,000 is made to be
apportioned to population engaged in
trades and transportation and in
manufacturing and mechanical pur
suits as shown by the federal census.
A similar sum is appropriated for in
struction in these branches in agricul
tural high schools.
Arrangements are being made by the
Ninth cavalry' to greatly strengthen
the border patrol between Douglas,
Arison*, and Naco. Mexico. This is
a result of well founded reports of
renewed activity of rebels in the Ca
nanea country.
Elmer Loomis, an lola. Kan., high
school freshman, will suffer perma
nent loss of his sight as result of
hazing.
August Aebin was refused citizen
ship at a naturalization hearing in
Omaha becaused be confessed having
drank beer in Milwaukee, Wis., on
Sunday.
Tbe American Department Stores
corporation has been incorporated un
der tbe laws of New York state, to
do all buying direct from m&nufactur.
ers for department stores in many big
cities which annually purchase $75,
000,000 worth of goods.
The Donglaston, L. 1. Mothers' clut
is demanding a revival of the curfew
law of 1048 to keep children in o’
nights.
President-elect Wilson announced
that he would not relinquish his office
an governor of New Jersey until
March 3, the day be leaves here for
his inauguration at Washington.
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INQUIRY IS ASKED
COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES
CHARGES INEFFICIENCY.
REQUEST MADE FOR $25,000
Report Recommends Removal From
Service of Certain Reclamation
Officials.
Washintgon.—Charges of incom
petence and maladministration of the
reclamation service are made and an
appropriation of $25,000 is requested
for a congressional inquiry that will
deal broadly with reclamation pro
jects in a report which will be sent
to the house by the committee of in
terior department expenditures.
The report recoqimends during the
pendency of the proposed inquiry the
"removal from office" of Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Samuel
Adams and F. H. Newell and L. C.
Hill, director and supervising engin
eer. respectively, of the reclamation
service.
Interior department officials, includ
ing Director Newell flatly denied the
^legations in the printed report,
which is unsigned, but which was
given out by the committee with the
statement that Representative Hens
ey of Missouri, would present it later.
Mr. Hensley is chairman of a subcom
mittee that has been investigating af
fairs of Indian tribes, whose interests,
the Hensley report says, "are out
•ageously intermingled with the af
fairs of the reclamation service.”
Other members of the subcommit
,ee were Representatives Callawa) of
Texas, and Hanna of North Dakota,
since become governor.
The report charges that “Newel'
tnd his associates" discriminated
Against the farmers and that the cor
porations operating the canals and the
bond holders thereof, "alone received
.ention from theta in the Salt river
project.” It is alleged that as the re
valuation act provides that only the
estimated cost of construction may
pe recovered by the government and
the estimate of the secretary of the
interior was $3,850,00*1, and the ex
penditures to date have been $10,
>74,396, the government's loss on this
project appears to be $0,747,390.
Mexican Army Revolts.
Mexico City.—Following a revolt
jf the army in Mexico City when the
insurgents took possession of federal
buildings, shot down federal adhe
•ents in the streets, and released
General Felix Diaz from prison. Pres
ident Francisco Madero, with his
ministers and a strong detachment of
foval troops, i& fortified in the na
tional palace. General Diaz, leader of
the Vera Cruz revolt, with a large
majority of the regulars behind him,
aas practical control of the capital.
Argument Has Been Reached.
Washington. — Attorney General
Wickersham announces that he has
reached an agreement with the repre
sentatives of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads for the dis
solution of the great Harriman mer
ger as decreed by the supreme
court.
Nine Indictments Found.
New York.—Nine indictments, and
possibly ten, are expected to be re
turned by the grand jury in the police
graft investigations. Two of these
indictments will be against members
of the police department, one of
whom he said to be an inspector.
King Nicolas Directs Fighting.
Podgoritza, Montenegro.—A general
attack by the combined Montenegrin
and Servian armies has been opened
Dn the Turkish fortress of Scutari.
King Nicolas of Montenegro is per
sonally directing the operations.
Salvador’s President Dies.
San Salvador.—Dr. Manuel El Arau
jo, president of the republic af Sal
vador, who was wounded by the bul
lets of an assassin on February 4, is
dead. Don Carlos Melendez will suc
ceed to the office of chief executive,
He was the first designate.
Bryan in Havana.
Havana.—William J. Bryan, who
has arrived here, called on President
Comez. He dined at the American
legation this evening and later de
livered a lecture. Mn Bryan will
leave for Isle of Pines later.
Must Protect Hat Pins.
Stockholm.—Under a new law street
;ar conductors throughout Sweden are
provided with rubber tipB to give to
women not complying with the new
law against unprotected hat pins.
Dry State Measure Passed.
Washington.—The Webb bill to pro
hibit the interestate shipment of
Squor into dry states for purposes of
sale “or in any manner used’’ in
violation of the state laws was passed
by the house, 240 to 65. The bill
now goes to the senate.
Thirty Million “Strap Hangers’’
Chicago.—It was learned in connec
tion with the introductionn of a “no
seat, no fare” ordinance, that 30,000,
000 perrons annually qualify as
“strap hangers” in this city.
Board May Provide Pool.
Lincoln.—Superintendent Hunter ol
the Lincoln schools has been asked by
the school board to investigate swim
ming pools in high schools to see
whether or not one should be included
in the new building to be started there
this spring.
Attorney General to Take Tour.
Washington.—Arrangements for the
world-giriding trip of Attorney Gener
al Wlckersham on his retirement from
office next nonth have been finally
settled.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
Coming Events In Nebraska.
Feb. 19 to 21—Fourth Annual Con
servation Congress. Lincoln.
February 20-21-22.—Loyal Order of
Moose Fair and Bazar, Omaha.
Feb. 24 to March 1.—Omaha Auto
mobile Show, Omaha.
March 5 to 15—“Made-in-Nebraska’*
Show, Omaha.
Dodge is to have a ball team next
season.
A new theater has been opened at
Silver Creek.
Chadron is soon to have a new mon
ument works.
North Platte is to soon have a new
office building.
A good roads meeting was held in
McCook, Feb. 4.
Merrick county's new court house
is nearing completion.
Madison's new $«,000 Carnegie li
brary has been opened.
Building improvements in Scribner
in 1912 reached $55,975.
North Platte Chamber of Commerce
has started a boosting campaign.
An effort is being made to secure
a sugar beet factory for Lisco.
Peru's Commercial club recently
held Its third annual banquet.
Ainsworth Monks of McCook was
killed at Wray, Colo., in a train ac
cident.
In Fremont during the month of
January there were twelve deaths and
nine births.
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature providing for a division of
Custer county.
The authorities of Norfolk are mak
ing a light against the cigarette evil
in the schools.
The Cudahy soap factory will not
move to Kansas City from Omaha, as
has been rumored.
Logan Creek Farmers’ club, near
Scribner, in 1912, spent $1,800 in
building improvements.
Mrs. Sarah Hinitt, one of the oldest
inhabitants of that county and a pio
neer, passed a way at her home at
Fairbury.
Twenty-five expert checker players
entered the contest given by the Ne
braska State Crecker association at
MrTook
To trade Manawa and adjacent ter
ritory for Carter lake and adjacent
territory is the object of a bill intro
duced in the legislature.
Parcel post has been seized by uni
versity students a9 a cheap way of
sending their laundry home and cut
ting down expenses.
Senator J. M. McFarland has intro
duced a bill to permit the sale of
liquor by restaurants and hotels with
each 50-cent meal after 8 p. m.
The State Association of Treasurers
and the Nebraska Association of
Charities and Conferences will hold
their 1914 meetings in Omaha.
Water users of the Keith and Lin
coln County Irrigation district are
considering the proposition of buying
a perpetual water right from the gov
ernment.
Word has been received of a $400
theft of automobile tires, two fur
overcoats and other automobile sup
plies from the John Butler garage at
Hampton.
Omaha lodge No. 90, Loyal Order
of Moose, will introduce a novelty
shortly in the shape of a fair and ba
zar to be held at its club house, Feb
ruary 20, 21 and 22.
from Tangier temple, Omaha, of the
Ancient Arabic order of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine to go to the im
perial council at Dallas, Tex., May 10
is now' being effected.
At a special election held at Ox
ford for the purpose of voting bonds
to install a municipall electric lighting
plant, the pooposition carried by a
vote of more than 2 to 1.
A system of organizing county
school districts in Nebraska for econo
my and efficiency and equal distribu
tion of school taxes is now being con
templated by a great many school men
of the state.
Thirty dollars a month is the
amount provided by Douglas county
for the supervision of its tuberculosis
patients at the county hospital. The
number varies from thirteen to
twenty.
A fataf outbreak of what veterinar
ians say they believe to be an apo
plectic form of anthrax is killing cat
tle by scores in western Nebraska.
Andrew Tuckson, a ranchman living
twenty-five miles north of Ogallala,
has lost fifty-two head of his herd
of 300.
George Mayo or .\ortn go up nas i
.been apponted oil inspector in the
pixth district. This appointment fills
the list of food and oil inspectors and
will permit the consolidated depart
ments, of which C. E. Harman is the
head, to begin immediate work in all
sections of the state.
Henry T. Clarke, one of the oldest
citizens of Nebraska, a pioneer of
Omaha and Bellevue, died at Excel
sior Springs, Mo., aged 79'years. Mr.
Clarke was instrumental in the up
building of the state as well as being
identified in church work. He came
to the state in 1835. He was the first
Master Mason of Nebraska lodge No.
1, Bellevue.
One hundred and twenty-five people
attended the Mason City farmers’ in
stitute.
The receipts at the Femont post
office for the month of January show
an increase over the corresponding
period of a year ago of $454.53.
The senate has passed the bill pro
viding that legal voters absent from
their homes on election, may cast
their votes by mail.
Several Nebraskans will take part
in the program of the department of
superintendents of the National Educa
tion asociation. at its meeting in Phi
ladelphia, February 24 to March 1.
There is a movement on foot in
Chappell to organize a Commercial
club.
The Nebraska bank guarantee fund
Is now $447,000, and there has not
been a bank failure since the law
went into effect.
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Nebraska Editorial as
sociation, held in Omaha January 31,
it was decided to hold the 1913 edi
torial copvention in Omaha June 2, 3
and 4. Headquarters, while the news
paper men are in that city, will be
at the Rome hotel. A complete pro
gram will be prepared later.
FAVOR FARM BUREAU
NEW PLAN PRESENTED FOR
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT.
MOVEMENT IS STATEWIDE
Work to Be Done Under Direction of
United States Department of
Agriculture^
Omaha.—A state-wide plan for
county development was presented at
the Public Affairs luncheon of the
Commercial club of Omaha, at a joint
meeting of the club members and the
Omaha Grain exchange. The plan
was presented by Bert Ball, secretary
of the Crop Improvement committee
of the Council of Grain exchanges,
composed of the leading grain ex
changes of the United States. The
plan has been placed in the budget
of (the Grain and Agricultural commit
tee of the Commercial club for con
sideration and will be discussed at
length by that body in the near fu
ture.
It is proposed to form a farm bu
reau in each county of Nebraska,
which will hire a county agent who
shall work under the direction of Prof.
Pugsley. sta'e lender, representing the
United States Department of Agricul
ture and the Agricultural College
at Lincoln.
The county organizations are to be
formed in connection with the local
commercial clubs and farmers' organi
zations, treating the county as a unit
to encourage not only greater produc
tion but to see that the marketing
conditions are so perfected that the
citizens of each county shall be able
to collect every dollar which is com
ing to that county.
The work will be conducted locally
hv special committees of those most j
r.uallitied in the county to encourage
crop improvement, road building, agri
culture in the schools, live stock,
dairying, home economics, farm ac
counting, marketing etc.
The agriculture committee of the
club consists of millers, grain men.
railroad men, bankers, jobbers and
manufacturers of which Mr. M. C i
Peters, of the M. C. Peters Mill Co., is
chairman.
The state-wide Nebraska plan will
he made with no individual member
ship, but each county as rapidly as
organized will be affiliated and repre
sented by its president on the State
Advisory Committee. The commit*
tee is not scientific, and will not of
for any advice whatever as to agri
cultural methods, such owrk now be- i
ing in the hands of Prof. Pugsley,
the State leader.
6710 counties in all parts of the
United States have undertaken this
work, and 102 county associations
have already been incorporated and :
have employed county agents under j
this plan. 7 Nebraska counties have j
practically completed organizations
up to this time.
Position of Turks Hopeless.
London.—The Daily Telegram pub
lishes a long uncensored dispatch from
its correspondent, Ellis Ashamed Bart
let, at Constantinople, in which he
says the Turkish people are in such
a state of misery and destitution as a
result of the war, that they are com
pletely indifferent as to the fate of
Adrianople.
“The cabinet is in a quandary,” says j
the correspondent. “It knows that it ^
will be compelled to cede Adrianople ;
and is only seeking some means to
save its face.
“There is not a cent in the treasury
and there are no means of getting
money until peace is concluded. Mean
while, the country is drifting to ruin
and bankruptcy.
“A great anti-war demonstration oc
curred recently in front of the war
office, at which the Young Turk® were
publicluy denounced as murderers and
thieves. Mthmound Shefket Pasha
appeared on the balcony and tried to
make a speech, but was greeted with
opprobrious epithets.
“The misery in the Turkish carries
is indescribable. It has been bitterly
cold, with a heavy snow; the soldiers
are ill fed and badly sheltered. Small
pox, enteric fever, dysentery and pneu
monia have replaced Asiatic cholera.
N. Y. Gambling Houses Raided.
New York.—The higher-up circles of
the gambling fraternity were upset by
the raids which wee made simultan
eously upon eight big alleged gamb
ling establishments in the Fifth
avenue and other theatrical districts.
As the police in eight taxicab parties,
under command of Inspector John F.
Dywer, swooped down upon the sus
pected places, firemen ga'ning entrance
by either pretending to be inspecting
the buildings or by shouting "fire.”
Bartholdt Is Peace President.
St Louis.—Congressman Richard
Bartholdt of St Louis has accepted
the presidency of the Fourth annual
peace congress held here May 1-3.
Suffragetes Sent to Jail.
Ix>ndon.—Sylvia. Pankhurst. the
militant snffragete leader, was sen
tenced to two weeks imprisonment or
a fine of ?10 at Bow street police
court. The same punishment was
meted out to nineteen other women
who participated in the raid on the
House of Commons.
Mid-West Cement Show.
Omaha.—A trip through the aisles
of the Auditorium, when the Mid-West
Cement show opened, revealed some
exceedingy interesting sights to the
layman as well as to those versed in
cement machinery and construction.
To Use Moving Pictures.
Omaha.—Executive committee of the
Omaha Commercial club has adopted a
resolution favoring a small appropria
tion for advertising Nebraska at the
San Francisco exposition. A moving
picture exhibit is contemplated.
INDIAN DEVIL’S WAR CLUB
Rocks in the Black Hills of South
Dakota Said to Have Been Made
by His Satanic Majesty.
Sioux Falls, S. D.—In the Black
Hills of South Dakota, the region in
cluded in the hunting grounds of the
great and warlike Sioux Indian na
tion, two huge columnar stones of
very hard pegmatite are apparently
6tuck in the rocky apex of a low
mountain, 1,000 feet or so above the
Dakota plains. An old Indian legend
has it that these columns were orig
inally a single rock, the head of the
devil’s club or tomahawk. His Sa
tanic majesty, in crossing over one
day from the Stony mountains (Rocky
mountains) to the Father of Waters
(the Mississippi river), to get a drink,
rested for a moment with one foot
on this mountain and the other on
an adjoining mountain, and feeling
particularly hot and thirsty he vi
ciously drove his stone tomahawk
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Devil’s War Club.
point down into the top of the moun
tain nearest his right hand. The
tomahawk split a great rock apart,
but being a part of the mountain it
closed together tightly around the
tomahawk and whey the devil started
to pull out the weapon, try as he
would, he could not get it loose. In
his angry efforts he broke off the han
dle. which was made from an im
mense mountain fir tree, and further
succeeded only in splitting the head
of the tomahawk itself. At this he
left in disgust, and strode on to the
Mississippi.
Since then the split tomahawk has
stood as it is today, and the top of the
mountain has ever since been a place
to be shunned by all but the most
daredevil of Indian warriors. How
ever. it is told that at various times
certain Indian medicine men, not
themselves taking much stock in the
terrors of the region, during pe
riods when their prestige in the
tribes was at a low ebb due to their
false prognostications concerning the
'outcome of certain battles, have found
a safe refuge in the darksome sha
dows of the Devil's War Club.
DIVORCE COSTS HIM POST
Confirmation of Appointment as Coad
jutor of Kansas Diocese Defeated
When Marital Tangle Is Revealed.
St. Louis. Mo.—Rev. H. Percy Silver
lacked two bishopric votes of enough
to confirm his appointment as bishop
coadjutor of Kansas, it was announced
by Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, presiding
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
church of America, and the diocese
of Kansas may now call the election
null and proceed to a new choice.
The objection of the bishops to Dr.
Silver is said to have been that he
has been divorced from his wife.
Dr. Silver is a former chaplain of
the regular army. For a year he was
connected with the cathedral at Oma
ha. He is secretary of the seventh
missionary district, with headquarters
at Topeka, Kan.
The Kansas diocese elected him
bishop coadjutor of Kansas, see of
Topeka, and the election was confirm
ed by the standing committee, but
when the necessary consent of the
bishop was asked, the story that he
had been legally separated from a
wife in Nebraska some years ago pro
voked opposition.
The three months allowed for the
gathering of votes expired recently.
MEN MAY END OWN LIVES
Utah Judge Shows Advantages of
Custom of Allowing Doomed Crimi
nals to Commit Suicide.
Salt Lake City, T’tah.—The method
to be used hereafter In executing crim
inals in the state of ITtah has become
a topic widely discussed since the leg
islature convened.
The latest idea expressed is thpt
condemned criminals be allowed to
take their own lives, after they have
exhausted t very means to have the
death sentence set aside.
The state law now provides that
condemned criminals be executed
either by shooting or hanging, the
choice to be made by the person to
be executed.
Judge Thomas Marioneaux has is
sued a statement in which he sets
forth the advantages of the Chinese
custom permitting a condemned crim
Inal to commit suicide.
Spears a Cowfish.
New York.—That big herd of cow
fish which grazes in the Algae fields
ofT the coast of Florida, lost one of
its finest members on Jan. 19, when
the steamer Saratoga came along on
her way north. The steamer ran into
the fish and held it fast on her stem.
George Dollar, the chief officer, was
lowered over the side to dislodge its
body, but he did not succeed. Finally
the Saratoga's engines were reversed
and she backed clear of the fish.
The captain noted the incident in
his log and told his agents about it
when he arrived here.
Wrecks to Save.
Arlington, N. J.—Bill Martin, engi
neer, rammed a runaway freight car
with his engine, derailed it and saved
the lives of many on an incoming
passenger.
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Nine times in ten when the liver Is
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"Are you fond of a joke?”
“Is this a proposal?”
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We’ve Done Our Share.
Woodby—Is there any money in
writing for the magazine?
Scriblins—Sure! The postal de
partment is about half supported that
way.—Boston Transcript.
A FREE SURPRISE BOX.
In another part of this paper you
will find a large ad of the Loose-Wiles
Biscuit Co.. Omaha, Neb. They offer
to send to any reader a box of assort
ed biscuits absolutely free. Don’t miss
this opportunity. Cut out the coupon
from their ad and mail it today.
Sure.
‘‘Don't you think that, we should
have a more elastic currency?” asked
the Old Fogy.
‘Tt’s elastic enough,” replied the
Grouch. “Why don’t they make it
more adhesive?”
Compromise.
Senator Fletcher of Jacksonville,
apropos of t he recent peace confer
ence in London, said:
“Such conferences usually end in a
compromise, and the people con
cerned depart homeward with sour
smiles.
“A compromise, you know, has been
accurately described as an agreement
whereby both parties get what they
don’t want.”
Incompetent Georgie.
Little George was six years old and
the family was much interested in
having him start to school, but he in
sisted that he was not going.
One day his grandmother said to
him: “Georgfe, you are going to school
with sister this winter, aren't you?"
“No, grandma, I’h not going to
school at all. 1 can’t read, nor I can't
write, nor I can’t sing, and I'd like to
know what good I’d be at school?”
At the Studio.
A motor stopped in front of the
photographer’s, and a woman lack
ing none of the artificial accessories
deemed necessary to “looks,” entered
the studio.
A couple of days later the photogra
pher submitted proofs for her ap
proval.
“Not one of these pictures looks
anything like me,” the woman in
sisted.
The photographer tried in every
way to pacify her, but finding this
an impossibility, lost control of his
temper.
"Madam!” he exclaimed, "did you
read my sign?” v
“Yes.”
"Well! It doe not say ‘cleaning,
dyeing and remodeling.’ It says ’por
traits.’ ”
Shivery
Mornings
You can have a taste of the
summer sunshine of the com
fields by serving a dish of
Post
Toasties
These crisp Savoury bits
of toasted white com make
an appetizing dish at any
time of year.
Try them in February
and taste the delicate true
maize flavour.
A dish of Toasties served
either with cream or milk,
or fruit, is surprisingly good.
**The Memory Lingers**
Grocers everywhere sell
Toasties
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
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