The Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, . . NEBRASKA
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tNTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IKFORT
Includes What Ic Going On at Wash- j
in5ton and in Other Sections of
the Country.
CONGRESS.
Debate vm begun on annual pen
rion appropriation bill carrying $180,- '
200,000.
Representative Olmstead says it j
would be cowardly to withdraw from
the Philippines.
The United States and France have
agreed to continue the arbitration
treaty for five years.
The diplomatic and consular appro
priation bill carrying $3,761,6-12. was
passed by the House.
President Taft's veto of the Bur- ;
nett-Dillinghani immigration bill was
received and ead by the senate.
An amendment to the postoffice bill
In the senate povides for primary elec
s. an on fourth class postmasters.
The House Territories committee
l eard Alaskan plea for legislation
permitting entrymen to prove coal
Maims in court.
An aggregate of $19.800,08G is ex
pended annually by the government to
maintain the public health service of
the various departments, according
to a statement forwarded to the sen
ate by the secretary of the treasury.
Eulogies for the late Senator Frye of
Maine and Representative Hubbard of
Iowa, and Utter of Rhode Island, 1
were delivered in the house recently.
Many representatives joined in the j
symposium of tributes.
Criticism of the present cocserva- .
tion system of the United States be
cause of the power it gives to depart- ;
mental heads in Washington to regu
late affairs in great areas of western
states was voiced by Senator Thomas
of Colorado.
The bill to provide $2,000,000 for j
government participation in the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition in 1015 at San
Francisco was killed for this session
of congress on a test vote of 112 to
117 in a parliamentary skirmish for
closing debate.
SPORT.
Jack Johnson will meet A1 Palzer in
Paris on June 25.
William F. Quinn, who has trained
hundreds of Harvard athletes for field
events and hurdling, died after a long
illness. He was thirty-two years old
and came to Harvard in 1906 front the i
New York athletic club.
protests against starting National
league baseball games there at 2 p.
m., as announced by President Mur
phy of the Chicago club, caused Mur
phy to modify the innovation by say
ing that the games would be staited
at 2:30.
Henry Coulter, aged 71. at one
time said to have been champion sin
gle scull oarsman of the United States,
died at his home in Pittsburg, Pa.
Mr. Coulter participated in many
famous races in this country and
Luther McCarty's next fight will be
with Bombardier Wells. The place
will be Madison Square garden. New
York, and the date will be March, 14,
or a day close to that. This much
was agreed between McCarty’s man
ager and the proprietors of the Madi
son Square Garden club.
Ad. Wolgast, former lightweight
champion, arrived from Portland to
begin training for his fight with "Har
lem Tommy" Murphy on Washington's
birthday. He confirmed the report
that he had severed business relations
with Tom Jones, formerly his man
ager. and at once established his
training camp.
With the adoption of the playing
schedule for 1913 the club-owners and
representatives of the National league
ended one of the shortest and most
peaceful sessions in the history of
this baseball organization. According
to the statement made by Secretary
Heydler at the close of the meeting
harmony prevailed and there was not
a ripple of discord heard during the
discussion of business. The schedule
calls for 154 games.
GENERAL.
H. H. Humphrey and R. H. McWhor- j
ter, who confessed to having practiced
fraud in connection with the Columbia
river orchards swindle, were fined $1- j
000 each and sentenced to sixty days' ]
imprisonment at Portland. Ore.
How he discovered information for ■
which the government paid him $10,- ]
000 in less than five months' employ- !
ment by Duven Bros., dealers in art
objects, was related to a New York
supreme court jury by Joseph Lam
bert Payne.
San Francisco was endorsed for the
meeting place of the National Can
ners’ association in 1915 at the clos
ing session of the convention.
A great national pars in Colorado,
to be known as the Rocky Mountain
park, is proposed in a bill introduced
by Representative Rucker of Colo
rado.
Mrs. John B. Henderson, wife of
Former Senator Henderson of Mis
souri, pleaded guilty in a Washington
police court of having been responsi
ble for chopping down a tree on a
public thoroughfare near her home
without first obtaining a Devrnit.
Sixteen are dead, including twelve
minces and four mine guards, as the
result of a desperate battle in the
Kanawha county, W. Va„ coal fields.
The comptroller of the currency is
sued a call for a statement of the con
dition of all national banks of the
United States at the close of business
of Tuesday, February 4.
Thomas A. Edison celebrated his
G6th birthday on February 11.
The price of oil has been advanced
in the North Lima, 0., field.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pass Inspector Boyd is in Omaha test
ing the free transportation market.
Eastern railway firemen have voted
to go on strike.
The proposed German petroleum
monopoly was placed fully under gov
ernmental control by an amendment’
to the bill by the committee of the
imperial Parliament.
The Illinois senate unanimously rat
ified the proposed amendment to the
national constitution providing for the
election of Vnited States senators by
the direct vote of the people.
Fire which started in the garret of
the Star hotel at Dolan. S. D., burned
eleven buildings in the business part
of the town before being brought
under control. The estimated loss is
$65,000.
it is understood the marriage of
Princess Victoria Louise, only daugh
ter of the German emperor, to Prince
Ernst August, son of tlie duke of Cum
berland, will take place in October
next.
The national chamber of commerce
adopted a resolution calling upon the
president and senate of the l nited
States to renew the arbitration treaty
made between this country and Great
Britain in 1908.
Conrad Schickerling, president of
the Shickerling Manufacturing com
pany, was arrested in New' York on
an indictment charging use of the
mails to swindle pupils of a jewelers’
art school.
A bill providing for a minimum
wage for women passed by the Kan
sas house of representatives fixes ?u
a week for a nine-hour day as the
minimum wage of all women workers
except domestic servants.
Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin
waved before the eyes of his associ
ate a draft for $1,500,000, the proceeds
of a lumber deal. Back home the boys
are wondering if the old man wil run
again and give prosperity a boost.
Harry Fisher of Buffalo was elected
president of the National Association
of Merchant Tailors at the close of
their annual clothing and style show
in Cleveland, succeeding Charles Mc
Carthy of Chicago.
The Ypsilanti Re*ed Furniture com
pany, ait institution adjoining the
state reformatory and in which con
vict labor was largely employed, was
destroyed by fire at a loss of $265,000.
The state lost $100,000 worth cf
equipment in the factory. The origin
of the lire has not been determined.
Rev. Dr. Robert Stuart McArthur
has resigned his pastorate at the At
lanta Baptist Tabernacle, which has
been stormy for months through dif
ferences between himself and the
congregation, and will return to New
York to resume his duties as presi
dent of the World's Baptist Alliance.
The soil of a great portion of Ger
many is little but sand and it has
been tilled for centuries, but on this
poor land German farmers are today
raising in some crops more than twice
as many bushels per acre as the
American farmer, and in all crops
from 60 to 80 per cent more.
Whether the six-year single presi
dential term constitutional amend
ment shall be presented to the public
as it recently passed the senate, or
be substituted by the Clayton resolu
tion, the house judiciary committee
was unable to decide. The question is
to come up in the house later.
Criminal contempt of court proceed
ings against the Southern Wholesale
Grocers’ association and seventy-nine
individuals for alleged violations of
the anti-trust decree entered against
the “grocers’ trust" more than a year
ago were begun in Birmingham, re
cently by the federal government.
John F. Bauer of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
who has celebrated his forty-fifth
birthday anniversary, has the dis
tinction of being the. first white ch.ld
born at Hays City, Kan. Hays City
was one of the most important trad
ing posts for the Indians, and it after
ward became the leading shipping
point for cattle in the entire Panhan
dle section. Mr. Bauer came to
Wilkes-Barre thirty years ago.
George Kittle cf Palisade. Neb, tiled
a complaint against K. H. Farmer
w^th the county attorney Saturday.
The complaint alleges that Farmer se
cured $62 from him by falsely repre
senting that he was about to be arr
rested by a United States deputy mar
shal and needed that amount of money
to save him from the humiliation of
being arrested. A warrant was issued
and Farmer was arrested Wednesday
at Hastings.
President-elect Wilson announced
definitely tonight that he would not
make public the names of his cabinet
until he sent them to the senate for
confirmation, March 4. "I will follow
the good old-fashioned method,” he
said, “and not make any announce
•ment until the names of the cabinet
members are sent to the senate.” Mr.
Wilson's remarks were occasioned by
the publication of reports from Wash
ington that he would announce his
cabinet tomorrow. He said there was
absolutely no truth or authority for
the reports.
In a speech at New York Colonel
Roosevelt returned to aif attack of
the supreme court of Idaho.
A report of Illinois some time ago
stated that in the last twenty years
10.000 country churches in Illinois had
closed their doors.
Former Governor B. M. Fernald of
Maine was elected president of the
National fanners' association in con
vention in Louisville, Kv.
April 14 has been selected as Lie
date for beginning a general strike
throughout Belgium by the National
Council of Workingmen's organiza
tions.
The Missouri house today passed
the county unit local option bill by a
vote of 90 to 43.
The German and Dutch steamship
lines announced that the steerage rate
from Europe to Canada would be cut
to $30 instead of $40.
Elmer Loomis, an Iola, Kan., high
school freshman, will suffer perma
nent loss of his sight as result of
hazing. >
By mortgaging his piano Isaac Fyer,
aged 68 years, of Pueblof Cole., se
cured money to purchase a revolver,
with which the police say he killed
himself.
; FIGHTING, REPORTS SAY, HAS
BEEN RESUMED.
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THE MESSAGES ARE MEAGER
_
Authorities Have Established a
Strict Censorship in Mex
ico City.
Mexico City.—The strictest censor
ship on all dispatches has been estab
' lished at Mexico City. Government
I officials have taken charge of the ca
ble office and ruthlessly discarded
messages of correspondents to theii
papers.
Code message and all messages con
taining any expressions whatever
that might he constructed into a sug
gestion of the important happenings
in the capital came under the ban and
promptly were confiscated by the
censor and his assistants.
Nevertheless several dispatches, of
a somewhat detached nature, escaped
the vigilance of the censorship and a
bulletin was flashed through that the
armistice had been broken and that
both sides were fighting savagely.
The Mexican government was un
able, however, to shut off the official
dispatches of the diplomatic represen
tatives, but as these are sent in ci
pher, considerable delay is being ex
perienced in translation, and the fear
is expressed that many things may
occur in the Mexican capital detri
mental to the foreign residents be
fore the actual situation is learned by
the home governments.
Brief dispatches giving a general
idea of the situation prior to the
freon break of hostilities were passed
by the censors to their destinations,
but the government apparently is de
termined that not a word of the fight
ing which has torn the city asunder
for eight days shall be communicated
to the outside world, if that can he
prevented.
lilt* govermiitfiiL iiitb uui vniy ouut
the world oft from Mexico City, but
to far as the public is concerned has
shut Mexico City off front the world,
including the whole of the Mexican
republic. News dispatches sent from
the Tinted States to Mexico City
were either refused or held up, the
intention evidently being that the
residents within the capital shall not
be informed of the measures which
have been undertaken by the Amer
ican and other governments to pro
tect their interests.
While Madero has been reiterating
his declaration that conditions in
Mexico outside of the capital axe sat
isfactory, advices from various cen
ters indicate that there have been im
portant movements in favor of Gen
eral Diaz.
Confirmation of the breaking of the
armistice and the resumption of hos
tilities has been received from La
redo, Tex., where wire communica
tion was established with Mexico
City. The messages stated that a bat
tle was on. Official advices received
from Ambassador Wilson tell of the
narrow escape of the British minister,
Trancis W. Stronge, from federal bul
lets while on his way to a confer
ence at the American embassy. The
automobile in which Mr. Stronge was
riding, escorted by a federal guard,
was struck in several places. This
gives some slight indications of the
difficulties and dangers encountered
by the diplomatic representatives in
their endeavors to bring about a
peace settlement.
Further advices from the ambassa
dor say that the majority of the
American residents have found places
of relative safety, although a few of
them have refused to abindon their
homes.
Attempts to Rob 16 Men.
Kansas City.—A man who gave the
name of D. R. keeper, attempted to
hold up and rob sixteen men on the
street near the Union station. He
was unable to keep all of them under
his eye and after emptying his revol
ver at those who attempted' to escape,
he took to his own heels with the
men he had attempted to rob in pur
suit. One of the highwayman’s bul
lets fatally wounded Francis Fitz
gerald, a 16-year-old boy. Leeper was
captured.
China Holding Elections.
Peliin.—Present returns from the
general elections being held through
out China indicate that President
Yuan Shi Kai will be returned to of
fice by a substantial majority.
Morehead Stops the Fight.
Lincoln, Neb.—Following the filing
of a protest by the Tri-City Baraca
union of Omaha and vicinity, Gover
nor Morehead wired the sheriff to
prohitrt the fight at Grand Island.
Chinese to Be Hanged.
New York.—Two members of the
Chinese Hip Sing tong—Eng Hing and
Yee Dock—were sentenced to execu
tion March 24 for the murder of Lee
Kay, a fellow countryman, during a
tong shooting affray about February
14, 1912.
Power Engineers in Field.
Fremont. Neb.—Surveyors repre
senting the Kountze canal 'interests
are said to be working near Linwood.
A week ago they were in the vicinity
of Cedar Bluffs.
Blue Sky Law in Vermont.
Montpelier.—The so-called “blue
sky” act, first adopted in Kansas and
deignated to exclude from the state
questionable investment companies
while turning the light on those al
ready within the state, became a law
by approval of governor.
Dr. H. D. Heddings.
Washington.—Dr. H. D. Heddings,
former assistant surgeon general of
the public health service and who
served conspicuously abroad in con
nection with cholera outbreaks, died.
DYING MESSAGE
FROM CAPT. SCOn
FOUND ON CORPSE
London, Feb. 10.—Among records
found on Captain Scott was the fol
lowing, written at the time he real
ized his mission must end in disaster
It is his last message to the world
completed while the pangs of hungei
and suffering from cold were slowly
but surely killing him and his com
panions:
"The causes of this disaster are not
due to faulty organization but to mis
fortune in all the risks which had tc
be undertaken.
"One, the loss of pony transport in
March, 1911, obliged me to start later
than I had intended, and obliged the
limits of stuff transported to be nar
row. The weather throughout the out
ward journey, and especially the long
gale in 83 degrees south, stopped us
The soft snow in the lower reaches ol
the glacier again reduced the pace.
"We fought these untoward events
with will and conquered, but it ate in
to our reserve provisions. Every detail
of our food supplies, clothing and
depots made on the interior ice sheet
and on that long stretch of 700 miles
to the pole and back worked out to
perfection.
"The advance party would have re
turned to the glacier in fine form and
with a surplus of food but for the as
tonisliing fcilure of the man whom we
had least expected to fail.
“Seaman Edgar Evans was thought
to be the strongest man of the party
and Ileardmore glacier is not difficult
in fine weather. But on our return we
did not get a single completely fine
day. This, with a sick companion,
enormously increased our anxieties.
“We got into frightfully rough ice
and Edgar Evans received a eoncus
sion of the brain. He died a natural
death, but left us a shaken party, with
the season ur.dulv advanced.
"Rut all these facts enumerated
were as nothing to the surprise which
awaited us on the barrier. I main
tain that our arrangements for return
ing were quite adequate and that no
one in the world would have done bet
ter in the weather which we encoun
tered at this time of the year.
"On the summit in latitude S5 de
grees to 8f> degrees we had minus 20
to minus 30. On the barrier, in lati
tude 82 degrees. 10,000 feet lower, we
had minus 30. On the barrier, in lati
tude 82 degrees, we had minus 30 in
the day and minus 2T at night pretty
regularly, with a continuous head
wind during our day marches.
"These circumstances came on very
suddenly and our wreck is certainly
due to this sudden advent of severe
weather, which does not seem to have
any satisfactory cause.
"I do not think human heings ever
came through such a month as we
have come through, and we should
have got through in spite of the
weather but for the sickening of a
second companion. Captain Oates, and
a shortage of fuel in our depots, for
which I cannot account, and finally,
but for the storm which had fallen on
us within eleven miles of the depot
at which we hoped to secure the final
supplies.
"Surely misfortune could scarcely
have exceeded this last blow."
“We arrived within eleven miles of
our old One Ton camp with fuel for
one hot meal and food for two days.
For four days we have been unable to
leave the tent, the gale blowing about
us; we are weak.
“Writing is difficult.
“For my own sake I do rot regret
this journey, which has shown that
Englishmen can endure hardships,
help one another and meet death with
as great a fortitude as ever in the
past.
"We took risks. VVe knew we took
them. Things have come out against
us and therefore we have no cause
for complaint, but bow to the will of
Providence, determined still to do our
best to the last.
"Rut if we have been willing to give
our lives to this enterprise, which is
for the honor of our country, I ap
peal to our countrymen to see that
those who depend on us are properly
cared for.
"Had we lived I should have had a
tale to tell of the hardihood, endur
ance and courage of my companions
which would have stirred the heart of
every Englishman.
“These rough notes and our dead
bodies must tell the ta'e, but surely,
surely a great, rich country like ours
will see that those who are dependent
on us are properly provided for.
"(Signed) R. SCOTT,
"March 25, 1912."
Eat Too Much Meat?
Amid the general chorus of grum
bling at the high price of meat there
is one dissenting note—that of the La
dies’ Home Journal, which says: "We
rejoice at the high prices of meats,
and fervently say 'May they soar high
er and yet higher!’" - Americans eat
too much meat, the Journal thinks, and
high prices will lessen the consump
tion.
His Mistake.
“Do you think there is money to
be made out of the chicken business?”
"Some men have made fortunes out
of it.”
“Well. I never had any luck."
"You tried to make money in the
chicken business.”
Mild Answer.
“Will that savage brute of yours
bite, boy?” asked the old lady.
“You needn’t be 6keered, ma'am.”
answered the little boy. “He's too old
to bite anything tough.”
There’s a Difference.
“The man who runs that store has
got the right idea, ail right.”
“How so?"
"He advertises: 'Bagpipes and mus
ical instruments.’ ”
A Great Speech.
"Yes, senator, I happened to be in
the visitors’ gallery once when you
made a great speech against it.”
"Against what?”
“Time.”
THE FREIGHT BILL
KECKLEY TELLS ABOUT BAD
TREATMENT BY COMMITTEE.
BILL PUI OVER IE WEEK
Chairman Explains He Was Simply
Seeking Full Information.— Keckley
Didn’t See It That Way.
Lincoln.—The proposed reduction of
freight rates by the legislature, with
out regard to the State Railway com
mission, was the one big question be
fore the houses brought up this after
noon by Keckley of York, who, rising
to a question of personal privilege,
gave a talk on his treatment at tile
hands of the railway committee, be
fore which he appeared Friday eve
ning. The action of the committee
was defended by Helliger, chairman,
and Stephen of Merrick, a member.
Keckley wanted the committee to
make a report on his bill last night,
but instead it went over for a week
so the committee could get more facta
in the case.
Keckley said, after telling about be
ing the author of the hill to reduce
freight rates 20 per cent: “That bill
went to the railroad committee and
was discussed Friday evening. I
asked the committee to report the bi.l
back to the house and I was not par
ticular what report it made. 1 told
the committee I was not competent to
discuss freight rates with the railroad
experts. I wanted to show my data
upon w hich the bill was based to the
committee of the whole and not be I
compelled to show my hand to the
committee.
'
rurccu u oriuw nunu.
"But the committee insisted that I
show why the bill should he passed, j
instead of compelling the freight ex- !
ports to show why it should not bo
passed. While making a running fight
with the experts I was forced to i ro- j
duce some of my data. 1 showtd the ]
committee figures to prove that the |
people of Nebraska in comparison
with the people of Iowa were extorted
out of $9,123,000 last year. The com
parison I showed the committee
showed that the extortion in freight i
rates is about 60 per cent.”
Bills Passed by House.
Bill passed were these:
House Roll No. 14, by Fries of How
ard—Provides for marking county
roads on both boundaries and for
concrete, iron or stone monuments cn
survey points. Passed, 92 to 0.
House Roll No. 13, by Fries of How
ard—Defines powers, duties and fees
of county surveyors and prescribes
method of establishing and restoring
lost or obliterated corners. Passed. S3
to 2.
House Roll No. 13, by Fries of How
ard—Gives state surveyor power to
summon witnesses, administer oaths
and compel testimony in boundary
disputes. Passed, 87 to 0.
House Roll No. 40, by Hardin of
Harlan—Repeals the Smith mortgage
tax exemption act of 1911. Passed,
53 to 38.
House Roll No. 59. by Keekley of
York—Established a civil service sys
tem in all the state institutions under
administration of state beard of con
trol. Passed, 88 to 0.
House Roll No. 51, by Richardson
of I-ancaster—Makes it a felony to
give or sell ‘'dope” or intoxicants to
penitentiary or asylum inmates.
Passed. 86 to 0.
House Roll No. 92, by Norton of
Folk.—Proposed constitutional amend
ment enabling a reform of the state
tax system. Passed. 87 to 0.
House Roll No. 18. by Brain of
Douglas—Permits the voting of bonds
for sewer construction in villages
where no newspaper is published.
Passed, 90 to 0.
House Roll No. 142, by Clrei n'v"’f cf
C-,ster—Allows cities cf from 29 00 *o
r 000 population to adopt the Bin
ning commission form cf government.
Passed. 92 to 0.
Saloon Limit Bill Killed.
Lincoln.—The house killed H. R. 86,
by Anderson of Kearney, provid.ng the ,
number cf saloons shad be limit d to ■
cue for .every 1,000 |.o„ple n wet :
towns. The judiciary committee re
ported tlie bill for inde.in.ta postpone- |
ment.
To Probe Industrial School.
That C. B. Manuel, head cf the
boys’ industrial school at Kearney,
has failed to furnish any informant n
as to a deficiency cf nearly $00 000,
was asserted by C. H. Busch, chair
man of the house deficienc.es com
mittee, who asked a committee to in
vestigate where the money was
spent. He said the deficiency
amounts to half the tom! maintenance
appropriation. A committee of three,
with the senate committee, will j
prebe.
Savs Horse Disease Is Dreaded One
State Veterinarian Bortrom has
heard cf no other cases of the horse
epidemic of which four cases were re
ported frem the vicinity of Beatrice
About six weeks ago there were fout
or five cases of this disease reported
from York county. The state veteri
nariun says that the epidemic which
a few months ago raged over Xe
braska, Kansas and Oklahoma. He ,
does not believe that a serious out
break of the disease will develop al
this time.
Mothers’ Pension Bills.
Simon's mothers’ pension bill pro .
viding for $10 per month for eact
child, to be paid at the discretion ol
the juvenile court to mothers of de
pendenat children, met considerable
opposition from those favoring cthei
similar measures, in the house ot
senate and was finaly left up in the
air when the house reported progress
A consultation between advocates ol
the various bills was held and a mo
tion was passed referring all mother;
pension bils to the benevolent institu
tions committee.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF,
Coming Events in Nebraska.
February 20-21-22.—Loyal Order of
Moose Fair and Bazar, Omaha.
Feb. 21 to March 1.—Omaha Auto
mobile Show, Omaha.
March 5 to 10—“Made-in-Xebraska"
Show, Omaha.
Alliance will get the fire tourna
ment this summer.
Trailers are being put on all the
street cars in Omaha.
A new camp of W. O. W. is being
organized at Anselmo.
Merrick county's new court house
is nearing completion.
Franklin pays its city ^superintend
ent of schools $1.12' a year.
Four hundred and fifty four bills
have been introduced in the senate.
Ainsw'orth Monks of McCook was
killed at Wray, Colo., in a train ac
cident.
About 500 tons of hay was destroy
ed in a prairie fire near Hyannis rec
ently.
The farmers in the vicinity of Peru
closed a successful three days' farm
ers' institute.
Three wolves were killed near
Ohiowa this week. About SuO people
joined in the hunt.
J. C. Franklin, aged 95, a wealthy
pioneer of Nebraska, died at Fre
mont on February 12.
The Omaha Woman's club’s resolu
tions against the repeal cf the Albert
law, the Sackett law or the 8 o'clock
closing law have been received by the
house.
In a one-sided game of basket ball,
University Place defeated Beatrice
by the score of it; to 18. Allen of the
visitors was the star and made most j
of the goals.
v,aor UI rniti u I \ jiita UCC U it'
ported to the city physician at Au
rora, and in order to take precaution
the schools have been closed for the
purpose of fumigating.
The Cortland basketball team de
feated Wilber at Cortland by the
score of 36 to L’8. Cortland has won
eight straight games and claims the
championship of the county.
The Union Pacific has announced
'he posting of a reward of $1,000 for
the arrest and conviction of the par
ty, or parties, who murdered George
J. Hood, the station agent at Miller.
The progressiveness of the Village
of Dodge is best shown by the con- I
struction of the new $40,000 school j
building now nearing completion upon
the site used for school purposes for j
many years.
The Rev. 1,. V.r. Corey, pastor of the
Hirst Baptist church of Fremont for i
the past five years, recently tendered
his resignation to his congregation.
He will go to Kenosha, Wis., to as
sume charge of a church.
John Elmer recently sold his fine
one hundred and twenty-acre farm,
a few miles southwest of Snyder, for
the longest price paid for farm lands
in that section, getting $165 per acre.
It is a fine farm and one of the best
in the section, though the improve
ments were only ordinary.
Fire caused by the explosition of a
barrel of headlight oil damaged the
Union Pacific roundhouse at Kearney
Thursday night to the extent of $35,- j
900. One engine burned and another j
was badly damaged. The damage to j
the building was heavy. The fire J
raged for two hours. ■»
At a meeting of the Alliance retail
merchants’ association Tuesday ways
and means were discussed and plans j
formulated for placing before the peo
ple of Box Butte county the necessity
of a new court house and the getting ;
out of the vote. April 7, to decide for |
the issuance of bonds for the build
ing thereof.
t ontracts were signed and work De
gun this week on a 16 room hotel at
the town of Van Tansell, Wyo., near i
the state line. Work is to be rushed !
and building conpleted by April 1st.
Cost of building $;?,500.00. J. H.
Kneeter of Spearfis'n, S. D., is the pro
prietor, and he will spend $1,5t>0.00
more in furnishings this giving Van
Tassell an up-to-date hostelry.
Stephen T. Reasoner, a well known
business man of Kearney and for two
terms county superintendent of Buf
falo county, died at Rochester. Minn, j
He had been successfully operated j
upon for inte-.tinal trouble in July, I
but a second operation Wednesday !
was fatal. The funeral will be held
from Ashland. Neb., his old home, on
Monday under the auspices of the Ma
cons, cf which order he was a mem
ber.
The clerks in the auditing depart
nent cf the Burlington at Omaha have
begun packing up preparatory to tak
ing the records of that office to Chi
cago, on or about March 1. There are
a lot of clerks in the sorting room
and who come under the jurisdiction
of the auditing department, who have
■ebelled. Vincent Astor has selected j
the field of agriculture for aidinr |
humanity. Governor Sulzer announcfd
today he had appointed Mr. Astor to
head the delegation which will repre
sent New York state, at the meeting
of the general assembly cf the Inter
national Institute of Agriculture to be
held in Rome. Italy next Mav.
Railev R. Simmons, a pioneer of
York, died recentlv.
T.on Wright and Dave Rookie won
the Fremont howling tournament dou
bles by scoring 1.P43 pins. The tour
nament has been in progress for six (
weeks.
Farmers living in the locality of |
Arnold are profiting over a fierce
competitive fight the three creamer
ies of that place are putting up.
An effort is being made on the part
of the citizens of Alliance to induce
the newly appointed bishop of Kear
ney diocese to make Alliance his res
idence.
It has been definitely decided to j
locate the new turn table at Broken
Bow on the south side of the main J
track. This verifies the statement !
made some time ago that Broken Bow
will soon be the division point for lo
cal freights.
Mrs. Annie M. Diller of Beatrice
sustained a fracture cf the skull and
a broken jaw by fallfng down stairs
at her home.
The Lincoln city council has appro
priated whatever sum may be neces
sary, about $200,000, to purchase six
city blocks for the extension of the
state university campus.
irS HARD TO WORK
It's torture to work with a lame, aching
back. Get rid of it. Atiack the cause.
Probably it's weak kidneys.
Heavy or confining work is hard on
the kidneys, anyway, and once the kid
neys become inflamed and congested,
the trouble keeps getting worse.
The danger of running into gravel,
dropsy or Bright's disease is serious.
Use Doan’s Kidney Pills, a fine remedy
for backache or bad kidneys.
A Washington
Case
H. R. Hatch,
2516 Cedar St.,
Everett, Wash.,
says: “Severe
pains In my
back made me
miserable. The
kidney secre
tions burned in
passing. My
back got so bad
I could hardly
work. After
specialists fail
ed Doan's Kid
ney Pills com
pletely cured
me.”
“fwrc Ptclirf I
Tells a Stair" I
uet uo»n • at Any More, 5Uc a Kox
DOAN’S
FOSTER-M1LBURN CO.. Buffalo. Now York
Don’t Persecute
Your Bowels
Cut out cathartics and purgatives. They are
brutal, harsh, unnecessary.
LAKlfcK'5 LI TILL
LIVER PILLS A
Purely vegetable. Act^M
gently on the liver,
soothe the delicate
membrane of the^
bowel. Cure^
Constipation,
Biliousness,
b ck Head
Carter's
fITTLE
IVER
PILLS.
fMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
QUITE EQUAL TO EMERGENCY
How Resourceful Young School Teach
er Procured Eggs When the Out
look Seemed Dark Indeed.
And men relate a tale of a brave
and resourceful little schoolteacher iu
one of our suburbs who supports her
mother and three young sisters on
her by no means munificent salary.
Last week her mother called her up
by telephone. “Listen," wailed the old
lady; "a whole bunch of relatives is
coming to supper tomorrow evening.
I ll have to make a cake, or some
thing, and 1 haven't an egg in the
bouse. And the grocer won't trust us
any more, and there won't be any
money until next week, and—’’
“Never mind, mother—I'll fix it.”
answered the young leather, cheerily.
Then she turned again to her class.
‘‘Now children," she said, “tomor
row we will have the beautiful story
of Columbus, and how he made the
egg stand on end. Each of you will
please bring an egg to school tomor
row. The class is dismissed.”—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Not Altogetner a Case of Love.
Here is a story to illustrate the
point that one never can judge by ap
pearances.
“A young boy with golden curls, a
regular cherub In appearance, was on
the front porch playing with a little
Jog and putting him through a lot of
tricks. A minister passed by and
was struck by the appearance of the
little chap and the celerity with which
the dog obeyed all his commands.
“ ‘Ah, little boy,’ he said, 'you must
love your dog. Are you good to
Jim?’
“‘Sure!’ answered the cherub.
“ ‘And I suppose he loves you.
too, and that's why he minds you so
well?’
“ ‘Well, if he didn’t mind me. I'd
knock his blooming block off,’ was the
jnexpected retort of the child.”
Julius Caesar.
The almost unanimous verdict of
ancient and modern times is to the ef
fect that Julius Caesar was what
Shaksspears calls him: "The fore
most man of all this world." Never
before or since has any one exhibit
ed in so high a degree all the qual
ities of a born ruler of men. And
never had any man a grander role to
play. To preside over the most im
portant crisis in the history of the
most important branch of the human
race was a task that none but the
g-eatest of men could successfully
perform. Caesar swept one obstacle
after another aside, and stood at last
where he meant to stand.
Packing Food In Ferns.
In Germany the use of ferns is com
ing into more and more favor for
packing food which is transported
cither short or long distances. The
oractice became common in England
oefore it gained equal vogue in Ger
many, and the results are said to be
excellent, especially in shipping fresn
fruit, butter, Esh and other food prod
ucts which require unusual care.
Force of Habit.
"What a pushing way Tibbets has.”
“No wonder: he used to be a lawn
oower drummer."
The devil considers it safe to sleep
n the church where the preaching
keeps nobody awake.
There are some good fish in every
sea
CONSTIPATION
Munyon’s Paw-Paw
PU?s are unlike all oth
er laxatives or cathar
tics. They coax the
liver into activity by
gentle methods, they
uo no; scour; they do
not gripe; they do not
weaken; but they do
start all the secretions
of the liver and stom
ach in a way that soon
puts these organs in a
healthy condition and
corrects constipation. Munyon's Paw-Paw
Pills are a tonic to the stomach, liver and
nerves. They invigorate instead of weaken;
they enrich the blood instead" of impover
ishing it; they enable the stomach to get all
the nourishment from food that is put into
it Price *5 cents. All Druggists.