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EPI10IJ EVENTS paragraphs that PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING Brief Mention of What la Transpiring In Various Sections of Our Own and Foreign Countries. C0NGRE88. Refusd its unanimous consent tc pass the Alaska railroad bill. The Indian appropriation Dill as amended by senate was sent to con ference. Representative Gould has reintro duced his bill for establishing a Unit ed States National Bank of America. A bill for Hetch waterworks for San FranciEco has been agreed on by the public lands committee and intro duced by Senator Perkins. The judiciary committee failed to get a quorum to act on Kahn resolu tions for investigation of Caminettl case and will meet later. The Senate has passed the New l&nd bill to amend the Erdman act and create a special board of arbitra tion for railroads and their employes. A second unsuccessful attempt was made by Senator Chamberlain to get early action on his bill authorizing the president to construct a govern ment railroad in Alaska. President Wilson said the agree ment in the dissolution of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger would be submitted to him by Attorney Gen eral McReynolds before being sub mitted to the court. Secretary Bryan has announced that he is strongly in favor of the Glass currency bill, and let it be known that he would use what in fluence he could in bringing about its early enactment by congress. DOMESTIC. Walla Walla, Wash., has appointed a woman mmber on its police force. The Pittsburgh Chamber of Com merce is campaigning to teach fire prevention. Philadelphia has thirteen play grounds. Last year they were en joyed by 1,371,315 persons. A general strike of all unions con nected with the industrial council may be called at Kansas City. The supreme court of Mississippi has held that the razor is not a weap on, but an “implement of the toilet.” Justice James W. Gerald of the New York state supreme court, has been selected by President Wilson to be ambassador to Germany. An automobile tour by ten persons from Los Angeles to Chicago ended at Chicago with a record of no break downs and no mishaps on the road from the Pacific coast. Aroused by reports that the appro priation of $40,000 was too small to take care of veterans at the Gettys burg celebration. Representative Barton has takn steps to have an ade quate appropriation made. There will be ample accomodations and plenty of rations for all veterans who come to Gettysburg for the bat tle anniversary celebration next week, even though the number exceeds by 10,000 the original estimate. An appeal from the verdict which sentenced him to a year in prison for violation of the Mann white slave act, was granted “Jack” Johnson, the negro pugilist by Judge Carpenter, in the United States district court here. Mine No. 17 of the Western Coal and Mining company of St. Louis at Jenny Land, Ark., near Fort Smith, was wrecked by an explosion and sub sequent fire recently. No one was in the mine at the time of the explosion. Secretary Bryan has assured Paul Chariton that the United States would use its offices to insure a fair trial for his son, Porter Charlton, awaiting ex tradition to Italy to answer the charge of having murdered his wife at Lake Como in 1910. An official of the Unit ed Sfgtes will be designated to at tend the court. Suit has been filed in the circuit court at Aberdeen. S. D., by the state of South Dakota against the American and Wells-Fargo Express companies for $20,000 each for refusal to make proper returns of property to the state taxing board. George Hudson of Winefield, Kan., who is 87 years old, is living in a house which he himself recently built, unassisted. Seven railroads operating in Minne sota have agreed to abide by the terms of the recent decision of the United States supreme court in the Minnesota rate cases. John Ennis, 70 years old. who started out some days ago to defeat Edward P. 'Weston, the veteran walk er, on a hike from New York to Min neapolis, is seriously ill at his home at Stamford. Conn., and physicians fear he may not recover. Two champion games of polo at New York for the international cham pionship brought into the box $200, 000 and netted $176,000. The strenuous high pressure life of people of the cities accounts to some extent for insanity in this country, according to Dr. John A. Lewis of Reno, Nev. With the filing in San Francisco of an application for a permit to con struct a $500 cottage, building appli cations since the fire of 1906 reached « total of approximately $400,000,000, the amount of the city’s loss of prop erty in that disaster. City governments of Winston and Salem, N. C., have been merged and the place will now be officially known of the city of Winston-Salem. The Oklahoma Press association is going to have a $15,000 home in the Arbuckle mountains, situated on the only large lake In the state, to be open the year round. Mrs. Florence E. Hanna of Los Angeles was elected at Nashville one of the vice presidents of the Baracar Philathea union convention, a federa tion which includes Sunday school pupils and teachers in more than 9,009 cities. The New York assembly defeated Governr Sulzers direct primary bill by a vote of 54 to 92. Portland, Ore., is to have a great Dut-door recreation organization to be known as the Municipal Athletic association. The land office at Devil’s Lake, N. D., has been consolidated with the office at Minot, N. D. According to the latest statistics 12,437 plutocrats in Missouri will be touched by the income tax. San Francisco Is to have a new twenty-story build^cg on the north side of Market, opposite Second street One woman in this country, Mrs. D. Hairy Hammer, of Chicago, has made a collection of cartoons of Uncle Sam, and has 30,000 of them. A wind storm which almost reach ed the proportions of a tornado swept over Kansas, Minnesota, doing more than $150,000 damage to property. Captain Robert Bartlett, command er of Peary’s north pole vessel, takes a like - position in Steffanson's expe dition to the Arctic, which started re cently. Five New York banks have been added to the Texas oil penalty suit and by this action the total penalties demanded have been increased to $102,161,000. A Pennsylvania statistician calcu lates that in the last year 120,000,000 tons of water were pumped out of the mines of one company in the anthra cite region. John Nicholson has confessed to murdering his wife and their 9-year old son by setting fire to them after he had soaked their bed clothing with oil at Vandalia, Mo. The stork visited the home of Na than Valone. a Pittsburgh merchant, recently, and left a baby gifl weigh ing fourteen pounds This is the twenty-sixth child born to Valone. The whole of the J. P. Morgan es tate has a value of $100,000,000, ac cording to an unofficial estimate credited to Thomas E. Rush, counsel to State Comptroller Sohmer. Frank S. Graham of Oakes, N. D. has "been appointed a national bank examiner for one of the North Da kota districts'by John P. Kane, act ing comptroller of the currency. The woman's suffrage bill has been signed by Govenor Dunne. The act gives Illinois women the right to vote for all statutory officers in the state, and also for presidential elec tors. As a result of a conference between Governor Hatfield and the United Mine Workers of America and coal operators of the New River coal field in West Virgina, a strike order issued applying to the New River coal fields is being held up temporarily. State officials and representatives from the railroads operating in Minne sota will meet with the railway and warehouse commission of Minnesota to discuss plans for putting into operation the state rate held valid by the United States supreme court. Foreign. Audacious daylight thieves in Paris stole a mass of Jewels from a private house. An official dispatch describes the fighting between the Servians and the Bulgarians at Zletovo as a small af fair. The authorities of Naples have un earthed the bodies of a large number of infants buried in the garden at tached to a villa occupied by a mid wife. The prospect that the Balkan dis pute will be submitted to Russia ar bitration, and the four premiers of the four Balkan states will meet at St. Petersburg, is much brighter. Deputy Legrand announced in the chamber of deputies that France’s standing army on a peace footing would number 727,000 men after the adoption of the government’s three year service bill. The magnificent auditorium pres ented to the University of Michigan as a memorial to the late Arthur Hill was formally dedicated in con nection with the alumni day celebra tion at the university. An adequate American navy means a fleet second only to that of Great Britain, and ‘inadequacy is an invita tin to war” in the opinion of Admiral Dewey, ranking naval officer of the United States. Miss Nellie O’Farrell of San Fran cisco, who has gained considerable notice as the first woman wireless operator in the world, has retired from the operator’s field. She was married recently. A violent scene occurred in the senate when Senator Arthur Costa, brother of the premier, objected to the remarks of Joao Jose de Freitas, and advanced puon him. Senator de Freitas drew a revolver and leveled it at the other’s breast. The French aviator, Maurice L. Foulquier, while testing a monoplane for the first time, fell from a height of 250 feet and was killed. Approximately ten tons of feathers plucked from birds by poachers four or five years ago in the Hawaiian and Midway islands have been burned by ♦he government of Honolulu. Raymond Poineaire, president of the French republic, was entertained by King George at a state banquet v h as great display of pomp and magnificence as ever shown in honor ing a royal guest at Buckingham palace. The development of aerial arma ment of Russia is making immense progress according to a report made by the chief of the army stafT. Six of the men sentenced to death In connection with the death of Mah moud Shefket Pasha, the late grand vizier, have been executed In Baya zide square. With only a few witnesses examin ed and several more to be examined. Chief Justice Harvey of the Albe'ta supreme court adjourned the trial of Arthur Pelkey, charged with man slaughter in connection in the ring near Calgary, May 24, last General Antonio Rabaga has re signed as military governor of Chi huahua state. He will go to Mexico City. Zue Sun Blen, recently appointed assistant secretary of state of the mw Chinese republic, is thoroughly Americanized. He graduated last Jane from Blown university. PRESIDENT URGES Public Duty Makes Prompt Ao tion Imperative, READS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Business Men of Country Should Be Given Banking and Currency Sys tem Which Will Make Possible Individual Initiation. Washington, June 23.—The follow ing Is President WTlson’s message to congress on the subject of currency reform: Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Gentle men of the Congress: It is under the compulsion of what seems to me a clear and imperative duty that I have a second time this session sought the privilege of addressing you in person. I know, of course, that the heated season of the year is upon us, that work in these chambers and in the committee rooms is likely to become a burden as the season lengthens, and that every consideration of personal comfort, perhaps, in the cases of some of us, considerations of personal health even, dictate an early conclu sion of the deliberations of the ses sion; but there are occasions of public duty when these things which touch us privately seem very small; when the work to be done is so pressing and so fraught with big consequence that we know that we are not at liberty to weigh against it any point of personal sacrifice. It is absolutely imperative that we should give the business men of this country a banking and curren cy system by means of which they can make use of the freedom of enter prise and of individual initiative which we are about to bestow upon them. We are about to set them free; we must not leave them without the tools of action when they are free. We are about to set them free by removing the trammels of the protective tarlfT. Ever since the Civil war they have waited for this emancipation and for the free opportunities it will bring with it. It has been reserved for us to give It to them. Some fell in love, indeed with the slothful security of their dependence upon the govern ment; some took advantage of the shelter of the nursery to set up a mimic mastery of their own within its walls. Now both the tonic and the discipline of liberty and maturity are to ensue. There will be some re adjustments of purpose and point of view. There will follow a period of expansion and new enterprise, fresh ly conceived. It is for us to deter mine now whether It shall be rapid and facile and of easy accomplish ment This it can not be unless the re sourceful business men who are to deal with the new circumstances are to have at hand and ready for use the instrumentalities and conveniences of free enterprise which independent men need when acting on their own initiative. It is not enough to strike the shackles from business. The duty of statesmanship is not negative merely. It is constructive also. We must show that we understand what business needs and that we know how to sup ply it No man, however casual and superficial his observation of the con ditions now prevailing in the country, can fail to see that one of the chief things business needs now, and will need increasingly as it gains in scope and vigor in the years immediately ahead of us, is the proper means by which readily to vitalize its credit, corporate and Individual, and its orig inative bralna. What will It profit us to be free If we are not to have the best and most accessible instrumen talities of commerce and enterprise? What will it profit us to be quit of one kind of monopoly if we are to re main in the grip of another and more effective kind? How are we to gain and keep the confidence of the busi ness community unless we show that we know how both to aid and to pro tect it? What shall we say if we make fresh enterprise necessary and also make it very difficult by leaving all else except the tariff Just as we found it? The tyrannies of business, big and little, lie within the field of credit. We know that. Shall we not act upon the knowledge? Do we not know how to act upon it? If a man cannot make his assets available at pieaaure, his assets of capacity and character and resource, what satisfac tion is it to him to see opportunity beckoning to him on every hand, when others have the keys of credit in their pockets and treat them as all but their own private possession? It is perfectly clear that it Is our duty to supply the new banking and currency system the country needs, and that it will Immediately need It more than ever. The only question is, When shall we supply It—now, or later, after the de mands shall have become reproaches that we were so dull and so slow? Shall we hasten to change the tariff laws and then be laggards about mak ing it possible and easy for the coun try to take advantage of the change? There can be only one answer to that question. We must act now, at what ever sacrifice to ourselves. It is a duty which the circumstances forhld us to postpone. I should be recreant to my deepest convictions of public obligation did I not press it upon yon with solemn and urgent insistence. The principles upon which we should Holland’s Fishing Net Factories. /The manufacture of Ashing nets has for centuries been a very Important In dustry In Holland, which In the seven teenth century had a Aeet of over 2,000 smacks engaged In the herring Ashery. The latest census of the In dustry shows that there is one Ashing net factory at Schevenlngen, where the Arst factory was established, with about ten hands; one at Apeldoorn, with about 250 hands; two at Goor, of which one is also a cotton «"»!, with about 630 hands; pnh at Leyden* with about 80 hands, and one at Gouda, with about SO hands. Would Have Elders xa\n In Play. Joseph Lea, president of the Play ground Association of America, says that “no institution is sound and wholesome until it expresses itself In play. I believe in family danceB,” he said. “There is an aristocracy of age that bars the elders from sharing in the pastimes of the young. We ought not to be so afraid of our children. We ought to butt in to their parties." Sfg • / v- t I" act are also clear. The country has sought and seen its path in this mat ter within the last few years—see it more clearly now than it ever saw it 1 before—much more clearly than when the last legislative proposals on the subject were made. We must have a currency, not rigid as now, hut readily, elastically responsive to' sound credit, the expanding and contracting credits of everyday transactions, the normal ebb and flow of personal and corporate dealings. Our banking laws muet mo bilize reserves; must not permit the concentration anywhere in a few hands of the monetary resources of the coun try or their use for speculative pur poses in such volume as to hinder or impede or stand in the way of other more legitimate, more fruitful uses. And the control of the system of bank ing and of issue which our new laws are to set up must be public, not pri vate, must be vested in the govern ment itself, so that the banks may be the instruments, not the masters, of business and of individual enterprise and Initiative. The committees of the congress to which legislation of this character 1b referred have devoted careful and dis passionate study to the means of ac complishing these objects. They have honored me by consulting me. They are ready to suggest action. 1 have come to you, as the head of the gov ernment and the responsible leader of the party in power, to urge action now, while there is time to serve the coun try deliberately and as we should, in a clear air of common counsel. I appeal to you with a deep conviction of duty I believe that you share this convic tion. I therefore appeal to you with confidence. 1 am at your service with out reserve to play my part in any way you may call upon me to play it in this great enterprise of exigent reform which it will dignify and distinguish us to perform and discredit us to neg lect. PASSION FOR THE “PARLOR” Medical Officer Finds Fault With Cus tom of Using Poorest Rooms for Sleep. In the course of lectures on per sonal hygiene at the Royal Sanitary institute. Prof. H. R. Kenwood, medi cal officer of health for Bedfordshire, dealt with "The Home." Much might be done for the prevention of tuber culosis by the improvement of the home he said, according to the London Daily Telegraph. Wherever there was dirt there was also degradation. But it was the really invisible ^iirt in the form of germs in the atmosphere or ground that was the most harmful. It was essential in dealing with these to make the acts of cleansing as simple as possible, and there should be no heavy pieces of furniture to move; no nailed-down carpets, but movable strips and squares and light washable curtains. It should be remembered that there is no such thing as dry cleaning. Dusting was a mere dis turbance of particles unless a damp cloth, tea leaves or wet sand were employed. Was there, he asked, anything more absurd than to find a little house in a shabby genteel street with its bed room accommodation overtaxed and the best apartment used as the par lor—that holy of holies, with its odor that might be called sanctimonious, and occupying cubic space that could be far better used? This passion for the parlor was almost like the fetish of the uncivilized. Direct sunshine, with its regenera tive power and germicide effects, should not be reduced by heavy cur tains. It was the soundest of invest ments to make the home as healthy and attractive as possible. The cuckoo type of parent, depositing its children at school and expecting them to learn everything there, should realize that the true influences In youth are those of the home itself. Obliterating Field of Waterloo. While Americans are observing the semi-centennial of Gettysburg, and thousands study the battle by the aid of the monuments and markers on the battlefield, complaint comes to Eng land that the Waterloo terrain is In danger. While La Hale Salnte and Hougomont still bear the marks of cannon shot, both are in danger of being rebuilt, and part of the Hougo mont wall against which the wave of French courage dashed in vain vts already been pulled down. That is not the worBt of the situation, according to a British officer who recently visit ed the field. "Tramcars” and cheap fares have been followed by “tawdry cafes” located on the very spot whence the Imperial Guard recoiled. What is to be done? The suggestion 1b that co-operation of Belgians and Englishmen who would preserve the topography of Waterloo many be effec tive in doing for that famous field what has been done for Gettysburg, but the first step, it is admitted, will be very expensive. If preservation is not organized there is danger that the strategic points will be obliterated by garden and farm field.—Boston Tran script. To Train Porch Vines. One of the best labor-saving ar rangements is a device to fasten the strings or wire netting for the vines of the porch. A strip of wood one inch square and about six feet long, with a strong screw eye at each end, is all that Is needed. Drive two nails into the upper part of the porch, the same distance apart as the screw eyes, then after tying the strings onto the strip lift It up and hook the screw eyes over the nails. Fasten the lower ends of the strings into the ground with small pegs and train the vines on them. IS GAY n FLAGS NO BAR RAISED AGAINST COI* FEDERATE BANNERS. ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE Veterans Are Met at Trains and Es corted to Their Tents—None Will Have to Work. Gettysburg, Pa.—That the stars and bars as well as the stars and stripes will appear at the big camp of vete rans during the anniversary celebra tion was indicated by an announce ment from the officers of the Anni versary commission that “there is nothing to prevent the wearers of. the gray from bringing along their battle Bags.” At the same time, however, it was said that flag of the confederates would not be used in any official de corations over which the commission has control. Residents of Gettysburg and union veterans already here are extending a royal welcome to all ar riving confederate veterans. The town itself never has been so gaily decorated. Every business block is covered with the national colors, and practically every home displays at least one flag. The stars and bars appear at a number of places, while the use of both the blue and the gray is a favorite method of decoration at many buildings. Large numbers of both union and confede rate are much in evidence. The town is gay with martial music, many of the veterans having brought their fifes, drums and bugles, and the calls of wartime days are sounded through the streets, in some instances by the very men who did the same thing dur ing the exciting days of the Gettys burg campaign half a century ago. Finishing touches were put on the camp. Equipment was distributed to the five thousand tents, all of which are now up and everything is in readi ness for the 50,000 old soldiers expect ed to attend the celebration next week. •All Arrangements Complete. “We are thoroughly prepared and have the entire situation well in hand,’’ declared Major Normoyle, in command at the camp. Every old sol dier will find things in readiness for him when he comes here. He will be met at the train and shown the loca tion of his tent. If he is not able to carry his baggage some one will be here to do it for him. He will not have to do a stroke of work, not even fill the water buckets in his tent. Each of the four large sections com posing the camp will be under the di rect supervision of a company of reg ulars. One of the company of engin eers and three of infantry will have ! chargee of the work of guarding these sections, answering the calls of the veterans and otherwise giving atten tion to their needs. _ Cannot Return Johnson. Montreal.—Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, accompanied by his white wife, Lucille Cameron Johnson, is booked to sail for Havre on fhe Al len line steamer Corinthian Sunday morning. Canadian immigration of ficials located Johnson with a view to taking summary deportation ac tion should he fail to comply with the restrictions of the immigration laws. The negro pugilist in response to a demand of the officials produced a through ticket to Havre, purchased in Chicago. By this bit of strategy. Johnson tied the hands of the Cana dian immigration authorities. They are powerless to act further than to see that he leaves the country on the ship on which he is booked to sail. Recommends General Strike. Kansas City.—The industrial coun cil at a meeting unanimously recom mended the strike of all union crafts in Kansas City be called im mediately. Twenty-five thousand men are Involved. Stock Men’s Convention. St. Joseph. Mo.—Livestock men I from all over the country are here for the opening session of the twenty fifth annual convention of the nation al livestock exchange. German Convicted cf Spying. Winchester, England — William Klare. a German dentist residing at Portsmouth, was found guilty at the assizes here on the charge of espion age at Portsmouth, England's chief naval station. He was sentencd to five years penal servitude. Will Inspect Foreign Meats. Washington.—Secretary Houston de cided to send two experts abroad to study meat inspection conditions in the countries which may become sources of supply to the United States. First Lazy Husband Convicted. Seattle, Wash.—The first conviction in the state of Washington under the “lazy husband” law was obtained when George ‘Riggs, a mechanician, was found guilty of failing to support his wife and child and sentenced to serve six months in the county jail. Boxing Bill Approved. Madison, Wis.—The Redding bill, appointing a state commission to supervise boxing bouts, was approved by the state senate recently and will go lo the governor for his signature. Pretzels are Food. Jefferson City, Mo.—The last hope of the Missouri bartender and his "free lunch” devotee was shattered when Assistant Attorney General W. T. Rutherford ruled that “pretzels are food and serving them in saloons vio lates the anti-free lunch law. Has Rented Duke’s House. London.—It is understood that Wal ter Hines Page, the new ambassador from America, has rented the town residence of the duke of Manchester, f Grosvenor square. " . . ..; ■ NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. Columbus will again vote on the proposition of a city ball and home for the fire department. Jefferson county farmers have com menced harvesting one of the biggest wheat crops ever known in that county. Figvres given out in the governor's office show that $67,869.64 of the $100,000 relief fund voted by the leg islature to tornado sufferers has been spent. Editor Karl L. Spence of the FTanklin News has purchased a build ing and will move his plant into it as soon as necessary changes can be nade. Land Commissioner red Beckmann has returned from a trip through Pierce county. He inspected state school lands and visited the system at Norfolk. During the high wind at Lincoln Wednesday night the steel work on the new high school building was blown down, causing damage to the extent of over $5,000. Workmen under the supervision of Contractor Wood are rapidly finish ing their work on the new building Mr. Wood is putting up for the Burr Publishing company at Aurora. Leroy Marsh, oldest son of D. M. M^rsh, living in Shelton, was drown ed in Wood river, where the water was fifteen feet deep. He in company with other boys were bathing. John Bates, son of ex-county Judge William Bates, who has been record ing clerk for County Judge McDuffee, has accepted a position as bookkeeper in the Rising City* Bank of Rising City, Neb. The Seward Commercial club is at work at the fair grounds taking the amphitheater and other buildings, wrecked by the tornado, out of the Blue river and placing the ground in proper condition. Two carloads, a part of the ma terial for the new water works sys tem at Peru, have arrivved. Work of putting down wells will be begun soon and work all along the line will be pushed to completion. The Lincoln Telegraph and Tele i phone company has given notice of ; an appeal from the Board of Equaliza i tion, which raises its assessed valu ! ation from $153,522.75 to $285,284.50, j to the district court which convenes November 10. The county board has decided to build a new bridge at Sutton over School creek and the north end of Saunders avenue. It is to be of ce ment and the latest and most perma nent design. The city will provide the approaches. A carload of automobiles, in a ! Union Pacific freight train, west, I burned near Ames. The freight ! train was brought to a stop in Ames, j but the fire had practically ruined the ! machines. | Fire destroyed a large barn be ! longing to James O'Donnald of Wa | hoo and for a while the entire busi j ness part of town was threatened. | but the firemen managed to confine the blaze to the barn. Warden Fenton must be content with a salary of $2,000 a year, not withstanding the legislature passed a law fixing his pay at $2,500 a year. After the legislature did this it ap propriated only $2,000. and the ap propriation act is what governs. Thomas Regan, an old soldier at the Veterans’ home in Napir, Cal., has written Secretary of State Wait and asked him to try to find two brothers who are living in Nebraska somewhere, whom he has not heard from for many years. After attempting to murder his wife, because she would not tell him where she had put the pie that was left from dinner, Henry Peters. 79 ears, took his own life by cutting his throat at his home at Pleasanton. The annual meeting of the Ne braska State Federation of Colored Women’s clubs was held in Fremont, the delegates representing five clubs in the state, being guests of Phillis Wheatly club, the Fremont club. False tuberculin tests on cattle shipped from Illinois into Nebraska and other western states will be the chief topic discussed by the state vet erinarians who gather in Omaha for the sessions of the Missouri Valley Veterinarians’ association. Captain C. E. Adams of Superior, a candidate for commander-in-chief of the national Grand Army of the Re public organization, has been asked to make an address at the Gettys burg peace celebration to be held next week. Alfred Fowler, a Fremont boy, who is attending Yale college, won the Learned scholarship in a class of 400. The second application of the Du ket treatment to tubercular patients at Kearney has been made and nine more patients received the first treat ment. According to action of the board of public lands and buildings, the stars and stripes will fly over the Lincoln statue on the state house grounds during the Gettysburg peace celebration in July. A flagpole will be erected on the statue base for that purpose. Editor Pont, of the Stanton Reg ister. is installing a linotype ma chine. Because of press of other duties Food Commissioner Harman dele gated Niels P. Hansen of Lincoln to represent the department at the State Pharmaceutical association meeting at Norfolk. A contract has just been let to C. W. Lobdell for the construction of two fine brick buildings at Gering. One of the buildings is to be owned and occupied by A. R. Neeley, drug gist, and the other by the Gering National bank. R. S. Trumbull for six years con nected with the chemistry depart ment of the agricultural college at the state university, has left for El Paso, Tex., where he has accepted a position as agricultural agent with the El Paso & Southwestern railroad company. During a sharp thunderstorm at Fremont, lightning struck the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walstrum on Garfield and Dodge streets. Fire resulted. The fire department rushed to the scene to find neighbors en gaged in fighting the fire. Small dam age resulted.. NO LOOSENIETHODS BOARD OF CONTROL WILL WATCH FUTURE COAL PURCHASES. FUEL WILL BE ANALIZED A System Has Been Devised to Pro tect the State’s Interests Against Possible Fraud. I.incoln. Xeb.—If there be a coal combine and if that combine tas been touching the state’s pocketbook gently, but successfully, during the years gone then that system is like ly to pass away like many other things that once existed. Board of control members have become "hep” to some of the evil doings of a for mer day and in getting out estimates on supplies to be used at state insti tutions have asked for bids for the coming year's coal consumption for the various state institutions. To circumvent the old plan of bid ding a certain price on coal and then just before delivery pleading a strike and selling some kind or other to the state at an increased price, the board members have arranged blanks which the bidders must fill out at the present time and which will commit them to later substitute prices in the event that the kind of coal pur chased has run out or for any reason cannot be delivered. In the blanks are provided spaces for abundant in formation relative to the quality and prices of the various samples and enough data to give the state officials a thorough idea of the product each bidder has for sale. In addition, analysis blanks are being sent out which will throw further light on what has been in the past a vague business undertaking on the part of the state. It is estimated that 36,000 tens of coal, range and steam, will be re quired to run the institutions during the coming year. The state peniten tiary will use 9,600 tons of steam coal. The Omaha school for the deaf will use fifty tons of steam and ten tons of range coal. The Nebraska City school for the blind will require 600 tons of mine run, it is estimated. The Hastings asylum will use 5,500 tons of steam coal and 550 tens of range coal. Other institutions will vary between the low and high amounts given herewith. Suggests Higher Valuation. Lincoln.—George Anthes, formerly deputy state auditor, but now con nected with the county offices of Douglas county, was at the state house and visited the railway com mission for the purpose of looking up reports made by certain Douglas county corporations relative to their property. While here Mir. Anthes took up the matter with E. B. Gaddis, member of the new tax commission, and dis cussed matters pertaining to the in equalities of the present methods and its inability to meet the present needs. He said that there were only two cities in the country outside of Omaha that were assessed only 20 per cent of their value and he be lieves that something will have to be done in Douglas county to bring about a different method of taxation in order to meet the bond issues com ing due very soon. Mr. Anthes said that in the opin ion of Mr. Gaddis, the new commis sion had a problem before them to solve which would take a lot of study and hard work to meet. Mr. Gaddis has made the taxation business a study for years and he believes that, with the assistance of the other members of the board a plan can be devised which will be of great value to the state in the way of raising revenue and raising it so that all sec tions and all taxed will bear an equitable shcre. Road Dragging Act. In order to make the Richardson road dragging act effective county boards must make a levy at the reg ular meeting in August. The new act provides a system for scientific road work and lays the responsibility for putting it into effect on the county board. Convict Files Petition. Lincoln.—Thomas Walker, a Thurs ton county Indian, has applied to the state supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from the state penitentiary, where he con tends that he is being unlawfully held. Walker was given a commuta tion of bis thirty-year sentence last December by Governor Aldrich. One of the conditions of the act was that his entire period of service would amount to ten years. N'ow Walker alleges that he is entitled to his good time and that the former executive exceeded his constitutional authority when he provided such conditions iu the commutation order. Grosvenor Chairman, of Commission. Lincoln.—The state tax commission has been organized by the election of J. H. Grosvenor of Aurora as chair man, C. W. Sears of Omaha as vice chairman and Earl B. Gaddis of Lin coln as secretary. Plans for the con duct of work during the coming years were determined upon. Active work of the commission is to start September 3. In the interim the membi* 8 will prepare for the public hearings which are to be held from time to time during the coming fall and winter. Farmers Call for Hands. Lincoln. Neb.—The call from far mers of Nebraska for help to garner In the bountiful crops has gone out and every resource which they can employ to aid them in search for workers is likely to be utilized with in the coming few weeks. Labor Commissioner Pool’ said is being so licited and various other state de partments have received calls for as sistance In procuring men. Wages this year will be on a par with nrevtous years, and in some com munities promises to be higher.
