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Intelligence Interesting to the
General Readers.
WASHINGTON.
Secretary Bryan before House for
eign affairs committee advocated the
purchase of embassy buildings at To
kio. Mexico City and Berne. /
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Representative Roberto of Massa
chusetts urged interstate commerce
committee to report his bill to require
all steel cars on railroads withiji four
years. /
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C. K. Mahoney of Denver, vice
president of Western Federation of
Miners, made charges against mine
operators in Michigan copper districts
at rules committee hearing.
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Representative Ffiwler of Illinois
end Marsh Lambe/t of Shawneetown
urge rivers and harbors committee to
appropriate $10®;000 to repair and
strengthen levies at Shawneetown.
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Chairman/Stephens of Indian af
fairs comofittee has introduced a bill
to provide for final segregation and
apportionment of all Indian tribal
property.
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President Wilson approved the sen
tence of dismissal, imposed by gen
eral court martial in the Philippines,
on Captain Frank K&lde. Eighteenth
/infantry, who was convicted on
/' charges of embezzling funds.
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A monument in each state along
the Canadian boundary to mark the
line and commemorate one hundred
years of peace between the United
States and Great Britain has been
proposed in a bill by,Senator Jones of
Washington.
The bill relieving miners on gold
and placer claims in the Dam creek
region of Alaska from the required
amount of assessment work on their
claims this yejr, because of ruin
caused by recent floods, has been
passed by ti’e senate.
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A bill to remove the limitations on
the amount that may be accepted
from depositors in the postal savings
banks was passed by the house. The
measure would permit unlimited de
posits, but $1,000 Is fixed as the maxi
mum on which interest would be paid.
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Secretary McAdoo has issued a sup
plementary income tax regulation ex
tending the time for filing itemized
monthly list returns of coupon and
j registered interest payments for No
vember, required by previous regula
fons to be filed on or before Decem
ber 20, to January 5 next.
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> The senate passed the judicial Joint
resolution already adopted by the
house expressing the regret of con
gress at the death of Lieutenant
Colonel Davis Du B. Gaillard, Isth
main canal commissioner and appro
priating $14,000, the annual salary of
a commissioner for Mrs. Gaillard.
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Representative Moss of West Vir
ginia has introduced a joint resolu
tion, directing the secretary of war to
Investigate and report on the advisa
bility of established wireless tele
graph stations along the Ohio river to
furnish communication in emergen
cies between flood districts and the
outside world.
DOMESTIC.
The Boston grand1 jury reported
that It had not found sufficient evi
dence to warrant the indictment of
anyone for responsibility for the
deaths of twenty-eight men in the fire
that destroyed the Arcadia lodging
house, December 3.
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Ben F. Moffatt, a promoter of Cbi
eago was fined $1,000 and sentenced
to one year and a day in the federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kan., by the
United States district court at St
Louis.
W. A. Wells, president of a St.
Paul ice company, was sentenced at
Hastings, Minn., to pay a fine of $5,000
for operating his company in re
straint of trade. The company, re
cently convicted on a similar charge,
was fined $2,000. The case was "tried
on a change of venue.
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Dr. Henry Wishard, through whose
efforts the first order for the removal
of sick and wounded soldiers to north
ern homes was issued by President
Lincoln during the civil war, died at
Indianapolis. He was 97 years old.
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E. L. Fannin and E. W. Hickman,
former president and vice president
of the Choctaw Commercial bank that
failed at Spiro, Okla., last February,
pleaded guilty at Stigler, Okla., to ac
cepting deposits when the bank was
Insolvent. They were each fined
$1,000 and costs of the prosecution.
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Alfred Goulet of Australia and Joe
Fogler of New York won the six-day
bicycle race in Madison square garden.
Joseph Magin of Philadelphia and
Percy O. Lawrence of Denver were
the second team.
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Bankers of Nebraska and other
business interests that are giving
their Bupport to the propaganda for
better agricultural methods in Nebras
ka, will try to raise $25,000 a year for
two years to help pay the expenses
of farm demonstrators in counties
■welcoming them
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Statistics purporting to show that
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail
road would face bankruptcy if it
granted the wage demand of its con
ductors and trainmen has been sub
mitted at Chicago to the arbitrators
Nebraska'* 1912 mineral/ output
was valued at $1,490,582.
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Mrs. Theodore Roosev t has re
turned hole recently fi her trip to
South America.
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The 1913 apportionment of the
state school fund among the several
counties of Nebraska totals $325,078;
number of children of school age (5
to21 years!, 379,691.
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Robert A./ Taft, son of the former
president, Mas among a class of six
ty-four young men who were sworn
in in tW Ohio supreme court as prac
ticing attorneys.
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Au expert estimate of the total
vahie of all crops in Iowa in 1913
fqbts up $429,443,437. ThiB is the
tfigh record of crop value* in Iowa,
'despite the fact that'hot weather re
duced the corn crop by 92,000,000
bushels.
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The trail which the Chicago police
expected to lead them to Miss Jessie
Evelyn McCann, the missing Brook
lyn social worker, proved a false one.
The young woman, resembling Miss
McCann’s photograph, proved to be a
Chicago woman.
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I
Vandals wrecked the interior of the
new Carnegie library of Oberlin, O.
Books and magazines were thrown
about in great confusion and all card
index file* destroyed. Restoration
will cost several hundred dollars and
require protracted labor.
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What 4b believed to have been the
last band of ‘‘moonshiners” in the
Missouri Ozark* has been broken up
by the arrest by federal officers of
George Smith, thought to be the
leader of the gang, and “Pete Bar
ton,” charged with being selling
agent for th* illicit still near Spring
field.
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Maurice Enright, pardoned by Gov
ernor Dunne of Illinois from the
Joliet penitentiary, where he was serr
ing a life sentence on the charge of
having murdered Vincent Altman, ar
rived at his home at Chicago, only to
learn that he must again face trial
on a charge of murder of William
“•Dutch” Gentleman.
Stephen D. Marshall, 45 years old,
was killed and Joseph Sampson and
Joseph Bushakra were wounded in
Kansas City in a revolver battle fol
lowing a labor dispute. Marshall was
the proprietor of a nonunion barber
shop, and his place had been picketed
by members of the barber's union for
a week. He had refused to unionize
his shop.
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Governor Glynn of New York has
broken all precedents in celerity of
legislation by securing the passage,
within the period of a five days' ses
sion, of a reform program of unsur
passed comprehensiveness and Impor
tance. The governor called his leg
islature to meet on Monday, Decem
ber 8. and by the following Saturday
a workingmen's compensation law, a
direct primary law, a new ballot law
substituting the Massachusetts form
for the fraud-promoting party-column
blanket sheet, a law providing for the
election of United States senators by
popular vote and a law to creatp a
legislative bill drafting department
had been placed on the statute books
of the state.
FORFIGN.
The trench government has with
drawn from the chamber of deputies
the measure authorizing an inheri
tance tax and a loan of $260,000,000.
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A contract has been signed by a
British concern for the construction
of , a railway from Shashi, in Hu-Per
province, to Sing Yifu, In Wwei Chow
province, China, a distance of about
six hundred miles.
About 5,500 tons of cork sawdust
are used in Spain annually in pack
ing fruits for shipment. Some 40,000
persons are employed in some man
ner in the cork industry in Spain with
an average wage of about 67 cents
per day.
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The American ambassador at Rome.
Thomas Nelson Page, has requested
the Italian foreign office to investigate
the circumstances surrounding the
surveilance by the Italian police of
Miss Dorothy A. MacVane, daughter
of Prof. Silas MacVane of Boston, for
merly McLean, professor of ancient
and modern history at Harvard uni
versity.
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The delegates from the United
States to the'international conference
at London on safety of life at sea. de
clare that they have very nearly
reached the limit of their patience at
the extended deliberations.
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Nearly 6,000,000 lawsuits are fought
out in Germany courts yearly. This
number does not include criminal
cases; the myriad of proceedings t(j
recover a penalty, nor the quasi
criminal actions brought for insult,
etc. The figures mean roughly one
lawsuit for every eleventh person
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The production of potato flour in
Holland increases rapidly from year
to year and the product is also stead
ily finding markets abroad. The total
production is now not less than 275,
000.000 pounds annually.
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Dispatches from Madrid say that
Francisco Rodrigues, the newly elect
ed mayor of that city, has announced
that he will turn over all of his salary
to some charitable institution. He is
one of the wealthiest residents of the
Spanish capital and he will go into
office on the 1st of January.
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i The government of Premier Bar
thou was defeated by a vote of 230
to 2C5 in the chamber of deputies on
the question whether the loan of $200,
000,000 should be subject to taxation
or immune, like the existing rents.
...
A report prepared by the Vienna
Chamber of Commerce on the traffic
of the municipal street railways in
1912 shows 165 miles of route, 153 of
which were electrically equipped and
twelve miles operated by steam. The
1 electric lines carried 309,484,129 pas
sengers, the revenue being $9,863.07$.
PUSSES MONEY BILL
FINAL VOTE IN SENATE STOOD
54 TO 34.
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HITCHCOCK BACK IN THE FOLD
Six Republicans and One Mooeer Vote
for Measure—Up to Pres
ident Soon.
Washington. — The administration
currency reform bill, proposing a re
vision of the financial system of “he
United States and the creation of re
gional reserve banks to act as
strengthening elements in the bank
ing and financial world, lias passed
the senate by a vote of 54 to 34.
Forces that had fought together for
improvement and amendment of the
measure to the last divided when the
final vote came. Senator Hitchcock,
who has led the opvosltion to the bill
returned to the dellocratic ranks, and
Senator Weeks, one of the leaders on
the republican side, with five other
republicans, and Senator Poindexter
(progressive) voted for the passage
of the measure.
Wide differences exist between the
form of the legislation passed by the
senate and the bill that passed the
house several months ago. Demo
cratic leaders have partly adjus-ted
these differences, however, and it has
been predicted that the bill would be
completed by a conference commit
tee, and sent to President Wilson for
his signature in a short time.
The adoption of the administration
bill, known as the “Owen bill,” fol
lowed upon the formal defeat, by 44
to 41, of the “Hitchcock bill,” which
has been endorsed by Senator Hitch
cock, and the five republican mem
bers of the evenly-divided senate
committee that passed on the legislar
tion. The senate had previously re
jected without a roll call, a “central
bank” bill offered as a substiaute by
Senator Burton.
Phone Trust to be Dissolved.
Washington.—Attorney General Mc
Reynolds has made public details of
an agreement for reorganization of
the American Telephone and Tele
graph company, “the telephone trust,”
which will prevent litigation to dis
solve that corporation under the anti
trust act and under which compet
itive conditions will be restored in
the telephone service of the entire
country and the combine will dispose
of its holdings in the Western Union
Telegraph company. The plan orig
inated with the company, although it
followed many reports that a suit
against it might be filed.
It was regarded by department of
justice officials as the most striking
indication offered in a decade that
“big business' has come to the con
clusion that it is better to follow the
Sherman law than fight it. The plan
met not only the approval of the at
torney general and his chief "trust
buster,” G. C. Todd, and officials of
the subsidiaries of the combine, but
was heartily approved by President
Wilson. In a letter to Mr. McRev
uolds the president expressed his ad
miration for the attitude of the tele
phone company and his conviction
that such conduct on the part of busi
iess men meant a building up of
isiness on sound and permanent
mes.
Ship’s Cook Spreads Typhoid.
Providence, R. I.—The epidemic of
typhoid fever among the Rhode
Island delegation to the Perry cele
bration at Put-In-Bay, O.. has been
traced by the government health serv
ice to the drinking of water on
board a Lake Erie steamer, the cook
of which was suffering from the dis
ease three days before he was taken
to a hospital. Dr. Hugh Valia, gov
ernment physician, who made an in
vestigation, forwarded his report
here.
More than 100 members of the
Rhode Island party were stricken
wirh typhoid after returning from
Put-In-Bay, and five of them died.
Krause Elected Captain.
Milwaukee, Wis.—Bert Krause, a
junior, was elected captain of the
Marquette university foot ball team
for 1914 at the annual banquet here.
Krause plays at center.
Makes Sixty-Six Millions.
New York.—The annual report of
the Union Pacific Railroad company,
shows that it made a profit of approx
imately $50,000,000 on the sale of its
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
railway shares and about $16,000,000
on its Southern Pacific holdings.
Standing Prize $100 for Triplets.
Santa Ana, Cal.—The county board
of supervisors is on official record
with a standing offer of $100 reward
for each set of triplets born in Orange
county.
Milk Dealer Pays Fine for Plot.
Minneapolis, Minn.—A fine of $3,
500 was paid by A. R. Rubnke, presi
dent of a local milk company, con
victed on February 19 in the district
court of conspiracy to raise the price
of milk in Minneapolis. The line was
paid to the clerk of the courts.
Physician Guilty of Cruelty.
Chicago, 111.—James A. Marshall,
physician of the state reformatory at
Pontiac, was found guilty of treating
the inmates with cruelty and his re
moval was ordered.
Hillen Sentenced to Hang.
Denver, Ook>.—Harry E. Hillen,
who recently confessed a series of
holdups in various parts at the
country, has been convicted of first
degree murder for the killing of
Thomas J. Chase on October 24. The
jury fixed hanging as the penalty.
Philadelphia Outfielder Sued.
Cleveland, O.—George E. PaskerU
outfielder of the Philadelphia Nation
al league team, has been sued for
$20,000 damages by John Farry. Pas
te rt struck Farry with his auto.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
The home rule charter for Lincoln
ras defeated.
Fire destroyed the Maharg hotel and
adjoining buildings at Ashland.
The body of a newly born baby was
found by a watchman on the bank of
the Missouri river.
Over 1,000 birds were entered for
the annual show of the Dodge County
Poultry association.
Beatrice had an “everybody go to
church” day last Sunday, and the re
sults were very gratifying.
Seven cases of smallpox have been
discovered at Sntton, and it is possi
ble the schools may be closed.
The city council of Albion has au
thorized the installation of a street
number system for that place.
The Superior Baseball association
closed up its season’s business with
a small surplus in its treasury.
Farmers around Tobias have organ
ized a Society of Equity, with a mem
bership of forty on the charter.
A merchant at Newman Grove has
fitted up a rest room in his store for
the convenience of his customers.
Berg Durinsky, a Russian, was elec
trocuted when he went to turn on an
electric light at his home at Norfolk.
A petition to the county commis
sioners is being circulated for county
ownership of telephones in Lincoln
county.
J. E. Dennison, a Lyons plumber,
was seriously burned by the explosion
of a gasoline oldering pot which he
was \sing.
J. A’. Bi* vnt, president of an
Omaha implement company, suicided
by drowning in a cistern in the rear of
his home.
Clyde Rolston sold ten acres of land
adjoining Ainsworth for $200 per acre.
This is the highest price ever paid for
land there.
A thief worked the city hall at Om
aha and secured a purse containing
$15 belonging to Beulah Byrd, a sten
ographer.
Verne Flory, a Lincoln boy, was
wounded by a stray bullet from an un
known source, while out walking with
a companion.
iorK county dentists have formed
a county organization and elected N
R. Wildman. president, and E. A
Calkins, secretary.
Burwell's new $5,000 steel water
tank and tower is about completed
and now the town will be able to com
bat any ordinary fire.
The little two-year-old child of Au
gust Kleinschmidt at Hampton lost
two fingers by geting them caught in
a platform rocking chair.
Mrs. Martha Whipple has brought
suit for $20,000 against Lincoln saloon
keepers and their bondsmen for sell
ing liquor to her husband.
Automobile bandits are worrying
the Omaha police and incidentally
numerous citizens when business
keeps them out late at night.
The "blacksmith evangelist.” Rev.
M. W. Boyer, has just closed a series
of meetings at Nemaha, at which there
were nearly fifty conversions.
The young ladies' auxiliary society
of the First Congregational church
at Fremont held a baby show' last
week, in which there were 125 entries
Little Marie Mercer, a 3-year-old
Lincoln girl, fell twelve feet, landing
on a hard floor, and received a coin
pressed fracture of the skull. Sht
may recover.
Miss Kate McHugh, principal of the
Omaha high school and one of the
best known educators of the state, will
head the State Teachers’ associatior
next year as president.
Dr. I. W. McEachron of Oeneva was
elected president; Dr. S. I. Alford of
Lincoln, vice-president, and Dr. Carl
Xorden of '■’•aska City, secretary
treasurer of ihe veterinary associa
tion at its session just closed at Lin
coln.
Seventy-eight boys In convention in
Fremont Saturday and Sunday took
the initial steps looking to the forma
tion of a permanent association ot
high school students, to hold annual
conferences. The sessions closed with
a meeting at the T. M. C. A. Sunday
evening.
After a separation of fifteen years
William Smith, a negro, ran across his
[ father during a visit to one of the clut
rooms frequented by Lincoln colored
sports.
The public schools of Wayne closed
during the funeral of J. W. Tombs, an
old resident of that place, and whose
daughter has for many years been the
principal of the high school there.
The five-year-old daughter of Mr
and Mrs. Meruton GrofT, at Lincoln
was so severely burned by fire started
from matches with which she was
playing that she died at a hospital a
few hours later from her injuries.
worK on tne box Buue county
school house at Alliance is at a
standstill owing to the failure of tht
contractor to carry on the work.
The Seward tornado relief commit
tee has tendered a report showing thai
$9,450 had been collected and dis
bursed. with the exception of about
$100.
Little Marie Murkadron, sever
years old. and Joie Baynardi, the same
age, were run down by an Omaht
police department automobile. The
boy escaped with a few outs and
bruises, but it is expected the girl wil
die.
The ladies of the Altar society o.
the Catholic church at York have jusl
closed a very successful bazaar foi
the benefit of the TTrsuline Sisters
school at that place.
Stephen Kegley. who cut his throa
at Lincoln and who has made severa'
efforts while in a hospital to reoper
the wounds, is still alive, with favora
ble prospects of recovery.
Willard Butler, the 30-year-old sor
of the old soldier, James Butler, whose
body was fouM buried In the cellar ol
his home at Fremont, has been form
ally charged with murder in the firei
degree.
An epidemic of scarlet fever ane
diphtheria is raging at the town ol
Endicott, and Principal Lloyd Meyers
has clpsed the schools for severa'
weeks.
The special meetings which hav«
been in progress the past five weeks
at the M. E. church at Chappell have
closed. There were In the neighbor
hood of sixty converts.
George S. Burtcb. one of the-first
men to come to Nebraska to live, for
sixty years a resident of the state
most of the time at or near Bellevue
is dead at the home of his daughter
Dr. C. G. Ernest, at St. Paul.
MOlSriFUGHT
CONSOLIDATION WORTH WHILE
TO TAXPAYERS.
30SSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
Item* of Interest Gathered from Re
liable Sources and Presented in
Condensed Form to Our
Readers.
MTiHB
County boards act within their dia
Jretion when they agree not to call a
special election for voting bonds for
s county telephone system under the
provisions of the Fuller bill, in the
opinion of .ludge Cornish of the dis
trict court. The judgment was handed
down by him in the application of
Lancaster county public ownership
leaders for a writ of mandamus com
pelling the county boards to call the
•lection which they long ago pe
tioned for under the county owner
ship bill. According to the court's
finding the county board has the right
to either call or refuse to call the
special election. The question de
cided means that unless the supreme
court remands the case after revers
ing the finding, the proposition will
have to go over until next fall’s gen
eral election.
Proved More Efficient.
Consolidation of several state de
partments, a move calculated to make
for more, efficiency in state govern
ment than the primitive methods
which have prevailed for many years,
has been shown to be worth while to
the taxpayers. In the past year the
associated departments of food, drug,
dairy, oil and weights and measures
inspections have collected $15,000
more fees than under the old system
and at the same time have operated at
a less outlay than under the scheme
of diffusing activities. Food and oil
inspections for the year of 1912. un
der separate departments, brought in
fees to the amount , of $69,100 while
for the present year the total has run
up to $84,230. The November report
of the department shows that of the
$8 .771 fees received, the oil division
contributed $7,816. Inspections made
included 161 cream stations, 203
hotels and restaurants. 777 meat mar
kets, 377 grocery stores, thirty milk
wagons and dairies, most of them in
Omaha, fourteen saloons, fifty-eight
bakeries and forty-four confection
eries. ADU
Fair Managers to Meet.
The program outlined by W. H.
Smith of Seward, secretary and
treasurer of the Nebraska Association
of Fair Managers, has been an
nounced. The.gathering will be held
during the week of Organized Agricul
ture, January 19 to 23. H. Mulenburg
of Geneva will speak on the "Relation
of Fair Officers to Horsemen.” Henry
Pickett of Wahoo wrill discuss “A Well
Balanced Program.” L. H. Cheney of
Stockville will give a paper on
“Awarding Premiums.” “State Farm
Exhibits at Fairs” will be the theme
of Prof. C. W. Pugsley’s address.
General discussions will follow these
addresses and papers. For several
years gambling devices and all ques
tionable amusements have been “cut
out” by the Nebraska state and county
fairs, and a sharp lookout has been
kept for progressive features.
Nebraska’s Beet Sugar Production.
Nebraskans will likely have an op
portunity during the Christmas season
of enjoying the taste of real Nebraska
made sugar. More than ."0,000
sacks of the product are com
puted in the 1913 output of the
Scotts Bluff sugar beet factory, and
the total production at Grand island
will amount to 75,000 sacks, accord
ing to statements made by Ur. G. E
Condra at the meeting of the state
conservation and public w-elfare com
mission. State officials, university
professors and good roads boosters
were in attendance, this being Ne
braska's first elaborate portrayal in
the movies. The sugar beet and apple j
raising Industries, the production o; j
beef cattle, scenes at the state farm
and the “better babies” films, which
attracted such wide attention at the
national conservation gatherings a!
Washington a couple of weeks age*
were shown the visitors. All of theso
were arranged in snappy style.
The semi-annual statement or th«
state treasurer shows that total re
ceipts for the six months ending No
vember 30 were $3,075,381 and tota
disbursements $3,141,354. The bal
ance on -May 31 was $706,374 and or.
the last named date $6 40,401. The
university fund collected in accord
ance with the provisions of a bill
passed at the last legislative sessior
was $1,142. Among receipts to the
general fund of the state in the hall
year was a $15 800 item representing
the collections from convict labor ai;6
$16,475 applied as federal aid for sol
diers' and sailors’ homes in this state
Total receipts of the university dur
ing the past six months were $132,079
according to the semi-annual report
made to the state treasurer by Chan
eellor Avery. The largest single item
was $36,973.14 for hog cholera serum
a product which is made and sold to
farmers of the state at actual cost ol
production.
The state bacteriological laboratory
is being fitted up under the directior
of Dr. William Wild, and the plant
will be ready for operation within a
few days.
All indications point to an increased
attendance in the winter course ofi the
university school of agriculture. Thif
course is six weeks in length, begin
ning January 6 and closing February
17. Many men of all ages take advan
tage of this short course every wintei
to gain new knowledge along agricu!
tural lines. The school of agriculture
will offer lectures and demonstratior
work In soils, crops, farm machinery
farm motors, animal and dairy hus
bandry, animal pathology, farm for
estry, entomology, plant physiology
horticulture and farm management.
THE BEGGAR GIRL’S MODESTY
Turkish Young Woman Refused to Un
cover Face to Have Pic
ture Taken.
London.—While walking near the
Mosque of St. Sofia Bone time ago I
wag arrested with the cry of “Alms for
the Love of Allah” coming from the
trio whose photograph I am inclosing
herewith, trusting that it will be of in
terest to your readers. I tried to get
the girl in the group to uncover her
face, but the teaching of her religion,
which tells her that her mouth is sa
cred and must not be shown, had too
great a hold, and my efforts were un
availing. Can one Bay the same of the
average English beggar? Her father
and brother, as can be seen from their
expression, were at first adverse to be
ing taken, but a bribe of 20 paras (one
"Alms for the Love of Allah!"
penny) brought reluctant consent. Ru
mor has it that many beggars make
small fortunes: certainly the number
of them to be found would lead one to
think that at least an easy living is to
be obtained. Here in this most pic
turesque city one can hardly go a doz
en yards without having the cry of
“Alms for the Love of Allah" flung at
one. with the blessing or curse to fol
low, according to one's generosity or
otherwise. ,
CURTAIN DOWN ON ROMANCE
Asks Annulment of Marriage to
Man Who Went Insane on
Honeymoon in 1903.
San Francisco.—A tragic final chap
ter has been written to the romantic
elopement of ‘‘Jack” Breckenridge
and Miss Adelaide .Murphy, which
stirred social circles in many cities
ten years ago. Mrs. Breckenridge has
instituted proceedings of annulment
of marriage because of the incurable
insanity of her husband.
“Jack” Breckenridge. scion of noted
California families, is watched by
keepers in Paris. His wife, after ar
ranging with her attorney here for the
filing of annulment proceedings, left
recently for Philadelphia.
The marriage of Breckenridge to
“Sallie'' Murphy, as she was known
by her friends, took the relatives and
acquaintances of the couple by sur
prise. On the honeymoon trip to Paris
the blight of insanity touched the
mind of the young husband and all
the efforts of the best physicians In
Europe failed to cure him. For ten
years he has remained there.
Mrs. Breckenridge recently brought
the young son of the marriage, John i
Breckenridge, Jr., to San Francisco to
be with his grandmother and with her
concurrence the annulment proceed
ings are now under way here and in
Paris.
ALCOHOL MAKES MARE FIGHT
Seeking Cause of Racket in Barn,
Owner Expostulates and Gets
the Worst of It.
Bremerton. Wash.—William Bra
ken. a Colby farmer, placed a quart
of alcohol intended for horse liniment
above a feed box in his barn. Short
ly after midnight Air. Braken heard a
commotion indicating that somebody
was pulling the barn apart. When
he peered into the stall and gently in
quired “What’s the matter, Molly?”
that spirited animal kicked him.
Mr. Braken returned with scantling
and slipped into the stall. The first
kick missed Air. Braken’s head, but
knocked the scantling out of his
hands. Then Molly kicked him be
hind the door and kicked the door on
top of him.
When Mrs. Braken arrived and re
moved the door Mr. Braken announced
that he would call the battle a draw
for the night.
In the morning it was learned that
Molly’s indiscretion was due to the
spilling of the alcohol in the feed box.
Aside from exhibiting some eagerness
to get to the pump, Molly’s "morning
after" was uneventful.
CORK LEG CAUSES ARREST
Woman Says Husband Had Concealed
His Possession of Two
Artificial Limbs.
Portland, Ore.—Miss Eva Zelmer
did not know P. D. Chamberlain had
lost both legs when she married him.
This is one of the reasons given by
the young wompn for readily consent
ing to appear as a witness against the
man, who is charged with bigamy.
In addition to the Portland wife he
admits he has a wife and child In
Portland, Me.
It appears Chamberlain told Miss
Zelmer he had one cork leg, but did
not say anything about the other.
When she learned that both legs were
artificial the first quarrel occurred.
Chamberlain was released on $250
%ash bail. The money was the same
which Chamberlain had raised a few
days before to get the release of Miss
Zelmer, who had been held in that
amount as a material witness.
nappy Thought.
It had been a rather long drawn out
engagement and as often happens ii<
those cases his lovemakiug was not as
arduous as it had been at one time.
“Why don't you write oftener in an
swer to my letters, Will?” she asked
tearfully.
“Because, dearest,' he replied, “your
letters were so long and interesting
that I spend all my time reading
them."
Tal ing No Chances.
“I see,” said the editor, "that some
half-baked scientist schedules the end
of the world for next Saturday.”
“Yes, yes," said the star reporter.
'Tve got the story all ready. It won't
happen.”
“Better write up the other side,
though. If it does happen we don’t
, want to get scooped.”
Appropriate.
“This gown is what they call flame
color.”
“Ah! Has it a fiareback?”
If a homely girl has plenty of money
it's an easy matter to meet a wise man
who will try to convince her she is a
prize beauty.__
r 81 MERRY]
This is the season for
good cheer and happi
ness, but You mow how I
hard it is to ‘ ‘be merry”
when Your iver has de- I
veloped a “lazy spell.”
To overcome this trouble
just try a short course of
Hostetler’s
Stomach Bitters
It will prove very helpful. It
is for Poor Appetite, Nau
sea, Indigestion, Constipa
tion, Biliousness and Grippe.
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The opportunity of aecuring free
homesteads of 160 acres each, anda
the low priced lands of Manitoba, if
Saskatchewan and Alberta, will |j
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to the Settler, to the man with a, |S
family looking for a home; to the jg
farmer’s son, to the renter, to all who £
wish to live under better conditions.
Canada's grain yield in 1913 is %
the talk of the world. Luxuriant |
Grasses give cheap fodder for large
herds; cost of raising and fattening
for market is a trifle.
The sum realized for Beef, Butter,
Milk and Cheese will pay fifty pet j
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of Immigration, Ottawa, |
Canada, or to
W.V.BENNETT
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Omaha, Nab.
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