FOR THE BUSY IN
NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPASSED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
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center. Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
WASHINGTON
The create haw passed a bill grant
Nmc right* to construct a railway
L. sly- krniM the Mississippi river at
Kma ,k. la , to the Inter City Bridge
company.
A committee representing the Na
tional One Cent Letter Hostage aa
aoc-aUon called on President Wilson
with Senator Burton of Ohio, who has
a bill for Lcent letter postage.
The Industrial Workers of the
W urld and milium suffragwU could
be ti;ia«<-d "among other forms of
Jawfe-sD**-.- Senator Sherman de
clared. lie added be felt be could
a*> so wrhout his motives being
gam met because he favored the
wmwi saflrwgo coaoutotiowal amend
an
Water power legislation as a meas
nre of relief for the people of the
west and south .» urged by Senator
Jones of Washington, who spoke in
favor of bis bill granting water power
* <« the pubic domain to munici
palities or public service corporations
tinder state or federal regulations
with the poser of the government to
purchase alter fifty years.
Fails Ihax has arrived here and
will aiiempt to get a bearing before
the senate foreign relations commit
tee and give bis views on tie Mexi
can situation Pedro Dei Vilar and
Ortllio Ocon. who represented them
selves a* bis supporters, appeared be
fore the committee to ask what atti
1 tide this government would take to
ward a revolution beaded by Diaz.
Advocating bis bill to recognize
prate primary taws for the selection
of delegates to nations' conventions
and election of national committee
men . Sector Sherman, republican of
Httnota. declared a national primary
law was the remedy for party dan
ger- lie us sailed the proposal for a
nation-wide presidential primary, on
the ground it would result in a few
Mate - absolutely controlling presi
deti'ial nominations. _
DOMESTIC.
The strength of the Individual
hairs is increased by frequent cutting,
but not their number.
/
,x
railed States has more than
factory employes and 1,
yrfk**** railroad employes. .
In W • -t Virginia there are 70.22
men employed in ibe mining indus
try Of this number J2.612 are Amer
icans
Tm product** of egg* in M>wa in
SMS **» worth more than the annual
output ot the {told mines cf Alaska
or California, or any other state in
the anion, according to a statement
i»»u-d hr the lo«a department of ag
riculture The year s lay amounted
to 9T.a49.731 dozen
Out of IT men assigned to a ark by
the municipal employment bureau of
Chicago iast Saturday. 199 failed to
» iu< up at the job*. The manager
of the bureau reports that it is dif
ficult to find men for all the work
available. Jobs offered to JW follow
ers erf "a leader of the unemployed”
acre spura«-d by the whole bunch.
According to figures compiled by
the office of public roods of the De
partment of Agriculture, expenditures
in the United States for improve
ment of roads have been more than
doubled since 1904 In 1904. expen
ditures for this purpose amounted to
ffT9.7Tl.41T. while in 1912 the total
was mi.Tsr.rdu.
Margaret K McNamara has been
appointed chief matron of the Indus
trial School for Girls at Delaware.
O. after much trouble. Tbe law of
Ohio forbade tbe appointment of a
woman on public boards in institu
tioas. but a new law was passed by
popular vote at the last election, and
women may now serve on such
board*, concerned with the welfare
of women and children
The Fanners and Merchants bank
of Mandat. N. D.. has been closed by
prate Bank Examiner Silverton. who
a-lege* violation of the state banking
law* The books are being checked
by members of the stale board.
• • •
The government's regulations re
garding the manufacture and sale of
•iemarganne are so strict that (the
flotations of the law charged against
lohn F. Jeike and others were im
possible it was argued at their trial
B I he < bicago federal court by their
jr.orney. John Barton Payne.
• • • *
Mw» Zimmerman, a horse dealer.
% bo asserts that be met Ralph Lopez,
he Mexican outlaw who took refuge
^ a ( tab mine after slaying six men.
old the St. Paul police that be had
eea Lope* is S’- Pa«l
• • •
lit*forte Plymouth church of Brook
|yn. the edifice in which Henry Ward
liter her preached, and where a regi
ment of soldiers slept and ate tor a
week during civil war times, will give
Bid to the unemployed of Brooklyn, it
wres announced by Rev. Dr Newell
Dwtskt Hill Is. pastor of the church.
• * *
mitiam Huffman, a former member
. of fihe Terre Haute find.) city council,
srho with Mayor Dona M Roberts and
etcht others was Indicted for partici
la election frauds, was found
gmUtf hr n Jury.
The coldest weather of the wintei
prevailed at Chatanooga, Term.
• • •
Senator Stone of Missouri has been
made chairman of the foreign rela
tions committee.
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Mrs. Minnie Taylor, wife of John
M Taylor, a Los Angeles mining en
gineer. won probation for her husband
on a bigamy charge and then sent
him to the county chain gang for two
years to provide $1.50 a day for her
and her two children.
Mrs. John D Spreckels, jr.. has left
San Francisco for Kurope with a party
of friends after announcing that she
bad discontinued her suit for divorce,
brought early this year on grounds of
alleged cruelty. Spreckels contested
the suit.
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The Federal league assigned its 210
ball players, made preliminary plans
for its penant race and organized a
tinal raid on its rivals—the raid
planned to land in its ranks seven of
the players now finishing their trip
around the world with the Giants and
White Sox.
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The executive board of the Nation
al Woman Suffrage association, head
ed by I)r Anna Howard Shaw, presi
dent of the organization, will leave
New York for Birmingham, Ala., to
attend the first of several conferences
which will discuss plans for enfran
chising the women of the south.
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W. K. Bixby, has resigned as a re
ceiver of the Wabash railroad in a
telegram to Judge Adams of the Uni
ted States circuit court of appeals at
St. Louis. The telegram was sent
from Pasadena, Cal., where Mr. Bis
by is spending the winter. “Contin
ued ill health" is the reason given by
Mr. Bixby for resigning.
There is no cause for alarm in the
imminent possibility that the United
States will hate to import wheat and
other foodstuffs, said United States
Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio
at the Saturday luncheon of the re
publican club at New York, at which
the development of this country's for
eign commerce was discussed.
Edwin Pullen won the fifth interna
tional grand prize race over forty
eight laps, or 403 miles, of the Santa
Monica course. at IjOs Angeles. A
new record of 77.2 miles per hour
was established It was also the first
time in the history of that event that
an American car fla-hed first at the
finish, and there were several other
features.
In connection with the Painesdale
murder mystery, said to have been
one of the developments of the cop
per miners’ strike, five members ol
the western federation of miners were
arrested at Houghton. The arrests
w ere made after an alleged confession
by John Huhra, former secretary of
the South Range local of the feder
ation.
• • •
The state of Montana, through its
senator. James Walsh, has presented
to Notre lame university, South
Bend. Ind. the sword of General
Thomas Francis Meagher, worn dur
ing the civil war. General Meagher
was territorial governor of Montana
following the close of the war, and
his death by drowning is one of the
tragic mysteries of the upper Mis
souri.
One of the causes that lead to the
high cosc of living is indicated ic the
simple statement that statistics gath
ered by the Department of Agricul
ture show that of all the tillable land
in the f'nited States only 27 per cent
was under cultivation at the last cen
sus. There were 1,140,0(K>.(FK) acres
that might be tilled, but only 331,
(**>.000 acres that were tilled. For
every 100 acres actually cultivated
there were 375 acres lying idle.
FOREIGN.
The American recruits refused by
General Villa arrived at Juarez from
I Chihuahua. Each was given $25 gdld
1 by the general.
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President Huerta and the members
of his cabinet sent messages of con
dolence to Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the
1 American charge d'affaires, on the
death in New York of his father, Col
onel James T. O'Shaughnessy.
• • •
For insulting the German crown
prince in an article. Hans Leuss, a
writer, was sentenced to six months’
imprisonment!. The article, which
appeared in the Weekly Die Welt Am
Montag. was entitled. “William the
j Last. ’
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Three thousand rebels under Gen
! era] Ortega, who were moving toward
1 Torreon. were defeated between Con
| ejas and Escalon. according to ad
vices received at the war department.
The dispatch said 4(*> rebels were
killed in the engagement. The fed
eral forces, commanded by General
! Ricardo Pena, numbered 700.
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The steamer Santibal went ashore
at Cires Point, near Tangier. The
I Spanish cruiser Estramadura and five
| other w arships have been ordered to
| stand by to help refloat the vessel
: and to beat ofT tne insurgent Moors.
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The federal forces under the direc
| tion of President Plaza, have renewed
| their attack on Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
I President Plaza arrived at EsmeraJ
! das, which is held by the rebels, sev
I eral days ago. and since that time has
, received several hundred reinforce
1 ments.
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In Greece the minister of education
] has opened negotiations for the in
stallation of 4.000 natural color mov
ing picture machines, with supplies of
films for use in the state schools for
educational purposes.
• • •
Women in France will probably
: have the ballot in local affairs before
the end of the year, according to Fer
dinand Buisson, president of the uni
versal suffrage commission, which is
composed of forty members of the
French parliament, and which has re
t ported favorably on the subject
HIT REPEAL TOLLS
HOUSE COMMITTEE FAVORS BILL
TO ABOLISH THEM.
SENATE HAS DIFFERENT PLAN
Results Wou.d be Same Without Re
pudiating Democratic Plank of
Toll Exemption.
Washington, D. C.—Initial steps to
repeal the toil exemption clause of
the Panama canal act as requested by
President Wilson were taken in con
gress when the house committee on
interstate commerce reported favor
ably a bill to strike out the provision.
In the senate the committee on inter
oceanic canals decided to meet to
consider the appeal of the president
for a reversal of policy in the contro
versy which involves the Hay-Paunee
fote treaty, and, in the opinion of the
president, the general foreign rela
tions policy of the administration.
While the house is debating the is
sue the senate committee will con
sider whether to recommend a flat
repeal bill or to urge the compromise
bill offered by Senator Chilton of
West Virginia, a member of the com
mittee which would authorize the
president to regulate tolls and assess
charges at his discretion wherever
exemption is provided in the canal
act
Thinks His Plan Best.
“I believe that more senators would
vote for my amendment than will
support a flat repeal measure,” said
Senator Shilton. Although the amend
ment would accomplish repeal of toll
exemption it would not repudiate the
democratic platfofm plank indorsing
toll exemption and senators who flat
ly refuse to go back on that plank
could vote for it."
In the house there was quick re
sponse to the president's address, the
committee voting 13 to 3 to favorably
report the Sims repeal bill. Absent
members who were recorded made
the vote 17 to 4.
“Prophet Daniel” Visits Paris.
Paris.—Traffic was brought to a
standstill on one of the boulevards
when a tall German, attired in a long
black gown, appeared in the roadway
shouting in a loud voice: “I am the
prophet. Daniel, hear ye!”
The man displayed a large sheet of
calico on which was printed in red
letters:
“A great wind will fall upon Paris
and everyone will be swept up to
the clouds—above all, the inhabitants
of the boulevard Sain Germain.”
After displaying the prediction he
exhorted the crowd to read the gos
pels. The police arrested the man.
Schools Shouldn't Teach Religion.
New Haven, Conn.—Religious in
struction should not be given in the
public schools, according to Prof
James Tufts of the University of Chi
oago, who spoke before the Religious
Education association in convention
here.
Prof. Tufts said that the public
school system as devised is not in
tended to give religious training and
that it was the business of the
church and its organizations to care
for religious instruction.
Fat Man Stops Up Hole.
Chicago.—One man who was too
fat to get through a hole in the wall
caused the arrest of himself and nine
others, when the police raided a base
| ment gambling room downtown,
j When the police came the players,
I fled for a small hole in the rear wall
| planned for an emergency exit. One
escaped and the fat man. who was
; second, got stuck, preventing the
others from gaining their liberty.
Killed Over a Trifle.
Gardiner, Mont.—Infuriated beoause
1 Walter Sempile, a bartender, charged
j him 25 cents for a can of sardines,
i Ole A. Halverson and George A. Hal
-sey. United States soldiers from
Fort Yellowstone, attacked Semple
with knives so fiercely that he died.
More than 100 infuriated citizens
! tried vainly to take the soldiers
| away from Deputy SherifT George
Welcome of Park county.
Wins His Race Against Death.
Rochester, Minn.—C. W. Post won
his race with death half across the
continent when his special train ar
rived at the Great Western depot in
I this city just three and one-half
hours ahead of schedule time.
Begins at Two-Bits a Day.
Hannibal. Mo—William H. Dula
ney, who started life as a farm hand
at 25 cents a day. died here leaving
an estate estimated at $1,000,000. He
was 96 years old.
“Handsome Widow” in Jail.
New Haven. Conn.—Mrs. Addie
Jewell, whose various advertisements
of a “handsome widow in search of a
housekeeper’s position." netted her a
considerable inoome. pleaded guilty
in the federal court and was senten
ced to six months in jail.
Sporting Writer Is Dead.
Buffalo, N. Y.—Edward H. McBride.
42 years aid. widely known as a sport
ing writer under She name of “Hot
spur," died here following an oper
ation for a throat infection.
Laborer Is Left Large Fortune.
Berkeley, Cai.—Winthrop Q. Vin
ton. a laborer, has received news that
he has inherited $250,000 through the
death of his mother, Mrs. Mary T.
Vinton, at SomervfMe, Mass. He an
nounced his intention of leaving at
once for the east
Omaha Bonds Are Registered.
Lincoln, Neb.—Deputy Comptroller
W. F. Chambers of Omaha brought
$361,500 of intersectional newer and
paving bonds here tor registration.
They have been sold to a Toledo firm.
NAMES SNORT
ONJETITIONS
BUSINESS METHODS IN FARMING
ARE WINNING OUT.
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
Items of Interest Gathered from R*
liable Sources and Presented in
Condensed Form to Our
Readers.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Count of the university location
petition names by counties has just
been completed by the secretary of
state. Of the 23.386 names allowed to
remain on the petition—which is now
short just 781 names—there are 3,164
names from Douglas county. The re
quired 5 per cent of that county is
only 1.462. as the total vote, according
to the secretary's records, was 29,247
at the 1912 election.
The colectors of names will have
until ninety days before the general
election to file additional names and
this will be taken up at once, accord
ing to the staff connected with the
work. The names ruled out by the
secretary number 2,877 and were col
lected at the state fair and one or two
other places where large crowds were
present. The fact that the petitioners
signed the documents without regard
to the fact that names from many
counties appeared on each petition
was held by Secretary Wait to be con
trary to the apparent intention of the
law.
Counties in which the required 5 pei
cent of names has not been collected
are Adams. Banner, Blaine, Burt.
Cheyenne. Dawes. Deuel, Gage, Gar
■ field, Greeley. Grant, Holt. Hooker.
Howard, Keya Paha. Knott, Logan.
Loup, McPherson. Morrill, Perkins
Red Willow and York. Under the law
the 10 jter cent petition is required to
contain names of 3 per cent of the
total legal voters in each of only two
fifths. or thirty-seven counties, of the
state, so this action of the law has
been complied with in substance.
Business Methods on the Farm.
“The farmer who uses business
methods is coming to the front. The
other fellows are being weeded out.”
according to F. A. Sherzinger of Xel
son, who is both an editor and a \
farmer. For twenty-five years he has
been a close student of agricultural
conditions in Nuckolls county. After
admitting that he was a “crank on
businesslike farming," Mr. Sherzinget
continued:
“Men who use their heads make !
money in the farming game and this j
| state cannot be beaten. The shiftless j
the unobserving and the unprogressive
are being lost in the shuffle. This ap- i
plies to both landowners and tenants. ,
“When a tenant does not get re- |
suits nowadays he is soon informed
that the owner wants possession on ,
the first day of March. Land has in- i
creased in value from the old fixed !
price of $20 an acre to $100 and over.
It is hard to set a limit for new meth- I
ods. and new markets and new crops
will increase values.”
Treasurer’s Monthly Report.
; The monthly report of State TreaS
i urer George shows over $50,000 of
| uninvested funds on hand. There is
now $66,558 in the general fund. The
balance on hand the first of February
I in all funds was $721,651. During the
i month the treasurer received $624,435. |
paid out $639.S31 and has on hand j
$746,255.41. Of that amount $8,219 73 i
I is cash on hand and $738,035.68 is in '
' state depository banks. The total '
i trust funds invested is $9,564,714. Ot j
| that amount $83,249 is invested in uni
versity warrants. $123,063 in normal |
j school warrants, and $60,069 in gen !
i eral fund warrants. The balance, $9,- |
: 298.333, is invested in bonds. There is j
i $44,187 still in the university building j
funds which the treasurer will pay out j
1 in cashing warrants that have not
] been sold by the original owners.
The night classes at the state peni- |
tentiary are attended by more of the j
inmates at every session. The men !
who have enrolled in either the com-!
mon school or the commercial courses !
are progressing rapidly with theii
studies and Warden Fenton is pleased j
with the work. The plan of classify-1
ing the men in view of their previous ,
education has proved a success.
Good-natured bandying and rich
renditions of songs of his own composi
tion in the minstrel shows at the peni-1
tentiary brought attention of local
people to Thomas McIntyre, sent up
from Cheyenne county for murder, and
he has been paroled to Judge W. H.
England of Lincoln. Governor More
head signed the parole after he be
came convinced that McIntyre had no
hand in the murder of the Sidney
watchman, for which he and Ham Ne
ville and Con Sullivan were convicted.
A confession signed by Neville states ;
that McIntyre was sot in the yards
Shoe* for National Guard.
A carload of hiking-shoes, the first
peace donation of footwear ever made
to the Nebraska National guard, has
just been received at headquarters in
Lincoln. The consignment will be
stored in the armory at present and
will likely be given out at the state
camp this year. If the plan to join
with other states in the maneuvers at
Fort Riley, Kas.. is followed out, then
the shoes will be given out previous
to the departure for that encampment
The shoes, according to General Hall,
are of a durable quality and would be
excellently fitted to tramping up and
down some of the sage brush country
of Mexico.
Dealers in adulterated linseed oil,
from reports brought to the state food
commissioner, are again peddling
their wares without regard to the legal
provisions regulating their traffic
The oil now being sold is adulterated
with coal oil and only marked “com
pound” on the barrels. The state law
provides that the marking shall in
clude the name and amount of each
ingredient
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
March 29 will be “go to church Sun
day” at Lincoln.
Organization of a fanners' union is
being perfected at Western.
The state college conference will be
held at York. March 13, 14 and 15.
John Cassel of Stapleton had a leg
broken by the kick of a vicious horse.
Eight or ten houses at Ainsworth
are quarantined because of a smallpox
scare.
Jay C. Oliver of Morrison. 111., is
the new secretary for the Y. M. C. A.
at York.
The explosion of an incubator lamp
destroyed the home of John Yockel at
Beatrice.
Mrs. Anna Weitzker. aged 84. was
found frozen to death in a snow drift
near Florence.
Farmers around Garrison have sub
scribed $6,400 for the purpose of build
ing an elevator.
Hastings club women have raised a
found of $1,500 for an old people’s
home at that place.
Beatrice business %ien have passed
resolutions favoring penny postage on
first-class matter.
East Central Nebraska Teachers'
association will meet at Fremont,
March 26. 27 and 28.
Geneva will vote on a $10,000 bond
issue this spring for the purpose of
building a town hall.
Thomas Buckley, a former Nebras
kan. lost his life by the caving in of a
well near Iowa City. la.
The Fremont Ministerial association
plans to hold services in the Dodge
county jail each Sunday.
Eight cars of hogs, the largest ship
ment ever made from that place, left
Dawson one day last week.
An epidemic of mumps is enlarging
the facial landscape of a large portion
of the inhabitants of Edgar.
Willard Butler, the Fremont boy con
victed of killing his father, was sen
tenced to life imprisonment.
The triennial convention of the
Royal Neighbors of America will be
held in Omaha. March 17 to 19
Ex-Governor George L. Sheldon was
tendered a banquet by members of the
Masonic fraternity at Tekamah.
John Krummack, for a quarter of a
century a Burlington employe at Lin- !
coin, dropped dead of heart disease.
An historic home erected at Ne
braska City many years ago by Judge
O. P. Mason has been destroyed by
lire.
Farmers around St. Libory will go
into the business of raising water
melons on extensive scales this sum
mer. , I
A high school basketball tournament j
under the auspices of the state univer
sity will be held at Lincoln March 11
to 14
A national guard company was mus
tered in at Ord last week by Lieuten
ant fctoll of the adjutant general's
office.
Efforts are being made by the state
board of agriculture to get auto races
for the first day of the fair, Monday.
September 7.
The big living house on the Lancas
ter poor farm was totally destroyed by
fire, but its thirty inmates were gotten
out in safety.
Grant Macfarland won over thirteen
competitors in the annual contest and
will represent Stanton in the district
oratorical contest.
Gust Anderson, near Craig, was so
badly frozen when he got lost in the
storm of last week that he may lose
his hands and feet.
The general merchandise store of
Stumpp & Rounds at Howe was
broken into and a large quantity of
clothing and shoes stolen.
The town of Eustis. in Frontier
county, is all worked up over a saloon
fight. For years the town has con
tinued wet without question.
C. E. Joyce, an iceman at Weeping
Water, has pist finished harvesting
nearly 1.000 tons of ice that will aver
age over founeen inches thick.
The Public Service club of Broken
Bow gave its first monthly banquet to
the members and their wives, there
being sixty-three in attendance.
Sterling will have a six days' Chau
tauqua this summer.
Fred Fackr.itz near Hastings was
awarded $500 damages for farm prop
erty destroyed by fire originating from
a spark from a Union Pacific engine.
O. H. Liebers, Gage county’s farm
demonstrator, has returned from Wis
consin. where he purchased forty-five
high grade Holstein cattle for Gage
county farmers.
The fiddling contest given by the
Improved Order of Red Men at the
opera house at Plattsmouth was list
ened to by a crowded house. This
was the fourth annual contest.
A proposed bond sale for $12,500 to
build additions to the Loup City high
school was defeated by thirty-one
votes.
George Karges and Melville Pope,
two Fairbury boys, are in a serious
condition as the result of colliding
with a tree as they were coasting
down a long hill.
James G. Russell, oldest civil war
veteran 'n Nebraska and perhaps in
the entire country, and the oldest
showman in the United States, nas'
100 years old March 1st. and Mr. and
Mrs. Russell kept open house all day
at their home in Lincoln.
Clint Clair, former manager of the
Nebraska City baseball team, and at
one time first baseman for Hastings,
has been engaged as manager of the
Grand Island team.
Laura McKlpzey. whose husband
was killed during a brawl at a street'
fair in Wilber last fall, has brought
snit for $20,000 damages against nine
saloons of that place.
Three hundred former York resi
dents now in California held a re
union and picnic at Whittier, near Los
Angeles, recently. They are members
of the Southern California York
County association.
John Jewell of Lincoln “came over”,
with his watch, a stickpin and 50 cents
in cash when a hold-up man tickled
his ribs with a revolver as an induce
ment to make the transfer.
After being closed for several days
on account of scarlet fever, the public
schools of Osceola have resumed
work. There are no new cases around
towniso far as known.
Little four-year-old Emma Busiek. at
Lincoln, was so badly burned when
her clothing caught fire as she at
tempted to replenish the kitchen
stove, that her jjeath resulted after
seven hours of agony.
PRESIDENT READS
TOLLS MESSAGE
URGES CONGRESS TO REPEAL
THE EXEMPTION CLAUSE.
“IN VIOLATION OF TREATY”
Favoring of American Coastwise Ves
sels Declared by Chief Executive
Also to Be Based on Mistaken
Economic Policy.
Washington, March 5.—Declaring
that the exemption of American coast
wise shipping from the payment of
Panama canal tolls was based upon a
"mistaken economic policy” and was
“in contravention of our treaty with
| Great Britain,” President Wilson to
day asked congress to repeal the Ad
i amson act containing the exemption
I clause. The appeal was made in per
| son by the president, who appeared
| before the senate and house of repre
! sentatives in joint session.
The president declared that all the
world powers were unanimous In judg
ment that the exemption was in vio
lation of our treaty obligations. Only
in the United States, he said, was the
exemption clause regarded as debat
able or as open to question. He said
he had not come to congress to deliver
a personal view, but that considera
! tions of justice and wisdom led him to
believe that the proviso should be re
pealed without delay.
The president added that the United
States "ought not to quibble” in the
matter of a treaty obligation. He in
timated that the Panama canal tolls
question was involved in all the other
foreign questions now before the Uni
ted States, because he would not know’
how to deal with them unless the ex
emption is repealed.
President's Message.
The address follows:
"Gentlemen of the Congress:
"I have come to you upon an errand
which can be very briefly performed,
but I beg that you will not measure
its importance by the number of sen
tences in which I state it. No com
munication 1 have addressed to the
congress carried with it graver or
more far-reaching implications to the
Interest of the country and I now
come to speak upon a matter with
regard to which I am charged in a
peculiar degree by the constitution it
self with personal responsibility.
“I have come to ask for the repeal
of that provision of the Panama canal
act of August 24, 1912, which exempts
vessels engaged in the coastwise trade
of the United States from payment of
tolls, and to urge upon you the jus
tice, the wisdom, and the large policy
of such a repeal with the utmost
earnestness of which I am capable.
Exemption a Mistake.
“In my own judgment, very fully
considered and maturely formed, that
exemption constitutes a mistaken
economic policy from every point of
view, and is, moreover, in plain con
travention of the treaty with Great
Britain concerning the canal conclud
ed on November IS, 1901. But I have
not come to you to urge my personal
views. 1 have come to state to you a
fact and a situation.
"Whatever may be our own differ
ences of opinion concerning this much
debated measure, its meaning is not
debated outside the United States.
Everywhere else the language of the
treaty is given but one interpretation,
and that interpretation precludes the
exemption I am asking you to repeal.
Consented to Treaty.
"We consented to the treaty; its
language we accepted, it we did not
originate it; and we are too big. too
powerful, too self-respecting a nation
to interpret with too strained or re
fined a reading the words of our own
promises just because we have power
| enough to give us leave to read them
as we please. The large thing to do
is the only thing we can afford to do,
a voluntary withdrawal from a posi
tion everywhere questioned and misun
; derstood. We ought to reverse our
action without raising the question
whether we were right or wrong, and
so once more deserve our reputation
for generosity and the redemption of
every obligation without quibble or
i hesitation.
“I ask this of you in support of the
i foreign policy of the administration.
1 shall not know how to deal with
other meetings of even' greater deli
cacy and nearer consequence if you
do not grant it to me in ungrudging
measure"
RUSSIAN OFFICER MURDERED
Slayer at Arms Factory Then Throw*
Himself Into Machinery and
Is Crushed.
St. Petersburg. Russia, March 5.—
Captain von Stahl, chief of works at
the shrapnel tube factor}- of the Putl
loff armament works, was brutally
murderA by one of the foremen. The
murderer then threw himself into the
electrical machinery and was crushed
to death. There has been a strike at
the Putiloff works and Captain von
Stahl's attitude toward the strikers is
supposed to have been the cause of
the tragedy.
Noted Southern Woman Dead.
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 5.—Mrs.
Mary Ambler Coleman, aged eighty
four, mother of Lewis M. Coleman,
United States district attorney for the
eastern district of Tennessee, died
here. Mrs., Coleman was a grand
daughter of Chief Justice John Mar
shall.
Fruits Absorb Bad Flavors.
Fruits have been known to absorb
bad flavors from tainted air. Grapes
will sometimes absorb enough chemi
cals from the air in the vicinity of
chemical works to spoil the flavor of
the juice or wine.—Farm and Fire
side.
Cleaning Brass.
Brass can be kept in good condition
if washed once a month with vinegar
and water and then polished with dry
powdered rotten-stone and chamois
| skin.
for all by Calumet.
ror daily use in millions or mtcnens nas
proved that Calumet is highest not only in
quality but in leavening ponier as well—un
failing in results—pure to the extreme—and
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135 BUSHELS PER ACRE!
was the yield of WHEAT
on many farms
Western Canada
1913. some yielt
being reported aa
high u 50 bushels
per acre. As high
as 100 bushels were
recorded in some
districts for oats.
•B'B'
SO bushel* for barley and I
from 10 to 20 bus. for flax.
J. Keys arrived in the
country 5 years ago from I
Denmark with very little I
means. He homesteaded,
worked hard, is now the |
owner of 320 acres of land, i
in 1913 had a crop of 200
acres, which will realize him .
about $4,000. His wheat i
weighed 68 lb*, to the bushel
and averaged over S3 bushel*
to the acre.
Thousands of similar in
i’ stances might be related of the I
' homesteaders in Manitoba, Sas- ;
1 katchewan and Alberta.
The crop of 1913 was an abun-1
dant one everywhere in Western j
1 Canada.
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reduced railway rates. Apply to i
Superintendent of Immigration.
Ottawa, Canada, or
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Bee Building, Omaha, Keh,
Canadian Government Agent
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