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EPITOMEJF EVENTS PARAGRAPHS that PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. IRE SHORT RUT INTERESTING Brief Mention of What la Transpiring IS Various Sections of Our Owl an* Foratjn Countries WASHINGTON. interstate tessorcr subcommittee agreed os Cuilop Mil for uniformity If railroad freight classification. • • • Grain Heaters’ National aasocia ttoa :rged certificates of grain in- | Sgsrtlos as evidence of the grade of gra a at heariag before agricultural see Hsariags have began before the aurt.i-ne committee la the contest of Mu J. Carney, democrat, for teat Six upied by Kepi esentsti ve Morgan «f OMahoma • • e Tbs issue refused to reconsider the vote by which it approved the coo fernace report us the agricultural ex-! tsr.c.oi. bill The measure now goes te the pr asides t. • • • Kaher bill to create a national park serr.ee bureau la the Interior depart Meat is being urged before public lands committee by Assistant Sec tartar> Adolph Miller. s • * The senate woman suffrage commit ; Me has voted to recommend favor ably the senate and Shafroth const UR tonal amendment requiring n state to vote os woman suffrage when b j per rent of the v enters petitioned for ! Mach a vote I Nrf'Ca'wiu with Great Britain and j Canada for transfer of southeast A lawks to ' anada. by sale or exchange ar both, with "repeal of tba Hay Paunosfute treaty as one of tbe coe <.tue* at tba transfer. ’ has baen pro posad ia a raaotuttoa Introduced by fci p resects’ iv Smr.i. of Maryland. see Tba bona* bill to repeal toll exemp Boa for American ships passing through the Panama canal, with the - test fmew.t proposed by Senator Stiamon*. declaring that by repealing exempuea the t sited States waived no soswretga rights over tbe canal. ] was reported to the senate s about rweoaunendation by tbe committee on • • • Vine of tbe twelve federal reserve bans* bed more at their stock sub s ~ *d than the mini mem of It. •ms tom fixed by tew. Tbe total na- ! thul bans aubactlbers In tbe twelve j disir.tvs are *d-ng to a statement of tbe treasury department, was i.Vjr of a membership of I «»T and tba to ts amount of Mock aubwcr.bed was riMUH • * • Al efiort* to obtain iaimed.ate rat ifies •: m by tbe senate of tbe traaty wttb • •s.bta providing for the pay tt.es- of 1st Oao.tao by tbe I'nited Hi'.'i to and the ten-year dispute c»ev be sec* same of Panama and w • a gives that country's warship* the tree use of tbe Panama t anal. pc*»-* - ai<y baa been abandoned by the nda. uttiatKa penditg the settlement ad tbe adbcuKion with Mexico. • • • An Indian Brahma. TTahi Bhuna Kyawgh Hte. now a New York brok er tswttfisd before tbe bnuse immigra tion -venter tee that if eungress would per;- t. the laborers of India would be glad U» settle on all tbe and lands *c*t at the Mississippi river, and if U>* - bad tbe right to i»wesson after a p«riod of years would make those tends biiiwnnw t topis, like He op pnord the Church bill for Hindu *x • # • That tbe art income and operating re- -t.«*e» of eastern railroad* are “smaller than ia consistent with their assured prosperity and the welfare of tbe c»-muiunity” was announced as a rmwliMte* t* Lffiate I). Braudel* coun *> for tbe Interstate Ci-nmicre*- com n issien. is tbe i per coot advance rate case He maintained, however that to make a boriaontal advance in al: fregbt rates as proposed by tbe r* rasfs wes illegal and beyond the powers of tbe commission DOMESTIC. Mrs Anna M Bruen of Beivldera. N J-. *>ba celebrated her ninety se*--id bnbdny recently. has been a Awstdsy school teacher for eighty peers. see Hearten oa the bill to repeal the fit* lolls pruv uuon of the Panama ca »a* act bate been closed and the sen at* canal rummutee will begin con federation m legislative session of a repott u» the senate • • • Alberta Goodman, chief surgeon of the Mexican Saturn*! railroad has hern appointed health officer of the al) under tbe naval organization of Ibe munieipslity. The former city Officials definitely refused to resume Steel' duties owing to their fear of personal consequences • s s The supreme court has approved be order at tbe lawn railroad com Mission directing the Chicago. Milwau kee A St. Paul to accept cars loaded fiawded with coal for transportation gver .is lines within the stale. • s • Government financial aid. state, fed eral or both combined, for the relief If irrigation projects in the west was B-ip up as a crying need by speakers mt the first day's session of the irriga tion conference ceiled by Secretary Lane at the Interior department at ttonter. • s s As antnymoua cash gift of KO.OOO tas two* received at New York by fibs board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal church, to ba pcotd to t»r permanent fund for tba y... cf retired missionaries. fell: .3»>1. ,3s '.'.ill, .6.1;.;' .. There are 56 527,000 cattle on Unit ed Stales farms. • • • One factory in Ohio makes 360,000. <•00 bongs yearly from 10,000,000 feet of poplar and oak. Democrats have named 15,316 new fourth-class postmasters since com ing into power. • • • English companies have been form ed with aggregate capital of $15, uOo.OOO to exploit Persian oil fields. • • • W. M. Paxton. ?4. Platte City, Mo., has won a prize for attending Sunday school for more than sixty years with out missing a Sunday. • • • James Connaughton. principal keeper of Sing Sing prison, New York state, is taking, in a hospital, his first vacation in thity-eight yeas. ■ • • Chairman Harlan of the Interstate Commerce commission announced on resumption of arguments in the ad vance rate case that discussion must conclude soon. • • • Fire destroyed the big plants of the Atlantic Fertilizer company and the United States Fertilizer company. The total loss is estimated at $1, .iaO.OOO. covered by insurance. ■ • • While King George was driving in a motor car through Cambridge a suf fragette approached bis automobile and threw at his majesty a petition calling for votes for women. The package struck the chauffeur. • • • Dr. Joseph Hill White, senior sur geon of the public- health service of the United States, has gone to Pan ama to undertake a study of the con ditions in regard to the hookworm there. • • • Simon Steiner and his wife, Kath erine, residents of Bronx borough. Greater New York, iast week cele brated the golden anniversary of their marriage and danced the tango for their guests. Simon is 75 and Katb erln 73. m m m Mm. Janies Felio. in the presence of many of her women friends, cross ed the Calumet river at Chicago by walking over the new- bridge on an eighteen-inch steel beam. She is the wife of one of the engineers employed on the work. • • • Dr. Theodore C. Janeway of Colum bia university. New York, has ac cepted the professorship of medicine in Johns Hopkins university under the full time or university basis made possible by the gift of the $1.500,OoO by the General Education board. • • • The board of bishops of the Method ist Episcopal church, which is hold ing ts semi-annual conference at Phil adeiphia. has approved the plan of the church throughout the world to raise $5.'«s‘.ijo0 for the support of superan uated clergymen and their widows. • • • Continued allegiance to the pro gressive party waa pledged by mem bers of the national executive com mittee of the progressives in a cable gram sent to Colonel Roosevelt. The Dieesage was in reply to one received from the f rmer president stating that he *-xpec-ed to announce his fu ture plans in a few- days. • • • A man about Cfl years old. who de s-r.bed himself as Major Henry C. Fitzgerald anp American, and believ ed to have been formerly paymaster on the staff of General Merritt in the Philippines, was found shot at the rharing Cross hotel in Ixindon. He died later in a hospital. The police are of the opinion that he committed suicide • • • The Southern Pacific company Is operating more miles of railroad in California this >»-ar than last, and making P-ss money at it. according to a financial statement for the nine months ending with March, 1914, is sued at the general offices of the com pany at San Francisco. For the nine months, a falling off of $4,943,425.63 is shown in the revenues and taxes as compared * ith the figures for the cor responding period of the year before. FOREIGN. King Victor Emmanuel intends to nominate William Marconi a senator at an early date. Marconi has now reached the age of forty years, which makes him eligible for that position. • • • Marquis dl San Giuliano, the minla i ter of fore<gn affairs, has been in i terrogated by Deputy Federzoni as to * hat protection was being extended to Italian subjecs and interest^ in Mexico. sea Ernesto Nathan, former mayor of Rome, who has been appointed min ister plenipotentiary to represent ltaly at the Panama Pacific exposition, will sail from Rome May 13 for New York. He will go to Washington to visit President Wilson and then proceed to San Francisco. • • * Colonei Theodore Roosevelt, during his Journey through the unexplored regions of Brazil, discovered a tribe of savages hitherto unknown. The tribesmen, who were named Pauhatm, were unclothed. • • • Most of the London papers. In the editorial comment on the Mexican situation, display sympathy with Pres ident Wilson in the difficulties which have arisen with Mexico, while at the same time contending that those diffi cutties were largely brought about by his Idealistic policy. • • • Premier Asquith was greeted with an inspiring ovation on his return to - the house of comons. Hls progress from the entrance of the chamber to the chair of the speaker was accom panied by volleys of cheers. • • • A formidable revolutionary move ment has been launched in southern China, according to a dispatch from Shanghai. The regular troops at Sian , Fu. capital of Shen Si province, are said to have mutinied and are be i lieved to be in league with the no i bonus brlg2nd. White Wolf. m ms HMEHNKHT FOR Agrarian Democracy Has Been the Aim of the Peon Class for Past Century. STRUGGLE STILL GOING ON Position of Revolutionists and Consti tution of 1857 for Which They Stand, Set Forth in Book by Senor de Lara. Id the confusion and lack of exact knowledge that attend the embroglio with Mexico the big issue that has moved the Mexican people to revolt against Huerta has been lost sip'-t of or is not known to most Americans. What the people of Mexico have fought for from the first war of in dependence, and what they are fight ing for now under Carranza and Villa is the right to buy and till farms. For a hundred years the peon class has waged a continuous struggle to achieve agrarian democracy. Time after time the revolution has been carried to the verge of success, and time after time the Mexican ruling class has invoked foreign Intervention in order to prolong its power. All this and a great deal more is made clear in a book just published by Doubleday, Page & Co.. "The Mexi can People; Their Struggle for Free dom." by L. Gutierrez de Lara and Edgcomb Pinchon. It is frankly a statement of the position of the rev olutionists. and shows why they be lieve American intervention in Mexi co at the present time would only bring about more loss of life and worse conditions in the long run. Senor de Lara has much to say about the constitution of 1857, that has been ruthlessly set aside by suc cessive governments, and he gives a digest of that instrument, the heads of which follow: Article 1. The Mexican people recog nize that the rights of men are the foundation and the purpose of social institutions. In consequence they pro claim that all the laws and authorities of the country must respect and sus tain the warranties stipulated by this constitution. Article II. In the republic every one is born free. The slaves who step into the national territory recover their freedom by this mere fact, and have the right of the protection of the law. Article III. All education is free. The law will determine which profes sion needs a diploma for its exer cise. and what requisites are to be fulfilled. This fundamental principle was later amplified to make education uni versal. free, non-sectarian and com pulsory. Article IV. Every man Is free to adopt the profession, trade, or work that suits him, it being useful and honest; and to enjoy the product thereof. Article V. No man shall be com pelled to work without his plain con sent and without just compensation. The state will not permit to become effective any contract, pact or agree ment with the purpose of the curtail ment, the loss or the irrevocable sac rifice of the liberty of any man. may the cause be for personal labor, edu cation. or religious vows. The law in consequence does not recognize mon astic orders, and will not permit their establishment, no matter what may be the denomination or purpose for which they pretend to be established. Neith er will be permitted a contract or agreement by which a man makes a ; pact for his proscription or exile. Article VI. The expression of ideas shall not be subjected to any judicial or governmental prosecution except in cases of attack upon the public morality, the rights of a third party, or the prevention of a crime or & dis turbance of public order. Article VII. The liberty of writing and publishing writings upon any mat ter is Inviolable. No previous censor ship nor imposition of bonds upon the writers nor the publishers for the pur pose of curtailing the freedom of the press can be established by any law or authority, such freedom being re stricted to respect of private life, mor ! als and public business. Article VIII. This deals with the right of petition to the government. Article IX. This gives the right of assembly. Article X. This establishes the right of every man to possess and carry arms for his safety and legitimate defense. Article XI. This deals with immigra tion to the country and other traveling both from the country and into the same. Article XII. This establishes the In validity of all titles of nobility, pre rogatives and hereditary honors. Article XIII. In the Mexican Repub lic no one shall be subjected to pri vate laws nor special courts. No man or corporation shall enjoy fueros or receive emoluments unless they be a compensation for public services and already fixed by law. Article XIV. This establishes the principle that no one shall be tried by retroactive laws. Article XV. No treaties can be made for the extradition of political offend ers; neither for those criminals whose crime was committed in a country where they had been slaves; neither can a treaty or agreement be made by which the warranties or rights that this constitution gives to man or citi zen be altered. Article XVI. This article establishes the principle that the family and domi cile are inviolable, except for the pur poses of arrest under a warrant from a proper court expressing the charge. Article XVII. No one shall be arrest ed or imprisoned for debts of a purely civil character. No one shall exercise violence to claim his rights. The courts will always be ready for the administration of justice. This will be free, the costs being abolished. Article XXVII. Private property shall not be tak?n without the consent of the owner, except in case of public utility, and by just payment therefor. Religious corporations or institutions, no matter of what denomination, character, durability or purpose, and civil corporations when under the pat ronage. direction or superintendency of religious institutions, or ministers of any cult, shall not have the legal capacity to acquire or manage any re$U estate except the buildings which are U6ed immediately and directly for the services of the said institutions; neither will the law recognize any mortgage on any property held by these institutions. Article XXVIII. State and church are independent. Congress cannot make any law establishing or forbid ding any religion. The practical abrogation of the con stitution under Diaz and Huerta has resulted in the building up of a privi leged class and the cruel exploitation of the people. Vast territories have passed into private ownership. The disinherited peon has become the vir tual slave of the land owners, and freedom has been a privilege pur chased from the government by those ■ who had the means. « These are the conditions that De j Lara pictures, and it is to end them the present fight of the constitution alists is waging. FORCED TO BUY PROTECTION _ Refugees Arriving at Vera Crux Tell | of Paying Money to Huerta’s Soldiers. Vera Cruz.—Sixty-three members of the Medina colony in the state of Oaxaca are among the refugees who have arrived here. They were held two days in Cordoba and report they were well treated, except that they were obliged to sleep on the floors of the barracks. They were relieved of guns, but not of the scanty belongings ! which they were able to bring with i them. J. W. Elliott, a locomotive engineer, was in Tierra Blanca when news of the occupation of Vera Cruz reached him. With his wife and children he started for Cordoba under guard of Mexican soldiers. At Cordoba the guards said they were hungry and de manded 50 pesos on the threat to sur render Elliott and his family to a howling mob which surrounded the station and filled the streets. The money was paid and Elliott and j his family were marched more than a mile through the streets to the bar- I racks, hounded all the way by the j mobs. They were kept in the barracks | six days, during the first two of which 1 crowds surrounded the place demand- | ing their lives. On two occasions J members of the mob forced their way I into the barracks and except for the , efforts of the colonel and two other 1 officers Elliott and his family would j undoubtedly have been killed. Toward the end of their stay the demonstra- ! tions ceased to a large extent. Manager Boyd of the Motzorongc Hacienda, when he arrived at Cordo ba, was forced by the federal guards to pay 1,050 pesos for protection through the streets to the jail. Circulars containing the words“Kill the Gringoes" and urging the people to rise and massacre the prisoners were posted about Cordoba. One of the refugees who have ar rived here from the interior is F. W. Lehmer, a ranch manager fflom Tux tepec, whose home is in Omaha and who was on his way to Vera Cruz for a visit, not knowing of the develop ments here. He was picked up at Tierra Blanca by federal soldiers. “I was placed with ten others in a train which was standing overnight, surrounded by a mob which continu ally threatened to attack us,” he 6aid. "The guards ate up everything avail able on the train, compelling us to go hungry. At every station up to Cor doba, on the following day, similar crowds looted the train and threatened us. “While being taken through the streets of Cordoba a squad of young volunteers who had just been pre sented with a flag swept down upon us and tried to run us down. This hap pened at the corner where the mu nicipal palace is located or otherwise we would not have escaped as well as we did. As it was, I was hit on the head with a flagstaff and a man walk ing beside me was struck on the head with a rock. His scalp was badly cut. “It was due to the fine conduct of the Mexican colonel that we ever reached the palace. He rushed from the door with a squad of police and soldiers and plunged into the crowd, scattering them and surrounding us. “Later we were put in the peniten tiary. and for six days we slept on the stone flagging. There were two wom en in the party, one with a little baby. We were allowed to send out and buy blankets, and managed to get enough to eat, such as it was. “Monday we were placed on a train and brought down to Soledad. We spent that night on the tracks. There was one passenger coach left for us and in this the women and children slept, the rest of us sleeping on the ground.” FACTS ABOUT MEXICO CITY. 'a - Mexico City is 7,415 feet above sea level, and by rail 264 miles west by nortb from Vera Cruz. With a wet. undrained subsoil, and many thousands of Indians and half breeds living in crowded quarters, the death rate has been notoriously high— 46 to 56 per 1,000, though drainage works, underground sewers, and sani tation have tended to improve these conditions. The name of a street changes with almost every block, according to old Spanish custom. The Paseo de la Reforma, the finest avenue in the city, is a broad boule vard almost three miles long. There were (1908) 353 government schools in the city, including 13 pro fessional and technical schools, and nearly 200 private schools; a geo graphical society, a geological society, an association of engineers and archi tects, and a society of natural history; also a national library dedicated in 1692, of upwards of 225,000 volumes. FORGE JUSED MORE SOLDIERS SENT TO COL ORADO MINING DISTRICT. MOVE A PRECAUTIONARY ONE No Further Trouble Expected, Eut More Troops Were Needed to Police Territory. Washington.—Orders to quadruple the force of federal cavalrymen in the Colorado coal strike regions were issued by the War department. The entire Eleventh regiment from Fori Oglethorpe, Ga_, and two troops of the Twelfth from Fort Robinsoa, Neb., were ordered to proceed to the scene at once. Colonel James Lock ett of the Eleventh to take supreme commtnd of the situation. Secretary Garrison issued the or ders after a conference with President Wilson. He said the step was taken, not be cause trouble was expected, but be cause it had been demonstrated that the five troops of cavalry now in the coal fields did not provide enough men to cover the large territory in volved. Reports from Colorado, the secretary added, are favorable. Distribution of Troops. The twelve troops of the Eleventh will be distributed through Trinidad, Walsenburg, Aguilar ahd Forbes dis tricts and the two troops from the Twelfth will go to Boulder and Louis ville. An appeal for more federal forces ! came from Governor Ammons and 1 was the subject of discussion at a meeting of the cabinet. Secretary Garrison later went to the White House with maps of the coal regions to demonstrate that the troops al ready sent were not sufficient to guar antee peace and order. The president told the secretary to send vr*-iever troops he thought best. Bigger Force Needed in North. (Representative Keating of Colorado had told Mr. Garrison that three sep arate sets of troops were needed and i under the present arrangement only ; two general localities were covered, i He said that a greater force was needed in the northern or Boulder district. Secretary Garrison said he had is sued no instructions for disarmament in the coal fields. He said that he would take no action in this respect until he had received a full report of conditions from officers on the scene. Still Hope for Peale. Washington. D. C.—Assurances of peace with a steady abatement of “war talk-* is the dominant feature in the Mexican developments. Atten tion is still centered on the work of the South American mediators, who reported progress and the avoid ance of any deadlock between the parties. In other quarters, however, the failure of Carranza thus far to accept the mediators' proposal for a suspen sion of hostilities against Huerta caused continued doubt over the out look for broadening the scope of the mediators’ work to a settlement cf the entire Mexican situation. Gets Ninety-nine Years. Kansas City, Mo.—Maurice Lewko witz must serve ninety-nine years in I the penitentiary for the part he is al- j letted to have taken in an attack upon Mrs. Gertrude Shidler, a nurse, here on March 9. The state alleged Lewkowitz lured Mrs. Shidler to a downtown room, where he was joined by five other i men. * Vic Gueringer and Oscar Harrison already have been found guilty. Guer Inger was sentenced to twenty-five i years in the penitentiary. Gould Retires as Head. Fort Smith. Ark.—George J. Gould of Xew York was retired as president of the Kansas & Arkansas Valley and the Fort Smith & Little Rock rail ways at meetings of the newly elect ed boards of directors of the two | roads. E. J. Pearson, vice president I and general manager of the Missouri * Pacific-Iron Mountain system was T elected to succeed Mr. Gould in both instances. Rojas Resings as Minister. Mexico City.—Jose Lopez Por'.illo y Rojas, Mexican foreign minister, has resigned. Esteva Ruiz, under secretary to the foreign office, has I also resigned. No official statement has been given with regard to their resignations. Three Schooners Lost. Rochester, N. Y.—Dispatches from Oswego, N. Y., report the loss cf six lives in the wrecking of three schoon ers and one tug in a storm on Lake Ontario. Mexicans Chase An American. Calexico, Cal.—Samuel Vastbinder. an American rancher, was chased across the line six miles west of here by three Mexican rurales, who fol lowed him onto American soil and dis charged their revolvers at him, ac cording to the rancher's story. Meyer* Signs for Three Years. Boston.—Chief Meyers, catcher cf the New York Giants, has signed a three-year contract to play with that team, according to an announcement by Secretary Foster. Would Have Congress Thank Cook. Washington.—The North pole dis covery incident was revived in the senate by Senator Poindexter, who in troduced a joint resolution, express ing the thanks of congress to Freder ick A. Cook for the discovery of the North pole April 21, 1908. Women Endorse President Atlanta, Ga.—President Wilson’s Mexican policy was endorsed here in resolutions adopted by the executive board of the Georgia federation of women's clubs. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA A fanners’ society of equity has been organized at Hebron. Blue Springs is laying plans for the organization of a commercial club. The commercial clubs’ association of Nebraska will meet at Grand Island May 6 and 7. The First National bank of York celebrated its thirty-second anniver sary last week. # Petitions are being circulated at Beatrice for the issuance of bonds for four miles of paving. Lincoln Beachey will loop the loop and fly upside down at the Nebraska state fair, September 7-11. Arthur, county seat of the new county of that name, is enjoying a substantial building boom. Thomas Hamer died in a Kearney hospital of blood poisoning, the result of bruises sustained in a fall. A. Balfanz. n former Hastings boy, was among the American boys wound ed in the attack on Vera Cruz. The applicants for marriage licenses in Johnson county show a falling off for last year over former years. The city commissioners of Beatri- e have granted six saloon licenses, the I fees of which amount to $1,800 each. The Missouri synod of the Lutheran church has purchased lots in West Beatrice where it will erect a church. A bond election will be held at Cedar Bluffs to secure $17,000 for the erection of a new high school build- j ing. Mayor Ingraham drove a mule team j to one of the city wagons taking part : in the "clean-up” campaign in Hast- ! ings. Porforio del Gado. a Mexican labor- j er. was severely wounded in the leg when he struck a track torpedo while at work in the Rock Island yards at Lincoln. A. W. Re;menschneider. a lineman, j was instantly killed at Alliance when j he grasped a wire carrying 2,300 volts | of electricity. Hounds belonging to H. Scott of j Shubert killed a grown wolf and found | twelve young ones. The bounty i amounted to $39. Governor Morehead has asked the War department to transfer ex-Gov- | ernor Shallenberger's son to the Ne- , braska National guard. Charles Foreman, an Otoe county j farmer, was seriously injured when he ; was kicked in the side by a horse, j He suffered five fractured ribs. A number of horses have been i stolen in Jefferson county recently j and Sheriff Ed Hughes Is making every effort to locate the thieves. ( Alvin Willis, 18 years old. died at a j hospital Saturday night from injuries j received when he fell down a freight elevator shaft in the Herpolsheimer j store at Lincoln. Frank Harrison of Lincoln will con- ! duct a tourist expedition through Cen tral America during the summer, tak ing moving pictures of the various countries visited. With a copy of a local paper lying beside him. containing the latest news of the Mexican situation, T. R. Com brara, a Mexican, shot himself in his room at an Omaha hotel. Sister Agnes, a teacher of music at the Ursuline convent. York, died Thursday morning. She had been a sister at the convent about twenty five years. Farmers near Xichols are sowing alfalfa with wheat, barley and oats. : They believe that the alfalfa growing in the sane field with the small grain i will keep out weeds. A nugget of virgin gold as large as : a filbert was found in the craw of i. rooster being prepared for the Sunday j dinner for the family of Thomas - O'Neal at Lincoln. Louis Becker, who shot Harry Klin ga at Fremont, has been bound over to the district court on a charge t.l shooting with intent to wound. Ho waived preliminary hearing. Mrs. Daniel George, aged 74. 8 pioneer resident of York, dropped dead of heart disease, while eating j breakfast. She had been living in J York county for nearly fifty years. A number of supposed oil strikes are being located in central McPher son and Arthur counties. The Dickey ranch near Tvron is one of the latest prospects to be investigated. Fenrer E. King, boys' work director of the Lincoln Y. M. C. A., was re moved from bis office in the associa tion building to the city pest house, suffering with a case of smallpox. The burglars who robbed the New berry hardware store at Alliance were arrested by the police and proved to be two young boys, probably bent on going to war. Tbe guns and most of the cutlery were recovered. The new postoffice building at David City is almost completed. Efforts are being made to secure free carrier ser vice in the city. Mary Drew, a 45-year-old Fremont girl, bad a narrow escape from death when a cow she was leading ran away, entangling her in the rope, ana drag ging her through a barbed wire fence. The two-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Copping, living near Nebraska City, was seriously injured when she fell into a pail of boiling water. Her face and the upper por tion of her body were badly scalded and her condition is critical. William Wicke of Aurora has given a farm of eighty acres in Hamilton county, worth $12,000. to York college. The donor of the farm is 70 years of age. Victor Halligan of North Platte, Neb., during the last football cam paign star tackle on the Comhusker eleven, has been chosen to head the 1914 team. A meeting of the executive officers of the state suffragist association has been called to meet in Lincoln on May 13 to decide on the form to be used ir. the pamphlet which the state allows petitioners to send out. The 2-year-old son of Hans Ober miller. near Loup City, was drowned in a water tank when he attempted to get a drink. The position of park commissioner has been abolished at Nebraska City and the street department will take up the work of the park department. After suffering terribly for weeks as the result of a dog bite. Henrietta Price, six years old,* is dead at Platts mouth. Desperate efforts were made to safe the child’s life, but the ravages of the rabies could not be checked and after weeks of agony she died in con vulsions. TAXESAREDUESTATE LIST OF HERDS IN FU~URITY EX HIBIT AT STATE FAIR. GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL Items of Interest Gathered from R<* liable Sources and Presented in Condensed Form to Ouf Readers. Western Newspaper Union News Servlo*. Back Taxes Due the State. If every cent of taxes owing the state from 1859 to 1913, inclusive, were paid into the treasury the amount would more than foot the bills occasioned by the removal of the uni versity to the farm campus. This startling statement was made by Clerk Wheeler of the auditing depart ment after he had completed a table of the outstanding obligations. The total is close to J3,666,000 and amounts due vary as between the ninety-two counties of the state. Every cent of the debt represents back taxes not remitted to the state by the counties. In practically all of the instances the taxes were not collected, hence the counties were losers, too. in the affair, as well as all of the subdivisions for whose aid the taxes w’ere levied. Dedication Set for May 12. The date for the dedication of the monument to mark the Oregon traL on the Kansas-Xebraska state line has been definitely set for Mav 12. and both governors have been secured to speak. Secretary Paine of the Etate historical society has received word from August Jaedicke of Hanover. Kan., chairman of the erection com mittee. that about five hundred auto mobile loads of Kansas people will at tend the unveiling ceremonies. A large delegation of Nebraska people will also attend, many of them from Lincoln. Arrangements have been made whereby those going by train will be met at Wymore by automobiles and taken on the sixteen mile ride to thp monument site, which is two mil»s west of Lanbam, at the point where the line between Gage and Jefferson counties intersects the state line. Nominations for Futurity Shews. The American Poland China Record association has issued a list of the herds nominated in the eleven futur.ty shows to be held during the season of 1914. These are held on the state fair grounds and the Nebraska exhibit will be held September T to 11 at the state fair. In Nebraska there are twenty nomi nations as follows: Beall & Jackson. Roca: T. W. Cavett. Phillips; W. R. Cooper. Milford; Phil Dawson. Endi cott; W. E. Epley, Diller; William Ferguson, Scribner; L. P. Fuller, Betbanv; G. A. Kissinger, MilforJ; W. A. Lingford. Dannebrog; D. C. Lonergan. Florence; O. J. McCul lough Clarks; H. C. McGath, Foster; McNutt & Meese. Ord; J. C. Meese, Ord; Timm Neuhofel, Central City; L. F. Reilly. St. Paul; Harry Seitz, DeSoto; Lloyd S. Taylor, Steele City; Paul Wagner, Pierce, and W. E. Wil ieyley. Steele City. Convict Teachers Are Successful. The convict teachers at the state penitentiary night school have been successful in instructing their less fortunate fellow prisoners, according to Warden Fenton. Though they hold no state certificates and possib'y could not pass examinations in the psychology of teaching, they have the gift of stimulating interest in their classroom work and the very fact that both teacher and pupil are convicts makes their attitude mutually helpful. The percentage of illiterates in the prison population is being steadily de creased and prison authorities believe that in time illiteracy will be entirely eliminated. Men who have never at tended school and who have been neglected in their homes are learning to read and write. Members of the board of control have announced that they will not soon make their choice of a location for the new state reformatory. They are not delaying the matter because of their dislike to make a final settle ment. but are busy with other work which cannot be allowed to lag. It is likely that two or three sites will be visited within the next few weeks by the entire board membership. Improvements in Penitentiary Light ing. The state prison has for a long period furnished the light for the state house, grounds, orthopedic hos pital and the governor's mansion, and has itself been enshrouded in dark ness. Conditions have been changed. Twelve cement T posts, with two lights each, are lined up in' front of the building. Seven arches with in candescent lights are scattered along the driveway. An arch of electr city is over the doorway. The work of manufacturing the cement posts and the metal arches was done by the in mates. The material tvas on the ground. Old gas pipes were we ded into arches and painted white. The lighting efTect has completely charged the exterior of the prison. Reports from poultry experts re ceived by the Nebraska state board of agriculture, indicate that a prosperous year is expected in this industry. Fowls came through the winter in good condition and there are signs of increased interest in this important industry. Depends on War Department. Mobilization of the Nebraska state guard brigade, in the event that a call for volunteers emanates from the president, may be undertaken at Fort Crook instead of the state fair grounds. It all depends upon the war department. The moment the men leave their home stations the expense of transporting them to the state camp, of supplying them with food and clothing, and footing their pay, ia borne by the federal government. Hence It can order the assembly at any point most advantageous