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WASHINGTON.
Op*' t in* of the Panama canal to: he
•Midi nmuHtr on August IS, nest,
*a» .tux.bi-4 by Secretary Garrison.
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V. G. Miilary ha* been sworn in
for the Third Alabama district, suc
ceed.tg Henry D. Clayton, recently
a.tied in (be federal bench.
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Tbe m>:e nation from cwgm* of
ILtiWw»lail>r William G. Sharp of
• •bio. receotl.. appoint**! ambassador
u. Prim e ha* been announced in a
Inner to Speaker Clark.
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Af'er month* of deliberation, the
eu> judiciary committee ha*agreed
again tb* final reeUion of the Clayton
ant. m*f bill to supplement the Sher
man i*w which passed the bouee last
dprtt e.
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Great fcx reused in the importation
•f -.*h beef and <Cher meat product*
nine* the Cndrrwood tariff, with it*
fr-e uat. went into effect, are re
ported to the Department of Agricul
ture .
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f r- - dent Waon in withdrawing
the nominal ton of Tuorna* D. Jone*
of t u *gin to be a member of the fed
eral n iorre board, ha* ended the bit
ter cnottvt er*y o'er hi* eoafirma
tMm n the senate.
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f-r. - ; s,t Wii»on ha* nominated
Pnrrpn* W A.iicrd of Honolulu to
b f ju ... of the ft ret circuit court,
eel William K Kdng* al*o of Hon
Felt, to to yudge of court of the sec
ond circuit in Hawaii.
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red on b; the democratic cau
W, « > h has ordered a "‘hurrying
ap' of legislation, the senate inter
state commerce committee favorably
reported the revised railroad securi
ties t»i<i The complete trust program
is nos before the senate.
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Civil suit to separate the New York.
Me* Haven A Hartford railroad com
pany from its subsidiary rail, trolley
ltd steamship lines mil be brought
by Attorney General Mclteynolds in
the Caited States district courn at
K»« York within the next few days.
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General Carranxa has informed the
Tmted States goternment that he is
res«) to declare a suspension of hos
tilities against the government of
Frcnistonai President Carbajal. Huer
tas successor, pending negotiations
aith his representative* for the trans
fer of authority at Mexico CUy to the
constitutionalist*.
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The Japanese ambassador. Viscount
Chinda. introduced ►_> President Wil
son Major General G juchi Tanaka, a
m-mber of the Jr, am *e army genera!
staff, who has been in Europe inves-1
tigai ng military establishments The
general la accompanied by Hr. S. Niu
agawa. n d:-tincu‘.-bed authority on
International law.
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1 resigning from the house of
represents-it*-* James T McDermott
of the Fourth Illinois district has
brought to an end the agitation in the
bouse that followed the publication
and investigation of the lobby charges
made by M M Mulhali. a former
age- « of the National Association of
Manafacurur.
•cm Kano.
Hear* H. Roger*, standard Oil mil
Bonaire, left >d estate of liS.tKW.Oi*
is New York -tale and D. Ogden
M: s left lre.i3C.T91. aeeordiag to of
ficial appraisal* filed at New York.
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l»*-*«rueU»e e»m petition, wasteful
B-.to.ng and a superfluity of men in
the isduatry were held respond bit*
for lae constant clashes between min
ors and operators by witnesses before
the Federal Industrial commission at
Chicsco
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Three per- -)* were ki!'ed outright,
another died later and twenty-one
«er»- injured, some *-r.- u*ly. In a
head-on colt is i<* at Westport. Conn,
le-t s reo a train of three trolley cart,
fi-r ug IT* Sundav st hooi picnickers
and a trolley freight
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The cruisers South Dakota and
West Virginia, each with a subma
rine in tow. sailed from San Francisco
foe HaeofuHti. I.I«n miles distant, on
what is said to be the longest towing
voyage ever made of a submarine.
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lYrtkloii Wilson has said that dur
ing bis recent conferences with busi
ness men those men who thought
business conditions had did not hold
th*- 'an9 to be responsible. The con
sensus of opinion, he gathered, was
the* business needed time to readjust
Keif to the tariff.
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An effort to pass a bill providing
lor the temporary development of il
and gas lands, title to which is in
dspu' bet wee- the govaernment and
private Claimin'*, has failed in the
Rouse
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Ths latest addition to the fighting
force of the CniUsd States navy, the
torpedo boat destroyer. O'Brien, has
hseii launched at fiitladelphia. Miss
Marcia Bradoury Campbell of Cherrv
fieid. Me . a grest-great grrnd niece of
C ipu.it. Jeremiah O'Brien, after whom
the vessel was named, was sponsor.
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Secretary lhaitls took th«- firs; step
1st his effort* to eliminate the naval
"plucking board” by appointing a
e* tr ini**»on be ided by Assistant Sec
retary Roosevelt to investigate and
recommend a new law to congress.
ji;1 .fjff'1 i'-fSpI
The Southern road is said to have
been looted in much the same manner
as the New Haven.
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Albert Myer of Albert Lea, Minn.,
was unanimously re-ejected president
of tae American Optical association
at the seventeenth annual congress
at St. 1-ouis.
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The list of rats infected with bu
b me plague was increased to seven
at New Orleans when examination ol
a rodent captured showed that it har
bored plague genus.
. . .
Sidney Ossosky, general claim
„g. nr- of the Chicago surface rail
I ways has been dismissed following
charges that be had appropriated
IllT.uoii of the company's funds.
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The fog which has hung over the
Rhode island coast for several days
having lifted the cup defenders sailed
their tightest race, the Resolute again
winning, but only by seconds over the
Yanitie and by less than two min
utes over the Defiance.
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Hopes for a satisfactory adjust
ment of the wage controversy be
•ween the western railroads and theit
etnph ye- took definite shape with the
assembly of the federal board of med
iation. whose good offices have been
accepted b> both sides.
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The New Haven railroad is to have
one more chance to avoid an anti
tru.-t sui*. Attorney General McRey
n..;js agreed to a conference Monday,
with a committee of the road's direc
tt rs President Hustis of the New
Haven, made the appointment.
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The long continued effort to un
tangle the New Haven railroad with
out h'igatiou came to an end when
President Wilson, in a letter to At
torney General McReynolds directed
• ie institution of a Sherman lawsuit
to dissolve the system and orderesd
•ha’ the criminal aspects of the case
be laid be?, re a federal grand jury.
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With the close of the professional
baseball season Isss than two months
away the pennant races in both major
ar.d minor leagues are tightening up
in a remarkable manner when the
scores of associations are considered
as a while. With a few exceptions
here and there the struggles .‘or first
place' are far closer than has been
the rule for several years.
That the Rev. Louis Patmont had
been drugged by enemies until he
was a mental wreck was charged by
friends of the clergyman, whose two
mysti. ic-us disappearances have now
arous* d nationwide- interest. Relatives
have taken Patmont, who vanished
from Detroit more than a month ago,
to a secret retreat, where an effort
will be made to restore his health.
FOREIGN.
Supporters of General Carranza ex
pect him to enter Mexico City in tri
umph at an early day.
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The Canadian Pacific will electrify
the n « uiiie tunnel now being bored
through tLe Selkirk mountains, near
Rogers Pass. British Columbia.
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Ahout fi'ty Haitian rebels were
summarily executed at Cape Haitien
after the government forces had won
a fierce two-hour battle in the streets
with revolutionists who had gain
ed entrance into the town.
a a a
Shamrock IV. with its convoy, the
steam yacht Erin, the former under
own sail, left Plymouth for the
I’nited States. It is expected that the
t.ext pert of call of the challenger for
lie America s cup will be the Azores.
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The strike situation in Russia took
on a more serious aspect at St. Pe
tersburg when armed conflicts oc
cured in the streets and resulted in
the wounding of many police, Cos
sacks and strikers.
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In compliance with the king’s sum
mons. which all speak of in accord
ance with the time honored tradition
as ’command,” the eight party lead
ers most vitally concerned with a set
tlement of the home rule deadlock
met at Buckingham palace in an ef
fort to reach an agreement.
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A crowd of militant suffragettes
created a wild tumult in the assite
ci urt and its vicinity when Miss
Dorothy Evans, an official of the Bel
fast branch of the women's social and
political union, was brought up for
tria on the charge of having in her
possession explosives for the purpose
of committing a felony. /
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\ conspiracy ngain.-t the govern
!ii*-nt discovered at Lima, Peru,
and a large number of plotters were
surprised ,nd captured in the resi
dent e of Dr. flarardo Ralbuena Bar
ratico. The prisoners included seven
military ni^r. ail of whom confessed
tha" it was their intentions to over
turn the government
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Two hundred coal miners were en
tombed in the Vielle-Marihaye col
; liery. near Liege. Belgium, when fire
broke out. Two hundred of their
comrades escaped yt.en the alarm
was given.
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The China continuation committee
representing practically all of the pro
>estant mission work in t'hina, recent
ly came to a decision at a meeting
tha- elementary education should re
ceive a lara-r proportion of the mis
sionary effort throughout China in the
future.
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The new French cabinet, of which
Senator Ribot is premier, was de
feated in the first division taken in
the new chamber of deputies by a
vote of 30 to 262. The premier Im
mediately resigned.
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Some of the unionists wno have
been the strongest supporters or the
Ulster volunteers, including Andrew
Bimar Law. Robert Cecil and Leopold
Charles Amerv, attacked the govern
ment in the British House of Com
mons for its failure to suppress the
nationalist volunteers.
SITUMIS GRAVE
AUSTRO-HUNGARY AND SERVIA
MAY CAUSE TROUBLE.
VILLA’S AGENTS BUYING ARMS
News Reaches El Paso That Rebel
General is Entrenching Himself
in Chihuahua.
Uordcn. — European diplomacy Is
faced with a situation of extreme
gravity in the controversy between
Austria and Servia. Unless it is
bandied with great delicacy it is not
unlikely that others besides these
two powers will become invohed in
war. An Austro-Hungarian ultima
tum to Servia. couched in a tone of
almost unprecedented severity aud
fastening on the Servian government
and people responsibility for the as
sassinations of Archduke Francis Fer
dinand and his wife at Sarayevo, has
been presented to Belgrade. It de
mands satisfaction at once.
The almost universal opinion in the
European capitals is that the Servian
government c-annot comply with such
humiliating terms as are set forth in
the ultimatum. since compliance
would be taniauinount to an admis
sion of Servia's guilt. The Russian
government already is seeking an ex
tension of time for Servia.
Montenegro Ready.
The efforts of European diplomacy,
should the powers fail to avert the
threatened war, will be devoted to lo
calizing it. Montenegro has indicated
its readiness to support Servia in the
event of an Austrian attack. This cer
tainly would plunge the whole of the
Balkans into hostilities. Austria is
counting on the neutrality of its al
lies, Germany and Italy, but with the
possibility of Russian intervention on
behalf' of Servia, Austra would run
great risks of risings among its own
great Slav population. -
A fact much commented upon by
the European newspapers is that Aus
tria has chosen a moment for the is
suing of its ultimatum when Presi
dent Poincare is absent from France
and two of the Balkan premiers are
abroad.
The Servian government is with
holding publication of the text of the
ultimatum in Belgrade.
El Paso, Tex.—Contrary to official
Washington advices that the adminis
tration was meeting with success in
pacifying different factions among
the constitutionalists and that peace
was near in Mexico, it was reported
here on good authority that General
Villa's agents were buying large quan
tities of arms at Chicago and St
Louis. Agents of the national consti
tutionalist government declared that
none of the purchases had been made
by General Carranza.
Coincident with this came further
news that Villa was entrenching him
self in his Chihuahua stronghold. Ar
rivals from Santa Rosalia, Torreon
Chihuahua City and -other points said
that tose towns were placarded with
appeals for enlistment in the army of
the north. Two pesos a day was of
fered as pay, making a scarcity of la
bor in mines and on ranches.
Opinions of officials and observer.
here still differed as to whether Villa
would move south to Mexico City or
remain in the north. The former be
lief was strengthened by the report
that one of Villa's brigades, that com
manded by General Raoul Madero
departed from Chihuahua for the
south, its destination not being given.
Villa returned to Chihuahua City.
Defense Innocently Trapped.
Paris.—The defense In the trial of
Mine. Caillaux for the murder of Gas
ton Calmette, editor of the Figaro,
was caught in a trap innocently set
by Mme. Guevdan, once the wife of
the prisoner's husband.
The principal argument of Maitre
I.abori. counsel for Mine. Caillaux,
lias been that his client was driven
to shoot G. Calmette through fear
that two letters of which she was un
aware photographic reproductions ex
isted. would be published by G. Cal
mette. and the secrets of her inner
life thereby made public.
Women as Street Car Conductors.
St. Joseph. Mo.—Women will act as
street car conductors during one day
next October on all lines in this city
as the result of an arrangement made
by the street rai'way management and
representatives of women’s clubs. All
money collected in excess of the reg
ular daily receipts will be given to lo
cal charities.
Tenth New Orleans Man Has Plague.
New Orleans. La.—W’illiani Ernst,
employed in a saloon in almost the
center of the bubonic plague infecied
district, was the tenth person to ha
attached by the disease.
Model Farm on Zone.
New York.—James G. Craig, an en
gineer of the Panama canal, who re
turned to Colon, after a vacation in
this city, told of a model farm in the
canal zone, where laborers who have
been injured while at work for the
government are cared for.
Austria Demands that Servia Behave.
Vienna.—Austria-Hungary has pre
sented a note to Servia. containing de
mands for the suppression of the pan
Servian movement and the punish
ment of the death of Ferdinand.
Fumigate a Pest Steamer
New Orleans, La.—Four snakes,
eighteen tarantulas, seventy rats,
enough roaches to almost fill a barrel
and “bedbugs" galore formed part of
the cargo of a freight vessel sailing
tropical seas which was fumigated
here recently.
Hindus Sail Frcm Vancouver.
Vancouver, B. C.—The Japanese
steamer Komagata with her load of
Hindus, who resisted the Canadian
government's order of deportation for
three months, left for the orient.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Thirty-five acres of land on the
Helm farm, Superior, yielded eighty
bushels of oats an acre.
The date of Harvard's fall festival
has been changed from August 12 and
13 to August 19 and 20.
Claude Aubrey, who broke jail ml
Grundy, la., was arrested in Auburn
by Deputy Sheriff Broady.
The Harvard Community club is
planning for a fall festival. Commit
tees have been appointed to arranga
a program.
William Haley, a tramp, was fined
?10 and costs for attempting to rifle
the cash register at the Lindell hotel
at Hastings.
L. C. Todd of Xehawka was fined
$5 by Judge Archer for failing to
have lights on his automobile when
driving at. night.
Ten thousand dollars for his lost
toe is what George Peick of Omaha
si demanding of the Chicago & North
western Railway company.
The International Sheriffs' associa
tion decided in favor of federation of
peace officers before adjourning the
convention in Lincoln.
An excellent yield of potatoes
seems assured from reports from
Sioux, Box Butte, Sheridan, Scotts
bluff and Brown counties.
Ralph Buchtel of Tobias was badly
bruised when he w-as thrown from
his motorcycle north of Ohiowa. He
was going at a high rate of speed.
For the first time since, the revenue
law of 190;: went into effect there is
a reduction in the total assessed val
uation of all property in the state.
The sixth annual tournament of the
northeast Nebraska tennis association
will be held at the Norfolk Country
club courts. Fifty players will com
pete.
A delegation of Cedar Bluffs boost
ers in eighteen automobiles toured
through Saunders county in the in
terest of the festival to be held July
28 and 29.
treorge u. I homas. newly appoint
ed postmaster at Seward took charge
of that office. William Royer, whom
he succeeds, has served for fourteen
years.
William Fried, vice president of the
Nye-Schneider-Fowler Grain com
pany. died at his home in Fremont
of cancer, after an illness of about
six months.
David Primrose threshed a seventy
acre fie'd of wheat lying just west of
Primrose that averaged thirty-seven
bushels to the acre and tested sixtv
two pounds.
Sheriff Jones of Auburn has filed as
democratic candidate for state sena
tor. and Cashier Yont of the Brook
State bank as a candidate for the
house of representatives.
Deputy Fish Commissioner W. .T.
O'Brien and Deputy Game Warden
Gust Rutenbeck have returned from
Curtis, where they deposited six tons
of fish in the lake at that place.
According to the report of the
street railway company} filed with
the city clerk, the gross receipts of
the Omaha lines for the three months
ending June 30 were *198,409.40.
From reports received and compiled
by ,T. R. Dnucan. secretary of the Ne
braska state horticultural society, it
appears the prospects for apples are
not as good as they were earlier in
the season.
Carl Lennon Hebron was injured
when his team ran away after one of
the horses fell on a bridge. He was
thrown into the river and one arm
was broken. He was able to make his
way to a doctor. »
John Gillespie was returned front
Superior to Hastings on a charge of
passing a worthless check. He made
good the check which William Otto
cashed a month ago and paid a fine
of *10 and costs.
Charles Olson pf Newman Grove
has appealed to the supreme court
from a judgment of the district court
of Madison county in a case where
he brought action against the village
board of Newman Grove to compel
them to recount the votes held in the
city election on the proposition of li
cense to saloons.
During the last week entries were
made by plow and rood grader manu
facturers who will exhibit at the next
state fair. Some distinct advances
have been made during the last year
and the new- models in farm machin
ery will interest both the dealer and
the purchaser of up-to-date imple
ments for farm use.
Agricultural enthusiasts in a num
ber of counties are preparing the
county displays for the state fair. Ex
hibit space is being assigned by Su
perintendent William James of Dor
chester. The agricultural exhibit of
Nebraska has aroused envy all over
the country. It promises to be a rec
ord breaker this year.
Shipments out of Omaha by parcel
post have become so heavy that a new
terminal railway postoffice for hand
ling parcel post packages will be
opened in the Union depot postal sta
tion by the railway mail service. Six
br eight additional men will be em
ployed in, the department which will
be installed in the basement of the
Union depot station.
Lieutenant Governor S. R. McKel
vie has left for a trip to New York,
Philadelphia, Boston and other east
ern points. He expects to be gone '
until September 1.
The I.usk-Wyoming Oil Co., which
has been drilling for oil just across
the state line from Harrison, in Wy
oming, has abandoned the well at a
depth of 2,250 feet on account of lack
of funds. The drilling rig will be !
moved six mites west of the present
site and a well will be begun for the
Pine Dome Co. If this well is suc
cessful the abandoned well will be
completed at a later date.
Governor Morehead has issued or
ders to Sheriff Hyers to release
George Spinney, alias Frank Moore,
the Denver man who pleaded guilty to
stealing an apron, a pair of silk
stockings and a looking glass from
Mrs. Rhoda Wright on a Burlington
train on July 11.
Frank J. Ryan of Des Moines es
caped with minor injuries after run
ning his automobile into a wire
clothesline at Twenty-fifth and H
streets, Lincoln. The clothesline
splintered the glass windshield,
throwing glass in all directions ani
badly cutting Mr. Ryan's left hand.
WANT LEGISLATION
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SCHOOL COMMISSION MAKES
RECOMMENDATIONS.
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ME SCHOOLS FROM POLITICS
Removal of the Major Educational In
stitutions From Political Field
Is Planned.
■Lincoln, Neb. — Removal of the
state superintendent's office and the
major educational positions from the
field 6f politics is contemplated in rec
ommendations to be made to the 1915
lawmakers by the state school law
revision commission.
In its report the commission will
give its reasons why submission and
adoption of such an amendment would
work untold benefits to Nebraska's
school system.
Further than this the commission
will recommend a more equal distri
bution of the school apportionment
moneys, easier methods for consolida
tion of rural schools, more feasible
plans for maintaining rural high
schools, elimination of third grade
certificates to eighth grade graduates, ]
and passage of laws enabling school j
treasurers to draw interest money on j
district deposits.
Drs. Howard, Wolfe, Luckey and !
Caldwell of the state university were |
named on a committee to assi~t the j
commission in determining non-parti
san methods for election of school sys
tem heads. The commitUee will re- !
port at a later session to be held by j
the hndv
Tax Law Proving Its Value.
Lincoln. Xeb.—Popularity of the
corporation tax bill passed by the
1913 session at Governor Morehead's
request and with assistance of the
democratic house, advanced several
notches when the Chicago. St. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad com
pany came in with a $2,500 cheek and
the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street
Railway company and affiliated prop
erties came in with a check for $3.3St>.
Under the old law the companies
would have paid $G75. The total in
favor of the new law therefore is
$5,005. The Standard Oil company
came in also with a $400 check,
whereas under the former statute its
fee would have been nnot to exceed
$125, according to clerks in the offue
of the secretary of state.
Listed among the names of the af
filiated properties of the Omaha street
car system are the Metropolitan Cable
company, the Omaha Cable Tramway
company and other concerns whose
names are not known to many pres
ent-day residents of the metropolis.
Knox County Decreases.
Lincoln, Xeb.—Knox county has re
ported a decrease of assessed values
tliis year. A report filed with the
state board of assessment shows the
total assessed value of all property
in the county has decreased from
$1,006,543 to $996,500. The county re
ports a decrease in the value of lands
although 14,000 acres of accessabie
lands were added to the assessment
roll this year. The counties of Fur
nas. Gage. Garden and Knelt have not
yet reported. In Gage county the de
lay is due principally to the attempt
of the county board to change the
valuation of horses and other live
stock on a basis of the age of ths
animals. It is almost impossible for
the assessor to figure out the result
which the board desired to reach.
Will Delay Valuation.
Lincoln, Xeb.—Officials of the en
gineering department of the state rail
way commission are not likely to be
seen on the streets of Omaha and
nearby cities and villages within the
near future, making a valuation of the
property of the Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway Co. For the
state supreme court, which has had
under consideration the question of
the railway commission's right to
compel such a valuation did not rule
on the matter previous to summer
adjournment. That means that the
opinion will be stayed until fall and
that after it Is rendered there will be
the customary legal delays for filing
of motions for rehearing and other
turns in the litigation.
No Action Taken.
The State Railway commission has
decided to take no action in the agi
tation by Omaha parties locking to a
physical valuation of the South
Omaha stock yards until after the hog
service rate hearing has been before
the board. The commission wrote to
the parties who had been looking up
the matter stating that unless a com
plaint was entered the matter would
go over until after the hog service
hearing was completed.
Can Use the General Fund.
Lincoln, Xeb.—A solution has at
last been found by tlr5 State B .ard
of Control of the problem of making
np deficits in the maintenance funds.
Attorney General Martin has given
cut an opinion in which he says that
it is withift the power of the board to
use $5.0r.0 of its general appropria
tion for the purrose of making up the
deficit in the maintenance fund for
the gi Is' industrial school. This prin
ciple will aprly equally well to de
ficits occurring in the maintenance
funds of the other state institutions.
Charged With Burglary.
Lincoln. Xeb.—Claud Aubry. charg
ed with burglarizing the home of
Horace Boise in Grundy county. Ta„
when the owner was visiting in Cali
fornia. was ar~e='ed at Auburn and
will be taken back to IoWa on an ex
tradition warrant issued by Governor
Mori head. Aubry was in Jail ir.
Grundy county on this charge, but es
caped July 14. Among the articles ta
ken from the house and which were
found in Aubry's trunk was a fur
overcoat worth $100, silverware and
ladles' Wearing apparel.
EDITORS HAVE GREAT TIME.
Spend a Day as Guests of Omaha
and King Samson.
Omaha, Neb.—Nebraska and Iowa
editors came to Omaha for the sec
ond annual Editors’ day in summer,
alternating with the state editorial as
sociation. Over a hundred had their
reunion and outing, registering at the
Home, then going to the Commercial
chib for lunch, visiting personal
friends later and at 3:30 massing at
the Field club. There they saa a
dance of five score children, and
dim d at six with Omaha bankers and
governors.
The editors from all parts of the
E. V. PARRISH.
Publicity Manager Omaha Commercial
club and an Ak-Sar-Ben booster.
He was responsible for the visit of
the eeitcrs to Cmaha and the splen
did entertainment given them.
state were good naturedly whirled
through the mystic maze of Ak-Sar
Een's initiation at the big Den. It was
a fitting climax to a day of entertain
ment for the editors set aside in
Omaha. The classic colliseum was
well filled and the total paid mem
bership up-to-date, is 2,365 as com
pared with 2.2S6. the bigges* total
membership of ar.y season, registered
in 1912.
Just as the throng was making a
rush for the doors of the banquet hall,
Chairman Fraser held them long
enough to allow Will Maupin. present
editor of the Midwest Magazine, Lin
coln. to roast E. V. Parrish for
promises alleged to have been but
illy kept. Just as the audience be
came excited, it was discovered that
it was merely a “plant.' for Mr. Shaf
fer of Alma, arose and presented
Mr. Parrish with a swell silver cup,
suitably engraved, a present from
“the .newspaper boys of Nebraska.”
This expression of the executive
committee tolc how the editors liked
the day anu night, the appreciation
being signed by H. A. Brainard, Char
les W. Pool. John M. Tanner, George
S. Foxworthy, E. R. Purcell, A. V.
J. U. (UAUj WCMVttt.
Secretary of Ak-Sar-Ben and a live
wire. Mr. Weaver made a hit with
the newspaper boys with the splen
did entertainment at the den.
Shaffer. Horace M. Davis and Henry
T. Richmond:
“In behalf of more than 100 news
paper editors and publishers of Ne
braska, we acknowledge with deep
appreciation its indebtedness to the
! bureau of Publicity of the Commercial
club of Omaha and the Knights of
Ak-Sar-Ber. for a day in the metropolis
filled with entertainment, enjoyable,
instructive and beneficial. The unani
mous verdict of the visiting editors is
heartily in keeping with the brief ex
pression of the appreciation they all
feej for the courtesies which Omaha
through the bureau of publicity has
always shown the visiting scribes
who, from one end of the state to the '
other, are now anticipating with
much enthusiasm the next regular
meeting of the association which will
be held in Omaha.”
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McDermctt Resigns His Seat.
Washington.—R“presentative James
T. McDermott of Illinois has offered
his resignation to take effect immed
iately. McDermott is under charges
in connection with the lobby investi
gation. McDermott, democrat, repre
senting a constituency which includes
the stock yards district of Chicago,
was one of the figures in the expos
ure of Martin M. Mo’hall, star wit
ness in the lobby investigation. A
majority report of the investigation
committee the house recommended
thrt he be censured.
Plan Has Been Abandoned.
New York.—The tentative plan
adopted a month ago by the bond
holderk’ and stockholders’ protective
committee of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railroad company,
has been abandoned and the syndicate
which agreed to underwrite the re
organization has been dissolved. Tie
official reason given for the failure
cf the negotiations, which extended
over a period of threo months, is tint
the accounting rules of the Inter
state Commerce commission present
almost insuperable difficulties.
It’s a Very
Good Idea
to help your poor,
tired Stomach, lazy
liver or clogged bow
els back to health
and strength, but the
longer you delay the
harder it is going to
be. Today you
should start taking
HOSTETTERS
STOMACH BITTEHS
It has helped thousands
of others—will help you.
Baby Has Nine Grandparents.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Goble, eight*
eight years old, of this town, became
a great-great-grandmother today when
a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Lichtenstein of Bloomfield at the
Mountainside hospital, where. It was
said, both mother and child are doing
well. The grandparents of the child,
which will be named Edward K. Licht
enstein, are Mr. and Mrs. Edward H.
Ackerman of Montclair and the great
grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Isaac A
Dodd, also of this town.
Before her marriage, in April. 1913,
the mother of the babe was-Miss Har
riett Greevy Ackerman. The child
born today has living two grandfa
thers and two grandmothers, two
great-grandfathers and two great
grandmothers and the great-great
grandmother, eleven granduncles,
eight grandaunts and three great
grandaunts. All of the family live in
Montclair and adjacent towns.—Mont- t
clair (X. J.) Correspondent New York ^
Sun.
RASH SPREAD RAPIDLY
Granton, Wis.—"My sister had a
very bad, deep, wet, running sore on
the side of her face and it ran up to
her ear. It commenced with a small
blotch of pimples which turned into
a kind of rash and spread rapidly. It
Itched and looked red and sore for
some time and slightly swelled. A
thin fluid dripped and ran from the
Bores which looked like water. Then
the swelling would go down and it
would keep on spreading. It bothered
her during sleep and she would be
restless. It was a kind of eczema.
"She treated for some time and it
did not help her. It kept spreading
larger and deeper. Having always
used Cuticura Soap we told her to try
It so she got some Cuticura Soap and
Ointment and used them. It was two
months when'it was gone.” (Signed)
Miss Emma Retzloff, Apr. 7, 1914.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”—Adv.
striving to Please.
"Josiah,” said Mrs. Corntosse!, "the
first of the summer boarders will ar
rive tomorrow.”
‘T know it."
"’Well, hide those scientific works
on Agriculture. And don’t forget to
tousle your hair and stick your trou
sers in your boots. Summer boarders
always like to imagine there's a real
comic-picture farmer around the
place.”
Actor of Many Parts.
A Russian immigrant before the t
alien immigration board claimed to
be a “play-actor,” and said that be
was also a compositor. He was
vouched for by a cousin who is a fur
rier. Work was promised the appli
cant in a tailor’s shop.—London
Graphic.
On the Waiting List.
"I am much honored by your pro
posal. count, but I am already en
gaged.”
"Well, couldn't you be engaged to
me next time?"—Ulk.
Must Be a Pest.
Jinks—What sort of a chap is John
son?
Binks—Well, If you ever see two
men in a corner, and one looks bored
to death, the other is Johnson.—Puck.
Vera Cruz, Mex., has the distinction
of being the wettest place in the
western world. It has an average
innual rainfall of 180 inches.
There is more whisky now stored in
Kentucky than there was ip the whole
;ountry a decade ago.
Omaha's 1913 manufactured output
vas valued at $19,355,GT1.
Women’s Times of Danger
Women suiter a great deal from kidney
dlseases. Tbeir indoor life, tiglitclorbing
Kiiil trying work all tend to weaken tilt
kidneys. Woman's life also includes times
of danger that art- apt to leave the kidneys
weak and to start a tracks of backache, head
ache,di/.zint-ss.nervousness nod urinary Ills.
Prompt treatment, however will avert
the dunger of dropsy, gravel, or fatal
Bright’s disease.
Take Doan's Kidney Pills, the beet
recommended, special kidney remedy.
Doan’s ere used successfully throughout
tin* civilised world —have brought new life
and Eew strength to thousands of tired.
• r-nry r;.-:«r» discouraged women.
A Nebraska Case
Mra. iCarl Curtis, Auburn.
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