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ington and in Other Sections of
the Country.
WAK NEWS.
The Berlin Tageblatt says that the
Cerman government intends to buy
up pigs to the value of $50,000,000 to
be killed and canned in order to save
fodder useful for military and other
purposes.
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The Russian naval arm has been
coming more prominently into the
war of late, and Russia officially re
ports the sinking of a German tor
pedo boat by a Russian submarine off
Cape Moen, Denmark.
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The German emperor is quoted by
a Cologne newspaper as declaring, re
cently, when pinning the iron cross
on a German soldier: “We will stay
in hostile territory until the enemy is
vanquished or has collapsed.”
• * *
As a result of German’s confiscation
of grain and flour to conserve the na
tion's food supply, the British fleet
has been ordered to treat cargoes of
grain and flour destined for Germany
and Austria as conditional contra
band and subject to seizure.
• * *
The sea mine is a problem even
after it has been washed ashore, and
for those who must destroy it this
terrible enemy of shipping offers the
same danger it does to the crew of
the vessel it happens to wreck,
writes an Amsterdam correspondent
Dr. Schuster, secretary of the Ger
man Iron Founders' union, declares
that Germany, by using bronze monu
ments, copper cupolas of churches
and copper used for other purposes
would have sufficient of the metal to
enable her to hold out for thirty
years.
• * *
A news agency dispatch says 20,000
Italians are being concentrated at
Bari, on the Adriatic, for the occupa
tion of Durazzo, Albania. A report
from London asserts that Italian re
servists in England have been order
ed to be ready to respond to a call to
the colors of their country.
The German admiralty in declaring
a war zone of the waters around
Great Britain and Ireland, including
the whole English channel from Feb
ruary 18 announces “that every ene
my merchant ship found in this war
zone will be destroyed, even if it is
not always possible to avoid dangers
to crew and passengers.”
The Bulgarian premier. M. Rados
lavoff. is authority for the statement
that the attitude of Bulgaria with
reftrence to the war is strictly neu
tral. From the tenor of a statement
given him by the Associated Press, it
is apparently also one of watchful
waiting. Bulgaria, the premier said,
remembers that it was almost iso
lated to the Balkans, as demonstrated
by the recent war, and has no dream
of large empire.
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The cost of living in all the bellig
erent countries is rapidly increasing
and labor troubles are threatening in
great Britain, where the workmen
claim wages should be commensur
ate with the cost of existence. In
Germany the sale of bread under the
new regulations has begun, although
the rule limiting the purchase has not
yet been applied. The Austrian de
cree reducing the proportion of
wheat or rye flour bread making to 50
per cent lias become effective.
GENERAL.
Larger locomotives have not in
creased the labors of firemen. W. J.
Tollerton. mechanical superintendent
of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific railroad, testified before the
board of arbitration at Chicago.
Reports have reached El Paso,
Tex., that General Villa lias pro
claimed himself president of Mexico.
He has assumed supreme political
power and organized a civil govern
ment. with himself at the head, be
cause of interruption of communica
• tion has made it impossible to work
in conjunction with the forces in the
south.
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Two policemen were killed at An
niston, Ala., in a street fight with al
leged Illicit liquor sellers whose place
of business they had raided. Eight
policemen have beer killed in three
years in similar raids.
* * *
The case of Mrs. Anna Dennis,
charged in Denver juvenile court with
contributing to the delinquency of her
13-year-old son, Frank, in permitting
him to act as a page in the Colorado
house of representatives, was taken
under advisement by Judge Ben B.
Lindsey.
• * *
“If private shipping interests of the
United States continue to act unjustly
toward the shipper, and they have
that power now, we will crush them,”
declared Secretary Redfield at New
Orleans.
* * *
Officers of the Detroit News’ asso
ciation announced the merger of the
Detroit Tribune, morning paper, into
the Detroit News, afternoon paper,
and the discontinuance of the morn
ing publication, except on Sundays,
when it will be known as the Detroit
New Tribune.
• * *
Europe has turned to' the United
States for butter, it was learned re
cently. Chicago dealers shipped two
carloads to England, by way of Can
ada. and are negotiating for addition
al large sales to the warring nations.
Starvation is facing inhabitants in
Sonora, Mexico, south of the interna
tional border. Floods have destroyed
nearly all the crops.
* * *
The four weeks of Billy Sunday's
campaign in Philadelphia have re
sulted in the conversion of 16,493 peo
ple. This figure is the total of those
who have actually signed cards.
* * *
Salt Lake City backers have agreed
to stop making a five cent loaf of
bread on February 15 and to put out
only a ten cent loaf. Ogden, Utah,
bakers have discontinued making the
five-cent loaf.
* * *
Inaccurate weights and measuring
devices cost American purchasers
more than $1,000,000 annually, ac
cording to spokesmen at the conven
tion of the national association of
scales experts at Chicago.
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A coroner's jury at Augusta. Ga.,
returned a verdict of justifiable homi
cide in the case of Dr. A. N. Culber
son, killed by. a citizens’ posse seek
ing him on a charge of attacking a
young married woman.
Ten men were fined a total of
$5,000 in crimnal court oil pleas of
guilty to operating handbooks in
Louisville. Samuel Dinkelspiel and
Lawrence Starr were fined $1,500
each. The other lines ranged from
$100 to $500.
• * *
Don M. Roberts, mayor of Terre
Haute, and twenty-six others will be
placed on trial in the United States
district court at Indianapolis March
8, charged in a federal indictment
with conspiring to corrupt the elec
tion of November 4, 1914.
• * *
More Chicago bakeries fell into line
and the 6-cent loaf of bread virtually
superseded the cheaper loaf in every
part of Chicago. Small bakers pro
tested that even at the increased
price their profit was so small as to
be insufficient and tentative offers to
dispose of their plants to the city
were made.
Striking laborers at the plant of the
Armour Fertilizer Chemical company
at Roosevelt, N. J.. have won their
fight for restoration of the $t! a day
wage, which was reduced to $1.00.
The Armour plant is one of three in
volved in the strike in which nineteen
strikers were shot by deputy sheriffs
op January 19.
* * *
Under an agreement the Canadian
government will settle claims grow
ing out of the recent shooting of two
American duck hunters by Canadian
militiamen by paying $10,000 to the
parents of Walter Smith, who was
killed, and $5,000 to Charles Dorscli
who was wounded, in addition to the
legal expenses.
John R. Lawson, executive board
member for Colorado of the United
Mine Workers of America, denounced
conditions in Colorado mining camps
in his testimony before the federal in
dustrial relations commission in New
York city, and sharply arraigned John
D. Rockefeller, jr., for his alleged fail
ure to inform himself as to conditions
there.
* * *
There will be no immediate ad
vance in bread prices from 5 to 0
cents a loaf it was announced as a re
suit of the stand taken by large Chi
cago baking concerns which de
clined to support the proposal of the
Master Bakers' association. Since the
larger bakeries have not raised prices
the smaller bakeries, it was pointed
out, must meet competition.
WASHINGTON.
A serious breach in senate demo
cratic ranks threatens the life of the
administration ship purchase bill.
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A bill to incorporate the hoy
J scouts of America under a federal
I charter was favorably reported by
the house judiciary committee.
* * *
The house lacked just five
votes of the necessary two-thirds tc
pass the immigration bill, providing
for a literacy test, over the veto of
President Wilson. Of 399 members
; present, 261 voted to override the
'veto and 1?>6 to sustain the president
Two answered present.
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Bills to clear up discrepancies in
navigation laws and facilitate the op
eration of foreign-owned ships trans
ferred to American registry were
passed by the house. One would re
peal laws imposing discriminatory
duties and penalties upon such ships
and another would authorize consular
officers abroad to issue provisional
certificates of registry for foreign
ships, purchased by Americans.
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New tariffs proposing increases in
passenger rates from Chicago to the
eastern boundary of Colorado have
been filed with the Interstate Com
rnerce commission by most of the rail
roads in western territory.
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The first report of its study of in
fant mortality made public by the fed
eral children's bureau, shows that in
the poorest sections of Johnstown the
death rate was 271 per thousand ba
bies, or more than five times that in
the best residential sections of . the
city.
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The senate bill to make carriers in
interstate commerce liable without
regard to limitation cf liability for
loss or damage to property, caused by
them, was favorably reported by the
house commerce committee.
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The Louisiana railroad commis
mission’s order requiring roads to es
tablish tariffs for switching cars in
the state, which apparently were load
ed for shipment out of, or into the
state, was annulled by the supreme
court as an interference with int°r
state commerce.
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Another confident prediction that
the country soon will enter upon a
new era of prosperity was voiced by
President Wilson in a speech before
! the convention of the American Elec
I trie Railway association.
THREATENED BLOCKADE BY THE
GERMANS BOMB TO BRITONS.
RESULT OF BRITISH STAND
English Government’s Late Move to
Make All Food for Germany
Contraband, Cause.
London. — Germany's threatened
submarine blockade of England and
Ireland occupies the public mind both
here and in neutral countries, such
as Holland and Scandinavia, which
have important shipping interests.
It is being taken very calmly by
ship owners, who are promised that
the admiralty will take steps to
counteract it and are reminded that
if it had been possible the Germans
before this would have sunk trans
ports taking troops to France.
England is stirred by this latest
development in the marine situation
as it seldom has been since the out
break of hostilities.
Result of British Stand.
Washington—The German admiral
ty’s notice, it was contended at the
German embassy, is the natural re
sult of the British attitude towards
foodstuffs intended for Germany.
The German understanding of the
situation seems to be it was explain
ed that it is the purpose of Great
Britain not only to stop the cargo of
food stuff on the steamer Wilhel
mina, which recently sailed from this
country, but to seize other cargoes.
High officials here did not believe,
as some German papers have inti
mated, that the German government
intends deliberately to destroy neu
tral vessels in the war zone. Rules
of international taw. u was i^iuku
out. call for careful search of a neu
tral vessel to determine how much of
its cargo is contraband and even
then, the ship can he destroyed only
in rare emergencies and on the con
fident assumption that it would have
been condemned as a prize.
Beyond seeking to establish what
measures the German navy will take
to aid American ships in passing safe
ly through the war zones and what
efforts will be made to verify the neu
tral character of vessels flying the
Amercan flag it was stated on high
authority that the United States gov
ernment probably would not go. The
right of a belligerent to determine a
water area as a war zone within
which it is dangerous for neutral craft
to venture is a lately recognized
principle of international law. though
the extent of the zone, the degree of
menace to neutral vessels and the
right to interrupt lawful commerce In
the only existing water routes be
tween neutral countries have never
been defined.
Thousands Face Starvation.
Namur, Belgium.—Thousands of wo
men, children and aged men in those
portions of northern France lying
along the Meuse river, which are oc
cupied by the Germans, are facing
starvation, with no hope of relief ex
cept the food that the American Com
mission for Relief in Belgium is send
ing south from Namur. Carts drawn
by horses supplied by the German
army are being used for the transpor
tation of food through the mountains
to some sections. Sedan, Montherme,
Nouzon, Charleville, Mohom. Mezieres
and scores of other villages are abso
lutely without food excepting the ra
tions that the German soldiers share
with the civilians.
Federal Bread Inquiry.
Chicago, 111.—Federal investigation
in Chicago of food prices was direct
ed to the bread situation. Charles F.
Cline. United States district attorney,
planned to confer with leading bakers
in an attempt to learn the causes
back of the increase from 5 to 6 cents
in the price of the small loaves of
bread. Statements have been made
that many of the large baking con
cerns have a supply of flour on hand
bought several months ago at the low.
er prices prevailing.
Deputies Indicted for Murder.
New Brunswick. N. J.—Fifty-two
indictments charging murder were re
furred by the Middlesex county grand
jury against twenty-six of the twenty
seven deputies locked up in the coun
ty jail here on charges of murder, in
connection with the shooting of twen
ty-nine strikers at Roosevelt, N.
January 19.
English Aviator Killed.
London.—Lieutenant Sharpe of the
Royal Flying corps, was killed while
flying at Shoreham. He was return
ing from a trip when his biplane sud
denly dived to the earth.
Russ Birdmen Busy.
Petrograd.—Russian aviators on
February 2 successfully dropped
bombs on tbe mobilized reserves and
trains of tbe Germans at Rawa.
Zarzecze and Boguszyce. about fifty
miles southwest of Warsaw, accord
ing to an official announcement.
Zeppelin Shed in West.
London.—New Zeppelin sheds hav?
just been completed near the German.
Belgian frontier and Zeppelin and air
ships and numerous aeroplanes are
maneuvering in that neighborhood.
Will Vote on Suffrage.
Albany. N. Y.—The woman suffrage
resolution passed by the legislature
in 1913 was adopted in the senate by
a unanimous vote it previously had
been adopted in the assembly. The
voters of the state can now vote on
woman suffrage.
Dies From Shoveling Snow.
Sioux City. la.—James Fletcher, a
real estate man, died of apoplexy,
caused, according to physicians, by
over-exertion in shoveling snow from
» sidewalk.
CONDENSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the Tefft building "at Avoca.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the Fefft building at Avoea.
Fire damaged the new $53,000 school
building at University Place.
A wet and dry fight will probably
be waged at the spring election in
Fremont.
A new paper called the Nebraska
Suffrage Messager is being published
at Lincoln.
The Gem bakery at Ainsworth has
been sold by C. C. Lochmiller to L.
Lindquist.
Twenty professionals participated
in the state checker tournament at
Hastings.
Judge Joseph P. Wood. 76, well
known Nebraska, was killed by a train
at Louisville.
Edward Bachler, a baker of Ne
braska City died as the result of a
fall on a slippery sidewalk.
The state board of educational land
and funds have bought $20,000 of
school bonds of the city of Madison.
A mass meeting was held at Frank
lin to complete arrangements for
the establishment of a public library.
The first mothers’ pension in Cass
county has just been awarded to Mrs.
Stella Persingcr, who has five young
children.
The receipts of the Chadron post
office were over $10,000 the last year,
thus entitling the city to free delivery
of mails.
The Havelock city council is con
sidering the adivsability of installing
cluster lights along the main street
of that city.
Dr. Marie More of Wisner, who sus
tained a fractured skull when she
slipped and fell at Fremont is expect
ed to recover.
Almost $i,z<iu lias heen suDscriDea
by farmers and business men of Box
Butte county to retain the services
of a farm demonstrator.
Herman German, 18 years old, son
of George German of Lexington. ac
cidentally shot and killed himself
while returning from a coyote hunt
Hartington suffered most in the re
cent blizzard. Ten feet of snow' was
piled up in the streets, and all busi
ness was suspended for several days.
Joseph Peshek, assistant cashier of
the Deweese bank, wras shot and
killed by Will Hedrick, who later com
mitted suicide. Robbery it is believed
led to the shooting.
Dr. Marie Morie Morse, wife of Dr.
R. H. Morse of Wisner. was seriously
inujred when she fell sixte n feet
down a stairway in the First National
bank at Fremont
Arthur Richeson of Hastings lost
the third and fifth fingers of the left
hane while employed on a die cut
ting machine of the Haney & Co.,
harness factory.
The Otoe County Farmers' institute
held at Dunbar February 3 and 4. was
attended by a number of prominent
speakers from over the state and a
large number of premiums were of
fered.
In spite of severe weather the two
days’ session of the farmers’ institute
held at Peru, was a decided success
Box Butte county has a farm dem
onstrator, it making the third in the
western part of the state.
The delinquent taxes in Custei
county since 1879 to present date to
tal between half a million and a mil
lion dollars, according to Assessor W
D. Gardner and D. V. James, who are
revising the delinquent tax list.
Subscriptions totaling $33,650 re
ceived in two hours’ solicitation fol
lowing an appeal by Dr. Iliff of Den
ver, assured the Methodist church
board of Hastings of the success ot
the move to erect the new' church.
Companies A. B. O and D of the
Fourth infantry, Nebraska National
guard, and the regimental band—all
located at Omaha—will be subjected
to federal inspection on March 2. 3
4 and 5. Orders to that effect have
been issued by General Hall.
State Treasurer Hall has purchased
the bonds of two Nebraska school dis
tricts in the total sum of $40,000. The
bonds hear 5 per cent. The districts
selling the bonds were No. 23 of Platte
county (Crestont, and No. 26 of Fill
more (Exeter). Each district sold
$20,000 worth.
A three-inch strip of sh'n bon° was
cut from the left leg of Peter Hem
pie at the Banning hospital at Hast
ings by surgeons, who grafted it tc
the right thigh bone. If the opera
tion proves successful, as physicians
say it will. Mr. Hemple will be re
stored to the normal use of both
limbs.
A special farmers' institute for the
Indians of Thurston county was held
recently under the auspices of the
Thurston county farm management
association and the extension service
of the college of agriculture. The
speeches of the lecturers were inter
preted to the Indians and are reported
to have been enthusiastically re
ceived.
The Burlington railroad has decid
ed to follow the advice of the State
Railway commission and install a lo
cal train service between Lincoln
and Oxford. This makes up in a
way for the loss of Nos. 1 and 10,
taken oft several months ago.
Jess Cochran, who recently shot
and fatally injured John Jump. Jr., at
his preliminary hearing at Pender
was bound over to the district court
without bail on a first degree mur
der charge. Cociiran shot Jump for
alleged attention to tho former's wife.
Jump lived eight days and died from
the effect of the shot wound.
Harry Watkins. Hasting's taxicab
driver, sustained possibly fatal inju
ries near Ingleside. While driving an
officer and a patient to the state hos
pital. Watkins drove his machine into
a buggy. The buggy shaft crashed
through the wind shield and struck
Mr. Watkins.
John Blair, alias Arthur and James
Cliff, accused of- murder, safecracking
md burglary, an ex-convict and jail
breaker and fugitive from justice, was
irrested by Sheriff A. A. Coupton of
B’air. Washington county and Detec
tive Michael Sullivan of Omaha, in a
bouse in Omaha. \
HEW ATHLETIC BILL
MEASURE TO LEGALIZE BOXING
PRESENTED TO LEGISLATURE.
MET WITH FAVOR OVER STATE
Bill Fathered by Gene Melady of So.
Omaha; Endorsed by Rev. Mack
ay, Omaha Minister.
Lincoln.—A bill to legalize the
boxing game in Nebraska under the
strict supervision of a board known
as the Nebraska State Athletic com
mission has been introduced in the
legislature. The measure In itself
looks to be the perfection of consist
ency and fairness. The commission
is to be appointed by the governor
and is to have the power to make
rules and regulations compatible ab
solutely with the requirements of the
law.
No boxing or sparring exhibition
shall be conducted by any club or or
ganization except by license issued
by tiie commission, and no club or or
ganization shall be entitled to receive
a state license unless It has been in
corporated under the laws of Ne
braska. Membership of such club
shall be limited to residents of the
state. The application for license
must be in writing and accompanied
by an annual fee of $:’00.
The law prohibits sparring or box
ing on Sunday, and no intoxicating
liquors shall be sold or given away
at any exhibition, and no decisions
given. All license fees or taxes re
ceived by the commission shall be
paid into the state treasury within
one week of receipt, and such depos
its to an amount not exceeding three
thousand dollars per annum are ap
propriated for salaries and expenses
of said athletic board.
Gene Melady, one of South Omaha s
most popular business men. is father
of the bill, and is considered the pre
mier spirit in the move to secure its
passage. The measure has been hear
tily approved by the Rev. T. J. Mack
ay. of All Saints church, Omaha, and
has received the endorsement by
many business men and church or
ganizations throughout the state.
It has been the experience of the
authorities in the large cities, that it
is better to place the boxing game
under control of the authorities than
to have the interested parties trying
to violate the law. In Wisconsin,
under the state boxing law over
$20,000 was put into the state treas
ury last year. Of this amount.
$3,000 is allowed the commission for
expenses. It is the only commission
in the state that is self-sustaining
and pays a profit into the treasury.
A Total of 1,044 Bills.
When the time came in the legisla
ture for tiie end of introduction of
bills, the senate had put over 200
bills, while in the house 748 bills
were introduced, malting a total of
1,044, as against 1,329 at the last ses
sion 275 bills wrere placed on file
on the last day.
It is estimated that it costs on an
average of $9 per bill to have them
printed. Taking the estimate of a
legislative official for it that $9 would
be an average cost per bill for print
ing the bills, the senate bills have
cost the state for the session $2,664.
while the bouse bills have cost the
taxpayers $6,732.
Won Trip to Washington.
By winning the state championship
of the Boys’ Acre Corn Contest. Vvrle
Crowell, living near Walthill, Thurs
ton county, will be given a trip to
Washington. D. C., with all expenses
paid, by the Union Stockyards com
pany of South Omaha. Tiie prize acre
yielded 92.46 bushels of corn with a
profit of $31.32 on the investment. The
corn was grown on land that had been
farmed but two years. Reid’s Yellow
Dent was the variety raised. The con
test is conducted co-operatively by
the United States Department'of Ag
riculture and the Agricultural Exten
To Enlarge National Guards.
The creation of a larger reserve
militia and the officers therefor Is
suggested by Meredith of Saunders.
This hill would permit citizens of
the state to take military examina
tion for the rank of secon* lieuten
ant in the reserve force.
Hail Insurance Fund.
Levy of one-fourth of 1 mill on as
sessabie property of the state for a
hail insurance fund and provision
whereby farmers who suffer from
hail losses may collect from this
fund, are principal points of the^Os
terman bill.
RigHt-of-Way Bill.
A plan to make the Union Pacific
railway turn back to the state a por
tion of its 400 feet of right-of-way
has been mbodied in a bill introduced
by Representative T. M. Osterman of
Central City. The bill is merely a
requirement that in each county of
Nebraska the right-of-way of a rail
road company outside of cities and
villages shall be of uniform width,
except for yardage, depots, freight
houses or roundhouses. They are for
bidden to acquire or hold any real es
tate in excess of this uniform width.
Eugenics Bill Again.
The eugenics bill has again made
its appearance, requiring the certifi
cate of an examining physician ap
proving fitness for wedlock before
the county judge may issue a license
to wed.
House Favors Ship Bill.
By a vote of 56 to 39 the house
went on record in favor of the ship
purchase bill now pending in con-^
gress. Six democrats voting against
the measure and four republicans
voting for it.
HALF MILLION FOR BOARD
Two Hundred Thousand for Reforma
tory Which Was Not Built Under
Last Appropriation.
Bills for appropriations for state
institutions improvements and build
ings, as presented by the finance com
mittee for the board of control aggre
gate $355,750. To these is added an
other bill for $200,000 for a state re
formatory to take the place of the
$150,000 appropriated for that pur
pose in 1913 and not used. Negley is
the author of this bill and claims on
the bill that it is by request of the
state board. It had been intended
at first that these appropriations
should become part of the general
maintenance bill for departments and
institutions, but the committee did
not want to make that bill such a
gigantic affair, and at the last minute
the measures were turned in sepa
rately. All the funds provided in
these measures for half a million ex
penditure are to be expended by the
three members of the state board,
with no conditions attached in most
of the bills as to what buildings
shall be constructed. That is left to
the board.
Dr. A. O. Thomas, state superin
tendent of education, has rendered a
decision that advanced subjects may
be taught in rural schools if the same
be not allowed to interfere with the
regular work of the pupils in the ele
mentary grades. The decision is set
forth in a letter to W. H. Campbell of
! Clarks, of the committee on educa
tion of the Nebraska Farmers’ con
gress, who wrote requesting a ruling.
The ruling covers the case of mature
pupils who wish to attend the dis
trict schools during the winter months
when farm work is light. Dr. Thomas
cites High School Inspector Reed of
the University of Nebraska to the ef
fect that the university will give full
credit for such advance work done in
the district schools should the stu
dent later go to a regular high school.
To prevent holding of water power
sites by big corporations without
! proper development and to stop fur
i tlier grabbing of water power possi
1 bilities in the state, the house uani
i mously passed a resolution calling on
| the state board of irrigation to can
cel seven large water power grants.
At the same time the house commit
tee on water power introduced a bill
to forbid the state board of irrigation
and water power allowing any more
water power site grants for the period
of two years and a second bill appro
priating S1 r>.000 for a survey of Ne
braska si reams under the direction
of the state board to determine the
possibilities of water power develop
ment in the state.
Increase of passenger fares in this
state to 2cents a mile is provided
for in a bill introduced in the house
The measure comes as a result of the
i demand of railroads for increased
, revenues and follows a campaign of
' publicity in which they have endeav
ored to give the people a complete re
cital of their financial burdens and
their financial needs. Extensive hear
ings on the bill arc promised before
the session has gone much farther
Gus Hyers of Lincoln is an enthus
iastic good roads booster and believes
it is criminal negligence for the state
to allow so much good labor to go to
waste when it might be put to work
on the roads and the state benefit
thereby. He suggests a state work
house located at some place where
there is a rock quarry to which all
hoboes may be sent and compelled to
labor for a time.
Final entries were filed on nearly
3,000 homesteads in Nebraska last
year, according to the land offices.
The 2.843 final entries are distributed
among forty-three counties. The great
bulk are. of course, in the western
part of the state. The total acreage
taken up during the year was approx
imately 800.000 acres, or something
over 3(h) acres to the average home
stead.
The granting of power to mayors
and councils of Nebraska municipal
ities to regulate the sale and use of
gas. electricity, telephone service
and street railways and determine
the price to be charged is the prin
cipal feature of senate file No. 177,
introduced by Senator Quinby of
Omaha.
provisions for more accurate val
uation of telephone, telegraph and
railway companies in the state is
made in a bill by Representative Ful
ler of Seward, which provides that
the state railway commission shall
furnish the state assessment board
each year its valuation of such com
panies.
Senator Dodge has introduced a bill
providing that no child under 16
shall be hired or confined in any re
formatory or religious institution
wliere children are employed without
an order from a court.
The first filing of water power
rights on the Dismal river is in pros
pect. P. Wilson, chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners for
Blaine county, has written to State
Engineer Price that he intends to
file and asks information as to the
proper way*to proceed.
All chance of the railway commis
sion ever assuming authority to rai;e
passenger rates in Nebraska is elim
inated in a bill, drawn and sponsored
bv Attorney General Reed, and intro
duced in the senate by Senator Ru
den. \
Abolition of tbe board of secre
taries to the state board of health
and the creation of the office of state
health commissioner to be named by
the governor is the purpose of house
roll No. 384 by Representatives Mep
edltli and Evans.
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