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WAR NEWS.
The Norwegian and Danish war in
surance companies have ordered ves
sels of the respective countries to
[display prominently on their sides the
national colors of their countries and
also the names of the ships.
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It is said that the British navy has
lost 5,500 officers and men. since the
war started, and Germany about the
same number. Sixty-three British
merchant vessels have been destroy
ed, nineteen of them in the last three
months.
Reports from Berlin are that more i
than 50,000 Russian prisoners, fifty
cannons, some heavy caliber, sixty
machine guns and an enormous quan
tity of war materials were captured '
during General von Hindenbur^'s j
drive in East Prussia.
* * *
Canada has requested the Ameri
can government to place guards on
the American side of the internation
al boundary at highway and railway
approaches to Canada. The request is
due to the recent attempt to blow up
the railroad bridge at Yanceboro.
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Great Britain in her answer to the '
American protest against the deten
tion of American ships by British
war vessels denies that Great Britain
unduly detains ships or that the na
val operations of Great Britain have
been the cause ot any diminution in
the volume of American exports.
Socialists of the aiiied powers at a
! meeting in London held for the pur
pose of discussing the international
situation adopted resolutions declar
ing that while the aiiied socialists had
resolved to tight until victory was
achieved, they had also resolved to
resist any attempt to transfer this de
fensive war into a war of conquest.
* * *
The time limit set by Germany for i
neutral shipping to take measures of
safety has expired and Germany is
now expected to put into operation
her declared intention of employing !
her submarines and mines in the
■waters around the British isles,
which she has proclaimed a war zone, j
with the object of shutting off the ,
food supply of the British people.
GENERAL.
The- Vermont house passed a refer
endum bill, looking to the prohibition
of the sale of intoxicating liquor in
the state in 19UT.
Floods throughout Italy are assum
ing alarming proportions amid con
tinuous rains. The river Tiber is
over fifty feet out of its banks.
Hotels and restaurants in New
York City have agred to make contri
butions of food to provide daily
lunches for thousands of unemployed.
The Iowa house passed a state
wide prohibition bill, to become ef
fective January 1. 1916. The measure
had already passed the senate, and
now only lacks the governors signa
ture.
Famine faces war-swept Serbia un
less the people can obtain grain for
seed in the spring and farm tools to
work with, according to a statement
by a committee newly organized to
seek aid in the United States for the
destitute Serbian women and chil
dren.
• • •
The Massachusetts house concurred
with the senate in adopting a memo
rial to congress condemning the last
tariff act and declaring it to be re
sponsible for high prices and for an
increase in the number of unem
ployed- The vote was along party
liues.
Fire, believed to have started in the
University club kitchen, fifth floor of
the Board of Trade buildings at Oma
ha, caused a property loss,'estimated
at $100,000. Rear part of the roof of
structure caved in and a number of
firemen had a narrow escape. One
fireman was' slightly injured. The
building and site valued at $750,000.
I
Nebraska has 3,368.000 acres sowed
to winter wheat, an increase of 345,
600 over 1014. according to estimates
by experts for Farm Machinery-Farm
Power, a farm implement magazine
published in St. Louis.
In a note to tlie British government
with respect to the use of the Amer
ican flag by British ships the United
States government calls attention to
“serious consequences which may re
sult to American vessels and Ameri
can citizens if this practice is con
tinued.”
• • •
As preliminary to a general cam
paign for .a national prohibition in
1916, the national committee of the
proliibiton party has decided to con
centrate its activities upon Massa
chusetts this year.
* • •
Twenty-one uncharted dangerous
pinnacle rocks have been discovered
by the coast survey in forty-two miles
of the inside passage used by all
steamers going up and down the Alas
ka coast. One is 600 feet high and
comes within seventeen feet of the
surface.
• * *
Two additional limited passenger
trains in each direction between Oma
ha and San Francisco will be put in
operation on the United Pacific about
April 1, according to an announce
ment at Omaha. i
Wireless telegraphers of southern
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois are being
organized by the government to pre
vent isolation of cities during flood
seasons.
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A bomb exploded at a charity ball
at Sofia, Bulgaria. Several prominent
persons were injured. Servians are
suspected of the act.
Delegates to the United States Live
Stock Sanitary association convention
tit Chicago agreed that extermination
is the only solution to the foot and
mouth disease problem.
* * *
Niue western states have joined
with the Iowa railroad commission in
sending a petition to the interstate
commerce commission asking a sus
pension of tariffs proposing general
advances in interstate passenger
rates.
• • *
The Spanish government has ntaue
application to the powers in order to
obtain joint action to end what is
termed a state of anarchy in Mexico,
according to a dispatch from Madrid
to the Exchange Telegraph company
of London.
* * *
J. B. Johnston of counsel for
Charles Becker, former New York po
lice lieutenant, under sentence of
death for the murder of Herman Ro
senthal. announced that he would
soon make formal motion for a uew
trial for Becker.
The cornerstone of the $2,000/100
Lincoln memorial structure has been
laid in Washington. A copper box
containing a history of Lincoln, sign
ed by his living son, Robert Lincoln,
and other historical data, was placed
in the cornerstone.
• • •
Vacancies at the West Point mill
tary academy would be filled by ap
pointments from the complete list of
alternates without interfering with
the present appointive system under
a bill introduced by Representative
Platt of New York.
* * *
llepor.s are that the commission re
eently named by President Wilson to
deal with future difficulties which
might arise between operators and 1
miners in the Colorado coal fields, will ;
continue in existence and proffer its
good offices when necessary.
WASHINGTON.
The Palmer bill 10 bar products of
child labor from interstate commerce
has passed the house.
An effort to suspend the rules of
the house to pass a bill incorporating
the American Academy of Arts and
Letters failed.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
carying $1-6.1)00.000, has been passed
in the house. Debate has begun on
the pension bill, carrying $165,000,000
The federal Reserve board an
nounced its approval of maximum and
minimum rates of 4 and 1’ per cent
for bankers’ acceptances discounted
by tile federal reserve banks of Bos
ton, New York or t'hicago.
* « *
President Wilson told a delegation
of wcnfen who brought a petition
signed by 28,000 persons asking for
an embargo on exports of war ma
terials that such an embargo in his
opinion would he an unneutral act.
Only $38,006,358 of emergency cur
rencv, or a fraction less than 10 per
cent of the total amount issued since
the outbreak of the European war, is
still Outstanding, according to a state
ment by Assistant Secretary Malburn
of the Treasury.
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A census of birds of the United
States, announced by the department
of agriculture, shows an average of
sixty pairs of English sparrows to
the square mile. The robin is shown
to be the most numerous bird with
the English sparrow a close second.
• * *
Blocked in their efforts to get the
house ship purchase bill to a vote,
democratic senators agred to take up
appropriation bills and sent the ship
ping measure to conference until
February 28. when it. must take its
chances of being filibustered to its
death on March 4.
* * *
Brigadier General Tasker H. Bliss,
lately commanding the southern de
partment of the army, including the
forces patrolling ilie Mxican border,
assumed his duty at Washington as
assistant chief of staff. His succes
sor oil the border is Major General
Frederick Funston.
The interstate commerce commis
sion has threw out a tariff filed by
ihe Kansas City Stock Yards Co. to
impose a trackage charge of 75 cents
a car at unloading docks in i.s yards
and a switching charge of $2 per car,
on eight of the fourteen railroads
serving Kansas City.
* * *
Over a strenuous protest from Ma
joritv leader X^nderwood. the house
in passing the naval appropriation
bill retained provision for the con
struction of two dreadnoughts, six
torpedo boat destroyers, one sea
going submarine torpedo boat, eleven
submarines and one oil fuel ship.
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Cotton exports were beyond norma!
proportions during January. The
quamity was more than .'SOO.OOO bales
greater than January last year, ac
cording to the monthly report of the
census bureau.
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President Wilson received the mem
bers of the National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America and presented
medals to several scouts, one of them
for life saving. The president ad
dressed the boy scouts expressing his
interest in the organization and his
belief in its objects.
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President Wilson has received an
invitation to speak in Omaha during
his western tour in March. He has
accepted the invitation to address the
New Citizens’ allegiance celebration
in Chicago.
TO SEIZE ALL
BRITAIN WILL SHUT OFF SUP
PLIES FROM GERMANY.
REPLIES TO AMERICAN NOTES
Asserts Neutral Countries Should
Not Begrudge Its Ships Privilege
to Use Flag.
London.—The British replies to
the American notes on the use of
the American flag by the Cunard line
steamer Lusitania, and the decision
to hold the cargo of the American
steamer Wilhelmina to a prize court
have been delivered to Walter
Hines Page, the American ambassa
dor.
The notes make clear that while
there is no intentioh 10 resort to the
use of neutral flags generally. Great
Britain thinks that neutral countries
should not begrudge its ships this
privilege in view of Germany's threat
to destroy British sea commerce, and
further, that in view of the latest
German policy of sea warfare. Great
Britain contemplated declaring ali
foodstuffs to Germany absolute con
traband.
Both notes are of a conciliatory
character. That in reference to the
use of the American flag points out
that the United States resorted to the
use of the British flag during the civil
war. and that if Germany follows the
usual custom of ascertaining definite
ly the nationality of a ship stopped
by its warships no damage can be
done to neutral vessels.
The detention of the Wilheltnina's
cargo which is to be sent to a prize
court, is justified on the ground that
Germany has placed all grain and
flour in the empire under government
control.
As yet Great Britain has not de
finitely announced its promised re
taliatory measures against the Ger
man submarine blockade.
Will Hold Germany Responsible.
The Hague.—An official statement,
issued by the Netherland s govern
ment. give tlie contents of the note
of protest sent to Germany on that
government’s establishment of its sea
war zone. The note declares that the
Netherlands has pursued a strictly
neutral attitude to botii Great Britain
and Germany and protests against
Germany declaring as a theater 01
war such an enormous stretch of wa
ter which peaceful neutral vessels
may not safely enter or cross. It adds
that the sinking of merchantmen on
suspicion, without arrest or search,
would contravene international law
and that if a Dutch ship were thus
sunk, the Netherlands would hold
Germany responsible. ,
Road in Indian Reservation.
Washington.—The senate commit
tee on Indian affairs have agreed to
report as an amendment to the In
dian appropriation hill a bill which
has the endorsement of both Nebras
ka senators, giving the secretary ol
the interior the right to connect up
county roads through an Indian res
ervation. The bill, which was favor
ably reported from the Indian affairs
committee of the senate and now on
the calendar, was prompted through
the refusal of an Indian of the Win
nebago reservation in Nebraska to
sign the necessary permits as pro
vided for under the old law relating
to the construction of county roads.
The Indian in question originally
agreed to the construction of a coun
ty road through his property, but
later withdrew his consent, which
tied up the proposition completely.
It is for the purpose of correcting an
obvious wrong that the bill was
agreed to.
Posse Brings Down Desperado.
Scribner, Neb. — Ignacio Gonzales,
Mexican desperado, who murdered
Detective Tom Ring in Omaha on
February 10, was’ shot to death by a
posse in a hay meadow a mile and a
half southeast of this place.
Gonzales had used up all his am
munition, and arose from behind a
log to surrender, when a bullet
caught him in the breast and top
pled him over backward. Detective
Van Deusen, running mate of the
man whom the Mexican had slain,
was closest to him at the time and
was ready to take him prisoner when
the steal-jacketed ball beat him. “1
give up but—,” the hunted desperado
was saying when the bullet came.
Union Jack All the Way.
London.—The White Star steamer
Adriatic, which recently arrived at
Liverpool from New York, flew the
British flag all the way across the At
lantic.
Seven Dead in Gas Explosion.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.—Seven men are
known to have been killed and nine
others seriously burned in an explo
sion of gas at lhe Prospect, colliery of
the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Rescuers-,
have brought four of the dead and six
injured to the surface.
Jitney Bus Must Have Franchise.
Ckgden. Utah.- Through the passage
of an ordinance by the city commis
sion the operation of 5-cent motor
buses in Ogden will be impossible
without a franchise.
Second Zeppelin Wrecked.
Copenhagen.—A second Zeppelin
has been wrecked off the we>st coast
of Jutland. The big aircraft was
caught in a storm. Eleven members
of the crew were saved by a trawler
Four were drowned. The eleven wil'
be interned.
Russian Less 64,000.
Berlin.—The official report on the
progress of the fighting given out in
Berlin, says that the Russians taken
prisoners''-by the Germans in East
Prussia amount to 64,000.
CONDENSED HEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
A boy scouts' club is being organ
ized at Elmwood.
Mrs. W. J. Dundas, wife of editor
Auburn Granger, is dead.
Nearly fifty cases of measles are
under quarantine at Juniata.
Broken Bow has defeated the $17,
000 sewer bond proposition.
First national bank of (’happen will
erect a $7,000 bank building.
A farmers’ institute will be held in
Tecumseh February 26 and 27.
Five rural community vluijs lrave
been organized in Kimball county.
A proposition to irrigate' county is
being considered by Alliance citizens.
Hebron State bank has bought in
terests of First National bank of that,
city.
Central City will vote on a $21,000
water main bond extension proposi
tion.
Three teams of mules brought $1,
407 at Scheel Bros, sale near Syra
cuse.
The Chadron Ice and Creamery
company will erect a plant at that
place.
According to the new city directory,
Omaha claims over 200,000 popula
tion.
The new $30,000 high school build
ing at Cedar Bluffs has been dedi
cated.
II. E. Countryman, near Weeping
Water, sold a fifty-acre farm for $230
There will be no wet and dry fight
at Fremont this year, as had been con
templated.
The supreme court has declared the
village of Newman Grove in Madison
county to be wet.
I’dgar wil vote on a bond issue of
$13,500 for the erection of a new elec
trie light plant.
The old Nebraska National Bank
building at Beatrice was sold recently
at a sheriff's sale.
The Elmwood Booster club has put
into practice a new plan of furnishing
an auctioneer free.
Fifteen car loads of furniture have
already arrived to furnish Omaha's
million dollar hotel.
Fire in the dry goods store of M.
E. Smith & Co. at Chadron caused a
loss estimated at $8,600.
Hastings has rumors that jitney
service is to be 'established there in
two weeks by Omaha men.
Farmers and business men of the
vicinity of Liberty have community
club of forty-two members.
Nebraska is twenty-fifth in point
of school efficiency, according to
figures in superintendent's office.
Mrs. Frank Paul of Cedar Bluffs
suffered a serious accident when she
fell on a walk and broke her hip
Hastings has a petition started for
1.200 signatures to call $130,000 bond
I election for new school buildings.
John F. Walsh of Humboldt has
been appointed commandant of the
old soldiers and dors' home at Bur
kett.
The new bridge to be coce.ructed
over the Platte river at North Platte
wil' give that city a direct highway to
the east
Attorney Genera] Reed has written
to ail county attorneys in state an
nouncing his willingness to co-operate
with them.
Gas service front the new plan- be
ing constructed by the North Platte
Electric Power company will soon
be ready.
Bader Bros, have sold their Main
street block at Fremont to JoeVerbin
of the Omaha store. The considera
tion was $14,000.
Two horses belonging to the Tip
Top bakery of Lincoln were electro
cuted when they ran into a telephone
wire at that city.
The young son of Harry Doty of
Weeping Water ^.as saved from a pe.
wolf by his uncle, who choked the
animal to death.
Fire damaged the Board of Trade
building at Omaha to the extent of
over $100,000. A new and modern
sky-scraper may be erected in its
place.
Grand Island Morning Free Press,
owned chiefly by W. H. Thompson,
chairman deimoeratic state commit
tee, is to be continued as weekly, in
stead of daily.
The secretary of the treasury at
Washington has awarded the contract
fv. She construction of the public
building at McCook, Neb., to C. E.
Goodhand, Ord. Neb., at $107,278.
Prosper Trowbridge, a well-to-do
farmer, living on the Whittaker land
east of Lyons, committed suicide by
hanging himself at his home. He
leaves a widow and nine children.
Visits to South Omaha are each
year growing more popular with the
students and faculty of the state
school of agriculture. This year over
350 students .made the annual trip.
Sixteen wireless telegraphy experts
of Lincoln have formed a Nebraska
Radio association and nightly catch
talks at their various local stations
from Arlington. Va., Key West. New
Orleans and Sayville, Long Island.
B'.ds for the construction or the
550.000 bridge over the Platte river
at North Platte will he received un
till neon March IT.
Richard E. Rambo of Blue Springs,
one of the oldes, Masons in the state,
now attending school of instruction in
Beatrice, owns an apron worn by his
father at Wilmington. Del., reception
in 1825.
The value of Nebraska’s 1014 crop
of alfalfa at an average price of $7
per ton was $22,466,385. which en
titles it to be classed as one of our
leading crops, as it is fourth in value
within the state.
Business men of Chappell, and
farmers of surrounding country', will
build a flour mill.
Bernice, 18-months-old baby of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles A. Manning of
Omaha, sat down in a bucket of
scalding lyewater her mother was go
ing to scrub the floor with, and was
so badly burned she died.
The federal treasury department
has drafted a ruling allowing Nebras
ka savings banks to exempt from the
Income tax returns the amount of
their deposit under the state guaran
tee fund. Secretary McAdoo is ex
pected to sign it.
WESTERN
SELL SCHOOL
13 BEING URGED BY
LEGISLATORS.
SAY STATE IS L0SIN6 MONEY
Lawmakers Declare Sale Necessary
to the Proper Development of
Country.
Lincoln.—An effort will be made at
this session to pass a bill providing
for the sale of school lauds and. the
investment of the proceeds in bonds i
and other securities. v
Western legislators declare the sale 1
of ihe lands is necessary to the prop
er development of the country and
that the land is now as valuable as it
will be for many years.
State Treasurer W. A. George two
years ago stated that the leasing of
school lands by the state netted the
school fund only 2 per cent on the
value of the land.
legislators interested say the state
is losing from 2 to 3 per cent revenue
each year by not selling the lands.
“The lamd could be sold on twenty
years’ time and the buyers could be
charged 6 per cent interest on de
ferred payments. In that way the in
come to the school found of the state
would be almost trebled,” said Repre
sentative Stebbins.
Overturn a Report.
The house has refused to adopt
the report of the live stock commit
tee indefinitely postponing house
roll Number 135, the bill prohibiting
combinations in the buying of stock
on the South Omaha Live Stock ex
I change. The house did not take kind
ly to the agreement made by the
committee with the officers of the ex
change. which specified that there
would be no rise in commissions for
the next two years and turned down
the report by a vote of 54 to 34. The
bill has been placed on general file.
Appropriation Bills Run High.
Eleven piillion and a half of dollars
is the sum it will cost the state of
Nebraska by reason of the present
legislature if all the appropriation
bills before the house go through.
This is basing the amount on the bills
in which the actual amount is asked,
which amounts to $6,761,000. and on
i salaries, maintenance and deficiency
bills which will, according to esti
| mate, amount to $4,600,000 more,
i Among the biggest items asked for is
the regular university levy, amount
ing to $$77,OHO; the university build
ing levy, of $6.79.440; normal school
levy, $722,160; new slate capitol,
$790,128, and 2-mill levy for common
schools. $1,750,000. In addition to
these are several which run over the
$100,000 mark, among them a hospital
at Omaha. $150,000; a reformatory
packing plant. $200,000; penitentiary
improvements. $118,000; ’‘4-mill levy
for historical building. $210,500, and a
6tate reformatory, $200,000.
Sons of Veterans Organized.
At a meeting held in Lincoln, Ne
braska camp No. 144. Sons of Yet
| erans. was organized by Colonei
: George A. Eberly of Stanton, com
| triander of the Nebraska division. The
j camp is expected to be a big affair,
I and under a special dispensation front
national headquarters will he com
posed of sons of veterans from all
over the state. Many prominent men
have identified themselves with the
new camp, which will be a state-wide j
affair.
Wrestling Matches Under Law. j
When the athletic commission or j
boxing bill comes back to the house I
front the judiciary committee, to I
which it was referred, it will carry ,
provisions placing all wrestling j
matches, as well as boxing and spar- j
ring exhibitions, under state regula
tions and control. The bill will be
further amended so as to remove any
possibility that its passage would act
as a repeal of the law now prohibiting
prize fights.
Bill Indorsed by Board of Control. j
Fourteen bills, strongly indorsed by j
the board of control, have been recom- 1
mended for passage by the house j
committee on state institutions. They :
make new regulations for several
state institutions and gives the board
greater power over die management I
and inmates, including the working of j
inmates-of the state prison.
Hearing on National Guard Bill.
On Thursday afternoon. February
25. before the committee on school
lands and funds will be a h&uiing on
Senate File 103. Senator Robertson’s
bill to require members of the Nation,
al Guard to work on the public roads
not less than ninety days of each
year and receive $2 per day for such
service.
Short Ballot Bill Favored.
Senator D:dge’s bill providing for
a constitutional amendment that' will
pave the way for the short ballot re
form has been favorably reported by a
senate committee.
Policyholders Are Safe.
Attorney General Reed has issued a
ruling which assures policyholders in
the insurance companies in this state
that have failed to file articles of in
corporation with the secretary of
state, he holds, it does not invalidate
any policyholder.
Would Compel Written Notice.
If S. F. 110, by Ruden of Knox, be
comes a law, it will be necessary to
file in writing with saloon keepers
any notices requesting that liquor
Ehould not be sold to habitual drunk- i
ards.
Water Power Bill Lost.
H. R. 399. ihe Moffmeister bill for a
tax of 5 per cent on gross earnings of
water power companies, has been in
refinitely postponed, on the recom
mendation of the irrigation, drainage
and water power committee.
I
LESS INTEREST IN MILITIA
,
: Federal Inspector Finds Small Num
ber Reporting for the Regular
Inspection of Guards.
Out of the seven organizations of
| militia that Federal Inspector Stoll
| has visited so far at various points
in the slate, only 171 out of 350 men
have reported for the counting of
noses, according to Adjutant General
Hall. That this lack of interest, if it
contiuues throughout the inspection,
will einperial the federal allotment, is
the fear of the adjutant general.. The
allotment is made on the basis of 100
: militiamen Ao each Nebraska repre
! sentative in congress, who counting
i the two senators, number eight. This
| would require 800 men. There are far
i more than that number in the Nebras
[ ka Guard if they would only rej^irt. If
I the Nebraska guard can only meet
l the requirements, the state can get
| in on the $300,000 that the War de
partment proposes to spend for equip
ment in the Fourteenth division. To
. lose it would be a calamity, in the
opinion of the adjutant general.
—
| If house roil No. 200 by Smith
i meets with the same favor in the sen
1 ate that it did in the house the polls
, will open at 8 o'clock in the morning
j and close at 8 o'clock at night. An at
I tempt to make the closing hour 7
I o'clock failed.
j Messrs. Stebbins and Van Deusen
j objected to running as late as 8
j o’clock in the evening on the ground
! that election boards are already re
| quired to work too long hours and
! that this bill would delay the account
| and make the boards more careless.
The opposite argument was made
' by Mr. Norton that farmers can vote
I more conveniently aiher the day’s
■ is over and inasmuch as the present
law provides for closing primaries at
9 o'clock, he thought that general
elections should run not later than 6
! o'clock.
Mr. Meredith said that in Ashland
precinct Iasi year fifty-six railroad
men lost their votes by being unable
to reach home before 6 o'clock. Mr.
Regan said that nineteen voters lost
out in his precinct in Platte county.
Mr. Neff said that fanners in his
county (Knoxl. had requested him to
introduce a bill of this kind.
During the twenty-eight first days
of the legislature only five bills
passed both houses and went to the
governor for his signature. They were
the two legislative appropriation
bills, two bills to compensate volun
teer firemen when injured and one
bill regulating transportation of ship
pers. Fifty-eight measures passed the
house and forty-three were killed, a
total of 101, or not quite one-seventh
of the house bills. Thirty-eight bills
passed the senate and twenty-three
were postponed, a total of sixety-one,
or about one-fifth of the number in
troduced.
A pica to leave the Nebraska work
ingmen's compensation act as it is
for at least two years has been made
to the senate committee on labor by
big employers of labor in the state.
They oppose the Mallerv bill, raising
the percentage of compensation to in
jured men from 50 per cent of the
wages to 66 2-3 per cent and increas
ing special compensations. Among
the employes who presented the
plea were several members of the
Omaha and Nebraska Manufacturers’
association.
Teachers are forbidden to belong to
any organization attempting to con
j trol employment of their kind, by
i terms of the Wilson-Ruden bill passed
i by the senate. The measure results
I from the school row that followed the
I dismissal of Dr. A. O. Thomas as
, head of the Kearney normal school. It
j may have been prompted by some of
j his friends but the charge was not
i answered when it was made a few
1 days ago.
County agricultural agent work,
which has been undertaken in eight
counties in the state, is rapidly as
suming large proportions in the Unit
| ed States. In the northern an-d
| westerti states alone there are about
300 counties employing these agents,
I or farm demonstrators, in co-opera
i tion with the Uni.ed States Depart
! ment of Agriculture, according to a
recent report.
Nepotism in public office will cease
if the Hoffmeister bill recommended
by the house committee on privileges
and elections is passed hy the legisla
lure. The bill renders appointment
of relatives by a public official void
and makes the official liable to fine
and imprisonment.
Senator Quinby's bill, exempting
fruit trees from taxation, which is
Senate File No. 16. passed the upper
bouse on third reading without any
serious opposition.
The joint resolution approving the
national ship purchase bill passed by
ihe hone some time ago was recom
mended for passage by the senate.
Three bills affecting school system
of the state have been rcommended
by the house committee on educa
tion. They will make fairer appor
tionment. of state funds among school
districts, provide for compulsory at
tendance of all children of school age
and prohibit one district or hoard hir
ing a teacher who is under cofitract
to another board or distric..
Up to Feb. 15 the senate had
hilled twentj-three bills. Among them
is Senator Quinby’s bill to abolish
capital punishment, numbered twenty
three. and another by Senator Bushee,
also with the hoodoo number 123.
The house has passed on final
reading two bills whicii wili abolish
the office of coroner and also abolish
all coroner’s fees. Other bills are
pending which will transfer the duties
of coroner to the county attorney and
give him the assistance of the sheriff
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