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'riw?tfyw,,rwwiwiiwwni-'iiiiiiniit m..nr , -- i. . ,. ji- ' s x- - :i; The Chief C. B. HALE, Publisher RED CLOUD, - NEBR NEWS IN EPITOME RECORD OF THE HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED FORM. HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS Information Gathered From All Quar- ters of the Civilized World and Prepared for the Perusal of the Busy Man. Forelfln. Eighteen persons were Injured in a railroad wreck near Ouclph, England. The emperor of Korea hns returned from liln vIbIL to Fusun, which ho mndo with Prince lto, (lie .Inpnneso losldont Roncral. TIio French liner Poljiieslan, from Marseilles, ran down and Hank tho Dutch ntcanier DJanidl at Singapore. Seven natives were drowned. A prominent Swedish engineer by itho nnino of (Irell hns Juh( been grant ed a patent for an invention by moans of which not only photographs, but also moving pictures may he Kent and iccelved by means or the ordinary tel egraphic apparatus. In an explosion of fliodunip in t lto Auku coal mine In Hungaiy, which was followed later by a dust cxpln tlon and lire, 240 men weie entombed. Sixteen living miners and tho bodies of forty-live dead persons thus far have been brought out of Iho pit. The rate of discount of tho Dank of llcngal has been lalsnd fiom six to M'ven per cent. Statistics are published by llu' newspapers showing that dining tho Russian year Just ended 1.957 parsons wero sentenced to death In the em pire and 782 executed. Tho largest number of executions woio In Warsaw and Kiev, being more than 1G0 in each place, and In Kekaterinslav 100 were put to death. Slxly-thiee newspapers were suppressed In tho empire and otlieis were lined to tho aggregate amount of $rrv,0il0. Domestic. Fiie has destroyed practically every business building In the town of Oil Frank Shercllffe, tho notorious dia mond robber, Is again on trial at .Min neapolis, chin ged with robbery In tho first degree. A bill has been Introduced Into the Minnesota legislature to repeal tho en tire primary election law and restoro the convention syBtoni. Porter Poison, twenty years old, was sentenced to life. Imprisonment at. Danville, Ky., for to murder of .Mrs, Julia Brown, his inother-ln-Inw. Tho twelfth conviction for fraudu lent leglstrntion in St. Louis wns se cured when a jury found Thonnu O'Brien guilty and sentenced him to three years in the penituntlary. Julius K. DlUmau, a notorious for ger, plead guilty to tho charge at PlUsburg, Pa., and was sentenced to nine yeniB In tho penitentiary. William Nix. of Atlanta. Ga.. was cut to death by his brotherln-Iaw, Bright (Hlstrap, while both wero in toxicatcd. Nix wns stabbed seventeen times. (SliBtiap has disappeared. Tho supremo court of Oklahoma holds that a man linu aright to carry from tho dopot to his own home, II quor intended for his own uso, shipped 'In from outside the slate, under tho Interstate commerce law. Members of tho National Pill Post jers Association In session at Okla homa City, Issued an order forbidding members of tho association to post nude pictures, such as nro used to ad vertihe union suits and corsets. Tho brain of Rev. John Carnilchnel, who killed Gideon Browning In tho Methodist church at Ilatllo Run, Mich igan, and committed sulcldo at Car Ihuge, III,, was examined by physi cians, nnd at the conclusion of the autopsy tho physicians said they round unmlstakcblo evidences of In canity. The North Carolina grand lodge of Masons Is in session at Raleigh. James York of Munknto, Minn., killed his four children by cutting their tin oats. York then hung him tclf. Mrs. MUllo Donnelly was murdered in her home at Oxford, Ohio, Tuesday night, having been shot through tho head. John Kennlsh. of St. Josnnb. win bo appolutcd state superintendent of niBUianco ror Missouri when tho term of the present incumbent expires on March 1st. Judge Albert B. Anderson, of Indi anopolls, lud.F will presldo at the re trial of tho caso against tho Standard Oil company, In which Judgo Lnndls Imposed a lino of $29,240,000. K. J. Smith, former cashier of tho defunct bank or Rockrord, Colorado, tho president of which Is now serving a penitentiary term, was sentence to from three to rour years In the ponl tenilary on a chargo of receiving do posits after knowing tho bank to bo Insolvent. Executors of tho late Jolnf V. Far well filed an inventory of the ostato, which shows $8,000,000 worth of per sonal property. President Roosevelt has appliod to iho Rolglnn government for a hunt ing permit In Belgian territory in Africa. Cleveland's Htiee) car lines which nro still operated on a thiee cent faro basis, suffered a loss estimated at $175,000 during November and Decem ber. The fire department of Chicago niis weied ninety-two lire alarms last Wed nesday night. President .lumen J. Hill, of the Gi'eat Northern railroad has accepted an In vitation to address the annual meet ing of the state agricultural societies, which began a tlnco days' session at Minneapolis this week. The superintendent of the Flathead Indian lcservatlou recommends thai tho government lake Immediate no tion to savo the tribe from starvation until the Indians can lie moved to some reservation or are allotted lands. All but two candidates for the speak ership In Iowa havo withdrawn. Tho worst storm ill tho history of Crow's Nest, on the Canadian Pacific, is raging. 13. II. Hnrrlman denies the report that ho has been elected president of tho New York Cntral railroad. Miss Nellie O'Donuell, n bookkeep er of Kansas City, has been arrested chnrged with embezzling $4,000. S. It. Slgnor, of Oakland, Calif., has been anested. chained with fnrirprloB aggregating over a million dollars. Tho total contributions for the Ital ian earthquake sufferers through tho American Red Cross society aggrogato $070,000. The Iowa legislature will bo asked to pass a law absolutely prohibiting fraternities in every high school of tho slate. A gas explosion in the Loiter mines at Zelglor, Ills., killed twenty-flvo men and did considerable damage to tho mines. According lo the appraiser's report (he value of the estate or the lato Alar shall Field has been placed at $83, ir.9,032. A fourteen-story building nt Gales burg, Illinois, wns destroyed by lire, entailing u loss of $75,000. A mob storind the Jail at Poplarvlllo, Miss., and lynched Pink Willlsh, a ne gro who had attacked the fourteen-year-old daughter or former Sheriff .1. II. Moody. The negro s body wns rid dled with bullets. There nro six candidates In the Held Tor the seat of Senator James A. Hem enway, of Indiana, and every one of thorn is confident of election. Tho emperor of Korea accompanied by Marquis lto, of Japan, Is making a lour of the empire. It belug his pur pose to Investigate conditions. Clark Tanner, professor of Greek and Lntln nt tho LawrcncovHIo piopnr atory school at Trenton, N. J., commlt mltted suicide by shooting himself. On January 19th tho Utah leglBla lure will chooso a United States sen ntor to succeed Senator Reed Smoot, who has no opposition ror re-election. Washington. The Philippine band at Manila will be brought to Washington to take n prominent pnrt In the parndo, ball and public concerts of tho inaugural In March. Heirs to Geoige Washington ap peared before the house committee on claims to urge a claim of $305,100 as lelmbursement for 3,000 ncreB of land along tho Little Miami river in Ohio which was granted to Washing ton but was lost by conflicting grants made under the authority of tho United States. Tno first ofllclal state dinner of tho season has been held nt tho White House. Tho ten ambassadors to this country with tho exception of Senor Creel of Mexico, who Is away, wero present with their wives. Of tho twenty-seven countileu that have min isters In Washington, China was tho only ono not represented, Minister Wu Ting Fang being nbsent. because tho days or mourning ror tho late em peror havo not come to an end. Several officers oi the Turklbli navy nro coming to tho United States on tho whips or the Atlantic battleship fleet which aro now In Turkish waters. Their visit Is ror tho study of American methods in naval methods. Tho senate passed a bill appropriat ing $19,000 ror the purchase or tho So quola grove or big trees In California. It will require $234,000,000 to run the postal service during the fiscal year 1910. This amount Is an Incroaso of about $12,000,000 over tho amount appropriated for the present flncal year. In commemoration of the 100th nn nlversary or tho birth or Abraham Lin coln tho house has authorized tho postmaster general to Issuo a special Lincoln postage stamp of tho denom ination or two cents. At an Informal conference of the ro publlcnn lenders or tho sonato on tho subject or assignment or senators to committees It has been agreed that when Secretary Root comes to tho sonato as tho successor of Senator Piatt of Now York ho will bo given plnces on tho foreign relations and military affairs committees, mndo va cant In both cases by tho retirement of Senator Foraker. Tho first of tho official Whlto Houso receptions or tho season was given In honor of the diplomat lo corps. Tho O. A. It desires a national celebration of tho ono hundredth an nlvotsaiy of the birth of Abraham Lincoln February 12th, and bus asked President Roosevelt to Isbuo a proc lamation to tho country Inviting and urging such n celebration, An amendment to tho leglslntlvo and Judicial appropriation bill Increas ing tho salary or tho prosldent to $100, 000 and tho salaries of tho vice-president nnd the sneaker or tho houso to $20,000 wob roported ruvorablo to tlit sonuto. CAPITAL BIT NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST AROUNDTHE STATE HOUSE. THE WORK OF THE LAW MAKERS Legislative Facts and Gossip News of the State Capital. Governor Shallenberger's Appointees. Governor Shallcnbcrgci on Friday morning gave out a complete list nf tho appointments that havo been math by him to date. This showa that S. h. Alalns of Croto had been appointed chief food commissioner, whilo L. J. Tuel, the traveling representative of a patent medlclno house, is nnincil nB a deputy, together with throo others. Mr. Tuel supposed that he was to bo placed upon about tho same basis as Mr. Mains, ono to look after ono branch of the work nnd tho other .to handle tho remainder. Tho list given out by the governor Is as follows: Institute for feeble minded Dr. G. L. Roe, superintendent; Louis Wer ner, steward. Chief deputy state oil Inspector Arthur F. Mullen, O'Neill; deputies Francis Colfcr, McCook, firth district; R. E. Harmon, Auburn, first; T. J. O' Connor, Omaha, second; Fred Pratt, Humphrey, third; M . J. Douse, David City, fourth. Chief deputy gamo warden Dan uellus, Omaha; deputies John Don ovan, Madison; Joseph Boehler, Or leans; Isaac. King, Superior; depu ty fish commissioner W. J. O'Brien, Louisville. Chier deputy labor commissioner Will M. Mnunln. Lincoln. Soldiers and sailor' home, Grand Islnnd Eil Bnrnes, commandnnt. Soldiers and sailors' home, Alllford David Rowen, Omnha, commandant. Industrial school for boys C. IJ. Manuel, St. Paul, superintenlent; J. I. Bennett, Kearney, physician. Stnto ponitentiary T. W. Smith, York, warden; Dr. H. B. Lowry, phy sician. Hospital Tor Insane, Hastings Dr. M. W. Baxter; Prosser, superinten dent; Dr. J. T. Steele, first assis tant physician; Dr. Crutchor, Mt. Clair, second assistant; Jesso GIdioy, Saun ders county, steward. Hospital for Insane, Lincoln Dr. D. S. Woodward, Aurora, superintendent; Dr. Ernest O. Webber, llrst assistant physician; Dr. Hallo Ewlng, second acslstant; H. F. Bishop, Lincoln, stow nrd. . Hospital for insano, Norfolk Dr Joseph Perclvnl, Omaha, superinten dent; Dr. H. L. Wells, West Point, first assistant; Herman Gerecke, Nor folk, steward. Homo for tho friendless, Lincoln Airs. Emma C. Johnston, superintend ent State veterinarian Dr. Paul Juckln ess, South Omaha. Institute, for blind N. C. Abbott, Tekamah, superintoncdent. Deputy food commissioner S. L. Mnins, Crete; Inspectors L. J. Tuel, Lincoln; Chns. Fornland, South Om nhn; C. W. Carson, Edgar; J. E. Voglo, Plattsmouth, Adjutant general John C. Hartigan, Falrbury, Quartermaster general Allan D. Falconer, Omaha. Inspector general A. D. Fcttormau, Omaha. Judgo advocato William Mitchell, Alliance. Surgeon genoral Dr. A. P. FItzsIm mons, Tecumseh. Assistant adjutant general Ernest II. Phelps, Lincoln. Members or governor's staff with rank of colonel D. J. Gates, Albion; E. AI. Weatorvolt, Lincoln; Chns Fan nlug, Omnha; William Kennedy, Om aha; J. E. Summers, Omaha; Felfx J. AlcShaue, Omaha; B. B. MnrshaM, Omaha; Ed. P. Berryman. Omaha; Ed. W. Gotten, Omnha; W. R. Murphy, South Omahn; Sophus F. Noble, Om aha; L. J. Uttorback, Nebraska City; James II. Qulgloy, Valentino; Charles Smrha, Alllligan; M. H. Weiss, He bron; J. G. Thompson. Alma; J. H. Kelly; Gothenburg; ParrlB Copper, Crawford; Robert Oherfelder, Sidney; R. E. Filler, Allllerton; W. E. Weber, Omaha; .Tamos G. .Martin. South Om aha; E. J. Shlnn, Beatrlco; Howard J. Hill, Lincoln; T. G. Byrno, Omaha; W. E. Straub, Lincoln. Banking Board Appointments. The stnto banking board, composed of tho auditor, state treasurer and at torney general, met Alonday and re appointed tho old officers, oxnmlners and clerk, as follows: Secretary, E. Royse; chief clerk, N. R. Perslnger; examiners, E. E. Emmott, C. II. Beau mont, C. W. Erwin, E. S. Mickey, E. II. Mullowney. Tho clerk and stenog rapnor Is AUbb Alaudo Hogo. Recanvass of the Amendment Vote. During tho past weok tho legisla ture made a recanvass of tho voto on tho constitutional amendment, de clared it carried and now It Is up to Govornor Shullonborgor to Issuo his proclamation and appoint four new judges of tho supremo court. Tho lender in UiIb movomont wns Sonator Ransom of Omaha, who took tho stand that tho state canvassing board had no authority to canvass tho voto on tho amendments aud that tho np polntmontd of Governor Sheldon wero not legal. The House Committees. Following is the list of the chair men of tho houso committees ns sc lectcd by tho democratic committee on committees which held sovcrnl cau cuses between tho time tho house ad journed and the timo of convening Tucsdny: Clarke, ways nnd means. Taylor, corporations. Graff, banking. Kuhl, privileges nnd elections. Henry, railroads. W. 55. Taylor, enrolling and engross Ing bills. Howard, labor. Shoettgor, agriculture. Fries, roads and bridges. Kclley, public lands nnd buildings. Groves, accounts and expenditures. Humphrey, penltentlnry. Broderlck, asylums. Lnwrence, militia. Kraus, luternnl improvements. Brown, federal relations. Shoemnker, constitutional amend ments. Grolg, county boundaries, Wilson. Judiciary. McVlcker, benevolent institutions. Herrerman, fish nnd game. Sink, Insurance. Bowmau, telegraph and telephone. Talbot, medical societies. Neltleton, soldier's homos. Murphy, deficiencies. Thomas, cities and towns. Bates, public printing. Pllgor, Insane hospitals. Swan, libraries. Kototic, public schools. Case, university nnd normal schools. Skeen, mines nnd minerals. Hospodsky, immigration. Fogarty, manufacture ami com merce. Worthing, school lands and funds. Gerdes, miscellaneous subjects. Snyder, claims. Harrington, live stock and grazing Interests. Gates, revenue and taxation. Pool, rules. Pickens, apportionment. Alarlett, fees nnd salaries. Miller, Irrigation. Pool, employes. Boland, drainage. Williams Asks for Week's Salary. J. A. Williams, ex-rallway commis sioner, has filed a claim with Auditor Bnrlon for seven days' salary that he did not receive for tho first week In January. The clnim has been referred to the attorney general for an opinion. Usunlly state officers are paid up to tho time they go out or office, tho first Thursday after the first Tuesday In January. Their terms of office be gin about ono week after tho first of tho yenr and they remain In office about ono week arter tho end of tho j ear. Air. Williams did not begin his term or office til several months ufter the first of tho year. The commission having been created by a constitu tional amendment It did not orgnnlze nnd draw pay till Alarch 31, 1907. Tho last legislature appropriated $250 for Commissioners Wlnnett and Wil liams for investigations they mndo before the commission organized. This fact may have no bearing on the present claim of Judge Williams. Bryan Electors Meet. The .eight democratic electors of No braska who cast their votes for W. J. Bryan met Alondav after- noon at tho state house, nccordlng to law, and cast their vote and will send a copy theieof to Washington and tho messenger, who will be one of tho electors, will get u nice fat mileage feo for his troublo, besides tho enjoy ment of a trip to tho national capital. While tho electors have given up hope of electing Air. Bryan by their otcs, they intend to vote 'or straight Just tho same. Governor Shallehbor ger had the pleasure of meeting with tho electors and talking over tho po litical Bltuatlon. The electors aro AI. F. Harrington of O'Neill, Henry R. Gerlng of PlattBinouth, R. E. Watzko Of Humboldt, Sophus F. Neblo of Omaha, Douglas Shawvan or Lorotto, E. O. Weber of Valparaiso, Frank T. Swanson of Clay Center, and A. D. Cameron of Spnulding. The Legislators Get Busy. Up to tho timo of Its udjournment Thursday there had been ninety bills Introduced Into the senato and when tho houso adjourned Friday about the biuno number had been Introduced In that branch of tho legislature. They cover almost every known subject that could bo imagined that would bo at all likely to bo brought up aud includo several schemes for bank guarnnty, new experiment atntlons, and ono seeks to appropriate $100,000 for tho erection of new buildings" at the Hnstings nsyluin. So far nothing has been dono in either house except introduce bills and It Is not likely that tho oratory will begin to flow In their behalf until somo time the com ing waok. It 1b expected iTmt by that time tho solons will have caught their hecond breath and get down to hard work. Inspecting State Institutions. Tho senato committee on public InndB nnd buildings began Its trip or inspection of stnto institutions Thurs. day, leaving for Grand Islnnd, where tho oporntlon of tho Soldiers' Homo there will bo Investigated. Tho Boys' Industrial school at Kearney 1b next on tho list, following which the mem bers will go to Hastings, whore Sen ntor Tlbbets will play host. The Hastings hospltnl, under tho manage ment of Superintendent Kern, lias been enlarged, and It compares favor flirty with some of tho larger hoa ultals for tho insane in the east. HE SENDS IN A VETO PRE8IDENT SAYS COUNTRY MUST SAVE WATER POWER. MUCH TOO LIBERAL IN PAST Adheres to Past Statements on Con servation of Natural Resources Views of Commissioner of Corporations. Prosldent Roosevelt, Friday bent a spcclnl messago to the houso with his voto of tho bill providing for the con struction of a dam across the James river, In Stone county, Allssouri, tho purpose of the dam being to get water to create electric power. He declared that the movement to secure control of tho wnter nower of tho emmtrv U still In Its Infancy, but that unless It Is controlled tho history or tho oil In dustry will bo repented In the hydro electric power Industry, with results far more oppressive nnd disastrous. "It is true," he nddod, "that the great bulk of our potential water power is as yet undeveloped, but the sites which are now controlled by com binations nro thpso which offer the greatest advantages and thereroro hold a 8trnteglc position." Ho says the bill gives to the grantee a valuable privilege, which by Its very nature is monopolistic and does not contain the conditions essential to pro tect tho public Interest. "I consider myself bound," he con tlnuesr"a8 far ns exercise of mv ex ecutive power will allow, to do for (he people In pi eventing of monopoly of their resources what 1 believe they would do for themselves if they wero in n position tj net." The moBsncro wns rnu-n.i in.iinv... ently. After Its rending It was refer red tO the COlllinlMn nn Intnroloin r.n.1 foreign commerce. Fatal Wreck Near Peoria. Two extra freight trains on the Chi cngo & Northwestern collided head on Friday evening four miles north west of Peoria, HI. Three trainmen were instantly killed, one is missing nnd believed to he in the wreckage nnd two others wero seriously Injured. Tho dead: JOE CURTAIN, engineer, Sterling, AI. AIELTZER, firemnn, home in Vlr glnln. J. A. RUSSEL, Brnkemnn, Sterling, No cause can dcfiuttclc be assigned for the dlasster, though it is general ly believed It was a mistake In train orders. Nice Berth for W. L. Park. General Superintendent W. L. Park of tho Union Pacific has been ad vanced to the head of tho operating de partment of all the Hnrrlman lines In tho west. Supreme power In his de partment has been granted him. Air. Park will mnke his headquarters at Chicago. Charles Ware has been nppolnted general superintendent of the Union Pnclllc system to succeed W. L. Pnrk, who becomes head or the operating department of the Harrimnn lines In the west. In his new position Air. Parks will report direct to Julius Kluttschnltt, nt present nctlve head of all tho Harrlman lines. Advance in Freights. Among the measures passed by tho house Friday was a resolution requir ing tho intcrstnto commerce commis sion to Inrorm the houso what ad vances have occurred In freight rates slnco tho passage of the Hepburn act of Juno 29. 190G; whether such ad vances have been occasioned by ad vances In tho tariff rate or changes In classification or by chnrging for somo privilege which formerly was given free. Electrical Storms in South. Having fulled to experience an ex pected cold wavo, New Orleans had a torrential rain and intense elec trical storm of mld-Biimmer typo FrI day night. Other sections of the stnto also report heavy rains nnd elecfrlcnl disturbance. Considerable damage to roads and interference with tele graph nnd telephone service reBiilted. After his nrrest he talked rambling ly. It is believed that ho is Insnne. Burned to Death In Home. Dr. Cyrus Campbell, nged Boventy four years, a retired physician nud pioneer resident of Cherryvale, Kan., was burned to death and his wire probably fatally Injured when their homo was destroyed by flro early Fri day. Neighbors, with difficulty, suc ceeded In rescuing Airs. Campbell. A gas Jet in too close proxlmlnty to a partition caused tho fire. Funeral of Carmlchael. Rev. John II. Cnrmlchaol, murderer of GIdoon Browning In tho Alothodlst church nt Battle Run. Mich., was burled nt Romulus, Allch., Friday, from tho Methodist church. A Inrgo floral trlubto from tho Detroit Aleth odlst Eplscopnl district, with the words, "Our Brother," lay on the coffin as It was borno from the church to tho grave. Tho pallbearers were six clergymen. Drives Employer Away and Kills His Wife and Brother. John Brooks, a farm hand in the employ or John Thompson, a young farmer living near Alodenn, AIo , drove his employer off tho premises' nt tho point of u royolver nnd after killing MrB. Thompson, who was lying ill In bod, nnd his employer's brother, Butler Thompson, committed suicide. No motive ror the shooting has been learned. Brooks Is reported to hnvo been addicted to drink and It Is sup posed ho committod the double mur der while Intoxicated A Pennsylvania bulldog attacked nnd killed n bull, thus fully vindicating' his title. "Wns your father college-bred?" "Yes, but we never mention it. The college he went to lind a rotten foot bnll team." Chicago Record-Herald. "Ald'em, hero's u man at tho doo wlth a parcel ror you." "What Is It, Bridget?" "It's n fish, ma'am, nnd It's marked C. O. D." "Then make tho mnn take It straight back to tho deal er." "I ordered trout." Baltimore American. No Longer Fortune's Toy. Tho doom of tho high automobile prices has sounded. Ono can buy a better car today for $1,500 than he could n row yenrs ago for $0,080. It is only n matter of time now until nny man who can nfford to keep a horso can afford to own nn automobile. Automobile building wns more or Icsb of an experiment up to a short timo ago. But now It Is nn exact sci ence. When tho modern car Is turned' out of tho shop the mnkers know that1 it-will run nnd run well. Close watch ing of tho performances of the earlier machines has pointed out tho defects of construction. These have mostly been remedied. Shops aro better! equipped now. Cylinders, crank shafts, axles, gears and tho like nro mndn hi grcnt quantities by spcclnl machinery. Tho cost of labor" and material has been much reduced by system, until now It is posslblo to turn out a much better machine than formerly and charge about half the original price for it. Truly good touring cars arc offered for as little as $1,000. pun nboutB that will give ten times the service of nny horso nnd buggy bring $fi00. Tho higher priced cars give the buyer a hotter finish and higher power, but th cheaper automobile is n very satisfactory ear In most enscs' nnd has the support or thousands of users In moderate circumstances. And this is only the beginning. TJio years will see a yet more pronounced drop in prices, while quality is maintnincd. N. Y. World. Oregon's Back Pay. The state or Oregon hna been award ed $200,000 for protecting tho ndjoln ing territories of Washington nnd Ida ho during the Civil wnr. This Is the first timo we have known that Wash lngton nnd Idaho wore In danger at that interesting period. But then his tory hns n way of being written sev eral years arter. San Francisco' Chronicle. The Midwest Life of Lincoln has, Insurance in force amounting to $l,t 452,000. Its officers are: N. Z. Snell,' president; Dr. B. B. Davis, Omaha J vice-president; A. J. S.twyer, secretary;- H. S. Freeman, treasurer; Dr. M. H. Everett, medical director; C. R.'i Easterday, actuary, and J. II. AlockettJ Jr., superintendent of agents. The! Midwest Life Issues all tho standard, forms of insurance. Local agents' wanted in every town in Nebraska. Home office, 1007 "O" street, Lincoln1 Nebraska. Two of a Kind. Little Johnnie, who Is considered; tho imago of his father, wbb ono day' in his mother's way, when she fold him: "You aro always in tho way." Ho replied: "I am just like papa." Tho January Delineator. Technical World Magazine. A big, handsome magazine Issued onco a month that will Interest and instruct every member of the family. Tho Technical World has correspond ents In every important city and keeps In touch with the latest achievements in .the mechanical nnd Inventive world. A magazine that is a help to tho expert or apprentice and instruc tive and Interesting lo all.- Address Technical World, 325 Armour Ave., Chicago. He Was Generous. Master Walter, aged five, had eaten tho soft portions or his toast at break fast nnd plied tho crusts on his plate. "When I was a little boy," remarked his father, "I always ate tho crusts of my toast." ' "Did you llko them?" asked tho lit tle fellow, cheerfully, "Yes," replied tho parent. "You may havo theso," replied Mas ter Walter, pushing his plate ncrosa tho tabic. Tho January Delineator. Lincoln Directory If yon are gnlajf to buy ii draft STALLION send fen- oar pictorial Ktory of tho horso free U you mention this paper. WATI0K, WOOD J BADS, t KEttT -r Lincoln, Nob. Dayton Moneyweight Scales X?.n,ia Ji?,at wlc'"K Machine Temnloton !.fnAi.U,CtKMBM,,an' WBr"8,r P B,rMt' Beatrice Creamery Company Pays the highest prlco for CREAM Please call on our Receiving Agent HERBERT E.GOOCH CO. OKOKURS AND UL'Al.URS Grain, Provisions, Stocks, Cotton ftalo OHIce, 304005 fraternity Uldir. Lincoln, Nebraska. Hell Phone 612 Auto Phono SIM j-arKw nouio in Htato &.m 'vniftM. 1 i "TSatr i Jtri1'KNOWnW'IW'Mjtia-tyyir-ltf. .kww , Mfn"tv liMvM(w wmn ftaMifOtt?diraia