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C. B. HALE, Publlshor
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STORY OFJHE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD BOILED
DOWN FOR BUSY READERS.
NEWS FROM HOME ANOABROAD
Dolngn of the Busy World Which Mny
be Read In a Few Moments. Na
tional and World-wide Events
l of Importance.
Foreign.
Itlfnat Fn.ha, the TurklHh nmbiiB
r.adnr to Grent Britain, him accepted
the post of foreign milliliter In the nuw
Turkish cabinet.
Tho Duko of the Abruzzl has again
been spending several days In London
for the purpose ol completing his out
fit for hlB trip to tho Himalaya
mountains.
The new maud vizier, Illlmi Pasha,
made his first nppournnco In the cham
ber or deputies Wednesday. Tho hall
was crowded. u outlined the niln
Isterlal program as a continuance of
tho existing foreign policy nnd the
Internal reforms at present under way.
It wns rumored In tho lobbies of tho
Iioubo of commons that Mr, Lloyd
Ccorgo, chancellor of the exchequer,
might again Impose a duty on sugar.
Five persons were killed and 78 In
jured, twenty-eight Berlously by the
collapse of a floor In a hul In Va
lencia, where loth were being drawn
for conscription.
Tho International opium conference
which opened In Shanghai February 1,
Is making satisfactory progress In tho
discussion of the limitation and con
trol of the opium Unfile. Reports from
various countries have been received
nnd debuted and the conference will
now take up the matter of resolutions.
It Iuib been announced that King
Alfonso has accepted tho role of ar
bitrator In the dispute between Ger
many and Englund regarding tho
boundaries or Walflsh bay. Wulflsh
bay Is on tho southwest coast of
Africa and gives Its name to a small
coast division annexed to Cape Colony.
It Is surrounded on the land side by
(Jermnn Southwest Africa.
Tho legislature of the territory of
Huwali convened Wednesday and the
organization wiu affected. Tho gov
ernor's message was read In both
houses. Tho mousago urges appropria
tions for tho entertainment of con
gressmen visiting tho Islands; for a
territorial display at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition; the repeal of the
leper segregation law, and the enact
ment or a substitute less harsh than
the jiresent act.
Tho second ocean race to bo sailed
In Australian waters started Monday
from Queen'B CM IT, Victoria, under the
uusplces of tho Royal Yacht club of
Tasmnnla. Tho destination Is Hobart,
Tnsmnnla, the distance being 420 nau
tical miles. This Is by far tho longest
race ever sailed In Australian waters,
exceeding tnu ono of last year from
Geclong to Launceston, a distance of
220 miles.
Domestic.
Tho nutl-treatlng bill passed tho
South Dakota senate Thursday. Tho
measure hnd nlu-ady gone through the
house. Theio IB no doubt that Gover
nor Vessey will sign tho act.
The thirteenth ballot for United
States senator by the joint convention
or the Wisconsin legislature Thursday
showed no choice. Senator Stephenson
received Cl out of i:io votes cast, lack
ing live or a majority.
A special from Denlsou, Iowa, says
that Leslie M. Shaw, ex-secretary of
the treasury, who is visiting friends
in Denlson, has announced there that
he will soon re.nove with his family
from Iowa and will locate In Phlli
dclphin, where lie will head a largo
trust company. Mr. Shaw, It Is stated,
says tho report that he contemplated
locating in Kaiibns City had no foun
dation. What Is propably tho most stringent
legislation enacted In any state In th-
union to preveht the sale of Intoxicat
ing liquors was passed by the Kansas
house Thursdnv. The bill had already
passed tho somite. Tho only way
whereby liquor could bo sold lawfully
by tho bill was through a physician's
prescription. This wus cut oft by an
amendment, tho houso voting not evon
to allow this. Tho bill absolutely
prohibits tho Issuanco of permits to
druggists to sell liquor and In connec
tion with tho prohibition law In force
is absolutely prohibitory.
W. T. Carr, uged thirty years, has
been found guilty or murder In the
second degree on a charge or killing
O. A. Ilnlley, an express messenger.
The murder was committed In an
Atchison, Topoka & Santa Fo railroad
oxpross car between Marlon and New
ton, Kansas, In 1007,
According to a report by Chler
'j-spector John Sargent or tho Immi
gration ofllce, thero hnvo come Into
this country at tho Seattle, Wash.,
port during the last six months 052
Japanese mc.ii, women and children
on all tho steanibhlps plying to Seat
tle from tho orient
The annunl Maidl Gran carnival was
ushered In nt New Orleans Thursdny
with tho gorgeoiiH street parnde,
tableaux and ball of the Knights of
Comus, Tho festivities will extend
over n period ot six dnys, renchlng
their climax next TuoRdnv with tho
spectacular parndo of tho MyBtlo
Krewo of Comiif..
Charges of cruelty In Iowa insane
nsyluniH will bo Investigated by tho
legislature. A resolution urging tho
appointment of a committee of three
members of tho house to be selected
by the speaker to visit every Institu
tion In tho Btalo nnd make a full re
port was Introduced in tho houso
Thursday.
Tho senate antl-lobby bill was
passed by tho Kansns house nnd hicks
only tho governor's Hlgnnture to maki
It n law. The bill Is patterned after
tho Wisconsin lnw.
Pool selling at fairs In Knnsna will
bo dono nwny with entirely if a bill
passed by the house committee of tho
whole becomes a law. It makes bet
ting and pool selling Illegal at all
times of tho year.
The Montana houso of representa
tives by a vote or 32 to 21, rejected
tho senate miscegenation bill which
forbldB Internum Inge between Caucas
ians and Aslatlcp, Africans, Mongolians
and persons of Afrlcn or Mongollnn
descent.
Dr. Carroll D. Wright, president
Clark college, former United States
commissioner of labor Is In a crltlcul
condition Buffering from a mental and
physical breakdown. AM hopes or his
recovery have been abandoned by hla
physicians.
C. M. Hcldcn or Rlngstcnd, Iown,
was killed and five other men woro
Berlously lnlure.1 when a handcar on
tho Northwestern railroad on which
they were riding was struck by a loco
motive. The men were en route to
Fenton, Iown. to attend a dance.
Dr. L. A. Ilorthy, the matrimonial
ngont accused or using the malls to
defraud, pleaded guilty and was sen
tenced to eighteen months in tho
Leavenworth penitentiary.
Washington.
Tho president Thursdny nominated
Gustnvo Scholle of Minnesota to bo
third secretary of tho embassny at
Herlln, Germany.
The house committee on appropria
tions Is to Include in tho sundry civil
bill nn Item loovlng toward the ulti
mate rnlsng or the bnttleshp Maln,
the wreck of which still remains in
Hnvana hnrbor.
Tho wedding or Miss Shelby Con
verse, dnughtcr or Rear Admiral nnd'
-Mrs. Converse, and Mr. Huntington
Wnlcott Jackson, took place In St.
John's church Thursday afternoon
and was largely intended by members
or the navy set and others prominent
In tho social life or the national capital.
Tho most Important legislation
agreed to by the house in years was
Incorporated in tho penal code bill
which wns under consideration. Tho
legislation seeks to regulate the Inter
state control of Intoxicating liquors.
Speaker Cannon took tho floor and
voter for tho legislation.
Vice President nnd Mrs. Fnlrlmnks
are contemplating a trip around tho
world shortly after tho adjournment
or congress. They probnbly will tako
a steamer at San Francisco, visiting
Hawaii and tho Philippine Islands,
then China and Japan and returning
via Europe.
The house nt 4:40 o'clock Monday
afternoon passed tho bill removing tho
constitutional bar to Senator Knox
assuming tho office of socrctnvy of
state. Tho bill had been previously re
jected under the two-thirds rule. Tho
majority on passage under special rule
was 173 to 117.
Tho scnato committee on commerce
ordered a favorablo report on a bill
appropriating $500,000 Tor tho con
struction or n now mnrlno hospital nt
San Finnclsco.
Rnpld work In building tho battle
ship Michigan, at Camden, N. J., will
result in tho delivery or that vessel
to the government six months enrlor
thnn tho contract requires and tho
ship, probably will be ready tor her
trial trip In Juno. It Is expected sho
will bo delivered to tho navy In May.
An effort to gain tho consent of
tho house committee on territories
to have the Hutch Hetchy valley res
ervoir bill calloi up beforo tho houso
on Monday next met with failure at
the committee mooting. Unless n spo
clal nilo Is brought providing for tho
consideration of tho bill Its support
ers probably will be unable to get
ii nn on .Monitry.
The United States government dis
avows all responsibility for recent re
marks made by Representative Rnlnoy
or Illlnol3 In tho house, criticising
President Obnldia of Panama. Thla
Is Indicated In n letter sent by Secro
tary Racon to C C. Arosemonn, minis
tor from Panama In reply to a protest
by the latter In behalf of his govern
ment. Railroad companies must show tho
changes In rates or rules and regula
tions proposed by them nro Just and
reasonnblo before being nblo to put
such charges In effect, ir the bill which
has been introduced by Representa
tive Needham of California is enacted
Into law.
Tho secretary or tho treasury an
nounced that ho would make another
call on tho temporary natlonnl bank
depositaries to bo paid on or beroro
February 21, 1909, that will yield $30,
000,000. This will eavo a balance In
the temporary depositories or about
i SKI 000.000
NEWS NOTE8 OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS 3ECTION8.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUGHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
Cupid oT late has been very busy
'In nnd about Beatrice.
William Steele or Nebraska City, 72
Jyears or ago, was stricken with paral
ysis nt his home In that city and died
'shortly after.
Three Norfolk men enshed bogus
.chocks for Win. Wright of Omaha,
now being hunted ror bigamy. The
'victims were D. Rees, $20; James
Pierce, $20, and William Heritor, $10.
- Tho "curfew ordlnnnce" wnB passed
by tho city council of Seward. This
will require the youngsters undor the
nge or 10 to be under the paternal roor
In good senBon at night.
Herman Herold, one or tho oldest
nnd best known citizens, died at his
homo In Plattsmouth us the result of
u tree railing upon him wh!ch ho had
Just cut down.
g Some detnlls or the mipronchlng
meeting or tho Southwestern Nebras
ka Teachers' association are being
given out. McCook is the place or the
meeting, which will bo held Thursdny,
Friday and Saturday, April 1, 2 and II.
County Attorney Ramsey of Cass
county filed a complaint against John
.Clnrenco for the murder of John P.
'Thncker on .Inn. 15 last, near the vil
lage or Union, in that county. The
complaint charges Clarence with
murder in the first degree.
Fire destroyed all tho buildings on
tho west side of the square at Garri
son, consisting of rour frames nnd one
brick building. The fire started In
;Vill Vanderkoll's hnrdwnro Btoro
while ho was attempting to light n
gnsollnc lamp.
At a meeting of tho board of super
visors of Fremont county a resolution
.was adopted approving of tho bounda
ries of the proposed new drainage dis
trict, directing tho election of bovch
directors and fixing March 10 as tho
dnto of their election.
Farmers in the section of tho state
nbout Arborvillo have placed high
values on their rnrms, many aB high
'as $100 per acre, and nil are selling.
'Some who have sold are investing in
Deuel county, Nebraska, lands, while
others are buying In Texas nnd North
Dakota.
Mra. Edward Wohn dramatically
killed herseir n- Seward. Setting flro
to her houso In soveral different
'places, sho went to the garret, lighted
her own clothes and hanged herself to
a rafter. The firemen quickly put out
tho Untiles, nnd nfter a search found
tho womnn's partly cremated corpse.
Twenty Fremont men have rormed
a syndlcnto and will develop several
thousnnd acres or land In Tovns, with
tho object or converting It into n Trull
Turin. They will send P. B. Cumlngs,
rormer manager at Fremont for the
Nebraska Telephone company, to su
pervise the development nnd Mr.
Cumlngs will movo to Toxns.
Corn sold on tho Omnha ensh mar
ket Thursday Tor more than five times
the price quoted by men who bought
'It nt their country elevators out over
(Nebraska fifteen yenrs ago, this
month. Yellow corn brought "59Vo
nnd white corn as high as Glc. This
Is not merely a quoted price, but
many car londs were sold nt nniJpGlc.
' George nickert, a young German
fnrmer residing four miles southwest
of Elmwood, received a terrible Injury
to his loft eye that may result In los
ing the sight of that member. He was
trimming up tho trunk of a tree ho
had Just relied, when a short limb
flow up, r.trlklng him Talrly In tho eye.
cutting the eyebnll.
Word wns received In Alliance from
the southeast hills that Frank Elch
thaler and his 17-year-old son were
lost nnd frozen to denth during the
recent severo storm, while en route
from Alliance. Tho family had only
recently taken up land In that section
and was not very familiar with tho
country.
- Nebraska will send a representative
delegation, headed by Gov. Shallen
berger, to tho seventeenth National
Irrigation Congress In Spokuno, Aug.
9 to 14, when government officials and
experts In their lines will discuss for
estry, deep waterway, reclamation of
swamp and mid laud, good roads,
homo building, education and other
problems.
Benjamin Mnrquls, who was arrest
ed In Kansas City on the chnrgo of
negotiating a worthless check Tor
$800 through tho Bnnk oT Holsteln,
in Adams county, wns brought to Has
tings nnd will bo arraigned. He snys
;ho Is In debt between $12,000 nnd
$15,000, most or which is represented
by what ho terms overdrafts on tho
Bank of Chnppellc, In Deuel county.
Mondny morning John Bolander of
Florence, a farm hand, drovo Wlllnrd
.Shipley's team to Omaha, and neither
Bolander nor tho tenm has been seen
since. Mr. Shipley is offering a re
ward Tor the roturn or tho team, and
would not mind seeing Bolander again
Tor a row moment b.
Charles nott or Norrolk. aged 3, bled
to death, making Tour children In tho
.family of John Bolt to dlo within ten
days. Three succumbed to scnrlot fo
vor, tho last bleeding to death ns a re.
suit or hla- condition following fever.
The four dead woro half the children
In tho family
A TALK BY MR. BRYAN
ADDRESSES A JOINT SESSION OF
THE SENATE AND HOUSE.
MEASURES THAT HE FAVORS
Steps Taken for Remedying Defects
In the Primary Law Miscellan
eous Legislative Matters.
In representative hall, which was
crowded, lobby nnd gnllery, William
J. Brynn uddrcssed a Joint session of
tho house nnd senate. In his address,
which lasted for ono hour nnd forty
minutes, ho ndvocnted the passage of
tho following bills, now pending:
Appropriation for a Lincoln monu
ment. Liberal appropriation for a state
historical building.
A bill for tho Initiative and referen
dum. A bill for a school of citizenship nt
tho university.
A bill for the Oregon primary plan
of electing senators. .
A bill for tho publication oT cam
paign contributions before election.
A bill for tho physlcnl valuation of
railroads.
The committee bill for tho guaranty
of bnnk deposits.
He opposed the bill providing that
tho teachers in the state university be
qualified to become beneflcinrlcB1 of
the Carnegie pension fund nrtcr hav
ing tnught continuously Tor twenty
live years, or for fifteen yenrs, when
tho teacher is fi5 years old.
Mr. Bryan advocated tho pnssage of
the bill limiting the amount oT money
n candldntc for ofllce may spend In
his campaign.
Defects In Primary Law.
Whllo both the houso nnd senate
hnvo taken steps to euro some of tho
minor defects of tho primary election
law by the passage of amendments
covering theso points, tho first ques
tion which hns given .serious trouble
wns taken up In the house with the
Kuhl bill, which seeks to cure the dif
ficulty of calling the platform conven
tion nfter the primary and the selec
tion of committeemen by the candi
dates. This bill, house roll 159, was dis
cussed in the house committee of the
whole, but the questions Involved wore
considered serious enough to hnvo the
bill passed over for more extended
discussion.
Tho bill provides for calling a con
vention before the primaries. Tho
delegates to this convention nro to bo
selected on the old caucus plan. At
tho same tlmo and in the same way
precinct, county and state committee
men nro to bo chosen. The state con
vention Is to draft tho platform and
decide whether to Indorse or not In
dorse nny proposed constitutional
amendments. It Is forbidden to take
nny nctlon of nny character with ref
erence to candidates.
Objection wns raised to tho method
outlined for the selection of commit
teemen. It was urged that they
should bo chosen by direct vote nt
tho prlmnrles Instead of by caucus.
It was declared that the old plan ot
selecting them would have tho tenden
cy or putting the party machinery In
to tho hands of the political bosses.
Constitutional Convention.
Tho bill calling Tor a submission to
tho peoplo or Nebraska or the propo
sition or calling n constitutional con
vention wns pnssed by tho senate by
a vote of 2.'5 to 9. Tho bill provides
that the question of calling a conven
tion shall bo submitted to tho people
In 1911. nnd that if they vote in favor
or it tho next leglsiature shall pro
vide for calling tho convention to for
mulnto a now constitution to supplant
tho present one, which has been in
force for a third of a century.
Bills Postponed.
On recommendation of the commit
tee on medical societies the senate in
definitely postponed a bill appropriat
ing $12,000 for the mnintonunco of n
Btato bacteriological laboratory. It
also indefinitely postponed a bill to
admit licensed druggists of other
states to Nebraska without an exam
ination. Pure "sled BUI.
Considerable discussion wns evoked
in tho houso over the pure seed bill.
This sets a. standard for tho purity,
freedom from weed seeds nnd viabili
ty of agricultural seeds. Tho ques
tion which Is tormenting a good many
or tho members is whether the bill Is
one which will be advantageous to
tho farmer or to tho seed houses.
Representative Miller, who Introduced
It, declares It will be a benefit to tho
farmers, but there Is a considerable
opinion that ho may bo mlstnken on
the proposition. Sovornl small coun
try merchants havo wrltton protests
againBt tho Mil that it will put them
out of tho seed business nnd give the
big seed houses a monopoly.
Qualification of Electors.
Shoemaker of Douglas county, who
heretofore hns tried to get tho leglsln
ture to submit n constitutional amend
ment on tho qunllflcntlon of electors,
has nt Inst got n measure recommend
ed for passage His' bill provides for
a constitutional amendment that all
foreign born mulo residents 21 yearB
old may voto after six months In tho
state, city and ward or precinct, upon
tnklng out their first papers, but that
at the end or flvo years they must be.
come full-Hedged citizens, or1 the right
of franchise Is taken away from them.
APPROVE BANK BILL.
Full
Committee, However. Makes
Some Changes.
The joint committee on banks
agreed to tho banking bill ns pre
pared by the subcommittee, nnd an
nounced that the bill would bo Intro
duced in the house Wednesday. Tho
measure was read section by section,
and each member of the committee
agreed to Its provisions, after making
ono or two minor changes..
The guaranty fund was changed
from a levy equal to one-half of 1
per cent on the average dally depos
its, to be followed by semi-annual
levies of one-twentieth of 1 per cent,
to two levies of oue-hnlf of 1 per cent,
made July 1, 1909, and January 1,
1910, and followed by semi-annual
levies' of one-twentieth of 1 per cent.
A further provision Is to tho effect
Hint from July, 1909, to Jnnunry, 1910,
the guaranty Tund Bhnll never be less
thnn one-hair of 1 per cent of the av
erage dally deposits. If for any rea
son tho funds should be depleted be
low this amount the state banking
board shall make levies on tho capltnl
stock, which shall not be more for the
year thnn 2 per cent of the deposits.
After January, 1910, the fund shall
never bo less than 1 per cent of tho
average dally deposits.
The Immediate payment provision
In the bill is ns follows:
"Tho claims oT depositors Tor de
posits shnll have priority over all
other claims, except Tederal, state,
county nnd municipal taxes, and sub
ject to such taxes elmll be a first lien
on all the assets of tho banking cor
poration from which they are due,
and then under receiversiilp, including
the liability oT stockholders, and upon
prooT thereoT, they shall bo paid Im
mediately out oT tho available cash
In the hands oT a receiver.
"If the cash In the hands or tho re
eelver, available Tor such purposes,
he Insufficient to pay the claims' of
depositors, the court in which tho re
ceivership is pending or a judge there
or, shall determine tho nmount to sup.
ply the deficiency nnd cause the same
to be certified to the state banking
board, which shall thereupon draw
against the depositors guarantee Tund
In the nmount required to supply such
deficiency, nnd Bhall forthwith trans
mit the same to the receiver, to bo
applied on the said clalmB or the de
positors." The banking board shall conslBt of
the governor, attorney general and
nudltor, the governor being given full
power to make all appointments,
which shall Include: Secretary of the
banking board, ot $3,000 a year; clerk,
at $1,500 n year; unlimited number of
exnmlnors, nt $1,800 a year; to bo paid
out or the general Tund or the state.
Tho bill specifies that the reserve
fund shall bo 20 per cent of the depos
its, of which three-tenths shall bo lit
cash In the vaults, and In towns ex
ceeding 25,000 population the reserve
shall be 25 per cent, of which three
tenths shall be In cash In tho vaults.
Savings banks shall have a reserve of
C per cent.
A majority or the directors of any
bank shall reside In the county or
counties adjacent thereto and they
shall own one-twentieth of the stock
In bnnks of a capital of less than $50,
000 and $3,000 of the stock In banks
or over $50,000 cnpltal.
Tho bill carries the emergency
clause.
House Favors Capital Punlchment.
Tho house went on record as favor
ing capital punishment when the Ra
per bill to amend the present law bo
as to provide lire Imprisonment, in
stead or hanging, was deTentcd.
Help for Weak Districts.
Hous-e Rule 123, by the committee
on schools, was recommended Tor
pnssage and ordered engrossed by the
house committee oT the whole. This
appropriates $75,000 Tor tho aid oT tho
weak school districts and limits the
amount which nny one district mny
receive to $250. As nt first Intro
duced the appropriation was $1'15,000.
Constitutional Convention.
The senate committee of the whole
by a vote or 17 to 11 recommended Tor
pnssage Senntor King's Joint resolu
tion providing for tho submission to
the peoplo of tho stnto of Nebraska
tho proposition or cnlllng a constitu
tional convention, tho vote to bo sub
mitted In 1911, and ir carried tho next
legislature to provldo for tho calling
of tho convention. However, ns a
three-firths majority is necessary for
passing a resolution of this nnture, it
is not thought that it will pass when
It comes to tho third reading.
Senator King nrgued that Nebraska
has had the s-amo constitution for a
third of n century, nnd that tho stnto
nnd conditions hnd outgrown it. Ho
said that mnny laws thnt were tip be
foro the present session, such as tho
bill to provldo for tho raising of the
state fund by tnxlng corporations,
were unconstitutional under tho pres
ent constitution, nnd yet wero impor
tnnt lawB, and wero renlly necessary.
Ho declared that tho governor had
enough work for three men, being on
bo mnny boards and holding all sorts
of offices, Trom that or game warden to
the head oT the state.
Friend of Dumb Animals.
Taylor or Hitchcock has coino out
as the friend of dumb animals, and In
tho house ho introduced three or four
measures In tholr Interest. In H. R.
384 ho provides ngnlnst coursing or
turning looso nny dumb nnlmal for
tho purpose or allowing dogs to chnso
It. H. R. 385 provides a penalty for
any person who leaves a wotinded
dumb animal In a public plnco to die.
H. R. 380 provides for tho earn ot
dumb animals Injured In railroad
wrecks, and II. R. 387 forbids picking
fowls while still ollvo.
STIRS IRE OF JAPS
JAPS SEE H08TILE PURPOSE IN
h
RUSSIAN WAR LOAN.
JAPAN'S ARMY TO BE MOBILIZED
While Not Attempting to Conceal.
Their Flnancal Distress the Japs
Show Willingness to Fight
If Such Is Necessary. ' '
Tho floating of tho Russian loan of
$250,000,000 will be dramatically an
swered by Japan with the mobilization
for mnneuvers onrly In November or
tho lnrgcst military force ever as
sembled in the empire In time of
peace.
The Russlnn loan Is taken by official
Japan to be tho czar's notice to tho
mikado that ho Is prepnrlng to re
habilitate his military establishment,
with Manchuria as the ultimate strik
ing point. Tho moblllzntlon of Its mill-
iury sirengui is .inpnn s reply. &P-
Whllo not attempting to conceal htT
financial distress, Japan is showing
sho Is willing to fight. The nnnounce
ment of the mnneuvers has aroused n
great war spirit in Japan.
Baby Girl Born en Fast Train.
Claypool Valentino Miller Is the
name of n girl baby born to Mr. nnd
Mrs. Thomns M. Miller on board tho
Nickel Plate passenger train No. 3
between Sidney nnd Pnckerton, Ind.,
Friday. The parents, with six other
children, wero en route from near Fort
Wayne, where they had resided for
soveral years on a farm, to North Da
kota, whore they expect to make their
future homo. Tho train Btopped at
Claypool and tho mother was taken to
tho Claypool hospital, In close prox
imity to the Nickel Plato station. Tho
child wns then named Claypool Val
entino Miller, the first nfter tho town
and tho second because of tho close
ness of Vnlentlno day. Tho mother
and child are doing nicely nnd will, in
a few days, be able to continue their
Journey.
Injunction Puts Brakes on Inquiry.
Senator Lchr. of Appleton, Wis., Fri
day morning filed a petition in the
supreme court for a writ of Injunction
to restrain the state treasurer from
paying tho expense of tho legislative
Investigation. If the injunction Is i'
sued It will delay any rurther invest!
(-til Inn
.T TT Plinllnhnt- n Mlln'fiiiTfflft Tnri-r
or, wns beroro the committee Friday
morning, nnd snld he hnd distributed
$98,000 for Stophenson. He gave tho
names of persons to whom the money
went, naming persons Stephenson had
mentioned In his campaign expenses.
The testimony did not show nny Illegal
use of money.
Earth Opens; Swallows Villages.
Reliable reports from tho provinces
of Lurlstan sny that the earthquake
on January 23 wns of unprecedented
violence. Couriers arriving from the
scene sny that the prolonged quake
has changed tho entire nppearance ot
the country. It split mountains, shift
ed streams and engulfed n number of
villages so that no trace Is left of tho
remains. Tho shah sent out an Inves
tigating party, hut the rellof sent to
tho Btrlcken districts so Tar Is small
and of poor quality. Tho Inaccessi
bility of Lurlstan, which Is 300 miles
nwny, nnd a mountnln fnstness, makes
tho work of rellof slow nnd arduous.
High Court Upholds Snell Will.
The Illinois state supreme court Fri
day held that tho will of Thomas
Snell, tho lato millionaire, which was
broken becauso of his conduct with
Mabel McNnmara of Kansas City, was
valid. It hold that tho lower court
erred In admitting vulgar letters that
had passed between them. His belief
in spiritualism, was not a sign of men
tal Incapacity to mnko a will. Tho
property involved is not w.orth half,
n million. A McLean county jury
broke tho will.
Novel Plan Invoked by Wlnnloen.
The prlnclplo thnt corporation!?
Bhould havo a voto in all municipal
nffalrs has been adopted by Winnipeg.
Tho qualifications nro:
If property owners, they must have
property assessed ot $1,000; if ten
ants, they must pay $G00 a year rent.
Both classes of corporations mny voto
for mayor, hoard of control and alder
men. Corporations which nro prop
erty owners may vote on money np
proprlntlons, but thoso which are ten
ants may not.
Harrlman Gets Ready at Pumps.
Tho Southern Pacific railroad ban
authorized on Ibsuo ot about $82,000,
000 In twenty-year convertible, four
per cent bonds. At a directors' meet
ing Fridny, which authorized tho Issue,
a meeting of tho stockholders was
called for April 7 to authorize an In
crease In tho common stock of tho
company of $100,000,000 with which to
finance tho bonds. The bonds are re.
deemablo in March, 1914.
Race Track Bill 8lgned by Gillette.
Governor Gllletto or Calirornla
Friday signed the Otls-Wnlkor nntl
raco track betting bill. Its provisions,
which will bo effective nTter sixty
days, makes wagers on horse racing
unlawful throughout tho stnto.
In responso to criticism that ho had
delayed to tho full legal Imlt beroro
signing tho bill in order to givo rac
lug Interests tho longest tlmo posslblo
to operate, tho governor declared:
"Mnny bills preceded the race track
monsure. and I was determined to take
up tho bills regularly."