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: A Boiling Down of (lie More Impor- ;
j taut Events Here and There
Foreign.
Tho pope appointed llcv. Jumps
O'Reilly, now rector of St. Anthony
of Padua, MlnncnpollH, Minn., to tho
bishopric of Fargo, N. I)., antl Kov.
F. M. Fallon of tho provincial obltitos
of Utiffnlo, N. Y., to tho bishopric of
London, Canndn.
An ofllclal telegram from Huenos
Ayres stntps that tho authorities hav
ing the 1!)10 exposition In chnrgo havo
Ret apnrt a special bulldliiK for Amerl
can railway exhibitors.
At St. Petersburg, tho publisher or
Tolstoi's booh, "Tho Kingdom of Clod
Within Us," was sentenced to it year's
imprisonment In a fortress.
W. 0. Splltcr. an Ameilcan, pro
prietor of the Astor house at Colon
and alleged owner of the Cuban steam
er Otorl, was expelled from Panama
territory. He was put aboard tho
Itoynl Mall steamer, Mngdulonu, bound
for Jamaica and New York, by a de
cree of President Ohaldla. Ho Is
charged with enticing employes on the
Panama cunal to leave their work.
Chan Yin l'aug, successor to Wu
Tung Fang as minister to China from
tho United States, accompanied by
his family and a party of forty secre
taries and Chlneso students arrived
In San Francisco on the liner Mon
golia. A severe earthquake occurred In
Guam, causing considerable damage
according to u cablegram received at
the navy department. The woi.ien's
and children's hospital was wrecked.
There were no casualties.
Evidence Is multiplying that Zcluya
Intends to retire from the presidency
of Nicaragua. Keports to that effect
are general throughout that country
and tho American consular ofllcera
seem to give creilenco to them.
General.
The Urooklyn Hapld Transit com
pany announced tho adoption of a
pension system for Its voteran em
ployes. Tho Towlo Syrup compnny's plant
nt St. Paul, Minn., was almost totally
destroyed by lire. The loss Is $100,000.
The house passed the Each bill, re
quiring railroads to make full monthly
reports to tho Intcrstato commerce
commission of nil accidents.
St. Paid has begun a light for lower
telephone rates.
Tho Intcrstato commerce commis
sion ordered a reduction In ehnrgea
of tho Omaha & Council niuffa rail
road. lied Cloud, Sioux Indian warrior,
who died on tho Pino Hldge agency,
will bo I urled nccordlng to tho ritual
of tho pulofaco and not abovo ground
ns he requested.
Georgo A. Puckett, live years edi
tor of tho Roswcll (N. M.) Dally Rec
ord, died from tuberculosis.
Hlght persons were fatally Injured
nnd a number of others less serious
ly hurt In tho wreck on tho Southern
railway near Greensboro. '
Tho Rev. David C. Hughes, father
of Governor Hughes of New York,
died nt tho executive mansion, fob
lowing a recent stroke of apoplexy.
President Tnft has promised to
speak nt tho next meeting of tho
farmers' national congress, which
meets In Lincoln October 5 to 11, 1910.
Fro3ldent Tnft snld at Hartford,
Conn., that tho time might conio when
n civil pension list will become a ne
cessity. Senator Uurkett of Nebraska and
Representative Hull of Iowa are In a
contest for noxt fall's mllltnry tourna
ment. Lesllo M. Shnw declared tliero Is no
doubt In tho minds of those who havo
utudled tho proposed central bank
that such an Institution would bo
owned, or nt least controlled, by the
Standard Oil company.
Tho stato occupation tax upon cor
porations was upheld by tho supremo
court of Nebrnskn.
Another failed bank In Oklahoma
is giving stato otllclnls much concom.
NobniBka hogs topped tho murkot
at Denver, bringing $8.47.
Imports of hides and skins for tho
calendar year will aggregate nearly a
hundred million dollars.
Mnny million acres of conl land will
bo opened to use for agricultural pur
poses if congress should pass a bill
introduced by Representative Mondell
of Wyoming.
Mrs. Frank Hicks and four of her
children were burned to death when a
crude oil stove exploded setting llro
to their houso at Wayne, Kansas.
Goueral Leonurd Wood, now In com
mand or tho department of tho East,
will bo tho next chief of Btaff or tho
army.
Iowa hns n candldnto for tho United
States supreme court when thero Is
another vacancy. He Is Judgo Horace
E. Deemer, of tho supremo court of
that state.
J. P. Morgan, Jr., camo back to tho
United Stntes from England. Ho de
nied the report thnt ho would tako
chnrgo of his fnther's great interests.
Tho 5-cent fare proposition' on Onin
hn Btreet railway has gone glimmering.
Ex-Senator Dcltrlch of Nebraska Is
reported better and hope Is now en
tertalned of his recovery.
Iowa dofcated Nebraska In tho an
nmil debate or the two state universi
ties. Tho voto was two to one. Tho
Income tax question was nt Issue.
Alaska's delegate to congress, Jns.
Wlckcrsham, said that upon his ar
rival In Washington early In January,
ho would introduce a bill providing
for tho establishment of a territorial
government for AluBkn.
Aftor porfunctory bcssIoiib of both
houses tho Illinois general assembly
udojurncd until Tuesdny, January I,
and tho prospective buttle over deep
waterway, primary nnd other legis
lation advocated by Governor Denccn
goes over until tho new year.
)y putting tho Standard Oil com
pany on tho "wo don't patronize" list
Secretary Dickinson of the war de
partment has embarrassed thu navy
department.
General Jnmes Clarkson, the sur
veyor of the port of New York, will
contluuo In tho olllco until April 18,
noxt, when tho term for which ho wn?
appointed expires.
Somo choice heavies sold at To
ledo, Ohio, at $3.70, tho highest price
readied In tho local hog market since
IS!)!!. The market advanced a strong
ton cents, tho top price of the bulk
of sales being $S.G0.
With the end of the year near, busi
ness for the country ua a whole con
tinues remarkably good.
Election of John M. Ward to tho
presidency of the National leaguu may
mean a baseball war.
Tho United States and (Jormany nre
running a close race In navy build
lug.
The Amorlcan Ice company of New
,York was found guilty of creating n
monopoly.
Tho first of the big supply mea
sures of tho government, the District
of Columbia appropriation bill, carry
ing n little over $11,000,000, has been
ngreed on by tho house comraltteo o
appropriations.
Tho champion ten ears of corn at
tho National Corn show sold for $.1115,
being bought by 10. K. Favette of Des
Moines. This la nt tho rato of $2,315
a bushel.
A controversy over railroad legisla
tion will precipitated in congress this
winter, which, in Importanco, promis
es to surpnss tho legislative contllct
over railroad rates four years ago.
Prizo wheat at tho National Corn
show sold nt tho rate of $S00 a bushel,
tho exhibitor buying It.
Washington.
On tho occasion of tho 110th anni
versary of tho death of Georgo Wash
ington tho Alexandria-Washington
lodge of Masons, In accordance with
its annual custom.- placed a memorial
wreath on tho tomb nt Mount Vernon.
Dy a Joint resolution offered in con
gress a commission of seven persons
to Investigate thu prospects for a
soml-centennlal celebration of tho
emancipation proclamation In 1013, is
provided.
Tho estimates of expenditures of
tho war department for tho coming
yenr amount to $04,709,007, ami wore
favorably acted on by tho house com
mltteo on military affairs and tho bill
is ready to bo reported to tho bouse.
Tho "power slto monopoly" was tho
objoct of nttnek In n bill offered In
the houso by Representative Mann,
chnlrmnn of tho committee on Inter
state and foreign commerce.
Doclded business Improvement Is
shown throughout the country In tho
receipts at the fifty largest postotllces
during tho month of November. Every
office reported nn Increaso varying
from C.S per cent at Urooklyn to 31.8
per cent nt Seattle.
Congressman Kennedy of Iowa In
troduced a bill providing for an ap
propriation of $75,000 for tho erection
of a public building at Fort Madison,
Iowa.
As n promise of activity lu the In
terest of legislation, senators In ono
dny Introduced more than 350 bills
and resolutions, covering a great
variety ot subje-ts.
Doth houses or congress will nd
Journ over the holidays.
Personal.
Rev. J. Albert Ilyden, whoso father
was with General Washington when
General Cornwallis surrendered, died
nt his homo in Ottawa, Kansas, aged
83 yeara.
Horace II. Lurtou has been appoint
ed assoclato Justice of tho United
States supremo court.
George Dudley, former commission
er of pensions, died In Washington.
State Senator John Raines of Now
York, author of the Raines law, died
a fow days ago.
Vigorous denunciation of President
Zclnya waa made by Senator Rayner.
President Zelaya Is pictured as rul
ing Nicaragua with an iron hand.
Prosldeut Tnft made a speech be
fore a bowery audience In now York.
Jnmes J. Hill discussed the supply
and demand nnd urged more sclentlllc
farming in a speech at Omaha.
Dr. Frederick Cook's personal law
yor, Henry Wllllngton Wack, has
severed rolatlons with his client.
President Tuft Is mapping out a
lcglslntlvo program for congress.
In a speech nt London Premier As
rjulth pledged local self-government
to the Irish.
Henry Augustus Wlllnrd, the last of
tho three well known Wlllnrd broth
ers or Washington, D. C died a fow
days ugo, aged 87.
President Zolaya says ho Is tho vic
tim of u big and strong nation.
Attorney General Wlckorshum Is
not sure of the wisdom or his bill af
fecting tho Interstate commerce com
mission. Insurgents of tho sonnto havo
Joined In n common cnuso.
Tho senate committee has held tip
tho names or Curtis and Cabell, two
recent treasury department appointees.
GIVEN HIS LIBERTY
SHELTON MAN WHO SHOT ENEMY
CAN RUN AT LARGE.
HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Here and There
That Is of Interest to the Read
ers Throuahout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Kearney, Nob. Andrew M. Treat,
charged with tho murder of Thomns
GruflUB nt Shelton, Iiub been accorded
bis freedom by the jury in county
court, nnd as long na ho lives within
the hounds or tho law ho can run at
large. Tho enso grew out or a divorce,
a marrlngo nnd a feud. Trcat'B wife
secured the divorce lust Bprlng and
married Thomas Grailus. Treat brought
suit and secured judgment against
Grailus. Tho feeling between tho two
men grow moro acute nnd nt, last ter
minated In the shooting of Grailus on
July fi. Later ho died and tho cor
oner's Jury pronounced bis death due
to liver trouble and not to tho gun
shot wound.
Pleads Guilty of Forgery.
Fulrbury, Nob. Frank Shmldt was
arrested in Holvllle, Kun., Tuesday and
brought to this city charged with forg
ery. Shmldt was working for It. M.
Tyson at Tobias, and taking a blank
check from Mr. Tyson's check book,
it Is charged, wroto a check in favor
or hlmselr and forged Mr. Tyson's
name to it. This check was taken to
Daykln and passed at Hemenover's
general merchandise store. Shmldt
pleaded guilty at his preliminary hear
ing nnd was bound over to the district
courL A man by the nanio of Alfred
Watts was with him when ho jiasBed
tho check and It is believed he Hhared
In tho profits of tho forgery. The au
thorities nro searching for him.
Caught In Job Press.
Crete, Neb. Miss Annotta Dhooge,
or tho Vldette-Herald force, while
working around tho Job press, her
skirts camo In contact with a revolv
ing shnfL She was being drawn rap
Idly down to tho shart nud would have
had a limb broken or perhaps a worse
Injury but for the quick nction of an
other member of tho force, Oliver
Head, who turned off tho electric
switch in tho nick of time. Sho was
severely bruised nnd It will likely tako
soino time for a complete recovery.
Sent Bullet Through Brain.
Tecumsch, Neb. Prof. J. A. Dim
mlck, principal of tho schools at Ster
ling, sent a .22 caliber rifle bullet Into
his right temple nt his homo in thnt
vlllago at 5:45 Thursday evening. Ho
died soon after. His wlfo and five-year-old
son, Willis, were in the
kitchen nt tho tlmo. They rushed Into
tho other room at tho sound of the
shot and found him dying. Ho was
sitting in a chair and had a paper in
his hand. The death of Professor
Dinimlck was a shock to the village.
Youth Attempts Suicide.
Wnhoo, Neb. Frank Gaul, ngod
twenty, made nn attempt to commit
suicide Thursduy night by shooting
himself with a revolver at the farm
homo or Ernest Watson, where ho was
employed. Tho bullet entered his
right breaflt. Ho is still alive, but
there is littlo hope for his recovery.
Tho young man hns beon ill for some
time, nnd it is believed that brooding
over this was the cause.
Kill Wolf Near Geneva.
Geneva, Neb. A largo grey wolf
was shot Friday at the fair grounds.
A couple of young men who were rab
bit hunting with rifles found tho wolf
Inside the fenco nnd opened fire. They
had littlo trouble in bringing It down,
as It was partially stunned by Jumping
against a wire fence. This is the first
animal of tho Kind seen in this Imme
diate vicinity for a number of years.
Child Injured In Lye.
Strntlon, Neb. Tho youngest child
of Mr. nnd Mrs. F. 11. Martin of this
plnco was budly burned by drinking
from a can or lyo with which its
mother was scrubbing tho floor. A
doctor was called at once, but not in
time to prevent tho child from being
painfully burned. Tho child is still
living.
Gold Nugegts Are Found.
Alnsworth, Neb. Out nt tho camp
on Plum creek whero a dam is being
built for tho Alnsworth Electric Power
company, Foreman Noouan reports
finding a number of lino specimens of
free gold nuggets.
Principal Dies Suddenly.
Ognlalln, Neb. Dean Stewart, prin
cipal of tho Ogalulla high chool.
dropped dead hero Wednesday night.
Stewart had been skating on tho
South Platte river. His parents live
at Palmyra.
Boy la Badly Injured.
Falrbury, Neb. Two physicians or
this city were summoned to tho homo
or August Theyo, living soven miles
west or this city, Saturday night to
attend a young son or Mr. Theyo, who
mot with a very serious nccldcnt.
Whllo running with an open pocket
kniro in his bond tho lad fell lu such
a manner thnt tho blado of tho kniro
penetrated tho abdomen. Artcr nn
oxnmlnatlon tho doctors stntcd tho
kniro had not penetrated any or tho
bowels, and that although painfully
Injured, tho boy would in all proba
bility recover.
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS,
State News and Notes in Condensed
Form,
Tho two-ycnr-old child of Mr. nnd
Mrs. E. II. Martin of Strntton, which
was burned from drinking lyo Inst Sat
urday, died Thursduy. Tho body will
bo taken to tho former homo In Mis
souri for burial.
Owing to tho excessive damp
weather of the last few weeks tho
went tunnel or tho Peru coal mine
enved In recently, obstructing tho pas
sageway. The inclement wenther has
caused tho demand for coal to increuse
nnd a new tunnel will be commenced
Immediately.
Tho question of street paving is be
ing agitated at Seward. Tho city
council, board or supervisors and prop
erty owners havo taken tho matter
up and It Is meeting with popular
Tavor, so that when tho weather be
comes settled In the spring, it is ex
pected that work will bo commenced
on tho main business streetB.
A warm light over the postmaster
ship In Wymoro Is slated to come off
In tho near future. Tho present in
cumbent, S. 1). Cole, has held the
placo for two consecutive terms nnd
Is a candidate for reappointment, with
considerable backing. L. II. Archard
also aspires to tho place and has
thlngB lined up m that an Interesting
contest mny be looked for.
F. 11. Kemper was found dead at
his homo six miles north of Hebron,
on the line between Thaer and Nuck
olls counties Saturday night, about
seven o'clock. No one knows how
long ho had been dead. Ho was found
by his son, sitting before tho lire,
with ono shoo off and Ills foot in the
oven. He waa a man about Blxty
three yea: of age. an old soldier, and
wub well-to-do, owning a lino farm.
Miss Illanchu Sypherd. aged twenty
three, and a resident or Wymoro, wna
adjudged suffering from tuberculosis
of tho respiratory organs in county
court and was ordered sent to a Lin
coln hospital for treatment. This Is
tho llrst case of tho kind In Gage
county under tho law enacted by the
last legislature which provides that
persons suffering from tuberculosis
mny bo treated at the expense of tho
stato.
A largo number of public sales arc
being held nt this season by Gage
county farmers. A number of these
disposing of their property are pre
paring to locate In other Btates, while
still others will rctiro and move to
town. As an indication of tho pros
perity existing among the agricultur
ists of this county, it is stated by auc
tioneers and clerks that most of those
attending snles and making purchases
pay in cash, but few notes being given.
Mrs. Mary Poolman, a widow who
died Tuesday at her home, seven
miles northeast of Crete, is reported
to havo left behind her nn ostato esti
mated at $150,000. Her husband died
several years ago and sho was living
alone up to the time or her death. She
had reached the ago of soventy-slx
years, and had lived in ono houso for
over twenty-thrco years. Sho is sup
posed to have some heirs, but their
whoacabouts arc not known at this
time.
The Central Grannries compnny's el
evator at Rockford was destroyed b
llro Thursday evening. Tho flro is
supposed to havo been caused by
sparks from a passing englno. The
elevator contained 3,500 busholB of
oats, 800 bushels of corn and some
wheat, which were consumed. A car
load of corn on a sidetrack was also
destroyed by tho lire. Tho loss is
placed at $7,500, partly covered by in
surance. Tho elevator will probably
bo rebuilt.
William Hlggins, a well known resl
dent of Schuyler was found in a help
less and dying condition in a vacant
houso within ono hundred yards of his
homo Friday afternoon and" while
thero he was stricken with paralysis.
Ho fell to tho floor, whero ho lay for
two days with tho temperature not far
from zero. Ho waa removed to his
home and given medical attention. His
physicians regard his condition as ex
tremely critical and hold out but little
hope for his recovery.
James It. Garfield, former secretary
of Uio Interior, will speak upon "Law
and the Public Wclfuro" at tho meet
Ing In Omaha Christmas week of tho
Nebraska Stato liar Association. Mr.
Garfield Is a lawyer as well as a re
former and Ida address la expected to
bo vigorous. Tho ofllclal program for
tho meeting, which is tho tenth an
nual, Iuib been sent out by President
Francis A. Urogan. It will extend ovor
Tuesday and Wednesday, December
28 and 29 and tho Commercial club
rooms will bo headquarters. Tho as
sembly room on tho second floor of the
sumo building will bo used for tho of
ficial gatherings. President Urogan
will glvo hla address Tuesday after
noon. Justlco C. K. Lotton or the
stato supremo court will be heard
noxt morning and Mr. Garfield thai
afternoon. Tho annual dinner wll!
take placo in tho evening of Wednes
day nt tho Romo. Tho Omaha Raj
Association will glvo n smoker at the
Commercial club Tuesday night.
An unknown man was found In an
unconscious condition Sunday after
noon and removed to tho jail at Cen
tral City, whoro ho wao attendod by
locnl physicians, who pronounced It a
enso or acute kidney trouble. Ho
died Monday morning without recov
ering consciousness. Ho had In hla
pocket a receipt from tho Jones em
ployment agency at Ogden, Utah,
bearing the name or V. White, and
dated Novombor 8. Ho was a mau
about thirty or thlrty-flvo yeara of
ago, flvo feet eight inches tall and had
dark hair and sandy whiskers.
CASE OF NOT PROVEN
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
MAY LET COOK OOWN LIGHTLY.
HIS RECORDS ARE NOT C0MPLETF
New York Friends of the Doctor Be
Hcve He Is Now at Christian
sand, Norway Home on
the Carmanla.
Copenhagen. Tho general belief is
held here that tho commission hav
ing charge of the Investigation of Dr.
Frederick A. Cook's polar records will
report that Dr. Cook's papers do not
provide a basis for any well-founded
scientific judgment.
Naples. Tho rumor spread hero
Sunday that Dr. Cook wns aboard the
steamer Saxonlu, and a large number
of people rushed to tho dock to greet
him. The captain of the Saxonln said
he had been notified that Dr. Cook
Intended to cross on his steamer, but
was detained ami naked the company
to transfer his ticket to the Carmanla.
New York. Intimate friends of Dr.
Frederick A. Cook, who aro on pins
and needles, ns It were, pending flio
decision on his data nt Copenhagen,
said Sunday that In their belief Dr.
Cook Is at the home of u friend in
Chrlstlansund, Norway, within easy
call of Copenhagen. It Is thought that
Dr. Cook left this country on the
steamer United Stntes, which sailed
on Thanksgiving day.
Gets a Big Reward.
New York. William Loeb, Jr., col
lector of tho port of New York, has
approved the claim to moiety by Rich
ard Parr, tho deputy collector and
original inrormer in the sugar frauds
on the $2,135, ISC paid Into the United
States trensury by tho American
Sugar Refining company as restitution
for dutlen evaded by uuderwclghlng.
According to the statutes regulating
such awards. Parr will receivo "not
exceeding In amount ono-hnlf or the
net proceeds," which will mean In this
case, if the claim is approved by tho
treasury department, approximately
$1,000,000. Mr. Loeb approved tho
claim only after a thorough Investiga
tion by Harrison Osborne, solicitor of
customs. He held that tho claim was
valid In that Parr, on November 20,
1007, discovered a steel spring which
was used by the company's checkers
to Influence the weight of draughts of
sugar, nnd avers this laid bnro the
schemo to defraud, and it was due to
the evidence obtained as tho conse
quence of tho events or November 20,
that tho jury in the civil suit against
tho company last spring gave a ver
dict or guilty, which was followed by
the paying of the penalty, $135 480.32,
nnd tho restitution of $2,000,000 follow,
ing.
Cardinal Satotli Sinking.
Rome. Cardinal Satolll, who re
cently suffered a relapse from nephri
tis, was slightly Improved Sundny
morning, and insisted upon a chaplain
celebrating mass in tho sick room.
He also took communion. Sunday
afternoon his condition was very
much worse. Alarming symptoms de
veloped nnd thero was some delirium.
Grave fears aro entertained for tho
cardinal's recovery.
Call on King to Abdicate.
Ilolgradc. Tho national nssembly
wns tho scene of nn uproar Saturday,
when a nationalist deputy presented a
motion calling upon tho king to abdi
cate, because It was not likely that
ho would over bo received by tho for
elgn courts. Tho president of tho
Chamber refused to allow tho motion
to bo formally put, and all tho news
papers mentioning tho Ineldont havo
been confiscated.
Flight of Twelve Minutes.
8L Josoph, Mo. Charles K. Hamil
ton, who has just concluded a series
or flights in his Curtis hl-plunc here,
Sunday afternoon succumbed to tho
temptation of a four-mllo wind, and
starting from the lco on Iiko Con
trary, mado a flight of twolvo minutes'
duration, In which ho circled tho luko
eight tlmca and covered a distance of
approximately eloven miles.
Date for the Encampment.
Chicago, III. Samuel R. Van Sant,
commander-in-chief of tho Grand Army
of tho Ropubllc, announced hero thnt
the executive committee sot Septem
ber 17 to 21 as tho time for tho noxt
national encampment of tho Grand
Army or tho Republic nt Atlantic City.
N. J. . s..
Accused of Robbing Safe.
Los Angelos, Cal. LcbIIo Hnrrls.au
nttorney and brother of Lamar A. Har
ris, whoso sonsatlonal attempt to rob
a bank in Highlnnd Park. III., with
his subsequent suicide, caused a sen
sation two months ngo, wus arrested
Sunduy charged with having robbed a
safe In a store whero ho was formerly
omployed. According to tho police,
$700 was taken, nnd $500 was found
whci'j Harris had hidden It. Harris
refused to mnko n statement. He was
tho solo support of his mother, who
formerly was wealthy and n lcador In
society.
Sent Wife Some Powders.
Denver, Colo. Tho story told Sun
day by hla daughter Lillian, soven
years old, caused tho arrest of Theo
dora Erhnrdt, whoso divorced wlfo,
Mrs. Josephlno Erhnrdt. died Sunday.
According to tho child's story, Er
hnrdt culled on his former wlfo Satur
day nnd, finding that sho had a head
aclio. offered to send her somo head
ncho powders. Mrs. Erhnrdt took a
powder Sunday morning and died sov
oral hours later. Tho powders woro
found to contain a largo amount of
strychnine.
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY
Items of Interest Around tho Stato
Houso
Doings of tha Railway Commission. J
Tho Rurllngton road has changed lta
mind and has notified tbo railway com
mission thnt tho Hour houso slto which
It refused to grant upon its right of
way at Ashton, Shermau county, to
tho Farmers Elevator company, has
been granted.
J. H. Kerr of Ansloy, Custer county-,
has flled n formal complaint charging
that tho Rurllngton road maintains
poor train servlco on it Hillings line.
Informal complaints from tho same
lino havo reached tho railway com
mission from Thodrord, Mason City,
Litchfield and Hyannla. Tho railroad
company will bo required to answer
tho formal complaint.
Tho commission will hear tho com
plaint of tho Kendall-Smith company,
of Woodlawn against tho Durllngton,
relative to a switching rato to Lincoln.
Jnnunry 15.
In reply to a quu3tlon from Secre
tary Whltten of tho Commercial club
of Lincoln, tho railway commission
says it sees no objection under the
law to the proposal of the Rurllngton
road to run a good roads spoclal over
its lines free of charge for the pur- ,
pose of holding conventions and glv-
Ing demonstrations in good roads
building.
Tho commission has granted leave
to tho Ansley Telephone company to
issue additional stock of $25,000 in ac
quiring outlying farm telophono Hues,
each member of the farm lines to re
ceive $50 of tho stock.
Mr. Hell of York ha:t notified the
commission that tho Adams Express
company has put an independent tele
phono in its otllco at York nnd that his
complaint has been satisfied.
A complaint signed by Dr. James M.
Callendcr and many other citizens of
Tliedford alleges that the west bound
passenger servlco of tho Rurllngton
Is worthless so far as local service
is concerned, nnd that it takes 15
hours to go thirty miles and that thero
Is only one train a duy. It is alleged
that a stub train terminates at Sene
ca and that a woman would have to
wait thirty hours In Seneca without
hotel accommodations before passen
ger train No. 43 arrivos. Sometimes
people at Seneca havo to beg for ac
commodations in privnto houses. This
waiting so long In a men's waiting
room at the depot tho petitioners al
liege is "Indecent, indelicato and im
moral and worse than tho old-time
stago coaclu" Tho petitioners ask
tho railway commission to have trains
Nos. -IS and 41 stop at Thodford, or
that trains Nos. 119 and 40 be extend
ud through to Alliance.
Corporation Tax Valid.
Tho supreme court has uphold tho
.occupation corporation tax; law on
'acted by tho recent Iogislaturo. Tho
law provided a gradually annual tax
on all corporations doing business iu
Nebraska unless expressly exompt.
Tho tux will bring to tho stato $C0,
000 this year. About $15,000 was puid
under protest. Tho law waa attacked
"by the Mercantile Incorporating com
pany of Omaha and tho Erie City
Iron Works of Erie, Pa., who sued to
recover back an occupation tax paid
by them under protest to Secretary of
tStato Junkln nnd to havo tho law de
clared unconstitutional under which.
(tho tax was exacted. Tho law was
upheld in tho Lancaster district court
and the decision is affirmed by tho
supremo court.
Experiment Stations Legal.
The supremo court directed man
damus to Issuo to compel tho board of
regents of tho univorslty to locnto and
maintain two experimental stations
in tho Sandhills nccordlng to tho pro
visions of acta of tho lato legislature.
Tho law provided that tho money
should ho paid out of tho univorslty
temporary fund and tho regents al-1
legod this money could not bo spent
for that purpose. Tho court holds that
It Is tho duty of tho board of regents
to obey the will or tho leglslaturo as
expressed In these acta and 'that ex
perimental stations may bo lawfully
maintained in connection with tho
collego of ngrlculturo In tho uni
versity. Judgo Root wroto tho opinion.
More Burt County Telephone Stock.
Tho railway commission, after a
hearing, decided to permit tho Hurt
County Telophono company to issuo
nnd sell $75,000 or additional otock, In
cluding $23,450 of common stock and
$7,350 of preferred Block alroady out
standing. Tho company represents
through Its secretary nnd treasurer,
M. J. Mctcalf, that it desires to pur
chase tho independent telophono plnnts
at Oaklnnd and Lyons, nlsn tho Ne
braska Telephone company plants nt
theao two places and at Decatur, in
cluding all farm lines. Tho invest
ment Is represented as follows: At
Lyons, $31,883.07; at Oakland, $38..
11C.33; at Decatur, $5,000.
fjtate Assessment Roll.
Henry Seymour, after dllHgent toll,
hns completed tho grand assossmont
roll of tho state. Tho tabulations show
that tho total assessed valuation of all
property In tho stato last year was
$391,735,404, nnd this year it la $39S,
985,819. State Dairymen's Meeting.
State Food Commissioner Mains has
returned from Omnha, whoro ho at
tended a meeting for tho discussion or
plans ror tho annual mooting or tho
Nebraska Stato Dairymen's associa
tion, which is to bo hold in Lincoln,
January 19, 20 and 21, Tho sessions
will bo held ut a hotel in Lincoln on
tho evening or January 20. Tho use
or ensilage to encourago winter dairy
ing will be discussed ut this meeting.
It Is said ennsllago can bo manufac
turued for $1.50 a ton aud that it is
worth $5 a ton for feed. ,
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