y..Wlki !.. 4$. .v. VJH,.t-k-. J- - !l The Chief C. D. IIALK, Publisher fJED CLOUD NEBRASKA FRO! IMf PLAGES EVENTS OF THE DAY TOLD IN A FEW LINES. THE DAY'S NEWS BOILED DOWN Personal, Political, Foreign and Intel tlgcncc of Various Kinds, Inter esting to the General Reader Given In Condensed Form. Washington. Dr. CuUinian, a Washington author ity, declares (hat tho lion Kiipply of tho country will ho exhausted in thli ty years. President Taft hau returned from his ten-day vacation at Augusta, Git. He wan acconiianIed lty Mis- Tuft and Secretary Norton. Postmaster General lllteheock says tho jiostal savings hanks "have boon more Hiiccessful than could reasonably liavo been expected." George Walker Clarke of Alaska lias been summoned to Washington to a conference with Presidont Taft and Secretary of tho Interior Fisher over the Impending opening of tho Alaska coal fields. Members of tlio house and senate will demand of tho president tho pur pose pt tho army muimuvers on tho Mexican borders, when congress con venes nt least that 1b tho opinion expressed at Washington. With tho white houso and, police headquarters each one block away, and tho United States treasury just across tho street, a robber entered a Washington hotel, held up tho clerk at tho point of u pistol and escaped with ?G0. Conversations have boon held bo tweou President Taft and M. Jusser and, Preach ambassador at Washing ton, respecting a comprehensive ngrccment for arbitration between the United States and Prance on tho gen eral outllno of the president's Ideas regarding International peace treaties. Chairman Underwood expects that tho democratic members of tho house committee on wayB and means will begin work on tho tariff somo tlmo this week and that by tho tlmo tho extraordinary session Is convened on April 4 somo plan will have been mapped out to govern tho procedure after tho bill to carry out tho Cana dian reciprocity agreement has been framed. General New. Tho Utah legislature adjourned sine die at noon Saturday. Tho Italian cabinet has resigned, eftcr a stormy session. David Jnyno Hill, American ambas sador to Gormnny, has arrived at Now York. A Chicago judgo has fined a chauf feur (COO and costs for being drunk on duty. It is announced that a Roumanian legation would soon bo established In Washington. Thousands of non-combatants, many of them Americans, are said to be leaving Mexico. Peaco Sunday was observed In lion don and In most of the cities and towns of tho kingdom. It Is rumored that M. Koroslovot, tho Russian minister to China, has been murdered in Peklu. Col. W. P. Cody (Buffalo Hill) Is ambitious to become tho llrst United States senator from Arizona. From all quarters in Italy Vlwivannl Glottl, who was premier In r.tOI. Is being urged to form a new cabinet. During tho mouth of February tho deaths from (lie plague in India reached the enormous total of SS.4HS. Tho New York senate Judicial committco voted, S to :;, against re porting two women suffrage resolu tions. The Iowa senate, at the close of an exciting debate, defeated the i ('solu tion for woman suurago by a vote of 27 to 21. The pnpo has appointed the Ver Hov. Udward Devlin, lcar general ol tho diocese of Winona. Minn , a papal domestic prelate. Andrew Carnegie is authority for tho statement that the idea of a war with Japan Is absurd. Senate progressive republicans are planning on tnkiug an aggressive ntand in the extra session on the question of tho tariff. About 1,000 trainmen employed in tho In'er-Colon'nl railroad ft eight and yard service have been untitled by tho Now nrunswlek go eminent that an advance In wages Ins been granted. Tho president will take up at once tho preparation of his message to con gross, resubmitting the Canadian reel liroclty agreement. Fifty-three violations of the sixteen hour law are alleged by tho govern ment ngalnst the Wabash railroad in St. Iiouls. The penalties would aggrc gato J2C.G00. Tho uprising In Mexico has spread to tho states of Coahuiln and Morelos. President Diaz will begin 'confer ences nt onco which It Is expected will rosint with tho announcement In three or four daya of a reorganized Mexican cabinet. Nono of tho ponding capes against Alleged participants In tho night rider raid on Hopklnsvllle, Ky., in 1907 will be tried at this term of court David II. Moffat, banker and rail road man of Denver, Colo., died in his roomB nt a New York hotel from tho after cffectH of grlppo. Cleveland has Just dedicated her $4,000,000 postofllco and federal build ing. The slmplo Episcopal services for tho burial of the dead, wore rend over the body of David II. Morfatt, tho Den er banker and railroad man. John P. Wise of the Chllloeco In dian school tins been chosen superin tendent of the Haskell Indian school at Lawrence, Kan., lo succeed II. II I-'Iskc. .Miss Kthcl Roosevelt pushed the button that opened the great Rooso volt dam In Arizona, that will furnish moisture for .'150 square miles of arid territory. China has not yel replied to the last Russian note, which amounted to an ultimatum, insisting upon a closer adherence to the provisions of the treaty of 1VS1. Bonds of the new .laiiama canal loan, to he floated before June 1, will ho of three denominations, $100, $,'00 am! $1 .000. according to piesenl plans of the tie.isury A blaze which slatted In the Audi torium. Hie largest tlieatei of Deb Moines, next to the Coliseum, com pletely dcstioH'd the building In less than an lioui. The assertion that 80 per cent of tho revolutionary at my In Mexico Is composed of Americans has been made by Manuel Kstova, Mexican vlco cotiBiil at Now York. Mr. and Mrs Frank Scott of High land, Kan., are the parents of nine teen children thirteen of them boys and nllvc the fruits of only ten yearB of married life. Right Rev. Sydney A. Partridge, missionary bishop of Koto, Japan, and recently elected bishop of the Hplscopal dloccFo of Kansas City, hns cabled his acceptance. II. F. Do Con, a member of an American aichaeloglcal exploring party In Tripoli, is repotted to have been assassinated h natives In the employ of the expedition. Deo Niewlcliowzkl, a lfiyear-old boy, convicted of being Incorrigible, was sentenced to enlist in tho United States navy by Judge Plncknoy In the juvenile court at Chicago. Hooker T. Washington was so bad ly used up by a New Yorker to whom ho would give no explanation of his presence In the hitter's houso that he had to be taken to a hospital. It Is rumored that within tho next three months a force of 12,000, includ ing Infantry, cavalry, field and moun tain artillery, will occupy tho Ha waiian and Phlllppino Islands. Tho so-called state wldo prohibition bill has been signed by Governor Colquitt of Texas. It provides for the submission of a constitutional amendment for stato wldo prohibition. Colonel William F. Cody is ready to orgauizo a company of fighting scouts and cross tho borderB Into Mexico if tho war situation becomes critical. Ho thinks the trouble will be short lived. Thirty firemen wero overcome by tho fumes of ammonia whllo lighting a lire which destroyed a warehouse of the Monnrch Refrigerating coin any nt Chicago, and caused an $800, 000 loss. Somo of the fanners In tho valleys north of Deadwood, S. D., have com menced plowing and tho frost Is prot ty well out of the ground throughout that section with tho continued mild weather. Tho llrst Indication of a break in the ranks of the conservative opposi tion on the reciprocity question oc curred when R. S. Luke, a consorva tho member from Alberta, said lie was favorably disposed toward the agteeniont with the United States. Nine more states nuiBt ratify tho proposed federal Income tax amend ment before it can become a part of tho constitution. Reports received from the capitals of the forty-Blx states show that the amendment has received favorable action In the joint legislatures of twenty six Frank Lindsay, fifty years old, al leged to bo one of a gang of postof llco robbers who have been operating In Kansas and Oklahoma during the last two years, was avrested at Tha mos. Okl. It Is said that Tom L. Johnson, the llnancier and politician, is critically 111 and that his physicians have little hope for his recovery. Mr. Johnson Is the famous ";i cent fare mayor" of Cleveland. Ohio. The Colorado senate has passed the woman's eight hour woik day bill. Between fifteen and twenty work men eng.iged in tearing down an old brick and stone skeleton building nt Nashville wero caught by falling de bris. The probnte court at Washington has refused to puss upon claims of phHloiuti8 aggregating nearly $(10,000 for services claimed to have been reu dored during the Illness of tho late Thomas F. Wiilah. Over 100,000 acres of coal lands In Alaska are Involved in a fraud Inves tigation now going on. Fourteen hundred telegraphers in the employment of tho Illinois Cen tral railway, between Chicago and New Oilcans, threaten to strlko as tho result of a refusal to grant a 2.ri per cent Increase with 150 cents an hour for overtime. St. Chnrlcs college, a preparatory Institution for tho Catholic priesthood, located near Baltimore, was burned Friday afternoon. Tho Ch'uoFO government declare? Its Inte"Mon of agreeing to points n Ishuo with ItiiBxiu and Is drafting u reply to tho leceiilly received ultima Jim. BURNED JO DEATH GRAND ISLAND MAN KILLED IN KEROSENE EXPLOSION. HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE What It Going on Here and There That it of Interest to the Read- rt Throughout Nebratka and Vicinity. Grand Island. -Bert Stafford was fatally burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene, with whleli he was atlempting to kindle a fire at tho home of Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Simmons, where he was boarding. All of Staf ford's night clothing was burned from his body. The lire was extinguished by the department with the chemical engine. To Have Boosters' Day. Kdgar. -At a meeting or (he Com mercial club it was decided to have the telephone and electric light poles painted through (he business district, to mark the stieels at Intersections and (o number the houses. The club has also inaugurated a "boost era' day" for the merchants and offered prizes for the best kept lawns during the summer. Big Banquet at Ulysses. Uljsses. The farmers noon-day banquet, given by tho Ulysses Grain t Supply company, was hold with gieat success. The large, new Ulys ses hotel dining room was a scone of beaut j, with tables set for ISO and Insufficient to seat the ciowd. C. II. Challls. editor of the Ulysses Dis patch, acted as toabtmaster. Jilted Suitor Seeks Revenge. Nebraska City. Peter Mogls, a jilted suitor, was in the act of throw lug Miss Lyon, a telephone operntor, from the Missouri river bridge when tho girl was seized and saved by J. Gibson, the bridge watchman, attract ed by her screams. Gat In Shale Near Falrbury. Falrbury. As a result of an Inves tigation made under the direction or the state conservation congress. Dr Condra believes that gas of commer cial valuo has been found in a shale formation south of Falrbury. It 1b be lieved that the shnlc will yield about G.000 feet of gas to tho ton and that tho solid matter may be used In mak ing Portland cement. Dr. NoycB of Valentino was serious ly Injured in a runaway. Broken Bow 1b contemplating the ubo of oil on her streets and roads. Mrs. Coderburg, living near Mlnden, celebrated her ninety-fourth birthday Friday. Tho eating house of tho Chicago & Northvvestorn railway at Norfolk burned to the ground Sunday. Robbers at Powell looted several business houscB, Including the postof lice, where they secured two dollars In pennies. Proressor Boles, principal of the high school of Auburn, wns badly hurt by being thrown from an auto driven at a righ rate of Bpeed. The Congregationnl church at David City has called Rev. R. A. Harrison or tho Crawford Congregationnl church or Chicago to the pastorate. Tho eighteenth annual session or tho Southeastern Nebraska Kduca tlonal association will convene in Ne braska City on March 2(t, !I0 and III. Tho PI Beta Phi sorority houso at Lincoln was robbed Saturday evening or about $200. This was mostly money and little Jewelry or clothing was touched. A prairie lire came very near get ting into old Fort Niobrara, where theie are lots or big buildings, but tho guards and a gang or men saved the fort after some hard work. Secretary or state Waite Is Inter ested ip securing a roster of the old soldiers or the state and Is sending out blanks to county assessors lor tho purpose of collecting the Information. Tho Colonial Dames of Nebraska havo nnve'led a bronze tah'et marking the site or the (list state house In Nebraska, which was built in ISM tho M. K. Smith wholesale house In Omaha. Chris Knlgge butchered a porker nt Alexandria from which he rendered out 20S pounds of lard. That Is "go ing some." Professor Char'es Rush Richards, dean of the college of engineering of the Univorsltv of Nebraska, has been appointed profes'or or mechanical en gineering In clmrfte of the department at tho I'nlvcislty of Illinois. The old county court house at Paw neo City Is being torn down prepara tory to beginning work on the new ono to be erected this summer. Wllll'im Sehlpman. aged tvvoiitytwo and a fanner, residing near hbott, was found dead It) tho suminei kitch en nt the rear of the farm homo, his entire face blown off by the dlschargo of a shotgun Mrs. George Woi thlngton, widow of the late Bishop Worthlngton of No braska, Is dead In Now Yorlt. Though sho had been an iuva'id for yenrs her death was sudden, coming as a shock to her inan.v friends. Slip1 LINCOLN ' wtrmm SENATE COMMITTEE SAYS NEW BUILDINGS ARE BAD. The senate committee on public lands and buildings havo filed a re port asking for an Investigation of tho construction of state buildings that havo been recently erected nt tho different state Instlttit'ous. It io portB that H found a frightful wasto or state funds and the committee ox presses Kb indignation when speak ing of the archltectuie, construction and business management In the con struction of buildings, in order that the blame may lie la'd to the proper source, it asks for an Investigation. The committee also severely con demns the management of the state Industrial school for boys at Keainey. A most deplorable condition, Is what tlie committco calls it. In the opinion of the committee the school ns now conducted Is of no advnntage or help to the bovs keut there mid It recom mends that lr the state cannot get better lesults the Institution should bo abolished both in the Interests of the state and or the boys, and some other arrangements be made for the training und education of the boys. This Is the only Institution whose ninnagemcnt is condemned by tho committee. Is Eastman Bill Valid? It is the opinion of opponents In the legislature that the Kastnian bill, which culls for an appropriation of $100,000 for tho establishment or an agricultural school In southwestern Nebraska and which fulfills a demo cratic platform pledge, may be Invalid because of tho conflicting provisions in regard to the board under whoso control It will be and on account of a provision which states that, though the school is to be built at the in Btance or anil under tho supervision or the board or public lands and buildings, the money paying ror such construction is to be paid out on war rants ofllclnlly certified to by the board or regents or the state unvor. slty. The Board of Control. In the selection or a bill which will redeem the pledge of both democratic and republican platforms, to Pake tho management of the state InstltutloiiB out of politics through provision for a non-pnrtlsan board of control, tho legislature is facing one of the most difficult problems of the session. If nothing else were needed to convince members of the legislature that a rad ical change is needed in the manage ment of the institutions the disclos ures which bnve been brought to light by Investigating committees dur ing this session are sufficient. Favorable to Medical College. Tho house unanimously accepted tho special investigating committee's report recommending the university provide four years of medical training In Omaha after two years of academic work In Lincoln. The final teBt on tho question whether the medical school is to be maintained or be suf fered to perish for want of Btipport will come when nn effort Is made to pass tho bill appropriating $100,000 to build a laboratory and recitation room building. Concur in Report. The senate concurred In the report of tho conference committco having under consideration house and senato amendments to S. F. No. 1, by Sklles, Initatlve and referendum. Tho report of the committee, which concedes two house amendments and recedes from ono senate amendment, was adopted, twenty-six voting to adopt and none ngalnst. To Conserve Roadways. Sennte Filo No. 251, an act to pro vldo Tor cultivating the unused por tions or the public ronds, defining terms, providing that such cultivation shall In no way obstruct or Injure tho roadway and Unit the products shall not bo allowed to cumber tho ground has ben reported back to the senato. Tho bill was introduced by Represen tative Smith or Fillmore county, and has nn emergency clause. Members Protest. The course taken by the commit tee on finance, ways and means of the house on the bill establishing per manently the medical school of tho unlvoislty In Omaha, will be over turned by nitijoiity or that commit tee. Seven members havo s'gned a protest addtessed to tho speaker against the report Indefinitely post poning the bill Local option county unit won In the Missouri house. Spenkor Kuhl has consulted Attor ney General Martin on whether tho stato banking board is intending to demand back payments of tho banks under the guaranty law. A bill Is ponding to relievo the banks of pay ment by deferring tho llrst assess ment until next July. Representative John II. Grossman has rccolvcd a loiter fiom tho Central Labor Union of Lincoln, commending him for his tight In behalf of labor, particularly In tho bills proposing to exempt to tho worU'ngman his wages. ffflnfiar rw2iljw -jU0 E STATE MILITIA OFFICERS ARE TO GO TO TEXAS. .NEBRASKA TO SEND TWO MEN Apportionment Made According to Their Strength No Report Made on the Alleged Attack of Several Americans. Washington. Apportioned among the states und territories according to their militia strength, 200 national guai d olllcers will be sent b the war department to San Antonio, Tex., nnd thirty-five to San Diego, Cal., on April C, for two weeks' Instruction in ser vice witli the mobilized legulars. Tho department expects to send a total of 1,000 militia olllcers to tho maneuvers at federal expense. The number of militia olllcers from each stato and ter ritory authorized by the department to join the regular troops on April 5, follows: At San Antonio Alabama, G; Ar kansas, 8; Connecticut, f; Delewarc, 1; Dlstilct of Coltirnbla, I!; Florida, 2; Georgia, 5; Illinois, 11; Indiana. !; Iowa, 5; Kansas, 3; Kentucky, I!; Louisiana,.'!; Maine, 3; Marjland, 4; Massachusetts, 11; .Michigan. r; Min nesota, ; Mississippi, 3; Missouri, G; Nebraska, 2; New Hampshire, 2; New Jersey, 8; New York. 20; North Caro lina, 4; North Dakota, 1; Ohio, 11; Oklahomn, 2; Pennsylvania, 18; Ithodo Island. 2; South Carolina, 1; South Dakota, 2; Tennessee, 3; Tex as, C; Vermont, 2; Virginia, 3; West Virginia, 4; Wisconsin, G. At San Diego Arizona, 2; Califor nia, 10; Colorado, 3; Idaho, 2; Mon Innn, 2; New Mexico, 3; Oregon. 5; Utah, 2; Washington, 4; Wyoming, 2; Explosion In Court House, Omaha. Two explosions In the basement of the now million dollar court house at Eighteenth and Far nam streets at 1 o'clock Friday morning created considerable excite ment and brought out the police re hTjrves. Windows were shattered' in build ings two blocks away and consider able other damage was done. Tho police were unable to account for the explosions. The contractor (who is constructing the court houso had somo trouble with organized labo but bo far as known this trouble had been settled. Native Police are Lost. Melbourne, Australia. Seventeen natlvo policemen, members of tho party which accompanied Stanlforth Smith, British administrator of Papua, or Now Guinea, on his exploring expe dition Into the Interior of the great Island, wero drowned from rafts In the Strickland river. The expedition .cut Its way through 300 miles of densj Jungle and for live days was without food or fire, tho explorers' sustonanco !for many days subsequently being sage roots. Mexican Refugees Starving. Tocate, Lower Cal. Mexican refu gees to the number of ir0 men, women and children, are starving in rudo sholters in the hills north of this place on the American side of tho boundary. They tied from Tccate up on the approach or rebels two weeks ago and have been living under trees, wagon covers and Improvised tenta in the open ever since. Will Raise Popular Subscription. Greenville, Ala. A jiorulnr sub scription was started here among tho pympathlzerB of Albert Ulrich, to de fray his expenses In tho atsault case preferred against him by Hooker T. Washington as a result of their alter cation In New York Sunday night. A letter has been mailed to Ulrich ask ing If tho subscription will be accept cd. No Definite Plans. Mexico City. Admitting that Mexl. co Is facing a ciipis even greater than he had believed, Minister of Finance Llmnntour said tho administration had no dellnlto plans ror the solution or the problems confronting It. It has no alternative but to continue the military program it has entered upon, New York Bank Suspends. Oneonta, N. Y. Tho First National bank or this city has suspended busi ness. The bank has about $S00,000 in resources nnd the deposits are about $500,000. with an equal amount or loans nnd discounts. Korostovetz Is Unharmed. Peking. The rumors current In St. Petersburg and elsewhere thnt M. Ko rotovotz. the Russian minister to Chlnt, had been murdered in this city aro unfounded. M. Korostovetz Is en Joying good health. Bridgeport, 111. Mayor Donnelly has Issued a blue law proclamation ordering all places of business except eating houses closed Sunday, begin ning at onco. Tho edict includes tho nowa stands and will prevent tho do livery and snlo of St. Loula and Chi cago papers. Now Haven, Conn. Addy Unrker Sheldon, ono of tho early advocates of woman suffrage in this country, having attonded as a delegate an equal suffrage convention in 1858, 1b dead. She was 78 years old S A BAD CASE OF GRIP Caused Sore Throat and Ton- silitis. Restored by Peruna. Mr. W. II. Rousloy, Stony Point, Ton ncaseo, writes: "Five ycara ago I took a very oevero cold which resulted In la grippe. I novcr van bo bad off. I was In bed several weeks, and when I did get up I had tonsllltls and o c r e Mn w, HoubIbv. throat. "I tried to cure this for eighteen months, but It gradually got worae. A doctor advised mo to havo my tonsils cut out, but I did not Uko the Idea. Another doctor examined me, nnd told mo the same thing. I finally cot a bot tlo of Peruna, and after I had taken, ono bottlo my throat was better. X bought and used a dozen bottles, and paw I was going to got well, and I did." I . WAS TAKING NO CHANCES Chauffeur Had Had Enough Accidents With People Wearing False, Teeth. Pretty Thais X, who has dellghtod tho audiences of Now York's vaude ville houses, was called suddenly to Vermont to visit her sick mother. At a town a few miles from her parent' homo alio hired an automobllo and asked tho chauffour to drlvo her with Tib much speed as possible to nor destination. Tho roads woro very bad, and the car, making good speed up hill and down dalo, over rocks and rut, seemed bound to shako overboard It occupants. After a Ilttlo of thlB jolting th chauffeur turned to his fare and de manded: "I Bay, ma'am. Do you woor fall teeth?" "What ImpudencoT exclaimed Thais X. "Oh, ma'am, It is not from Imp dence," returned tho chauffeur, "that I nsked you tho question. It lo be cause tho road is bad, the rocks are hard, and If you wear false teeth, you would do well to remove them until wo strlko the pike. I've had enough accidents of that description Cause and Effect "Whero Is Bill today T" "Bill la Blck In bed." "What's tho matter with hlmr "Well, you know that girl of III thinks ho doesn't ubo tobacco. Yes terday ho was hurrying around the corner and ho ran right Into the glrL Ho had a chew in his mouth." "Yes, yes; go on., "Thero wero two things to do hurry by or bwoIIow." "Well?" "Bill talked to her for five mlnutei." Bold Scribe. "Ho hum I" ejaculated honest Farm er Hornbcak, who had encountered in tho vlllago newspaper an example or the perversity which tho Unotypa sometimes displays. "The editor or the riulndealor ain't afraid to spook his mind. Ho come right out and Rays: "In our opinion the Hon. Thom as Rntf has lyddaonkzzounsottttpt pn ran www trahahaha, hawzw zens dbby And, by Jolly! he nay it a W he means It, tool" Puck. All Snakes Are Killer. But itll snakes, greut nnd small, or killers. All of them eat creatures which they elay. Nono eat vegetable food of any kind. Nor will they eat animals which they find dead. That is one reason, no doubt, why they have always been shunned and dreaded by human beings. Saves Breakfast Worry A package of Post Toasties on the pantry shelf. Served in a minute. With cream or stewed fruit. DELICIOUS! SATISFYING! 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