m 1 B ii r u VI i im ! The Chief C HAI.H. Publisher RED CLOUD NEBRASKA i. FOLK PULLS OUI MISSOURI PRESIDENTIAL ASPIR' ANTS COME TO AGREEMENT. CONVICT KILLS DEPUTY WARDEN Deputy Warden E. D. Davie Succumbs lo Wounds President Taft De t lays Appointment to Su preme Bench. SI. Louie Former fiowrimr Joseph V. Folk withdrew n mi nctlw) cantll (Into for the democratic nomliiiitluii for prcnhlunt Saturday. 1 1 In iimniiKcrH have announced that they would cIoho tho local hciitlfiunrtrrH and would not prosecuto a further campaign. Mr. Folk withdrew after ho had received a telegram from Speaker Chump Clark which agreed to dlvldn tint Missouri deb-pat Ion to tho democratic national convention, as recuntly MiKGCstcd by William J. Ilryan. Mr. Folk not only agreed to divide tho delegation, hut asked his frlendn to make no further effort In his behalf. Ho released all claims that he may havo had on the delegation and promlRud to support Mr. Clark. Fatally Cut by Negro Convict. Lincoln. Deputy Warden K. D. IUvIb of tho Btato penltuntlary Ih dead ns tho result of wounds Indicted by a negro convict. Albert Prince. Sunday afternoon nt tho close of chapel exor cises. Tho official wiih Htabhed nov eral tlmea by tho negro ns ho was passing the long row of men who wero standing singing tho closing hymn. Tho largo assembly room was filled with convicts and visitors and all had risen to tholr foot for tho last song and benediction when Davis wns at tacked by the negro. Six wounds wero inflicted In tho abdominal region with n small corn knife. Tho assailant was nt onco confined In the solltury cell in tho hospital building. Will Delay the Appointment Washington. President Taft 1ns t'ecided to delay until lato In tho week the appointment of a nucceBBor to tho late Justice Harlan of tho United States Biiprcmo court. Friends of Judge William C. Hook havo asked tho president for more time to pre sent his clalmB and to offset tho ad verso effect of tho "Jim Crow" law de cision, In which he participated. In the meantime various protests have reached tho White House against the proposed appointment of Secretary of Commcrco anil Iibor Charles Nagel. These protests have como largely from labor organizations, tho complaint be ing that Secretary Nagel had been too liberal In his enforcement of tho Immigration laws. Governors Start Roosevelt Campaign. Chicago. 111. A campaign for the nomination or Theodore Roosevelt by tho national republican convention has , been formally launched, an organla tlon to carry forward this campaign was formed and an address to tho re publican voters of tho country drafted by tho national conference of Roose velt boomers here. Tho meeting, called by the national Roosevelt com mltteo. wai composed of tho govern ors of eight states and lirty-slx nil thorlzod delegates, representing thirty htates. Twenty other well known sympathizers with tho Roosevelt movement were admitted to tho dollb. eratlons. Wesleyan Man Goes to Boston. Tloston. Mass. Dr. H. V. Van Riper professor of philosophy at Nebraska Wonloyan university, has been ap pointed professor of philosophy at Itostoti university and will tivnln lily duties net September. Aid for the Starving. Washington. I), r.-Kour tlioiuaiid dollars from the American Red C'ro-u was cabled from hoadiiuarters hero io day to sufferers In tho famine dlstWs of China. Since January l, $ ,00(i !in been sent to tho Shanghai relief com. mission. Faith Tempered Icy Watcro. Pittsburgh, Pa.-With tho thermom eter registering 10,11- degrecM above zero, twenty-seven colored men and women, recent converts to the Mount i'.lon African Methodist Kplscopal church of Brownsville, near here, were Immersed In the ley waters or the Monongahela river Sunday. Tho lm mersloiis wero witnessed by several persons who shivered on tho hank of tho river and huddled elcso to llros built by small boys. Must Appoint Liquidating Agent. Washington. To protect the ered ltor3 of national banks which g0 into voluntary liquidation, Comptroller of tho Currency Mutiny has changed the practice of his oflice to that such In stitutions will ho supervised by the treasury department until every dollar of indebtedness Is paid. In future, a bank desiring to go Into voluntary liquidation must appoint a liquidating agent or eommlttoo who will report quarterly to tho treasury department until all drhts are wiped out. SUMMON I. BRYAN FIRST WITNESS CALLED FOR MONEY TRUST INQUIRY. NO ENTRY FOR MEXICAN TROOPS Think Fight Would Endanger Ameri can Llve3 Taft Headquarters Open at Washington Arrests at Lawrence, Mats. Washington Willlnm J. Bryan will bi; tho lli'Kt wltno.su to ho summoned before the house eommlttoo en bank ing and currency to testify In the "money trust" Investigation, which tho democratic caucus, repudiating Mr. Hryan's demand for a special com mltteo, referred to standing commit tees of the house. Mr. Ilrynii has tie elared the "money trust" thought It could contiol the committee. The com mittee Insists that Mr. Bryan must ex plain what ho meant, notwithstanding tho fact that the liryau adherents In tho caucus Wednesday night offered a resolution which wns adopted express ing cunlldence in tho Integrity of tholr colleagues on that committee. Residents of El Paso Alarmed. Washington, Diplomatic complica tions have arisen between tho state of Texas and the United States govern ment on the one hand und the Mexi can government on tho other, which temporarily at least will not permit Mexico to move any troops over Amer ican territory In connection with her reolutlouary disturbances. (Sovcrnor ('oli)Uitt of Texas lias pointed out to tho state department that residents of (01 Paso wero apprehensive thut reb els at Juarez, Mexico, might resist the 2ntry of Mexican troops from Ameri can territory a.id precipitate a battle, endangering American lives and prop rrty. Secretary Knox assured Gover nor Cohiuitt that no permission would bo granted until the matter had been sarefully studied and that It would be idjustcd In a diplomatic manner. Anti-Saloon League Protests, Lincoln, Neb. If President Taft ap points Secretary Naglo to the supreme bench, he 1b done for In thlB state that Is, If members of the Nebraska Anti-Saloon league have their way. Superintendent II. F. Carson has wired tho following to President Taft: "Tho Anti-Saloon league, In the name of fiO.000 temperance voters of Nebraska, most emphatically protests against the appointment of Secretary Nagle, tho attorney of Adolphus Husch, to tho supremo bench. His appolutincut would further incense these voters and would loso them to your administration." Open Taft Headquarters. Washington. Taft hoadiiuarters are to be opened here immediately and Representative William H. McKlnley of Illinois, chairman of the republican congressional campaign committee, will be in charge of the president's political Interests from now until tho Chicago convention. Mr. Taft's friends have advised such a Mop, but no action was taken until the pressure of political work became so great that Secretary 1 lilies found It almost In supportable. Besides it was interfer ing seriously with the regular and nec essary work of his olllce. Charged With Being Accessories. Lawrence. Mass. Joseph J. Kttor and Artnio C.lovaniiittl, who until their uirest were in charge of tho strike of textile operatives here, havo been ar raigned In police court here charged with being accessories to the murder of Anna Lopi.o, who was shot dur ing the riot on January 1'2 Former University Professor Dead. Lincoln Notice of the death of Samuel Aughey, professor of science at the state unlvorMty in tho earlj days, has been received In this city Professor Aughey has been located for the last twelve ears as a mining en gineer at Spokane. Wash, where bis death occurred, lie was. also a re tired ICngllsh Lutheran minister. IMilni. Siberia A party of llfty pel sons perished In n stiowstotnt while traveling along the road In the vicin ity or tills city. They wero caught in a drift, from which forty-four corpses have been dug Traffic Congestion In Canada. Pululh. Minn. Tlic conge.itlon or tralllo on the Canadian railroads Is more seitous than at any time since its Inception, according to news re ceived from Poit Arthur, Out. The news tells of .ViOO cars alie.idy billed to Fort William over the Canadian Northern vv'hlch cannot be moved. There Is no place to store grain when it arrives at Fort William. Tltlity million bushels aie fro.en on the ground or in western elevators. Millenium Is Coming, Den Moines, la. Elder Charles Thomason or Nevada, la. presldont of tho noitlicin union eonforoueo of Sev enth Day Adveutlsts, In an address heie ill dared that ho wa-j looking forward 10 tho time when people shall ho taken up bodily from the earth nnd tiansported directly to heaven with out experiencing death. This ho be lieves to be but a few years In the future. He stated that he will never die of old age, belloviug that Christ will return to earth beforo he Is an old man. "0, SAY, CAN YOU SEE?" , .A-A sji - -.-- - -v . . - - -i- - T? ... -'. . - - . J . (CopvrlKht, 1912.) In Commemoration of Writing StarSjangled Banner "Old Glory" la to Ba Unfurled 1,000 Feet GOV, ALDRICH FOR THE COLONEL EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN ON SEED CORN SELECTION. Lecturers and Seed Corn Speclalicta to Carry Warnings to Nebraska Farmers Governor Pre sents His Reasons. Lincoln. With a $40,000,000 loss threatening Nebraska if poor seed corn Is planted, the biggest educa tional campaign on seed com selec tion and com gi owing possibly ever put on in tho United States has been arranged by the extension department of tho state university in conjunction with the rallroadB of Nebraska. Not less than eight trains carrying lectur ers and seed corn specialists will go into every nook and comer of the corn growing district, carrying the warning to the farmers and urging them to test their seed corn. The tlrst four trains will start out Febru ary 26. Tho Burlington will run two, the Union Pucltlc and Northwestern ono each. The following week other trains will be put on, but the sched ules have not yet been arranged. Roosevelt the Governor's Choice. Omaha. In a statement Issued Wednesday, Governor Aldrich comes out for Colonel Roosevelt for presi dent, In pieference to Senator LaFol lotto. He bases his decision on 'two points: tlrst, that the present state' of health of the senator will prevent him from giving tho vast amount of energy required by the coming contest: and, second, that In Roosevelt the country will have a candidate whose attitude toward business interests Is known and tried and who will not unsettle conditions as an untried candidate with progressive Ideals might. Are Going to Try It. Davenport, la. Tho threatened strike of the cmplovcs of tho Rock Island arsenal collapsed when cauls were offered to a few employes and were accepted. Tho machinists' union, one of the strongest organizations at tho arsenal, notified Commandant Burr that its members would accept the cards. It Is believed other organiza tions will do likewise. Capitalized at Many Millions. Pittsburg, Pa.--Representing a cap italization or $100,0(10,000. the inde pendent tlnplato manufacturers or the United States have been granted a chnrter under the name or the Asso ciation or Sheet ami Tlnplato Manu facturers. Headquarters of the new association will be located here. Has Ralced Nebraska Values, Noifolk. Neb. -Henry Seymour, sec retary of the stale boaid of equaliza tion, opened the Nebraska farmers' cougrcsh here with an address on "Un dervaluation in Taes." He stated that the law passed in mm raited tho aisohsod valuation of Nebraska from ?u-t:.s::7't to si.iTXS'.io.iiiio Laredo, Te Snow is reported I Hum mm in m mrno.H iieeji oil tile level iictwocu Lampasas and Mon terey. Melco. This is tho lit si snow I.i that section in years Washington --. formal order for a congressional investigation of the Flor ida Everglades land case in the depart meiit of agriculture was pasn-d b tho house lommlttei) on xpeuditures in that department Charges that En gineers Elliott and Mnorehouxi who were discharged b.v Secretary WIIloii, had been victims of the Florida syn dicate land piomntcru, and that 'of ficial reports on the true conditions in the Everglades have been suppressed, are to be Investigated. Think 160 Not Too Much. Denver, Colo. Allotment of a full 1)10 acre tract to each homesteader was favored by the forestry supervis ors of district No 2, in cont'eienco here. Tho district comprises twenty nine rorest reserves in Colorado, Wy oming South Dakota. NobniBl a and Kansas. Tho resolution adopted de clared that when there are several ap plicants for the f,amo tract of land I natter results nro obtained If allot- meat of Din ncroB Is made to one por son than If the tract Is divided into smaller parts. High News Item. NAGEL FOR SUPREME BENCH REGARDING EXPENDITURES IN AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. Hook Practically Eliminated from the Race To Protest Against Amer icans Along Mexican Border. Washington. Another Investigation or tho department of agriculture. In volving orders of Secretury Wilson and Solicitor .McCabe, similar In many respects to tho recently con cluded McCabe-Wiley controversy, but which embraces charges of sup pressed reports and influence of land speculators over government officials, Is to be instituted by the house com mittee on expenditures In the agricul tural department. Circumstances, smouldering for months, relating to exploitation of Florida everglada lands, millions of acres of which have been sold throughout the country by syndicates In the last few years, burst Into a flame before the committee, following the summary dismissal from the government service by Sec retary Wilson of C. G. Klllott. chief engineer of the drainage division of tho department, and Assistant En gineer A. D. Moorchouse, and tho sus pension of F. K. Singleton, an ac countant, on a technical charge of Jtmsforancu of public funds, Nagel Slated for Supreme Bench, Washington. The existing vacancy on the supreme court bench, the lifth that has occurred In the present ad ministration, piobably will be filled by the appointment of Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles Nagel of St. Loula. President Taft is ex pected to send tho nomination of Mr. Nagel to the senate within a few days. United States Judge William C. Hook of Kansas, who was most prominently mentioned for the va cancy, la said to have been eliminat ed from further consideration at u late session of the cabinet. To Protect Americano on Border. .Washington. Legislation to give to tho president added power to protect Americano along tho Mexican border In ease of another Mexican outbreak Is to bo Intioduced In the house soon by members of tho foreign affairs committee. Representative Smith of Texas has urged the passage of his resolution to Instinct the state de partment to press claims of Ameri cans at I21 Paso and Douglass, who were injured or suffered loss on American soil by stray bullets from tho battle of Juarez and Agua Prieta, To Reinter Phil Kearney's Bones. New York. With much pomp and ceremony the bones of Mnjor General Phil Kearney, one of the most dash ing or the federal cavalry leaders of the civil war and also a notablo fig ure in tho Mexican .var, are to find their resting place In the national cemetery at Washlurton April 12. At present General Kearney's body Is In a vault of old Trinity church In till' city. Washington. - Parcels improperly or inadequately wrapped will not be accepted by postmasters for mailing. Tho postofllco department has re ceived complaints, particularly from loreigu couniries, inai parcels con tained In the malls from this country have been received in a damaged con dition. Postmaster General Hitchcock has issued an order to all poslnuiDtera instructing them not to accopt for mailing any parcel that iu not uecure ly wrapped. Lincoln. International peace trea ties, now pending In the United States senate, wore given hearty indorse ment at a meeting here, at which a Nebraska branch of the American Poaoo society was organized with W .1. Uryan honorary president, George E. Howard of the University of Ne braska, presldont, and A. L. Weather ly, secretary. Following th business session a mass meeting was held, nt which addresses wero made by Habbl Hlrsch of Chicago and Charles K. I Coals, western Held secretary cf the American society. BRIEF NhWS UF NEBRASKA llrnilEhaw will havo another bank. Plans for holding a modern county fair a.'. York next season ate under way. Ti various churches (( Heaver City have started a series of union meetings. A call has been Issued In Fremont Tor fiiiidn for suffering Chinese in tho famine districts. An Interesting and successful re vival Is being carried on at the Chris tian church at Hebron. The Odell farmers' elevator com pany has declared a t. per cent divi dend for the annual btulness. Fire which started early Saturday mornlug destroyed the (lass furulluro store, the largest In Columbus, M. Morgan, who wns Injured by a Tall at Walthlll. died nt n hospital where ho was taken for treatment, John Russell of Callaway was se verely Injured when 11 heavy piece of steel rail slipped and fell on his foot. Frank Rogers was caught In tho bolt of a corn shelter near Seward nnd will possibly lose a leg as the result. John R. Donovan, a well known Ne braska newspaper man, is dead of heart disease at the home of his sis ter in Omaha. Soveral largo cinder enrs In the Rock Island cinter pit at Falrbury took lire Sunday morning and were consumed. Tlie typhoid epidemic at Lincoln has been put to rout after tho devel opment of 275 cases, ten of which wero fatal. Tho men aud religion forward movement which has been sweeping over tho country during tho hiBt bIx mouths is now in full swing In Lin coln. Participants of the wolf hunt at Howe had an oyster supper nt tho hall Thursday. About 200 persons wero present and enjoyed the merrymak ing. Fred Hunter of the university school of agriculture will bo tho speaker at the Thayer County Teach ers' association at Hebron, Febru ary 1 7. A bunch of thlrty-threo ten-months-old hogs, averaging 321 pounds, raised by Swlglo & Gering of AdamB county, topped the St. Joseph market one day last week. Members of the Fremont Auto club are co-operating with the South Da kota State Auto club in an attempt to put through a new road between Fremont and Sioux City. January. 1912, will go on the records of the Nebraska weather bureau as one of the coldest Januaries since the department began to keep tab on temperatures ,tvvonty-slx years ago. The Commercial club at Kearney wnB host at a "get acquainted" ban Hiet which was given for traveling talesmen who make their homo In .hat place. About seventy wero pres ent. The annual report of tho Burlington indicates that Alliance stands fifth in tho state in point of revenue re--slptu, being superceded only by Oma ha, South Omaha, Lincoln an.! Grand Island. The Malmo cornet band, assisted by the Prakup orchestra of Waboo, u'yye an enjoyablo concert at tho former place to a big houso and con siderably nugmented Its exchequer l hereby. A fire and drum corps of twenty five pieces belonging to tho National ssoclatlon of Civil War Musicians, will be ono of the attractions at tho .'Srand Army encampment at Beatrice in May. A petition is being circulated imoug tho business men of Hastings taking tho city council to take tho initiative toward securing for that place the municipal ownership of a ;as plant. i Grandmother Kenton, widow of tho lato Daniel Feuton, died nt tho old "iomo farm in DeSoto, on tho Blair road, Tuesday. There she settled with tier husband when they camo from Roston forty years ago. The ex-members of tho Nebraska legislature in Nemaha county aro moving towards a county organization. I'horo nro sixteen ex-legislators iff tVtiburn and twonty-thrco in the coun ty, besides a lieutenant governor und a chapluln. Tho Nebraska-Inwa-South Dakota fair association, which hold meetings at Sioux City and nt which Secretary W. It. Mollor of tho Nebraska state board of agrlculturo was an attend ant, will prohibit tho uso of hobbles In all horse races after 1011. Business men of DoWItt aro con templating the organization of a Btoc.lt company with 510,000 capital for tho purpose of building a dam across tho Bluo river in order to furnlbh light and power for tho town. Tho steel for tho extension of tho Kcamoy and Black Hills branch of tho Union Pacific from Callaway to near Gandy, tho county scat of Lo gan county, is now being unloaded. The brldgo gang has completed Ita (vork as far ns Arnold nnd tho lay ing of tho Bteel will begin March 1. Tho ladies' aid society of the Moth ndist church nt Crete has Issued iho 'Creto Cook Book" and created quite x sourco of rovenuo from Its sale. Tho eommlttoo In charge or tho 3rand Army of tho Republic onenmp aient, which will bo held at Beatrice n May, la making arrangements to navo Daniel E. Slckloa of New York ittend tho meeting. 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