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The Chief TO ABOLISH SENATE AMBITIOUS PLAN OF MINNESOTA REPRESENTATIVE. BETTER GOME DOWN C. 1). HALF., Pulillslirr RED CLOUD NEBRASKA BEDBUNKETBKLLQT LARGEST LIST OF CANDIDATES EVER SUBMITTED TO VOTERS. COAL MINERS STANDING FIRM .'J m u f'F r V p A I a . (I ,?i I . 1 ;! if l INDEPENDENCE FOR PHILIPPINES Philippine Independence Practically Assured Bomb for Chinese Mln lotcr Advance In Lum ber Prices. Lincoln. Eight hundred and eight) mimes of candidates running for pres ident, vice-president, presidential electors, delegates to niitlcittnl conven tions, national committeemen, United States senator, congressmen and stnte oIIIccb aro on Hie llHt prepared hy See retnry of State Walt to bo eertlllod to county clerks for places on the bal lot at (tin primarleH April 10. TIiIh doer, not Include any candidate for tliu r.tato legislature. Tlio ballot will bo from htx lo eight feet In lenj;th and will be Hie longest over oted at any election held In NebniHlca. On thin ac count, extra largo ballot Ikixch may lie required. Independent Government for Islands. Washington. Independetico of the PhlllpplneH Ik practically assured, so far as tho lioitKe is concerned, when the Insular affairs conunltteo agreed to report the hill of Itoprcsontntlvo .Touch (dem.. Va.) establishing an In dependent government In the Islands Try to Kill Mlnlcter. San KranelHco. An attempt wan made to nssnsslnuto III Slug Wing, nilnlhter of war of the new Chinoso republic, according to a telegram re ceived by tho Chung Sal Yat Ho. n Chinese paper here. The dispatch tald a bomb hail been thrown at tho minister's carriage, killing Chen Tl, tmo of his uldes. The bomb thiowcr escaped. Advance In Lumber Prices. Little Hock. Ark. An advance In tho price of southern lumber, particu larly yellow pine and oypros.4 Is ex pected at any tlmo by wholesalo deal ers, who maintain that recent floods In tho gulf states havo crippled the mills and caused u shortage la the market. How short the market Is and how high the price Is apt to go Is not rst hunted, hut all agree that the prico will probably go up. Breaks Snow Record at Den Moines. Dos Moines. la. With a fall of 11.7 Inches of snow during tho night, ac companied by a driving wind from the north, all records for tho Des Molnen weather bureau, established In 1S7S. were broken here Wednes day. The total snowfall this winter has been 7" Inches, over an inch more than fell in ISS.VSi;. which was tli' previous record. Escapes from Kansac Penitentiary. Leavenworth. Kan. William Smith, nllas Hrown, a former federal pris oner, who admitted that ho had placed dynamite and guns in the I'liltod Stntcs prison here llvo months ago, has escaped from the state peniten tiary at Lansing, near here, where he was serving a sentence for burglary. The dynamite and guns were intend ed for use in a mutiny, it Is believed. Convicts' Bodies Disposed Of. Tancastor. Tho bodies or "Shorty" Gray and John Dovvd. convicts killed during .ho battlo with a pouso near Chalco, have been turned over to n medical college. Coroner Matthews took tho bodies from the penitentiary to Lincoln ami disposed of them. They will ho used for dissection dem onstrating by students. Washington Congressman Henry or Texas, who has returned frpm tho llryan birthday banquet at Lincoln, predicts that Taft will carry Nebras ka In the three-cornered light develop ing between followers of Taft. Itooso volt and LaFollotto and that tho heads of tho democratic ticket will he Wilson and Clark. Wilson being very Btrong in Nebraska. Chicago, 111. (julck action by Fathers Luttrell and Murphy of St Thomas' Komnn Catholic church saved that edifice rrom total destruction bj lire when crossed electric wires Ig lilted tho Inflammable material behind the altar. Tho priests, roused by tho smoke, whleh penetrated the pirish house, first carried many sacred lellcs and altar property to safety, and then summoned the lire department. Tho church was recently finished at a cob of $100,000. Tho loss Is $2:.,000. Claim Iowa Convention for Cummins. Des Moines Caucuses mid conven tions weio held by republicans in hair a dozen counties In Iowa Saturday and tho Indications nre that Seii ntor A. H. Cummins will carry tho state convention hy 121 delegates and that llvo districts will be for Tart and seven ror Cummins. Heaviest Snovfall in Itr. History Kansas City. Tho deepest snow In tho history or the local weather bureau fell In this vicinity Saturday, 17.3 Inches being recorded at 10 p. in, No Indications of Early Agreement Will Reduce House Membership Foundation for Closer Relations. Washington. Tho abolition of the rniteil States senate unci the olllce of vice president, with a reduction of tho membership of the house to 300, Is proposed in u resolution which Keprc scnlatlve Lindbergh ot Minnesota has announced he would Introduce this week. The main feature of Mr. Llnd liergh's lesolutlon piovldes for the creation or a committee at large which would have absolute control over the legislative action of con gress. Tliu members or the commit tee would be elected by the country at large for a term tif llfttion years, and it could prevent the submission or bills to the president. TIiIb opposi tion could be ovcicome only by a 'two-thirds vote of the public. For Patent Rights Legislation. Washington. On the motion of Sen ator Norris Itrovvti, chairman of tho committee on patents, tho senate has ordered tho opinion of the supremo .court In the patent cases made a sen ate document. The document will In clude the dissenting opinion of Chief Justice White. It Is the contention or Senator Hrown that if the judgment of tho court Is sound then legislation Is Imperative to protect the public rrom Hie abuse of patent rights. At torney (ienoral Wickeniham, under di rection or President Tart, Is now at work to meet the dangers which may arise under tho decision of the court in the prosecutions now pending against the shoe trust and other trusts, which are in a measure pro tected by patents. Will Accept No Compromise. Cleveland, O. l'p to the present the operators ami miners of the bitumin ous coal lleldii of western Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois have failed to reach a wage agreement to take effect Apiil 1 and thus prevent illuming down the mines. Itoth sides declare they are determined to como to a decision Immediately. The miners refuse to compioinlse offers that they continue tho present wage agreement. In reply they assort that L'On.OOo min er will quit on .March III unless vvago advances were granted. Secretary Knox Promises Results. Washington -Secretary Kno by wireless from the cruiser Washington has advised tho state department that tho results which It was hoped would come fiom his tour or Latin-America had been attained. Worldwide impor tanco attached to the secretary's trip ninl wlille the mil significance has never boMi olllcially announced, its prime purpose Is said to have been to lay the foundation for closer relations between tho I'nited States and Latin America to anticipate any posslblo Kitropoan aggression in commerce or diplomaoy. Hsdley Not a Candidate. Jefferson city, Mo. "I am not now and will not bo a candidate Tor vice president." said (Jov. II. s. Hartley when he heard that his name had been presented for tiling as a candidate ror vice president in Nebraska. Ho dic tated a letter to the secretary of state of Nebraska requesting him to refuse the petition nud not place his name on the official primary ballot. Asks Reward for Mrs. Blunt. Arlington, Neb. A petition Is being circulated in Arlington, addressed to Covernor Aldrieb. requesting that the reward offered for tho capture of the bandits who murdered the prison offi cials at Lincoln last week be paid' over to Mrs. Hoy Hlunt. whoso hua band was tho victim of a bullet, while they were being pursued Drainage Bill Provides $25,000,000. Washington. Tvvoniy-llve million dollars for tho drninage of tho swamp and other wet lands of tho United States would ho appropriated by a hill which Representative Stephens of Mississippi has presented to congress. Washington Tho house devoted an entire session tp a bill liberalizing Hie homestead laws Jv reducing rrom five to three years the period of residence required on public land to prove tltlo Settlers would be permitted to absent themselves from their homesteads five mouths In each year, Tho legislation making less drastic tho existing laws governing settlement hap been sought for years. For tho first tlmo this ses sion Speaker Clark took the floor and urged tho passage of the bill Slxty-fcur Bodies Recovered. McCurtaln Okla. OIHc.lal llgurcs given out hero show that tho death list In tho San Hols Coal company dis aster Wednesday is seventy Twelvo bodies were recovered Friday, making total of sixty-four brought out. Indiana Has Favorite Son. Indianapolis, Ind. Indiana demo cratB In convention hero Wednesday, unanimously pledged the support of thirty delegates to the candidacy of Governor Thomas R. Marshall for tho dumvratlo nrwuliUmtlul nnmlnutlnn (Copyright) U. 8. Government Starts Investigation Into High Cost of Living. Newt item. OLD WOOL BILL RESURRECZED DR. WILEY OPENS FIRE ON SELL ERS OF "DOPE." Vetoed Wool Measure Reintroduced In House Drug Men Take Excep tions to Doctor'o Statements Potash Field Discovered. Washington I)r Harvey W. Wiley, appearing as a private citizen before the pure food hoard in advocacy of a legulation guarding very strictly the use ami tale of opium, morphine, co caine and other hahlt-formlng drugs, aroused the anger ot drug representa tives hy referring to them as -,dopers." Representatives or the drug manu facturers argued that the exception should he made In preparations con taining only small proportions of opium, morphine, cocaine and the other drugs named. They held that there were so many of these prepara tions scattered tluough small drug stores ail over the country that It would require .vears and be a heavy expense lor the manufacturers to have all marked with skull and cross bones, as the regulation of the pure food board would require. Ilr. Wiley declared the manufactur er had been making the profits and should pay whatever costs were nec essary to protect the public rrom the drug habit. Old Wool Bill Reintroduced. Washington The democratic wool tarllT revision bill, levying a 20 per cent ad vnloiem duty on raw wool. In troduced hy Democratic Leader I'll derwood, will be reported at once to avoid a caucus and thereby dodge trouble with the advocates of fioo wool. The measure is Identical with that passed by the house last summer and after revision by tho senate vetoed by President Tart. Uegular re publicans contend that tho president would llnd excuse ror vetoing the democratic bill on the ground that it does not adequately protect the reve nues. The reintrodMCtlon or tho hill vetoed by President Tnrt with the elimination of the senate amendments will be used by the democrats as -the basis for an arraignment of the tariff board. Locate a Lake of Potssh. Sacramento, Cal. Enough potaBh to supply the I'nited States probably for the next thirty years has been discov ered by government scientists In Searles' lake, San Hernardino county. California. Estimates of field mon of tho geological survey and bureau ol soils Is that the deposit may amount to 1,000,000 tons, but authorities, from data in their possession, consider that estimate conservative and believe that more than 10,000,000 tons or potash Is avallablo there. Chlneoe Rockefeller Paye Ransom. Shanghai. Hy paying $100,000 to brigands, Sheng Kung Pao, known aa the Chinese Rockefeller, ransomed his only son, kidnaped last week. Tho money was paid in time to prevent the mutilation of the boy, the bandits having written that for each day tho pameut of the tribute was delayed they would amputate a member and send It to the father. Project Nipped In the Bud. Kl Paso, Tex, Recruiting for tho Mexican rebel army on the American sldo wns given a severe set-back when Luis Diaz do Ioon, an officer of lien oral Orozco's army was arrested In 131 Paso by Texas rangers aided by Mexi can federal fecrot service men. It in asserted that Leon enrolled lojal Mex icans under the banner of Orozco and planned to arm thorn and sending a force to Ollnlga, on tho bonier, where tho river patrol Is not In evidence. Milwaukee Wis. If all marriages wore contracted In churches thoro would he fewer divorces, Is tho opinion of Chief Justice Joseph (1. Donnelly of tho Milwaukee civil court. 'Thoro should be, first of all, parental con sent." said Judgo Donnelly. "Then there should lio tho ceremony per formed by a minister in a church be fore tliu friends of both tho man nnd the woman. There should ho tho ring and the wedding march and tho other llttlo touches call them sentimental if you will that go with tho accept ance of a solectr.'J responsibility WOODMEN WILL NOT SECEDE OKLAHOMA MINE DISASTER WITH SCORES OF VICTIMS. Woodmen at Hastings Urge Head Camp to Rcconclder Rates To In vestigate Secretary Knox In North Dakota. McCurtaln, Okla. One hundred and live lives Is an approximately correct estimate of the human toll taken when mine No. - or the Sun Hols Coal company hero was wiecked by an ex plosion. Of 110 men of the day shift only eleven are known to ho alive, while the others aro entombed be hind tho debris. In the opinion of government experts and mine olllcials they are tlend. and a special train which brought physicians and nurses from Foil Smith hus returned. Five physicians remained with the faint hope that some of the Imprisoned men might bo found alive. Among those unaccounted for aro members of a searching party, hearted hy W. D. Kopor of Clio. S. C Forty three Americans wore employed In the mine. The explosion occurred shortly after t) o'clock this morning. Ciov eminent mine experts have an nounced Hint hope of rescuing any of the men imprisoned had beec aban doned. Will Not Secede. Hastings. Neb. Nebraska Modern Woodmen who object to tho recent In crease In insurance rates by the head camp fniled to secede or otherwise di vorce themselves from the oflicial or ganization when they met in conveii Hon here. Resolutions were adopted urging the olllcials of tho order to call a speciul session of the head camp to reconsider the rate increase. Investigating Secretary Knox. Washington. The house committee on state department expenditures is Investigating rumors that S-crctnry of State Knox uses as a prlvato servant Archibald S. Plnkert, a negro, car ried on the state department pay rolls, and that Plnkert is accompanying Mr. Knox as a valet on the present Central American tour. Plnkert Is said to havo been employed by Mr. Knox when tho latter was In the I'nited States senate. The committee also in quired into the matter of defraying the expenses tif tho secretary's Central American trip. Primary Result In North Dakota. Grand Forks, N. D. Robert M. La Follotto's majority will not he far from l.'.OOO when the final primary returns are received, nnd may bo heavier. Of tho total vote LaFollette has polled about 32.000 votes, while Roosevelt has polled about 1S.00O. Tho Taft voto has been about .1,000. Lincoln, Neb. Tho name of Robert O, Rosn of Lexington will go upon the primary ballots ns a candidate for president of the I'nited States, de spite the fact that a petition filed by that politician' several weeks ago was turned down by tho secretary of state. Mr. Ross appeared In person at tho state house and armed with both re publican nnd democratic petitions asked that his name be recorded. Worries Navy Department. Washington. The possibilities of a coal strike nre causing anxiety at tho navy department, and Secretary Meyer will confer with representatives of some of the bituminous companies which supply the navy. Twenty-live foreign stentuers In Hampton Roads, waiting for bunker coal, aro offering $1.50 per ton more thnn tho navy pays. Tho Hoston navy yard is short of coal nnd thero is somo apprehension that other yards will coon bo affected. Wage Increases In Milts. Hoston. MasB. Wage increases ag gregating moro than $10,000,000 will go Into tho pockets of Now England tcxtllo workers during tho next twelvo months, according to authoritative es timates of tho result of the present up ward trend of wageB In cotton and woolen mills. On tho basis or an an nual pay roll or $70,000,000 In tho woolen mills, the Increase thero will amount to $5,000,000, whllo cotton mill operatives will receive an advanco of $&,000,000. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA Tho proposition to adopt the com ulsslon rorm or government ror (Irand Island was defeated. C. F. Shaw, for twenty-five years a prominent citizen of Norfolk, fell dead while shoveling snow. D. W. Hayes of Peru was elected secretary or the Normal School Presi dents' association in Its session at Chi cago. .Mrs. Ernest Hunger, wire or t'liicf ol Police Hunger or Lincoln, Is dead at her home in that city. She was born in England in IS 111. At the Cambridge high school dc slamatory contest, Ethelyn Druse was awarded first honors. Albert Cecil, sec ond and Joe Selhy third. Word lias readied Falrbury that John Frleueii, rormerly or that place, recently committed suicide In Denver by drinking a quantity or carbolic acid. No stock loss has been reported as a result of the recent storm, nor were there any fains into Hurwell for two days and mall routes have all been tied up. Several ministers from the stir rounding counties met in Peru und formed an association to be known at the Ministerial Association of South east Nebraska. The recently organized mothers' club of Wyniore will establish a rest room down town. Popular subscrip tions are depended on to furnish the necessary funds. Tho Hist mall received at Syracust since Wednesday was brought In rrom the cast Saturday afternoon after a snow plow had opened the trnck on the line of the Hurllngton. Ice gorges In Salt und Wahoo creeks In the vicinity of Ashland augmented b the onrush of vvuters from the 1 lll'lted KlllllVfl h.'iV'n cmmpil flniwliwl rnn. d'tlons in that neighborhood. The stockholders or the I'nited Fvangellcal conference assembled li: Kearney have decided to sell the (.'ameron camp grounds near (irand Island, the value being placed at M.000. Joseph Hamilton, for fourteen years county judge in Hoone county, and at one time a member of the Wisconsin legislature. Is tlead at his residence In Albion of pneumonia, at the age ol eighty-five. Clrant Mears, sheriff for ten years In Wayne county, who retired volun tarily last tall, has filed for the re publican nomination for the olllce of representative in the lower house of ho legislature .1. Jerahck or Sterling lias located ft brother he had not seen for twenty two years .and who he thought dead. Mr. Jerabek found his brother In busi ness in St. Joseph and he left Tor thero at once. Miss Lola La Follotte, daughter ol , Senator Robert M. La Follotte. will I appear at tho Oliver theater in Lin i coin. Wednesday. Match 27. In an orlg ' itinl lecture on "The Democracy of i Woman Suffrage." William Ernst or Tecumseh. who Is 'aid to be the WrM man 111 Nebraska o sound Hie warning as to tho con litlon of seed corn, says there is a mlliclent amount of seed corn in this Mate to supply tho farmers for this ieason. At a meeting or tho Sterling schoo board. Superintendent O. P. Stewart ind Principal Miss Shlvely or Lineoli were re-elected Tor the ensuing term This will make Professor Stewart' fourth year as superintendent of Ster ling schools Considerable Interest Is beginning to bo shown in regard to the coming municipal election at Hebron. Tin liquor question will bo disposed or bj i referendum vote, but indications art mat both tho "wets" and "drys" will have a full ticket In the field. In the declamatory contest of the Kearney high school, Dc Witt Foster a ward of Hlsliop (ieorgo A. needier won first jilaco In a splendid oratorical production and will represent tho school in tho central Nebraska de famatory contest at. Aurora, March 20. Tho York city mall carriers, accord ing to tho figures of Postmnster Shrock, last week carried 3.343 pounds af mail, or 2S.071 pieces, stopping 10, "CI! times to deliver mall, and traveled I.IC'j miles. Tho five carriers aver aged fifteen and one-third miles per .lay during tho week. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stahl cele crated their fiftieth marriage anniver sary at their homo In Nebraska City assisted by the members of their fam ily and numerous friends. The couplo tvero married at Hrunswick, Mo., March 19. 1SC2, and came to that place shortly afterward. When Ralph Scott or Lincoln re turned homo for lunch Saturday he found no ono at home, and thinking it strange, started In to search for his mother, who usually awaited him. Having searched the house, ho went Into tho collar and found his mother lying dead at tho foot and a llttlo to ono sldo of the steps. He lmmedi ately notified tho coroner, who con ducted an Investigation and concluded thnt death was duo to a fractured skull, caused by a fall In descending tho stops. Tho Otop Democratic club has post poned Its fourth nnnunl banquet to Tuesday, March 2-ti. Thero were 1,411,800 eggs shipped from Syracuso last year, thirty dozen to a case, mnklng l,00."i cases; llvo puoltry, 123,33.-) pounds; 34,888 gal lons of cream, HS1 head of horses, 7,00," hogs and 1,316 cattlo. Nearly nil of the Sterling peoplo havo taken down their base-burners, us thero is n famine in hard coal. Coal can only bo hnd at ono neighbor ing town, but ns tho roada havo been almost Impassablo no ono can bo found to haul tho coal, M0 BAKING POWDER H SEE how mncli better it H make (lie bukinti H SEE hoir mnrli more unl H form In qualify H SEE Low pare how good H SEE how economical aad SEE (hat yon get Calnmet k .& Ai yu Wk - Orooer'm .N.T MADEBVTHE TB"SL AL'JMEl lit lastf Kven a wIfo man never gets over be ing a fool to a certain extent. Them l no evctiM! tor this dyspeptic, with Curllulil Te.i lu'i-i-kslblt! ut every drugstore. Measure the depth of the water be fore making your dive. Poverty docs not destrop virtue, nor docs wealth bestow It. Yriarte. All Fresco. "Why does that old maid uso much paint on her face?" "She's making up for lost time." so Appeal. Stella What Is the matter? Cholly I wish you'd tell your fath er he's gotta quit klckln' nicaroun'. New York Sun. His Businesc "That man Indulges in shocking language." "Influence of his trade. He's n tele Graph lineman." Also With Gloves. Assistant IMItor Here's a farmer writes us asking how to treat sick bees. Editor Tell him he'd better treat them with respect. No End to His Bad Luck. John D. Snoop, at an Anti-Cigarette lcaguo banquet, explained his feelings in the story of the colored man. "How are you getting along, Laz arus?" asked his master, Interestedly "I gets along poorly," replied Laz arus, who complained of his misfor tune at length. "Master John, I has such bad luck," says he, "that when I dies mid is laid away In the tomb and tho good Lord Bays to me, 'Lazarus, como forth,' I know I is sho' to come fifth." Something Extra Good For J3reakfastt Lunch or Supper Post Toaslies Served direct from pack age with cream. Surprises Pleases Satisfies "The Memory Lingers v Sold by Grocers. IPutum Cwd Compnny, limited tUtilo Cietk, Michigin Y0 m i ' aa. -V,' , I I ft I I t t;mrwitff.-i V'tV-ft !?" WTyrrTX'TT miv. w-ciw "Hp).