fWft BED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, QHIKF X III MS STORM ZERO WEATHER AND HIGH WINDS MAKE EAST CRINGE. NOT MUCH TIME TO SPARE Bankt Mutt Hurry to Get Into Reserve System Death Penalty for Smokers of Opium. tYtrrn Nril.npr Union New Hrrvlcc, New York. A Know Hlonn wild to rival In mvcrlty tlio great storm of 1888, raged to tho accompaniment of r.ero weather In the upper llmlnon val ley, the Mohawk valley and tho north ern and WGHtcrn part of the stnto all day Saturday, tying ni many of the Mnnller railroads nnd Irollcy HneB nnd paralyzing communication generally. All malls wore delayed. During the afternoon tho fnll of snow ceased In many dlHtrlctH. only to ho followed by a return to the zero weather and high wlnd which have held the Btato In their grip for four days. Four deaths were caused In this section by the storm, and tho total fatalities due to he recent cold spell and stormy condl tlons to dnto numbered seventeen. Death Penalty for Opium Smoking. Pelting. Proclamations announcing the denth penalty for smokers of opium Jitvvo been promulgated, ic rordlng to reports from the provinces. Although definite cases of executions for this breach of the law seldom corao o special notice, It la reported from Wu Chang that a smoker among tho soldiers of the garrison there was caught Indulging in the habit and after "trial" before a court mado up of his comrades ho wbb sentenced to immedi ate execution and was Bhot to death. This Is ono of tho many InstanceB of tho fact that courts of law are not employed In China In cases where thej would be In western countries. NOT MUCH TIME TO LOSE. Banks Must Get Into Reserve System Soon, if at All. Washington. Warning has been Is sued to national banks by M. C. Elli ott, secretary of the reserve bank or ganization, that to comply with the currency act, they must signify within Hlxty days of Its enactment their In tention to Join tho new Hystem. Sev eral bankB had expressed tho belief that tho law allowed them twelve months in which to mako known their Intentions. Under the law national bankB which db not, ho Hignlfy within sixty days rnust prepare to liquidate and nro allowed twelve months for this process. Good Roada Bill, Passes House. Washington. Tho Shackleford ?2G. 000,000 good ronds bill has been passed by tho house 282 to 42. The bill, which now gocfl to tho senate, appro priates' $25,000,000 to be divided, $05, 000 to each state and the remainder among tho stntes on the basis of popu lation and tho number of miles of post roads. Each state must co-operato by appropriating a dollar for every dollar furnished by tho federal government. Gets Boy by Parcel Post. Wellington, Kan. Mrs. E. II. Stn ley of this city received her two-year-old nephew by parcel post from his grandmother In Stratford. Okla., whero no had boon loft for a visit three weoks ago. Tho boy wore a tag about his neck showing It had cost IS cents to send him through the mnlln. Ho waB transported twenty-one miles by rural route before reaching the rail road. Charter Oay at Btate University. Lincoln, Neb. Charter day, which fell this year on Sunday, February 15. was observed Monday by a vacation from class work. In tho afternoon the annual Interclass athletic meet was held In tho armory. In the evening tho fourteenth annual mid-winter com mencement exercises were held In St. Paul's church with ono or the largest "lasses ever graduated. Fans Will Get 168 Games. Chicago. Tho Westorn Ilaseball leaguo will remain intact this season nnd a acehdulo of 1C8 games will bo played. Theso were the two impor tant decisions at tho leaguo meeting jUBt concluded here. State University Registrar Resigns. Lincoln, Neb. E. M. Itutledge. reg Istrar at the state university for the paBt thrco years, has submitted his resignation to the board of regents at tho meeting of that body Monday, the resignation to take effect April 1. Mr. Itutledge la leaving Lincoln to Join his brother on n cattle ranch of tholra nt Clayton, N. M. Ho will aid, his brother in the management or tho ranch, which has grown almost too largo for tho effective supervision of one man. Cannot Travel by Parcel Post. WaBhlngton. iniiies nro not mail able. Tho postolTIco department so holds In an edict barring them from tho parcel post. Tho question nroso ovor a request by tho postmaster at Stratford, Okla., for u ruling by tho department ns to whether n patron of his ofuco could Bend a 2-yenrold child by parcel post from Twin Falls, Idaho, tc Stratford. Tho postmaster was greatly puzzled becauao ho could find nothing In tho regulations cover, ing such a case. So ho referred It to the postofflce department. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA Diphtheria at Wymorc Is gradunlly BUbsldlng. Stella will have a five-days' chautau. qua In August, Plckrel buclneBH men have organ Ized n commercial club, H. (J. Schwiud has been appointed postmaster at Munlcy. Weeping Water bimlncBB men huvo organized a concert band. .MeCool Junction will put In elcctrle UglitB, Becurlng power from York. ' Dr. George P. Shldlcr, city physician of York, has tendered his resignation Albion Is making efforts to secure the next high school readers' enntur iiice Agitation for tho organization of 8 baseball team la being made at To ;umseh. Nearly 5,000 guostH attended the opening of the new Clarke hotel at flatitlngs. The Hurllngton'B commissary de partment hns been moved from Lin coln to Kalians City. The tinge county bonrd of super visors Ib considering employing a alghwny commissioner. John Knocll, former county treas urer nt Fremont, haB been nppolntod deputy county aBseBsor. Forty-nine merchnntB hnvo reserved space In the midwinter Industrial show room at Fremont. The village boord of Ohlowa Is plan ning to 'put 200 loads of aand and gravel on the main street. The question of "wet" or "dry" will come before the people of Wymorc at the coming spring election. Ice twelve Inches thick Is being hnrvested at West Point. A full force jf men and teams arc at work. Vernon Iinldwln was found dead In ) i barn at the home of his sister neat York, the result of heart trouble. J. A. (Milan, who has been nine times sheriff of Seward county, has entered tho race for county tronsurcr. A three hundred pound hog and a dozen chickens wero stolen from the barnyard of Mrs. Ocrecko, cast of Fro mont. February 22 will be observed as "Oc to Church" Sundny at Seward. th ministerial association encouraginp tho plan. S. C. Ilnssott of Gibbon, who wne Injured by falling from an apple tree last fnll, Is JUBt beginning to recover from ItH effects. Tho city council of Plattsmouth has decided to replace the gas lights on the streets of the business district with electric light clusters. February 22 lias been sot npart as "go-to-church Sundny" In Fromontnnd an advertising campaign has been launched by the ministerial union. A range nt tho home of George Toten nt Nebraska City exploded,' de molishing it nnd blowing a portion of It through the wall of tho kitchen. Tho voters or Kearney will decide on March 10 whether or not bonds will bo Issued for the erection of n public athletic field In the heart of the city. Mrs. Ida Worthlngton, who was bndly burned ncvcrnl weeks ago by tho explosion of a coal oil lamp, died as n result of her injuries at her homo In Lincoln Thursday. Tho town of Hooper Is In darkness owing to the breakdown of tho light ing plnnt. Tho plant Is soon to be sold under n mortgage, so repairs may not be mndo at present. Sixteen hundred people attended tho first home-coming feativnl of tho Christian churches of Lincoln, Have lock and Bethany at tho city audi torium nt Lincoln. Six churches were represented. A daughter weighing fifteen pounds was born Inst week to Mr. nnd Mrs. Enoch Hnnllnc, residing near Brock. Tho child Is strong nnd well, notwith standing its enormous weight, and Is the ninth child born to Mr. and Mrs. Hnnlino. The ministers of Auburn havo formed an organization, known as the Auburn Ministerial association. Tho purpose of the association is to meet at regular intorvnls to discuss plans nnd map out campaigns for the hotter mont of church work In the city. In their eagerness to get nt tho bread and coffee served In Volunteers hnll at Omaha, tho crowd of hungry men broke through tho glass of tho door. In scuffling with n boy friend. Har- old Fleming of Wymore ran a pencil into his right eyo, Inflicting a very dangerous wound which may destroy the sight. The two-year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E, L. Feeso of Wymoro Is In a serious condition nB the result of swallowing a pin. Tho pin lodged In her throat and could not be removed for some time. Henry Hntch will ,1obo sevcrnl fingers m the result of getting In two ilose touch with a buzzsaw being used In cutting wood on a rarm nenr Te :unibeh. Forty-slx head or hogs from ono herd wore sold nt Central City last week. The average prlco was $00.25. The lowest prlco waB $42 and tho highest $327.G0. There are twenty-three applicants ror tho position of mnnnger of tho mu niclpnl light and water plant nt Wy more. Many of theso nro disqualified becaiue they are not residents of tho city. Fred Applrgot of Tecumseh, who hnd both of his hands cut off In np Ico crushing mnchlno In Lincoln last sum mer, hns secured a position with nn artificial limb company in Kansas City. John Conley, aged 78 years, nnd for forty-two years n resident of Adams county, died ns tho result or a shock from a broken log sustained In his homo nenr Hastings. Tho body or Harry Itotm, n young miner from Gebo, Wyo war found In a sealed refrigerator car in tho Bur lington ynrds nt Lincoln. The man had evidently frozen to death duritig the passage of tho car from Alllaaus. WHY I ivr 1,1 ATTACK ON FEDERAL TRAIN THE MENACE OF A8IATIC IMMI GRATION. Rebels Wreck Train and Wipe Out Military Escort Japanese Pro test Against Increase of Taxation. Western Ni-w fp-ipi-r Union Nw Service. Washington. Predictions of "the fiercest revolution tho world over has known," If the lirltluh government ap proves tho Hindu exclusion policies of ItH colonies, were made before the house immigration committee by Dr. Sudhlndrn Hose, a professor in the Unjversit of Iowa, during an argu ment in which ho contended that Hin dus wero an Aryan people, entitled to naturalization here. Ho urged that. If tho Hindus were to bo excluded hero, a "gentleman's agreement" be mndo between tho United States and tho British Indian government to re strict tho immigration. Despite n gen eral understanding that, in deferenco to tho administration, Asiatic exclu sion legislation would not bo agitated in congress pending diplomatic nego tiations with Japan, Commissioner General Cnminettl of the immigration bureau urged early action "to check the menace of Asiatic immigration." Serious Riots in Japanese Capital. Toklo. Serious riots Htarted by cit izens of the Japanese capital as n pro test ngalnst the levying of nn Increnso of taxation led to tho arrest of 200 per sons in tho lower section or the city Friday. Tho disorders wero quickly suppressed by a column or 5db police men, who UBcd their sabers rreoly. In pursuance or Its determination to stlllo nil Btreet demonstrations tho govern ment hns ordered tho arrest or a num ber or editors or opposition papers which had advocated tho agitation. Thoir newspapers were suppressed. ATTACK ON FEDERAL TRAIN. Mexican Rebels Make Raid In Tarn pIco District. Mexico City. Rebels hnve-again cut off tho oil supply from Tnmplco over tho railroad Into San Luis Potosl, this time emphasizing their work by the total destruction of n passenger train, wiping out tho military escort and killing nnd wounding many passen gers. At LaB Canons, twenty miles south of Cardenas, mlnos wero explod ed beneath a paBsengor train from Tamplco. A battle between the red oral escort or fifty nnd tho rebels en sued, in which nil of tho rcdorals were killed. Most or tho passengers, who wero in tho renr cars, fled to the brush and somo of them succeeded in reaching nearby stations. Finishes Sutton Bank Probe. Lincoln, A sixty-five page Indict ment containing nineteen counts was returned In federal court hero against Attorney Thomas II. Matters of Om aha. It grows out or Mr. Matters' business nssoclatlon with M. L. Lucb ben in tho. First Natlonnl bank or Sut ton nnd concludes tho grand Jury's Investigation Into tho uffairs of that Institution. A second separate in dictment contnlns four counts. World's Wheat Production a Record. Wnohington. Tho world's wheat crop passed tho four billion bushel mnrk for tho first tlmo last year, when It reached a grand total of 4.125.GG8, 000, according to statistics by tho de partment of agriculture. This is 298, 571,000 bushels In excess of the previ ous year's wheat production. Tho world supply first reached tho' three billion markMn 1902, since which time it hnd beon between three nnd rour billions until 1913, when it passed tho latter figure. An Innovation In Electioneering. Chicago. III. Candy has tnkon tho place or campaign cigars and coffee wngons will rival tho saloon ns voto getters In Chicago's aldermanlo cam paign which will corao to n climax at tho April olection. Miss Marion H. Drako, candidato for nldormuu of tho First ward against Alderman "Bath-' house John" Coughlln, has announced that sho will employ coffee wagons In her campaign. Froe coffeo and rolls will be distributed from the wagons during the cold weather. NOT? BRANDEIS SAYS BUSINESS IS SAFE UNDER WILSON. Charged With Negligence in Steam, ship Disaster Kansas Pro gressive Will Nominate Full Ticket. WVsiern Newspaper Union News Service. Washington. Business waB advised to be free with Its suggestions to con gress during the shaping of the trust legislation program by Louis D. Bran dels of Boston In a speech ut tho annual convention or the chamber or commerce or tho United States. Mr. Brandcls told the delegates that the measures now being considered by house and senate committees repre sented only tho groundwork or tho program, nnd thnt the work of per fecttng them along the lines suggested by President Wilson ' would bo wel come. "Theso bills that have been Intro duced nrc not administration bills," ho said. '"They nro the bills or those members who Introduced them. I find much in them thnt I would like to see amended or corrected, nnd I havo found the greatest dehlro among their authors to get suggestions from you business men thnt will aid them In carrying out the president's program." Kansas Progressives to go It Alone. Topoka, Kas. A full state ticket will bo placed In tho field by the pro gressives of Kansas, with Henry J. Allen of Wichita, Kas., as candidnte for governor. This was decided nt a state conference of the party Thurs day. Mr. Allen announced his candi dacy and pnrty leaders said he would not be opposed for tho nomination. At the banquet table addresses were mado by Albert J. Beverldge, former senator from Indiana; Raymond Rob ins, chairman of tho progressive party In Illinois, nnd Congressman Victor Murdork, tho progressive candidato for the United States senate. CAPTAIN PLEADS NOT GUILTY. Captain Berry Charged with Negli gence in Collision. Philadelphia, Pa. Captain Osmyn Berry, commander of he Bteamship Nnntucket, charged with ncgllgonco In the recent collision with tho steamship Monroe, in which forty-ono lives wore lost, heard Captain Edward E. Johnson of the Monroo give his version of the disaster before the local United States Ins sctors of steam vessels, who will place tho responsibility for tho acci dent. Captain Berry pleaded not guilty to the charges brought by tho government steamboat Inspectors nt Norfolk, with falling to reduce tho speed of his ship to avoid collision; failing to ascertain whether tho wire less operator was on duty and with being careless in not ascertaining by wireless whethor any other vessels were close by In the fog. Mysterious Leak In Treasury. Washington, D. C More than $1,200 In natlonnl bank notes which disap peared from tho treasury department within tho Inst week have not been found and officials nro much worried over what promises to bo tho first loss of that kind In forty years. Four thou sand dollars in $10 gold notes which disappeared during tho process of manufacture in January also still are unaccounted for. Italian Navy to Participate. Naples. Italy. Orders havo been re ceived from tbo Italian minister of ma rine for the -preparation of a squadron or Italian war vessels to participate in tho International naval gathering In connection with the opening of tho Panama canal. Washington. Consideration or the proposed constitutional amendment for woman suffrago 'hns been deforred ngaln in the senate because senators gave notlco they wished to discuss It later. Seize Large Shipment of Opium. San Francisco, Cal. Acting under instructions from Washington, Justus Wnrdell, surveyor or tho port, confis cated the largost shipment of opium ever Bolzed en the Pacific coast. Eighteen boxes, 1,600 tins or tho drug, vnlued at $7,000, wero received here by tho steamship Manchuria to be transshipped in bond to Manznnlllo nnd Mazatlan, Mexico, An net or con grcBS, effective January 15, forbidding such transshipments, which hitherto have been allowed, laid the drug open to seizure. THE WORK AT WASHINGTON DAILY GRIST OF THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Epitome of the Work and Bills Pre sented and Passed by the Two Houses. IWBiyni NeuHpaprr Union Nrwi Senlee. Saturday. The Senate Continued discussion of a resolution to compel the Louisville & Nashville railroad to furnish certain Information to the Interstate commerce commission. , Adjourned at 2:44 p. m nt news of tho death of Senator Bacon, until noon Monday, The House Debated the Indian np proprintion bill. Naval committee considered ap pointment of n commission to in vestigate the subject of a govern ment armor pjant. Adjourned nt .1:55 p. m.. In respect to the memory of the late Senator Bacon, until noon Monday. Friday. The Senate Mines committee heard witnesses on Senator Wnlsh's radium bill. Smoot bill for codification. or mln Ing laws amended to include oil nnd mineral land laws. Immigration commltteo continued work on the Burnett bill. Adjourned at: 5 p. m. to noon Sat urday. Tho House President Van Hisc ol tho University or Wisconsin testified on tho trade commission bill. Iminltrrnl Inn itnmmUlAn lmnf.1 m guments ror exclusion or the Hindus. Representative Culiop of Indiana In troduced a bill to prohibit common carriers from owning or leasing conl lands. ' Passed omnibus private pension bill. General debnte on Indian nppropri ntion bill, enrrying $9,619,727, re Burned. Adjourned nt 5:10 p. m. to noor Saturday. Thursday. The Senate John G. Mllburn testi fied on tho bill to regulate stock ex changes before the banking commit tee. Passed Scnntor Smoot's bill to open withdrawn Alaska coal lands to home stead entry, reserving title to the coal to the government. Immigration committee decided on n speedy report on tho Burnett immi gration bill. Senator Bradley of Kentucky read Lincoln's Gettysburg nddres". Adjourned at 3:30 p. m.. In observ ance of Lincoln's birthday, to noon Friday. The House Set time aside for Lin coln memorial speeches. Democrats of the immigration com mittee prevented consideration of Asiatic exclusion bills. Rural credits hearings nrrnnged or next week by a subcommittee. Representative KInkead of New Jersey introduced bill to provide ror experts- and special agents to develop commerce with Central nnd South America, and ror fourteen attaches of tho state department to investigate manufacturing nnd trade conditions of foreign countries. Passed bill to authorize tho presi dent to participate In the interna tional conference on phylopathology at Rome this month. Adjourned nt 5:23 p. m. until noon Friday. Lebanon, Mo. After praying for several days that she might die on her emancipator's birthday. Rnethel Laneur, a negress and formor slave, died here Friday at the age or 101 years. The nogresB lived In Kentucky until emancipated and upon one occa sion, when Lincoln visited that state, she darned his socks. Officer to Receive Instruction. Lincoln, Neb. Ono officer or the san itary troops or the state will be sent to Leavenworth ror the two months' Instruction, on full pay, In compliance with a request rrom tho rederal war department. Tho entire cost or tho trip, plus tho pay for the officer dur ing the period of instruction, will be footed by tho federal government. Choice of the officer to mako the trip will be mndo from nmong men of cap taincy ranking or higher. Was Crushed by a Crowd. Falrbury, Nob. Mrs. William P. Campbell, 76 years old, was badly crushed and overcome with prostra tion in the now Rock Island passen ger stntion. Mrs. Campbell was among the hundreds that Jammed in the new passenger station opening and wns crushed by tho crowd. She sank to tho floor unconscious. Mrs. Campbell Is the mother of Campbell brothers, circus men, nnd is a pioneer of this county. It is feared that the pros, tratlon mny prove fatal. ' Lincoln, Nob, "Jim, I'm going to let you go homo to see your dying mother. I'm taking a chance, I know, but I boliove that you'll como bnck all right," Warden Fenton told Jim Bird pall, n convict, ns ho took him from tho ranks or tho gray garbed men and told him of tho messnge ho had re ceived from the lad's folks in north eastorn Nebraska. Tho trust was not misplaced. Tho boy has returned. He did not reach homo In time to see his mother before Bhejlled, but ho stayed to attend the funeral services and then departed nt once for Lincoln. HIS PROMISE TO DO BETTER Hard to See How Hodcarrier Could Live Up to It, Considering the Circumstances. The lato George A. I learn, tho tuIN llonalro business man nnd art collec tor of Now York, was noted for his kind and reasonable treatment of his employes. Mr. Henrn used to smile nt tho now scientific management craze, of which he once said nt a dinner: "Theso Bclentific management peo ple, with their impossible claims of doubling and trebling n man's labor, remind me or tho humblo hodcnrrler's Imposslblo promise. "A facetious boss said to a new hodcarrier: " 'Look-a-here. friend, didn't I hirer you to carry bricks up that ladder by tho day?' "'Yes, sir,' said tho hodcarrier, touching his cap. " 'Well, I've had my eye on you, nnd you've only done it half a day today. You spent the other ImK coming, flown the ladder.' "Tho hodcarrier touched his cap again. " 'I'll try to do better tomorrow, sir,' ho said, humbly." Constipation caue nnd ncriounly aggra vates many discnncH. 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