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RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF
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COUNTY TREASURERS
LOSETHEIR SUIT
STATE COLLECTIONS MUST BE
REMITTED MONTHLY
NEWS OF THE STATE HOUSE
Items of General Interest Gathered
From Reliable Sources at
State House.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
County treasurers must mako
monthly payments of collections to the
Btate. This Is tho decision of the
supremo court In tho mandamus suit
of State Treasurer George K. Hall to
compel V. 11. Ure, county treasurer of
Douglas county, to pay collections
amounting to $170,00. Tho Bupromo
court overruled tho demurrer of the
comity treasurer and directed the Is
suance of tho peremptory writ of man
damus as pruyed. This ends tho liti
gation unless Mr. Uro flics a motion
for a new trial.
Workmen's Compensation Law
Two rulings havo been mado bj
Labor Commissioner Coffey on ques
tions propounded to his department by
the Domster Mill company of Ueat
rice, which Involved Interpretations of
provisions In tho Nebraska workmen's
compensation law. Mr. Coffey holds:
1. That where tho law says com
pensation shall begin on tho fifteenth
day after injury, It moans the fifteenth
calendar day and does not permit
Sunday or any other days to bo de
ducted in computing the time.
2. That the employer, by himself
Is not entitled to chooao tho physi
cian who shall attend tho Injured em
ploye, but if ho be dlssntlsfled with
the physician who attends the caso he
may, at his own expense, employ an
other physician to mako an examina
tion for the purpose of ascertaining
tho extent of the injuries.
In caso an employe should refuse to
submit to an examination, he cannot
claim compensation, says Mr. Coffey.
The law specifies that the employer
shall bo liable for reasonable medical
and hospital services and medicines
for tho first twenty-one days after th
injury, in an amount not excecdinf
tl!00.
Big Money In State Treasury.
Probably tho largest amount of
money over taken In at any one time
by the stato treasurer of Nebraska
will come Into Treasurer Hall's hands
July , when tho stato of Idaho pays
over $330,500, with accrued Interest,
on a part of Its bonds which were pur
chased ten years ago as an Investment
for the educational trust funds of Ne
braska. At tho same time theso bonds aro
redeemed, Treasurer Ilnll will collect
approximately $100,000 from semi-annual
coupons on other bonds owned by
tho state of Nebraska. Most of theso
bonds aro county, municipal, school
district, precinct and other local se
curities of this btate.
Should Be Registered.
An opinion prepared by Assistant
Attorney Gcnoral Hoe modifies an
opinion written by a former attorney
general holding that camphor, glycor
Ino, and similar substances could bo
sold only by registered pharmacists.
Tho opinion was asked for by a mem
ber of tho stato bqard of pharmacy.
As to formaldehyde, which Is said to
bo a poison, but used as a germicide
and disinfectant, tho attorney gener
al's department says If It is of such
potency as a poison that it should evi
dently bo classed with poisons as do
, fined by tho statutes, It should bo res
' lstered and labeled as a poison, and
sold only by registered pharmacists.
State Superintendent Thomas has
received word from County Superln
tendant Ada M. Hnlderman of Scotts
Bluff county that rural districts 36
and 38 have voted to consolidate grade
and high schools by a majority of
23 to 7. Plans havo been mado for
a three-room school and other schools.
On recommendation of tho normal
board of tho commltteo on teachers
tho board decided to glvo an Incrcaso
of from ?5 to ?10 a month to teachers
who havo not yet reached tho maxi
mum salary sot by tho board. In a few
instances no lncreaso was ordered.
WIN Pay For Arsenal
After considerable negotiating back
and forth botwoen different stato
officers, Treasurer Hall has finally
told Adjutant Genial Hall that ho
will pay warrants ugalnst an old ap
propriation, for' the purpose of erect
ing a 3,500 addition to the national
cuard arsenal on tho stato fair
grounds, provided tho attorney gen
eral's offlco will take tho responsibil
ity for this expenditure by giving a
written opinion that tho legislature
cannot limit tho time that au appro
priation runs. -
Labor Commissioner Coffey says
that tho manufacturers of Nebraska
aro losing an opportunity to adver
tise not only their businesn, Dut tho
stato of Nebraska In their neglect to
lllo In tho department Information
regarding tho volumo of business and
tho different lines manufactured. Tho
utatuto requires tho commissioner to
to collato and publish the manufacture
ing statistics of tho state. Theso
bulletins aro sent broadcast over tho
United States, many Inquiries com
ing to tho department from Interested
partlci for copies.
OUR COUNTRY
DOCUMENT THAT
MADE A NATION
Text of the Immortal Declara
tion of Independence With
Which All Americans Should
Be Familiar.
WHEN, in tho courso of human
ovents, it becomes necessary for
ono peoplo to dissolve tho politi
cal bands which havo connected them
with another, and to nssumo, among
tho powers of the earth, tho separate
and equal station to which tho laws
of naturo and naturo's God entltlo1
them, a decent respect to tho opinions
of mankind requires that they should
declare tho causes which impel them
to the separation.
Wo hold theso truths to be self-evident
that all men aro created equal;
that they aro endowed by their Crea
tor with certain inalienable rights;
that among theso aro life, liberty and
tho pursuit of happiness. That to so
euro theso rights, governments are in
stituted among men, deriving their
ust powers from tho consent of tho
governed; that whenever any form of
government becomes destructive of
theso ends, It Is tho right of tho peo
plo to alter or to abolish It, and to
Institute a new government, laying Its
foundation on such principles, and or
ganizing its power In such form as to
them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and hnpplness. Provl
denco, Indeed, will dlctato that gov
ernments long established should not
bo changed for light and transient
causes; and, accordingly, all oxperl
enco hath shown, that mankind aro
more disposed to suffer, whllo ovIIb
aro suffornblo, than to right them
Belvcs by abolishing tho forms to
which they aro accustomed. But when
a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably tho samo object,
ovlnccs a design to reduco them un
der absoluto despotism, It is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off
Buch government, and to provido now
guards for their future security. Such
has been tho patient sufferanco of
theso colonies, and such is now tho
necessity which constrains them to
alter their former systems of govern
ment Tho history of tho present king
of Great Britain Is a history of repeat
ed Injuries and usurpations, all hav
ing, in direct object, tho establish
ment of an absoluto tyranny .over
these states. To prove this, let facts
bo submitted to a candid world:
He has refused his assent to laws
tho most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
Ho has forbidden his governors to
pass laws of immediato and pressing
importance, unloss suspended in their
operation till his assent should bo ob
tained; and, when so suspended, ho
has utterly neglected to attend to
thorn.
He has refused to pass other laws
for tho accommodation of largo dis
tricts of peoplo, unless theso peoplo
would relinquish tho right of roproi
sentatlon In tho legislature; a right
inestimable to them, and formidable
to tyranny only.
Ho has called together legislative
bodies nt places unusual, uncom
fortablo and distnnt from tho depos
itory of tholr public records, for tho
solo purpoBO of fatl;ulng thorn Into
compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved roprcsontatlvo
houses repeatedly for opposing with
manly firmness his Invasions on tho
rights of tho people.
Ho has kopt among us, in time of
.peaco, standing armies, without tho
consent of our legislatures.
Ho has affected to render tho mili
tary Independent of, and superior to
tho civil power.
Ho has comblnod, with others, to
BUbJect us to a jurisdiction foreign to
our constitution, and unacknowledged
by our laws, giving his assent to their
acts of pretended legislation.
For quartering largo bodies of armed
troopa among us; -
For protecting them by a mock trial,
from punishment, for any murders
which thoy should commit on tho In
habitants of theso states;
For cutting off our trade with all
parts of tho world;
For Imposing taxes on us without
our consent
AS IT IS TODAY
For depriving us, in many cases, of
tho benollts of trial by Jury;
For transporting us beyond the seas
to bo tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing tho freo system of
English laws in a neighboring prov
lnco, establishing therein nn'nrbltrary
government, and enlarging its boun
daries, so as to render it at onco an
example and fit Instrument for intro
ducing tho snmo absoluto rule Into
theso colonics.
Ho has abdicated government here,
by declaring us out of his protection,
and waging war against us.
Ho has plundered our seas, ravagod
our coasts, burned our towns, and de
stroyed tho lives of our peoplo.
Ho is, nt this tlmo, transporting
largo armies of foreign mercenaries
to complcto tho works of death, deso
lation and tyranny, already begun,
with circumstances of cruelty and per
fidy scarcely paralleled In tho most
barbarous ages, and totally unworthy
tho head of a civilized nation.
Ho has constrained our fellow-citizens,
taken cuptlvo on tho high seas,
to bear arms against tholr country, to
become tho executioners of tholr
frionds and brethren, or to fall thorn
solves by tholr hands.
lie has excited domestic insurrec
tions among us, and has endeavored to
bring on tho Inhabitants of our fron
tiers, tho merciless Indian savages,
whoso known rulo of warfare Is an
undistinguished destruction of all ages,
sexes and conditions.
In every stngo of theso oppressions
wo havo petitioned for redrcBs In the
most humblo terms; our repeated peti
tions havo been nnswercd only by re
peated injury. A prlnco whoso char
actor is thus marked by every act
which may dcllno a tyrant, is unfit to
bo Uio ruler of a frco peoplo.
Nor havo wo been wanting In at
tention to our British brethren. Wo
havo warned them from timo to tlmo
of attempts mado by their lcgislaturo
to extend un unwarrantable Jurisdic
tion over us. Wo havo reminded them,
of tho circumstances of our emigra
tion and settlement hero. Wo havo
appealed to their nntlvo justlco and
magnanimity, and wo havo conjured
them, by tho tics of our common kin
dred, to disavow theso usurpations,
which would Inevitably Interrupt our
connection and correspondence. They,
too, havo been deaf to tho volco of jus
tlco and consanguinity. Wo must,
therefore, acqulcsco In tho necessity
which denounces our separation, and
hold them, as wo hold tho rest of
Officer Reading Declaration of Inde
pendence Before the Army.
mankind, enemies In war, in peaco,
friends.
Wo, theroforo, tho representatives
of tho United States of America, In
general congress assembled, appeal
ing to tho Supremo Judge of tho world
for tho rcctltudo of our Intentions, do,
in tho namo and by the authority of
tho good peoplo of theso colonics, sol
emnly publish and declare, That theso
United Colonies are, and of right
ought to be, freo and independent
states; that they aro absolved from all
allegiance to tho British crown; nnd
that all political connection between
them nnd tho stato of Great Britain is,
and ought to bo, totally dissolved;
and that, as freo and independent.
Btates, thoy havo full power to levy
war, concludo peaco, contract alli
ances, establish commerce, and to
do all other acts and things which
Independent statos may of right do.
And, for tho support of this declara
tion, with n firm rollanco on tho pro
tection of Dlvlno Providence, we mu
tually pledgo to each othor, our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
FACE DEATH TO
GET DEVIL FISH
Virginian Tells of Fight to Land
Specimen for New York
Museum.
FISH IS 18 FEET WIDE
In Its Struggles to Escape the Mon.
ster Nearly Wrecked n Two-Ton
Launch Lifts Craft Out of
the Water.
Now York. Tho king of dtvll fisher
men arrived hero tho other day, huh
tlu Now York Times Ho Is Russell
J. Coles of Danville, Va. Down homu
they alwajs call him "Doctor" and
tho title linn clung to him, although ho
biih he has no right to It, biH'uuse,
whllo ho studied mcdlcluu In his youth,
ho decided to lot his possible vic
tims live and dccllnud to take his do
gree. In private life Mr Coles Is a
leaf tobacco dealer. Hut for three oi
four months every year ho guts away
from business, gocH to Florida or tho
coast of North Carolina, runs up to
Newfoundland, elsewhere, nnd pursues
big llsh; ho slays them If they won'!
bllo; he measures them, weighs them,
btudli's them, Indexes a lot of scientific
data out of them, nnd sends tho speci
mens to vnrlous scientific museums.
Doctor Coles' New Devil Fish.
Doctor Coles was brought to Now
York this time by a dovll llsh Speak
ing literally, ho sent tho fish on tc
the Museum of Natural History, and
tho authorities of tho museum woro
m grateful not only for getting tho
devil flBh, tho first of Its kind thoy
havo possessed and tho biggest known
to havo been taken, but for somo of Its
most valuable) piscatorial treasures,
that they mado him a life member of
the Institution, a rare honor,
Tho devil fish Is not an octoptiB.
Fishermen or IIbIi hunters consider
them tho hardest creatureB In the
world to kill. Though not plentiful,
thoy cxlBt in troplcnl waterB, and, al
though thoy will never nttack If unmo
lested, they bocomo dnngerous If at
tached. "I used a amall two-ton launch nnd
whom I landed tho big fish was over
ono hundred miles Houth of Tampa,
Fin., in tho Gulf of Mexico," ho Bald.
"You can bpo devil fish nB thoy swim
along, for their big tins oxtend nbavo
tho surface. On tho Cth of April I got
two, after bad lights, but ono meas
ured only thirteen und thu other four
teen feet ncroBB, and they were not
as big as I wanted.
Monaster Rushed for Boat.
"It was not until April 11 that I
found tho school of dovll fish that Dot
ted mo tho big specimen. I had as
:aptalu of tho boat Capt. Chnrllo
Wllles, whom I had brought from
Mooreheud City, N. C, and tho han
dling of tho craft waB in charge of
Capt. .lack McCann of Punta Gorda,
Fla., ono of tho best known fishermen
on tho west const. Tho devil fish had
"Each Time I Got a Chance I Used
the Lance."
no fear of tho boat. Thoro woro six
of them In tho school. I had con
structed special apparatus for tho ex
pedition, ono thing bolng a droguo,
mistakenly called 'drag,' nbout threo
times as big as is used In catching
hales.
"Tho only thing to do was to Btecr
tho boat nfter tho llsh and try to got
upon it. As wo neared It I launched
a spado lanco. Tho big fish rushed
under tho boat, breaking off tho
handle of tho lanco. I had no other
weapon of tho kind, bo I waB forced
to uso, an ordlnnry whalo lanco.
"Ono blow from ono of those gi
gantic fins tho fish measured eight
eon feet across would havo wrecked
our craft. There was nothing to do
but keep running tho boat up on tho
back of tho fish. Morojhan n dozen
times, as it camo to tho surface, it
would lift tho boat on its broad back
out of the water. Each tlmo I got a
chanco I used tho lanco, and I drove
It Into tho region of tho brain nnd
jeart twenty-three times boforo I final
ly killed it.
"You cap get somo Idea of tho Blze
of tho creature from tho fact that It
look two launches ton and one-half
hours to tow It twolvo miles to my
camp near Captlva inlet."
Parnllln paper tubes have been in
tented to aid ho users of bubbling
di Inking fountains.
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Most old bachelors nre hard to
please; thoy don't even think n girl
baby Is fit to kiss until alio Is sweet
sixteen.
Importnnt to Mothers
Examlno carefully every bottlo of
CASTOIllA.nsafonndsuro remedy foi
infants nnd children, and see that It
Hears tho
6&ffi!j&u
Slgnaturo
In Uso For Over 30 Years.
Childron Cry for Flctchcr'a Caatoria
Sad Pari of the Allegation.
"Every darn fool In this town thinks
ho could tun a newspaper better than
I can!" grumbled tho editor of tho
Torpldvlllo Tocsin and Guardian of tho
Hearthstone, tho price whereof was
a dollar a year nnd tho tlmo to sub
scribe now.
"Ey-yaht" replied Mortimer Moroso.
"And tho worst or It Ih, a good many
of 'em could!" Kansas City Star.
Can't De Done.
"Mrs. Giddy Iiiih halted all tho mem
bers of the sowing circle to a luncheon
and matlneo paity."
"Doesn't she know thoy havo been
gossiping about her something aw
ful?" "Of courso she does. That's tho
reason sIio'b trying to square tho
circle."
Estimating the Probabilities.
"My daughter 1b having her volco
trained," Bald Mr. Cumrox.
"Ib she a soprano or a contralto?''
"1 dunno, I Biipposo she'll dccldo to
bo whichever costH tho most."
After a man geta nbout bo old It
keeps him busy trying to rectify tho
mlBtakcs of his youth.
If you want to study human naturo
don't patronlo a correspondence
Bchool. Watch your nelghborB.
Thoro may bo a lot of credit duo
n man's wife, but sho usually demands
cash.
Nothing Interests women moro than
a mnn who refuses to explain things.
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WONDERFUL HOW RESIN0L
STOPS SKIN TORMENTS
Tho soothing, healing medication in
roslitol ointment nnd realnol soap pen
etrates tho tiny pores of tho skin,
clears them of Impurities, and stops
Itching instantly. Ilenlnol positively
nnd speedily heals eczema, hcat-raah,
ringworm, nnd similar orupttons, and
clears nwny disfiguring pimples and
blackheads, when other treatments
havo been almost useless.
Hcslnol Is not an experiment. It is
a doctor's prescription which proved
so wonderfully successful for skin
troubles that it has bciui used by othor
doctors all over tho country for twcn-i
ty years. Every druggist sells rcslnol
ointment nnd rcslnol soap. Adv.
Wrong Diagnosis.
Ono of tho promlcnt clubs of this
city gnvo n contract for the decoration
of their building In honor of tho visit
of tho fleet, nnd tho decorator con
eelved tho Idea that tho word "wel
come" spelled out In signal tings would
be an approprlnto and beautiful design
for tho front wall, over tho entrance.
Ho asked n naval officer for directions,
and, following tho codo which said
olllcor wroto out for him, a very Inter
est tug result was obtained. Jadgo of
tho surprlso of tho contractor when am.
army officer, happening by, asked: "Dm
you know what you havo written T"
"Why. welcome," stammered the
decorntor. ,
"Not by n long shot!" said tho army
officer. "You hnvo up there, To
h with tho army.' " Llfo.
More Important.
"Pino feathers do not make fin
birds," said tho ready-raado philoso
pher. "No," replied Mr. Growchcr; "tholr
responsibilities are greater. Thoy ar
depended on to mako fine human be
ings." Good Reason.
"Why is tho pollccmnn looking at
your wnll so suspiciously?"
"I suppose he noticed it was cor
crcd with a vine that Is something of
n porch climber."
Well Named. '
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MIbs Sweet What do you want-
written permission?
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