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The Nebraska Independent JUNE 14, 1906 in the state convention it will not be very hard for me to win in the legis lature. In the convention it would be much less certain. "I believe that to nominate in con vention would under all the circum stances involved in the year's fight, reduce considerably our assurance of carrying the state. We are going to hear from the democrats this fall. They will be stronger than in a long time, and while Bryan will not be a candidate for senator, the big recep tion that will be given him on his re turn to the United States will have a powerful effect in out state." : Senator Millard's views of the out come are echoed all over tin west. Krvan is everywhere being acclaimed as the real leader of the conservative radicals of the party. The Pltimore News, long the bitterest eastern an- tagonist of Bryan, strongly, declares for him in 1908. The New York World does the same. All the elements that fear Hearst are lining up for Bryan. Hearst will not make - so strong a showing as he did in 1904 against Parker. EDITORS ARE UP FOR CONTEMPT Ohio Prosecutor Says They Blocked Work Against Oil Company Toledo, Ohio. Prosecuting Attor ney David of Findlay, Ohio, who has been scoffed and descried in editorials of the two papers there, will come back at the editors Monday when he hales them into the grand jury room for contempt. David has been pre paring ouster proceedings against the Standard ; Oil company and its sub sidiaries and the papers r have been writing editorials belittling his work. He will charge before the jury that these editorials have been written with intention of biasing public minds against the ouster proceedings with the full knowledge that the matter was being investigated and a jury called. ' .. - - . ; " - -, . - : HE PLEADED TO BE HANGED Elias Kuntte, Convicted of Wife Mur der, Made This Request Joliet, 111. Elias Kunttee, convict ed of attempted wife murder, pleaded In the Will county court to be sent to the gallows. , The court sentenced him to serve one to fourteen years in the penitentiary. Kunttee then became greatly enraged and cursed the' court and those about him. .Kuntee stabbed his wife to whom he' had been mar ried six months. She recovered, pros ecuted him and is now suing for di vorce. V Young People We cordially invite you to call and inspect the work being done daily in our classes. We will take pleasure in showing you what we are doing in ' Short-hand, Type-writing, Book-keeping, Penmanship, Telegraphy, etc. If you cannot tail, write for catalogue nnmber 15. Sum mer terra opens June 18. LINCOLN BUSINESS COLLEGE 13th&PSts., Lincoln, Nebr. STOCK YARDS INSPECTION Changes Recommended by the Presr ident's Investigating Com . 2 mittee. : Washington, D. C The recommen dations of the president's commiUee of experts, based on their investiga tion into the conditions at the stock yards, are as follows ; , 1. That the federal inspectors shall be empowered and required by law to mark and otherwise render unfit for food purposes in accordance with 'the, rules and regulations of the sec retary; of agriculture the carcasses and products of all cattle, sheep, and swine which on post-mortem inspec tion are found to be diseased, un wholesome, unsound, and unfit for hu-. njari "food. . While it is true that' in legislation of this character it is im portant , to bear in mind the line of demarcation between commerce 'and manufacturing, the limitations of federal-jurisdiction, and the extent of the police power of the state and the municipality, it is thought the above recommendation would be within the powers of the United States. 2. That the carriers be prohibited from transporting carcasses - slaught ered at any establishment unless said carcasses are marked in accordance with the regulations of the secretary of agriculture to show that they have been inspected. Such a provision would make federal inspection Com pulsory upon air establishments doing an interstate business and thus do away with the killing of animals re jected by inspectors on ante-mortem inspection by. establishments not hav ing federal inspection. Of course the provision recommended would be worse than useless without an ade quate appropriation. ' 3. .That the secretary of agriculture shall be directed to make rules and regulations covering sanitary condi tions of and the soundness and fitness for , food of the product of all estab lishments, and to refuse to , certify the products unless the regulations are complied with. , - 4. That legislation he asked ex plicitely authorizing the inspection and certification , of pork for export the cost to be defrayed by the establish ment. ' ; . 5. The number of federal employes is wholly inadequate to supervise the work properly. 6. All carcasses designated as "can ners" shall be marked at time of slaughter. . 7. That no government seal on ren dering tanks shall be broken except by a federal -employe. 8. That all offal, fertilizer, , and grease tanks shall be located in sep arated compartments isolated from food products. ' 9. Sufficient natural light be provid ed for conducting all final post-mortem inspection outside of the coolers. 10. That the bureau of animal in dustry employes shall at all times have access to all portions of the es tablishment. 11. That the three post-mortem in spections of swine be reported sep arately by the three employes who make them. 12. That all large rooms in which the miscroscopic meat is stored be so constructed that an alleyway with slat partitions shall lead through, thus do ing away with the necessity of man hole or unlocked gates. Solid doors could then be made to open into each compartment, which would permit the department to control more efficiently the contained meats. . . 13. That consideration be given the following suggestion: An ideal way of handling all animals tagged on ante mortem inspection in the stockyards would be to have them sent to one official abattoir for slaughter. 14. That where water closets were observed to. open into a room Where meat is being handled such doors be closed and other entrances be af forded. 15. That more attention be given to white-washing and painting rooms where meat products are handled. 16. That rooms containing excessive quantities of steam be supplied with power exhaust fans. WELLMAN TO START SOON Successful Test Made of Balloon Motors . Paris The public test of the motors of Walter Wellman's dirigible bal loon, "America," with which he is about to depart on his expedition to the north pole was eminently, suc cessful. The machines developed a capacity of 100 horse power instead of the contract power of 75. Mr. Wellman intends to start northward either Thursday or Friday of this : week. Breaks Arm in Queer Manner St. LouisWhile dressing for a party, Miss Amie Weisenborn, a prom inent young society woman of Belle ville, 111., broke her left arm while trying to button a shirtwaist up in the back. Confesses to Criminal Assault Lemars, la. Confronted by Miss Wilmes in court, Ebenezer Davis, a negro employe of Campbell Bros.' cir cus, confessed that he assaulted the girl on Thursday night. The towns people are furious and trouble is ex pected." Sheriff Arendt captured Da vis at Luverne, Minn. , Miles on "Embalmed Beef." An Associated Press dispatch from Kansas City follows: General Nelson A. Miles, who is here cn his way to Colorado to address state university students said; . "The disclosures about beef and other packing house products now being- exploited are , no news to me. I knew it seven years ago. I told what I knew then. . Had tile matter been taken : up at that time thousands of lives would have been saved. The adul teration of food products is the collos sal crime of the times. I believe that 3,000 United States soldiers lost their , lives because of adulterated, impure, poisonous meat. Tliere is no way or estimating the number of soldiers whose health was injured. by eating impure food. I know onlyof its har vest among the soldiers and can only guess how many lives it has cost the republic. I have a barrel of testimony on th,e subject in th'e way of affidavits which I collected when I made my in vestigation seven years ago. The in vestigating committee closed the case and refused to hear two hundred wit nesses whom I had ready. "At that time I could have secured the testimony of one hundred thou sand men that the canned beef sold to the army was impure, adulterated and unwholesome. In my investigation of 'embalmed beef during the Spanish American war I found that poisons were being used to preserve meats. My first intimation of the practice came to me in reports from command ing officers to the effect that the ra tions were not wholesome and were making the soldiers sick. . I ordered an, investigation and learned from the reports brought to me that canned meat had been sold to the army that had been for months in the ware houses of the Baltimore & Ohio rail road and at the docks in Liverpool. "This meat had been relabelled and sold to the United States for soldiers' rations. I turned the reports over to the war department and a whitewashing in vestigation was instituted and suc cessfully carried out. The official re port, -was that a colossal error had been made. As a matter of fact it was a . colossal fraud and the person3 who perpetrated it and were, interest ed in It should have been sent to the penitentiary" CYCLONES KILL AND RUIN Minnesota, Wisconsin, , Iowa and Michigan Suffer Great Dam age From Storms Eight dead,, many seriously injured and thousands of dollars worth of property blown away, briefly sum marizes the, effects of the storm which on Wednesday devastated sections of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, , and last night wrought havoc in Michigan and Kansas. There were two separate storms Wednesday, one in Southern Minnesota . and Western Wisconsin and another In the northern part of Minnesota, which also swept over into Wisconsin. The Dead: Near Stoddard, Wis. Halvor J. Halvorson. Near Caledonia, Minn. Mrs. Peter Meyers and two children. Near North Branch, Minn. Mr. Engdahl, Sr., and Andrew H. Olson, the latter killed by lightning. Near Plalnville, Mich. Alexander Ferguson, killed by lightning, und William West- killed in wreckage of barn. . .';- . . Terrible Ruin Wrought Fortunately the storms did not strike and large towns, but the devas tation wrought in the rich farming country through which they passed is said to be terrible. Crops are ruined and substantial brick and frame dwelling houses and barns were literally blown into fragments and scattered for hundreds of yards about the country. . Sunrise Escapes Disaster , , . Sunrise, Minn., a littl town of 800 inhabitants, about whose safety much anxiety was felt last night, escaped uninjured. The storm devastated the country three miles from town but did not hit the village itself. The large new frame house of William Stevens was blown to kindling wood and Stevens and his wife seriously hurt, but not fatally injured. Every building on the farm of M. W. Demming was destroyed, but the family escaped injury by taking refuge in the root cellar. Mr. Deming was absent when the storm struck the house. His wife and nine children were in the house. Arthur, the oldest boy, heard the roar of the storm and went to the door to 'Investigate. Horses in the Air . .The first sight he saw was a team of horses coming through the air. The barn In which the horses were hitch ed had been blown away and the horses lifted, high in the air They alighted on their feet and escaped with trifling injuries. They were still attached to a plank of the manger to which they had been hitched. After passing , Sunrise the tornado took a northeasterly direction into Wisconsin. It passed through a heav ily timbered section, cutting a path 100 feet wide as far as the St. Croix river. There was considerable damage done to saw mill property near Nevers Wis,, but no lives were lost About Ham Lake, in Anoka county, Minn., the tornado destroyed much farm property, but no . loss of life is reported. Michigan Men Killed ' Sweeping a path one mile and a quarter wide for a distance of three miles early last night, a tornado that struck the village of Martin and Monteith, in Michigan, respectively six miles and four miles north of Plainwell, killed William West, a farm laborer, aged fifty-four, seriously in jured several others, and did much damage to stock and farm buildings and uprooted a number of large orch ards. William West had taken refuge ia