ILS1ES HE UNION PACIFIC TURNS DOWN ITS OWN MILEAGE. AnORNEYGENEUMPUINS Pules for Fraternal Men's Drills at the State Fair. Other Matters at the State Capital. Attorney General Thompson has complained to the railway commis sion that a Union Pacific railroad con ductor refused to accept mileage from a hook bought by the attorney general more than one year ago. The railway commission will go after the railroad company for violating the Knowles law , which provides that railroads shall Issue 1,000 miles of transportation for $20 , the mileage books to be good in any person's TT hands for two years from date of sale. The Union Pacific and other roads af ter delay , placed such books on sale , but seek to override the law by limit ing their use for one year. It is said the railroads hnvo strict ly enforced the one year limit and ac cept the unused mileage at the end of one year as payment upon a new $20 book. Assistant Attorney General George 'Ayers was on official business when he presented a one-year book to a Union Pacific conductor. The mile age was refused and Mr. Ayers paid his faro hi cash. The penalty for a violation of the Knowles law Is a line of from $100 to $500. Drills at the State Fair. Following are the rules governing the competitive drill of fraternal so cieties at the Nebraska State Fair this year : All teams wishing to enter the above contest may do so do by noti fying H. J. Gildersleve , ! 10G Fraternity building , Lincoln , on or before Sop tombcr 5. No entrance fee will be charged ; tickets of admission to thu grounds will bo furnished captains only for the actual number taking part in drill. The entry list must give the names of the captains , and the number of persons constituting their teams. The selection of judges who are to act without compensation will lo made by the board of managers agors of the State Board of Agricul ture from recommendation made from the head offices of the society repre sented. Tlie judges when appointed will meet and agree on the rules for scor ing the contest , subject to the hand ! cap adopted by the Board of Agri culture , and the decision of these judges shall be final. The captains shall draw for their turn to appear for drill by lot ; the drill will take place on the race track on Tuesday morning , September C , beginning at 10 a. in. The handicaps are as follows : "Teams having won Ihst prize at any state I'alr mooting since 1902 will be handicapped seven points ; teams composed entirely of men , five points ; of ladies and gentlemen , two and one-half points ; entirely of ladles , no handicap. " \ Nebraska National Guard. . " W. B. Tliroop , general superintend 7" ent of the Burlington , has written Ad jutant General Hartigan that railroad employes belonging to the Nebraska National guard will be permitted to go to Fort Riley , except where such vacations would cripple the service. Complaint was made that two guards- niOn employed in the Wymore offices were unable to get leave of absence. Mr. Tliroop replied that the office was iow : short-handed and that the loss of either man would be serious Committees Are Working. Nothing has been heard of th" work of the committees some time ago appointed at the Nebraska con servation in the state. It is said , however - over , that all the committees are at work , and that perhaps little will be hoard of what they are doing until the next meeting of the legislature when some of the reports of the com mittees will bo brought to the atten tion of the legislature. Governor Accepts Invitation. Governor Shallenbergor has boon asked to be the guest of the committee - too in charge on the occasion of the visit of Colonel Roosevelt to Omaha on September 2 next. lie has written - ton to Victor Rosewater , chairman of the committee , saying ho will accept Johnson Granted More Time. The secretaries of the state hoard of health have granted Dr.V. . If. Johnson of Lincoln a continuance of thirty days in the matter of a com plaint asking the board to revoke his certificate to practice medicine. Dogs Are Increasing. Hogs have kept pace with the grow ing prosperity of the state nud not only has this class of property in creased in number , but also in value. Last year all the dogs could have been bought for $09,350 If the value placed upon thorn by the assessors had boon paid , while tills year the as- boused value of the dogs of the state is $000,110. The average assessed value last year was $1.00. and this name figure Is used in the computa tion this year. There were assessed last year a total of 111,53" . STATE ASSESSMENT. Thirteen Million Increase Ovsr Last Year. The assessed value of all the prop erty owned In Nebraska is $ lll,9u8- 334. This ! s an Increase over last year of $12r 72G3G , the assessed value for 1DO ! ) being $39S.9Sii,819. The amount of taxes the people Nebraska will have to pay into tno guiit-ral fund of the state and into the university fund on the five mill levy Is $2,059- 791. The amount paid last year was $2,194.421. At Its final meeting , the board or dered the various counties to restore to the assessment rolls deductions that had been made by banks for bad paper or bad securities held. This in creased the assessment of Douglas county some $1,200,000 and affected slightly several other counties. The following table shows the as sessed valuation , which is one-Ilfth of the actual value by counties for the years 1909 and 1910 : 1909. 1010 Adams $ l5.lP8.nG2 $ 0.040,391 ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " ' iiiuiner0. . . . . . . . ! ! 352,0(53 ( : ; 7si4J ! nialno 397.439 t . i4 Itoono 5,021.073 5,192,305 Uox Blltte 1.743.73S 1.777.8(5 Hoy.l U .11 UCr , 2.51S.297 Hrmvn 1,128,971 1.2B2.i24 : Httttnlo 7.107.51 ! ! 7.241.112 HUH 5.5't5,33i 5.7i9ti'i : lutticr os : 7no4 7.007.903 Cass S,007.lfiri ! 8,000,54(5 ( Cedar 5ri5 , < l49 5,737.579 Cliaso ! > 71.037 1.035.645 Chert y 2.C7G.79S 29119,401 Cheyenne 2.12ilO : 2.188.179 CJilV fl,07S,029 fi.S17.C20 Colfnx 1,901,3:17 : fi. 10H. 131 Cumins G.33S.9I5 ( . .455,02- ClIEler 7.119,029 7.38(5.813 ( nukotn 2.571.035 2.010,01 \ DawoH 1.952.412 2.010.59. ? D.IWFOI1 5,283.145 0. 119.S 17 Oeuel 1.137.504 8:115,559 : Dixoii 1,012,758 1,127.800 lilK 8,307,17S S,50(5,211 ( Doutilas 35.75ri.7ns 37.GS9.3S7 ntliuly 1.42(5,172 ( 1.413.C2S Kllltnoro 0.790,540 0,900,400 Krunklln : i.513.S03 .1.597,103 Kronllcr 2,09IM35 2.72(5,5(51 ( ( Km nas 4.222.90i : 1.207.703 fap- 10,091,110 ll.UfiO.115 Guidon 748.123 Oarlli-ld 187.007 514.312 Gotner 2lii,450 : 2.173,731 Giant 072.420 702.883 Greeloy 2.10li,717 2,194,3117 Unit (5,581,100 ( 0.82I.OS1 Hamilton ( ! ,3B'i.75l i.002.22. ! , Hailan 3 , C0.71n 3.700.722 Hnvvs 7l9.10ri 7(55,707 ( IlltVlicork 1..S4S.470 l.S8'J,32r. Molt 3.016.28S il.729,452 llookur 89S.150 437,307 Howard : : ,712.2I7 ( 3.798.409 .Ifffeifou (5,091,033 ( 0,781,811 .Inlinsotl 1.30C.S92 1.280.424 Kearney 1,043.922 1.140.872 Keith 1.940.78S 2,022,2.17 Keyu P.iha S29 , 9fi 882,123 Klmtiall 1.8SC.S75 lifi,90l : ( Knox 1.714,102 4.9GO.tOI UaniMster 20.009.10 20.3'.197 ) : : Uncoln 4.078,354 4'I3I.G01 iMcan 209,2(52 ( 321.252 l oiip 278,070 29(5.088 ( STadlson 5,887,381 G.054.702 McPliersou 230.233 353.151 MPtllck 4,251,771 ! 1 , ' 105,170 Mot rill SO".871 1.091.557 Nance- . * 3,390,891 3.372,17S Ncinalia 5.337.939 5,121.002 XucknllH 5.310.8(3 ( 5.4'U29 ! Oleo 8.414,589 S.530,782 Pinvifec 4,923,4015 5 040.0S7 IViltlns 1,051,755 1.150,899 1'hflDS 4.G03.5S9 1.001.888 Vlerco 4,039,310 1.170,212 1'latto 7,511,9311 7.753,898 Polk 4.852.110 5.051.001 llrd Willow 2.305.302 3.319,179 IlklUMdBOII ( i,902.3'l9 7,001.2. ! lloi-U S3".373 911.038 Saline 7.200,771 7.3(57,702 ( Sarpy : : .S25.101 3. SOS. 149 Sntindcis 0.302.230 9.328.992 Scott'H Hlllft 1.520.025 1.071.805 Kpwutd fi.S28.297 7,005,032 Sheridan 2.280.0 U 2.l84.l ( ! i Slieiinan 2,009.320 2701,500 Sioux 1.051,220 1.155.004 Ktiillton 3,701.9:15 : 3.S2I.572 Tliavcr 5.048.502 5,721.155 Thoinas 457.308 482,599 Thuiston 1,570.491 2.000,811 Vallev 2,917.103 3001,02 ! ) WnsliliiKton 5.033,113 5.228.131 \Vavno 4.419.fi I't 1.477,500 Webster 4.128.129 1,127,053 WllPolcr 172.40S 535,3011 York 7.093.079 7.90S.8I2 Total $398,985.819 $411.938,331 lliPK'USP , $12,972,535. The amount to be paid into the general - oral fund this year is $1.795,430. acalnst $1.047.8:5:5 : : mid in last year. The State Board of Initialization , fixed the assessed valuation n * above. As a whole the taxes to be paid arc less this year than last , because the hoard reduced the le\y from 5i mills to 5 mills , of this 1 mills is for the general fund. The university 1 mill levy is fixed by law. While more money will be paid into the general fund for the purpose of paying the oxponscs of the state government , yet the total amount to ho paid for state and university purposes Is decreased a total of $13IG0. : ! Bcsr Signs Still Up. In spite of the fact that Lincoln has been without saloons now for nearly a year and n half there arc still a few beer signs hanging "high and dry" over the side doors of places where the wet goods were formerly dispensed. Nebraska's Poultry Wealth. The poultry in Nebraska is valued I at 2:5G9.sy5. : This is an inert-use from $1,8:59,485 : in 1909 , as reported by the county assessors. State Fair Plows. In previous years the machinery exhibit at the Nebraska State Fair has been so great Hint it almost seemed impossible to incioaso the display , yet year after year more ex hibitors have asked for space until tills year the scones about that portion tion of the grounds will be far in excess of all former years , inhibitors of this class each year are beginning to discover that it is the best way to bring before the public tlioir stock in trade and each year increases the de mand for space. Increase in Switching Rates. Frank Hansom , attorney for the Union Stock Yards company , liled a brief with the state railway commis sion in defense of the Increase In switching rates which the stock yards company wants the commission to ap prove. The Updiko Milling company had previously raised the objection that the switching affecting them had been put into effect by the stock yards company voluntarily and it was there fore to bo presumed that the rate was satisfactory. Ransom argues that is not a proper presumption Stories of Strange Happenings in the Metropolitan Towns Uncle Sam Asks All to Swat the Flv EW YORK. The whole United States government , with its vast treasury or wc.ilth , Its brainy states men and Insurgents , Its army and navy , Its Immense horde of high brows , against the poor little house fly ! That's the line-up In a hitter war of extermination scheduled to set the nation by the ears and enlist the cour ageous support of every man , woman and child In this broad laud. The final knell of the house fly has been sounded and the battle has just bo- trun. "Catch 'em and kill 'cm ; show no quarter" that Is the war cry of the army of extermination that Is to put forth every effort to rid the land of the Musca Domcstlca , the polite name by which the house fly should bo ad dressed by strangers. Until the scientists got busy with their Investigations the house fly was considered merely as a pestiferous In sect , designed by the Creator of all things merely to take Its bath In the sweet cream and maple sirup , annoy the Into morning sleeper , skate about with abandon on the polished surface of shiny baldhcads and practise the Morse telegraph code on the cleanest of windows. Long suffering housewives since time began were the only really active enemies of the seemingly insignificant little fly , and they alone and unaided applied the imprecations and dish cloths vigorously against the nuisance. But after the scientists got onto the 'Gators and Insects Hunt New Home EW ORLEANS. More than 1,000.- 000 acres of marsh land lying within - in CO miles of New Orleans are to bo drained , reclaimed and transformed from a wilderness into gardens , homes , hamlets nnd towns. The work of re claiming some 50,000 acres within the corporate limits of New Orleans is now well under way , while contracts have heen let for the reclamation of fully 100,000 acres additional in ad joining parishes. This rieans that within two years the alligator will no longer find aborl- ginal harborage In the Carnival city , that the breeding grounds of countless billions of mosquitoes will be turned Into highly productive farms on which mosquitoes cannot breed , that hun dreds of miles of paved roadways will lead from Now Orleans north , east and west , and that for the first time in its history New Orleans will poscss sub urbs. The nearest town or settlement of any consequence is now CO miles dis tant from Now Orleans. Within fifty miles of every largo city in the coun try a million or nioro people reside , and many industries develop business and wealth for the urban population. This Is the end Now Orleans Is working to and will have reached , In large part , anyway , by the time the Panama canal Is opened to the ships of the world. Meanwhile modern sewerage and drainage within the city proper have practically and wholly solved the city's sanitary problems , and the discovery of n simple method of filtering the waters of the Mississippi river has given the city a pure water service ex celled by uono in the world. These sys tems are in operation and are nearly complete. They have cost the city about $25,000,000. No Corsets are Worn at West Point HIS NAME CAN6E J.I2ZIE1 . "I have often heard WASHINGTON. a question as to whether West Pointers wore corsets. It is absurd in a way , because should any effeminate youngster resort to such a thing it would be impossible to keep the affair a secret , and once known his school life would become a burden to him on account of the endless amount of criti cism ho would receive from his fel lows. He would bo made the laughingstock ing-stock of the school and would soon find himself the possessor of any num ber of effeminate nicknames that would grate upon his cars In any but a pleasant manner. "It is true , " continued the old sol- dler , who was no other than Col. 1C. B. Collins , a retired army officer , in a job the light against the Insect began to assume proportions of magnitude. That little Insect which the average citizen < vus wont to regard merely as n domestic pest is now branded as the most dangerous creature on earth. The house fly has been publicly Indicted is a murderer of the human race , the greatest disease propagator and the carrier jf more menacing and malig nant germs than all other creatures put together. This little , but potent , messenger of death wanders from the sick room , from the lllth of the garbage pall , from the heaps of refuse of all kinds Into the peaceful , happq homes of our land , walks upon the butter , the meat , the fruit , the sugar , takes a bath In the milk , leaving everywhere the germs of disease that have gathered upon its furry feet and body. About half the deaths from typhoid In New York , according to the health authorities , are attributed directly to the distribution of germs by housa lllcs. And worse than that , the figures show that of 7,000 deaths of cooing babies in that city from Infantile dis eases , more than ( i.OOO were traced to infection carried by house flics. According to n noted scientist the extermination of the pest is compara tively easy. All that Is necessary , he says , is a systematic effort on the part of the public. If all the people will practise the utmost cleanliness , it is declared , the house fly will bo extlncl In this country within a few years , foi the house fly cannot exist without nith. "Cleanliness , " then , is the watchword for the American public to put an end to an Insect that is not only a terrible nuisance , but n terrible Instrument of death to thousands of our population every year. discussion of West Pointers , "that many West Pointers acquire a figure of perfection of symmetry and a car rlago the nemo of manly grace , hut these are duo not to any Ingenious ap pliances , but to the systematic drills and exercises that make the cadet , tea a certain extent , an athlete. At the outset these young fellows are put through what are called the 'setting up1 exercises , their object being to straighten the body nnd develop the chest. Ojie might suppose that it would require n great amount of such exer cise to makp any marked showing , but three long hours of such exercise daily will soon produce beneficial re sults In the most stooped forms. "Tho cadet uniform is alho a great help In this direction. The dress coat is tight , very tight. The shoulders are heavily padded in order to give them a square effect. The rhest IB made thick , so that there will bo no danger of wrinkling. All this for the sake of looks ; comfort has no place in the make-up of a West Pointer ; it is dis cipline and looks. " Dentists Believe They Have a Kick CHICAGO. "Well , I don't know what under the shining forceps I nm go ing to do , anyway , " and a dentist in the Masonic tcniplo signed n perfect mammoth of a sigh. 'The matter ? Hair , Just plain hair. No not plain , either. Now , for in stance. A lady came tip to my office the other day and wanted her teeth fixed , and finally I took hold of tlio top of her head with ono hand , while I worked with the other. Then I turned away to got an Instrument , and my Blcovo button caught in her hair nnd iho whole hack of It , nbout fifteen fat , shiny curio , came along with me. She simply froze mo up , and Bho didn't come back to pay her bill , either. Bay , this new fangled hair style is putting mo to the bad. "The worst feature of the whole thing is that the heads , or rather the hair , won't fit into the hcudfests. I have tried nil manner of { schemes , and even had a now headrcot built along lines that I waa sure would fit , but the heads simply won't fit Into any thing. "If wo do succeed in getting the mass laid out and tucked away care fully where it won't bother us , we got something like this : ' "Oh , mercy , doctor , you are muss ing my hair all up. And I am going to a party this afternoon , too. ' "Uut the most usual thing is : 'Oh , doctor , there Is a hairpin sticking In my head. Walt a minute. O , dear , it'a coming down. Doctor , do stop a mlu- nto while I fasten up my braid. ' "I do toll you what , the dentists ought to get together and boycott the present style of halrdress , or clco in sist that all extra hair bo taken off before any dental work will bo dona. That would Fettle It , all right. " SOMETIMES. Henderson When u 'man marries ho keeps his wife In dresses , lints , shoes In fact , everything slio needs. What docs a wife keep her husband In ? Henpeck ( absently ) Hot water. LEG A MASS OF HUMOR "About seven years ago n small abrasion appeared on my right leg jiiat above my ankle. It Irritated mo 00 that I began to scratch It , and It began to spread until my leg from my nnklo to the knee waa one solid scale llkoascab. The irritation was always worse at night and would not allow mo to sleep , or my wife cither , and It was completely undermining our health. I lost fifty pounds in weight and was almost out of my mind with pain and chagrin as no matter where the irritation came , nt work , on the street or in the presence of company , 1 would have to scratch it until I had the blood running down into my shoo. I simply cannot describe my suffer ing during those seven years. The pain , mortification , loss of sleep , both to myself and wlfo is simply Inde scribable on paper and ono has to ex perience It to know what It is. "I tried all kinds of doctors and rom- cdlcn but I might aa well have thrown my money down a sewer. They would dry up for u little while nnd nil mo with hope only to break out again Just as bad If not worse. I had given up hope of ever being cured when I was Induced by my wlfo to give tbo Gull- cura Remedies a trial. After taking the Culicura Remedies for n little whllo I began to BCO a v change , and after taking a dozen bottles of Cutl- cura Resolvent in conjunction with the Cuticura Soap nnd Cuticura Olnk ment , the trouble had entirely disap peared and my leg waa as fine as the day I was born. Now after a lapse o six months with no signs of u recurrence renco I feel perfectly safe In extend Ing to you my heartfelt thanks for the peed the Cuticura Remedies have done for mo. I shall always recommend them to my friends. W. II. White 812 n. Cabot St. , Philadelphia , Pa. , Feb < nnd Apr. 13 , 1909. " Statistics are almost as unsatlsfac tory aa ( acts tire stubborn. Mrs. Wlnitow'n Snottilnu Synip. PorrhlMrrit twthlng. miftrrn thouunik , rriluronln. Uauiuiatiuu.allaJH imlu.cures uliiil colic. > c u IxjtUo. Many a man who stops to thlnl twice fails to act once. r.ro imitations , don't IIP foolrd Ak for Leu is' Single llinilur cigtir for 5c The Iamb that plays around a mln bed tempts futo. 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