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i < i ' a , The Busier County ReptiWlcai D. M. AMSBEUHY , Kdltor BROKEN DOW NEBRASKA EPITOK OF GENERAL. NEWS AND NOTES FRESH FROM THE WIRE. THE STORY IN A WOTSHELL Embracing a Condensation of Events In Which Readers Generally Are More or Lese Concerned. Washington. Congress meets the lirat Monday in December. The scaslon will end March 4th. The beginning of November IHIK brought an Improved condition oil gov ernment llnanccs. The month shown n surplus of moro than $700,000 , an . tgaltiBt a deficit of $2,500,000 n year ago. The total receipts to date are nearly ? 7,000,000 ahead of a year ago and the disbursements arc nearly i $4,000,000. 'i John B. Oilman , comnmndor-ln-chlof 1 of the Grand Army of the Republic , \ appointed the court of Inquiry re quested by Past Senior Vlco Com- innmlor John MeElroy of this city to i. , Investigate charges which , it la al 5 , leged , were circulated ngaltiHt the lat ter at the encampment of the Grand Army held at Atlantic City After a leave of absence lasting nearly ten years during the most of which time ho was engaged In Arctic oxploratlon , Capt. Robert 12. Peary has returned to active duty In the navy department. For the present the famous explorer Is to bo engaged as engineering expert for the de partment of Justice In cases before the court of claims , involving con struction work for the naval bureau of yards and docks. Plans for an aerial military squaa- ion will bo presented to congress , the number of the air machines to bo pro vided being loft by the war depart ment to the law makers. This was announced by Major General Leon ard Wood , chief of staff of the army. P.rigadior General James Allen , chief of the signal corps , in his report to General Wood , already has recom mended that twenty machines be pur chased at once for the army. Foreign. A parly of fifty Jesuits , the last or the members of the religious orders , were expelled from Portugal. Crippen , the wife murderer , will barely escape the gallows , though given n ten-days' extension from the original day sot for his execution. The Explorer's Club In Now York lias been notified that a Japanese ex pedition to the South Polo will leave Toklo on November 1G. The expedi tion will use a 200-ton vessel equipped with sails and auxiliary power and uxpects to be three years in making Us long Journey. Count Bonl do Castellane , former husband of Anna Gould , now the wife of his cousin , Prlnco do Sagan , has liled with the Vatican a formal peti tion asking the pope to confirm his civil divorce and grant him a church divorce. Count Bonl , It is said , is Kulng for the hand of Miss Anna Mor gan , daughter of J. P. Morgan Baron do XJngern SternBurg , corre- jpondent of n soml-ofllclal .Austro- Hungarian news agency , was sen tenced by the appeal court to four years hand labor on the charge of high treason. Baron Stornburg was arrested last > Juno by the secret police after a search of his apartments. The police slczed his papers and the baron was placed In confinement. General. Prominent Mexicans say It is idle to talk of o rupture with the United States , There Is surprise In Portugal that the United States has not recognized the infant republic. There is a long list of New York democrats who aspire to the coming vacancy In the U. S. senate. Editor Hitchcock , for U. S. senator , has moro votes than any other man on the democratic ticket In Nebraska. Nebraska ranchmen who were in dicted by the grand Jury on the charge of conspiracy to drive out Kottlors , gave themselves up and are out on bond. A movement Is on to deprive the next speaker of the national house of the committee appointing power. Charles W. Armour believes high prices have reached their climax , and from now on will be on the down grade , Tito total net revenue of the steam railroads in the United States last July was $73,477,590 or $308.51 per mile against $78,133,043 , or $335.06 per mlle of line in July of last year. Mayor Dahlman of Omaha , who made the race for governor of Nebras ka , though defeated , is not cast down. At Anadarko , Okl. , Police Chief W. C. Temple was called to his door by nn unidentified Mexican nnd fatally uhot. The San Juan , Porto Rico , branch of the Union Bank of Halifax , has been merged with the Royal Bank of Canada. Ono hundred and four thousand cottiers entered Canada from the United States during the last year und 75,000 entered the United States from Canada. gi Congress meets the first Monday In December , the session ending March 4th. 4th.It Is figured fit this tlmo that Al- drlch's majority for governor In Ne braska will roach 25.000. Mr. nryan has boon malting some speeches In Speaker Cannon's Illinois district. The lower hoimo of the next con gress will have a democratic majority of about forty. Dlx ( dem. ) was elected governor of New York , notwithstanding Hooso- vclt'H vigorous campaign. Aldrlch has n money bill which It Is said ho will push at the coming short session of congress. Trenton , N. J. , has 11 population of OG.Slfi Inhabitants , according to the thirteenth census statistics. Just for the present Teddy ban nothing to say about election results , but will bo hoard from later. Doctors at their Ilaltimoro meeting scored medical schools for their fall- uro to train students on care of In fants. KooHOvelt has given notice that ho Js going to take a good rest. To all callers word Is handed out "nothing doing. " The supreme court of the United States has adjourned for Its Thanks giving recess. It will reconvene No vember 28. President Taft will Uavo a number of Important measures before the next congress and hopes to get action upon them without delay. The Nobel prize commlttco has awarded the prize for literature for 1910 to Paul Johann Ludwlg llcyso/ the German poet and novelist. Governor Sanders will call a special session of the Louisiana legis lature for November 21 to elect a suc cessor to the late Senator McEncry. llov. Dr. Charles Ilumncr Burch , arch-deacon of Richmond , staten Is land , has been elected bishop suffra gan of the Protestant diocese of Now York. Hitchcock , the coming democratic senator from Nebraska , Is a son of the late P. W. Hitchcock , who also served a term in the United Slates Senate. Governor Shallonberger Issues his proclamation of thanksgiving and says Nebraska has kept stop with the onward march of civic and Industrial progress. Complete returns Indicate that the Wyoming legislature will bo repub lican by n majority of eleven on Joint ballot , insuring the return of Senator C. D. Clark to the United States senate. Governor B. I < \ Carroll announced the appointment of Lafayette Young , editor and publisher of the tDes Moincs Capital , to bo United States senator , succeeding the Into Senator Dolllvcr. Mayor Gaynor said ho would not favor a bill proposing to change the power of appointing public service commissioners for the" First district from the governor to the mayor of Now York. Belated returns on Tuesday's elec tion continue to Increase the plurality of James ir. Hawlcy , democratic can didate for governor of Idaho. It Is now estimated bo will lead Governor Bradby about 1,000 votes. Samuel Bronstcln , known as a money-lender to newspaper men In all parts of the United States , was con victed of usury and sentenced to servo sixty days In Jail and pay a flno of $100 In the court of criminal cor rection in St. Louis. Long and short haul problems In volved In the fourth section of the amended law for the regulation of In terstate commerce will bo discussed at a conference at the interstate com merce commission headquarters in Washington on November 28. The New Mexico constitutional con vention disregarded the advice given by Theodore Roosevelt to make a constitution easily amended and adopted an article requiring two- thirds of each house to propose an amendment and a big majority of the elcctorato to approve. Eugene Zimmerman said Europe re garded Roosevelt as an agitator. Census Director Dimind has been having more trouble of late than any ofllcor of the government. Census di rectors always have trouble and al ways expect it Aspiring communi ties of the urban sort arc seldom sat isfied with the result of the federal enumeration of population. The British foreign oflleo at Lon don applied to the German govern ment for permission to bo represent ed at the trial early In December of the alleged British ship's captain , B. F. Trench , of the royal marines and Lieut. V. H. Brandon , of the royal navy , who uro charged by the German authorities with espionage on the formications at Borkum. Personal. LaFolletto will bo re-elected senator from Wisconsin. Five of the presidents cabinet of ficers went homo to vote. Senator Beverldgo of Indiana has been retired by the voters. Senator Depew , In the face of de feat , says he is the happiest man In Now York. Hubert Latham circled the city of Baltimore In a twenty-Ilvo mile flight A movement is on foot among Ken tucky democrats to have Congress man-elect Caleb Powers unseated. Republicans have control of the next Kansas legislature. In Nebraska the situation is directly opposite. Mayor Dahlman , late aspirant for governorship of Nebraska , has gonp to the Missouri Springs to recuperate. Chilean Minister CriiBo , en route for Washington , in detained at the quarantineRtatiou because of a case of bubonic plague discovered on the steamer. COMPLETE RETURNS FROM MOST COUNTIES ON GOVERNORSHIP. LEAD OF IIDIHCH IS 13,103 , What Figures Show on Other State Office . Vote for Secretary of State la Very Close. Complete returns from clglity-nlno counties , and partial returns from one on governor , show : M'lHcli iiii.RTP. JJiililtnuti lucr.7j : Alililch'H lead 13,301 Hctiirrm to coino will niako vurv * llthl rlmiiKO In the Ica.l ofldilih im they will Inchiilo only I.OUP ami Mi-J'lifiwm , both Hiniill cmiiitIrM , and halt of .Slu'ildmi. l-ollowlni ; IM the volu In ilutall , fin also vote two yaiB UK fm Khclduii and Totals 119,873 10R G72 118,119 122,570 Complete returns on senator from 55 countluB dhow llurkett to hnvc 91,999 , nnd I'Uehcock 111.412. For railway commis sioner In olKhty-threo counties Claiko bus 106,209 , and Ilayilon 101,610. I 'nr HPurHurv of state In 83 cunnllcs \Vntt 1ms 104.292 , nnd Vool 104,191. At thlH writing both partlc-H claim this of- floi ) . For ticusunir In 84 counllcs Grorgo ln\s 105,113 , nnd Hall 103i61. ( Kor llcu- tcwuU governor In 65 counties Hope-well liaw 84.071 , nnd Clark S0,9fi5. Kor auditor In GO counties Hnrton hat ) 88,050 , and Hewitt 79.110. Kor attornev general. 06 " counties , Murtln has 84.2S7. nnd "Whitney 77,441. Knr railway commissioner , 63 counties , Oowlea hns S3.SIO , and Kastham SO.S06. Kor superintendent of public In- Hlmctlon , OG counties , Cmbtreo IMH 88,741 nna JackFon 70,188. The Vote In Lancaster. The compilation of the ollleial vote In Lancaster county shows that Ches ter II. Aldrlch received a majority of 2,180 voton and that the rest of the republican ticket came within a hun dred votes of this majority. 13. J. Burkett received a majority of 701 over G. M. Hitchcock , l.SOO votes less than the rest of the ticket. Senator Burkett. Senator K. J. Burkett has gone for a ten days' lecture tour , llo will B' < eak in Iowa first and later In Pennsylvania. From his last engage ment ho will go to Washington to sit in the senate. The senator will return to Lincoln after March 4 to take up the practice of law. Equipment for Guard. Adjutant General Hartlgan has re ceived a letter from the War depart ment telling him that ho can , by com plying with certain conditions , secure Held material without cost to the etato. At Beatrice there Is a battery , but the guns and wagons are all out of date and It has been demonstrated that they are of no practical use. Judge Munger Going Away. Judge Wl H. Munger will leave about the first of December for St. Louis , whore ho will sit with the cir cuit court of appeals until the holi days. There are sixty-two cases set for hearing \ and k Is probable that about llfty of them will bo heard. As the cases are then divided among the three judges for the writing of opinions , It is probable that Judge Munger will have about two months' work of that kind following the Bit ting of the court. Ho will remain In St , Louis until that IR disposed of. EDUCATIONAL WORK. State Superintendents Make Plans for Meeting , The committee appointed by the various state school superintendents at a conference held In Lincoln a year ago to draft a program and arrange for a meeting In Salt Lake City has made Its report and is now sending out letters to the educators urging them to attend this meeting. The com mittee Is composed of E. C. Bishop , state .superintendent of Nebraska ; C. 0. Schulty. of Minnesota , and Harlan Updegraff of "the bureau of education "Washington. The object of the conference Is to arrange for a uniform certification of teachers and for reciprocity betweer the states. The following rule , an the result or the meeting he-Id at Lincoln , has been adopted In respect to the states of Iowa , Minnesota and Nebraska : "Reciprocal relations on ccrtlflca. tlon will be observed between the Htatcs of Minnesota , Iowa and Ne braska as follows : Grades not below 75 per cent , on a Minnesota , Iowa or Nebraska Jlrst grade certificate will be accepted In the subjects that enter the same grade or certificate in the above named states. It IH understood that this ( iortlllcato must be obtained tliiough the uniform state examina tions In the state of Issuance. "The port-oils presenting such certi ficates will be required to pass the regular state examinations in those subjects that are not shown on the certificates from other states but which enter into the certificate of the state where application Is made for certificate. " The introductory portion of the let ter follows : You are Invited to attend a meeting of the chief education officers , to be. hold at Salt Lake City November 17 , 18 and 10. 1910. This meeting Is call ed as a result of a preliminary con ference at Indianapolis last winter , followed by a meeting of a number of slate superintendents at Lincoln last June , to consider Interstate certifica tion of teachers. Those participating in the gathering at Lincoln were : Mr. Riggs of Iowa. Mr. Fail-child of Kan- pas , Mr. Harmon of Montana , Mr. Mlshop of Nebraska , Mr. Xeller of Ohio , Mr. Swanson of South Dakota , Mr. Nelson of Utah , Mr. Schultz of Minnesota , and Dr. Updograff of the United States llureau of Education. A number of others sent letters showing Interest in the movement and express ing the wish that a meeting might be held later so as to give an opportunity for those to attend who were unable to rorue to the Lincoln meeting. In view of this the superintendents pres ent at Lincoln accepted the invitation of State Superintendent Nelson to meet later in the. year at Salt Lake City. Suit Against Telephone Company. The railway commission has in structed Attorney General Mullen to Ille a complaint against the Nebraska Telephone company on the charge of discriminating in rates. Tuberculosis Hospital. Joel Piper , secretary to the State Hoard of Charities and Correction , lias made recommendation to Gover nor Shallenberger for the establish ment of a hospital for persons afflict ed with tuberculosis and for those afflicted with epilepsy. It Is probable that the governor will include the rec ommendations to the legislature in bis biennial message to that body. Nebraska Municipalities League. Mayor Love , who Is president of the league of Nebraska municipalities , Is sending a circular letter to the mayors and councihnen of the cities and towns of the state with a popula tion of live hundred or over. The letter - tor calls attention to the meeting of t.he league to be held in Lincoln No vember 1C , 17 and 18 , nnd urges the towns to send delegates to the meet Ing. Lincoln Bank Clearings. The total clearings of the Lincoln banks for October this year shows an Increase over the corresponding month last year of $547,523. The clearing totals for the month also show an Increase ovei1 September of this year by $81,959,000 the total for October 1910 Is $7,214,988 ; for Octo ber 1909 , $6,697,465 ; for September 1910. $6,432,029. The Coming Teachers' Meeting. J. L. McIJrien , chairman of the local committee of the Nebraska state teachers' association , will soon be ready to announce the names of the chairmen he will appoint of the va rious sub-committees to work In the city. These are committees on pub licity , hotels and lodging , Information bureau , excursions to various points of interest about the city , and on the reception of the speakers. President N. M. Graham of Omaha has sent to the teachers of the state 15,000 cards , which are to bo tilled out by those who desire rooms in Lincoln reserved In advance. Ordered to Connect. The Platte County Telephone com pany and tne Leigh Telephone com pany have been ordered to reconnect their lines , which were disconnected sonic tlmo ago by the Leigh company. Donahue Files Answer. Chief of Police Donahue of Omaha , has filed an answer In supreme court denying the allegations made by the state in the Information In quo war- ranto. Ho denies that he has been derelict in bis duty in any way as charged. PRESIDENT TAFT ASSURES PAN. AMA OF SECURITY. IS CASTING NO COVETOUS EYE United States Would Be Utterly Dis honored by Attempting Such a Thing Busy Day Spent Along Canal. Panama.President Taft cffi'tuiaUy disposed of the report that the Unl.ed States was likely to annex Panama. At a dinner given In his honor by Presi dent AroEcmcna nnd attended by 200 ofllclals , diplomats and private cltl- ssens , Mr. Taft aroused the greatest enthusiasm when he declared the American people would feel utterly dishonored In annexing Panama , un less some conduct on the part of the Pnnamans left no other course. This contingency Mr. Taft was sure would never arise. The president arrived at Panama Wednesday evening from Cul- ebra , after spending the day In the great cut , where he was surrounded oftentimes with giant shovels , puff ing drills and hurrying dirt trains , while occasional distant blasts ecnt up tons of rocks. The recent landslides were visible , but they were In no wise disturbing to the president or to Colonel Goc- thals , the latter saying they will be taken care of as they occur , until tht ] degree of wall slope prevents a recur rence. Tlie president reviewed the marines at Camp Elliott , later hearing the grie vance committees who asked for an In crease of pay. This , however , is not likely -to be granted , because the wages of the men are already higher Jind the cost of living lower than In the United States. Cut Off From the. World. Cordova , Alaska. Eighty-three per sons , comprising the passengers and crow of the wrecked steamship Port land , which was beached In the mouth of Katalla river Saturday , are strand ed on Katalla Island. The storm , which broke soon after the passen gers were landed from the wrecked vessel , Is raging with Increased fury. Few people liveon the island and the food supply is small. The steamship Almeda tried for twelve hours to enter the storm-swept harbor , but was finally compelled to turn back. The telephone line , the sole means of communication with the island , went down and the strand ed passengers are entirely cuti oft from the outside world. Suit Involving Millions. , Cincinnati. A suit Involving mil- Ions of dollars In internal revenue tax is being prepared by attorneys of ths city as the result of a conference he Si In Washington recently with United States internal revenue Conilssioner Caleb and Sherman T. MacPherson , United States attorney for the Second district of Ohio. The matter at issue Is whether what is known to the liquor trade as "police wine" is subject to internal revenue tax. Says Fight Hae Only Begun. Oklahoma City. In speaking of the state capital controversy , Governor Haskell said that "the light has only 3ust begun , and will continue until the people's voice has Been effective. " The governor has made no prepara tions to return to Guthrie since the de cision was handed down. He consult ed with his attorneys as to what ho should do lu the capital matter. It IB believed he wUl call a special sessior of the legislature. Honored by a Re-election. Baltimore. Mrs. Lillian M. N. StP- vons of Portland , Me. , was unanimous ly re-eloctcd president of the national woman's Christian temperance union at the annual convention of the union here. Mrs. Stevens ro-appolnted Mrs. Anna A. Cordon of Evanston , 111. , vice- president at largo. Her appointment was ratified. Submarines for Hong Kong. London. The interesting announce ment Is made in naval circles that early In 1911 a British flotilla of sub marines will be sent to Hong Kong , and permanently stationed 1hc-x Other flotillas of the sar'o craft will bo sent later to Gibraltar and other stations. Honolulu. The application of Japct- nese Consul Mori , for membership In the Young Men's Christian Associa tion has been refused by the board on the ground that their social Incom- patability would militate against the usefulness of the 'organzaton. Paris. The river Seine , which over flowed its banks at many points and did much damage in the lower part of the city , Is falling. To Stamp Out Smallpox. Lansing , Mich. The state health au thorities are still using drastic mea sures to stamp out the epidemic of smallpox in various sections of the state. A state Y. M. C. A. gathering at Charlotte has been cancelled. Tainted Meat Proves Fatal. Ixgan , I. * . Typhoid fever , caused by fresh meat hung In the well , has caused the death within the last two weeks of Mr. and Mrs. Ella Simmons near hero. One child now has the dis ease , another has Just recovered. Your Liver is Clogged up Wliy You'ra Tired Out Sort * HAVO No Appetit CARTER'S LITTLE. LIVER PILLS will put you right In a tew djr * . Tteydo iKeir doty. One Cceitfp * . lion , DU. loa&ncu , Indigciticn , and Sick HeaJicle. SMALL FILL , SIiIALL DOSE. SHALL PUCE Genuine mutibeu Signature ROOSEVELT'S GREAT BOOK "African GameTrails" Nredfd a man In every placate to sell Ibis laraous how boolc. llrtog It to tlin families In your locality VVp giro yon monopoly or Hold tind high rommlbslon. TakalbUtireut cliance. Write lor prospectus. Charles Scribner's Sons lit ( U. S. ) llfth lie. , K w Ttrl IS THE N A tvl C OF THE BEST MCOICINB Yor COUGHS C COLDS In the Grand Stand. Stella Do you understand base ball ? " Bella Perfectly ; but why does that man run GO hard with nobody after him ? Ten Beautiful Christmas Cards Free To quickly Introduce the biggest and best farm Journal In the West , wo maht * this special 20 day bargain offer : Send 1ft cents for trial 3 months' subscription and wo will glvo you free our collodion of 10 very finest Gold Embossed Christinas post rards. Nebraska. Farm Journal , 819 Building. Omaha , Nob. Pie. "You Americans , " said the London man , "are very fond of what you call pie. But properly Bpcaklng a plo ehould have meat In it. " "Perhaps. But the beef packero compel us to economize. " Important to Mothora Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA , a eafo and euro remedy for' ' Infants and children , and see that It Bears the Signature In Ueo For Over SO Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Supreme Test. " 1 thought you said' this bathing cult was in fast colors , " said Binks , Indignantly , to the bathing master of whom he had bought his dollar suit that morning. "Yes , that's what I said , " returned Uro bathing master. "Well , every blessed strlpo on the blooming thing has como off on my back , " retorted Binks. "Ah , but wait until you try to get 'em oft your back , " smiled the bathIng - Ing master , suavely. "Then you'll eee. " Harper's Weekly. Easy Marks. "Talk orbout yore easy marks , " said tlncle Silas Gcehaw , who had been passing a week In the city , "us rubes ! ain't In " It with them air teown. ' chape. " "Did yew sell 'em enny gold bricks , Ellas ? " queried old Daddy Squash-i neck. "Naw , I didn't , " answered Uncle Silas , "but I seed a feller peddln * artl- flcial Ice bed thf sign right on hie wagon an' blamed ef th' chumps didn't buy It for th' real thing , by grass1" Back to the Wild. /There was a tlmo when all dogs were wild nnd when what wo call wolves were different from other dogn only as a collie now Is different from a Newfoundland , for Instance. From time to tlmo you will hear of dogs that have returned to the life of their ancestors and have run wild with the wolves of the prairlo or of the woods. In the town or Sandy in Oregon n greyhound one night made the ao qualntanco of a coyote , which IB kind of wolf , and over since ho hau lived away from the town , running with the coyotes and approaching hu man dwelling-places only to steal a hen or two when ho has been moro than usually hungry. MORE THAN EVER Increased Capacity for Mental Laboi Since Leaving Off Coffee. Many former coffee drinkers who have mental work to perform , day after day , have found a bettor capaci ty nnd greater endurance by using Postum Instead of ordinary coffee. An4 Illinois woman writes : "I had drank coffee for about twen ty years , and finally hud what the .doctor . called 'coffco heart. ' 1 was nervous and extremely despondent ; tad little mental or physical otrcngth left , bad kidney trouble and constipa tion. "Tho first noticeable benefit derived from the change from coffee to Postum was the natural action of the kidneys and bowels. In two weeks my heart action wan greatly Improved and my nerves otcady. "Then I bocaino less despondent , ind the deslro to bo active again showed proof of renewed physical and mental strength. "I am steadily gaining In physical Btrongtb and brain power. I formerly did mental work and had to glvo It up on account of coffee , but since using Postum I am doing hard mental labor with less fatlguo than over before. " Head the little book , "Tho Road to Wellville , In pkgs. "There's a Reason. " Kver rend the ntiovo letter ? A ncv ? one nppcnra from time to time. They re ( reuulnc , true , and ( all ot bullion tntereit. S