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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1906)
The Valentine Democra Valentine , Neb. 1. M. Rice. Publishe MINE OWNERS SPLE TAKES LEAD IN FAVO ® F WAGE INCREASE. Hotly Assailed by Others MIucj Tjisten Silently to Conflict of En ploycrs Pittsburger Declares tli Country Will Not Permit a Strike. The deadlock between the cot operators and miners of the centn competitive and southwestern distric continued throughout the meetings c the two joint scale committees of th joint conferences at Indianapolis , Ind Friday , and when the meetings ad journed late in the afternoon no agree jnent had been reached. Both com mittees will meet again. The discussion in the scale commit tee in the central competitive distric vvas confined entirely to argument among the operators 011 'the commit tee. and radical differences of view were heatedly expressed by then : The miners were , for the most par ! silent aduitors. An effort was made to secure fron President Mitchell , of the mine work ers , an expression as to whether h considered the Ryan resolution in ef feet. This resolution was adopted b ; the former joint conference in Janu ary and. binds the miners not to sig ; in any district until an agreemen shall have been reached In every' dis Irict. Mr. Mitchell declined to com init himself. F. L. Robbins , of the western Penn sylvania operators , was the target Frl day for several vigorous attacks 01 his position in favor of paying th < scale of 19 03 , which would mean an ad vance of 5.55 per cent in wages in th district and would comply with the de mands of the miners. One of the mos lieated of these was made by J. B Zerbe , of Cleveland , who spoke for tlu Ohio operators. Mr. Robbins stated on the floor thai lie did not propose to be dictated to by the operators of Illinois , Indiana and Ohio. He said his position was .fair and just to all interests , and th Pittsburg Coal Company , which h represented , was willing to pay the advance in wages asked. He said he was also willing to pay the advance at his own mines in Pennsylvania , Ohio and Illinois , and he had received .notice from an Illinois coal companj Jiavlng an output of 1,000,000 tons an nually that it had instructed its rep resentatives to vote with him. Mr. Robbins said the country woulo not permit a general strike on the causes shown. He turned to President IM itch ell , of the Mine Workers , anri said he did not believe the officials ol the miners would dare to refuse to al low the miners to work where the de mands were met. ' INSURANCE MEN ARE GUILTY. Committed Larceny in Authorizing Campaign Contributions. A New York special says : That the officers of the life insurance companie ; who contributed a portion of the com panies funds to political campaigi : committees committed larceny is the opinion Justice O'Sullivan expressed in the court of general sessions Friday , He held larceny was committed bj t2ie officers who authorized such con tributions and charged the jury to In vestigate as to the responsibility foj .such crime. This opinion is directly opposite to one on the same subject which was submitted to O'Sullivan by District Attorney - torney Jerome several days ago. Gen. Tl layer is at Rest. The body of Maj. Gen. John M. Thayer was Friday removed from the capitol at Lincoln , Neb. , where it hao rested in state for twenty-four hour : to the St. Paul Methodist Episcopa church , and the funeral services , par licipated in by all the military organ Izations of the state , were there ducted. Fire at Denver. * Fire originating from spontaneous combustion in the starch bins of the Western Candy Company's plant in the wholesale district of Denver , Colo. , caused damage to the building and stock of four manufacturing concerns estimated at 5200,000. Bank Cashier Sentenced. At St. Charles , Mo. , Anton F. Mis- pagel , former cashier of the St. Charles Savings Bank , who has been on trial for two weeks on the charge of embezzlement , was Friday found guilty and sentenced to two years' im prisonment in the penitentiary. Sioux City Live Stock Market. Friday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Butch er steers , $4.25@5.10. Top hogs , $6.25 Eleven Bodies Recovered. At 10 o'clock Friday it was stated the dead in the Century mine at Fair mont , W. Va. , numbered eleven. Ten miners are still unaccounted for. The majority of the dead and missing are foreigners. The work of rescue is going on slowly. The men were killed by an explosion of gas. $6,000 for an Orchid. A record price , $6,000 , was paid at .London at an auction room for a prize orchid fro.in a collection of H. T. Pitt , { DEE IN COAL SHAFT. - Miners Killed by Explosion West Virginia. ' , A Fairmont , W. Va. , dispatch say Ten men are known to be dead , twei ty-five injured and 1'rom twenty-fr "to " seventy-five missing and believed be dead as the result of an explosic of gas in the shaft of the Century Co Company at Century , a small minir town situated fifty miles south of Fai mont , on the Bellington and Bucklnj ham branch of the Baltimore an Ohio Railroad. The explosion took place at 4:5 Thursday afternoon , but owing to th telephone wires being put out of con mission by high winds , details ai lacking : , and the names of the victim six of whom are known to be foreigr ers , were not secured at a late hoi : Thursday night. The Century mine , which is owne by Shaw Bros. , of Baltimore , Md. , one of the largest independent operr tors in northern West Virginia. Ov 250 men are employed daily in th shaft , and had the explosion been a hour earlier the loss of life woul have been appalling. As it was , ther were but a few remaining in the shaf the main body of the miners havin quit work for the day. The giant fan which furnishes ai for the shaft was partially wrecke by the force of the explosion , but wa repaired immediately , and within a hour of the accident Superintenden James Ward had a relief party in th mine. The first trip brought out tei men , five dead and five badly burned They were found in the main head ing near the bottom of the shaft. Th living could give no details of the ex plosion , saying that they were on thei way to the surface when the explosioi took place behind them. A second expedition immedialel : went down and explored the mail heading , which was found to be unin jured by the explosion except that tin brattices were blown out. Four mon bodies were found in this heading , anc twenty injured men who were makini their way toward the bottom of th < shaft were brought to the surface bj the rescuers. Immediately following the explosior the officials began a house to hous ( canvass to ascertain the number o ! men to be found on the surface. This resulted in 160 miners being found who had come out previously to the explosion. It is believed that there are many more outside who have nol yet been accounted for. If this is not true there are still seventy-five men in the mine with little hope of their being alive. WIND CAUSES IOWA WRECK. Freight Train Unable to Make Sched uled Time. The Illinois Central westbound lim ited for Omaha with double header engines , forty minutes late , running i mile a minute , struck a freight train it Duncombe , la. , at an early hour rhursday morning. Both engine crews on the passenger : rain jumped. Fireman Walter Cut- : ing , of the first engine , was instantly villed , and both the engineers sustain- Jd sprained ankles and knees and , vere badly bruised. Cutting's neck vas broken. Five cars of the freight train were .elescoped and the front engine of the > assenger was reduced to scrap Iron. The fact that the train was a dou- > le header saved the passengers , all he coaches remaining on the track. UNCLE SA3I MAY APPEAL. Jeef Trust Decision at Chicago Seri ous Blow for Government. A , Washington special says : Presi dent Roosevelt held an extended con- erence Thursday with Attorney Gen. ral Moody , Secretary Taft and Jas. t. Garfield concerning the adverse ecision rendered in Chicago Wednes- ay by Judge Humphrey in the beef ackers' case. No details of the conference are ob- linable , but it is certain Moody pro- oses to look carefully into the la\v earing upon the matter with the view f. ascertaining whether an appeal * om the decision of Judge Humphrey y the government will lie. More Police for Havana. At Havana secret police discovered tid seized a quantity of arms , ammu- Ition and dynamite , which was sent r express from the interior of the Isl- id to Havana and carried to a private Duse. Three arrests have been made . connection with the seizure. The ithoritles declare there is no cause r apprehension , but the police reserve is been increased. Smoking Car for Women. The first smoking car ever reserved r women in Great Britain left the. jndon , England , terminus Wednes- iy for Liverpool. The windows bore label reading , "Ladles' smoking. " ie innovation attests the spread of loking among English women. Coachman is Found Guilty. At Los Angeles , Gal. , Morris Buck is convicted of murder in the first gree for killing Mrs. Ch'arles A. nfield , wife of the millionaire oil erator. Buck was a former coach- in of the Canfield family. Stork Visits Rockefellers. A. son was born to Mr. and Mrs. hn Rockefeller , Jr. , at New York 2dnesday night. He is heir presump- e to the greatest fortune in the rid , for he will be christened John Rockefeller III. Patching Up Cobincr. Paris special says : President Fal- res consulted Jean Sarrien , former nister of justice , Friday afternoon i offered him the task of forming a ilnet. PACKERS ARE FREED. Immunity for Individuals but Not f < Corporations. A Chicago special says : All of tl packers who were indicted by the fee eral grand jury last summer upc charges of beingin conspiracy in r < straint of trade and commerce wei Wednesday granted immunity froi criminal prosecution under the indie ments found against the corporation of which some of the indicted indivit uals are members and others are en ployes , are to stand. A decision to the above effect wa handed down Wednesday afternoon b Judge J. Otis Humphrey in the distric court. Arguments in the case were cor eluded shortly after 3 o'clock. Judg Humphrey soon commenced the deliv ery of his opinion. It was oral , an the judge spoke for nearly an hou before giving the slightest indicatio of what the ultimate decision woul be. He reviewed the case at length in al its bearings , cited all the essentia facts which had been brought out , am concluded as follows : "Under the law in this case the im munity pleas filed by the defendant will be sustained as to the individuals and denied as to the corporations , th < artificial persons , and the jury wil find in favor of the government as fa as the corporations are concerned , am against the government as far as tin individuals are concerned. " During the rendition of the decisioi die Court room was crowded by tin defendants and numerous spectators Edward Morris and Edward Swifi were in court and both smiled happilj when the decision was announced. J. Ogden Armour was not present but some of the prominent men in UK employ of Armour & Co. , who were named in the indictments , were thert and their joy was great. When the judge announced that the indictments Avould not lie against them , they crowded together and commenced to shake hands in mutual congratula tions. The attorneys for the defense were also highly pleased. NO WAR ON HOP POOL. British Premier Refuses to Get Ex cited Over American Trust. A London dispatch of the 21st says that in the house of commons Pre mier Campbell-Bannerman said he de clined to embark in a crusade against "hop pools" in America or elsewhere. A. member asked for information about an alleged pool formed by a hop exporter of Wheatland , Gal. , and the amploj nent of Chinese coolies by Oregon hop growers and expressed the liope that the British government ivould take steps to prevent the pool 'rom destroying the British hop in- Justry. The premier declined to take my action in the matter. OFFER MINERS AX ADVANCE. Question Will Be Submitted to the 51.000 French Strikers. The miners' congress at Lens , rrance , Wednesday rejected the com- ) any's proffer of an increase of 10 per : ent in wages. The action of the con- rress , however , will be submitted to he referendum of the 51,000 strikers. The congress has issued a manifes- o calling on the miners to remain aim , and not to listen to revolution- , ry agitators , urging that thus they rill best serve their own interests and ender more likely an improvement in heir condition. Quiet in Chattanooga. At the Roos-Mehan iron foundry i Chattanooga Wednesday , where hite overseers are employed with nero - ro molders and helpers , a white man amed Rogers shot and wounded a egro. The cause of the shooting is lought to be the outcropping of trou- les between the races , resulting from ie lynching of Negro Johnson. "Boss' ' Cox Summoned. George B. Cox , former leader of the .epublicans in Hamilton County , O. , as one of the number of bank presi- ents summoned to appear before the rand jury in Cincinnati Wednesday > testify in regard to the payment to | ie county treasurer of interest , or gratuities , " for the deposit of public oneys. A Chicago Tragedy. Nicholas J. Dickhoff , aged 23 , or incinnati , employed as a cook in a licago boarding house , was shot and lied early Monday by Jacob W. oung , while in the room of Mrs. Mil- ed Amann at the Grace Hotel , aung , who is 18 years old ; Mrs. j tnann and Mrs. Mabel Grief , all of ncinnati , were arrested. Two Days in Snowdrift. An Illinois Central train marooned the drifts near Argenta , twelve iles from Decatur , 111. , has been re- ised and reached Champaign two ys late. Neighboring farmers sup- ied the passengers with food. Railroad to Seize Coal. A Saginaw , Mich. , dispatch says : e Pere Marquette Railroad has Is- 2d an order confiscating for its own 2 all of the coal that is mined in i Saginaw valley between now and ril 1. Xo Mutiny at Sebastopol. rhe sensational reports current at Petersburg Tuesday night to the ect that the execution of former J l > ut. Schmidt had been followed by " extensive mutiny of sailors at Se- ; topol turns out to be unfounded , r Nineteen Die in Storm. Nineteen persons perished in a ter- s norther which swept the coast of Vera Cruz Tuesday. Two of the T rm victims were pleasure seekers c ' rn Mexico City. - c STATE OF NEBB1SK. NEWS OF THE WEEK IX A CO ? DEXSED FORM. No Trace of Hanker Hagerty County Supervisors Increase tl He ward to $1,000 Whereabouts < Aged Cashier is Still a Mystery. Patrick Hagerty. the fugitive casl ler of the defunct Elkhorn Vallt Bank at O'Neill , will be worth $1OC to his captor. The reward was ir creased from $500 to $1,000 by th supervisors of Holt County at a ineel ing held in O'Neill last week. Hagerty is the man charged wit the greatest part of defrauding whle left scores of widows and orphans i the lurch for a total of $60,000 a yea ago last Thanksgiving. The day afte Thanksgiving came without openin the doors of the bank , and investiga tion proved that the president , Ber nard McGreevy , and the cashier , Pat rick Hagerty , had both lied. McGree vy was captured at Phoenix. Ariz and brought back to stand trial , bu 'his trial has not yet come up , thougl he was captured a year ago. Hagert ; is a man SO years of age. with sno\ white hair and beard. Nothing ha ( been heard of him since he lied , though detectives are said to hay scoured the country for him. The coun ty supervisors believe that the rewarc of $1,000 will have a tendency to line the man. The board of supervisors of IIol County instructed the county attorney 'in ' connection with the bank default ing case , to start legal action in ordei to recover funds from County Treasur er D. J. Cronin which are alleged tc have been placed in this bank by thai official in excess of the amount allowec | by law to be deposited in any bank This amount , it is alleged , is aboul $1,500. The county board refused tc make settlement with Mr. Cronin , wh ( is retiring , and ordered that the books be examined. The board further , in connection with bank affairs , instructed the coun ty attorney to begin action to undo an alleged combination of Holt County banks for the paying of but 2 per cent interest on county funds. It is al leged that 3 per cent has been paid heretofore , but that now all the banks refuse to pay more than 2 per cent. SECOND TRIAL FOR IRWIN. Ncbruskun Again Before Jury for Killing ingCearns. . The trial of Myron Irwin , charged with the murder of Bob Cearns a year ago near Badger , near the Boyd-Holt County line , is being held at O'Neill and will continue during the next ten days. This is the second trial , Irwin before having been found guilty of murder in the second degree. The killing is al leged to have resulted from a quarrel that started at Butte , March oO , 1905. It is alleged that Irwin stabbed Cearns twice after they had left town , and after they had crossed the Niobrara River into Holt County , Cearns died a half hour after he was stabbed. One rt-ound Avas in the heart and the other n the stomach. NEBRASKA CITY ELECTIONS. reniperance the Main Issue in Most of the Towns. Municipal elections in Nebraska will > e held on April 3. In a number of he towns of the state the fight is ierce. Omaha is convulsed. Lincoln las no municipal campaign this year. The temperance question is the nain issue , although the gambling [ uestion is considered in many places. U Crete this year a double ticket was lamed. The Democrats and the Re- ublicans met in joint caucus and two nen were named for each office. The ne receiving the highest number of otes will be declared elected in each nstance. DR. HUNT KILLED BY TRAIN. I'ell Known Nebraska Physician Loses His Life at O'Xeill. Dr. S. F. Hunt , of Stuart , was in- iantly killed in the railroad yards at ' 'Neill at 4:40 o'clock Friday after- eon while attempting to board freight ain No. 03. The doctor was at 'Neill as a witness in the Irwin mur- er trial , and went to the depot to take le freight for his home at Stuart. The train had started when he jached the depot and he made a grab r the front end of the caboose , slip- ; d on the icy ground and fell under ie wheels , the rear trucks passing i er his body just below the arms , in- | antly crushing his life out. Violated Liquor Laws. As a result of the indictments re- ntly found by the grand jury at Al- on fines to the amount of 32.500 ive been assessed and either paid or cured. These are all for violations the state liquor law , and four pars - ; s indicted , with an aggregate of iout thirty counts have not yet been led. This does not include several { rties against whom indictments i < .ve been found who have disappear- j since the convening of the grand i 1 ry. Not less than $3,000 will be re- j v vered by way of penalties. ; i i Oldest Woman in State in Want. Is Mrs. Julia Massey , the oldest iman in Nebraska , a soldier's widow . , did she have a son who served in c 5 civil war ? She is now confined in ' d j hospital ward of the Lincoln in- [ p ic asylum. She is not insane , the j e thorities sending her to the a yium order that she might have food and jlter. Two Men Hurt in Runaway. Terman Brandeburg and August rquardt. two young farmers , were | d h injured more or less severely in i H runaway accident near Norfolk j w Monday. Their carriage was b Tturned and they were dragged y < T the very rough roads. Another Lnd Fraud Arrest. 'homas M. Huntington , a banker , A 5 arrested at Gordon Thursday by m ited States Marshal Procter on a pi pim rge of subornation of perjury in m nectionvith alleged land frauds. GEN. JOIIfC M. TJIAYEK IS DEA1 Grand Old 3Ian of Nebraska Pas.s < Away. Gen. John M. Thayer , civil war ve eran , former United States senate and governor of Nebraska , died ; Lincoln shortly before 8 o'clock Moi day night after an illness which b < came serious only last Saturday. Fc a man of his age SG years Gei Thayer was unusually robust and a ( tive until a month ago. He was United States senator froi Nebraska for the incomplete four-ye ? term from 1867 to 1871 , torritori ; governor of Wyoming In 1S75 and go ernor of Nebraska for four years , b < ginning : in 1887. He gained renew as an Indian lighter in the territork days of the state. One of the first settlers of the stat and its metropolis , a leading facto in repressing Indian ravages , a distln guished officer in the war of the rebell ion , the first United States senate from Nebraska , twice its governor an the honored occupant of various offl cial positions leading up to thos which crowned his eventful careei John M. Thayer occupied a place Ii the history of Nebraska and in th affections of its people which no othe man ever did or ever can claim. SHOOTS WIFE AND PARENTS. Nebraska Woman is Fatally Woundet ed by Husband. A special received Thursday nigh says that August Miller , after havinj shot his wife and her parents , Mr. anc Mrs. Fred Hohneke , on their Sarrr home between Winside and Stantor just inside the Santon County line , wai captured later in the evening in Thurs- ton County. Mrs. Miller died of her wounds. Mr Hohneke. Miller's father-in-law - - , may recover in spite of the three wounds in his arms and legs , while his wife merely lost two fingers when she grab bed the revolveto protect her hus band. After the wounded father-in- law seized a shotgun and drew blood in the assailant's neck Miller ran a mile to the home of a neighbor named Miller , borrowed a horse and rode away. The shooting began in the barn at 7 o'clock Thursday morning , where Miller found Hohneke. He began firIng - Ing and followed Hohneke into the liouse. Miller lived on a corner of Hohn- eke's farm and had had trouble with the old folks. His wife had gone back Lo her parents. He declared Wednes day he would get his wife or blood. NOI1T1I LOVP SUFFERS. Xearly All of Business District is Destroyed - stroyed by Fire. A disastrous fire broke out at North L.OUP Tuesday morning at 7:30 on the second floor of Babcock & Gowen'a lepartment store and entirely con sumed the building and most of the Iry goods stock. The fire then spread o the postofHce and to H. E. Davis' 'urniture store , burning both build- ngs to the ground. The contents of > oth buildings were removed and the lamage to this is slight. The three juildings which were burned were rame buildings and in two hours were ntirely destroyed. The town is without fire protection , .ml it was only by the heroic work of large number of men that the bal- nce of the business portion was sav- d. The stock of F. Johnson sustain- d slight damage and practically all lie plate glass windows with a radius f a block were broken by the heat. 'he ' cause of the fire is not known , ut the supposition is that it caught rom a stovepipe. The total damage is estimated at bout $35,000 , partially covered by In. j ranee. A PIKE AT KANDOLPU. hr/e in the Business District Causes a Loss of $20.000. A Randolph special says : A fire hich broke out in the Pill Bros. ' gen- al merchandise store early Wednes- ly morning caused a loss of about LS.OOO. The stock of Pill Bros , was total loss , with one-half to two- lirds of it covered by insurance. The lilding is owned by N. W. Trent , and s loss is $2,000 , covered by insur- ice. The firemen did excellent work fighting the ttames and prevented eir spread to adjoining buildings. The blaze is believed to have been used by spontaneous combustion in ! soaked rags left by painters in the 5re of Pill Bros. Farmer Found Dead in Street. The lifeless body of Wm. Schievel- in , a prominent German farmer of > sper County , living ten miles north- , jst of Arapahoe , was discovered , lesday morning lying on the Main ( eet. At the coroner's inquest but ( tie was elicited other than that the . ceased had been drinking some , but ! t more than usual for him , but in ] -ne manner , after untying his team ( go home , was thrown from his wag- and either so stunned or injured as ' * cause his death by freezing or th * ' uries. Craig : Divine Burled. [ lev. Mr. Motter , of Craig , pastor of Christian church there and at ikefield. who started the fire in hia k stove Monday morning with gas- le and was burned so badly that died Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock , s buried at Craig Wednesday after- Coldest of the Winter. L Lincoln special says : The mim- m temperature of the year was re ded 'Friday night. the mercury s pping to 3 degree * below zero. Tem- a atures of 7 , 12 and 13 were report- n from northn-est Nebraska. The tl tlA ra e low temperature for the state A i 7 degrees below zero , the coldest o : Ie \ \ Inter. tl Oaiultti's 3Iayor Dead. rank E. Moores. Mayor of Omaha , i at his home Friday afternoon.1 tc had been ill for several months le i throat trouble and a general la iking down. Mayor Moores was 66 laO ] : s of .ice. Cfo Slot Machines Seized. foJc ounty Attorney William Jc Ely , of Jcm sworth , has seized all of the'slot m hines in Long Pine and will later th ; ecute the saloon men -md other io chants who had them in their fu es -usinecs. . _ " i John Dorgan. of the Whttebrcas * Coal Company Saturday morning told the members of the state board o * purchase'and supplies that coal would. shortly be a scarce commodity af-d- suggested that if the board did noC have sufficient on hand at the various state institutions , it had better get busy at once and do some m > re buy- ing. The contract to furnish the In stitutions with coal for th presenti quarter expires April 1 and Mr Dor gan told the board that after that date coal might be hard to set at any price. The board , acting upon the- suggestlon , promptly ordered the state * superintendents to prepare for an , emergency and hustle in all the coal" their bins would hold , and if it could , not be secured at the present contract , price to pay a little more for it. During the last two weeks four convicts who have been out on parole- voluntarily returned to the peniten tiary. Of this number three returned duz-ing the last two days. The men- gave as a. reason for returning they liked the three meals a day and the.- regular hours , though combined with : confinement , to the strenuous work shovclsd onto a. man working for- his board and a little extra money. Each of the convicts. however , brought back a neat little sum of money and deposited it with the war den. In the meantime , however , those who have escaped from the institution , have shown no disposition to return , , and Warden Beemer attributes this to the fact that all men are constituted differently. * * Attorney General Brown Saturday afternoon filed with the supreme court a brief in support of his motion for- a rehearing in the case wherein Gov. Mickey , as chairman of the state board of equalization , sought by mandamus to compel the county clerk of Douglas County to include the value of the re serve fund of the Woodmen of the- World and the Woodmen Circle in the- assessment of the property of the or ders. The court held mandamus was = not the proper procedure , though it 3id not pass upon the question of the- issessment of the reserve fund. The- egal department contends mandamus * ivas the proper procedure by which to -.ompel an officer to do his duty. * * The Union Pacific Railroad Com * . > any is in the supreme court to have- eversed one of the largest personal- lamage verdicts ever rendered against i railroad in Nebraska , $27,500. The- ) laintiff in the lower court was John. Connolly and in his first suit , which * vas filed in 1902 in the Douglas Coun- y district court , named as defendants he Union Pacific and Elmer E. Fair , , in engineer employed by the railroad. Connolly , who was a stockman in the- restern part of the state , had brought ome cattle to South Omaha ana i-hile walking in the yards was run. own by a freight train and both Iegs = ere cut off below the knees. * * * Auditor Searle has received a let- sr from a party in Douglas County ; ho had sent in a voucher for a gray rolf bounty which the auditor hail timed down. The letter desired to now of the auditor by what authority e went behind the voucher , and as le slayer of the wolf had satisfied the- ounty clerk he demanded to know hat business it was of the auditor , i the meantime the auditor has made- rrangements with a local tannery to it hold of a gray wolf scalp to keep- i exhibition in his office for com- irison with those alleged gray wolfi * : alps likely to be sent in. * * * State Superintendent McBrien nas- : nt out circular letters instructing ie teachers to file their state certifl- : tes for registration with the various unty superintendents of the state , nis action is in conformity with the w enacted by the last legislature oviding unless such certificates were- gistered prior to June 1 they should scome void. Under the old law it. is provided that only certain certifi- tes should be registered , while oth- s were exempt ; while the new law ovides all state certificates shoulcV registered. The registration fee is. .00. * State Treasurer Peter Mortensen ta. t a candidate for the Republican , mination for governor. Mr. Mor- isen made thisannouncement Thurs- y afternoon. Mr. Mortensen con- ided not to enter the race after the- estion of his eligibility was raised , d after he had secured Judge Strode 1 Attorney Clements to look into the itter and see if there was any meth- by which the case could be passed on by the supreme court before the- te of the Republican state conven- n. The lawyers filed an opinion. : h the treasurer saying they knew oC way the case could be taken up. * * The state board of assessment ursday afternoon adopted rules for- : guidance of county assessors md identally instructed them to assess , reserve funds of fraternal eom- | lies. The rules adopted by the- ird answer the questions raised by county assessors at their recent eting held in Lincoln. * * * 'he long drawn out and bitterly ght litigation over the right c the > : e to enforce its reciprocal Insure - e tax law was ended Thursday ning by the payment of 52,7SC by . -Insurance Company of North erica , the amount of the tax.it . d. together with the amount of court costs. he supreme court has been askea ' ff express itself unequivocally on tha- .lity of the Nebraska anti-trust 3 , or. in other words , explain the lion it handed down in the "grain " some weeks ago. The attorneys the state. Attorney General Brown , n J. Sullivan and Jefferis & Howell : e this request in a brief filed in , case. The attorneys hold th * opin- was not definite in Its decision , and ! ier , the syllabus and the bc-r-y of : opinion were a.t variance.