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The Yalentine Democrat VALENTINE , NEB. 'f . TY ! . KICK , - - - - Publisher LOWLANDS YAST SEA. < IiIVZ R IS TEX MILES WIDE NEAR One Family Reuacs to i-icave Lowland Home. Though Water is Steadily Kising About It Gorge Reported to Be Loosening Somewhat. With the water knee deep in their sitting room and steadily rising , John 'Peterson and his wife Sunday after- jnoon repeatedly refused to leave their * farm house , six miles east of VermillIon - Ion , S. D. They declared they would Jshare the fate of their live stock. A ( party of rescuers In charge of Louis { Larson was forced to leave them af ter two futile trips in a rowboat Mr. Peterson is 80 years of age. The rescuing - cuing party left them a rowboat. When the sun sank below the Net - ! t > raska bluffs Sunday evening Its rays Jglistened on a sea of water covering jail the lowlands for ten miles west of rVermillion. A solid gorge of ice at 'the mouth of the Vermillion river has jbacked up until it extends for over ten ; miles , blocking the channel as far as ( Hagen's bend , near Gayville. ' The water continues to rise rapidly .over the bottoms near Meckling and { Gayville , covering high bottom land that never before was submerged. By Sunday night all the farmers on r the lowlands west of town had moved jback to the bluffs and are staying with jtheir neighbors. Lars Mortinsen , who reached Ver- jnillion Sunday evening , lost thirty jhogs in thirty minutes at noon when jthe water suddenly reached his place , j The agent for the Milwaukee rail- Jroad at Tankton notified all of the .farmers he could reach by telephone jon the lowlands west of Vermillion jthat a special stock train would be ( run from Yankton at 2 o'clock and .would . stop to pick up any live stock that was in danger. Twenty-two carloads -loads - left Meckling Sunday for the -Sioux City and Chicago markets. MANY LIVES IX PERIL. Austrian Steamer Wrecked on a Hock Off Crete Island. The Austrian-Lloyd steamer Impe- ratrix , while bound from Trieste to M Bombay , ran onto a rock Saturday evening near Cape Elaphonisi , on the island of Crete , and sank soon after wards. It is known that the disaster -was accompanied by loss of life , but in the absence of definite news the' number of drowned is unknown. The a passengers and crew on board numbered n bered about 150. The Imperatrix sail ed from Trieste on Feb. 19. ] The Imperatrix was 390 feet long , ft 45 feet beam , 23 feet in depth and of fto 2,334 tons. She was built in 1888. ftW A telegram has been received from W the company's agent at Canea , which e says : ir "The following letter has been re ceived from a lieutenant of the Impe ratrix : " 'Twelve persons and myself have I' > ! ' been saved. The others are on board the steamer , the position of which ia extremely dangerous. ' " fl flin I in HUNGER STRIKE WIXS. cl ce Arrested Austrian Students Gain Liberty cc erty by Refusing to Eat. g A large number of arrested univer- p jsity students , who were arrested recently st cently at Lemberg and imprisoned for COCO refusing to take the oath in the Polish language , adopted a hunger strike , re COw fusing all food or drink , that the doctors tr. tors in attendance declined to accept tr.Tl responsibility for their lives , and as a sic result the students were victorious , he and the authorities were compelled to liberate all of them , numbering ninety. Even then the students declined to quit the prison , because five of their ' ringleaders were detained , and barri caded themselves with beds and fur niture to prevent their forcible objec pe tion. In the meantime there was a tr : .great Ruthenian demonstration outside - de 1 , side the prison , and finally the ring- Bj Readers also were liberated on bail. he Then all the students consented to th ; leave the prison. fe h Engineers Get a Raise. ve b The Louisville and Nashville railroad - /road / Friday granted an increase in jwages of 10 per cent to its engineers , { effective March 1. pa cii : America Loses Chess Match. he America lost the international cable tic hess match with the British team. /which / was finished Saturday. The ' . { score was 4 % to Sioux City Live Stock Market. Eta Saturday's quotations on the Sioux at City live stock market follow : Top fei ' jbeeves , $5.20. Top hogs , 5C.90. ao Poisoned by Canned Tomatoes. Mayor Charles Davis , of El Paso , Tex. , and Col. John W. Brady are dan gerously ill , both suffering from pto- nd jmaine poisoning caused by eating can- be tned tomatoes while out hunting Sun > day. his lay : British Governor Dropped Dead. Jabez Bunting Snowball , lieutenant governor of New Brunswick , dropped dead Sunday night in Frederickton , N ; ' h'e < B. , while on his way to attend service pn the cathedral. 01 SEES "LEAN" YEAH COMING. Barnes J Kill Has Small Hope of 1008. James J. Hill , president of the Great Northern Railroad , company , j who has returned from St. Paul , ex pressed the conviction Thursday that the tide of prosperity is turning and that there are indications of a sig nificant recession in business. As Mr. Hill phrased it , "The sails of prosper ity are being reefed. The year 19 OS ' may be a hard year and many * ou- of i-v\ may.u ' 'ie cc 01' { | or retrenchment , are under way , " siid Mr. 11:11. "Less j | money is to be spent on new works. ' i The ellcct of this movement Is being j felt at present in the falling off of , orders. The beginning of this movement - ment Is very evident in Chicago. "While I would scarcely call It a cessation in business it Is more of a. drawing in. The railroads in general are curtailing their expenditures and giving fewer orders. On our lines we will finish the work we have undef way and that is all. "This movement toward economy is scarcely perceptible , but it should be sufficient to relieve the strain from congested business. In a way it is a good thing. It is better so , as the cur tailment is gradual. Othedwise , there might be a sudden slump with serious results. "The first tendency is toward the curtailment of luxuries. Then there will be a falling off in manufactured articles. This will continue during the coming months. But so far as concerns the future the year 1908 may be a hard one and then many men may be out of employment. " WARSHIP SINKS STEAMER. American Ship Rammed oy Frencli Cruiser at New Orleans. In hazy weather the French cruiser JKleber "Wednesday night rammed an * sank the American fruit steamer Hu- goma in the Mississippi river , just off the center of the city of New Orleans. Capt. Lewis , of the Hugoma , said that seven coal passers and firemen of his vessel , mostly Japanese , had been drowned. The Kleber , just arriving from Havana , was rounding a sharp turn and the Hugoma , drifting witli the six-mile eddying current , turned directly into the cruiser's path. Capt. Lewis , of the Hugoma , says that his signal was mistaken by the warship. The latter struck the fruit ship amid- ships on the port side , nearly cutting her in two , and in five minutes the Hugoma plunged to the bottom in more than 100 feet of water. SHOT TO DEATH IN OFFICE. Sensational Tragedy Occurs in Chi cago. Louis Fisher , of Chicago , one of the proprietors of the Harrison Art com pany , was shot to death in his office O Thursday. A fashionably dressed wom T an who entered Fisher's office and quarreled with Fisher was found in Pi the room after the shooting. She was ti tia ticc arrested , but refused to give her cc name. tl The woman was later identified a1 * tlw Mrs. Flora McDonald , wife of Michael w McDonald , a former prominent Dem qi ocratic < politician and millionaire. ri Shortly after the identification of tfc tfcw Mrs. McDonald , the man who was kill w ed was identified as Webster S. Guer- in. He also used the name of Fisher. BIG MINING DEAL. L The Calumet Company Absorbs Three Other Concerns. hj The announcement was made Thurs- lo flay that the Calumet and Hecla Min ce ing company of Boston , would take ni charge of the management of the Os- ni niTl ceola , Centennial and Allouez Mining Tl companies. Acting under the Michi nc gan mining laws , the Calumet com at pany has purchased a majority of the St stock of the Centennial and Allouez companies and has secured practical th control of the Osceola company , of ne which : 20,000 shares were formally transferred to the Calumet interests Ihursday. This is in addition to a con siderable amount of Osceola previously ce field by the Calumet company. Su bo KILLED SISTER'S HUSBAND. sti th ; 'Unwritten Law" Will Be the Defense ba of Two Virginians. ho Philip and James Strothers , of Cul- pepper , Va. , brothers , were placed on rial ] Thursday charged with the mur- ier of their brother-in-law , Wm. F. ofi > Bywaters , Dec. 15 last , within a few Pe lours after he had been- married to th heir sister Viola. in "Unwritten law" will be the de- thief 'ense : , and the trial promises to be of ery sensational. Asks Receiver for Missouri Plant. The Missouri Lincoln Trust com bil pany , of St. Louis , has petitioned the su ircuit court to appoint a receiver for co : Missouri Water , Light and Trac- by > .ion company , which operates all of 24 Nevada's municipal plants. Wife Defender Acquitted of Murder. John Camp , of Havana , 111. , who tabbed James Allen , a saloonkeeper , tie tiomi Bath , in September , 1905 , while de- mi 'ending his wife from an attack , was fO ( icquitted of murder Thursday. Federal Judge Resigns. Judge G. A. Finkelburg , of St. joula , of the United States district he < circuit court , who will leave the da ench because of failing health , sent at resignation to Washington Thurs- ed. night , to take effect April 1. ar < Prohibits Exclusive Contracts. ] The Kansas house Thursday passed mite bill already passed by the senate to irohibltlng the making of exclusive bo : dcJ EIMBJI nra r TRAIK FALLS FOKTY FEET. Three Lives Lost' in Wreck Xcav Dubuqac. A combination coach and a loadinl car of train No. 103 on the Chicago , Milwaukee and St. Paul narrow gauge railroad between Bellevue and Cas cade , la. , jumped the rails at a curve on a trestle over a small stream near Washington Mills and fell a distance of forty feet Friday , the coal car land ing on top of the coach , in which xyo t ten passengers. The coach was ' - > mi > letely wrecked one n senger v.k'Med ' .ind tv j Kfaly ! 'ino seven serlousiinjured. . I The- dead : .Mrs. John Rohan , Fillj j more , la. Fatally injured : Conductor Ted I < i.irtin , F-\i ; ! : . In.Iii.s Mary Mc- Jjaughlln. er > oit'"a. . Seriously injured : James Fonda. mail clerk , leg broken , badly cut and bruised. H. E. Fairn , Dubuque , la. , badly cut and bruised. Mrs. Davis and son , Cascade , la. , severely cut and bruised. Mrs. Rahan was crushed to death. Conductor Martin's back is broken and he is internally injured. Mis McLaughlin's back is reported broken. The cause of the derailment is no/ / known. BLIZZARD IN GERMANY. Many Persons Reported to Have Been Frozen to Death. Reports of severe storms , snow , rain and high water on the rivers are re ceived from various points in Ger many. There has been a heavy fall of snow for several days past in South Germany and in some parts of the black forest the snow is six feet deep. There has been a heavy fall of snow on the Rhine and in the Thuringian mountains. Several cases have been reported of people losing their way in the snow and being frozen to death. Mountain villages are inaccessible. The heavy snow extends into Alsace where there is serious interruption to traffic. A hurricane-like storm , accompanied - nied by snow , is reported in the Vis tula region , where much damage ha ? been done. The Rhine was rising rapidly Fri day and gained five feet at Cologne. All tributary rivers are carrying high water , and the valleys are part ly flooded. Shipping on the . Rhine has been endangered and barge traffic on the Weser has been suspended. The emperor has dictated Prince Ratibor to proceed .to Emden and re port on the damage sustained by the government buildings and wharve ? from the storm. BATTLE ON THE ISTHMUS. Nicaraguans Win After Six Hours' of Hard Fighting. The Nicaraguan forces on Feb. 20 captured without opposition the town of ] El Triunfo , in Honduras , and Thursday , after six hours of har < 3 fighting , the Nicaraguan army occu pied San Bernardo , an excellent posi tion , owing to the fact that it is in communication by land and water with the Nicaraguan base of operations. Many Hondurans were killed and t wounded , and the retreating army left r quantities of ammunition and many rifles on the field. The casualties on o the Nicaraugan side were .a fe\v , , b - - wounded. a DARING TRIP IN BALLOON. ii London < Woman Sails Across the Eng lish Channel. The Hon. Mrs. Harbord , of London , has made a daring and successful bal - loon trip across the channel. The as cent was made at Chelsea Thursday laS night. Mrs. Harbord was accompa T nied by C. F. Pollock , of the Aero club , tl tlw rhe balloon crossed the channel in the w neighborhood of Calais and descended jtP 9:30 : o'cloclc Friday morning at P Stavelot , Belgium , in the midst of a 5,1 violent snow storm. Mrs. Harbord is the second woman to cross the chan- R lei in a balloon. Best "Twin" Sullivan. Harry Lewis , of Philadelphia , re- irE eived the decision over Mike "Twin" E. Sullivan , of Boston , , in a ten-round IK jout in Denver , Colo. Lewis was f ir stronger and had much the better of he early rounds , but Sullivan came ri ack strong later , not sufficiently , , ribl aowever , to gain him a draw. ri in inw Will Fight 2-Ccnt Fare. w It was officially announced a't the dc fiice of President McCrea , of the Pennsylvania Railroad company , that Pennsylvania railroad would do all its power to prevent the passage of w 2-cent fare bill by the legislature ar Pennsylvania. se Pi Primary Law in Kansas. P The Fitzpatrick primary election CO ill , amended so as to prohibit the is- CODi luance ; of free passes to delegates to Di onventions : by railroads , was passpd ; the senate late Friday by a vote of co : to 16. niBit Bit Orders All Cows Inspected. lis The city'board of health of Terre laute , Ind. , has ordered the inspec- ion of every cow contributing to the nilk supply of the city , because the ap oed inspector says tuberculosis is su resent in dairies. gr Dunne is Sure to Win. According to the latest returns from Democratic primatries held Thurs- the renomination of Mayor Dunne an the convention in Chicago is assur- be Of the total of 987 delegates 557 pledged to Dunne. She Gives Birth to Five. Mrs. Zabrowski , wife of a Polish liner at Fork Ridge , Ky. , gave birtli five children , three girls and two tin t I1H oys , Friday. All the children are " cin wcl\ , x I ' * j j i a HIS STORY IN LECTUHE. JJer. Mr. Hunt , Co-Respondent In vorce Suit , to Make Defense. The court room was orowdefl day when the BassQtt divorcn trial was called in Omaha , it having become kn-iv/n that Rev. E. Lawrence Hunt , of Brooklyn , co-respondent in the Washington trial , was to testify. Nothing of a sensational character was brought out , however. Mr. Hunt told of instances of Bassett's bad tem per J and of his cursing his wife. He corroborated Mrs ? Bassett's testimony in many particulars. Mrs. Bassett was under cross ex amination for some time , and although she maintained her self-control at one time she asked to be allowed to rest , and had to be assisted into the judge's private room. She soon recovered , however Rev. E. Lawrence Hunt will tell his side of the story in a lecture which he will deliver Sunday afternoon at the Lyric theater. Incidentally he hopes to raise money to assist in defraying the expenses of an appeal from the Washington decision. UPHOLDS RAILWAY BOAD. State Supreme Court Sustains New Law in Nebraska. The Nebraska supreme court in an opinion handed down declares valid the amendment to the state constitu tion adopted by the voters at the last election providing for the creation of a railway commission of three mem bers. The opinion enables the com mission to begin work immediately. The three members of the commission will have supervision over railway affairs in Nebraska. The validity of the amendment was attacked by the attorney general and made a test case. The . fate of a number of bills pending in the legislature -was contingent on the constitutionality of the railroad commission. WATERS RECEDE AT FREMONT. FREMONT.a families Return to Their Horaes 0:1 South Side a Second Time ? . The ice is now out of the Platte river and the water has gone out of the south part of Fremont , leaving' only a few pools in low places. Fam ilies' have gone back to their homes a second time and are again busy cleaning up. The flood last week , ac cording to old timers , almost -equalled that of 1881. Measures will undoubt edly be taken the coming summer to ward preventing any further flooding of the south side , either by erecting a strong dike along the south bank of the river or by diverting the chan nel to the south of Murphy and Haw thorne ; islands. t THREE YOUNG MEN AND A GIRL. Small Theatrical Company Taken o Custody at Virginia. The Hall-Booth-Rankin Theatrical company played a brief engagement at Virginia , because of the interference of Sheriff Trude , who went there f- ter ( Miss Pethoud , a girl who left Beat I rice : with the company without her parents' consent. All the members Po of the company , comprising three young men and Miss Pethoud , were brought to Beatrice by the officer. The 01S' girl was sent to her home at Ohiowa S'qi and the boys were released after pay qir ing the costs in the case. r w MRS. CLEVELAND SELLS OUT. Sf si Last of Her Omaha Real Estate Holdings - , ings Disposed Of. eiK Mrs. Grover Cleveland has sold the K last of her Omaha property. She has Tw sold her lot at the northwest corner of w Twenty-second and Cuming streets to tli the Expressmen's Delivery company , in which has its offices and warehouses bi just north , on Izard street. The com isK pany ; will build an office and storage K building , on its new purchase , facing scm Cuming street. The sale was made m through the Byron Reed company and Robinson & Wolf. Peculiar Accident. fe Mrs. Frank Gatzmeyer , while clean etlCl ing her shoes on the steps of thre J. Cl . Wright place ; about five miles CO northwest of Lyons , slipped and fell , a striking the back of her neck on an hi iron scraper and cutting a long , deep CO gash in a large artery. She was car ar ried into the house and the flow of it blood was stopped until a doctor ar th : rived on the scene , and but for the jOL1 immediate help Mrs. Gatzmeyer would have bled to death before the Sector arrived. ye People Want 'Phones to Coniu-ct. th The Independent Telephone com ha pany has a large force of men at work < erecting poles , both in Sterling so ind in the country , but as yet it has pa secured but few subscribers. The people su ; ple are anxious for a state law com pelling the numerous companies to connect with each other. drunken Man Smashes Bank Window , j of > Alex Babb , a laborer employed at he stone crusher at Wymore , created ut onsiderable excitement Thursday j ; et light by crushing in a large plate j Of jlass at the Wymore State bank with : fist while intoxicated. Welch Succeeds Goyd. Tu A. A. Welch , of Wayne , has been be > ippointed by Governor Shenrlon to Ly iucceed Judge Boyd , elected to con otl gress. fca1 Faithful Employe Promoted. _ E. E. Grimes , whose home is in Beatrice and who has been employed to vlth the Burlington road at Omaha to ind Lincoln for several years , has to een promoted from rate clerk in the tie ! ifflce of J. J. Cox to the position of Ho raveling freight agent , with heau- luarters at Lincoln. No Conversion in Three for Three weeks' revival meetings at am First Christian church of Blue sal , closed Sunday evening without a otr ingle conversion having teen inal : ' j ; BURGLAR ALARM SAVES BAXK. Gongs Ring When Bobbers Dial from Safe and They Ruii An unsuccessful attepipt was &a.e > to rob the Farmers State bank of Central - . tral City at an eaf'lV hour Tuesday J morning. . .ibout 1:15 the night watchman was held up by two masked men a block distant from the bank. He was told to come with them and make no disturbance and they would not harm him. Arriving at the bank , the door of which had been previously opened by other member of the gang , the watchman was taken to the bank par lor , blindfolded and securely bound , hands and feet , to a chair. The rob bers then proceeded to gain .entrance to the vault with a sledge hammer and they knocked the dial off the door. The bank is protected by an American - ican bank protection burglar alarm. When the dial was broken connection was made and the alarms turned loose. The burglars lost no time in getting There were four in the party. They stole a handcar and headed for Grand Island. Near Chapman the car was ditched. The alarm aroused parties sleeping near tb-5 bank , who got busy with the telephone. When the bank officials ar rived they found the night watchman securely bound. The burglars' de parture was so sudden that they left their tools. Evidently the burglars were not aware of the fact that the bank was provided with a burglar alarm or they expected to cut the connections. The Knights of Pythias were cele brating their anniversary but three doors away and had left their hall less than thirty minutes before the at tempted burglary. In fact , the cash ier of the bank , who was on his way home from the lodge rooms , met the two men who held up the night watchman on the corner but a few minutes before the holdup.- There Is no question but what the alarm saved the bank. CEMEXT FACTORY FOR PERU. Prof. Duncojisou Thinks Prof. Bar bour Has Estimated Correctly. At his recent visit , Prof. E. H. Bar- bour , of the state university , suggest ed that the shale overlying the coal vein at the Peru mine could be used together with the limestone bed to the westward for the purpose of making a fine quality of cement. He said that the coal would furnish all the fuel needed. Following his suggestions a company of local capitalists has been temporarily organized to look into the advisability of establishing such a fac tory ( , and steps are being taken which will insure the establshment of the wfi factory in case the materials at hand fiP prove all that is reported by the state geologist. Prof. Duncanson , who ac sib companied Prof. Barbour , thinks Prof. b ClB Barbour has been very conservative in IT hisestimates of the local resources in is the vicinity of the mine. tlI rr HORSE'S ] LEG IN PLASTER CAST. lo Eustis Surgeon Attempts to Save Ani tih mal Maimed in Runway. h A team driven by Harry Schroeder , tiw of near Eustis , became unmanageable w Sunday night and after a run of a 01 01a quarter of a mile crashed into the a rear of a spring wagon in which there n were four children and a barrel of salt. Nobody was injured beyond a shaking up. Pi One of the horses sustained a broken er erki ei leg. The owner of the team , Clyde ki Klingman , secured the services of Dr. bi Weideranders , physician and surgeon , le who reduced the fracture and encased th thm the leg in a plaster of paris cast. The m injured leg is protected by an iron be brace. The outcome of the opqration th being watched with interest , as Mr. w Klingman is the first person in this w section to try to save a horse in thid th manner. de deW U. S. vs. James Clifton. ne There is a case at Osceola on the federal court docket entitled the Unit- States against James Clifton. Mr. is isev Clifton lives in Platte precinct in Polk ev 2ounty , and it is alleged that he sent lo postal card through the mail that ra liad words written onto it that were fo or.trary to law. Witnesses were ex- de imined as to Slifton's character , and an was shown so good that it is of hought Uncle So.m can be knocked ve jut easily. a th ar OI ( ] = ? t Practitioner Is Dead. bil Dr. W. P. Schildknecht , aged 70 ears , parsed away Thursday. He was he oldest practitioner in this state , to laving followed his profession since se iSGl. He was a member of the Ma- wi ionic lodge and the Methodist Episco- or al church. A wife and two children urvive him. by > Much Corn Going to Waste. afl Owing to lack of cribs in which to sui tore rorn many thousands of bushels in corn are going to waste around pr Justis. Elevators are filled to their itmcst : capacity and grain men cannot car * to move the enormous output . corn. .me foi Hack , from Mexico. .nd N. P. Sorensen arrived in Lyons bu Tuesday from Mexico , where he has een for icur months assisting W. H. -yon , of Lyons , who is interested with att ther Lyons parties in erecting a large un aw mill. ral Y.'omrn Win in Nebraska. The senate adopted a joint memorial be1 congress in favor of an amendment , soi the constitution permitting women do- vote. The vote on adoption was a hej 1C to 16 Lieutenant Governor tin Lopewell deciding in its favor. at atPo Po Big Prices for Fancy Hogs. the Several hcg sales were held to dif- irent parts of Clay county l.ast week ! large prices were paid. At one .the , a sow brought 31,500. At anther a c ther sale the prices averaged a little lor 7-- . - * ' - a.c'-licr yTo. is Except that it Is working more un * the state capital der cover , the lobby at tal this winter is not different from that which preyed upon members ot --vim ? legislatures. A legislator M : , , . -nted on the lobby al f- ' . - Ii. ih * . ? Id days the unsuspecting - latcr 'las been sv/ervcd from his p t . -f duty liy a s-mplc process o > T ola : K- mai ! . If'he could be iifl-3/sc-d * r skirt on liquor these the rustle of a were readily furnished him. Directly , they were not from th ? 1 ilibyists. so far as the legislator knew , but when the member became too independent in his voting he was soon informed that the lobbyist knew wherein he had erred. He was threatened with ex posure. A mere threat was general sufficient to scare the obstreperouJ member into line to do tlv-i ing of the lobby. It is very evident the samtf schemes are being worked on thj legislature , but it is doubtful if it will be j ' successful in many instances , be" cause the members of the legislature are men who know the world , and 1J any one of them has gone wrong and is the clutches of one of these humarf vultures , he knows or could ascertain that the lobbyist is in tlie same boaf and for the lobbyist to threaten him with exposure is a case of blackmail punishable by a term in tfie state pen tentiary. Besides that , there are meg in Lincoln , probably , who know tha records of the lobbyists , which wljj also serve as a check on them trying to influence any member bj- holding over his head a threat of exposure. * * * Now that the heat of the conflict has died out and the member of tllf legislature have begun to study tK j 2-cent flat rate bills passed by th | senate and recommended for passagrtj in the house , the real worth of the bid is being looked into. The senate biy porvides that any railroad violating the provisions of the act shall "forfe nd pay for each offense" so mucfe' - oney into the public school fund qi the county is which the forfeiture lj ! imposed. This is the same penalty iie exacted under the old law. It has nev er been tested in the courts because the railroads did not try to .evade it. Should the railroads refuse to put the law 1 into effect the question has been raised how would the officers go about making them do it. Attention has beer } called to the fact that the section does not even provide that a violation of the ] provision Is a misdemeanor. Tha question has been asked how the state could arrest the corporation and make it forfeit so much money underthe _ . . itsi -ii statute. There are a number of women hang , ing around Lincoln , who have no rea son , so far as the public knows , for be ing there , and some of the "wise * * members of the legislature are of the opinion they make reports to thosa members of the lobby who influencg legislation by blackmail. That sucli lek lobbying will not bear fruit at this ses sion seems certain , because the mem bers have shown themselves to bq more independent than the usual leg islator , and the moral standing of the individual members has been com mented on very favorably by visitor tc Lincoln. In the past , as now , the lobby which practices this kind of vul ture work is composed of those wh0 have ; in contemplation the introduc tion of holdup bills or those who ara willing to sell the vote of the members on whom they have their clutches fo stipulated price to some one whd needs < it. * * * Incidentally the Burlington lobby prevailed upon a large number of tha employes of the road to sign a petitiojjl knocking on the employers' liability bill introduced by Gibson and McMul- len. A friend of the bill went through the shops and explained the bill to th | men who signed it , and a great nunv * ber offered their names stricken from the petition. The petition showed up with : a little check mark after thosd who : wanted their names taken off , but they are not scratched off as the men , desired. It is just an example of tha way ! the Burlington lobby does busi ness. , * * * Burlington Lobbyist Frank Young getting bolder in his1 old age , and h < J iven had the audacity to come to the lobby ; of the house and peer over the railing for a moment. But it was only "or a moment. He saw one of his un- lerstudies , whispered a word to him , md then departed. The appearanca this obstructer of just legislation faj -ery liable to result in the adoption of very radical anti-lobby resolution oi house , and some of the member ! beginning to discuss the practica lity of such a move. * * * Mrs. Hoxie is not so sure she wants have her old claim cut down about , ieven-eighths , and she is not going to vithout giving these legislators a run their money. Thursday the littla voman , who has been content to sff iround and watch Ed Sizer do the lob- ying buckled on her armor and went tfter the men worse than a womaij uffrage advocate. She cornered them' all parts of the chamber and it itf robable < only the lucky ones escaped. * * ' The appropriation committee has .bout decided there will not be enougS noney to give Kearney the $100,00d the addition to the noraml schooj it may not get . a. cent for new- uildings. * * * The bill to place the powers of th .ttorney of the railroad commlssiSS inder the control of the attorney g- was defeated by a vote of 42 to * * * The claims committee took up tn ewhlskered claim of Mrs. Hoxie for omething over $3,000 and trimmed A own to some $700. This is payin | at the rate of $25 a month for thi ime she is alleged to have worked' the Kearney Industrial William Coryell , who was not claim for ' expenses Incurred in com to Lincoln to flghtjTor the place.