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. Dover , Eng. , experienced the keen-
. , est thrill known in a generation , when
" . ' . , at sunrise Sunday morning a white
' 'J" ; . ' , winged < 1 , bird-like machine , with loud-
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; . alighted on English soil. A French-
man Louis Bleriot , portly and red
moustached calmly descended from
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which had been burned in his previous
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tri-colored flag as a signal for the <
landing place , fell upon him , enthu-
siastically embracing and pounding
him on the back. They , with a few
, soldiers and others who happened to
. -chance on the scene , were the only
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- ' -a remarkable feat.
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miles from Calais , about 4:30 a. m. on
one of the smallest monoplanes ever
used. He crossed the channel in a
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speed averaged more than forty-five
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I mated sixty miles. He kept about 250 (
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feet above the sea level and for ten
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aboard. The wind was blowing about
twenty miles an hour and the sea was
shoppy. The aviator was swathed with
a single garment of drilling impervious
to the wind which covered him from
the top of his head to his feet , only
his face shoxvJng. He wore also a cork
life saving belt.
By his achievement Bleriot won the
prize of S5.0QO offered by the London
Daily Mail for the first flight across the
. English channel and , stole a march on
his rivals , Hubert Latham and Count
, de Lambert both of whom had hoped
to make the attempt.
DEATHS NUMBER FORTY-ONE.
Six Persons Yet Unaccounted , in
TdTas : : Hurricane.
With definite reports Saturday of
thirteen deaths not heretofore record
record-
I hurricane which swept por-
I tions Texas and Louisiana last Wed
J 1 nesday , the death list Saturday night
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I totaled forty-one , with six
persons pre-
I ; viously reported missing still unac-
{ counted for.
Il n Dispatches Saturday from An geIton ,
M TeX' ; , confirmed the reports that Mau-
II j ! rice P " Wolfe his wife , six children
, 9 ! tmd a negro ssrvant had been drowned
h , 1 at Christmas bayou.
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1 K. Glasscock , who died at Angleton
, . Tex. , from skock and exposure , and
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, I lost his life near : Angelton. His body
I , lias not been found. Rock Island
1 ; Tex. , swelled the list to thirteen late
: I + Saturday with : the deaths of John Fin-
i I ley aid David Jarvis , armors , who
\ i,1 'J lost their lives when their homes were
1 y 'JJ J - wrecked. Thaze still missing are :
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ti fcert of Creofe ' , La. , and four members
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to sea from Quintantate.
N , Tex. Practically : all hope for the res-
N cue of Mr Daily has been abandoned.
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\ er Tuscany info port at New York Sat-
f , c "t , urday a shot vras heard in the officers'
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( i his head and a .smoking revolver be.
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Announcement of a proposed line of
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f , 1 i , oC . made Saturday ; by Gen. Carlos Garcia
, I { i "Velex , Cuban minister ; to the United
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! i ! ' - Francis 1.fan.the Italians , Francisco
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Amazing Tales Told Before the Grand
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An astounding story of graft in the <
EO-calle4 west side Invee l of Chicagi
is said to have been , related to the <
grand jury Friday.
Detective Sergeant Jeremiah Grif- :
fin , alleged to have been the recipient
of protection money from dive keep- II
ers , gamblers and cocaine sellers , was :
indicted on eight counts. He is alleged i +
to have garnered as high as $9,000 a
month , a very small part of which re-
mained in his own pocket. In al
Griffin , who travels out , of the Des
Plaines street station headquarters of
Inspector McCann , is said to have col
lected . $150,000 from denizens of the
under world on the west side.
Indictments were returned against
Lewis Frank , saloonkeeper and politi-
cian , who is said to have accumulated
a fortune of $1,000,000 in the levee <
district , and against Michael Heitler ,
who is familiarly known as "Mike ,
, the Pike. " They are alleged to have <
collected money from illegal houses ;
by representing themselves as agents :
of the police. Testimony against Grif-
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fin was given by Charles Tanker , a
levee proprietor , commonly known , as
"Monkey Charlie. " Norris Schatz , who
is said to conduct an illegnl establish-
ment at 108 Peoria street , appears on
the indictment as complainant. Four
'detectives also gave testimony. One <
witness charged that the price of pro-
tection recently rose from $20 to $40 (
a month , and that he was compelled
to quit business on account of the ex
pense.
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tenccd.
Madarlal Hinagari , the Indian stu-
dent , who on the night of July 1 , at
the conclusion of a public gathering
at the Imperial institute , shot and
killed Lieut. Col. Sir William Hutt !
urzon Wyllie and Dr. Cawas Lal-
caca , was Friday , in London , found
guilty and sentenced to death at the
conclusion of a trial of less than an
hour's duration.
During the recital of the occurrence
at the Imperial institute on the night
of the tragedy the prisoner sat in the
dock listening unconcernedly , and
only once broke his silence by saying :
"Whatever I did was an act of patriot-
ism. "
A. F. Hossley , printer of the Indian
Sociologist , who was recently arrest-
ed on the charge of publishing a sedi-
tigus newspaper the avowed object of
which was to "support the Indian na
tionalist movement for the liberation
of India from oppressive alien rule by
the use of physical force , " Friday
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
four months' imprisonment.
HOT SPRINGS MURDER. : :
Twenty Suspects Arc Held by the Po
lice.
Although twenty suspects have
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been arrested and are held by the po-
lice at Hot Springs , Ark. , the mystery
which surrounds the murder of Mrs. :
Amos P. Dorrance , wife of a wealthy
coal dealer of Helena Mont. , is ap
parently becoming deeper. ,
Mrs. Dorrance was shot and killed
in her room in the Parker hotel at
Hot Springs , Thursday , while her in-
valid husband lay helpless on the bed.
He is still prostrated and is not able
to throw any light on the crime.
The police found a coat and straw
hat. which they , believe belonged to
the , murderer , on the doorsteps of the
house adjoining the hotel.
A New York man identified the coat
and hat as his own , stating to the
police that they were stolen from him
on the night of the murder. He was
detained by the authorities for a short
time and then released.
$20,000.000 Terminal Depot.
Affirmative action was taken in Chi-
cago Thursday by the directors of the
Kansas City Depot company accepting
without change the Kansas City coun-
cil ordinance providing for the erec-
tion of a new $20,000,000 terminal de-
pot for railroads entering Kansas City
subject to a referendum vote of the
citizens of the municipality.
Public Naval Fund.
The committee in charge of the
Russian naval fund collected during
the Russo-Japanese war by popular
ubscription has decided to construct
with the remainder of the fund a tor-
pedo cruiser with a speed of 36 knots
and a submarine boat. The total
mount f of money collected was $8-
50.000 . and nineteen ships were built.
Shot in Sham Battle ; Dies.
During a sham battle in the Alaska-
'ukon-Pacific exposition stadium
Thursday between 100 members of the
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equal number of state militiamen , Jo- \
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seph Morhinway of Everett , Wash. , r.
one of the Red Men , was shot and '
killed.
Fargo Rejects Plan.
Fargo , N. D. , rejected the commis-
, . on form of government Friday by
99 ) majority.
Needle Kills Doctor's Wife.
Blood poisoning , resulting from a
needle prick , caused the death of Mrs. (
manada E. Anderson , of South Bend , i .
Ind. She was the wife of Dr. Warner 1
W. Anderson , a practicing physician. r
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Robbers Wreck Depot.
Robbers early Friday dynamited the
MIssouri Kansas and Texas
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safe at Mineral , Kan. , wrecking the 1
depot and escaping with $500. "
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Human Toll Outside of Galveston it
Tti 'eh'e.
The West Indian hurricane which
swept from one end of the Texas gulf
coast to the other Wednesday claimed
a toll of twelve human lives outside of
Galveston , fatally injured four oth
ers and seriously wounded sixteen " ac -
cording to the details of the storm
available in Houston , Tex. , Thursday
night. Whole towns were devastated
and the wreck and ruin to property
will amount to hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
Some of the towns along or near the
Texas coast where it is feared great
damage may have been done , but
from which nothing yet has been
heard , are Lavaca , Indianola , Rock-
port , Golcad , Victoria , Columbia , Ed-
ena and Matagorda.
In Louisiana points in Cameron
parish are reported to have suffered
severely from the hurricane.
At Bay City about 50 per cent of the
business section was damaged , includ-
ing the opera house , one bank : , the
courthouse , the new high school build-
ing and the city jail. In the jail the
cages were left standing and , the pris-
oners were exposed to view , but were
safe. Every building in Velasco near
Bay City was unroofed or practically
demolished and the town is under four
feet of water.
Eagle Lake seems to have suffered
on a parity with Bay City. But few
houses there escaped the fury of the
storm. The same situation is reported
from Lissie , Nowatta and East Ber-
nard , though there were no fatalities.
Corn fields were leveled , but cotton
withstood the storm well.
At El Campo the electric light plrnt
is wrecked , all elevators are badly
damaged and almost every church in
town is demolished or partly wrecked.
In the oil field around Marshall der-
ricks were blown down and wells
stripped of machinery.
BODY FOUND IN TRUNK. :
Gruesome Discovery in Lodging House
at Lynn , Mass.
A body , believed to be that of an
Armenian , was found in a trunk in a
lodging house at 148 Liberty street ,
Lynn , Mass. , Thursday. , The head
was mutilated and there was a bullet
wound over the heart. The body was
fully clothed and in a pocket a bank
book was found bearing the name of
: Minas K. Morijian. The room was
rented eight weeks ago by Frank
Jones , a shoe factory worker , who , it
is said , had not occupied it recently.
The body was discovered by Mrs.
Bessie Rollins , the lodging house
keeper , and her husband. On May 30
a new trunk was brought to the house
for Jones.
Mrs. Rollins said that there never
had been any disturbance in the room
and that nothingever had been no-
ticed there to arouse suspicion. ,
In the bank book : was a note which
read :
"If anything happens to me notify
L. B. Adams. 388 Center street , Ja
maica Plains. "
PROGRESS ON CANAL.
York Going Forward Rapidly All
Along the Line.
Substantial progress in canal con-
struction all along the line is shown by
reports coming to Washington of-
fice of the Isthmian Canal company.
Excavation work approximates 80-
000,000 cubic yards , almost as much
as the total quantity of dirt taken out
by the French during the period they
were engaged in operations there. Less
than 100,000,000 cubic yards of earth
remain to be removed from the ditch.
Col. Goethals has estimated that the
great waterway will be ready for the
transit of ships by January 1 , 1915. ,
Four hundred and eighty concrete
monoliths had been laid when the
north section of the floor of the great
Gatun dam spillway was completed
recently. Thirty thousand cubic
yards of concrete were used in this sec-
tion , each monolith being thirty feet
long and twenty feet wide. The sec-
tion , which is one of three necessary to
complete the spillway , is 9GO ' feet long1
and 300 feet wide.
Suspect is Arrested.
James Robinson. believed by the
police to be J. L. Byrd , wanted for the
murder of Joseph Block at Memphis ,
Tenn . in 1907 , was arrested in Den-
ver , Colo. , Thursday. Robinson , who
came there from San Francisco some
months ago , was married two weeks
ago at Colorado Springs to a southern
girl. Robinson denies that he is Byrd.
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Renounces Rights to Throne.
Prince Miguel , of Braganza , eldest
son of Duke Michael , the pretender to
the Portugene throne , Friday re-
nounced forever his rights to the
throne of Portugal in order to marry
Miss Anita Stewart daughter of Mrs.
James Henry Smith , of New York.
Receivership is Lifted.
On order of Judge Lurton in the
United States appellate court the re-
Ivership of the Cincinnati , Hamilton
and Dayton Railway company was
lifted Tuesday. Judson Harmon , as
jeiver , is relieved of duty.
Harry Orchard Baptized.
Harry Orchard , murderer of former
Gov. Steunenberg , of Idaho , accord-
.ng to his confession , was baptized at
he : penitentiary at Boise , Thursday.
rhe service was read by a Seventh
Day Adventist.
More Land for Settlers. ,
Approximately 906,000 acres of land
n Wyoming were Thursday designated
by Acting Secretary Pearce as coming
lithin the I enlarged . homestead act.
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FENDER JHT BY FIRE.
Five Buildings Burned , Entailing Loss :
of $ 10000.
Five store buildings were- destroyed
at Pender in a fire which broke out
Wednesday night , causing . a loss of <
from $35,000 to $40,000. The fire
broke out in the warehouse of the
Fred Xash harness s-'tore , and fanned
by a high wind ; the flames gained rap-
id headway. The burned buildings
were :
Murray & Son , boots shoes and
gents' furnishings ; loss , $6,500 ; insur-
ance , $4,000. Building owned by John
King valued at $2,500 , insurance $801 .
L. "W. Fansler , grocery store ; loss
-700 , no insurance. Building owned
by Mrs. EIsinger ; loss $1,200 , insur-
ance $500.
Fred Xash , harness store ; loss $8-
000 , insurance ' $2,500. Building owned
by Nick Fritz and valued at $2,500 ( ,
insurance $1,000. Books containing
accounts amounting $3,000 were al-
so destroyed.
Wachter Hardware company imple .
ment warehouse ; loss about $5,000 or' '
$6,000 , , insured. Building owned by' ; '
John A. Wachter and valued at $2,500 , i
insured.
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. .Frame building , owned by Henry ;
McHirro'n and occupied by W. X. Bell ,
carpenter ; loss $2,000 , partially in-
sured.
Barn on old Maryott place ; loss
$300. .
JUMPS INTO FIiATTE . . RIVER.
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Minnesota "Woman Ends Life W1U1 ' <
Visiting at Kearney.
Mrs. L. N. Mills , Winona , Minn ,
who has been visiting with her da\ , gh
ter , Mrs. St. John , at Kearney , com
mitted suicide by jumping into the <
Platte river. Mrs. Fills , who has been
suffering from mental trouble , in com.
pany with a party of ladies was cross-
ing a long bridge in a buggy , and with-
out warning sprang into the river. Her
lifeless body was recovered a quarter
of a mile down the stream. The fam-
ily is prominent.
OMAJIA : : PAPER IS SUED. .
Action is for Ten Thousand Dollars for .
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Libel. ' ;
A libel suit for $10,006 has been .
brought against the Omaha Bee by A. .
C. Anderson , manager of the Hutton .
Loan company. A few nights ago
robbers entered the company's offices ,
bound and gagged the manager and I
took $300 from the safe. A couple of
days later the Bee published a story
to the effect that the manager perhaps
knew more about the robbery than he
cared to tell. .
McCook Women Bound Over.
Finnic Brown and Grace LeRoy ,
two keepers of houses of disrepute at
McCook : , were given a preliminary
hearing on a charge of keeping and
selling intoxicating liquors unlawfully.
The judge held the women to , the next
term of district court , placing the
bond in each case at $1,000. The
women gave bond and were released.
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Premium Statute Void.
Judge Stewart , of the district court
at Lincoln , held null and void the
statute which prohibited the placing
of premiums in food packages. J. R.
Burleigh , ' a merchant of Lincoln , was
arrested for selling food packages in
which there was a slip which entitled
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the buyer to a book. The court held
such a statute was unconstitutional I
and the merchant was discharged.
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Johnny Bender to C < > aeh. I
Johnny Bender is coming to Xe-
braska and this fall he will coach the
football squad of the University of
Nebraska. John R. Bender will be I
remembered as the famous ex-football
star of the university and once ' catcher
for the Omaha Western league base-
ball team.
Boldenow Case Unsolved.
Nearly six weeks have passed since
the mysterious murder or suicide of
Ella Boldenow , the 16-year-old daugh-
ter of H. F. Boldenow , took place and ,
although the county authorities at
Sloomfield have worked hard to clear
the mystery , not the slightest clue has
been discovered.
Missouri Pacific Collision. I
Two unidentified tramps stealing a
ride in a lumber car were killed ,
Brakeman Huffman fatally injured ,
Conductor Baker seriously hurt and
three passengers received minor in-
juries in a head-on collision between
two Missouri Pacific freight trains
near Howe Thursday.
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South Omaha Winner. ,
The comptroller of the currency
Thursday announced the selection of
outh Omaha , as a reserve city for
the deposit of government funds. The
selection ends a long contest for the
honor between Omaha and South
niaha.
Dies After Harvesting.
.7. T. Lambson , formerly superin-
indent of public instruction in Har-
lan county , died suddenly near Or-
leans. : He had been working in the
harvest field.
Young Man Drowned.
A young man by the names of W. B.
Harding was drowned in Logan creek
at t Lyons. He had swam the creek
and was returning when he went down.
without a cry of distress.
Defy a Prosecution.
Nebraska millers have thrown down
the glove and have defied the United
States government to prosecute them
for manufacturing and selling bleach-
ed flour in violation of the order of
Secretary Wilson.
New Principal for Lincoln.
E. W Blackhurst , principal of the
high school at Racine , Wis. , has ask-
ed l to be released in order that he may
accept : a similar position at Lincoln ,
thIs state.
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Court Refuses to Grant Order of BJsl
op Bonacum.
The injunction case of Bishop Bona-
cum of the Catholic diocese of Lin-
coin against , Father Murphy came up
in the district court at Seward Tues- :
day. That tribunal refused to make
permanent the restraining order
against Father Murphy which was
made as a result of the bishop recent-
ly attempting to take : charge of the
Ulysses church. The court declared It :
had no power to restrain Father Iur-
phy from performing duties pertaining
to his calling , and refused to make
permanent the restraining order issued
against the priest. The result of the
court's action leaves Father Murph
in charge of the church at Ulysses.
and he stated that he would say mass
in the edifice Sunday morning.rhat
further action Bishop Bonacum will
take was not stated.
TAXPAYERS SCORE EXTENSION
Tlitcrtoli Couuly [ Residents Do No
fake : Addition to All meat.
The extension of ten years : in the
trust period-of the Omaha allotment
has caused no little disappointment
among taxpayers of Thurston county :
Most of the allottees , they say are liv-
ing in idleness and luxury from the <
increase of their lands which are ex- '
empt from taxation. These lands hav <
become valuable" " under the cultivation'
I by the white people. The rents each
year are increasing varying from $ 2.
to $7 per aci e , with no improvements
on the land except what is put then ;
by the renters in most cases. Taxe ;
upon these lands are needed foi .
schools and public highways all of
which are in bad condition. Residents '
of Thurston county are severe in their
criticism of representatives in con-
gress in permitting this extension.
They say it means retrogression to In-
dians as well as the white man.
KANSAS : SHERIFF TO JAIL.
Stringent Measures : : Taken : with Officer ,
at Nebraska City. I
Sheriff F. M. Monaugh , of Stockton , , I
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day night having in charge James
Rankin , an insane man , and attempted
to turn him over to Sheriff Fischer ,
claiming that he was a charge belong-
ing to Otoe county. The officer re-
fused to accept the prisoner , and when
the Kansas sheriff attempted to leave I
without taking his prisoner with him i
he was arrested and placed in jail ,
being unable to give bail. He is
charged with attempting to dump a
pauper on Otoe county. Young Ran-
kin and his mother were former resi-
dents of Otoe county and he was sent
up to the insane asylum in 1907 but
paroled in 1908 , and went to Kansas
with his mother to make their home
Mrs. Rankin owning some land in the
vicinity of Stockton.
SHOOTS INTO A CROWD.
Colorado Man : Kills : a Negro in an
Omaha Saloon. . I
A names giving the name of Jess
Smith , of Trinidad Colo. , Monday
night fired five revolver shots into a
crowd in a saloon at Tenth and Doug-
las streets , Omaha , killing James
Robbins , a colored piano player , seri
ously injuring James F. McGinnity , a
ystander , and slightly wounding an
unknown man.
Smith had been ejected from the sa-
loon for threatening the bartender and
returned with a gun to "clean out"
the place. He was captured and
placed in jail.
RICH FARMER ENDS LIFE.
Shoots and Kills Himself in Railroaa
Yards at Ho ! < lregc.
Sam Larue , a wealthy farmer living
near Ingham shot and killed himself
in the railroad yards at Holdrege
Tuesday afternoon. He was on his
r.iy home from Omaha , where he had
sold two carloads of fat steers. It is
: nown that he received over $2,000
for the stock , but when the body was
taken over by the coroner but $9
were found. It is supposed that he lost
his money and that this brought on
sudden insanity. Larue's father died
in the insane asylum at Hastings.
Fierce Fight at Fremont.
Frank Stratton , who came to Fre ,
mont with some race horses , was sen-
tenced to ninety days in the county
jail for assaulting William Lewis , a
fellow employe , and kicking him in
the right eye and mouth. Lewis had
most of his upper teeth knocked out ,
a bad cut in the mouth , one eye closed
and perhaps seriously injured , and it
took > a surgeon some time to get him
fixed up to appear in justice court.
Beer Must : : Be Labeled.
It is not unlawful for a saloonkeeper
of Havelock to deliver beer in Lincoln
providing the beer has been bought
and paid for in Havelock and every
case labelled with the name of the .
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consIgnee. It is unlawful for a saloon-
keeper to send in beer on a wagon
unless each case is labelled with the
name of the consignee. That is the
decision of Judge Risser , of the Lin-
coln police court in . the case against
the three Havelock salpon men.
Waterworks for Beaver.
Waterworks extension bonds car-
ried in Beaver City by 18 majority.
Municipal Ownership Pays.
That Grand Island's municipally
Dwned and operated water and lIght-
Ing plant has paid well is the sub-
stance of a report made to the mayor
LDd , council by an expert accountant
\ \ ' 10 has just completed a thorough
ecking : up of the light and water
mmissioner's : office.
Change in Telegraph Office.
J. G. Wolf , for a number of years
manager of the Postal Telegraph com-
pany in Lincoln , will become manager
of the Omaha office August 1.
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TARIff FIST BE lOWER
IS TAfT'S ' ULTIMATUM
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President Tells Standpatters He In
. tends to See That Downward
Revision Wins. ,
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STATEMENT AS THREAT OF VETO
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Executive Meets Arguments of Con
gressmen by Declaring Party
Pledges Shall Be : Kept.
President Taft clarified the tariff
situation Friday by issuing his first
formal statement on the subject. This
statement , made after a conference
with twenty-two Republican and one
Democratic representative who d , : - - „
manded a high protective tariff fol-
lows :
" ) ,11' . Young of Michigan opposed
free ore ; Mr. Mono"ell : opposed free +
coal or reciprocity with Canada and
free hides ; each on the ground that
the policy would injure the interests
in his State , and a discussion was par
ticipated in by other representatives ,
who urged that the doctrine of free
raw materials was not a Republican
doctrine.
"The President replied that he was
not committed to the principle of free
raw materials , but that he was com I
mitted to the principle of a downward
revision of the tariff which he had
promised , and that he was obliged to
look at the matter not from the
standpoint of any particular district ,
but from the standpoint of the whole
country , and also from the standpoint
of responsibility for the entire Re
publican party.
"He said the question ; in each case
was a question of fact , to be deter-
mined by evidence as to whether the
present duty was needed for proteo-
tion or whether the rates was exces-
sive , so that a downward revision , or
putting the article on the free list ,
would not Injure the Industry.
Taft Defines the Issues.
"He repeated the platform of $ .m
Republican party and said that h
had always understood that it meant '
a downward revision in many In-
stances , though perhaps ! In some few
Instances an increase might be need
ed ; that he reached this construction
of the platform on what he under
stood to be the principle of protection
and its justification - namely , that
after an Industry was protected by a
duty equal to the difference between
the ; cost of production In this country ,
IncludIng a fair profit to the manu-
apturer , the energy and enterprise of
American business men and capital-
sts , the effectiveness of American
labor and the ingenuity of American
inventors under the impulse of compe- - S '
itlon behind the tariff wall would// '
reduce the cost of production , and '
that , with the reduction in the cos
of production , the tariff rate woum
become unnecessarily high and ought
to be reduced.
"This was the normal operation of
the tariff as claimed by the defenders
of the protective system-not in every
case , but as a general rule-that of
course a revision of the tariff could
not be perfect , must have defects and
Inconsistencies , but in so far as his
Influence w ' : : : nt when called upon to
act in connection with legislation It
would be thrown In the direction of
erforming the promises of the party
as he understood them ; and that If
.ron ore and oil and coal and hides
did not need protection and the con-
dItions were such as to enable the ore
producers and the oil producers and
thQ coal producers and the producers
of 1 hides to compete successfully { with-
out reduction of wages with the pro-
ducers from abroad , then they did not
need a duty and their articles should
go on the free list.
"It was a question of fact which ho
hoped to make up his mind with re- *
spect to , on such evidence as was
available to him In order to carry oi _ .
what he understood to be the prom-
Ises of the party to the whole people.
He said ! he felt that his position as
the titular head of the Republican
party and as ! President , with the
whole people as his constituency , gave
him a somewhat broader . . . . '
point of .IeiY'
than that of a single member of Con-
gress in respect to articles produced
In his district. He felt strongly the
call of the country for a downward
revision within the limitations of the
protective principle , and he hoped to
be able to respond to that call as he
heard it , as well In the interests of
the party as of the country. "
LAND FILING TN WASHINGTON"
( ) 0,000 Applications Expected for 3
Indian Reservations In "West.
Twenty-five thousand men and worn-
en are expected to file applications for
lands In the Coeur d'AIene , Spokane
md : Flathead Indian reservations. In
Spokane alone 7,000 applications ara
pected while the list at Coeur
i'Alene , Idaho may exceed that nu
Ocr. It Is estimated that 100,000 me
md : women will file f > r lands , many
plying for all tnre- reservations r
makIng a grand total of 200,000 appll-
cations : by August 5. From 15,000 to
WOOO applications from veteran sol-
lIers and sailors are expected. It Is
) eli ieved that one applicant In fifteea
vIII ; be able to secure a homestead
I\'orth taking up
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