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'II1C ' NOHFOI.K WKKKLY NWWS .10UKUNAL : FRIDAY , uKCEMHIiJH iJ7 1907. Tto Norfolk Weekly News-Journal The NOWH. IJiitnbUnlxJtl , 1881. The Journiil , HstiilillBhed. 1871. TK2 HU8E PUBLISHING COMPANY W. N. HUKK N. A. Bcorutnry Hvery Friday , lly iniill per year , < 1.60. RnterccJ nt tlio postonico nt Norfolk. N b. . an Hucotul1 clnaa matter. TalephonoH ; ICdltorlal DopiirtmonL Mo. II. IJUBlnuux Olllco and Job llooiniv No. It . It IB announced that a new sorlcs of $20 Rold. pieces has been coined and la now In circulation. This Is all pure hearsay. The News has had no oppor tunity to verify t . ? rumor. A prophet announces that Drynn will live to bo 91 years old. The Kansas City Times figures tlmt this will al low him about eight more nominations for the presidency. But Bryan Is pretty husky and may llvo to bo older than that , HO It Is no use for any other democrat to begin figuring the possi bilities for 1940. The democrats of South Dakota have the figures all made as to how they nro going to clean up the state at the next general election. This Ms all based on Bryan being candidate for president , in which case they read their title clear to victory. Democrats nro always a sanguine lot , and the South Dakota kind seems to bo no exception. Because Mrs. Charles Pflastcr per sisted In smoking cigarettes , her hus band has been released of the wedded yoke by Judge Suttong of Omaha , Mr. Pflaster admitted knowing when ho married his wife that she smoked , but the judge granted the decree on the showing that the lady had promis ed before marrlnge to quit the habit , a la man , but had failed to keep her pledge. Besides , the brand of tobacco that she used was offensive to his re fined sensibilities. A man should nev er marry a lady to reform her. EXEUNT , CORTELYOU BOOM. Raymond , telegraphing to the Chicago cage Inter-Ocean says that what there was left of the Cortelyou boom has been absolutely dissipated by the slg nlHcant action on the part of the ad ministration , as a result of which the patronage power of the postofllce de partment , comprising the greatest po litical machinery In the United States has been taken out of the hands ol the assistant postmaster general and handed over completely to Postmastei General Meyer. All Important offices now arc han dled direct by the postmaster general , and even unimportant appointments to the most subordinate posts in the fourth class service now are subjected to his personal scrutiny. This means much when It Is remem bered that Postmaster General Meyer was a college chum of President Roosevelt , while Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock has been a personal attache of Mr , Cortelyou over since that gentleman left his post In the white house to accept the position of secretary of the newly organized de partment of commerce and labor. The objection which has been made by the white house has been that Mr. Cortelyou's friends , including , of course , Mr. Hitchcock , being fully aware that the president would not under any circumstances accept the nomination , took advantage of that fact by organizing a third term senti ment which subsequently could be turned over to Mr. Cortelyou. If there Is to be any politics played In regard to the presidential nomina tion among the federal office-holders the white house will do it , but in truth the purpose is to avoid the charge that the president is using the power of his administration in any way to further the Interests of Mr. Taft or to Injure the chances of any one else. The determination to concentrate the power of patronage in the post master general and to take it away from his assistant was not arrived at in the interest of Secretary Taft , but It merely was Intended to demonstrate to the country that the president will not permit government officers , either of high or low degree , to make use of the Influence of their office to dictate who his successor shall be. NOW FOR THE SLEEPING CARS. Now the sleeping car rates are to be Investigated and the light of pub licity allowed to penetrate the meth ods of operating this monopoly. The Investigation Is being conducted In St. Paul before the Interstate com merce commission , and It may bo the beginning of federal regulation of this great monopoly. The Pullman com pany denies that It Is a common car rier or engaged In Interstate com- ' " " " "merce , olid , ol course , will not submit to any regulation till the highest court in the land has ruled on the point. From a lay standpoint , the position does not seem sound. A mere statement of the Pullman company's finances will bo sufficient to show that Its rates arc exorbitant. Its capitalization of $100,000,000 is a product of successive "melon cut tings , " and the traveling public Is milked for regular annual dividends of $8,000,000 , besldo frequent extras out of the surplus , on an original In vestment of $30,000,000. Even that amount was not cash , but was In fmA < -Ksv t-rxr ; * * - * . ? yro nH ' ' < W < > * " J Just nt this time comes a report that a $30,000,000 surplus Is to bo distrib uted In tin. ' form of an extra dividend of 30 per cent. This would make a total of $191,800,000 of dividends paid by the company slnco Its organization In 18G7. The Interstate commerce commis sion must take notice of the fact tlmt such profits are unnatural and mean excessive charges on the public. There arc other ways , however , of arriving at a reasonable charge for Pullman service. What Is the additional cost of carry- lug a passenger In a sleeping car over the cost of transporting him in a day coach ? It costs not much tnoro to haul a sleeper than an ordinary pas senger car. Heat and light are no moro expensive. The porter's salary is half paid in tips from passengers. The capacity of a Pullman car IB some what less than that of ordinary coach es. The original cost of a car la some what heavier , and it has some extra running expenses , such as laundry , which are proper charges. With the facts nt hand , it should bo possible to figure a reasonable rate for service , not based on watered stock , but on the actual extra cost of what the pub lic is getting. THE SMILE CLUB. The Omaha Dally News believes In the gospel of smiles and good cheer. It disclaims relationship with those newspapers that always have a grouch and there are a lot of them. The Dally News likes to go to you with a smile all over Its face. It Is vital with optimism and wants to show it. Because people need that message. Stand on the streets and watch the faces of the people. How many sour and set faces ! Why , there are any number of folks Christian folks at that who need to backslide from their long faces , back to long clothes from the stolid mask of maturity back to the smiles of Infancy. Some people seem to have forgotten how to smile if they ever know. Nothing to smile about ? Sure you have ! When things come your way , smile. When they go wrong and you are hard hit , smile. Because while a smile will multiply your joys it will also divide your sorrows. The fellow who knows how to smile in the face of loss why , he Is a charter member ol the Smile club. Smile ! Don't just grin. Grins don't count , Smile ! It Is one thing to show your front teeth. It is quite another to smile , smile out loud , all oven A smile Is not of the lips only. It is of the eyes also. And more than that. It is a ripple of good nature and kind ness that comes up from somewhere about your diaphragm and spreads it self and broadens Itself all over you. Don't be stingy abo\it breaking up your face. Smile. The suggestion of the Smile club Is timely. Now , if ever , you should inille. The spirit of peace on earth and good will to men hovers over all the Christmas tide. Breathe some of this spiritual ozone. Inhale the oxy gen of optimism. Count your bless ings and smile. You can get the habit. Meanwhile here Is a good motto for the club from James Whitcomb Rlley : "For we know , not every morrow Can be sad ; So forgetting all the sorrow We have had , Let us fold away our fears , And put by our foolish tears , And through all the coming years Just be glad. " Just be glad and smile. TEMPEST IN A TEA POT. A tempest In a teapot seems to beholding holding high carnival down in Lincoln over who is to have the state delega tlon for the presidency. The last re publican state convention passed a resolution endorsing the candidacy o Secretary Taft , but this does not seem to satisfy the state of Lincoln , to which the remainder of Nebraska is auxiliary and Frank Harrison Is just now very busily engaged In capturing the dele gation for LaFollette , George Tobey has resigned as Senator Burkett * private secretary for the purpose o delivering the state to Hughes , whll Charlie Wheedon is fostering a Ma goon boom. Mngoon Is a Nebraskan and obeying the principle of "standing up for Nebraska" the state would na turally be for him had It not unfor tunately occurred that Magoon has tel agraphed from Cuba , where ho alread has a good public job as governoT o that benighted island , that he wll have none of it. As side Issues , othe favored sons of Nebraska are bein pushed Into prominence , both Senate Burkett and Governor Sheldon bein promoted for vice president. Now 1 Magoon had only been a little les free to butt into the game , Nebrask might out-Ohio Ohio and furnish al the candidates for both parties. I is conceded that our own Billy Brya will bo the democratic nominee fo president , and does any one dare sa that the republican party of this stat cannot furnish just as high grad statesmanship as the democrats Forsooth ! It has been th'o proud claim stato"republlcanB that a largo per cent , of the wisdom of the unlvers bivouacked around our prominent men and we should not falter when I comes to furnishing candidates fo anything within the tff&t the people tZZZZEmmmSl ! ! H _ _ , , * . . " -.v' . : ! ; , ' .i.y't ' Let > H have Mngoon for president , whether he wants it or not , let's pull off a Iloosevelliui lottery to HCO wheth er It shall bo Ilurkc-tt or Sheldon for Ice president , and then let's boldly lurch up to Chicago next Juno and lace them In nomination , returning vlth our laurels Just about the time nit Bryan IK thanking the democratic onventlon In Denver for the great onor of being made Its standard bear- r for the third time. Of course , Nebraska politicians are ot greedy , but we know that wo have he goods and we should not allow our lodcsty to deprive the country of the enellt of the great possibilities which o within our borders. As the Immortal Blxby would say at his exact point In the argument , Stand up for Nebraska. " WORDS OF WISDOM. Dr. Julius von Bernauer has made great discovery , and ho hastens to Ivo humanity the benefit of his super- or wisdom on a subject that was old when Adam was a young man in his rime. Of course Dr. von Is right and ho world has been waiting these housands of years for him to appear ml set it straight on the great qucs- lon of love and affinity. Ills advlco ounds a good deal like the lecture of he agricultural college professor when o is directing the youthful mind howe o select a useful horse. Dr. von offers vords of wisdom to both sexes 1m- lartlally , preluding his remarks to Iris with the statement that : "The lew girl will not trust her happiness 0 traditions that have forced her to eal her lips upon her love. The jus- Ice of the coming generation will re- ease her from this convention. She vlll be honest with herself. Her love vlll make Its own declaration. The new man will accept her proposal as a tribute to his manhood. Then he dissects man for the bene- 1 of girls and advises : "Beware of drawing a Move blank' n the matrimonial lottery. Some men re born devoid of ability to love. "Marry a man who is well developed n inch and a half behind the ears , vhere the phrenological 'love bump' s located. Feel his head If necessary. "Look out for the man broad behind ho ears and full under the eyes. He makes a quarrelsome husban'd. "Have a care about tying up with a nuscular man of highly nervous tern- lerament. He is apt to turn out a > rute after marriage. "Think twice before marrying a ilghly spiritual man. He is apt to > ccome melancholy and take to drink. "But If you find a round-faced man. nab him on the spot. Round-faced nen make the best husbands. "In husbands , the right man is more mportant than the right age. The ight man is honest , clean-minded , In- lustrlous , ambitious , sober , affection ate , and not less than 25 years old. "The average man , when he casts about for a wife , Is not hunting a cook , vasherwoman or housemaid. He loesn't care for a toy , a slave or a drudge. He wants just a woman , rhe American man Is a practical lover and a nuptial optimist. Women should cultivate good nature. It brings hap piness and health. Bad health and constant complaining open all the leers and windows through which love departs. Cultured optimistic women are the nation's best asset. " To men he advises : "Don't hang around the kitchen. " "Don't criticise your wife's domes tic arrangements or her cooking. " "Share your pleasures with her. " "Don't correct her in the presence of others. " "Court her as your wife as assid uously as you courted her as your sweetheart. " "Kiss her every morning when you go to work. " "Tell her she is pretty. " "Keep her love fresh and she will break her neck to please you. " CURRENCY LEGISLATION. On Saturday congress adjourned for the holidays until Monday , January < C , without anything whatever having been done in the direction of modifica tion of the present currency system This is entirely in accord with the program announced it the opening of congress , but it is out of harmony with the pledge made by President Roosevelt velt in his letter to Secretary Cortel you that there would bo speedy action on this subject. After that letter was written it developed that the panic had not been brought on by any opera tlon of existing laws or by the attitude of the president. According to the views of such lead ers as Senators Allison and Aldrich whoso word goes farther than any one else's in congress on such subjects the really acute conditions had dlsap peared by the time congress met. A sudden Issue of currency then would have done moro harm than good It would have been unadulterated In llatlon , and there would have been the danger that the country at large might take a notion to discriminate between the old currency and the now which would bring on a panic quicker than anything else. Besides , that there wcro scores of currency plans being submitted to congress gross and discussed generally. It was practically Impossible to line up any respectable number of senators am representatives for any one plan. There were featured In half a dozen different schemes which were good and others which were radically bad It was agreed almost Instantly that Inasmuch as the acute conditions had been safely passed over , it would bo wiser for congress to allow the coun try to quiet down gradually rather than to prcclpltato n condition of financial unrest through the medium of a debate In congress , during which all the cranks In the house and the senate would have a chance to air their views , which , In the course of time , would be reflected more or less by the people. Time has shown the wisdom of the program outlined by the leaders In the senate. There hnvo been no moro bank failures. Conditions In the mon ey market are slowly but surely Im proving. It has been practically agreed by congressional leaders , with the con sent of the president , that there shall be no yielding to the temptation to engage In a wholesale reform of the financial system. Quito the contrary program will bo followed. So far as they can do so , the older senators will turn their entire attention to the work of providing for a strictly emergency currency. By that Is meant that the only fi nancial legislation which is to pass congress at the coming session will bo a law providing that currency maybe bo Issued by national banks as an emergency measure only. It will bo so heavily taxed , possibly up to the rate of 7 per cent per annum , that it will be absolutely unprofitable after the emergency has passed away. After repeated consultations with the president an agreement has been positively reached that there shall bo no surrender on the general subject of "asset banking. " Nothing in the way of permanent addition to the currency will be pro vided for , and the emergency circula tion will be made to shade Into na tional bank notes as closely as pos sible. The whole idea of legislation which will be undertaken .next month will be to provide a purely emergency circulation without necessitating any radical change in the existing system. This can be done much more readily han most people imagine. The gen eral proposition agreed upon by the irosldent and the leading senators is or a form of national bank notes mcked by approved securities and axed not less than 5 per cent and pos sibly 7 per cent per annum. Itis a simple matter to make this emergency circulation just as elastic as anybody wants to have it , and at he same time to merge it right Into ho present bank note , so that there vill be no possible discrimination be- ween the two. If It were provided , as at present , hat national banks might Issue clrcu- ating notes with United States bonds as security , at a tax of one-fourth of 1 per cent. , up to the capital stock of he bank , and additional notes backed by approved savings bank securities only , at a tax of 5 or 7 per cent. , an elastic system would be created imme diately. When there was a scarcity of money , banks would be only too glad to bor row , on their otherwise uncovered se curities , as much money as they need ed. They could put it out Instantly for he payment of all obligations. It would pass as current and would fortified by the guarantee of the United States. The government would not lose a cent. There is not the slightest dlsposl- : lon in congress to authorize the cre ation of a central bank. Such an in stitution may or may not be a desir able thing , but it could not be put into operation without a practical revolu tion in our entire system of currency , and no one in congress desires to un dertake such a thing at the present time. time.Nor Nor Is there the slightest likelihood of the adoption of what is known as the bankers' "asset currency" system. That plan provides for uncovered as set notes , a certain portion of which are taxed at such a low rate that they would probably remain out forever. Not only Is congress Indisposed to pass any such measures as this , but it is practically certain President Roosevelt would veto the Fowler bill or anything like It If the matter were presented to him for executive action. Currency legislation of the simplest character is all that will bo permitted to pass through the Sixtieth congress unless there is a radical change ol opinion at the capitol. AROUND TOWN. Excelsior Springs , Mo. , Dec. 17. Dear News : When a person comes to n place like this he wonders , for the first three days , what he has done to be sentenced to such a spot , and then for the balance of the time he wishes his time wasn't to be out so soon Drop Into a strange hotel , knowing nobody , stared at by all , and you com mence to look up the time tables tc find the first train out. Then yoi somehow get acquainted with your fellow guests some from Nebraska Home from Kansas and Iowa and the first thing you know you belong to n small group of newly made friends who don't know anything bad abou you and who treat you so well tlm you shut your eyes and try not to sec the day ahead when you must go away It Is said that there Is nothing gone which does not contain some power for damage. People come hero to drink waters for benefit , but the waters tors , improperly taken , can have In Jurlous effects. Many people coming hero and drinking all sorts of the waters Indiscriminately w.onder why they suddenly get sick. It's a wise man who , coming hero , asks a physi cian what to drink and what not to before taking his suat on the water wagon. It IH not all summer 111 Missouri. Snow 1ms fallen thickly hero for two days. William Bruce of Hassott , Neb. , a imminent stock buyer , who was irought here very dangerously sick and who was not expected to llvo n ew nights ago , Is much Improved to- lay and there are hopes of his re covery. Mrs. Bruce Is hero and also Will Colfax and Dick Hunt of Bas- sett , who came to look after the sick man. Mr. Colfax can't get along , even lown here in Missouri , without The Norfolk News. Ho reads It every day nt home and ho feels lost without It. And speaking of The News , S. F. Ersklne , the well known Norfolk com- nerclal traveler , found out in Bono- steel the other day one reason why Norfolk's dally paper Is so popular hroughout the vast prosperous terrl- ory tributary to Norfolk. "I buy logs , " John Harms told Mr. Ersklne , 'on the strength of The Norfolk News market reports. They get to us in The News Just twenty-four hours ahead of any other paper a whole day. " And so it is , every day , that .he northwest is coming into closer and closer touch with Norfolk through Norfolk's newspaper. What Excelsior Springs needs Is advertising. Last year this town had 250,000 visitors. If these springs were advertised in magazines and news papers , there ought to bo a million visitors a year. There is a commer cial club here , but It doesn't carry on an aggressive , effective campaign of iresentlng the town's advantages to he world. Some day Excelsior Springs will advertise and when It Iocs the town will grow as It's na tural advantages entitle it to. to.N. N. A. H. Where Is there a better sight than the face of the small \ > oy on Christmas nornlng who knows that Santa Glaus las been around ? There Is no event in Norfolk In the course of each year that attracts more nterest or gives more genuine picas- ire than the annual railway men's ball that is given each merry Christ- nas night. If there is any one thing more than another that makes Norfolk's heart glad , it is to see her railroad boys en- ioy themselves. Norfolk's railroad joys are a mighty factor in the mak- ng of the town and the more pleasure they get out of life , the better Norfolk 'eels. Although the Sunday "lid" is sup posed to be nailed on fast at Kansas City , where the real "lid" wave was started by Judge Wallace , it was par ticularly noticeable that a Pullman conductor coming out of the nailed up town Sunday night had taken on a pretty fair sized package , In spite of handicaps. "My husband is a railroad man and was out on his run all day Christ mas , " she said. "The family couldn't le together , so we lost a good deal of the day's pleasure. It's a hard life at best , this railroading. And yet there's a fascination about it. It seems that a man who has once railroaded Isn't contented in any other work. My hus band feels just as safe in his engine as he does in his own home and I never worry about him excepting when the night's stormy and the trainmen can't see the signals. Then I worry. But after all , railroading is a Hfo that the railroader loves my husband wouldn't think of doing anything else. " Employes In the Omaha union depot are not long on civility or decency. The other day a sick woman lay on a couch in a waiting room waiting for a train due out In a short time. An ugly old woman came In with her broom and swept. In spite of protestations and pleadings she swept dust Into the sick woman's face and then roughly shoved the couch across the room. Immediately afterward a surly negro followed with a scrubbing pall. De spite kind words , pleadings , demands and threats , he scrubbed around the sick woman , splashing water Into her face and then roughly jolted her couch aside. It mattered little whether she was alive or dead. "I've got to do my work , " he growled. All of which didn't tend to give the onlookers a particular pleasant opinion of Nebras ka's metropolis. A housecleanlng down there , with a new set of em ployes to show the traveling public a little courtesy , might not bo bad. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Do you know a man who does his work with greater ease than you do yours ? Why not learn from him ? One old Mlssourlan was lately of fered some of the now bank scrip. " 1 don't want any of that scripture , " he said. When a man hears a rap on his back door he imagines all sorts of things , and hopes It may bo something im portant , but his wife , moro practical , says : "Oh , It is only the boy with the milk. " The gifts given n young : man at Christmas are as pretty as those hung on a Christmas tree , but those given the Old Man look moro like the things hung on the clotheshorse in the kitch en on ironing day. Yesterday a team belonging to the Home Ice Co. , ran away. After dash Ing around nwhllo the horses went back to the Ice plant , and backed up to tlu loading chute , of their own ac cord. That's what habit will do. Some widowers may bo giddy , but not nil of thorn. Goat Edwards has boc'ii a widower thrco years , and Is not taking notice any more now than ho did the day after the funeral. "I am not saying anything against anybody - body , " ho said today , "but I am satis fied as I am. " It sometimes happens that a young man of Hinall means , but of great love , gives his girl for Christmas nn Ivory toilet case containing every toilet Im plement that the hands , feet and face over dreamed of. Years after , this toilet case tells the result of his strug gle to make a living. If ho prospers , It travels to the spare bedroom , and In tlmo to the attic , but If ho found Hfo a losing game , It becomes nn orna ment In the parlor. NEBRASKA POLITICS. Madison Chronicle : Among the list of a few eligible candidates named by State Superintendent McBrlcn Is that of our county superintendent , F. S. Perdue. That the latter would make a strong candidate and n most competent state superintendent It Is firmly believed by his many friends In this part of the state. Osmond Republican : The Repub lican , as well as all other people of Pierce county , has been watching the career of Judge .1. A. Williams , our member of the state railway commis sion , and the voters of this county regardless of party affiliations are practically unanimous in the expres sion that Mr. Williams has made good and Is therefore entitled to a ronoml- nation. It Is Indeed a pleasure and an honor to our county to have a member of this board , and especially Is this true , when that member has always and under all circumstances , been In accord with the sentiments of his con stituency. Our idea Is that the repub licans of the county should begin a systematic boost for Judge Williams for renomlnation. Ho certainly de serves it. Lincoln Star : Nebraska 1ms , almost without a doubt , the next presidential candidate of the democratic party In Mr. Bryan. Governor Magoon of Cuba , a Nebraskan - braskan , Is declared by the New York Herald to be an excellent candidate for the republican nomination , and he lias many supporters elsewhere. Senator Burkett , of Nebraska , Is the subject of a vice-presidential boom of no small proportions. Governor Sheldon of Nebraska is being urged by a considerable number of republican leaders as a candidate for the vice-presidency. There's nothing slow about Nebras ka. Let Ohio look well to Its laurels. for Nebraska is hot on Us political trail. The pot Is beginning to boil , and the various alliances and alleged al liances afford material for no end of Interesting political gossip. The indi cations are that -this state will attract a large degree of attention In the next jampaign , even aside from the pub licity attending : the presence and resi dence here of Mr. Bryan. Grand Island Independent : May The Independent not respectfully sug gest the name of Congressman Kin- kald as a candidate for vice president to run with Cannon , Fairbanks , Knox or somebody. Surely there's a man that could lead the Nebraska republi cans out of the wilderness ! Captian Allen C. Fisher of Chadron dropped into the state house at Lincoln during the week and delivered himself as follows on the vice presidential situation : "Nebraska lost the best chance it will have In many a decade. This talk of Burkett and Sheldon for vice presi dent sounds good , but I do not really believe Nebraska is In a position to demand such recognition. Of course I believe Nebraska ought to have a vice president , but the state lost the op portunity of Its existence when It did not secure the nomination of John L. Wjebster of Omaha for that position. Mickey was also proposed , but his boom was started too late or something overcome It and It never got far from home. Webster was the boy that ought to have had It. The republican state convention did finally endorse him , but he was not nominated. Web ster is a man who can shine by comparison with the greatest men In the United States and not lose any thing by the reflection , no difference what kind of a mirror is held.up before them. I am for Webster all the time. If Nebraska is to have the second place on the national ticket let that place be filled by the statesman from Omaha. " Fremont Tribune : State Superin tendent McBrlen , who has made a great record In the office he holds , has announced his conclusion not to stand for a third term. This has start ed discussion of available candidates and the school men , particularly , are hard at it selecting a successor to Mr. McBrlen. He "mentioned" several good ones In his announcement , though Superintendent Gardener of this city was conspicuously absent from his long list n mere Inadvertence. Pres ent advices are that the educational forces are lining up largely on the sides of R. C. King , superintendent of Otoe county , and Superintendent Del- zell , slnco he is connected with the State Normal board and Is thus identi fied with the machinery that runs the state schools. The other sldo Is the side of the school men who do not be long to the university crowd. It Is talking King pretty strongly Just at present. OVER NORTHTOT PRAIRIES Wlnsldo Tribune : The lid was on tight In Winslde Sunday. The post- office opened for the afternoon mall and also again for a short tlmo in the evening. The Hired lamps wore not even lighted and there was eotiHldei- ubto kicking by pcnplo who eatue down town after the mall. Marshal Hills ho had no KM mil I no. Doncsleel News : The members of the town board of trustees of .lone- steel wore kept busy Tuesday Inspect ing the tests made by the workmen of the new water mains just put down and they were put to the severest tests and more than 200 pounds pressure was applied and tly ri > siUt jvii j jot gratifying to the trustees as well an the contractors. Bonestccl News : K. II. Grossman , who for nearly four years has boon the- boss farmer among the Indians In the southern part of this county , and who for many years previous to eomliiK hero was in the Indian service , has tendered his resignation , to bo effec tive at once , and wo arc reliably In formed that ho will bo succeeded by Mr. Caton , for many years In the In dian service at Bad Nation camp In the north part of Trlpp county. Dallas News : The Presbyterian ' * - " ] church of Dallas under the able lead ership of Rov. Mr. Kcrston nro now v" " * ready to begin actlvo work on a $3,000 church building. The stakes are set and work on the foundation Is to begin today. The building will bo an excel lently planned modern edifice. Con tractor McEutaphor 1ms the contract and hopes to get the building inclosed before the extremely cold weather sets In. A site on the south end of Trlpp avenue has been selected. _ _ _ _ jt - Butte Gazette : Quite a llttlo excite ment prevailed last Saturday when It was understood that a pocket book containing $80 belonging to Miss Ruth Page had been lost. The Idea of one young lady having so much all at once In these stilugent times was quite enough to cause a ripple of no , small dimension to pass over our llttlo ; city and a diligent search was Inline- / dlately Instituted which finally termi nated In locating the lost treasure at the school house in the desk of the aforesaid school ma'am. ' Bassett Leader : A lawsuit Involv ing an unusually largo amount , of money has recently been started in * district court. Sumo time since Coun cil Bluffs parties made a trade of in terest bearing ; mortgages for the Shaf fer ranch In Thurinnn precinct and the * personal property thereon. Now Mr. Shaffer claims tlmt the securities are not as represented and has brought action to have the deeds and bill of bale to the Council Bluffs parties set T aside. The amount Involved Is about ' $20,000. .1. A. Douglas represents Mr. Shaffer. Nebraska City News : The street car company is gradually disposing of the horses and mules they have had for many years. There are but few ot the twenty-eight head left which the company had. Still , the old burnt mule , "Kate , " Is left and does duty- hauling the car to and from the depot. She Is getting a llttlo lame , but aside from that is as spry as in days of yore. This Is one of the oldest mules belong ing to the system and has been In the service for the past nineteen years and nc > one has any idea how old sho- was when the late H. II. Bartllng pur chased her. Fairfax Advertiser : A big wolf hunt is being planned by some of our local sportsmen for Friday , December 20. Farmers to the north and east of Fair fax arc complaining because of the boldness of these four-legged chicken thieves and It Is proposed to organize a posse and try and rid the community of several of these undesirable maraud ers. Citizens of Bonesteel , Anoka and the surrounding county ( the more , the merrier ) are invited to participate in the big hunt , which will start promptly at 9 o'clock on the morning of the 20th. A committee from Fairfax will visit Bonesteel and Anoka soon and plan an outline of attack. Get out that old musket and gel it ready for battle on the 20th. Dallas News : Frank Lewis , who lives on the Kepa Paha river twenty- six miles west of Dallas , drove sixty- seven hogs overland to Dallas. The drove was three days on the road and arrived in good shape. The wagon that accompanied the drove to haul feed and hogs that tired out , came in nearly empty. A few ears of corn and one hog comprised the load when they reached here. The hogs wore fine ones and would have topped the mar ket only for a few of Inferior quality that brought down the general aver- age. age.The The Dallas Commercial club have shipped three cars of Keya Palm coun ty hogs that topped the market. Tlmt Is one of the greatest hog countries In the world. Av Battle Creek Enterprise : As Mrs. H. O. Munson and Mrs. John Risk were driving down Main street late Tuesday afternoon , their horse be came frightened at something in front of the postoffico and turned suddenly around , throwing the ladles out and bruising them severely. Fortunately their Injuries were not serious. After getting away the homo proceeded al * a leisurely pace up the street , with the buggy upside down behind him , C and probably , If let alone , would have stopped of his own accord. But D. L. Best , who saw the animal passing 'tho hotel , thought the opportunity a good * ono for furthering his designs upon a Carnoglo hero medal , and rushed fran tically after the wandering steed. The horse was taken completely by sur prise. It hesitated a moment , then , not wishing to put the mayor of the city In an awkward position , executed a short perfunctory sprint and waited quietly for its pursuer to come up. Mr. Carnegie has not yet taken action A on the matter. { V
