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THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOURNAL. . . . . NOUKOliK. NKUUASKA. KM DAY. I-'KIIWAKY 17. I'Ml ' WOULD CHANGE 8 O'CLOCK LAW AMENDMENT INTRODUCED IS IN NEBRASKA STATE SENATE. TO ALLOW CITIES AN OPTION The Amendment Provides That Au thorities of a City of Over 5,000 Pop- ulatlon May Extend Saloon Closing Hour , Where Half the Voters Ask It. Lincoln. Feb. 1C An amendment to the 8 o'clock closing law was intro duced In the senate thin morning by Senator Hegan of Douglas to .Rive cities the right to establish for them- wolves a later hour for closing saloons. The new section In the law reads , ntter specifying that It applies to any city of the metropolitan class or any city of the first class with more than 6,000 Inhabitants- "The local legislative authorities thereof , may , upon the presentation to them of petitions asking for such ac tion he taken signed by more than 00 percent of the legally qualified voters of such municipality nt the last gen eral election , change the hour limita tion named from 8 o'clotk p. m. , to any hour not later than 12 o'clock , midnight. " This law would give Omaha , South Omaha and u number of smaller cities too right to establish for themselves a later closing hour for the Belling of In toxicants. / ' ThU amendment , if passed , would f be effective In Norfolk. LOS ANGELES HAS BIG FIRE OAS EXPLOSION IN MEYER SEN GEL STORE STARTS IT. SPREADS FAST. Lo- Angeles , Feb. 16. Fire that broke out this afternoon from a gas explosion In the basement of the Meyer Seigel and company's dry goods building on the west side of Broadway between. Second and Third streets spread rapidly and for a time threatened oned a part of thq downtown retail district. It Ilnally was placed under control In the Byrne wilding , a largo office structure. The loss Is estimated at $450.000. NO ELECTION IN IOWA Kenyan Has Fifty Votes , Deemer Falli Down to Fifteen. Dtis Molnes , Feb. 16. Today's ballo on senator in the Iowa legislature wa : as follows : H. E. Deeraer 15 , Kenyon 50 , Porte ( democrat ) 53 ; absent , 4 ; necessarj to elect , 77. Favor Suffrage for Iowa. Des Molnes , Fob. 16. The nous committee on elections today recom mended for passage the Joint resolu tloa favoring woman suffrage. John D.'s Illness Only Rumor. New York. Feb. 16. At the office o John D. Rockefeller here no credenc wa. given to roporta current in flnan cial circles that Mr. Rockefeller wa eeriously 111 at Augusta. Ga. It wa stated that Mr. Rockefeller was aliv and well. Augusta , Ga , Feb. 16. An Inquiry nt the hotel where John D. Rockefel ler is staying , brought the Information that there was not the slightest foun dation for the rumor that he was ill. At 3:30 : o'clock this afternoon , Mr. Rockefeller was out enjoying his us ual automobile ride. Claim Fraud in New Mexico. Washington. Feb. 16. Declaring that fraud and corruption were used in the passage of the New Mexico con stitution , appeal was made today to President Taft by representatives of the Anti-Saloon league , the W. C. T. U and other interests to use his In- tluence against the adoption of the constitution. OMAHA VOTE SCANDAL. Fraud Probe Discloses Many Irregu larities Dead Men Are Voted. Omaha. Feb. 16. Fraudulent regis trations from the residence of Thomas Pope. 016 North Fifteenth street , oc cupied the attention of the legislative Investigating committees. Yelser received his tip on this "col- onlzation" fraud from the man who voted half a dozen colored men in the named of dead negroes. The Inform ant sent word through another. "Tell Yelser.1' he said , 'that I did this trick myself , but I am anxious to see the whole rotten business cleaned up , though I don't yearn to be prosecuted and shall keep In the background. " The testimony of the morning showed that the "tip" was a truthful one. one.Thomas Thomas Pope , from whose home half a dozen colored men registered in the fifth precinct of the Third ward , testified that none of these men had ever lived at his home. Pope had teard of one of the men registered from his home , but did not know where he lived. The men registered from the address In question gave the names of William Robinson , H. J. Rob erts , W. R. Weir , Charles Mitchell Ole Smith and Abe Ward Of Charles Mitchell. Pope had heard. CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Temperature for Twenty-four Hours. Forecast for Nebraska. Maximum 37 Minimum 32 Average 31 Barometer 30.00 Chicago. Feb. 16. The bulletin Is sued by the Chicago station of the United States weather bureau gives thu forecast for Nebraska as follows : Snow or rain tonight and Friday ; colder tonight. RUSSO-tllNA WAR M , ' COME RELATIONS BETWEEN NATIONS DANGEROUSLY STRAINED. RUSSIA WILL SEND SOLDIERS As a Demonstration Against Persist ent Violation of the Treaty of 1881 , Russia Will Send Troops to Chinese Frontier at Once. London , Feb. 16. The relations of Russia and China arc strained to the breaking point. Ilussla today notified the govern ments of Great Britain , France and Germany of her Intention to make a military demonstration on the Russo' Chinese frontier , owing to China's per Hlstent violation of the St. Petersburg treaty of 1881. Russian troops will be sent forth with to the district of III. The extent of the demonstration , It Is stated In the diplomatic note , will depend entirely on the attitude as sumed by China. The vital questions Involved arc fr e trade in Mongolia , the extra ter ritorial rights of Russians in China and the establishment of a Russian consul at Keobdo , Mongolia. DAKOTA HOMESTEADERS AROUSED BY THIS BILL PLAN TO ALLOW STOCK FREE RANGE IN WINTER LAST DAY FOR BILLS. Pierre. S. D. , Feb. Ifi , The last day for Introduction of bills In the house , save committee bills , brought forty five new ones. Among them was one which will start the homesteaders west of the Missouri river going. Sut tley would allow stock to range a large under certain conditions , froir December 1 to April 1. Many petitions are out against any such measure. Another of the new bills is by Wag ner , changing from the present flat $2 license fee for automobiles to a grad ed fee on power and size of machines running from $3 up to ? 10. A bill wa also presented providing for an elec tion to submit the question of enlar& ing Dewey county to extend It south of Cheyenne river. The house passed the Curtis senate hill , which provides for publicity o referred laws and constitutlona' amendments through pamphlets in stead of newspapers and the house bil fixing the method of leasing stat lands for agricultural purposes. Whiting attempted to pass his bll changing the methods of county or ganizatlon over the veto of the gov ernor but could not muster the re quired two-thirds. The senate committee returned n adverse report on S. F. 87 by Henault who seeks to prevent a corporatlo from excluding union labor from it employment. A minority report wa : returned , signed by Curtiss and Hitcli cock , in favor of the measure. It wa originally aimed directly at the Home stake mine , but the minority repor attempts to make it general in its aj plication. The senate has accepted the hous' ' good roads bill just as it passed Urn body , and the state is now in shape t take its first steps toward a rndlca change in road making methods. The house adopted the report of the Investigating committee of the sol diers' home , after a long discussion In which the Indications were that the bill to reorganize the board to drop 6ut old soldiers will pass. ART STUDENT MAY HAVE BEEN SLAIN ITALIAN GOVERNMENT NOW SEES , CRIME POSSIBILITY REWARD - WARD OFFERED. Rome , Feb. 16. The government Is now inclined to fear the disappear ance of Henry Lawrence Wolfe of New York was the result of a crime and today offered a reward for the discovery of the missing art student. TAFT TONAMETIMBER LAKE ? That South Dakota Town Seems Slat ed for Aberdeen's Land Office. Washington , Feb. 16. It Is stated at the interior department that nil pa pers relative to the location of the new land oflice In South Dakota have been sent to the president. It is gen erally believed that Timber Lake will he chosen as the location of the oflice when the transfer Is made from Aber deen WOULD GALL EXTRA SESSION IF SENATE FAILS TO RATIFY CA NADIAN RECIPROCITY. TAFT DELIVERS AN ULTIMATUM The President Is Determined to Press the Agreement Finance Committee Will be Called This Week to Act on the Proposed Measure. Washington. Feb. 16. Rep resentative Bennett of New York , one of the republicans who voted against Canadian reciprocity today , introduced In the house a resolution re questing the president to en ter Into negotiations with the British government looking to thu annexation of Canada. The resolution was referred to the committee- foreign affairs. Washington. Feb. It- ! Failure of the Canadian reciprocity agreement to pass the senate will force President Tuft to call an extra session , as the administration Is determined to press the agreement. This declaration was made today by enator Smoot of Utah , following a onference at the white house with le president. Senators Lodge and .oot were also present. Senator Smoot announced that the enate would be given all opportunity 0 discuss the reciprocity measure and McCall bill would not be delayed 1 any way. The Hunutor entertained : ie belief that in the senate. however , no bill would meet obstructive tae- : cs . Shortly after the white house con- crence ended , Senator Burrows , rank- \K \ member of the finance committee , as closeted with the president. On caving the white house he announced hat he would call a meeting of the ommittee either tomorrow or Sntur- ay to consider the bill. Washington , Feb. 1C. President 'nft ' may he compelled to designate a eader to take charge of the admlnis- ration interest in the fight over the 'eclproclty ' agreement in the senate , nd if he docs , the Indications are hat he will select Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. The finance committee , to which the McCall bill was referred when it was : nessaged over from the house yester day , Is lukewarm toward the measure , everal of the members will vote for t , but It Is not anticipated they will xlilblt any great enthusiasm. There was speculation as to wheth er the McCall bill would receive a ma- ority vote in the committee. No member Is inclined to delay procedure n view of President Taft's great In crest in the agreement. To avoid seeming opposition to the president's program , It was reported there might be no vote in committee at all. Some senators are trying to have the McCall bill reported without rec ommendation , giving to the opponents the right to prosecute their objections on the senate floor. By reason of the Illness of Senator Hale it is not likely that a meeting of he committee will bo held before Sat irday , and perhaps not before Mon day. NELIGH POPULATION 1,724 Commercial Club Enumerators Dig up More People Than Uncle Sam. Neligh , Neb. , Feb. 16. Special to Thu News : The Neligh Commercial club finds that Neligh has 1,724 pee pie , as against 1,553 found by federal census enumerators. This is the re port of the committee : To the Neligh Commercial Club : We , your committee , report that we have , in conjunction with Kersey Johnson , S. D. Thornton , jr. , Frank Skinner , J. C. Jenkins , F. G. Auringer E. F. Best , L. E. Jackson. William Wolfe , W. L. McAllister , Ralph All ! son , S. M. Hoff , Thomas Pexton , Ed Mellck , and Harry Jackson , made a careful house to house canvass of the city of Neligh and find the population to ho 1,724 persons. Ninety-eight persons reside in the strip annexed to the city and arc in eluded in the above count. Charles H. Kelsey. Joe McCalg , C L. Wattles. J. W. Rice , J. W. Splrk committee. New York's Pure Food Bill. Albany , N. Y. , Feb. 16. The bll putting aside a month's limit on goods in cold storage , but giving the state superintendent of health power to lengthen the time to one year , as amended in the public health commit tee of the assembly , will be reported today. The amendments provide tha any persons putting goods In storage which have been once removed and ex posed for sale shall be guilty of a mis deemanor and that no person shal sell for fresh food that which has been for any length of time in cold storage A LINCOLN BOY IS KILLED. Another Fatally Injured as Result o Street Car Collision. Lincoln. Feb. 16. Emcrill Sherrow aged 14 , Is dead and Clyde Pierce about the same age. fatally Injured a a result of a collision of a wagon In which they were riding with a sub urban street car last night WEIL. IT * THE IATEST ATYLE ! ( Copyright , 1911. ) OMAHA CHARTER BILL REPORTED OLLIS STOCK YARDS BILL REPORTED - PORTED FOR PASSAGE ' WITHOUT CHANGE. Lincoln , Feb. 16. The Omaha char- er will be reported for passage by ho house committee on cities and owns at the next meeting of the louse. The committee considered the char- er last nighl and , finding no opposi- Ion to any of its principal provis- ons , decided to recommend it for nactment. The senate committee i municipal ffairs decided to report the Lincoln" harter for passage without changes. The stock yards bill of Senator Ol- lis will be recommended for passage with slight amendments. The live , tock and grazing committee of the enato finished its hearing with a ihort session and in spite of the ar guments presented by Frank Ransom and other representatives of the lock yards , the committee supported ho chairman and decided to do every- hing possible to pass the bill. The amendments suggested by Mr. Ollis include a change in the penalty , naking it a misdemeanor rather than felony to disobey the law and fix- ng the penalty at a fine of $100 to 500 for the first offense , and ? 100 to 11,000 for the second. The provision requiring that all stock much bo de- ivered to the commission company within an hour and n half from the Ime of the arrival at the yards was amended and a forfeit fixed for those not complying with It. The stock owner is to receive | 5 a car for every half hour's delay in yarding over the hour and a half and no yardage charge Is allowed when : hero Is a delay. Tanner of Douglas and Buhrman of Hall were against the bill in com mittee. Cox of Kearney and GUIs , the : hnlrmnn , voted for It. COOK IN VAUDEVILLE. One of the Headliners In New York. Faked Moving Pictures. New York , Feb. 16. Dr. Frederick A. Cook broke into vaudeville last night at the Manhattan opera house , where , with the "Eight Original Ber lln Madcaps , " he was one of the head- liners. In the first part of his act he wan dered through some faked moving pic tures and discovered the north pole on the screen. Then he wandered through a ten-minute speech full of bitterness against the press , Peary and the Arctic Trust. " Death of Hubert McNamara. Butte , Neb. . Fob. 16. Special to The News : Hubert McNamara , the 0-year-old son of Mr. and Mra. J. M. McNamara , died of diabetes at the St. Peter and Paul's school. He was not considered seriously ill until Monday , and had attended church the day be fore. His parents were telephoned and arrived a few hours before he passed away. Mr. McNamara is well known In Tripp county , being n leadIng - Ing merchant of Carter , S. D. Hubert hud been attending the convent here and was an unusually bright and at tractive boy. He will be burlpd at Butte. Riot Among Famine Sufferers. Victoria , B. C. , Feb. 16. Serious rioting by thousands of famine strick en refugees arrived nt Nauklng from the famine district was reported by ar rivals on the steamer Suverlc. The hungry horde , more than a thousand strong , broke Into the city January 24 , after having been massed outside the walls. They raided the shops , carrying - ing off everything eatable THIS HOTEL CLERK FIGHTS A BURGLAR NEW YORKER GRAPPLES WITH THUG AFTER BEING WOUNDED - ED IN HAND. New York. Feb. 16. With the aid of a big revolver and the co-operation of pals in a waiting automobile , a mask ed bandit early today attempted to hold up the clerk of the Hotel Fred erick In West Fifty-sixth street , just off Broadway , below Central park. The attempt failed because Robert G. Varnard , the clerk , grappled with the bandit after the latter had fired one shot and wounded him In the hand and then the robber's revolver twice missed fire when he tried to follow up his first shot by two more at close range. The bandit and his companions getaway away in automobile without hav ing got anywhere within reaching dis tance of $400 in cash which had just been placed In the hotel safe. KNOX AND HILL FAVOR MEASURE THEY JOIN HANDS IN SPEAKING FOR THE CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. Chicago , Fob. 16. Secretary of State Knox and James J. Hill joined hands here last night In urging the adoption by the United States of the reciprocity agreement with Canada. Both spoke at a banquet given by the Chicago Association of Commerce , .it which 1,000 persons , representing al most every big commercial and indus trial enterprise of the city as well as commercial and municipal organiza tions from a score of western cites , listened and applauded. Secretary Knox related the history of the trade agreements between the countries from 1815 when Canada re moved its differential duties against the United States and placed It on a par with Great Britain. "The aim and purpose of the pres ent proposed agreement Is to promote better trade relations and to cement and strengthen friendly Intercourse between both nations , " he said. "The scope of the agreement is broad in principle and comprehensive in detail. It seeks by providing fori the freest Interchange of commodities to prevent those manipulations and speculative factions In prices harmful' both to the pioducer anil the con- Burner" Th < > agreement Is an c\jnipli > of1 constructive MaU-smansblp in contrast' to many matters before congress. ae- cord ins to Mr. Hill. "It Id f.iahloned to lar o national ends , " ho said , "and inspired by a pol icy which tlio greatest mlmls In th * country have approved. " > American Syndicate Loses Out. Tegucigalpa. Honduras. IV'i ' K. Congress voted to reroiiit | | > r its ac tion in voting a concession to an American syndicate for the working' of the Agalleca Iron depo itThe vote was IS to 17. The aeneral opin ion Is that the enterprise will be de layed indefinitely unless greater com pensation Is offered the government , Kansas Expects Locusts. Lawrence. Kan. Feh li * Sevon- teen-year locusts will visit Kansas ' within the next three months , accordIng - Ing to Professor P. A. Glenn of the department of entomology of the University of Kansas. The locusts , ho predlctn. will appear first In the ' eastern part of the state , piohably about the last of Ma > Seventeen 1 vears ago this spring K.uisai sunored I a volution of the pest CHAMP CLARK'S ' JOKE AROUSED THE WORLD HE DIDN'T MEAN TO STIR UP JOHN BULL BY HIS JOCULAR - LAR REMARKS. Washington , Feb. 16. The semi- jocular remarks which Champ Clark , the democrat speaker-to-be , made in the house debate on Canadian reci procity agreement that he believed the stars and stripes would one day float over the entire western hemis phere , stirred up most unexpected trouble. President Taft took occas ion to write , to Representative Mc Call , introducer of the reciprocity bill , disclaiming and deprecating the annexation talk , and to follow it up with personal remarks even more em phatic to his visitors. The news that Mr. Clark's allusions had created excitement in Canada and in England occasioned great sur prise and considerable amusement at the ca"pltal. The man most surprised of all was Mr. Clark himself. Mr. Clark's entire speech on reci procity was delivered In a half hum orous , half taunting vein. The house was in a gale of laughter most of the time , In return for the laughs ho was creating at their expense , some of the republicans tried to turn tables on Mr. Clark by chiding him with the fact that ho might have President Taft as an opponent for the demo cratlc nomination. The humorous expression reflected part of the debate. Part of the time Mr. Clark was on his feet and gave serious consideration to his remarks , regarding the possible annexation of Canada. They regarded his state ment in the nature of a compliment to the Canadian people In that he would bo glad to see the friendship that exists at pret-eiit between the Canadians and the United States in the future so cordial that all might homo day be under one Hag. There was a further touch of facetiousness to the debate when one of the repub llcans asked Mr. Clark if he would like to be the first president of the magnificent union he was creating. He replied with a bur-t of laughter that he certainly would. The excitement abroad is attrlbut ed In part to the fact that several English and Canadian newspaper cor lespondents were present when Mr. 'dark j ' spoke. His remarks may have i appealed to thorn a the most Impor tant featuie of the story and have been cabled accordingly In "skele ' tonizing" his remarks for cable pur- 'po ' es the semi humoious character of 'ihe I debate wa.entiiely lost sight of. j ' Friends of the re * iprocit.v measure wore Inclined to taK > the view that 'opponents ' ! of the agreement had sim ! ' ply seized upon ' * hnt was regarded hoie ns an ontiiolj personal and harmless statement to mnk * capital against the ratification of the agree mont. i _ _ _ _ Clip Emperor's Wings. Itorlln , Fob ] i . The commission o : I the relchfitag further amended the ' government draft of the constitution ' proposed for Alsace-Lorraine , wholly freeing the future state from the inllu once of the emperor. The commission i struck out the clause giving the em peror the oNercNe of oxorutlve authorIty - ' Ity and substituted n provision for a regent who would hold oflice for life and be nominated by the emperor | upon the proposal of the bundesrath. The vote on the adoption of the it was twenty-one to sit. ' Editor Leaves Beemer. Beemer , Neb. , Fob li > Special to The NewsH. . H Pease , editor of ( the Beemor Times sobered his con- 1 nocUon with that paper and wiUmovc to Stronibburg H-- formerly owned tli' paper at that ptaie SCANDAL IN ( I , S , BUREAU SENSATIONAL CHARGES AGAINST EXPORT STATISTICS. EXPORTERS CLAIM FABRICATION A Former Confidential Clerk In the Department of Commerce and Labor Is Quoted as Declaring Uncle Sam Deliberately Lied. Washington. Fob. 10. Sensational charges wore made at the Pan-Amorl- can ronunorclnl conference today that the government bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor wan issuing misleading statistics on the expott trade of the United States Tin1 charges were mndo by Fiancls J. Low of Now Yoik. who read an nf- lldavlt made by a former confidential clerk of the hut can. Mr. Low , i ( 'presenting a number of xpoil merchants of Now York , Inuno- lately following a speech by O. P. \tintiii , chief of the bureau of stalls- tcs , announced that the exporters vanted to know whether the bureau till was Issuing misleading statistics n the export trade. lie then read an aflldavlt mndo in 907 by Charles S. Price , for tlirco ears confidential clerk of the bureau , tating that while employed In the bu- 'can ' instructions were Issued In re- ard to the export of manufactures vhlch would tend to mislead manufac- urors of the United States and the iroof could be shown by referring to chedule E , of the bureau , in which aw materials are described as "whol- y or partly manufactured" and which nado a tremendous difference in the described exports of manufactures . holly. Mr. Low said export merchants wanted to know whore all the exports noted by the bureau were going , teamship companies , he added , wore withdrawing vessels from their sor- ice and the issuance of charters to hips had fallen off. Mr. Austin denied the accusation , isserting the full summaries of the bureau gave accurate and detailed In- ormation. Ho added that he would ater issue a statement in reply. FIND ARNOLD GIRL'S JEWELS. She Pawned Them In a Boston Shop During Her September Visit. Boston , Feb. 1C. Dorothy Arnold , ho New York girl who has been nibsing since December I' ' , pawned icr watch , rings , neck chain and bracelet , valued at more than 1500 , .vhile she was on her week's visit to Boston in September , according to nforinatlou given out heie. Miss Ar- : iold took the articles to a Boston street pawnshop and received about one-tenth their value , giving her full name and address , ( The articles were pledged on Sep tember 23 and the Arnold family were notified of the fact as soon as ho announcement was made that ho girl was missing. About the mid dle of December It was said Miss Ar- lold's brother , John W. Arnold , came to Boston , Identified the articles as his sister's and ordered the store keeper to refuse to redeem them when the checks were presented and o notify the police instead , holding any person who should present the hecks. The articles are still in the pawnshop. POPE PIUS X HAS FAIRLY GOOD NIGHT TEMPERATURE ONLY HALF DE- GREE ABOVE NORMAL. BREATHING HARD. Rome , Feb. 16. i'ope Plux X , who s experiencing an attack of influenza , had a relatively calm night and ear ly today his temperature was found to have fallen during the night from 100 to 99 , only half a degree above lormal. Dr. Petacci , private physician to his holiness , visited the sick chamber this morning and remained u long time. Ho considers that the disease Is taking its normal course. Dr. Ettoro Marchlafavu , consulting physician to the pope , has not been called Into the case yet and this fact seems to indicate that the illness Is not serious. The patient , however , Is having some Inconvenience because of a congestion of the bronchltlul tubes , with some difficulty In breath ing and increased respiration. LONDON DISCOUNT RATE IS REDUCED BANK OF ENGLAND CUTS RATE FROM 4 TO 3'/2 ' PER- CENT. London , Feb. 16. The Bank of England today reduced Its rate of discount from 4 to 3i percent. This action -was anticipated owing to the continued easy money market , the lower discounts here ns well ns In continental centers and the im proving hank reserve