The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, May 26, 1911, Page 3, Image 3
Till' ' ] NORFOLK WKKKLY NUWS-JOUKNAIi , KHIDAY , MAY L'li , 1011. Mileage Books Would Save Every Dollar Spent by Gov Part of $12,000,000 An ernment Being Analyzed nual Outlay and Located nearly a year a commission Foil by Frederick A. Clove- Inntl. an economy cipcrt , has bccu ntf work , under the direc tion of President Taft and lib secre tary , investigating the system under fwhlch the United States gorcrnment spends $1,000,000,000 a year. The experts have reached their first conclusions something can bo saved. 1C It Is only 1 per cent of the whole It means $10,000.000 a year a tidy sum , even In the present day of big figures. If 10 per cent can bo saved It moans , an annual return to the pockets of the American people of $1 for every man , woman and child In the United States. The experts now finishing their fiscal 7ear and entering upon the most Im portant stage of their \vork have gene at the problem with the Idea of Inter fering with no phase of the govern ment's work , hut of seeing that that work Is performed with the greatest economy of men and money and that the government gets 100 cents' worth of work for every dollar spent As a pleasant little curtain raiser for the big show that Is to come later they liavo poked their finger Into Uncle Sam's traveling cxpcnso account and have declared that It Is too big. Chair man Cleveland of the economy com mission pointed it out to Mr. Morton , then the president's secretary ; secro- 1ary Norton explained It to President Taft , and President Taft took the country Into his confidence. Think of spending $12.000,000 a year simply for traveling expenses enough to glvo every ouo of Uncle Sam's 000- 000 employees n first class trip from New York to Chicago , with Pullman fare thrown in and something left to tip the porter ; enough to give the pop ulation of a good sized city a trip around the world ! It was as much a surprise to flu president and his advisers to see this bill for travel as It may have been te the public. Appropriations have growr eo rapidly In the government depart mcnts and they arc distributed nmonp such a variety of subjects that no dot inltc Idea of the amount spent in nnj one class of service has been possible until Mr. Cleveland and his experts had reduced the whole fabric of ex pendltures to a scientific basis. Travel Never Summarized. "Never before was It known hov much the government expended or expected pectod to spend in travel expenses Ii .any one year , " said Mr. Norton recent ly. "Travel expenses arc burled awaj in miscellaneous and contingent ex pcnso accounts , where they cannot bi reached and cannot be analyzed. Tin very fact that so much as $12,000,00 ( goes Into traveling expenses arouse : curiosity , and , although the inquiry has hardly begun , It has already bcci discovered that In many well run bu reaus the government gets the benefit of the lowest mileage rate , while hone ono of the greatest departments a sys tern of transportation orders results li that department paying 10 per con more for a trip from Washington t < New York and return than an Individ ual would have to pay. " Hero is the key to the whole sltua tion. The waste of money , If then has been any in the matter of travel Ing expenses to carry on the govern ment business , has been a waste dui to the complexity of systems followee in the different departments rathe than to the padding of expense ac counts by government employees. Did you ever try to pad an expcnsi account for the government ? There 1 no Item of "entertainment of custom era , " nothing for incidental expenses nothing for taxlcabs or theaters. Ti pass a padded account successful ! ; through the censors of a govcrnmen bureau at Washington Is a feat thn few employees In Uncle Sam's estab llshment can boast of. Most of the departments pass upoi every travel account at least fou times before It is finally approved am the bill paid. There are bureaus li those departments where much travel ing occurs equipped with all the latee passenger fare tariffs and with th rates of the Pullman company betwee : all points. When an expense account comes 1 the items for tickets are carefull checked up on these rate shceti When the rate clerk finally approve the expense statement It Is proof the the charges for the tickets and Pul man htjve agreed exactly with th 'published rates between the polnl named. Then there Is a definite standard c expense allowed for each legltimat item. You may have your laundr done once a week at government e : pens * in some departments when yo are traveling , but you may not bav your trousers pressed "on Uncle Sam , Clean laundry is considered a nece slty , carefully creased trousers a lu : ury. Other departments do not allo even the weekly laundry bill as a item of legitimate expense. You may use a cab from the dep < to destination Jn a strange city. Tl employee who lives In Washlngtoi however , and takes a cab from h homo to the depot there will Dud thi the vigilant eye of the censor of e : pense accounts has cut out this ite : and allowed only 5 cents for a strei car ride to the depot The traveler supposed to journey 03 ho would at ila own cxpcnso. A tip of 25 cents a day Is allowed for the Pullman porter. If tips are ; lvcu to waiters they must be Included n the prlco of the meals , and these must always bo within reason. Tips to the coatroom boy , a dime to the bootblack and similar little items come out of the employee's pocket and not out of Uncle Sam's. In view of these rigid interpretations of traveling expenses that have pre vailed for some Umo In most of the departments In Washington , President Taft'a deslro that the first teat of econ omy be nnide on the traveling ex penses of the government has aroused Homo consternation among the men who travel regularly In the oervlce of the government. These include the revenue , postolllce , treasury and cus toms Inspectors , pension examiners , se cret service men and special agents of the department of justice and others whoso duties keep them on the road most of the time. Sources of Wagte. The blow Is not likely to fall here , however. The real waste In govern ment traveling expenses , according to leading officials of the government , comes from two primary causes first , trips that are not vitally necessary , and , second , travel that could be pur chased for a less figure than Is actual ly paid for It. "Suppose we find that one of the bu reaus Is spending $1.000,000 for travel ing expenses , " said Norton , "and we find that there are ten or fifteen or twenty ways lu which traveling ex pense money can be spent first class single trip tickets , mileage , rbunel trip tickets , etc. and we put an expert to work and he finds that the bureau spent only $350,000 for mileage , where as it spent $1,150.000 for first class single trip tickets. "From the analysis and the questions which would naturally follow It Is found that it is the custom of the de partment to Issue transportation orders to the railroads to Issue tickets , which orders , in turn , are honored and set tled for at the first class single trip rates. This would mean that the tie partmcnt spends , let us say , $10 for n ticket to New York and back , $1 more than a private individual would spend by the use of mileage. "The individual buys perhaps $50 01 $100 worth of such transportation where the government buys $10,000 , ' 000 worth and pays for such a trij as I describe 10 per cent more that the individual would. If there is anj appreciable portion of $10,000,000 01 $15,000,000 on which 1 per cent or 2 pei cent or 10 per cent can be saved thai Is an item of waste for which an ad ministration might well be held just ly responsible and an amount large enough to engage the attention of con gross. " But back of the economy in purchas Ing transportation Is the bigger ques tion of what travel Is necessary. Th ( resident's demand for a test of econ omy In the travel department is llkelj to be followed by a tightening of the lines and the reduction of some ol the travel that has been developlnf during the last few years. Such an economy would undoubted y hit the agricultural departmen with considerable force. One state ment from the economy experts showi that the travel of this departmen' ' amounted to about $1,300,000 for tu < last year. Good Results Expected. President Tuft's Inquiry will un doubtedly determine the most econom leal method of handling travel ex penscs. It will result In the cutting ofl of many trips ; but , most Important o : nil. It will put the travel of the gov eminent upon n scientific basis , when the cheapest rate Is obtained for everj Item of expense. The travel expense , although It ha ; been thrust forward by the attentlor given it by the president actual ! ) only a small Item compared to tin great developments that are to comi from the board of experts. Cbalrniai Cleveland has with him now Wllllan F. Wllloughby , until recently nsslstan director of the census , and Merrlt O Chance , former auditor for the postof fice department. There Is a furthe advisory board on "economy and efil clency" from the departments. Eacl department has its own board of econ oinlsts , and under Chairman Clevelani Is n big stafT of experts. Every dollar spent by the govern ment Is to be analyzed and located. The succession of Charles D. mile : to the post of secretary to the presl dent transfers to his shoulders th work of supervising the Inquiry. With in the next few months Intcrestlni facts are likely to come from tbi Cleveland board as to the real source of waste In the management of a bll lion dollar government. Bound to Do Discovered. If a man Is really reliable ho doesn have to devote much of his time to e : plotting that virtue ; you are watchc pretty closely whether you know It < not Ateblson Globe. They are as sick that surfeit wit too much aa they that starve wit nothing. Shakespeare , Try a News Want-Ad. Five Story Oulldlng Burns. Chicago , May 22. Fire today do- Hlroyod the Northwestern Can com pany's building , a llvo story brick structure , causing a loss ot $100,000. Two Iloors of the structure were oc cupied by Davidson Uros , Marble com pany. MARTIN SHERIDAN THROUGH. Famous Athlete Says He Has Hid List Fling at All Around Title. Martin Sheridan tins announced that tie had competed for the last time in the all around championships and that tie was content to leave his present world's all around record of 7.385 points for others to shoot at. Martin nun not the time nor the inclination to go through another long siege of trainIng - Ing necessary to fit himself for an all around championship. He says ho still will take an occasional fling at discus throwing , shot putting , weight heav ing , standing jumping and events which come easy for him without spe cial preparation. "Never no more , " however , for Martin as far as the all around game goes. Holmer May Go- Abroad , nans Ilolmer. winner of the Pow der Im 11 race , has an offer to tour Italy , Africa , South America and Australia this summer. Pa Was Right. "Pa says you keep almost every thing here. " said the small son of the village editor. "I gue s your pa's about right" re plied the owner of the general store. "And nn says. " continued the little chap , "the reason you keep KO many hluga Is because you don't advertise. " Chicago News. { Soulless Contributors , "The congregation numbered thirty- wo souls this morning , " remarked the mrson "Thirty souls , " corrected the dracon , 'Wo got two plugged nickels in the collection box , " Kansas City Journal A MILLION MARYS IN THE BRITISH ISLES They Will Units In Giving Coronatloi Present to the Queen. Since the movement began to hav all the British Marys unite in glvlni a coronation present to Queen Mar ; the number of women , children am men bearing that name is proving t be astonishing. Already It la behii predicted that there must bo at leas 1,000,000 women who bear that nain or its variants In England , Scotlam and Ireland. It Is only by careful reckoning tha one can realize tin- number of Maryf There are heveral In the royal famllj First comes Princess Mary of Wales Princess Victoria and Queen Maud o Norway are both Marys , and Princes Henry of Rattenberg Is n Marie. Am two cousins of the king have the nam of Marie , ' . . .ese are the crown prlii cess of Roumania and Princess Marl Louise of Schleswlg-Holsteln. Then several of the duchesses ca become contributors. The Duchess o Norfolk and the Duchess of Bedfon are both Marys , the Duchess of New castle Is May , the Duchess of Rutlan Marlon and the dowager Duchess o Grafton Marie. In Scotland the relgr ing Duchess of Hamilton and her prec ecessor , the former duchess , arc bet Marys , and the Duchess of Roxburgh is May. The Duchess of Abercor makes another Mary , and she rep re scuts Ireland. Mary Is n name that , of course stands high In favor with Roman Call ollcs. Most of their women bear 1 Indeed , It Is even given to a few o their men , as In the case of the lat Lord Aruiidcl , the Duke of Norfolk1 son by his first marriage , who had th names of Philip Joseph Mary. It IB a Interest to note that the name o Mary was rare In western Europe unt the time of the crusades. After tha Ijowever , It came much into favor , an every Christian country has now it roll call of celebrated Marys an Maries. TO FIRE $2,000,000 OFFICE Du Pont Company Will Prove It Headquarters Fireproof. The ou > lils ; > f the Du Pont Powde company at Wilmington. Del. , hav decided upon an unusual plan to deni onstrate that life two million della otllee huildlim and he.-idquartcrs of th concern Is tircproof. .lolin J. Raskol an olllclnl. stated that In several room fires would be started with Inlliunnu ble material and the tlames left to d their worst. Insurance underwriter will bo present. Every precaution will be taken , how ever , to extinguish the fires should th building not withstand the test Th structure , Mr. llaskob says , has ever safeguard against fire. It is built o steel , brick and cement Ball Game and Fight. Ewlng , Neb. , May 22. Special. I The News : A game of baseball wt played on the Ewlng diamond Satu day afternoon between the Orchai and Ewlng nines , the score standln 8 to C In favor of the homo team. Ro Benson and Herb Shannon of the E\ ing nine each scored homo runs , stellar attraction not on the bill o curred after the game was over. Tl left fielder of the visiting team seer ed to bo aching for a fight and wou not bo satisfied until he was nccoi modated. Ewing scored again. Tl vanquished is said to hall fro Omaha. An Air Race In Germany. Frleherg , Germany , May 22. Foi aviators , who are competing In tl upper Rhino reliability flight , arrlv < hero from Baden , having mndo tl prescribed Intormedlnto landing : it Offonbttrg. The first to rcadi Frlc- burg was Jcannln , who covered the dis tance In two hours and ten minute. ) . Hriinhuber wan second , In two hours and eleven minutes. The aviator Wit- torstaettcr , who attempted the flight with his wife as n passenger , did not finish , The subsequent stages of the reliability flight Inclndo MulhaiiBon Strasshurg , Mannheim and Frankfort at a total of 160 miles. NEW USE FOR BASEBALL. Teacher Takes Novel Method to Rouse Interest In Mathematics. Baseball baiting overages and other sporting statistics have been used with success by John B. Hebbcrd , head of the mathematics department of the Newton ( Mass. ) Technical high school , In developing an Interest In mathemat ics among backward boys. Mr. Hebberd has a class of boys who have HiMjnt from seven to nine years In the grammar school without getting ahead. One of the most dllllcult things has been to give them a grasp of mathematical principles. The new scheme by stimulating Interest has proved of great assistance. "Wo took advanthage of the spring trip of the Red Sox , " said Mr. Heb- herd , "to use batting averages , num bers of right hand players and num bers of left hand players , etc. , as foun dations for our mathematical exer cises. The football season also gives us opportunity to work out some prac tical exercises which Interest boys who have never before been Interest ed In mathematics. " Carlyle's House Sold. The house In which Thomas Carlyh- was born at Ecclefechan has been sold fo the London syndicate which possesses - es Cnrlyle'H house at Chelsea and will be furnished to represent the house as It was In Carlyle's boyhood. Impatience and prldo have destroyed more souls than wickedness. Mazzlnl. A Household Jewel. "Is your new maid competent ? " "Very. She can even fool agents and peddlers Into believing that she's mis tress of the house. " Detroit Free Press. Quite a Criminal. "I suppose there's none of us bett r than we should he" "Indeed , no' I was thinking It over last night Why. only yesterday I wa. guilty or UIIIIIIK time , murdering n tune , smothering a yawn , stealing a kiss , cutting a creditor and breaking Into a pnrhplratlon. " London Tit-lilts Grant-Wills. At Omaha , Saturday afternoon , oc curred the wedding of Paul Grant ant Miss Merle Wills. The young couple returned hero Sunday and will nmk < their home In this city , the groom hav Ing recently purchased a homo or South Eleventh street Mr. Grant h a prominent business man of this city , having only recently opened i plumbing shop in the Koenlgsteir building. He Is the son of J. L. Grant a prominent Madison county retiree farmer , and is a nephew of S. H rant of this city. The bride is one of Madison's most prominent younf women , the daughter of William Wills MORE POSTAL BANKS COME. Hereafter They Will be Added at thi Rate of 100 Per Week. Washington , May 22. Postmaste General Hitchcock , impressed by thi representatives of the successful op eratlon of the post savings system has decided to designate hereafter fo ; considerable time 100 additional post al depositories each week , instead o fifty , as a month ago. Announcement was made of thi designation of fifty , twenty-three o them to be located west of the Mia slsslppl river , where the heaviest dc posits heretofore have been made am where the department feels banklni facilities are comparatively limited. The new postal banks will open fo business on June 19. Among the nev western offices are Holdrege , Neb , and Lead , S. D. Miss tugenia Gllmour. Ewing , Neb. , May 22. Special ti The News : News of the sudden deatl at Lincoln of Miss Lugenla Gllmou which occurred Friday morning at 1 o'clock caused a feeling of gloom am sadness to spread over the entln community. Miss Gilmour was hori at Cherry Hill , Md. , fifty-seven year ago , and previous to her removal t Lincoln about two years since was i resident of Ewing. She was a popula worker In the orders of the Easteri Star , the Degree of Honor and th Royal Neighbors each of which wor represented at the funeral obsequle ot the deceased. Miss Gllmour was i sister of the late E. S. Gllmour , fem : orly county clerk of Holt county , ai other brother , also lately deceasee was for years night foreman on th Baltimore Sun. The deceased leave a sister-in-law Mrs. E. S. Gllmour , an four nephews , Harry , Ned , Jay an Lugeno Gilmour all of Lincoln , an William Gllmour of Valentino. He sudden demise was the result of heat failure. She apparently was enjoyln the best of health up until the ver moment of her final summons Miss Gllmours remains wer brought to Ewlng yesterday afternoo and amidst a profusion of flowers brief service was held at the M. I church after which they wore deposl ed In the Ewlng cemetery. A 16-lnnlng Game at Butte. Butte , Neb. , May 22. Special ( The News : The first game of th championship series between tli Butte and Gregory high school tean : was played on the Butte grounds her the game going to the homo team a tor ono of the fiercest battles eve played on the Butte diamond slxtee Innings , 8 to 9. Gregory carried o ho honors In the Gregory county dl Islon by never meeting with dofual single time , whllo the Butte lean : mdo the sanio record In the lloyi ! ottnty division. The Gregory team ecently returned from nit oxtendoel our of portions of South Dakota , los ng but one gntno whllo away , and II vns manifest on tliolr arrival here liat the contest would bo close , at ho opening game was eagerly soughl or. or.Butto Butte scored ono In the second am hrco In the third , with which thoj were obliged to bo satisfied until UK nst of the twelfth , when they scoret no. Not a Gregory batter reachoi ho Initial sack until the first of tin ourth , when they got two , and in flu Ifth added two more. No more runt mtll the twelfth , when" the visitors nnoxcd another , but were again tied "our strike-outs In the thlrtoontl ailed for nothing but cyphers , and It ho fourteenth Gregory landed three nero and the limit and again wore led. A long drive for two bases 03 loyal Wilson and a hit by T. Krlkiu arned the winning run for the Butte ads In the last of the sixteenth. The features of the game were the Ine work of the pitchers and the hit Ing of W. Krlknc and Wilson of thi ionic team , the former getting twe nfo ones and three sacrifices In si ; hanccs and the latter getting twc onbles and a single. It was the longest game over plnyee n the county. The second , gnmo of the series wll bo played at Gregory Tuesday. The score : Gregory .0002200000010300 ! Jutto 0130000000010301 ! Two-base hits : Wilson (2) ( ) . Sncrl flee hits : Tlenkcn , Spencer , Tingle T. Krlkac , Wills , W. Krlknc (3) ( ) . Hits Oft Krlkac , 8 ; off Slcgel , 11. Hit b : ) ltched ball : By Krlkac , 1 ; by Sic gel , 1. Struck out : By Krlkac , 21 ; by Slegel , 9. Nellgh 10 , Stanton 6. Nellgh , Neb. , May 22. Special t < The News : Upon the return of tin ilgh school baseball team from Stan on Saturday evening there was i much of jubilant youngsters. The ; defeated the Stnnton boys on thel own diamond with only eight playora Center Fielder Miller not only playei its position but also that of the rlgh garden , on account of the absence o Corby. The boys report that Mlllo was there and over. The final scon was 10 to 6 In favor of Nollgh. Thi game closes the school year In base ball , the homo team having won foil out of the six games ployed , loslni the two games played with Norfolk. Great Rain Comes Down. That was a great rain. It amountei o 1.21 Inches In Norfolk. A magnificent rain the rain wo'v all been praying for descended upoi lortheasteru Nebraska Saturday nigh and Sunday , benefiting crops lues timably. A million dollars would b a tame and colorless way of trying t sxpress the value of It. The rain was general over the easl srn part of the state , extending a far north as the state line at Anok ; and as far west as O'Neill. Following two weeks of hot , dr winds from the south , which had fille the air with dust and sapped the so ] of moisture , the ? generous downpou was a blessing to all the territory tha 'it covered and Its effect was percei : lbly felt upon the Chicago board o Lrade Monday morning. The ground was not suffering , ej cept In pastures , for want of watei jut the copious rainfall at this tim has given growing crops a boundin start in their race to get under th maturity wire before frost. Even thing Is looking up , as a result of th soaker. Rain began falling again in Noi folk Monday afternoon. Every bit c the rain soaked into the ground , s ; ently did the moisture fall. Neligh , Neb. , 'May 22. Special t The News : A most welcome rain vli ited this vicinity yesterday , comment ng early In the morning and contii uing during the entire day. Towar evening it began to get warmer an then the rain descended In real en nest , causing the gutters In the street to become nearly bank full. This Is the first good soaking ral that has failed in this section of th state this season. It cannot be est mated the largo amount of good thi lias been to the farmers , who In th past few days have complained of th dry condition of the soil. MONDAY MENTIONS. Paul Deck of Hosklns Is here tran acting business. J. E. Jackson of Dubuque. la. , WE in the city visiting with his slsto Mrs. J. W. Dietrick. A. E. Ward of Madison was in tli city visiting with relatives. R. S. Lackey returned from a bus ness trip to Battle Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kinney mae ] an automobile trip to Stanton. Superintendent J. fl. Kemp < Wayne was here on business. Arthur W. Hawkins returned fro : a business trip to Long Pine. C. E. Fechner of Stanton was hei visiting with Adolph Moldenhauer. Mrs. L. L. Lenten of Omaha is I the city visiting with W. J. Schultz. W. W. Marshall of Niobrara was 1 the city visiting with the A. H. Vie family. Walter Pliant and Richard King ley returned from Stanton , where the went to visit relatives. Mrs. Bertha Pilger has gone to Staten ton , where she is visiting with In daughter , Mrs. Edward Chase. Mrs. S. W. Mappes and daught Helen of Norfolk and Miss Mar Mappes of Sioux City returned lion from a week's visit with relatives Grand Island. Born , to Mr. and Mrs. B. Mnnn , eon. eon.A A special meeting of the Conime clal club is to bo hold tonight. At tl meeting the final stops on the ele tlon ot a permanent secretary Is ie a feature part of the meeting 'resident Kllllun declared today thai ho paid dt'crutary Is to ho mimed to ilAht. Tina Mlckolflon , daughter of Mr nd Mrs. John Mlckelaon , was opnrnt d on for adenoids and enlarged ton Us Saturday. A real Chinese pheasant has roach d a local shop to bu mounted. It h ho first bird of Its kind handled b ) Norfolk taxidermists. The advertising cnr of Campbol irothers circus arrived hero Sunelaj light The ad men arc busy blllliif owns In this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Ludwlg Koenlgstult ave moved into their beautiful now otuo at the corner of Koonlgstoln tiv mm and Eighth street To add to the comforts of the om iloyes , the Norfolk Steam laundry as Installed tub and shower batlm In ho holler room of the laundry build 11 g. g.Business Business men In Norfolk enjoyed no of the best trading days of the prlng season Saturday. The regulat relors were necessarily held for lati ollvery. H. M. Purely of Madison is In the Ity , looking ever the Commercial lub's Belgian draft horses , with r low of purchasing two ot the mosl nluahlo ones. Beicnuso of the rain Sunday , the El In baseball tonm did not cotuo lion or the scheduled gnmo with the Nor olK'tenm. A game with that team It elng arranged for next Thursday. A regular quarterly meeting of the Jurns club Is being planned for June y the local Scots. The mooting will nkc place at the J. A. Ballantyno res ilunce. The program will be a social no. no.An An adjourned term of the ellstrlcl ourt was held at Madison Monday "uesday morning Judge Welsh holeh short term at Plorce and Tuosdnj ftornoon an adjourned Jury term wll o held at Nellgh. The Woman's Home Missionary so lety of the Metlwdlst church wll ueet with Mrs. J. H. Lough on Soutl Ninth street Tuesday afternoon at I ( 'clock. This Is mite-box openlnj lay. Bring or send the mlto boxes. Gotllcb Heckman was arrested Sat irday by Constable Flnkhouso or harges of trespassing on the prop rty of J. W. Ransom. The matter lie o be settled In Judge George C. Lam jert's court Heckman Is chargee vith fencing up property belonging te Innsom and using It for a pasture. George W. E. Dorsey of Salt Lake lity , formerly a congressman fron ho Third district of Nebraska , Is In i erlous condition as a result of stem nch trouble. An alarming syinpton s the turning dark of ono of his leg ! vith general numbness , and It Is fear id the limb will have to be amputat id to save his life. Next Saturday night the Cominer cial club will entertain every travel ng man In Norfolk at a smoker li Marquardt hall. There are 165 trav ellng men enrolled on the list ofUlu ocal U. C. T. lodge and an effort I : > eing made to get a record breaklni irowd of the travelers together. L j'ood speaker is scheduled for an ad dress on that night. A valuable plate glass window o one of the A. L. Killlnn company' show windows was broken Monda ; when an outside case collapsed , whll being repaired. One of the smal ; Iasses in the outside case was broli en some time ago and when it was be ng repaired it collapsed , fallliii against the big window , breaking il The glass was Insured. Postal card Invitations have beei sent to all members of the Norfoll Country club announcing the forma opening of that organization next Fr ; day. In the afternoon there will h golf contests , tennis , croquet , boatln and special entertainment for th children. Lunch will be served to al nembers and their families betwee ! and 7 o'clock , and the balance o the evening will be devoted to dam ng. ng.Norfolk Norfolk won honors at the state I T. convention held in Grand Islan Saturday. A. Randklev was electe grand page and George H. Spear wa appointed as a member of the note accommodations committee. Thecoi ventlon goes to Beatrice next yea ; but local U. C. T. men say It will com to Norfolk in 1913. Norfolk was mor n evidence than any other city , 20 Norfolk buttons being distribute among the delegates. Following the footsteps of the Rurr New Yorker , which gave Norfolk tw columns of publicity , the Chicag Live Stock Journal sent a letter t Lhe Commercial club , asking for fu information about the club's systei of importing pure bred Belgian dral iiorses. The information is asked fc by the publication , for use In a stor the journal wishes to publish abet Norfolk's enterprise. G. L. Carlso was asked to give the publication th necessary Information. The A. K. A. C. defeated the millet at baseball on the driving park dli monel Saturday afternoon by a scor of 7 to C. This Is the second gam between the two teams , the first b Ing also won by the A. K. A. C. b the same score as Saturday's gam The game Saturday was anybody's tl the ninth Inning. Ogden. who pitchc for the A. K. A. C. , was wild for tl : first two innings , but he soon settle down and pitched a star game. Mlllt pitched good ball for his team , hi received poor support from his tear mates. This Is the fifth successh victory for the A. K. A. C. , havlr won all five games played. Battorlei A. K. A. C. , Ogden and Stltt ; Miller Miller and Larkln. Married Twenty-five Years. Mr. and Mrs. John Kreuger eel brated their twenty-fifth wedding a nlversnry Sunday afternoon. The t bles were decorated In roses and en nations and over 100 guests we present. Where the New Depot Will Go. Although the exact location of tl now $65,000 depot to bo built by tl Northwestern railroad at Norfo Junction has not yet Imnn dnllnlloly solocU'd , It Is authoritatively Hinted thiit the station will Bland either at the hmul of Heconil Htrcut or Third street. Surveyors have not yol ar rived to stake out the' pre'clso loeui' tlon and ( ho contract has not yol boon let , but the work Is expected to begin shortly. NORFOLK MEN BRING SUIT. Dei Molnes Man Asked to Pay for Damaqe Done Property. Dos Molnes , la. , May 22. Andrew Durland and A. Nylatul of Norfolk , Nob. , have sued O. P. llorrlck , con tractor here , for damages of $2,338. They nllugei their property was In jured by dytmml' * used by the con tractor. No Matter Where From. W. E. Graham , a Norfolk Scotch farmer and nn enthusiastic member of the local Burns club , rotates a good one on another Norfolk Scot. The latter coming homo from n recent Burns mooting mot ono of the Nor folk mandolin club of whom ho In quired If ho could play "Tho Honnlo Lass of Bnllnchmyle. " The musician answered In the negative , but Inform ed the Scot that ho could play "The ) Lancashire Girl. " "Play away , nion. It dlsna matter a doiii whnr she comes frat- , " an swered the Burns club niombor. Meets Sisters Here fter Thirty Years. C. R. Kleeberger of Aurolla , la. ; J. H. Kle'oberger of Monroe , WIs. ; Her man Kleoborger of GateOkla. . ; W. L. Kleeborgor of Kansas City , Me ) . , all brothers of Miss Maymn Klooborgor and Mrs. W. / . King are visiting In Norfolk at the heimo of the latter. This Is the first tlmo Herman Kleso- berger and his sisters have met In thirty years. Crop Outlook Never Better. Never was there n brighter outlook for crops In Nebraska than there IH today , according to a statement of Q. . Carlson of this city , who dnnlaroH Sunday's rain was worth mlllleum ot dollars. "Of course I cannot aay for certain just how many millions of dollars the rain was worth to us , but I could fig ure It out to a very close estimate It I knew just how much of a district It covered , " ho said. The rain , says Mr. Carlson , came just In time for hay and oats , which was already In a bad way. Corn was not Injured by the dry weather In the least. In many cases the farmers had not yet finished plant Ing corn , but the pastures , he says , were already beginning to burn and turn yellow. In the low lands along the sloughs , the hay was at a stand still , but now It will begin growing. The dry weather had not hurt the fruit crop In the least , but as the re sult of the extreme dryness , the nur serymen who put out orchards on con tracts , guaranteeing the growth of the young fruit trees are heavy losers. .Most of these young trees had died , but In some cases the rain will bring them around , making a big saving to the nurserymen. A week or two of the continued dryness - ness would have killed all of the trees put out by these nurserymen. Vegetables did not suffer , but the dry weather In some cases held them down. In many cases It has been re ported that the vegetables were not out of the ground , but this rain will bring them up quickly. The bright outlook for bumper crops Is general , says Mr. Carlson. Even in Kansas , a state which he vis ited recently , is above the ten-year average. Alnsworth Will Celebrate. Ainsworth , Neb. , May 23. Special to The News : Alnsworth Is arrang ing for a very elaborate celebration of the Fourth of July this year. Kills Her Five Children. Rambaph , Saxony , May 23. Driven temporarily insane by an accusation of theft , a woman hero today killed her live children and then committed suicide. How Chinaman Was Killed. Laredo , Mcx. , May 23. At the end of a rope which had been tied around his neck , Dr. J. W. Llm , a Chinese banker , was dragged around the plaza l In Torreon , Mex. , until his body was a mass of broken bones and bleeding 'wounds ' , according to reports reaching here. | After dragging Lira around the plaza until life was almost extinct , It Is re- 1 ported the rebels shot him several times. He died within a few minutes | Dr. Llm was ono of the wealthiest Chinese In north Mexico and was at the head of a banking Institution con trolled by Chinese capitalists. Junction News. Miss Gwendolyn Arnold of Valen tine was In the city yesterday on busi ness. ness.Miss Miss Catheryn Campbello accepted a position at the hospital last week. J. F. Moore passed through the Junction last evening on his way homo to Chadron ' from a visit with Scrlbner relatives. Miss Otolla Metz of Foster waa here yesterday on business. Guy Arnold of the pile driver gang , working at Verdel , was at the Junc tion yesterday visiting friends and relatives. William Alton , former foreman ot the roundhouse hero but now foreman of the Long Pine round house , visited with the shop boys yesterday and Sat unlay. James Bronnan went to Oakdale yesterelay to do some work for the company. Clint Bain , a former Norfolk rail road boy but who with his family took up their residence on the Panama Isthmus some years ago , was hero on a visit with old friends last week and loft Sunday for Elgin for a visit with his mother. Miss Eldlna Whlto of White wood Sundayed at the Junction.