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i5 eJ:IJBiBaBamn.0nmwaaasisBmBam Jaarf V aPffQjihf ijfafcdi!?S "C f ?SWPPPK?V:?S''?SihigLt J- JseTFbisaaiallaa"maw-aUJmnmuanl t'fWt nji'UnmmeEnw3Baaa-a.aaaa iT iiTif 1 1 iVr aW titai . Swt rJ3 -c9&FuusamsBsanmamuBaBm aB7i - '- Ur tfj. "" " f . 1 I I It ' - -. K t--: is-' f:-- i-.- fc -.- f"'-- r :' It r - nW2 ' f faic- . btAtUHD Mat 11, 187. Columbus gauraaL ColumbU8f Nlr. Mend at the PoetoKce, Cohuakes, Near., as i mail matter. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS BY Ctlinbis Jtinu.1 Co. (INCORPORATED.) TKBKS OF SUBSOIOTIO: OMrar.b7BMU.poetate prepaid tUt fliv snaths ..-........-.-- Tirea WEDNESDAY. APRIL 13, MM. nssnxsx i. aisstt, stiwak :. zmnsr. Mites. RENEWALS The date opposite roar bum ob roar paper, or wrapper shows to what flaw roar subscription is paid. Thus JaaOS shows that pament has been received np to Jaa. I, IMS. FeMB to Feb. t, 1HB and so on. Whea payauat is Biade, the date, which answers as a receipt, will be changed accordingly. DlSTNTINDASCES-lleepoaaaile.annacrib. e will coatinoe to receive this journal aatil the publishers are notified by letter to dieeoatiaae. when all arrearages mast be paid. If yoa do aot wish the Journal continued for another year af ter the time paid for has expired, yon ahoakl previously notify ns to discontiaae it. CHANGE IN ADDRESS-Whea ordering a change in the address, sabecribersshoald be aare to give their old as well as their new address. Japan and Russia do theehouting.but the Koreans and Manchuriana, around whose homes the war proceeds, agree with Gen. Sherman's definition. St Lonis Globe-Democrat. Deputy State Superintendent J. L. McBrien should be nominated by accla mation for the state superintendency. While there are many men in Nebraska well qualified for the place, Mr. McBrien possesses over all others the advantage of thorough knowledge of the detail of the office in which he has served four years as deputy, besides the advantage of a wide acquaintance with schools and school men throughout the state. Professor Borden P. Bowne of Boston University (M. E.) has been found not guilty of heresy, by the New York East conference. Prof. Bowne is a christian scholar and philosopher of the highest standing, and the Methodist church is to be congratulated upon his acquittal. We are glad that Boston University is to continue to be hospitable to advanced thinking, and that "the liberty of proph esying" is still to be accorded its teachers. Attorney Frank D. Williams of Albion will in all probability go as delegate to the republican national convention to represent the Third congressional dis trict The Journal desires to go on record in unqualified support of Mr. Williams, not because we deem onr sup port essential to his election, but be cause it affords us personal pleasure to testify to his ability and integrity, as well as his unswayable loyalty to party and friends. Mr. Williams has always been an enthusiastic Roosevelt man. This fact will especially recommend him for the nomination he seeks. The republican press of the state is almost unanimously endorsing H. C. Lindsay for clerk of the supreme coart Nothing has ever appeared against Mr. Lindsay, and from a party standpoint there is much in his favor. He has de voted his time and energies to the suc cess of the republican cause, and politi cal ethics require that he should be rewarded. As chairman of the state central committee Mr. Lindsay has con tributed more than any other one man to republican success. He is able and conscientious and would fill the office of clerk of the supreme court with credit Cecil A. Lyon, state chairman of the republican party and next national com mittoeman from Texas, does not favor William Randolph Hearst for president, but hopes to see him nominated for that office by the democrats. "I will give $1,000 to the Hearst campaign," said Mr. Lyon, "provided his nomination is guar anteed. His nomination woald cinch the election for the republicans. I want to say that no man who parts his hair in the middle can ever carry Texas for the presidency. If Hearst should be nomi nated I would like to make a few cam paign speeches in Texas. All I woald want woald be somelife-sized lithographs of the New York editor showing him with his hair parted in the middle and plas tered down over bis forehead." Record Herald. It is plain that the deaaocratio party isprepaxiagtoamakeaBewreveauelaw the great issae ia the oomiag cam paign. If the law aaakea bat few chaages in the amoaat paid by differ ent classes of taxpayers, it will be at tacked as" abortive" and "ia6Sc4eat' If a considerable amount of property that has heretofore escaped taxatioa ia uncovered, the payers of these aew taxes will be aasared that they are the victims of a great oatrage, aad that there is nothing for them to do bat vote the repablicaa party oat of power. WfoUowiagiatervfowirom W. H. Thompson, ia the Grand Is land Free Press, shows the disposition of the opposition, to begia attaddag the aew law long before it is kaowa what it will accomplish ia aetaal operation: "I caaaot be a candidate of the party this year, either for oftce of governor or aay other said Mr. Taoatpsoa, "owing to aay clientage aad other personal oblige- Another will be yoar eanai My interest ia the aaooaas of the party will aot, however, be aay less earnest, or my effort less active. The f atnre of oar cease grows Bright er aay by day. The brokea pledge of the party in power will certainly aot co aarebaked. The present reveaae law, with its iaiqaities aadaajatt provisions, will aot be endorsed at the alag election." It may bewail to uulml this dechuatioa with the ware of another member of the eame party. Mr. Sallivaa, who aa chief of the aapiesai) oourt of Ve beaded dowa oa December 16, lK,aa epiaiea conmtalug thefcUow Lagcoaeerniagtaesaanelaw: "As a whale we believe the law to he a to have beea fraaul with the oejeet of reaohiag all i sopor I j ia aad to impose apaa all tax. hit preperty its daa share of the uub- 1m tardea. That it amy mil ia as to it aa a whole. -Nebrsha fK '.- . Mb coneornius; ta ssase av: -mm a PPy one or am favorite remedies for hvooorisr. honesty with misrepreseat I vSa nla TtoJ aadsSTavSaT .- m .. mm a ' ... ... u ffaawu 7 a a sawaai saMU uv aaeaamwkaaawaa waaai aiRSF. a r aave oeea nausea witn . norueaal abase. wiv.- saw Haawn in nss aaiaw tas bib. bsi ! ' - - iiiMi twt- mmt mmm DiaanHMii h aao himm a, "-" .-.. .... .. - . . - . a . .. . u&amj, -. T- '-- "". ZZ ' . " ' " " - - - - - -.- .-..-.-.-"- - . - - 1 ,... wina uwain7,ixe.,. a, ouiw, xzvaa. Aiaaoiake MF Ha harden, ' -" - - - -- - "- "- -g - -J "- "" - -- "- r ' -f- - yffyfj earth of Geaoa, east the eeepegatioaaacatlasotiac m- - isananeaa noes net reentre aa to eon- m am owa mtsmuersnoa of utterance, lag a oertain five-ess weed knows r-' " '. nTXa---..- aauMtsane; m, anaauitesa whole." Netxaka acate aad to farajseae awtdtezte every weak wlaat he oaee said, ko-wit: "Ia eaaw. we... .-......- the amuaiauily. Bay. Ubnerof thai oity I tarns from Grsad Chanter to be held ia I ammo. ., - - - . . - w , er - - - or - - - m eumal J for ertiortsrieas ia beaalC of aaaity, Ban." hTow, amumlag that ha atdant Total ......lavewui tteaded the esrviees and 8eadey evea-l BBBL '- v amauM: " , . x - aannnnnnnnnmnnnnnnnwnwaakiuS.' . . zr.' . .. -,?m-. -t ,-. ,-. . .r t.,. s. i j&Tm. . . .." r -.. . -v - . , JaJBaWMwaiawawawaawawwawaaaTawaaW 1 r- 1 1- utftmfbi' 1 iilatafarn1tt'nrrt,r -,,-,-t, THE MERGER DECISION. W. R. Hearst aad a few of bis follow ers have made the "aierger decision" the text of some editorials that will make valuable oontribatione to Roosevelt campaign literature. Their criticism that Roosevelt baa been a failure aa a "trust buster' and that behae been care ful not to prosecute criminally the pro moters of the Northern Securities com pany, will have little weight with those who have followed the history of trust lagislatioa ia the United States. Thousands of democrats will vote for Roosevelt becaass he had the courage to bring an action ander the Sherman law, the conatitationality of which a demo cratic president and attorney general denied and refused to teat These same democrats, knowing that the three dem ocratic judges of the supreme court voted with the Morgan interests in the Northern Securities decision, will com mend Roosevelt for bringing a civil action which won, instead of a criminal action which would have failed had one man on the jury belonged to the ssme school as the three distinguished democratic judges. The people whom the Hearst satellites strive to prejudice against Roosevelt by saying that his trust program has not benefited the public, will not fail to remember that the federal anti-trust law is a republican measure; and that in 1900 the democrats in congress defeated a resolution to amend the constitution of the United States so aa to enlarge the power of .congress in thematterof trust legialatioa. It may be that the "merger decision' will not benefit the public by reducing railroad rates. But would a criminal conviction by a jury have accomplished more in this direction for the public As a matter of fact most people doubt the emciency of the Sherman law in the matter of rate control. The Sherman lawminterpreted in the'Wrger decision" prevents a single company from holding the stocks of two competing railroad systems, so called, on the ground that such a holding of stocks prevents com petition. But it can not force these same railroads into cut-throat compe tition, nor compel them to publish lower rate schedules. Railroads are in the very nature of things transportation monopo lies, therefore any law that is designed to reach them only as competitors will necessarily fall abort Bnt those who believe that the railroads should be treated as monopolies, and controlled in the interest of the public by an exten sion of the power of the interstate com merce commission or by an enlargement of federal control through a constitu tional amendment, can find no hope in the democratic party. Democratic tra ditions are opposed to the extension of federal authority, and the democratic judges who voted against the govern ment in the "merger decision" were sim ply true to those traditions. It must be conclusive therefore that even it the Sherman law, aa enforced by President Roosevelt, does not afford the proper relief to the public, the demo cratic party can not be appealed to for a remedy. And it still remains that Pres ident Boosevelt has won a victory for the public. He has shown that the railroads are amenable to law, even if that law does not contain the proper economic remedy. He has forged one more link in the chain of federal control of the chan nela of interstate commerce. ATTEND THE PRIMARY. In making arrangements io attend the meeting called for the night of May 17, Platte county repablicans should not forget the more important primary meet ings called for May 7. It is a practice, too common in all political parties, for the majority of voters to forget the caucus and primary and then after it is all over, to cry out against the "ma chines" and the "bosses." Party organi zation is necessary under our system of government There may be better plans of organization than the one now fol lowed. But the will of the majority could be carried out under our present plan if all the voters would attend the primary. If only a few turn out, cer tainly these few mast constitute the organization. If these few form a "ring' and run things contrary to the will of the majority, who can be blamed but the majority who stay away from the only meeting where they may express their will? This year of all years should the republicans of Platte county stir them selves and go to the primaries for vigor ous and harmonious action. The oppor tunity ia exceptional. President Roose velt will poll hundreds of democratic votes ia Platte oomnty, because demo crate aa well aa republicans believe in him Those who vote for Roosevelt will support other republican candidates if thoae candidates are clean, strong men. The Journal therefore urges the import ance of early and united effort If there are factional differences let them be set tled at the primary and the convention. After the convention every difference should be buried and republicans should stand together aa a unit The columns of the Journal are open now and will be kept open for any thing that will tend to increase the republican vote in Platte county. THE BEEF TRUST. The investigation of the beef trust be gun at St Louie last week by the new departsasat of Commerce and Labor will be watched with interest If the low prices paid for beef on foot can be traced to a combination of the packers, in res traint of interstate commerce. President Boosevelt will cause proceedings to be instituted immediately. The investiga tion while being secret will be thorough, the investigating committee consisting of Secretary Cortelyou and others hav ing power under the aew law to call for coatracta and records of all kinds. The law makes it discretionary with the Pserident both to publish the report of the committee aad to prosecute the offenders, but congress may by resolu tion call on the President for the com mittee's report This investigation will test the effect of publicity oa the meth ods of the big meibiaatioae aad give President Boosevelt aa opportunity to apply. oae of hie favorite remedies for trast evils. BRYAN'S CAMPAIGN OF DEFAMATION. Mod II 1 aula x -- - -j-j -m, .. .... mm .l-niaamaa wd b w a .. k k W- -- -" "" BKMH MH W.-BUHU IBCltl WMH I sobriety and fair judgment Mr. Bryan saya that "there is no doubt that the corporate interests nave aa un derstanding with Judge Parker.' If this means anything it is that the jadge as President would be the mere tool of the corporations. He would violate'ais oath to help them, would make hie ad ministration subservient to them in every respect A specific charge -ia that he would appoint corporation men to the Supreme oourt, and in this connection there is a characteristic fling at the three democratic justices and Justice Holmes for their dissent from the merger decis ion. These four judges and Judge Par ker himself are traduced through a mean ineuendo aa though' they were faithless to their trust and the enemies of the people. For the effect on his readers minds Mr. Bryan might aa well declare that they were vile, corrupt parasites, who were betraying the public at the behest of capitalistic combines. When the most is admitted for him namely, that he is an honest enthusiast for a cause it is very apparent never theless that his methods are inexcusable. The effrontery or the insensibility with which he ascribes evil traits and evil motives to other men is amazing. By common report all the judges at whom he sneers are upright, conscientious officials and citizens. There is nothing that we have read in the reviews of Judge Parker's life which would indicate that he was not fully aa scrupulous as Mr. Bryan, as good a man, as good a neighbor, aa honest a politician. But the Bryan opinion briefly stated is that Bryan represents not only all the virtues but all the people, all humanity, while Parker is a malignant abhorrent mon strosity formed to do the bidding of soulless and wicked creations of the law. That, we say, is the Bryan opinion be cause it is the logical deduction from the Bryan insinuations. Looking at the spirit and import of the latter, it would really be impossible to exaggerate them by any form of statement They carry the grossest insults to every person who falls under the displeasure of the censor, and the insensate egotism from which they spring is becoming infinitely weari someChicago Record-Herald. In the Senate Mr. Patterson has in troduced a bill for the amendment of the Chinese exclusion act of 1902. He said he had received what he considered definite information that the Chinese government had denounced the treaty between that government and the United States and that treaty would ex pire December 7 next. Unless the law should be amended Chinese can come into the United States after that time without obstruction. A bill was also passed in the Senate providing for the withdrawlffree of duty,underbond, from the Louisana Purchase Exposition of any articles -and materials donated to incorporated institutions established for religions, philosophical, educational, scientific or literary purposes, or to any state or municipal corporation. Record Herald. BV P. J. BABBOir. To every one who believes in adding to the sum total of humaa happiness, including his owa: Greeting. Do your trading ia yoar home town; it wiUiacrease the value of your prop erty. Give us another bountiful corn crop this year aad we will forget our other troubles. There are some mea who never laugh and some who never cry, bat we have never known aay of either clam who amounted to a cuss. Inasmuch as Gongiasamaa Barkett seems to have a pretty good Mad in the senatorial handicap anyway, he might have refrained from pablisbing that foar page puff of himself that lately went through the mails. For heaven's sake, kt your children say Yes and No in answer to question, aaddoa't teach them to say "Yes. ma'am" and "No. sir". Nobody bam ever pat forth aay satisfactory reasoa why children should be made to use the language of servants. When Hearst gets to be president. Newa items from white house ; priated simultaneously in New York, Chicago, Saa Francisco, Denver, aad Omana; alx-inch letters; red ink trimmed in blacky "THE PRESIDENT GOT UP BEFORE BREAKFAST TODAY! ! !' We are both astoaished aad grieved that there should remain aay lady, and especially aay young lady, who does act realize the valgarity of appearing on the street with a toothrjick stack ia her mouth. Compared with this, we rcoasider a cigarette a shining oraameat. Corporal paaiaameat of children ia ao worse and ao better than capial punishment of criminala. A hundred years ago both were considered proper ry. bat oiviliaatioa was young then. It is not that in either the punishment ia amove than the victim may deserve, bat that the effect on the individual or oommuairi administering it is brutalizfng aad degrading. We are disposed to forgive old Bob Iagersoll everythiag eke he said, ia return for his creed against corporal puulshmeat of child ren. Bead it, every man aad woman. It will do .von good. The oaaaoeHor of the Uaiveraity of Nebraska is a scholar aad a cultured gentleman He does aot conceal his real opinions under pharasaical pre tense, bat says what he thinks and concedes to others the right to differ with him. When he expresses him self oa aay eabject there la no eqaivo- catioa aad ao room for iag. Nor has he been by those papers which have lately foaad delight ia reviling aim. His atteraaces have been garbled and dis torted, added to and subtracted from, aatil he has been represented aa say iag the meat impossible and outrage oaa things. Nobody believes he ever said them, aad the papers ia qaesttoa know that he did aot It ia a case where fraakauss has been met with hypocrisy, honesty with hraad-amiaded charity with i a cam just for la Mot bat every cae i read the hill eoarde advertis- COLUMBJJIX8. what he said, oartaialy aoboayoaa Had any fault with this. Bat pose the Omaha World-Herald had seat a special correepoadeat to iaterview Mr. Henry George en the subject of his relationship to atea. The aa euspectiag victim very iaaoooatly aa aoaaoM, I am for men." Thereupon the special correspondent hikes over to headquarters with his iaterview. pate it aader his microscope, it oarefally aad with, rising tioa, and finally submits ic to the pab Ho after makiag thefoUowlag slight corrections: Before the last word ia sert the word "all"; to the word 'for'1 afttetlMsylmble'.Bdast''; traaspose the last four words by couples, aethey do ia the square daaces; obeago 'the form of the pronoaa aad verb to con form to the altered coastraotioa;thea read the whole thing backward, aad behold: "All men are forainttme!' We may iawgiae the statbiag editor ials which woald appear the next week in the pages of the hamble followers of the metropolitan daily, to the effect that "That old reprobate, Heary George, baa turaed loose agaia with another calamity howl." Weooa- gratulate Mr. Henry George that he aad the World-Herald ware aot doing business simultaneously. A Most Important DeeieaJea. ' The Supreme oourt of the United States haa rendered few decisions of greater importance than that just handed down sustaining the contention of the Interstate Commerce commission, in the anthracite coal ease, regarding the submission to the commission of contracts between coal companies and the anthracite coal roada. As ia well understood, the coal companies are prin cipally owned by the railroads, there being eome independent operatora, so called, but these are of little conse quence, since they are entirely subject to the will of the railroads, which con trol more than three-fourths of the an thracite mining region. A charge of discrimination on the part of the anthracite roads was made to the Interstate Commerce commis sion, which instituted an investigation. The commission called upon the rail road companies to produce coal pur chase contracta to be held aa evidence, which was refused. The commission took the case to the federal oourt for the southern district of New York, which sustained the position of the railroad companies, whereupon an appeal was taken to the snpreme court The de cision of the highest tribunal is that the commission is lawfully authorized to make investigation and has the right to know how interstate traffic is con ducted, the relation between the carrier and its shippers and the rates charged and collected. The oourt could see no reason why a contract of the character existing between the railroade and the coal companies, "which has direct rela tion to a large amount of carrying trade, can be withheld from examination aa evidence by the commission." It there fore reversed the lower court The commission will now be able-to examine the contracta aa evidence, if they are still in existence, and it would seem that under the decision may re quire the railroad companies to furnish whatever information may be required in order to show whether or not there is discrimination. The decision-is espe cially significant in its bearing upon the principle of publicity. The right of the Interstate Commerce commission to whatever information it may desire in reference to the relatione between a carrier and its shippers and the rates charged and collected is now affiwied, we believe for the first time, by the highest judical tribunal. If there ia any limitation to this right it ia not sug gested in the decision. It is distinctly a broadening of the scope of the com mission's authority and in a direction that can hardly fail to materially in crease its usefulness. Railroad corpo rations will now understand that they cannot withhold contracta called for by the commission ae evidence in a case charging discrimination. It ia a very long step toward the realization of the public demand for publicity as to all corporations engaged in interstate com merce and warrants the belief that whenever a test shall be made of the authority of the bureau of corporationa in the Department of Commerce and Labor to make the investigational re-' quired by law that authority wQl.be sustained by the oourt of last resort Omaha Bee. Vewfsrtneaailreaa. Last Saturday evening a large aum ber of dtizene gathered at the Commer sjsl cjub rooms to talk over the propo sition of the Winnipeg, Yankton and Gulf railroad. The president of the company, a Mr. Miller living at Oak, Nebraska, haa written several oommuur icationa about the road, aad the aaeet ing was for the purpose of taking up the communication and aad out the eeatimenta of our people thereto. He requested that CO shsres at the par value ofJlOOperahare be subscribed, 10 per cent to be paid down and the balance when the road was completed; and' asm that the townships through which the road passed vote bonds oa the sssessed valuation of the property. The ant part of the proposition wae aa easy matter, providing he did not waat the cash before a showing was aeede that there, was anything beaiad the road. After considerable discussion the meet ing decided to send a delegation to Oak to esoertain more about the deal which committees composed of T. CLRsid, T. m. Efneas ana j. w. jsennett, who left Wednesday morningfor Oak to thorough ly investigate the matter and report later eo a special SMetiag of the citiasus of Fullerton to be called by the - ptthe amstisn; Newa-Jouraal Fuller- ton. Seal Fjtato Traaaf an Beober, Hockenberger k real estate egeatot report the following real estate traasfsrs filed for record ia oeaceoftaeooaatyelerkofPlatteeouaty. Gouty Tree to KWYoaac total ablkatCohfb. tawdiMMl ttearjr ansa to wat ptsweJU7-l, u r PHOaUrfchto Diets, ItaS aadSH-U.Colaai 6bl-tt.Colaaibaa.wd Chas Schaeth to Joa & m-lw.wd TbosBacktoMazBrackasr.wZaiot Shi 11. Platta Ctaav wri P K McKilliato M BbbhkU. s3 lata 1 aue aat as SMSB aaa z di i.una aaa io nam HQaaa Diets to J It Shi Israel Gtack to Cass Kale et aL wK k 4 hi 117 fnkaH Gettf awxW to Alaa MarolC, at aw4 nv ia.iA.wd Aawaafe WIB.. a aaaaaaa C WPsanaU toCBT voaa. n M UblV-narsaUaea to PS aart fB 1 to shine. SHaada Baaaaa toWai L Geek, a 4 at JMMstui s CMewesa. AGKICVLTiril. For thU department The Journal sol fei U itewu from Platte commtgfmrmtn, tkominm wAal thmg mreamtmtmmdhamtktwmii. eae of the aorosBthe river, marTrilii a car of cattle Mfmiay. Emil Bom and John Baokeah us eaoh shipped a carload of hogs to South tve asilsa south of Columbus aad the wiatar wheat haa bean re tarded by the eela rala. The- Kanimer Bros., seven milse south of Oolambaa. deserve a saaaer for heavy bogs. They brought ia Moaday ffty-ive head of hogs that averaged 358 ponada. They fed them later in the year than usual aad be-, lie ve that they gaiaed much by this. Mrs. E. J. Young who owaa a val- aabto frait farm saya she does aot be lieve that the storm last Friday injar ed her treat. The spriag opened mace later tain year than mat, aad though the iadieattoae are that there wiU not be a large crop of -frait, the trees ap pear to be in good ooadititica. The strawberry prospect, Mrs. Yoaag be lieves, is the beet. Beprsoaatative Trimble's bill to prevent the adulteration of blue grass, orchard graam,aad clover seed haa been reported by the committee on agricaltare and- is now before the The bill ia general terms it a misdemesaor to adalterate ormisbraad these seeds. The original bill declared the definition of adalter atioa to mean five per cent, bat the oommlttee amendment retraces this figure to two percent. The bill is gen erally reoogaized as a good measure aad one which shoald receive the fa vorable attention of congress. Mr. Joseph Heaggeler. a prominent farmer liviag eight miles northeast of Columbus, reports that seediag ia his neighborhood will be fiaiahed this week. Mr. Heaggeler waa one of the rat farmers in Platte county io adopt the liateffor planting com,aad he gives the following argument in its favor, aa a result of his fourteen years experience with it: "It saves from fifty to sixty percent in labor, as one man can till oae hundred acres or more. Small grain ia better following listed than check ad corn, because the stubble aad other vegetable wastes of the previous year are thrown by the lister to the sur faoe where they form a muloh which fertilizes the short roots of the small graias." Joha Ahreas. who lives aboat niae miles aortheaet of Columbus saya he believes that neither the frait nor the crops were iajared by the storm last week, aad that he also believes the winter wheat will be helped by the moisture and that the early wheat will be extra good but the late wheat is aot eo proaaiaiag. Ia his neighbor hood spriag wheat has been pleated aad the oats is nearly allia. The first ia entirely oat of the groaad. Nearly every farmer ia the Ahreas aeighborhood pate ia barley to griaad aad feed to hogs. Not much rye is planted there. Mr. Aureus has forty acres of alfalfa aad believes it to be oae of the best of crops for the farm er. He is feeding one or more car loads of cattle. Among the Caucaea. On account of Rev. Ulmer being in Palestine, no church services were held in the Baptist church Sunday. At the morning service in the Metho dist church on Easter Sunday, $170 wae given for the benevolent collection. Bev. Halsey attended the meeting of the Kearney Presbytery being "held at Geaoa this week, returning home today. . Mr. London rendered a cornet solo Sunday evening in the Presbyterian church which was exceptionally well received. The eubjeote chosen by Rev. Munro for hie next Sunday aermone will be UKtming, "God Beigneth"; evening, "Pippa Peases." Miss Lizzie Altringer, representing the Rescue Home of the Free Methodist church in Omaha, is in town this week aolicitiag aid for that institution. Bev. Halsey and James Nsylor will be the guests of Bev. Wise in Fremont next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday dur ing the ejecting in that city of the Omaha Presbytery. Members of the Catholic Forresters and Knigfate of America partook of holy communion at 8 o'clock Sunday morn ing in the church, over one hundred membera being present Rev. Millard will conduct quarterly meeting eon ice in the Methodist church next Sunday evening, and the third quarterly conference will be held in the church Monday evening. Tuesday of next week, in the Baptist church, Bev. Proper of Dee Moines, Iowa, district secretary of the home missionary society of that organization, will address tbepublic on subjects pertaining to his work. " "... 1 Bev. Foaathof Oaosple, German Meth odist minister, conducted quarterly letiag services in the Methodist church Sunday afternoon, aad romsjuad for the rviees in the evening it the seme church. Confirmation eervioes will be held May let ia the Catholic church whea Bishop ScanneU of Omaha will confirm a clam of 120 people. June 19 has been selected as the date for first communion ThehKuea aid eociety of the afetho- diet ehureh will aivea social at the borne of Mrs. Farraad, Wednesday afteraooa from 3 to 6 o'clock for the Iadiea of the ehureh who have reeeutly eome to the dty. AU ladies of tbaeongregatioB are asked to attead. No adauaeioa. aad no eolleetiou. Soeaetaiajr of unusual mterest to the Gatholice in this community will be or dination services of Yeneealaue Krsycki, bob of Joha Krsycki of Oohuubuo. The youaguumhaBforthe past three yearn a student in St. Louie aad theeele- bratioBoftbearst suss wiU take place iaCplumbuain July. Palestine Baptist ehureh free of debt. at Geaoe, east the over facte end ie a credit to unity. Bev.UlsserofUueeity attended the services aad Saaaey even. iag addreassd the young people, using as hie subject "Opportunism." Rev. Ben jamin ia the pastor of the church. Rev. Halsey made a divereioa from the asaal order of church, eervicee Sun day evening and introduced a large oloek, about three feet in diameter, to demooetraUthe awiftaeaft of tiaM, the rapidity with which we are psaring from time to eternity. He celled attention to the fact that people ere dying at the rate of 4,000 every hour who are without the knowledge of Christ and asked if the professors of religion did -not have a great responsibility in the spreading of the gospel. He cited the fact that the newa about the World'e Fair wae eo systematically advertised that in less than eighteen months the whole world knew of the great undertaking. The gospel could be as easily carried if the Christians would organize their efforts. Carl Kramer wae in Newman Grove yesterday. Henry Carrig was in Omaha Monday and Tuesday. E. A. Gerrard of Monroe waa in, Oo lambaa today. Miss Anna Gietzen is visiting rela tives at Humphrey. George Willard, of St Edward waa in Columbua Thursday. " ''" J. C. Dawaoa of Ocoaee waa a Oo lambaa viator today. Mrs. E. S. Osborne was in Fullerton last week on business. Jonas Welch of the Commercial Bank went to Lincoln today. S. J. Araett of Madisoa. ex-post-neuter, waa in Columbus yesterday. Editor Howard of the Telegram waa a passenger to Newman Grove yester day. Mrs. J. C Dawson of Oconee was the guest of Mrs. George Scott last Wed nesday. P. E. MoKillip, the merchant prince of Humphrey, was ia town Tuesday on business. Dwight Dickinson started Monday for Colorado, where he expecte to make an extended visit Miss Anna Sturgeon visited her sister, Mies Lydis, in North Platte from Fri day to Monday. George Burke of Omaha, brother-in-law of W. T. Rickly, was in town a few hours Saturday. Mm. a P. Derring left last Thursday for Holden, Kansas, to spend a few weeks visiting her parents. Mr. aad Mrs. Kerseahrockof Kearn ey are vimtiag the families of Joseph Heaggeler this week. Mim Hannah Harris of Central City returned home Monday after speadiag a week here with relatives. Mrs. Hobart wae called by telegram last Friday to Dell Rapids, S. D. to see her father who is reported seriously ill. Misses Ethel Ball, and Merlie Davis and Mrs. Albert Bahr of David City visited the public schools here Wednes day. Judge Reeder is down town again after an illness which confined him in the hospital and at hie home for several weeks. Mrs. J. B. Geitzen was called to Oeatral City met Tuesday by the ill ness of Mr. Geitzen who is on his ranch aear that city. Albert Colman returned home Monday from Lincoln where he has been attend ing medical college. He will remain four months for his vacation. Mr. and Mm. Will Rickly and baby of Omaha, arrived Saturday. OU a visit to the W. T. Rickly family. Mrs. Rickly will remain about one month. Mies Metta Henaley finished her term of school in the Buss district Isst Wed nesday, and Miss Minnie Young who teaches in the Adamy school will com plete her term in one week. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mc Faydea, formerly of Oolambaa. will be interested to hear of their moving from St Edward to Geaoa where they will be employed in the Indian schools. C. J. Carrig expecte to move hie family eome time this week, from Platte Center to the residence of Mrs. Miles Ryan on East Tenth street Mrs. Ryan has moved to the MeEver residence north of the North opera house. XieUtti ami Ticiaity. With Quill in band We take our stand. For we know its now or never, Local newa to write And keep in eight The village of Richland forever. Mrs. John King, who haa been under the doetoracare for three weeks, is im proving slowly. Robert Cresap speat Suaday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bart Stevenson. Mies Alice Plumb returned home Saturday after a pleaasat visit with Mrs. Wm. Price. Mim Alice Plumb returned hoaae Sat-1 ardey, after a pleasant visit with Mrs. I Win. Price. Miss Mary McBridea entertained Mim Niaa Cresap Sunday. Will Price baa.done a good thing. Had a fine 16x24 hen house built much to the eafisfaction of Mrs. Price and neice. Burt Stevenson now adde hie name to the list on.Roate 2 out northeast from Columbua. The crossroads west of John Dischner's ie now quite a post- omceas four mail boxes are located at that point. The trustees of the Richland M. EL ehureh had a big April fool. R. G. Pierce, night operator at this place skipped for parts unknown, leaving a shortage of $15 or three moatbe rent of the parsonage. Albert Cady purchased Pierce's household goods. At a regular meeting of Harmoay V No. 13. Order of the Star, the following aaaaed were elected :Mra.H.H.Stires, W.M.;F. W. Herrick, W. P.; Mm Mary Beardeley, A. at; Mra. Mary Barries, C; Low Early, Sac; J. D. Stires, Tress. A will be held for iaetal- lotion of oaacers, after mra. Stires' tarasfrom Grand Chapter to be held ia Omaha May 3. m rtlfeMINflL T MENTION -i 1 1 lit n-i i g 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i ; i M-:--H-i-H-x-x-x;i..t tin !;. " l:" emaauanuanuunmaaaaaan; Spring house-cleaning sale of high irrade pianos inclading Steinwav Jt Sons. Voae & Sons, A. B. Chase. Ster .t Sons. George Steck, HarduTan Reed & Sons. Emerson, Scbmoller & Mueller and twenty other makes' These piinos are strictly new, np-to Utte makes of many years reputation! WOULD YOU LIKR OXE OF THESE ? $550.00 Piano now $500.00 Piano now $400.00 Piano now $350.00 Piano now $300.00 Piano now $275.00 Piano now $250.00 Piano now Don't delay. Call or write at once. Omaha Store, 1315 Farnam St.. Omaha, Neb. Lincoln Store, 135 So. 11th St., Lincoln, Neb. $4..:-K-K.-H.4 EIttfft(ltt(t((((f(((((C e m m a : STATE NEWS m i ttmn i yi ainav The city council of Oakland, at a meet ing last week passed an ordinance raising the saloon license frpmlSl.000 to $1,500. Alarmed by the nnmerouscapitol fires, Representative Sweezy of Websterconn ty will have a bill to present to the next legislature to appropriate f 122x090 for a fire-proof wins; to the state house. Thie will be need ss a library and storage room for state records. 1 A head-on collision occurred on the Burlington west of Ravenna Thursday. No. 44, the east bound passenger local, ran into No. 47, the west bound local freight, and Engineer Hamilton suffered a broken arm. Fireman Reeder was badly cat and braised up. Lincoln. Lylle Landred and Charles. Mentzer of Schuyler have been fined $5 and costs each for failing eye sight. They killed a couple of quail under the impression that they were ducks and were arrested by Deputy Game Warden Hunger. The trial was before Jndge Allen of Schuyler. North Platte. A prairie fire started Thursday in the eastern part of Mc Phereon county and, driven by a hard north wind it swept the county for thirty miles wide, nearly to the Platte river. The only casualties are that of William Ross and his son, Myrtle, who were severely burned and were taken to Gandy. The body of Corrine Jartnin, the 15-year-old daughter of V. J. Jarmio of Fremont, who was drowned in the Platte river on New Year's day, was found Sun day by a fisherman. When firat taken from the water it was but slightly de composed and the features were readily recognized, but as soon aa exposed to the air decomposed rapidly. The B. fe M. bridge that crosses the Platte river east of Grand Island caught fire Thursday morning and three hun dred feet burned ont. The origin of the fire is not known. "Men were sent out from Grand Island and succeeded in checking the tiamee. The Burlington ran their trains over the Union Pacific track between Aurora and Grand Island until repairs conld be made. Henry Loseke, of nine miles south of Leigh, ia erecting one of the finest farm barns in Colfax county. The building ia 56x61 feet, eighteen feet standing aad has a solid brick foundation with cross walla. The interior will be conveniently arranged for stock, gr sin, hay, etc. When the building is complete it will cost about f 1,5001 Henry II. Hnesman, of Leigh is doing both the mason and carpenter work. Leigh World. It really looks aa though Leigh was in a fair way to get at least two more mail routes. Nothing new has been heard from the proposed route which is to run north of town, but from Senator Mil lard's letter it is reasonable to suppose that he will be beard from on the same subject before long. Regarding the pro posed third route, which is south and east of Leigh. Postmaster Kibler has recived a communication fromCongress nan McCarthy, aaying that he has en dorsed the petition sent in. Norfolk seems to be peculiarly struck with noteworthy people just at present and to cap the climax which wee begun by Bixby, Maupin and Paul Gilmore, Mayor Carter H. Harrison is westward bound for a hunting trip. Following in the footsteps of Grover the gunner, the oficial bead of Chicago ie going ont into the western part of Nebraska where the oily-feathered birds grow in bunches to be shot at. The season-opens on April 1 and that's one reason why Carter H. ie getting thus early iuto the game. What game he may get ie a matter to Ibet upon. Norfolk Newa. If the laade caaaot legally be deeded back to the government so that the squatters can file homestead entries, then the Boyd oouuty settlers who are at present in controversy with the state Hand department over the lands of the old Fort Randall military reservation will endeavor to get a bill through the legislature selling the lands to them at $7 an acre and another to reimburse them for trouble in perfecting title et $7 en acre. Thie would get aronad the coa- etitatioaal provision agaiaet giving away the state scnool lands and virtually would give the lands to the settlers for nothing. Classified A?f rtisiig. " Wants." "Bargains," "For Bent." "For Sale." "Lost.n"Fouwt;ramd other special notices under this head are charged for at the rate of one cent a word each insertion, out no advertimnent taken for less than 15c. Send money urith coon as these accounts are usually too small to be carried to our ledger. LO8T-A pet do, jellow. with wait stripe aroaad asek. aervoas whea Ijiac dowa. Aay lafonaatioaas to his whereabouts will bs Kladir raceired. Charles Fiaecjr, Colambam. Neb. WAMTED-Cowa to Fastare-Parties waatiaa tare aear towa far cows, leare orders at with Bert Eaatoa. apriajt WANTED-A 1 mb rooat hoaae ia rood locatioa. Golaaibas, Nebr. aprUlt FOR SALK-Esas far sale from pria wiaaiac assasL loaiaasa acess. w.a.aa,H. wait KBiaeaa. Pckiac daeks. colored rorfii aad haa or num. j. 1-- uawaoa. m. w. n Mo. 4. Colaio . WshcaUa. Tel. QUI. FOB 8AE-BUliom Dollar1 seed. In. of FwalBiaS Voiat. m. oaaala at Gram aad riea'a. Cotaakaa. Nebr.. aprUtf WAaTTKl A airl for ceaeral sua. WANTEO-A girl for mhoI F.aLAaaoTr. ....,.16-4 SfikflllrfffeHllftlW WwawnmmBnvmrwal nan avAalwawamlPm Tfct Ms fUm stem. ! i X T V T I I $ i - - $345.00 305.00 - - 270.00 245.00 - - 210.00 185.00 - - 148.00 f i I ! Council Blufis store, 502 Broadway, Council Blutts, la. Sioux Citv Store, 403 4th St., Sioux City, Ia. LffQMATSUL The tUrne Talent of Columbus presents this pleas ing, clean and moral coiuedv lrama at the : ::::": North Opera House FrWaa, April. I5tn. lSaprlt 4-KjX-W-X-I-KK-::. a 5: he !. WANT A FARM. I t t We have a customer anxious to buy a farm of 120 or 100 acres close to Columbus. lie will allow the present owner to retain possession this year. It must lie good land, fairly well improved. ::::.- : : V X BfiGflER, H06KENB&RGER & GflflMBlaRS. i COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. X :-kx:x:.x-:k--x-xk:-::-k-x 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 ii HOISTS PHARIAGYJ Has just received a new stock of Fine Wal Paper We invite the pub lic to look the line over lefore buying. Rigifs' StanflMr Fin's, i 80M ia all shades, is nBMjnafol by aay paints or other stains. A rejristereil pharmaciot will enmpoaaa all Call oa as. prescriptions. A LOUIS SCHREIBER. Jr., Maaager. X 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 HI I H I iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiium FOR HATCHING FROM BEST LAYERS IN THE WOKU. I Htsi Ceo Iran LMfcris. j Mil latm nrmtft Ricks, t $1.50 Per IS. 'Yards located .? MocLteaxf of St. Mary'n tfospitul. MARTIN SCHILZ. Prou'r. T V 'Culuutkui. Xcbr. iiiiniiiiiuiiiiimiii LOUIS MAIER DOMH Buhn, f a(aan ati. tieaeral Bepairias oa gkort Notice. Teath and North a-.. H . nts. Mamaman, ami. FIFTEEI rmTRY SOCIALISTS. WKKEEPONLyTHKBEHT. Oar bread. ?" are high M-on-ra. If joa waat atil. We handle all Tarieti of fola feaaci a aay hiffh class poakryjard. "" svAS(n.uti6intal Cr-Cask anst aceoaipaay erdeta whea booked. W. H. SWART8LEY. M iTiarr Kowto3.VokM23&r. COLUMBUS MARKETS. Wheat, new , Corn Oata-Wbaaael ...::; Bye-baeael ; J -........, p-Vewt. Fetateera yewt Stock eteera-frewt... Fateowe-lfrcwt 74 . 40 . 32 . GO . : . 4404S0 . 3 25 4 25 . 2SO035O . 225300 C075 inmlH 'gW DVaffefMla . dosee 13 . FBUD PBJCBB AT BTTLL. Bfaa, bulk HO afcorte. - .'. 90 Chop feed. bulk. 85 oora. ............ auff eortensq every Tassaaj. ef- TkaK- rtV W -" L .f'f- rC I I t I i e 4