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CHANGE IN ADDRESS-Whea ordering a
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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
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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.
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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.
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real estate egeatot report the following
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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.
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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.
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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
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of Columbus presents this pleas
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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
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Call oa as.
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We handle all Tarieti of fola feaaci
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Cr-Cask anst aceoaipaay erdeta whea booked.
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