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NEBRAJKA.
Badluai. it is said, will clarify dla
saoads, but will it take them cut ol
kock?
Bertha Krupn's income is 12.400.001
a year. And she doesnt seem to bs
anxious to purchase a title.
A little English widow has obtained
$15,000,000 as her portion. How a
could love that "mite!"
Now that pepper is $3 a pound in
the Klondike, what do they use to
sprinkle en their watermelons?
A Chicago woman who stuck a hatpin
in a policeman eleven times was fined
$7. Virtue is still its own reward.
Some banks now disinfect all the
saoney they handle. It is such things
as this that give us that tired feeling.
A new play, entitled "An Honest
Politician." was produced in New
York. Realism on the stage is mori
bund. More than 500 students worked their
way through Columbia university last
year, without going out on a single
strike.
There was an explosion in a powder
mill at Goes, Ohio, the other day.
Things are reported to have gone at
a sacrifice.
A Chicago man recent ly choked to
death on a beefsteak. If people will
indulge in such luxuries, they know
what to expect.
New York is now discussing the
question. "Shall men smoke every
where?" What might be called a
burning question.
Even if we ever have a woman pres
ident, there is no just reason to sup
pose that her message to congress
will be mostly postscript.
A study of the mikado's new poem
lends to confirm the suspicion that it
is designated to be read to the enemy
In moments of great crisis.
A Japanese man is advertising in
the Washington papers for a situation.
He can probably get one, without
much trouble, by going home.
If Mrs. Chadwick had tried her
confdence game on Hetty Green,
there would have been a warm time,
but no money would have passed.
While the coreless apple may fill a
long-felt want, what we really need is
one that has a barb-wire entangle
ment against the industrious worm.
The Sun proudly refers to New York
as "the Babylon and Bagdad of the
West." Is it the Sidon and Tyre and
the Ssylia and Charybdis of the West?
May Yohe explains her New York
trip by saying that she just came for
some more money. Thought it might
be some more reputation she was af
ter. And now the porte has yielded to an
American ultimatum. The sultan has
got so row that he can yield grace
fully to an ultimatum in almost any
language.
The flowers that bloom in the
s;,ring. tra la. cut a very poor figure
in comparison with the high-priced
buds that bloom all the year round in
hot houses.
A French scientist declares that dys
pepsia can be cured by smiling. He
neglects, however, to explain how dys
peptics may succeed in getting them
selves to smile.
We don't see anything strange in
the story of the Ohio convict who for
feited his parole and lost his liberty
by getting married. Men who are
not convicts do that.
Physicians say that hiccoughs will
not attack any one who keeps the
tongue constantly moving, but only a
mean man. reading this aloud, will
congratulate his wife.
If John Barrett has to pay 13
apiece for shirts in Panama, allow
your imagination to dwell for a mo
ment on the probable price of a shirt
that would fit Secretary Taft.
Speaking of the irony of fate, don't
overlook the case of William Sharp.
a descendant of the Pequot Indians,
who has been fined for mutilating a
Iree at Orange, Conn. Injun, spare
that tree!
A New York policeman recently
made $200,000 speculating in real
etate. He should be advised tc
watch out for large, flashy-looking
women who approach with notes from
Andrew Carnegie.
Poker, according to the decision ot
a German ccurt, is not a game of
chance. Many a sympathetic Ameri
can who sits up occasionally with a
Pick friend and goes home with empty
pockets will be inclined to agree with
this dictum.
Young Mr. Tiffany of New York de
clares that he will have to seek charity
if the court keeps on refusing to let
hn have more of his father's estate.
Of course the dear young man couldn't
think of working a little now and then
to help himself out
Fining an umbrella thief 75 may
seem at first sight a severe penalty,
but think of the millions of previous
criminals cf this sort that have gone
unpunished. Viewed as a concrete
expression of the accumulated indig
nation of ages it was paltry and fee
ble in the extreme.
The man who exploited the manu
facture of "fancy brands" of cigar
ettes in this country has just died in
Massachusetts. If he has gone the
way his cigarettes went, we are cer
tainly sorry for him.
A very loose overcoat, skin-tight
trousers and a pumpkin seed hat con
stitute the most noticeable parts of
the fashionable New Yorker's costume
this winter. Sometimes it seems as
if the fashionable New Yorker must
have a terible grudge against him
self. One New York actor hit another
'over the head with a real ax, instead
of the property weapon provided for
the stanL An actor occasionally
sseets the desires and expectations of
the aadieace.
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
SEATS FOR LEGISLATORS.
Secretary of State Marsh Conducts
Drawing Instead of Old Method.
LINCOLN Seats in the senate
chamber and in the representative
hall have been selected by lot con
ducted under the supervision of Sec
retary of State Marsh. Heretofore
the selection has been made by the
members, first come, first served, but
this year the rule was changed be
cause the old way gave the advan
tage to those representatives and sen
ators who reached Lincoln early,
while others who had no business here
before the session had to take what
was left. The members of each dele
gation will be seated together, occupy
ing seats behind each other.
In the senate the front row of seats,
beginning at the SDUth part of the
room and counting to the north, will
be occupied as follows: Peterson,
Haller, Shrek. Harsh, Fries. Hughes,
Sheldon, Hart, Beghtol. The second
row, beginning at the north side and
counting toward the south, will be
occupied as follows. Mockett, Tuck
er, Epperson, Wall, Bore. Greese, Gil
ligan, Meserve, Williams, Gould. The
third row, beginning at the south and
counting north, is seated as follows:
Wl3ey. Whaley, Jones, Jackson, Lav
erty, Giffon. Jennings, Neilson, Din
nery, Gibson, Saunders, Thomas,
Good, Cady. Douglas county gets
seats in the north of the rear end of
the room, not a very desirable loca
tion. In the house the Douglas delegation,
beginning in the front row, has seats
directly in front of the speaker, the
best in the house. The men who go i
to make up this body will be seateu j
as follows. Beginning on the north
side and running south in the from
row will be seated Kaley. l-a'imers.
Howe, Peabody, Hoare. Jahnel. An
derson. Barnes, Voter, Cropsey, Bolen.
Fenlon. The second row beginning at
the south, will be occupied oy Crav
ens, Wilson, Johnson, Gerdes. Hog
refe. Lord, Fitle, Dodge. Clark. Cald
well. Fishback Christensen, Horton,
Ward, Perry, Milligan. McElbinney,
Gliem. In the third row. beginning at
the nonh. will be located Engstrom,
Bacon, Roberts, Seilley. Currie. Smal
ser, Livengooil. Ferrar. Rouse, Muxen,
Burgess. Burns. Holliett Foster, Lee
Muxen. Tucker Douglas, Copsey, Bed
ford, Coats, Jones, Hermanson, Whit
man. Ernst. In the fourth row, be
ginning at the south, will be Atwood,
McLa'n, Zuelow. Davis. Knox, Kyd.
Caqsebeer, McMullen, Bobbins, Line,
Bender, McClay, Warner, Smith, Hill.
Jackson, Saddler Detrick, Meradith,
Anderson, Cunningham, McAllister.
BILL TO AID NEW SETTLERS.
Supplemental Measure cf Judge Kin
kaid Liked at O'Neill.
O'NEILL Considerable interest is
taken in this locality in the new bill
introduced by Congressman Kinkaid
for the purpose of extending the time
of settlers on homesteads from the
first of May next
There is no doubt but that it would
be a great benefit to settlers who live
farther east and have their stock and
feed and sheds at their former homes
and if they would be allowed to re
main where they are now living until
about May next it would save many
of the intending settlers from losing
their homesteads, as it will be next to
impossible for a great number of the
settlers to move onto their lands dur
ing this month and next The time
for establishing residence of those
who filed on June 28 will be up on
the 28th of the present month and if
the bill introduced should not pass
there will be many contests filed, as
there is a great demand for the 640
acre homesteads in this and adjoin
ing counties.
Post Will Not Retire.
YORK George Wr. Post, president
of the First National bank of this city,
denies the statement made in the
Stromsburg newspaper that he ex
pected to retire from active bank
work and move on his farm near
Stromsburg.
Wants $5,000 for Son's Death.
GRAND ISLAND Julia Burke, as!
administratrix of the estate of James
Burke, a minor, has filed suit in the
district court against William J.
Hynes and Richard McMullen for
$3,000 damages, sustained by the aged
parents through the death of James
Burke in the elevator bin at Doniphan
September 30.
Hen Cholera Again.
AUBURN Hog cholera has been
miking great ravages in this county.
Scarcely a farmer living in the south
west part of the county but has lost
a large number from his herd.
The seed corn special train drew
good crowds wherever it stopped
Hibbard Hangs Himself.
OMAHA George W. Hibbard. aged
thirty-eight years, and son of Frank J
Hibbard. a well known and prosper
ous farmer of Irvington. hung him
self to the girder of a railroad bridge i
a mile from his father's house Sun- j
day afternoon. The body was dis-1
covered by a small boy walking along
the tracks and the relatives of the
dead man were notified. Hibbard has
been for several years the manager
of a farm owned by his father at Pil
ger and left his wife and three chil
dren there a few days since.
Seed Special at Humboldt
HUMBOLDT The Burlington seed
train special made a stop here at the
noon hour. A crowd composed of
leading farmers of this section to the
number of more than 200 was at the
station and assembled in the several
coaches, where they were addressed
for half an hour by professors of agri
culture and other scientific men from
the state university. The subjects of
soil cultivation, seed corn selection
and seed corn germination were dis
cussed as thoroughly as the time al
lowed. Families Move to Maryland.
COLUMBUS A party consisting of
fifteen in all four families are ship
ping from here to Maryland. These
families have resided in this and Col
fax counties for twenty to thirty years
and are very well-to-do farmers. They
are Germans and they have sold
their farm property and purchased
farms on a much smaller scale and are
located together about fifty miles
from Baltimore. They will engage in
fruit fanning: there. There was a
lively competition between the freight
agents, the Burlington winning out
STATE IN BRIEF.
One night recently thieves entered
the express office at Crab Orchard and
made away with five boxes containing
bottles of liquor which had been ship
ped to that point
Roy Coffin, while skating on the Lo
gan river at Lyons, was accidentally
shot by Willie Smith, who was hunt
ing, with a rifle. The bail struck Cof
fin's right leg above the knee.
Dr. Drasky of Linwood, Butler
county, has been arrested on the
charge of fishing in Saunders county
without a license. As no fish were
found In his possession, he was al-
Frank S. Murphey of Tecumseh. who
is visiting at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Murphey, one mile
from Cleveland, Okla., writes home
that oil has been found on his father's
place in large quantity.
The board of county supervisors of
Seward county will hold a three days
session, at which time they will de
cide upon the plans and determine
who shall be the architect for Seward
county's new courthouse and jail.
A shoe factory, employing between
SO and 100 men the year round, at
wages ranging from $S to $20 per
week, is one of the possibilities which
have developed for Norfolk's future to
substitute for the beet sugar factory,
now being dismantled.
The water in the Missouri river at
Nebraska City is lower at the present
than It has been for many years. The
water company has been compelled to
lay 1,900 feet of suction pipe across as
sandbar which has formed in front of
the pumping station, to secure water.
Sheriff Hall of O'Neill received word
that Bernard McGreevey, president of
the failed Elkhorn Valley bank, was
captured at Dhoenix, Ariz., and is held
there. Sheriff Hall left for Phoenix at
once with the necessary papers to
bring McGreevey back to Holt county,
lowed to go his way.
J. H. R. Parson, station agent at the
union depot in Fremont, has resigned
and will remove to Omaha to accept
the position of assistant city ticket
agent for the Union Pacific. His suc
cessor will come from the Union Pa
cific offices.
Safe blowers were at work In Am
herst and have thus far managed to
escape capture. Joseph Kreutzcr tele
phoned to the sheriff's office stating
that the safe in his saloon had been
blown open and $92 in nickels and
dimes had been stolen.
Sheriff Case of Fairbury came to
Fremont and took charge of Jacob
Brown, a young man who has been
serving a sentence in the Dodge coun
ty jail. Brown, who is only eighteen
years of age, is alleged to have ran
sacked two stores at Fairbury. He
broke jail there and got away.
Secretary Shedd of the World's fair
commission called on Governor
Mickey and recommended that the
statue presented to the state be
bi ought to Lincoln and given a place
in the statehouse. The expense will
be about $100, and Governor Mickey
readily gave his consent and approval
of the scheme.
Goveror Mickey commuted the sen
tence of George Coil, from Dawes
county, sentenced to the penitentiary
for ten years for murder. Coil was
tried twice, and both times received
the same sentence. Judge Westover.
who was on the bench and heard the
case, recommended that he be given
his liberty at the end of five years.
Bank Robber Holden reached Lin
coin in company with Sheriff Carrig
of Platte county and was taken to the
penitentiary, to which he has been
sentenced for a term of fourteen years
Holden alleged an overwhelming
thirst on his arrival in Lincoln, and
Sheriff Carrig allowed him a last
drink of whisky before escorting him
to the penitentiary.
Dr. S. R. Towne of Omaha, health
officer of the state board of health,
was called to Long Pine to investigate
a peculiar skin disease which a boy
living near town is undergoing. The
local physicians were puzzled by it
and feared that it might be contagious.
Dr. Towne stated that it appeared to
be an entirely new disease, and would
not attempt to name it.
Three forged notes have been dis
covered in Hall county, the name of
John L. Johnson, a well-to-do farmer
and formerly member of the legisla
ture, having been fraudulently at
tached to the papers. One check, in
the sum of $13. was presented and
cashed at a sale, another at Meier's
meat market for $5 and one for $10 at
Pierpoint's store in Grand Island.
James Kennedy, owner of 1C0 acres
east of McCool Junction, was, about
two months ago, discharged from the
insane asylum.and last week he was
taken back. Recently he commenced
to brood over money matters and im
agined that some one was trying to
get his money. He escaped from the
house and wandered about, thinly
diessed. all night. His friends found
him nearly frozen to death.
The permanent school funds will be
heavily increased as a result of the re
tirement of general fund state war
rants. State Treasurer Mortensen has
issued a call for all warrants to and
including warrant No. 105.859, for $30.
000, to go into effect immediately. An
other call for all warrants to and in
cluding 106,449 has been issued for
December 2S. State and county bonds
which were purchased by the state
board of education several months ago
are now awaiting delivery, and the
money brought in by these calls will
be at once reinvested in these bonds.
Word was received in Beatrice that
M. W. Hall, a former Gage county res
ident, had struck oil in paying quanti
ties on his farm near Erie, Kan. He
has sunk a well 542 feet deep from
which he is receiving an abundant flow
of oil of a' superior quality. Mr. Hall
writes that there are forty wells in
the neighborhood and ten drills ac
tively at work.
D. J. Pitman says that he has
w eighed in at Murray 28,000 bushels of
corn during the last eight days and
that about 50,000 bushels have been re
ceived there during that time.
Some good reports are coming in
from the yields of corn in Platte
county. Joe Micek, who lives on what
is called the "Island," between the
north and south channel of the Platte
river, in Polk county, just finished
husking a fifty-acre field, from which
he gathered 3.712 bushels, or almost
75 bushels per acre. He can market
the corn for 30 cents, which would re
turn him almost $30 per acre for the
crop. This land was a drug on the
market a few years ago at 18 pei
acre, and could not now be bought foi
much leas than $0.
VOTE OF STATES
OFFICIAL CANVASS OF NATIONAL
ELECTION RETURNS.
TEDDY'S PLURALITY 2,547,578
Total Vote Shows a Decrease of 460,
078 Compared With Four Years Ago
Parker Carried 13 States, Bryan
17, McKinley 28, Roosevelt 32.
CHICAGO The official canvass of
the votes cast November 8 for presi
dential electors was completed Thurs
day, when the result was announced
in Minnesota. North Dakota and
War ington. The Associated Press
Is therefore able to present the first
table giving the official vote of all
the forty-five states. The total vote
is 13,508,496. against 13,968,574 in
1900, a decrease of 460,078.
The ballots were divided as follows:
Roosevelt (Rep.) 7,627,632
Parker (Dem.) 5,080,054
Debs (Soc.) 391,587
Swallow (Pro.) 260,303
Watson (Pop.) 114,637
Corregan ,Soc. Labor) 33,453
Holcomb (continental labor) 830
Roosevelt received over all, 1,746,
768, and over Parker. 2,547,578. In
1900 McKinley had 467.046 more than
all the other candidates, and 859,984
more than Bryan. The vote for
Roosevelt was 409.822 more than for
McKinley. while that for Parker was
1,277.772 less than that for Bryan.
McKinley polled more votes than
Roosevelt in Alabama, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
Mississippi, New Hampshire, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia. Roosevelt got
more than McKinley in the other
thirteen states.
Parker received more than Bryan
In Delaware, Georgia, Miss'ssippi.
New Jejrsey, New York, Rhode Island.
South 'Carolina and West Virginia,
while Bryan got more than Parker in
the remaining thirty-seven states.
The republicans made gains over
their vote in 1900 in thirty-two states
and the official figures show losses in
thirteen. The total gains of the re
publicans were 732.048, and the total
losses. 312,249; making the net gain
419,799.
The democrats polled more votes in
eight states than in 1900, but less in
thirty-seven. Their total gains were
30,792 and the total losses 1,291,491;
net loss 1,260,699.
Roosevelt carried thirty-two states,
against twenty-eight for McKinley,
and has 336 'sectoral votes under the
apportionment of 1900. McKinley
had 292 under the apportionment of
1890, there having been an addition of
twenty-nine by the last apportion
ment. Parker carried thirteen states,
against seventeen by Bryan, and has'
140 electoral votes. Bryan had 155
under the apportionment in force in
1900.
Watson received his largest vote In
Georgia, the total vote of that star
being 22,664, with 20.508 in Nebraska,
being nearly one-third of his agre
gate. 114,637. Barker polled 50,21S in
1900.
The prohibition vote in 1900 was
208.791, in November 260,303, a gain
of 51.512.
JAPS L03E MOUND.
Russian Reports Say 203-Meter Hiil Is
Again in Th?ir Possession.
ST. PETERSBURG General Kuro
patkin has telegraphed to the general
staff that he has received a report
from Chinese sources to the effect
that the Russians have recaptured
203-Meter hill at Port Arthur, with
the guns mounted by the Japanese.
Kuropatkin's dispatch, which is
dated Dec. 31, also reports further
reconnoissance of boti. the Russians
and Japanese, but says they were not
productive of important results.
The weather at the front is sunny
and the thermometer reg'sters 14 de
grees fahrenheit.
The war office has no additional In
formation regarding General Kuropat
Kin8 report that the Russians have
recaptured 203-Meter hill, but the offi
cials consider it certain that the commander-in-chief
would not have sent
;he report unless It came through ex
ceptionally reliable channels.
MORE DENVER MEN IN JAIL.
Deputy Sheriff Among Those Adjudg
ed Guilty of Contempt.
DENVER The supreme court ad
judged Leonard Rogers, William G.
Adams, Louis Hamburg and Thomas
Kinsley guilty of contempt for con
duct in the second precinct of the
Seventh ward in this city at the re
cent election in violation of the court's
Injunctive order. Each was given a
jail sentence and a fine.
The court announced that the evi
dence showed that Rogers. Adams and
Hamburg had prevented the appoint
ment of a republican clerk, and Kins
ley had ejected the supreme court
watcher from the polls. Rogers is a
deputy sheriff and was a candidate on
the democratic ticket for the state
senate. Kinrley is a prize fighter.
Needed Money Is In Sight.
COLUMBUS. O. The executive
;omm:ttee of the American Anti
Saloon league closed its meeting here
yesterday after laying plans to extend
:he organization into districts which
nave not heretofore been penetrated.
It was announced that the league now
nas in sight sufficient funds to carry
3tit all its plans for the coming year.
John G. Wooley of Chicago was pres
ent and submitted a proposition to
consolidate all the temperance papers
"it the country, which was taken under
idvlaemenL
Few Friends in City
"While in New York this time,' said
the man from Alabama, "I have ob
served one habit of certain people I
met that impressed me as being very
peculiar and also rather pathetic. I
heard several persons actually count
the number of people they knew in the
whole town. To a man hailing from a
section of the country where acquain
tances are counted by the hundreds in
tend of the tens, that: method of cen
sus taking seemed a tremendous busi
ness. With us it would be an impos
sible task to sit down and make a list
of the people with whom we have a
speaking acquaintance. Up here it
is no trick at all. A cousin of mine
who moved North two years, ago was
the first person I saw perform the
stunt.
" 'Would you believe,' she said, 'that
although I have lived in New York
all this time, there are only 102 peo
ple in town to whom I could speak if
I met them in the street without tak
ing chances of being arrested as an
Officious slranawr
INSISTS ON A CHANGE.
The President Committed to Railroad
Legislation.
WASHINGTON President Roose
velt discussed with several callers the
proposed legislation regarding the
question of railroad freight rebates
j and the question of empowering the
j interstate commerce commission with
authority to adjust freight rates
wheie found to be excessive. Among
those who talked with the president
were Secretary Morton and E. P.
Bacon, chairman of the executive
committee of the interstate commerce
commission.
The president is anxious that legis
lation in the interest of shippers be
enacted at the earliest possible date
and the matter has been considerec
by him with many of his recent call
ers. It was stated by one of the
president's callers that Attorney Gen
eral Moody now was engaged in the
preparation of a hill which, substan
tially, would embody the views of the
administration on the question, and
that the measure,, would be presented
to congress probably soon after the
holiday recess. The president has
announced that the bill he is willing
to support must be fair to both the
railroads and the people. He believes
that the initial steps toward the de
sired legislation should be taken at
the present session of congress, and,
if possible, that the legislation pro
posed should be crystalized into law
at this time.
Senator Heyburn of Idaho had an
extended talk with the president on
the subject of federal charters for
corporations doing an interstate com
merce business. The senator indi
cated his intention to introduce in
J the senate after the holiday recess a
measure providing for the incorpora
tion under United States laws of all
corporations. The bill as prepared
by Senator Heyburn will provide that
corpora, ions now in existence must
take out federal charters and that
such corporations as may be organ
ized thereafter shall incorporate under
federal laws. AH such corjorations
will be under the supervision of the
department of commerce and labor
through the bureau of corporations.
The bill has not been matured thor
oughly yet. but Senator Hey burn
hopes to have it ready for introduc
tion immediately after the holidays.
ISLAND STILL IN NE3RASKA.
Meanderings of Cld Muddy Cannot
Ts' It Away.
WASHINGTON The supreme court
of the United States decided the boun
dary case between the states of Mis
souri and Nebraska in favor of the
state of Nebraska. The case involved
the question as to whether a change
of the course or the Missouri river
had the effect of changing land which
had theretofore been on the west side
of the river, to the east side of the
river, from the jurisdiction of Ne
braska to the jurisdiction of Missouri,
but the court held that It did not. The
opinion was by Justice Harlan, hold
ing that the boundary must remain in
the middle of the old channel as be
fore the change.
The tract of land that caused the
controversy is known as McKis?ick's
island, lying between Nemaha county.
Nebraska, and Atchison county, Mis
souri. The controversy originated in
1867. Previous to that year the is
land was regarded as indisputably in
Nebraska. The river at that point was
in the shape of an ox yoke, and on
the night of July 5 of that year the
water broke across the land lying in
one of the bends, thus throwing the
land on the east, instead of the west
side, of the river. The claim was
made by the Nebraska authorities that
this was made by the digging of a
ditch.
In his opinion Justice Harlan ex
pressed his opinion admitting that con
gress had not intended by its act ad
mitting Missouri into the union to
change the established rule and make
the varying channels of the Missouri
river the western boundary of that :
state.
"Missouri." he added, "does not dis
pute the fact that when Nebraska was
admitted into the union the body of
land described in the present record
as McKissick's island, or Island pre
cinct, was in Nebraska. It is equally
clear that these lands did not cease
to be within the limits of Nebraska
by reason of the subject avulsion."
The final decree is postponed pre
pared for thirty days to allow the Mis
ouri and Nebraska authorities to
agree as to the location of the center
of the old channel.
After the Beef Combine.
KANSAS CITY Herbert Knox
Smith, acting commiscioner of corpo
rations of he department of com
merce and abor. has written to a
number of Kansas City meat dealers
for additional testimony nrgarding the
operations of the local packers who
are members of the alleged beef com
bine. A representative of the depart
ment was here recently srathering sta
tistics from the local butchers..
Nebraska Pension Bills.
WASHINGTON Every member of
the Nebraska delegation has intro
duced many pension bills during the
congress which will close March 4
with satisfactory results. The few
bills which have passed this month
were some of the holdovers introduced
last winter. It is safe to predict that
none of the pension bills introduced
this month will pass .botW houses
this session, and in that case every
bill introduced this session must be
reintroduced next winter. Possibly a
very meritorious bill may succeed.
"I laughed at her. 'How in the
world,' said I, 'did you happen to get
,'uui jauiug 1151 uuwu iu butu a. uuk; j
point?'
"This is not my calling list' said
she. That consists of only six names.
The 102 are just acquaintances, and
include the janitor, my washerwoman
and the boy named Willie down in the
grocery.'
"Her admission struck me as really
pitiful. 'Why don't you branch out?'
I asked.
"'Branch out?' she cried. 'Oh. my
dear man, if you had lived in New
York for a while you wouldn t Faj
anything about branching out. Be
sides. I am not alone in my desolation
There are lots of other folks in this
town in the same fix, only worse.
They couldn't get up to the hundred
mark to save their lives.'
"Later I found that she was rignt
but, although the habit of counting
one's acquaintances is m.m.
enough, I still think it strange andde
cidwUv uwui"--VwYnrit Herald
FOR REGULATION
CONGRESS SHOULD CONTROL IN
TERSTATE COMMERCE.
SO SAYS GARFIELD'S REPORT
AHges that the Bureaus of the Com
irissioner of Corporations Furnish
rV.-jns by Which People Engaged
in Interstate Business Can Be Con
trolled. iSHINGTON The first annnal
re;.:--.. of the commissioner of corpora--u-'is
was submitted to congress Wed
ne 'ay by Commissioner Garfield. He
says no satisfactory reform is to be
expected under the state system of
incorj-ration; that the federal govern
ment c s at its command sufficient
powei wo remedy existing conditions
in its control of interstate commerce.
tie tnereiore suggests that congress
consider the advisability of enacting a
law for the legislative regulation of
interstate and foreign commerce un
der a license of franchise, which in
general should provide as follows:
"The granting of a federal franchise
or license to engage in interstate com
merce. "The imposition of all necessary re
quirements as to corporate organiza
tion and management as a condition
of the retention of such franchises or
license.
"The prohibition of all corporations
and corporate agencies from engag
ing in interstate and foreign com
merce without such federal franchise
or license.
"The full protection of the grantees
of such franchise or license who obey
the laws applicable thereto.
"The right to refuse or withdraw
such franchise or license in case of
violation of law, with appropriate right
of judicial appeal to prevent abuse of
power by the administrative officers.'-
Commissioner Garfield says the
bureau under the direction of the sec
retary of cpmmerce and labor, affords
the appropriate machinery for the ad
ministration of such a law.
COST OF WARS TO NATIONS.
Resolution in House Calling for In
fcrmsticn. WASHINGTON Representative
Bartholdt (Mo.), in accordance with
the action of the international peace
congress at Boston, requesting him to
introduce a resolution in congress
calling for certain statistics relative
to the cost of wars, introduced a con
current resolution instructing the sec
retary Oi commerce and labor to col
lect and compile statistics on the cost
of wars in all countries from 1800
down to the present time: the amount
paid for pensions, and other allow
ances to soldiers and sailors engaged
in such wars; the amount paid to hos
pitals and retreats for disabled sol
diers and sailors; the amount of prop
erty destroyed in such wars by land
and sea; the additional cost of main
taining armies and navies in time of
peace, to each nation during that
period; an approximate estimate of
the indirect expenses and damages by
such wars to the health and prosper
ity of each nation resulting from such
wars, and the number of killed, wound
ed and disabled on each side during
such wars. The resolution provides
tnat the statstics be printed and dis
tributed under the direction of con
gress in this and other countries, as
preliminary to an international peace
congress to be held in Washington or
The Hague, July 6, 1906.
HEALTH OF TROOPS EXCELLENT
Encouraging Report From General
in Philippines.
WASHINGTON Brigadier General
i.annall commanding the department
of Luzon. Philippine islands, in his
annual report to the war department
says that the general health of the
troops is excellent, the disappearance
of cholera having removed one of the
greatest sources of anxiety. The Im
proved health conditions are said to
be due to the construction of new
posts, the absence of hard field ser
vice, the drinking of distilled water
and enforced abstinence from native
fruits and uncooked vegetables. It is
recommended that continuous service
in the Philippines be limited to two
years in order to avert nervous break
down which is said to be quite com
mon among the white troops in the
islands.
Wants Better Examinations.
WASHINGTON Announcement
was made at the state department
Thursday that the government has for
the second time called upon Venezuela
to explain the arbitrary expulsion
from that country of A. F. Jnurette,
i newspaper man at Caracas. The
first explanation offered by President
Castro was altogether unsatisfactory.
England Annexes Island?.
SYDNEY. N. S. W Two British
warships have sailed for the Tonga
islands with the purpose, it is an
nounced, of annexing them.
Mrs. Powell Net Guilty.
WAYNE, Neb. District court is in
session this week. Judge Boyd pre
siding. The case of the State vs.
Mrs. Kemp Powell, in which the de
fendant is charged with an attempt to
murder her husband by shooting him
with a revolver at their home four
teen miles southwest of Wayne, about'
five months ago, inflicting a danger
ous wound, was heard. Mr. Powell
was taken to the !itT'itaI at Omaha,
where under medical aid he recovered.
Mrs. Powell was acquitted.
After Clash
"The day's fighting was finished, but
not the d'av's work, nor the day's
drudgerv, nor the day's misery," says
Frederick Palmer, in nis owa, "'
Kuroki in Manchuria," of one of the
actions of the First army. "The
wounded were yet to be brougnt in.
and the dead and the fuel to burn
them collected by weary limbs. The
plunging fire of the Russians against
heir foe, struggling through the rough
fields and over rougher, untilled
slopes, bad caused the division 600
casualties, including the death of a
colonel.
"Late in the afternoon a deluge or
rain washed the blood off the grass.
The flood of water turned dry beds
into dashing rivulets. The flood of
slaughter, also settling toward the val
ley, passed on by the single hospital
tent already congested at daybreak
from the night attack into the vil
lage, whose population was crowded
into' a few houses in order that the
wounded mixht be crowded into oth
THE LAND FRAUDS.
Men In High Places Said to Be In
volved. WASHINGTON The Post says:
Senator Mitchell and Representative
Binger Harmann of Oregon left Wash
ington last night for Portland to ap
pear before the federal grand jury and
face charges which they nave been
advised implicated them in Oregon
land frauds
Both Senator Mitchell and Mr. Har
mann declare in most positive terms
that they are absolutely innocent and
have nothing to fear from returning
to Oregon. Both assert with equal
positiveness that the time has come
when "this outrageous persecution
must stop." They will insist upon their
right to go before the grand jury and
make answer to all charges that may
be made against them, confident that
they will be able to establish their
innocence. They expect to have s
hearing on Saturday.
When asked last night why he had
decided to return to Portland at this
time after declining to go as a wit
ness when summoned by subpoenas a
week ago. Senator Mitchell said:
"I was advised yesterday by tele
grams from Portland that it was re
ported there that Puter. Watson and
others of the gang had made confes
sions implicating me and that there
would be an effort made to indict me
and Hermann before the jury which
meets tomorrow. A week ago, when
I was called as a witness. I had no
intimation that it was claimed that I
was implicated in any way and I did
not feel it my duty to go and sacrifice
public business, but the moment I was
advised that I was being attacked
personally I concluded I was justified
in sacrificing public business and
everything else to go and defend my
character against assaults that I know
to be without any foundation what
ever." Senator Mitchell sent this telegram
yesterday to District Attorney Hall
and Assistant Attorney General
Haney:
"I will be In Portland next Satur
day. I demand thorough investigation
before grand jury of all charges-, if
any, against me. I also demand right
to appear as witness before grand
jury."
Representative Hermann before
leaving made this statement:
"Information having been received
that there was a nrobabilitv that an
attempt would be made to involve
Senator Mitchell and myself in the
grand jury investigation as to land
frauds in Oregon. I believe it to be
my duty to proceed to Portland and
there ask the privilege of meeting any
charges which may be preferred."
Bctn Senator Mitchell and Mr. Her
mann say. continues the Post that i .e
movement against them has been di
reced by Secretary Hitchcock and at
tribute it to his personal hostility to
ward tLem.
RURAL CARRIERS OUT.
Two Members of Executive Board or
National Association Discharged.
WASHINGTON Postmaster Gener
al Wynne on Wednesday removed two
more rural carriers for alleged efforts
to influence legislation, the employes
being H. E. Nivin of Berthold. Colo.,
and J. W. Whitehead of Medina. O.
Nivin is chairman of the executive
board of the Natioral Rural Carriers'
association. Whitehead also is a mem
ber of the executive board and is sec
retary of the Ohio state organization
o- the carriers. The executive hoard
held a meeting in St. Louis, as the re
suit of whose instructions President
Cunningham of the association is said
to have called on the members of the
national committe&wjf both the re
publican anil democratic parties to as
certain what support they would give
to the interest of the carriers. The
plans for this organization carried on
before the November election by
President Cunningham and Secretary
Tumoer, both of whom were recently
dismis-ed as the result of an investiga
tion of their work, were, it is charged
by the postal authorities, approve .
and endorsed by Nivin and White
head. RUSSIA ANXIOUS FOR TREATY.
Hope United States Will Not Aban
don Arbitration.
ST. PETERSBURG Considerable
surprise is manifested at the foreign
office regarding the reports from Eng
lish sources representing the Wash
ington government as disposed to
abandon the Russian-American arbi
tration treaty because of the char
acter of the modifications proposed by
Russia. Emperor Nicholas is sincerely
anxious to conclude a treaty with the
United States. It is pointed out that
the modifications proposed are direct
ly modeled on the arbitration Mealies
provided for by The Hague conven
tion, slightly amplifying the Anulo
Prench model, which practically con
fines arbitmlon to the interprefiti'in
of treaties ard juridical questions.
Russia has already negotiated similar
treaties with Belgium and Sweden
and Norway and desires to make
others with the larger European
powers.
Steel Trust Prices.
NEW YORK The leading steel
manufacturers were in session in Jer
sey City and reaffirmed the present
price of $21 per ton on steel billet?.
It is bel'eved. however, that an ad
vance of $2 per ton will be made In
this product soon after the new year.
Following the meeting of the billet
manufacturers members of the
structural steel combination met in
this city and. according to the best
information, reaffirmed the present
price for their products. It is known
that conditions favor higher prices.
of Battle
ers. Through every doorway yon
caught a glimpse of prostrate figures
and of white bandages with red spots
which made them like wrapped flags
of Japan.
"Dripping hospital corps men
brought in dripping burdens covered
with blankets or with the matting in
which the rice and horse fodder of the
army are transported. When dark
ness came the lanterns of the search
ers twinkled in and out of the hillside.
Dawn found them still at work col
lecting stray Russian wounded, who
had lain suffering all night in the rain
for 1.50 a year and the glory which
the Czar's service brings them. Ir
the bushes, in the declivities betweer
the rocks of many square acres could
every fallen man be gathered? How
many cries coming faintly from fever
ishly dry lips and finally dying into
a swoon were unanswered? At some
future time, when a Chinese peasant
stumbles over a set of bones, the world
will not be the wiser."
Lights on Brooklyn Bri;!-;.
There are three lights on the Brook
lyn bridge which are never seen by
those who have occasion to usa the
bridge at night, but those three lights
mean much to the masters of sailing
vessels whose masts approach or ex
ceed the 135 feet between the center
of the span and the water. One of the
three is directly in the center of the
span and marks the highest point the
other two are at each side of the cen
ter light, about 10 feet from the tow
ers, ard mark the danger .limit.
Lcrd Rosebery's "Good Story."
In a recent English biography ap
pears an anecdote told iu the charac
teristic English manner. The writer
remarks: "Lord Rosebery told a very
good story (for he is always amusing)
about a gentleman who was traveling
in the southern United States. The
visitor was being shaved by -a negro
barber and noticed the extreme blunt
ncss of the razor.
"'Yes. sir.' said the barber, 'it It
vury blunt, sar; I was out last night
wid the bovs.'"
Newspaper Circulation.
A statistician has learned that the
annual aggregation of the circulation
of the papers of the world is estimated
to be 12.000.000,000 copies. To grasp
the idea of this magnitude we may
state that it would cover no fewer
than 10,150 square miles of surface:
that it is printed on 7S1.250 tons of
paper: and. further, that, if the num
ber (12,000.000.000) represented, in
stead of copies, seconds. .. would take
more than 333 years for them tc
elapse.
Found at Latt.
Hensley. Ark.. Dec. 2tth. (Specia'.l
That a sure cure for Backache wou'd
be a priceless boon to the people, ami
especially the women of America, is
admitted by all interested in medical
matters, and Mrs. Sue Williams of
this place is certain she has .otind in
Dodd's Kidney Pills the long-looked
for cure.
"I am 38 years old." Mrs. Williams
says, "and I have suffered with the
Backache very much for three
or four years. I have ben treated
by good physicians and got no relief,
but thanks to God. I have found a cure
it last and it is Dodd's Kidney Pills
I have taken only one box and it haB
done me more good than all the doc
tors in three or four years. I want
ad sufferers from Backache to know
that they can get Dodd's Kidney Pills
and get well."
Backache is enc of the first symp
toms of Kidney Disease. Guird against
Brisrht's Disease or Rheumatism by
curing it with Dodd's Kidney Pills.
To Train Servants.
Hamburg is to have a school for
training servants. It is net intended
to compete with existing schools
which provide training in domestic
science for girls of well-to do tanii
lies. Every housekeeper should Know
hat if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only tim, because it
lever sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 1( oz. one full
nound while all other Cold Water
Starches are pit up in 5i-pound pack
rges. and the nrice is the same. 10
e".ts. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals'. If your grocer tries to sell you a
I2-o.. puekage it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dfcrose of before he puts in Defiance,
l.e know- t'.r.t Doliance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figure "Vi o.s." Demand
Defiance and save much time and
mony and Mie annoyance of the ircr.
ticking. Defiance never sticks.
Purity of the Mind.
You can no more filter your mind
into purity than you can compress it
into calmness; you must keep it pure
if you have it pure, and throw no
stones into it if you would have it
ouiet Ruskin.
$100 Reward. $100.
The reader f tbt paper will be sleoaed to 1
thai there 1 at least me dreaded d!ear that aclenc
h turn alilc tu cure la all tta aiattea. and that to
Catarrh. Itall'a Catarrn Cure ( the only PatitT
cure nw inmnm me medical rraiernuy. caiarra
brlnx a rntItut!utMl dlaeave. require a eooalUu-tl.-l
treatment. Ilill'a Catarrh Cure t taken tar
ternalljr. actinic directly upua toe bluod and mucooa
at:rfarra of the a;tem. tfiertl.jr destroying the
funilatln of the disease. d ici!ng the patleat
iren in lr building up the cuntltutlta and alt
Inir na'ure In dula: tte work. The proprietor have
nmrh faith la Ita curat.Te puwera that the offer
One Hun (red Dollar for any cane that It lalla a
cure, head for lint of tepUniontai.
Addrea K. J. CHKXKV CO.. Toledo. O.
hold lv all Ilnimclat. 7Se.
TaJc: Utll'a Family Plila for cont!pallov
Cupid is a sorry leader; after lead
ing people into trouble he leaves them
to .fight it out themselves.
A Rare Good Thin?.
"Am using AM-EX'S FOOT-EASE, and
can truly say 1 would not have bcuti without
It m long, had I known the relief it would
pne my aching feet. I think it :i rare good
thintr for anyone having Mror tired feet.
Mrs Matild- Hi.Itwert, Providence, H. I."
fcohl by all Druggists, lioe. Ash today.
Statesmen who "also ran" are nat
urally slow to predict a bright future
for their country.
A ::m:anti:i:i ctkk rou ni.Es.
14 b'n; ISnud. lllceillii 4ir lr iruillni; rile'. V4.nr
ilru, tt will n-fund nuney If 1WZO OINTMENT
1a.i Iu cure la ". to It day. Vjc.
The quickest way to beat a woman
in an argument is to listen and say
nothing.
I'ivo's Cure cannot tj too highly spoken of a
a couth cure. J. W. OIIhies. Its Third Ave.
.v, Minneapolis, Minn.. Jan. 6. !'..
It is a good deal easier to stir up
a hornet's nest than it is to find" tile
right place to crawl into.
If you don't get the blKKest and best
It's your own fault. Defiance Starch
is for sale everywhere and there la
positively nothing to ejual it in qual
ity or quantity.
A girl never looks older than she is,
except when she has her hair done up
in papers.
After a girl has refused him twelve
times a superstitious youth will quit
proposing.
The man with a big sign of saint
hood usually has something to hide
behind it.
The gloomy church Is likely to be
filled with tombstone saints.
Kickers hide the best things in life
in the dust they raise.
Tr'ckery in the pulpit will not lead,
the pews into truth.
Many are willing to lose this work
by swallowing it.
All superstition is the growth of
fear and ignorance.
As soon as you are proud of
Humility it dies.
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