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(Mumlras m K ?I .7) PAYS l'OK THE JOU1LNAL ONT YEAH THUEE CTS. A WEEK LARGEST PAPER PUBLISHED IN PLATTE COUNT VOLUME XXXV. NUMBER 46. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1905. WHOLE NUMBER 1,769! m Miirual. u- ': . (vf. r . . i h -. WHEN YOU TUAVEL mere is no more convenient uav o. carry injT money than :i draft. If vim go abroad the draft is paid in tho currency of the country on are in. if you hist thedmfi pay muni can hi stopped and another isu:l t on. The First National Bank istsuen drafts in all an, omit. They arc good all owr lit world. If you intend traveling, tho Frt National J '.an!; will be ;l.tl tf lr- of MTVirt to you. Valentine Party. Tin valentine party given by the ladis of th-; Episcopal church :it the houir- of Mr. ami Mr. Hoekouberger Monday night was a great sneecss. The guests nought little hairs at live cents ech Hud started ou a hunt for little cajid - hearts. One larco heart was also liidtlen away. This was fouud by Mtss Vera Kramer. Mrs. Brugger, who succeeded in finding the greatest nam her of little hearts, was given a valentine. Hidden m a pound cake Woro a ring, the finder to bo married within a year, a thnnhlc, tlm finder to remuiu u spinster and a ten cent pieco symbolic of wealth to the for tunate one. Slices of the cako were koM at live cents each. Mr. Ca:l Becker drew tho ring, Mrs. Brugger tb Ihimblo and Mr. Gus IWsher jr., the mouev. The valentine post office was a pop ular resort. Mr-,. Martin was post mistress. Ak valentines were brought to bn mailed three cents' was charced for postage. Mr. Kirkpatrick called off tue names aud the ones addressed claimed their valentines. '.;. 10 was cleared here. Misses Noll Evaus aud Eloign Hoen cold valentines at one table, and Mrs. Chambers lind charge- of another. Partners for lunch were chosen by cords run through large hearts. The men took hold of all tho ends on ono Bide of tho hearts aud the ladies took those ,n tho opposite side. At a giv en signal all pulled, the hearts tore and tho gentlemen and lady found holding the same strinu were partners for refreshments. Tho ladies cleared almost twenty dollars. Platte Center School Bum?. Thr public school building at Plat to Center was entire!- dehtroyed by lire Monday evening. Tho lire is suppos ed to have Marted from the furnace, and was first discovered at 3:13 in the afternoon. The town is without lire flighting equipment and no other means could bo employed to exting uish the Humes but bucKcts of water. This was ineffectual, with tho wind that was blowing and the start that the fire had before it was discovered. Nothing of the building was left standing but the brick walls. Tho building was erected about ten years ago at a cost of $8,000, and was a handsome and substantial structure of brick. The insurance carried was $3,000. Tnree teachers wero employed in tho Platto Center schools, Prof. La crone. Miss Katie Hennessey and Miss Alice Hughes. The citizens did everything possible to save the building, but wero soon compelled to abandon it and devote their efforts to saving other near-by houses which were threatened by tho firebrands carried all over tho town by the wind. Several people had their hands fro zen while fighting the lire. Dr. Hark T. McMahon Dentist Knowiug that the dread cf pain re sults in the loss of moro teeth than any other cause. Dr. McMahou has equipped his dental parlors with the latest and best npphnucrs known to the dental profesien for the relief and prevention of pain. All cavities prepared by electricity, vitalized air and dental ine used for iiainles ex traction of teeth. Careful examin ation free of charse. All work guar anteed or money refunded Dental parlors. Post Office builrfiuir, loth street, Columbus. Nobr. Independent phone, office. -0'.); residence. 2I wtf WANTEIi-Tobuy a malo St. Ber nard pup. Adress Sydney Eastman. Creston. Nebr. tf Care of the Teeth What is noticed more quickly and admired moro than the teatli if they are well cared for and what so greatly lessens one's personal charm if they are neglected? There was a time when carelessness in this particular was overlooked: now it is never excusable, for every well informed person appreciates the fact that well-kept teeth are not a luxury, but a positive necessity. We use only the latest painless methods and guarantee satisfaction. Dr. J. E. Paul, Dentist. Over Niewohner's cor. 13th and Olivo Sts. S.'E. corner of Pork. Both Phones. MARY WILSON WINS.! Leads ali Competitors by Nearly 30.C00 Votes. I Mary Wilson . . ! Mabel Campbell. ..10. (mG .21,785 . .6,021 ..3,923 31 450 150 Metta Hensley I Leoua Harbert I May Ziegler I Louise Marty ! Bertha Groteluschen . . . Mary Wilson wins the Journal piano with 30,c3; votes, having more than twice as many as any other contestant. r i Miss Campbell, her nearest coinietitor, j made a splendid race, getting practi-, j cally all of her votes by her own j efforts. She was seriously handicapped by the extreme cold weather and bad read.; which have continued almost continuously since the lir6t of the year, making her canvass in the country very difficult. Miss Campbell is to be congratulated on her excellent show ing, as Miss Wilson is of coarse to be congratulated on her success. The other contestants were prevent ed lrom de voting much effort to the contest by the demands upon their time in other occupations. The piano will be delivered to Miss Wilsou as soon as the road conditions will permit, and will be a beautiful lemiuder of the plncky effort which was necessary to win it. The Journal congratulates again each one of tho contestants and is only sorry that it cannot give a piano to each and every one of them. CHIEF MAGISTRATE IS CUEST OF CLUB IN "LITTLE HUNGARY." CRANK CALLS ON PRESIDENT Man Frcm Massachusetts Would Give Advice on Matters of Government, but Is Turned Away by Detectives. President Returns to Washington. New Yoik. Feb. 13. For tin; first time fince the days when he was gov ernor of Nov. York. President Roose velt levi-ilcd the heait ol the East side, whole, as guest of tho Hungarian Republican club, ho dined and spoke at the "Little Hungary" restaurant. Guarded by mounted police and secret Mrvice men, through streets cleared and cordoned by patrolmen, ho drove from upper Fiftli avenue into the ciowded district which lies around Second avenue and East Houston street, a region of small shops and tenements and largely populated by foreign-hom citizens. F.oni the ino.nenr his carriage en tered the district, ho received an ova tion. Never before has a president of the I'nited States visited this little known part of New York and never bcfoie has a fraction of the thou sands that cheered him seen a na tion's ruler. The great East side showed its enthusiasm in every imag inable way. Across Second avenue at Sixth slirct a huge electric device blazed forth tho single word "De Lighted." a word frequently useiTin the decorations. The- district Hi rough which the president drove ami in which he dined is not the safest in the great city and the police took no chances. So strin gent wore the precautions that not a flashlight photograph was allowed to be taken and uniformed police, plain clothes men and detectives fairly swarmed inside . and out of "Little Hungary:" They vere stationed on the roofs and lire escapes in the neigh borhood and for two blocks on either side of East Houston street a cordon of police cut off the crowds. The president left the Hungarian club dinner after making a brief speech, in which lie told of the duties of an American citizen as he saw them, and was driven directly to the Desbrosses street station, accompa nied by a sqirad of mounted police. The ferryboat arrived in Jersey City at 11:30 and some minutes afterward he boarded his special train for 'Washington. A crank who called himself William Waldorf Jackson. Jr.. of Lowell. Mass.. called at tho home of Douglas Robin son, where the president stopped for the night, and asked to have his card sent to tho president. The secret service men and policemen on guard about the entrance informed the man that the president had net yet arisen and asked him to call again. He was not arrested. In answer to questions as to his identity and why he wanted to s '0 the president. Jackson said he wished to confer with the president as to reforms in government and that ho was a yclf-nominatod candidate for the presidency in 1S0G, 1900 and 1904. PANIC IS ; NARROWLY AVERTED? Audience at Maxine Elliott's Play Is Scared by Cry of Fire. Louisville, Feb. 13. A panic was narrowly averted at Macauley's thea ter during the performance given by Maxine Elliott and her company. While the second act was on the odor of smoke, apparently coming from the upper part of the house, created much uneasiness among the audience, which was probably the largest of the season. The curtain was rung down and the nervousness further increased when a voice from the gallery shout ed. "There is a fire up here." Many persons in all parts of the house began reaching for their wraps and it seemed as though the entire audience was on the verge of a rush for the doors. The audience, however, was quieted and a panic averted. The cause of the smoke was not learned. Pawnee City Has Big Fire. Pawnee City, Neb., Feb. 15. Fire destroyed the Bogle Bros. depart ment store. Loss, 830.000. The fire men suffered intensely from the cold, in several instances fingers, hands and feet being frozen. HI 1111 wtish paruakut opens Believed Government Will Hold Out Until End of Session. London, Feb. 15. The first day's proceedings in parliament left rather a decided impression in the lobbies that the government will manage to hold out until the end of tha session. The government's legislative program, which is devoted in the main to so cial reforms, will he fairly popular, whilst the avoidance of difficult ques tions like that of the redistribution of scats and Premier Balfour's firm ness in thrusting aside the fiscal prob lem all will tend in the same direc tion. On the other hand, the Liberals appear to be as distant as ever from any approach to unanimity on the vexed question of the leadership. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Earl Spencer, Herbert Henry Asquith and Sir Henry Hartley Fowler all are spoken of as possible leaders of the next Liberal ministry, to say nothing of Ixjrd Rosebery's even superior claim to that position, should he be inclined to exert his undoubted influ ence. Everything will depend upon Mr. Balfour's success in holding his followers together and overcoming the apathy horn of 'the knowledge that the whole country is looking for and expecting a general election. At a meeting of Irish Unionists a resolution was adopted censuring Sec retary Wyndham for "abdicating his position and responsibility in favor of a subordinate official with a policy of his own, directed to destroying the basis of Irish Unionism," and protest ing against the government permit ting such an abuse of power. It is understood that Premier Balfour hith erto has supported Wyndham and MacDonnell, but the matter appears to be assuming a serious phase, in volving the defection of many Irish Unionists. Third Squadron to Sail. St. Petersburg. Fob. 15. The de parture of Grand Duke Alexis and Vice Admiral Avellan for Libau to bid farewell to the third squadron on its departure for the far east does not indicate that there is any inten tion of postponing the sailing of the squadron, as has been rumored at Kiel. Dispatches received here from Gomel indicate that all is quiet there and that there has been no rioting. The last visible vestige of the great St. Petersburg strike disappeared, when the employes of the Putiloff iron works returned. In all the works bal lots are being distributed for the elec tion Sunday of representative on the mixed commission of masters and workmen. Situation at Lodz. Lodz. Feb. 13. Notwithstanding the fact that the strikers have returned to work in all the smaller factories, the situation is regarded as less satis factory than last week. This is due to evidence that the agitation is now' conducted on well defined lines. Tho large factories remain closed, but it has been discovered that the men who are not at work are receiving pay from a mysterious source at the rate of 5 cents per day for each mem ber of the family, a sum sufficient for one substantial meal. The employers are holding daily conferences, but arc unable to reach an agreement. They appear to be altogether disorganized. Meeting Knocked Out by Storm. Kearney. Neb., Feb. 15. President B. D. Hayward of the state confer ence of charities and corrections an nounced that it had been found neces sary to postpone for the present the annual conference which was to have been held in this city this week. This step was taken on account of the extremely severe weather and the delay and uncertainty iu the train service. Belgian Coal Strike Collapsing. Brussels. Feb. 15. The coal strike shows signs of collapsing, the resump tion of work becoming more general in different districts. The minister of industries received a deputation of socialists from the colliery districts, asking that the government intervene to secure the men increased wages and lesser hours. The minister de clined to interfere. Japs Will Know No Neutrals. Tokio. Feb. 15. In discussing a re port that colliers bad refused to ac company the second Russian Pacinc squadron on its way north, a mem ber of the Japanese naval staff said: "Our commanders will fire upon and sink any colliers found in company with the Rusan warships, regard less of nationality." Owen 'Kelly in Custody. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 15. Owen Kelly, a former wealthy grocer of Philadelphia, now wanted there for the alleged embezzlement of a sum said to exceed $50,000, is under arrest in this city. Kelly was arrested on one of the main streets by Chief of Police Hammil, who recognized him from printed descriptions sent out at the time of his disappearance. Kelly left Boston last summer by steamer for Europe. He was followed across the Atlantic, thence across Europe, where trace of him was lost. He final ly returned to this country, landing at San Francisco. Dies on Son's Grave. Belleville, 111., Feb. 15. The dead and frozen body of Mrs. Margaret Koehr, aged fifty-five years; an inmate of St. Vincent's hospital, was found in the Walnut Hill cemetery, near her son's grave. A cup still containing some carbolic acid and burns on her lips and tongue showed the cause of her death. Mrs. Koehr had been miss ing since last Thursday. Three years ago her son's body was found in a cis tern, where he bad mysteriously met his death, and ever since then the mother had mourned for him. Two Die In Blizzard. Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 14. Henry Ball of Ponca City, a wealthy cattleman, was frozen to death near that place while driving. Charles Williams, col ored, was found south of here, frozen stiff. Hundreds of cattle in western Oklahoma were frozen to death. ib ra 1 1 PEABODY EEGI.MS PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE IN REBUTTAL. CASE TO ZZ DECIDED MARCH 2 County Clerk Montez of Huerfano Produces Much-Wanted Ballot Box Before Legislative Committee and When Opened it is Found Empty. Denver Feb. 13. Governor Alva Adams closed his defense iu the con test for the office of governor last night and today the contestor. formei Governor James II. Pea body, began the presentation of evidence in re buttal, for which Ave days are allowed under the rules governing the contest. The legislative committee hearing the contest is required to report its findings to the legislature March 1. and on March 2 the contest will be decided. The attorneys were in structed by Chairman William II. Griffith to hand their briefs to the committee at the conclusion of the hearing of testimony, and these will be considered by the committee in ar riving at its conclusions. Should the assembly agree to throw out all the precincts in which the ex perts, both Republican and Democrat ic, discovered evidence of fraud. Gov ernor Adams would retaiu his seat by a plurality of 909 votes. County Clerk Montez of Huerfano county, who, it was reported, had es caped from the custody of the ser-goant-at-arms of the committee while he was being taken to Walscnburg to get the ballot box from precinct twenty-three of the county, appeared be fore the committee. Mr. Montez' pro duced the much-wanted box and when it was opened it was empty. Mr. Montez swore that the box was re ceived from his predecessor in office in its present condition, and he could not account for the absence of the ballots. BRYAN SIDESWITH SENATE Thinks President Takes Wrang Posi tion Regarding Treaties. St. Paul, Feb. 15. William J. Bry an was in St. Paul and called on Gov ernor Johnson at the capitol. While here he gave out an interview on tho recent controversy between the presl dent and the senate with regard to the treaty-making power. Mr. Bryan said: "I believe the senate is right in re fusing to surrender its right to a voice in making treaties and I think the president iu error in malting the ac tion of the senate a basis of criticism. The very fact that he refuses to recog nize the right of an opinion so over whelmingly expressed is in itself evi dence of the danger of delegating to him the power which he asks. There is, however, a basis upon which ho and the senate might reach an agree ment, and I hope that a reconciliation may take place upon this or some bet ter basis. The basis to which I refer is that the president be authorized to submit to The Hague court for investi gation any and every question involv ing an international dispute, the par ties to the dispute reserving the right to take such action as they deem proper after the facts are ascertained This would be a broader power in one Chest Protectors Are the proper thing for tin's kind of weather. We sell the "FROST KING" and "FROST QUEEN" also several other good kinds. Better invest and save a big doctor bill. Chas. H. Dack, Druggist. WARMER WEATHER UP NORTH Cold Wave's Grasp on West Is Loos ening Gradually. Chicago, Fob. 14. Not during the last six years has the equal of the present cold weather been experienced in the west, and in many places no such low temperatures have been re corded since the establishment of the weather bureau. A general warming up is noticeable in the northwest. The area of the cold wave extended from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, nd from the Rocky mountains to tho Atlantic. The line of zero weather is about in the latitude of Memphis, but all through the south freezing weather is reported. In the north the mercury has registered anywhere from zero to 45 degrees below, the latter mar'.: being scored at Richland Center, Wis. Trains everywhere in the west and northwest are from two to twelve hours late, and, because of the pack ing of the fine snow in the cuts, it is expected that it will be several days before the roads are able to restore the schedule time. Although details are lacking, it is estimated that about a score of people have lost their lives, the majority of the fatalities being in the southwest. The loss of cattle on the ranges, particularly on those lying in the northern part of the southern states, will be very heavy. W. E. Bolton, secretary of the Oklahoma Live Stock association, declared that the live stock losses in the present cold weath er will be the greatest since the great blizzard of 189G. He places the num ber of head lost on the range in west ern Kansas, western Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas at 50,000 head. Farther north, in Nebraska and the Dakotas and Montana, the stockmen are better prepared to shel ter their stock, and it is not expected the losses will be anywhere so heavy as those on the ranges farther to the south. Subscribe for the Journal. respect than the president asks for. because it would enable him to put on foot an impartial investigation and this investigation by removing and de fining the issue would result in the settlement of many questions which we might hesitate to submit to arbitration in advance of investigation." Epidemic of Insanity at St. Louis. St. Louis, Feb. 15. At a special meeting of the board of health it was agreed that sufferings, due to the ex treme cold in St. Louis and the per secution of Hebrews in Russia before their immigration, is responsible for the epidemic of insanity now prevail ing among the poor in this city. Dur ing the past week twenty-two persons have been sent to the asylum and nine are now under observation in the city hospital. Dr. E. Wheeler Bond stated that an ominously high per centage of insanity in St. Louis is found among the Russian Hebrews who have recently come to this coun try. MURDERESS FACES HER DOOM Irtrs. Edwards Is More Composed, but Negro Associate is Dumbfounded. Reading. Pa., Feb. 15. Mrs. Kate Edwards is more composed than at any time in two weeks and it is be lieved she is nerving herself for her execution tomorrow. She walked with a firm step from her cell to the office of the jail, where she met her lawyers fcr the preparaticn of further affidavits to be presented to the board of pardons today. Sheriff Sassaman has made every preparation for the execution, and in the event of an un favorable decision from Harrisburg the erection of the scaffold will be commenced. Mrs. Edwards and Grea son will be hanged at the same lime. Grcason is almost dumbfounded. He had confidently expected a, new trial and his ultimate freedom and he apparently can scarcely realize his terrible situation. Mrs. Edwards has given up all hope and has selected the text for her funeral sermon and the hymns to be rendered. HOCH MAY BETAKE" HOFFMAN Police Inclined to Believe He Was Janitor of the Holmes Building. Chicago, Feb. 15. The police put more faith in a theory that Johann Hoch is identical with "Jake" Hoff man, janitor of the flat building owned by the wholesale murderer, II. H. Holmes, in 1S93. There are persona who now positively identify Hoch as Hoffman. Police Inspector Snippy obtained the names of several others who knew Hoffman and who will be asked to say whether Hoffman and Hoch are one. Hitherto doubt has been cast upon the assertions that Hoch and Hoff man were identical because of a be- Mefth:ir Hoch did not arrive in this countiy intil 1S93. Seemingly, how ever, Hoch's own statement is all the police have for this. They have to the contrary the statement of a furni ture dealer here who declares he sold Hoch furniture in 1891-1892. Harlan for Mayor of Chicago. Chicago. Feb. 13. John Maynard Harlan will be named for mayor of Chicago by the Republican city con vention, which meets today. In al! except two wards of the city, dele gates selected at the primaries have been instructed to vote for Harlan. CLIMAX OFCOLD SPELL Dozen Deaths From Frigid Weather in the Southwest. Kansas City, Feb. 14. The climax of the severe cold spell, which began on Jan. 1, since which time the tem perature has never risen above the treezing point, was reached at 6 a. m.. when 21.2 below zero was recordea by the government thermometer anc 25 degrees by other thermometers, the official instrument being affected by dense smoke from chimneys near by. The weather forecaster concedes that the former official low record of 22 below zero en Feb. 12, 1899. has been broken. Fifteen inches of snow lie on the ground and the sky Is clear. The coldest January on record is be ing followed by an unprecedented February. This statement of conditions i:i Kansas City may be extended to west ern Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Okla homa and Indian territory, all points reporting the coldest weather of the winter, and most of them the coldest ever known. A dozen persons have been reported frozen to deah in the southwest in the past two days. Win ter wheat is covered by snow and is not affected by the cold. Stock losses are not heavy, because owners had ample warning. Trains on all rail- I roads are delayed by snow drifts, the wind carrying the dry snow into the cuts. The temperature throughout the southwest has moderated. Fatal Wreck on the Milwaukee. Rock Island, III., Feb. 14. A south bound double-header passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road collided with a switch en gine at Moline, killing Engineer Do lan of Chicago and fatally injuring Engineer Charles Stapleton of Rock Island. No passengers were hurt. Kansas House Passes Railroad Bill. Topeka, Feb. 15. The house unani mously passed the Garver railroad Dill, which is patterned after the Iowa law. It will to to the senate. in Km EXPLAINS INCIDENT REFERRED TO BY HEARST. CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER Charge Against Massachusetts Con gressman Claimed to Be Strictly Technical and He Was Nat Pun ished in Ary Manner. Washington, Feb. 15. The second chapter of the episode between Sulli van (Mass.) and Hearst (N. Y.) oc curred in the house when Sullivair again took the floor on a question of privilege and related the circum stances leading up to the indictment and conviction of his father and him self for manslaughter. In decided contrast with the remarks of the pre vious day, when the two men heaped upon each other epithets and charges of a serious nature, Sullivan's state ment was devoid of any further at tack on his colleague and was a straight recitation of the occurrence, referred to by Hearst. Sullivan ad mitted the charge, but said that he himself had been technically guilty and was permitted to leave the court a free man without serving a day's imprisonment or being subjected to a fine. His father had been imprisoned a year and a half, but on the introduc tion of new evidence, which presented a grave doubt of guilt, his father had been pardoned. Sullivan's statement was listened to with marked attention and at its con clusion he was warmly applauded, many members leaving their seats and shaking his hand. Hearst was not present during the time he spoke. The balance of the day was devoted to consideration of the naval appro priation bill, Littlefield speaking at length regarding the necessity for keeping appropriations within the limits of the revenues of the country. Omnibus Public Building Bill. Washington, Feb. 15. The omnibus public building bill, carrying authori zations for new public buildings and the purchase of sites amounting to $9,499,000, was reported to the house by Chairman Gillette of the house committee on public buildings. The bill makes authorizations for a large number of new buildings, including sites and for increases in cost of buildings already authorized, includ ing: Iowa Cedar Rapids, $3a,000; Webster City, $50,000; Mason City, $70,000; Des Moines, $500,000; Clarin da. $45,000. Kansas Iola, $60,000; Newton. $68,000; Pittsburg. 73,000. Missouri St. Charles. $30,000; St. Louis, $375,000; St. Joseph, $30,000. Nebraska Grami Island, $100,000; Plattsmouth, $46,000; York. $50,000. South Dakota Mitchell, $75,07; Watertown, $75,000. Senate Passes Agricultural dill. Washington, Feb. 15. The senate passed the agricultural appropriation bill and began consideration of the bill making an appropriation for the District of Columbia. The Hans hrough amendment to the agricultural bill, relative to drawbacks on wheat, was agreed to after an extended de bate, in which tariff questions figured to considerable extent. The usual three hours were given to the trial of the impeachment charges against Judge Charles Swayne. In connection with that case the senate decided to take no testimony on the point of the inconvenience in the judge's resi dence outside of his district; also that Judge Swayae's statement to the house committee should not he used as evidence in the trial. Strike a Source of Profit. Washington, Feb. 15. Before the interstate commerce commission Clar ence J. Shearn. counsel for William R. Hearst, in the latter's case against the anthracite coal carrying railroads, charged that the coal strikes of 1900 and 1902 had been transformed by the railroads into sources of profit and that a wage reduction would not he justified by the lowering of coal rates and prices, as contended by one of the opposing counsel. He said that the contention of the railroads that they should be left free and untrammelled was in Una with the opposition of every violator of the law to regula tion. George Brownell made the final presentation of the railroad's case. Confer on Statehood Bill. Washington, Feb. 15. Conferences among members of the senate have been in progress looking to an agree ment to accept the decision of the house on the statehood bill if that body should determine upon amend ing it to admit only Oklahoma aud Indian territory as one state, anfl eliminate all that part which relates to New Mexico. The close vote in the senate to admit Arizona and New Mexico seems to preclude the possibil ity of an agreement on these states. At the same time there is a dispo sition to come to an agreement that would save thai portion of the bill. No Change In Deadlock. Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 15. The twentieth joint session of the Mis souri legislature and the twenty-second ballot failed to materially change the deadlock over the selection of a United States senator. The vote was: Niedringhaus. 63: Cockrell. 69: Ker ens. 11; Petti john. 2; Finkeinburg, 1; Clark. 1. The only change was the one ballot for Charles W. Clark of Kansas City, cast by Representative Walmsley. "' Orient Line Orders Locomotives Kansas City. Feb. 15. The Kansas City. Mexico and Orient railway has placed in the east an order for loco motives to cost $1,000,000 to be ready for delivery by January next. Before next fall the company expects to be hauling cattle in its own cars from Texas and Oklahoma to Kansas City. Dorsey Released From Prison. Sioux Falls. S. D.. Feb. 15. Frank A. Dorsey, former cashier of a bank at Ponca. Neb., was released from the federal prison here, having com pleted a six years' seotenct. OIL PRODUCERS TO FI6HT ' Kansas Association Asks People's Aid in Contest With Standard Company. Cbanutc, Kan., Feb. 15. The ad Tisory committee of the Kansas Oil Producers' association has given out a statement, in which the Standard Oil company is denounced and an ap peal is made to the people to fight that concern. The producers assert that the company has not kept its promises made at the time of its en trance into the Kansas oil Holds. The producers assert that the prom ise was made to them by representa tives of the Standard Oil that before the end of 1904 oil would be selling for $2 a barrel. Instead, they say. the Standard has cut the price several times and that it is now less than $1 a barrel. Topeka. Kan., Feb. 15. It is gen erally conceded that the bill creating a state oil refinery will be passed when it comes up for consideration in the Kansas house of representatives. It was announced that the state ad ministration had ended its fight on the measure and from over all the state have come letters from the peo ple demanding that the bill be passed. Rush for North Platte Land. North Platte. Neb.. Fob. 15. Two hundred applicants for laud formed in line in front of tho laud office. There were dozens of women in the crowd, for whom the men gave way as a rule. The police force numbered the applicants as they stood in Hue and then the crowd dispersed, each applicant to return as soon as his number was called. Anthony Reeve of Elm Creek, Neb., got the best sec tion in the whole district. Ou ac count of the extreme cold there is not so large a crowd as otherwise would have come, but more are arriving ou every train. Death of F. A. Faikenberg. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 15. F. A. Falkenberg, head consul of the Wood men of the World, died of a compli cation of nervous and kidney troubles, aged forty-eight years. The body has been shipped to Denver for interment. Together with Joseph C. Root, then head consul of the Modern Woodmen of America, he founded the order of the Woodmen of tho World in 1S90. and has been head consul of the west ern division of the order since that time. He was elected president of the National Fraternal congress last sum mer in St. Louis. Government Right First. Lincoln, Feb. 13. After a long hearing in the office of Governor Mickey, the state board of irrigation sustained the contention of the fed eral government to priority of water rights in western Nebraska. A unani mous ruling accordingly was made lor the government as against a private irrigation corporation, represented at the hearing by II. G. Leavitt. presi dent of the Beet Sugar company of Ames. Mr. leavitt retains the risjht of appeal to the courts. Sammis is Asked to Resign. Washington. Feb. 15. James U. Sammis. internal revenue collector for the northern district of Iowa, has been requested to resign. It is stated at the treasury department that the basis for this request is the fact that Sammis permitted one of his deputies to divide his salary contrary to law with Sammis' brother, who is also a deputy. Iowa in a Bad Way. Des Moines, Feb. 13. Not in many years has Iowa been so completely shut in by the cold and snow. Not In the entire state has a railway train made a trip on schedule time and in most sections the train service has been practically abandoned for twenty-four hours. Less than half a dozen passenger trains have gone out of Des Moines during the day and the same condition prevails in all railway centers of the state. Scores of trains have been stalled on different lines. The blockade has lasted for several days now and the results are manifest ing themselves in a coal famine in a score of larger towns and cities and food famines in other places. Urges a Law to Save Public Lands. Washington, Feb. 15. President Roosevelt sent to congress a second partial report of the public lands commission. The report, he says, "seems to require a radical revision of most of the laxvs affecting the pub lic domain, if we are to secure the best possible use of the remaining public lands by actual hnmemakers." College in Kentucky Burns. Winchester. Ky.. Feb. 15. The Ken tucky Wesleyan college, the official school of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, burned, causing a loss of about $75,000, with insurance cf one-third that amount. Fletcher Lowers Auto Record. Havana, Feb. 15. H. W. Fletcher lowered the world's one mile road record one second by driving the eighty-horse power machine of O. It. Thomas that distance in forty-five seconds. Joe Tracy, driving J. S. Miller's thirty-horse power car, came within three-fifths of a second of equaling the world's record for mid dle weight machines, which was made by Hemmery at Ostend, Belgium. Firi in Brevort Haui Chicago. Feb. 13. Fire partly de stroyed i no ore oil iiuuse. causing a loss of $100,000 to the building and hotel furnishings. Three firemen were injured, one probably fatally. The 150 guets who were in the hotel at the time all escaped. Louis W. Weil, a salesman for a jewelry firm in New York, reported to the police that $10,000 worth of jewels had disap peared from his room. News of Son's Death Fatal. Plainwell. Mich.. Feb. 15. George Gary Soule. a wealthy retired banker, died suddenly from congestion or the brain, brought on by receiving new3 of the death of his son, Ellis Soule. who was city attorney of Spokane. Wash. The remains of the son will be forwarded to Michigan and a double funeral will be held here. kJSHPJTCyJiBSTS sBsa. P?!ik'-m Ba Bm BsT Bb BlBBBBBvBBBl CiT'TjpVbv BJ BJe ajBBBBHBBBBJ rLBBaH?2SBjBaB3iuBBBBBBBl WILL CtROW to large ones if placed properly. Do not keep your money in a stocking or under h corner of the carpet, bnt bring it to our banking house. Absolute safety and subject to check. Come in and lot us tell you about money planting. Columbus State Bank PUIILIC DEHT. H. C. Adams, in tho first chapter of hit great work on "Pnbiic Debts, " cives some statistics ami points oat somo historical facts that furnish ex cellent food for thought for those who are given authority by nntiou. state or municipality to borrow money en the pnbiic credit. Tho pnbiic debt of all the civilized nations of the world in lS'JS, when Mr. Adams' great work was written, wasinronnd numbers, 27 billion dol lars. It plaoetl a mortgage of $72? on every fqunro mile of territory of the debtor natious, making a per capitu debt of f 2.fc To pay 3 jer cent inter est on this vat debt alone would re quire an army of 3 million men work ing constantly, eEtiiiintiinr their timo at $1.30 a day. An interesting fact in connection with this debt ia that the greater part of it has occurred since 18-18 and it has increased in al most direct proportion with coaatitu tional liborty. Wlliam II T. who gave to the English people their "declar ation of rights, "also founded tho Eng lish debt. Mr. Adams t'oints out that when a nation becomes a borrower it drops temporarily its sovereign attributes and goes into tho money market as a private corporation. It is essential, therefore, before a nation can become a borrower, thai it shall have develop ed a money market, made safe and se cure by law and order. And since the highest indnstrial development and the highest security of property rights are found in nations to whose citizens constitutional liberty is secured. iC follows that tho existence of a publio debt, far from mnrking a ntato of national deendeuco as is imagined by some, is in fact a proof of advance ment. Tho danger of pnbiic debt lies not in tho use of tho public credit bnt in its nbuKe. Thero is a bill before the legislature for reducing tho number of district judges and another for removing re porters from the rrnular pav roll of ho ritate, placing them on tho "feei" basis, the fees to bo paid bv the counties securing the services. Theso bills both raise questions con cerning which only the judgen anil lawyers and reporters themselves are in a position to form' correct judg ments. And thanks to tho high stand ing of onr judges, who almost without exception, neennv thoir M-nts on the bench at considerable financial sacri fice, we can look to thehi for honest an swer.TJ Ono of the judges of this district says that the litigation of his district has increased considerably iu the past few vears, but he believes that Boone county could be added, withont de triment. An ex-jadue of this district believes that out: ji.dge could handle the business satisfactorily. All con cerned are of the belief that the state could he redistricted to advantage bat that it is rather a difficult problem. Whatever may bj done wifh either of these bills, it ic to be hoped that our judges will not be so burdened as to rob them of ample time to deliberate and investigate, and that the compet ent reporter will not be forced to seek other employment, his plaf:e to be taken by incompetent amateurs. Oar judges might well bo pressed to harrv the lawyers into court. But they should not be presed to hurry their decisions. It is estimated that a high cocrt of investigation that could prove the supervisors innocent of allowiug bills for supervisors' services in violation of law and that could prove the Tele gram Company innocent of grafting in every one of its three last contracts of county blanks would cost tho tax payers of Platte county the price of a new court house. That places the price of thfi jury at $2000 a head. I Would Advise Crown and Bridge work. 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