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VOLUME XXXV. NUMBER 46.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1905.
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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.
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.21,785
. .6,021
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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