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CONTROVERSY.
Bspsrt Frsm Tefcie is That the Mi-
Will Insists Upon All Rights
Under the Treaty.
TOKIOr-Af ter a. carefal survey of
public fedisg regarding the prospects
af a satisfactory solution of the San
Francisco school controversy it aaay
be atated that while the approach of
the termination of the disagreeable
affair, is welconsed, yet the report from
Waahlagton that a solution may be ef
fected by a mutual treaty excluding
the lmatigratioa of laborers is gener
ally disbelieved as unreasonable. Ac
csrdlBg to the. prevailing feeling a so
lutioa must be elected on Japan's
treaty rights, pure and simple.
However, confidence continues that
a solution of the question will be
reached without the least sacrifice of
Japanese honor aad prestige.
The war talk of the Americaa press
has been received here with great
surprise aad sincere regret The cor
'respesdeht of the Associated Press
has talked with several leading men,
both la aad out of the. government'
They concur in the opinion that the
United States is the last country with
which Japan would go to war. Besides,
hoth nations are unaggressive in their
trade rivalries, which seldom leads to
war unless, territorial acquisition is
jnteaded by either rival.
8aa Francisco Mayor Eugene
Schmitz and members of the San
Francisco Board of Education left here
for Washington to confer with the
fwesideat in regard to the exclusion of
Japanese from the public scnoois, wnn
a view or reaching a basis of settle
ment of the question.
The Famine in China.
Victoria, B. C. Further advices
from the famine district of central
China.' received by "the steamship Tar
tar, slate that smallpox has broken
out in the camps and the officials are
breaking them up. The people are
numbed by suffering and patiently
submit to being driven. Telegrams to
the Jiji Shimpo say upwards of half a
million people will die of starvation or
diseases incidental to conditions pre
vailing ia the famine districts.
Three Freeze to Death.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-r-A woman and
two children were round frozen to
death' Sunday afternoon in an upstairs
tenement here, with a third child in
an adjoining room badly frozen, but
alive.
Trenton Has $100000 Fire.
Trenton, N. J. The Imperial Porce
laia works of this city burned Sunday.
The loss is estimated at flOO.O-1, fully
insured.
MOSES P. SYVDENHAM DEAO.
Pioneer Nebraskan and Writer of In
dian History Passes Away.
Kearney. Neb. While on his way to
rhurriiN Sundav moraine Moses P.
Sydenham -one of Nebraska's oldest
citizens aadj a writer of Indian history
aad early settlement of the state,
dropped dead of heart failure at 11:30
o'clock.
He had been in poor health for some
time although a little better of late,
aad was oa his way to the Methodist
church of which he was a member. He
fell ia front of the Goodall barn but re
covered and walked inside, asking to
sit down and rest a minute. While at
tendants brushed the snow off he be
came unconscious and was carrie.l to
a lounge where he expired.
Bora ia Loudon. England, in 1835.
in the Jewish quarter of "ghetto" of
that world's metropolis, of Jewish par
entage. Moses P. Sydenham spent his
youth in England, but becoming at
tached to the "Stars and Stripes."
which he frequently saw floating from
the mastheads of -the American clip
tier ships in the Indian trade, he had
aaved enough money to pay his pas
sage to this country at the age of 19.
SOCIALISTS GET ELEVEN SEATS.
Result of Mid-Winter Elections in
British. Columbia.
Victoria, B. C The result of the
elections so far give the conserva
tives twenty-five seats, liberals eleven,
socialist eleven, with five constit
uencies to hear from. Victoria and
Vancouver went solidly for the con
servatives with, heavy, majorities. Ex
Cssamlssioner Mdaness was defeated
Is the last named city by 1,000 vote.
Mahler Has Pneumonia.
Omaha A. L. Mohler. vice presi
dent of the Union Pacific railroad.
who went to Chicago a few days ago
to attend the meeting, between gen
eral managers and trainmen was
taken ill and is suffering with a slight
attack of pneumonia.
Sixty-one Bodies Recovered.
Charleston. W. Va.-r-Up to midnight
8uaday sixty-one bodies had been re
covered from the Stuart mine. Twelve
are still in the mine. The property
toss is. estimated at $30,000.
Mrs. Lenawerth Haa Grip.
Washington ' Mrs. Alice Roosevelt
Leagworth. of wife of Representative
lABgworth of Ohio, and daughter of
the preaideat is ill at her home in
this city with what is stated to be a
sMght attack of. grip. The president
sad Mrs. Roosevelt were very much
SBscersed 'about shefar daughter's
health when they were informed by
the physician that her temperature
had goae up to 102. Mrs. Loagworth
contracted a severe cold while attend
lac the White House reception.
Car Famine in Southeast
KaoxviUe. Tenn. The coal industry
ef east Tennessee aad southeastern
eatucky has bees paralyzed on ac-
csast of a coal car famine which pre-
vailed SB hoth the Southern and Louis
tsbb 4fc Nashville railroads. Only os
sma day were aay cars furnished the
aafae operators, aad they have bees
wasUe eves partially to supply the
Jarge diatrirt depeadeat on them In
dheastera states. Local operat-
i save bees notified of the dosing
sf ssadnds ef small industries
jeewat of lack of coat'
SHAW INCLINED TO OMAHA.
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Possibly; May ReWa ia the Nebraska
Metropolis.
Washington Chances are now de
cidedly in favor of Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw becoming a citizen of
Omaha soon after he retires from the
government service. It was learned
today from a cloaa friend of the sec
retary, an Iowa man who has had op
portunity and occasion lately to be
come informed as to the personal
plans of the secretary, that' he 'is de
cidedly Inclined to go to Omaha.
If he makes this decision, Jt is said
he will become head of a trust com
pany of probably 11,000.600 capital, in
which he will take in his own name
a large block of stock. Other Omaha
people who believe there is am open
ing for such a concern there have in
dicated their willingness to subscribe
liberally. In fact It is stated that
given the assurance that Secretary
aha win take the management
there is no doubt that the capital can
be raised in a very short time.
The statement that the secretary
leans stronslv toward Nebraska
comes from a source which places it
beyond cavil.
Seattle. New York and Omaha have
been chiefly in Mr. Shaw's mind for
some time. Omaha he knows t and
likes, and he believes it affords ah
excellent field for his business tal
ents. New York he does not like, and
he recently said that while he could
go there andcommand $100,000 sal
ary, he would have to spend more of
it living, and doubted if it were worth
while.
Omaha's political situation has also
attracted the former governor of
Iowa. He has been told that If he
would go there now he would have
powerful backing, if he cared to iden
tify himself with Nebraska politics,
for the senatorial seat now held by
Mr. Burkett
EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE.
Eighty or More Men Killed by Acci
dent in West Virginia.
Charleston. W.- Va. With a detona
tion heard for miles and hurling .debris
hundreds of feet in the air, dust in tne
Stuart mine, near FayettevIUe, ex
ploded Tuesday afternoon, bringing a
terrible death to eighty or more men
who were at work 500 feet below the
surface. There is little or no chance
that any will be taken out alive, for it
is thought that the terrific force of the
explosion snuffed out their lives in
stantly. It will not be possible lor,
rescuers to reach the bottom of the
shaft for forty-eight hours.
The disaster is perhaps the worst
in the number of killed, in the history
of the state. Most of the men were
Americans and many of them were
married and had large families.
Livingston Wants a Suit.
Washington Representative Living
ston of Georgia appeared before the
house committee on interstate and
foreign house committee on Tuesday
and urged favorable consideration of
his resolution providing for an inves
tigation by the Department of Com
merce and Labor of the fluctuations in
the cotton market with the particular
object of ascertaining whether or not
speculations have resulted from the
character of the contracts, alleged
sales and deliveries made on the New
York Cotton exchange.
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AMERICAN WHEAT IN' RUSSIA.
First Shipload Via London Will
Reach Riga Soon.
St Petersburg On account of the
failure of the local wheat crop Russia
this year will be a purchaser of Amer
ican wheat and the first shipload will
arrive at Riga, from London, on its
way to Rybinsk. The price on the
Russian market probably will be $1.15
a bushel, which is 7 cents under the
local price. Other cargoes have been
ordered for delivery at St Petersburg
as soon as navigation opens.
Treasury Balances.
Washington Tuesday's statement
of the treasury balances in the general
fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000
cold reserve, shows: Available cash
balance, $241,617,752; gold coin and
bullion. $101,290,490; gold certificates,
$2,463,300; total. $345,381,548.
President Hasnt Answered.
Washlnaton President Roosevelt
has received the resolutions passed
by the constitutional convention of
Oklahoma asking him if he would ap
prove the constitution if it .should cos
tain a provision on. the "Jim Crow
car" question. No answer has yet bees
made by the president
Increase in Mail.
Washington First Assistant Post
master General Hitchcock has asked
congress for an additioaal appropria
tion for postofflce derks during; the
present fiscal year. He has asked for
$150,000 to cover the salaries of 90
additional clerks until July L
Appeals for assistance are coming
to the department from all parts of
the country, particularly from the Pa
cific coast -Postmasters report that
it is impossible to handle the maiL
especially of the second class.
Two Senatorial Deadlocks.
Providence. R. L The tenth and
eleventh ballots for the election of a
United States senator showed" no
change. Goddard had 40; Colt, 38;
Westmore. 31: Utter. L
Little Rock, Ark. Both" houses voted
Tuesday for United States seaator.
Governor Davis received eighty-eight
votes' in the house aad thirty is the
seaate. Judge Worthrngtos received
the' five republican votes. The elec
tion of Davis will be ratified Is joint
session.
.Still 12 Bodies in Miss.
Frankfbrt-Oa-tbe-Mala A dispatch
to the Zdtung from Saarbrueck says
there are still seventy-two bodies un
der ground is the Redes sUse. Of the
bodies brought oat osly twesty-fosr
have bees recognised; the others are
so burned that their identity cassot
be established One womas became
desisted when she was oosfrostod by
her husband, she havisg believed him
among the dead. A samber of Swiss
asd Preach sewasaser corresposd
eats reached Saarbrasck.
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out "the small end ef the horn."
TIE REGULATION OF RATES
PASSED OUT BY THE INTERSTATE
COMMERCE COMMISSION.
Joint Tariffs and Joint Rates Covered
Specific Duties on Cpmmon Car
riers Imposed.
Washington The interstate com
merce .commission promulgated two
tariff circulars containing regulations
governing the construction and filing
of freight and passenger tariffs and
classifications effective March 1, next
The regulations cover joint tariffs and
through rates and also individual rates
of the various carriers.
It is provided that a change in a tar
iff shall be known as an amendment
and shall be printed in the supplement
to the tariff which it amends. No rule
shall be included, the circulars state,
which in any way or in any terms au
thorizes substituting for any rate
naoH in tiw tariff. Every carrier shall
publish, post and file separate tariffs
containing in plain and specific form
and terms all of the terminal charges
and allowances, together with all other
charges and rules which in any way
increase or decrease the amount to be
paid on any shipment as stated in the
regular tariff.
If a carrier refuse to participate in
through or joist rates to or from its
territory the, commission will give
early hearing on complaint against
such action and render decision under
the law which confers authority to es
tablish through routes and joint rates.
Such complaining carrier may, the
commission, rules, use such through
rates over the lines of the objecting
carrier as may have been lawfully pub
lished and filed, pending a decision by
the commission.
The passenger tariff regulations con
tain general rules regarding stopovers,
baggage and excess baggage weights,
and spedal provision is made for the
arrangement of points in local and in
terdivisional tariffs and for statements
showing the routing.
LAW TO PROTECT UNIFORMS.
President Desires to Give Social
Rights to Soldiers and Sailors.
Washington If President Roose
velt.can bring such a thing about, con
gress will pass a law which will pre
vent discrimination against the uni
form of the army or navy. Several
cases involving this question are
pending in state courts, but the more
recent case of the refusal of a sakting
rlnlr nrhnrietor at PlattSDUTg. N. Y., tO
admit two soldiers in ufcliorm, which
was sustained by Judge Everest of
the city court, has given an impetus
to the movement set- on foot by the
president some .time ago to insist tnat
the uniforms shall be redgnied in all
public places.
Grain Dealers to. Meet
Des Moines, la. The question as to
whether the government shall own the
railroads in order to solve the rate
nmnmition will be one of the main
features under discussion at the forth
coming meeting of the Farmers' Grain
Dealers' Association of Iowa, wmen
will convene at Fort Dodge Wednes
day and Thursday of this week. It is
expected to be the largest gathering of
grain growers and shippers ever hdd
in the United States and many noted
speakers will address the convention.
urkstt Chanoes Committees.
Washington Senator Burkett of Ne
braska on Thursday resigned as chair
man of the committee on Indian dep
mdations and was at once appointed
chairman of the committee on Pacific
railroads.
Ambassador ThamBesiTHome.
Lincoln, Neb. D. E. Thompson, am
bassador to Mexico, is in.Lincola for a
week's stay. He will visit Washing
ton and return to Mexico by way of
Havana.
Head Off Diseased Immigant
Waahingtoa "We are trying to
have applied to Mexico the same regu
lations that are now in force respect
ing the admlssioa of ismlgrasts who
come into the United States by. way of
Canada," said Commissioner ef Iausi
gratios Frank T. Sargent os Thurs
day when aaked about the steps bang
takes to reach aa agreemest with
Mexico for keeping oat of the Ualted
States undesirable istmlgreats who
reach Vera Cra asd other Mexican
.,
sorts ssd thes come across the Texas
boundary Use. i,,
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PROCESSTV
Will ef Late Senator Alt--.
Detroit. Mich. The will of the late
Senator R. A. Alger, filed in the pro
bate court leaves all of his estate
excepting $20,000 to his widow and
five children. The senator's brother,
Charles M. Alger, of Hannibal, Mo., is
left $10,000.
To the Happy Hunting; Ground.
Sheridan. Wyo. Bear Claw, the
Crow Indian chief, died Thursday He
was generally peacefully inclined and
had much influence with his tribe.
Iowa Editor Dead.
iilarshalltown, la. Byron Webster,
former editor of the Marshalltown
Statesman, died here. He was the
first .editor to suggest the name of
Grover Cleveland for the presidency
upon the election of Mr. Cleveland as
governor of New York In 1884.
Contagion at Chicago.
Chicago The health officers esti
mate the number of contagious dis
eases in the city at 4,477. Of these
3,058 are scarlet fever.
CATTLE FREEZING TO DEATH.
Stockmen in Northwest Will Lose Mil
lions of Dollars.
Minneapolis J. H. Howells of Mi
not, N. D a leading buyer of cattle
and sheep, says that the cattlemen of
the northwest would stand to lose
more than $1,000,000 by the severe
winter. He has made a tour of in
spection along the transcontinental
lines, both in the United States and
Canada, and says the losses will not be
so great in North Dakota as in Al
berta and Montana.
In the Alberta country, according to
Mr. Howells, thousands of cattle had
huddled together along, the railroad
tracks and dead cattle were to be seen
for 100 miles or more, lying twemtf
deep in some places. The same con
dition, he says, prevails in Montana.
POPE CHANGES HIS ATTITUDE.
Agreement May Be Reached Between
France and Church.
Paris It is learned from an ecclesi
astical source that as a result of the
advice tendered to the pope at Rome
January 2 by five French prelates the
pontiff has changed his position to
ward the church and state separation
question in France and will issue new
instructions, under which it is believed
it would be possible to organize public
worship under the supplementary
church and state separation law intro
duced by Minister of Education
Briand.
Wants Famine Contributions.
Washington American Consul Gen
eral Rogers, st Shanghai, cabled the
State department regarding the Chi
nese famine as follows:
Strongly advise that mosey contri
butions be seat instead.of.food at pres
ent Provisions can be purchased at
Shanghai at favorable prices.
.Killed in Armour Plant
Chicago Four men were killed and
sixteen others seriously injured as the
result of the explosion of an ice ma
chine ia the power house of Armour tt
Co., at Forty-fourth street and Pack
ers avenue.'
Judge Beatty Resigns.
Boise, Idaho James H. Beatty, for
sixteen years judge of the United
States court for the district of Idaho on
Monday announced that he had ten
dered his resignation.
Freedom of Stump in Russia.
.Moscow The governor general .-as
canceled, at Premier Stolypln's direc
tion, the election order that any per
sons ddivering speeches hostile to the
mvernment at electoral meetings shall
be sentenced to three months' impris
onment or 'to pay a fine of $250.
The premier has 'directed provincial
authorities to avoid interference with
campaign meetings except where nec
essary to prevent the open, advocacy
of revolutionary outbreaks.
Great Graft in St Louis.
St LotusTestimony taken by the
seaate committee os municipal affairs,
which is making an investigaties Into
musidpal affairs, developed at Mon
day's hearing that E. C. Dodge, who
has beea the law partner of Excise
Commissioner Thomas E. Mulvlhlll
atsce March 19, 1887, has represented
thirty-five or forty saloonkeepers
whose llceases were attacked by Ex
cise CoauBisatoser Mulvlhlll. aad that
he had collected in eleven of these
fees amounting to $734).
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ORIGIN OF RMNR OF WAR
REMARK OF HAY ASH I ATTRIBUT
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Governmant Has-no Inttntian af la
craaainfl Naval Force an Eitncr
- Side of the Pacific"
Washington Secretary Root pos
itively refused' to make any statement
touching the Japanese situation in its
.relation to the coafereace which took
place at the White House Wednesday
evening between the president aad
some members of the cabinet ana- we
California congressional delegation.
He does, however, deny the authen
ticity of aay of the published iater
vlews attributed to him as to the Im
minence of war, the state of the treaty
negotiations or aay' phase of this sub
ject, which he regards "aa one emi
nently" unsuited for public discasslom
at this time.
The Japaaese ambassador decliaed
to be sees this afternoon, hut the
hAra nt the finihassv staaT declared he
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statemeat oa this subject The fact
.nn..M n htt hat otatMMBt' m the
appears to be that a statemeat' ia the
press cable dispatches ascribed to
Baros Hayashi, the Japanese minister
for.forelga affairs, to the effect tnat
in event the courts upheld the Ssn
Frasdsco school officials, then the
matter of discrimination against Japa
nese would require diplomatic treat
ment was In some quarters erron
eously attributed to Secretary Root
who was put in the position of stating
that he received an ultimatum from
the Japanese minister for foreign af
fairs. Mr. Root denies that he has
received any such communuication,
and careful inquiry falls to show that
the alleged remark of Baroa Hayashi
has ever been communicated officially
to tsfs government
It was said at the Navy department
as an evidence of the slight importance
attached to the naval officers in the
nresent discussion of the Japanese af
fair, that there was not the slightest
Intention on the part of the depart
ment of strengthening the naval force
on either side or the Pacific.
School Beard to Come Ejst
San Francisco After a conference
at the home of Mayor Schmitz this
morning, the members of the board of
education decided that the entire
board, with Superintendent Roncavieri
and Assistant City Attorney Williams,
will go to Washington to confer with"
the federal officials on the Japanese
question;
Mayor Schmitz will also be one of
the party. The determination of the
'mayor to accompany the school direct
ors came as a great surprise. In ex
planation of this, it was stated that a
telegram had been received by him
from some one ia Washington saying
that his presence was urgently needed.
ALASKA RAILROAD HEARING.
Senator-Elect Guggenheim Attacked by
WKnees.Befere Committee.
Washington Hearings on the bill
to give a government charter to the
Alaska Railroad company for its pro
posed projected railroad from the head
of Cordova bay to a point on the Yu
kon river Bear Engle, Alaska, were
continued before the senate commit
tee on territories. There was added
Interest in the hearing because An
drw Burleigh of New York, one of the
promoters of the railroad, declared
that opponents to the bill were trying
to "corner" the copper fields of Alaska
and' that their plans will be interfered
with if this railroad invaded the field.
TELLER PLEADS ' GUILTY!
C. H. Everly Sentenced to Five Years
for Embezzlement
"StTLouls." Mo. Charles H. Ever
ly, formerly teller in 4he St. Louis
Union Trust company, pleaded gullty
today to a charge of embezzling $5,009
from the trust company, and was sen
tenced to five years in the peniten
tiary. Judge Muench before passing sen
tence said that while he agreed with
the circuit attorney that the law
would be satisfied to take five years
of a man's life, he could not refrain
from remarking that the sentence
seemed entirely out of proportion to
others dealt by the criminal courts
after a trial.
Epidemic of Scarlet Fever.
Chicago Two hundred and eight
cases- of scarlet fever were reported
Friday, as compared with 281 Thurs
day. The decrease led the officiate
of the health department to believe
that they have the epidemic under
control. Diphtheria showed an in-
crease of nine cases, ine iuum iu
this date of fever cases Is 5,8a2 ana
of diphtheria 2.C56.
Any Stomps Will Do.
Washington A bill was favorably
reported by the house committee on
postoffices and post cards providing
that 10 cents worth of postage stamps
of anv denomination may be used in
stead of a special delivery stamp, pro
vtdlag the words "special delivery" be
written on the letter.
Fruit Cars for Hsrriman.
Los Angeles, Cat Six hundred re
frigerator cars, the first of a total of
8,000 ordered by the Pacific Fruit Ex
press company for handling Southern
California fruit shipments, in opposi
tion to the Armour company, arnveu
here. The cars will continue to arrive
at the rate of 1,200 a month until the
order is filled. The Padfic Fruit Ex
press company is known as an auxil
iary of the Hsrriman railroads, but it
is daisMd will furnish competition
with Armour, who has hitherto monop
olied the busfaess.
Mrs. Sase Gives $1,000,000.
New York Mrs. Russell Ssge has
given $1,000,000 to the Renselaer
Polytechnic , institute. ' Announce
ment of the gift was made at a meet
ing of the institute alumni assocla
tlotu Meningitis Epidemic.
Losdos Cerebro spiaal menin
gitis, hitherto bat slightly known to
this country, has broken out In viru
lent form la Scotland and the north of
Ireland.
HARD FOR HOMESTEADERS.
Mas SeBy
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GstHNl by a Special Aaant
Patent Can Be
WasaiEjrtoa BesWes Ixla- Feb
ruary 20 at the date to vote om
declaratkm that Seaator Reed
of ITtah.ls. not entitled to has
passing a bilTappropriatiaa; $2.IIMQ
to cosine the Oolarado river to its
baaka aad another placiag the ataa
agemeat of the Paaama railway aader
the lsthmiaa canal coaamisrioa, the
seaate listened to aa extended speech
by Senator Carter, Moat, ia criticism
of the secretory of the Interior aad
aaother by Secretary Heybara to the
same end.
The recent order of the aecretory
preveatiaathe laaaaace of patents to
the public madB after aa examiaaaoa
oa the grouadVbr a special agent was
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iBterruptkms, showed their ap-
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nroval of the sentiments expressed.
Mr. Heybara coacluaed by explain
ing the hardship the executive order
was working. A homesteader, he said,
was put entirely at the mercy of tas
"special agent," was not allowed to
know -the report which was made
agalast'him aad gives bo opportunity
to answer it. It made no dlsTeresce
whether the settler had readered his
sworn affidavit and the affidavits of
two of his neighbors, in compUaace
with the law, the report of the special
agent was placed above this evideace.
As it was to the advantage of the spec
ial agent to find trouble, the reports
so made were likely to be had.
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RATE BILL IS READY.
Subcommittee Complete Measure
Dealing with Passenger Fares.
' 'Lincoln, Neb. The passenger rate
bill is ready for action at the heads of
the joint railroad committee; the com
mlsskm'bill proper will be ready a
few hours later, and the anti-pass bill
is on the road to completion. These
bills now are In the hands of sub-coav
mittees selected from the joint com
mittee, and before being introduced
into the house and senate, of course,
must run the gauntlet of the joint
committee. Inasmuch, however, as
the general outline of all the bills
was discussed before the sub-committees
were appointed, it is thought more
than probable the joint committee will
merely endorse what has been done
by the joint committees and the bills
will be introduced the latter part of
the week.
Indian Appropriation Bill.
Washington The Indian appropria
tion bill was reported to the senate.
It carries $14,509,201, a net iacrease
of $6,306,122 over the bill passed by
the house. The large increases by
the senate committee are due to ap
propriations under which the United
State treasurer will pay to a number
of tribes the money now held in trust
as Indian tribal funds. The commit
tee feels that these tribes are compe
tent to manage their own affairs aad
that the government should cease pay
ing interest on the funds.
SwettenhanVa Time Short.
London There is reason to believe
that the resignation of Sir Alexander
Swettenham, governor of Jamaica, has
been accepted, although the officials
of the foreign office refuse all infor
mation on the subject This official
reticence is attributed to a desire to
complete the arrangements for a suc
cession to the post before announcing
Swettenham's retirement It is ex
pected that the latter will leave the
Island as soon as details can be com
pleted for handing over the affairs of
his office to his successor.
HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT DEAD.
Funerals of Nearly All Victims c?
Prussian Mine Disaster.
Saarbruecken, Rhenishb Prussia
The fgneral 'services over the victims'
of the recent mine disaster were hdd
today. One hundred and forty-two cof
fins were laid in long rows in the ball
adjacent to the shaft. Prince Fred
erick Leopold made a short address. A
total of 149 bodies have beea recov
ered, of which 110 have beea recog
nized. There are still nine bodies .be
low, buried under wreckage.
LIVE STOCK FOR INDIANS.
Will
Ask Bids on Million Dollars
Worth of Cattle.
Washington An expenditure of
nearly $1,000,000 for the purchase of
cattle to supply the needs of the Is
disns on reservations in North aad
South Dakota, Montana asd Arizona
will be made by the interior depart
ment within a short time.
'The commissioner of Indian affairs
has been authorized to invite pro
posals for furnishing asd delivering
duriBS. the fiscal year 1907, 24,751
heifers, 7?5 balls, 1,268 mares aad
1,268 milch cows to Indian agencies
in the states referred to at aa esti
mated cost of $704,420.
To Create "Paul Jesse Day."
Washington Senator Burnham. in
troduced a bill providing that Sept 2$
and that on that day all UaHed
and that on that day day all United
States vessels in port shall "dress
ship." It is said that the bill la sup
ported by Adatiral Dewey, Geseral
Horace Porter, Rear Admiral Balrd
aad others.
Earthquake at Vandalia.
St Louis; Mo. A Republic special
from Vandalia. 111., ssys every baUdlag
in Vandalia was shaken by as earth
quake Wednesday night Maay per
sons were aroused from deep sleep
The shock was accompanied by a loud
rumbling.
,
Sixty Dead in Coal Mine.
Charleston, W. Va. Late advicea re
ceived from the scese of the disaster
at the Stuart company's arises st
Stuart Fayette coaaty. la that the
sumber of victims will he about sixty,
instead of seventy-five or eighty ss
KsfiSIA
'The dty
headed la his
A great deal ef pa earn sals la srevs-
lest is Nehawka aad vtetolty.
Dr. GUchrietafc
divine
died la PKtsburg Pa., last
The Nebraska Central will
buttdiac the Haatiags esd at
Mr. ssd Mrs. James Sloes of Ge
sevs celebrated their goldes wedding
last week.
A revival that recestty dosed is
the ChrkwJas chares at Neleea re
sulted Is sal fa assured coaverrtea
J. F. Wolf of Cedar Creek shot aad
killed a bald eagle which measured s
little more thas saves feet from tip to
.tip of wlags.
. Cass cessty's quota of dfaaosmsica
is fan st the stats asylsm ssd so
more will he received from that coss
ty for 'the present
The hoard of supervisors sstimatew
the amount required to pay the ex
pease of raanlBg Platte cossty for
the year 1M7 at $?5.2tt.
County Judge Wilaos a short time
ago collected as inheritance tax. aa
provided by Isw. the first collet Joa
made is AsteMse cossty.
Six brothers aad sisters, the yossg
eat'61 aad the oldest 72, were together
the first time st the some ef the Iste
Hot Perry Semes is Btoir.
' The Farmers' isstitato of Waahlas
toa cossty will he held Is Hair Feb
ruary 14 aad IS under the auspices ef
the state agricultural school.
Rcprosestative Pollard today se
cured the passage of s hill for the re
lief of William A. Whittsker of Falls
City, iscreaaiag sis pessioa from $12
to $24.
The Methodist ssd CbBgregatioaal
churches of Clarke have held jointly
a series of special meetings extending
over two weeks. Attendance haa
At the Methodise sssscossl church
the Grasd Ansy of the Republic post
of Norfolk presented s large Americas
Ssg to the trustees of the church with
appropriate services.
Wolves have become such a messes
to stock and poultry that fanners both'
east asd west of Red Cloud are form-,
isg huatiag parties to rid the country
side of the brutes if possible.
The Merrick Couaty Agricaltural
sad Fair assoclstioB has just beea or
ganized at Claries. It is proposed ta
bold a county fair aaaually at Clarks.
beginning with the coaslag summer or
fan.
The Seward County Agricultural so
ciety has arranged for s stock judging
contest for boys usder 20 years of age.
to be ssder the management of Dr. N.
B. Cususias,at the couaty fair next
fall.
The Otoe Preserving company, can
ners, has purchased s cassias plant
recently erected in Rockport, Mo and
will operate it is the future is con
nection with the Blast at Nebraska
City.
Joss P. Peterson went to Neligh
and gave himself up to Sheriff Miller.
who took him before the couaty
judge to answer to the charge of bas
tardy. Fanners ahoat Sutherland have com
pleted the shipmeat of sugar beets
grows last season to the factories.
Two hundred or more carloads were
shipped from that vicinity, the yield'
beisg good.
T. F. Miller of Nance cossty, prop
rietor of the Cedar Bask Fomad Chiaa
hog bara, siade a public sale of forty
two head of his thoroughbred hogs
for the sum of $3,675, as average of -187.50
per head.
Michael Bends, a brakemas os the
Burlington at Wymore, was lodged is
jail at Beatrice os a comslaiat sworn
out by . Miss Genevieve Peterson,
charging him with beisg the father ,
of her unborn child.
A wolf hunt In which about 109
people participated, waa held east of
Bine HIR. A good-sized tract of coua
ery was thoroughly covered aad sev
eral wolves were stirred vs. bat is the
final rouad-up oaly oae waa hilled.
A practical desftosstratios of thd
aailklag asachiae was gives Before the
meeting of the Nebraska Dairyases'S
assoclatioa at Liacom. Prof. C. Erf
gave a talk os the atilklag machine,
illustratiag his remarks by milklsa;
several cows.
A movemest is to he lauached for
a greater Hastiags. "Twenty thoa
aasd by 1910." wiU he the campaign
cry asd if the plaaa of the sws back
of the scheme are carried oat Has
tiags will swve with full steam
ahead for the sext three, years.
It is expected that the corn exhibit
will he a feature of the Jehssos
County Farmers' laatttste, which will
be held is Tecumseh Jssssry Sf asd
31 ssd February 1 asd 2. The esse
mittee havtag; the oars show Is charge
promises good sremiaaw ssd expects
s good showlag.
Matt Mitchell of Eastis has retsraed
from St Joseph, where he naarketed
a shipmeat of cattle, amoas which
was a cow aald to be the heaviest ever
received at the St Joseph stock
yards. The aabaal waa s high grade
Durham aad weighed 1300 pounds ssd
sold for $3.80 per hundred-weight asd
aetted Mr Mitchell $76.
Foggy, cold weather with light,
saowa occasionally, prevails moat of
the time is Banner coaaty. staking it
very unpleasant for frdghtisg sad
severe os stock os the raage. It la
feared that the loss of live stock win
he quite heavy.
Mike Distler. Frank Karr, Ed. Hit
tea. Herasas Scharidt F. C. Krsger
asd F. Krsger retarsed to Bfae Hill
from their trip thiwagh Oklahoma,
Texas asd ladies Territory. . They
west for the purpose sf losklsc st the
lead aad buylag iTswKsMe. None -of
fae party parchaaed aay mad.
R. P. Woepptle. s farmer living
southwest of Ewiag; was struck by
trala No. 11$ while r randan, the track
at that place. His wages wsa demol
ished ssd he received two scalp
wounds asd his hack waa badly;
wrenched.
The firm sf Wait A Seas, y
ssssei s S ssd It cost store is
vaicti
rice, sefore the hehmnya started to
move Its stock, when it was aatercept
ed by the sheriff who est led aa at
tacBswst, leased by the cessty court
os the application sf r. & SawMss.
far the owner sf the buMdmc
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