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Boetoa. On the treeless steppes of
Hassia, beyond the "pale." and in the
arid districts of northeastern China,
thousands of human beings are dying
for want of food. Lack of rain in the
first instance, excess of it in the sec
ond is the cause.
Five provinces in China and 21 In
Russia are affected, and. -while from
the former country come awful tales
of the bartering of human flea, for
food, of the sale of little children, and
of the breaking out of the plague
among the close-packed sufferers, from
Russia comes a wail of despair, where
men, women and children are trying
to cling to life, with almost nothing to
cat and with no fuel in a temperature
of 25 degrees below zero.
Conditions are such in both coun
tries that it is estimated that what in
this country would be the price of a
single visit to the theater would save
a human life until returning crops
bring self-support.
The Christian Herald of New York,
which has taken charge of the Ameri
can end of the. Chinese famine relief,
pledged itself to supply 10.000,000
pounds of flour, corn, commeal, medi
cal supplies, etc.. in addition to what
had already been sent. The govern
ment gave the army transport Gen.
Uuford to carry this consignment from
San Francisco to Shanghai.
Government Aid Inadequate.
In Russia the famine is being re
lieved to some extent by government:
aid, but the restrictions this aid car
ries with it make it very inadequate.
It involves the delivery of one pound
of bread a day only to sufferers less
than 17 and more than 59 years of
age. Infants under one year, and all
the vast majority between 17 and 59
get nothing except what the unselfish
among the more fortunate are willing
to share. And, above and beyond this,
there is the fact that the black hand
of Russian official graft appropriates
for private ends at least one-half of
the money the government voted for
relief.
Bishop Potter, of New York, is pres
ident and Dr. Samuel J. Barrows, for
merly of Boston, is secretary of the
American relief for Russia.
A foreign correspondent writing in
description of the affected districts
says: "Every semblance of grass
plants and roots has disappeared, and
starving parents are eating their chil
dren. I know this to be true, and
have myself found human flesh on
sala."
Three Months in Famine's Grip.
The district involved' in the famine
is known as "Kianpeh," meaning
"north of the river," the stream being
the Yangtse. For more than three
months this region in northern China
has been in the remorseless grasp of
famine and famine-bred disease. Forty
days of rain and consequent floods
heaped calamity upon the 40.000
square miles of territory and its 15.
000,000 of people. Before new crops
can be raised it is estimated that,
despite the best efforts for relief, the
death list will exceed that of Naples.
San Francisco and Jamaica rolled into
one.
Writing after a tour through one of
the famine camps of 30.000 starving
refugees, a correspondent saii recent
ly: "little more than an hour ago I
saw two women, presumably mother
and grandmother, wailing over the
tiny cofittn of a child that had been
part of grim famine's daily toil.
"It is ail so horrible, so overpower
ing, so haunting, so heartrending, that
one cannot write of it in orderly fash
ion. It seem3 as if only the repeated
cry of -Help! Help! Help!' can be
fashioned for the ears of the prosper
ous American people, to whom God
has givey a year of plenty, while Use
poor of China perish from want.
"Out of the awful mass of suffering
a succession of individual pictures
comes trooping before my vision.
There was the man, too weak to stand
erect, who bore on his back, as older
brothers "carry babies in China, his
SHOWED NOBILITY OF SOUL.
Poor Man's Remarkable Fortitude in
Face of Gloom.
For real, whole-souled optimism in
the face of gloom, submission to ap
parent defeat of noble aims and sun
bhinlriess of disposition when every
turn of fortune's wheel means loss,
give me the old paper man I know,
whose wife worked in the washtub
in order, to assist him to make both
ends meet, and who when she lay
dying cheered her to the last with
roseate talcs of the success of his
precarious business on the street ear
ner" saM a Philadelphia charity work-.
er the other day. "Such devotion I
never saw. The old woman required
so much of her husband's time and
attention that it is a wonder he was
able to earn enough to keep his own
body and soul together, to say nothing
of her needs. But he never whimpered.
"'He's always been the saae,' the
good wife told me the first- day. I
founa-.tsMBula-ta little room v dawn,
town. Poor soul, she was la the last
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blind old mother, the mere skin-an-bone
framework of a woman. They
wanted help, and pleaded for it in the
thin whine of the utterly miserable
and I dared not give them so much as
a copper!
The Mother's Suffering.
"Or that mother, hard-eyed and
rigid, who stood against a wall with
her six children gathered about her
tattered skirts, staring out uncaring on
a company of living refugees, who are
a more melancholy sight than the
thousands of ancient graves among
which they are encamped. They had
been, fed one portion of thin, watery
rice porridge for them all and now
they must wait in the cold for another
24 hours to pass before 'they can be
fed again and even then some
stronger ones may push them aside
and steal their turn at the meager re
lief. "Strange incongruities flash into
one's mind as he walks about among
these 30,000 refugees. As I passed
this morning an old, old woman, cov
ered only by a few rags, who sat on
the cold, bare ground, sharing her
small bowl of rice with a babe of 12 or
IS months, evidently her grandchild,
who sat on her knees. I thought of
some grandmothers whom I know in
America sweet-faced and comfortable
and kindly, whose evening of life is
made pleasant by the love of children
and grandchildren, and who know not
the word want And I recalled some
baby friends sweet, ruddy little dears,
wrapped in the finest linen, with ward
robes upon which love has lavished
its generosity, and whose food is a
matter of careful consultation with
physicians and friends.
"Of course, I cannot imagine these
delicately nutured babes in dirty tat
ters and exposed to the cold winter
night and day, week after week, yet
scnehow one picture suggests the
other. Just so, when a refugee mother
accosted us this morning and asked us
to accept her child' as a gift, imagina
tion brought instantly to view the pre
ciousness of the American children I
know.
Suffering Unparalleled.
"Incidents could be piled upon inci
dents; every one of these 30,000 refu
gees incarnates a story a story of a
home abandoned, of toilsome journeys
to this southern district in the hope of
finding a pittance of food to allay that
awful gnawing of hunger; of. the
eager hunt for a sheltered nook in a
doorway; of being driven from spot to
spot, until at last a few feet of bare
earth are secured out among the
graves with the other refugees a
space no bigger than a Chinese grave
suffices for an entire Chinese family:
of the daily and nightly huddling to
gether in one mass for the sake of hu
man warmth; of the search for dry
gra-s with which to make a tiny fire;
of the morning struggle for a portion
of the government rice and of that in
describable, terrible, primitive duel
between life and starvation which the
Chinese so dauntlessly endure.
"In all this. I write of the best, and
not of the worst. This is only the first
outpost of the famine district.
Always Close to Starvation.
"The Chinese live closer to actual
starvation than it is possible for a
westerner to comprehend; they are al
ways poor. So the failure of the crops
not to mention the destruction of
their homes by flood at once placed
them in a state of actual destitution,
which can only be relieved when the
wheat crop is harvested In July.
Meanwhile, owing to lack of seed, only
half of the spring wheat crop has been
planted."
The cargo of food which the Chris
tian Herald sent over to the stricken
district In China cost 100,000, and
this sum was raised by popular sub
scription. Its arrival in China is expected to
do much for the sufferers, but more
food will have to follow at once. Con-
stages of consumption, but as cheer
ful as her husband was. The day be
fore her death she asked him: 'How
are you making out. John? Still hold
ing your trade? Ah. poor John, you've
had a hard time with your old wom
an, and it's been hard for roe to
see you spending your money for med
icines and food that' I could do with
out if I was well: but. never mind.
John; God will reward you for it
alL'
"John suppressed his tears, which
I could not do. lt3 all right, wife,
for as long as you can be comfortable
and 1 can keep well enough peddling
my papers, neither of us shall want.'
"Wen. the fact was that John had
not a dollar left when I came upon
the scene. He had told his sick
wife this same story again and again.
"Every cent he had earned had gone
for invalid comforts and the cost of,
prescriptioas. Indeed, I Just ar-'
rived in time to save the woman from
learning the truth. On. the day she
died she told me that John had been
able to earn more during her .illness
than they .had botfc previously
ditions have grown steadily worse, and
plague has broken out in one or two
of the provinces. The sufferers are
huddled together in thousands in the
camps,
Millions Face Death.
In Russia the conditions are little
less appalling. For the first time in
the history of such catastrophes in
Russia the government itself is aroused
to the necessity for relieving the
stress. The famine affects no less
than 30,000,000 peasants inhabiting; an
area half as large as the United
States, and while this area lies be
tween the steppes and "White Rus
sia," the famine is affecting indirectly
the people within the "pale" who de
pend upon the peasants for trade and
commerce.
The peasantry represents 85 per
cent of the entire population. Their
one means of livelihood is farming,
and when the rain did not come to
make their crops grow the past season
their only hope of sustenance was
gone.
Last year in more than 1.500,000
square miles of Russian territory there
was sowing but no reaping. The peas
ants hopefully put their little store of
seed grain into the ground. When the'
arid land failed to return a crop, not
only were they robbed of the fruits of
their toll, but their seed grain itself,
which might have served as food, was
gone. There was nowhere to turn for
work or succor. Hundreds of miles
away there were cities, but the few
daring ones who reached them sent
back the hopeless words: "No work."
Wholesale "Grafting."
In 1891, when the famine killed hun
dreds, the Russian government hit
upon the expedient of forbidding the
word "hunger," but the famine of the
present is so much greater that the
government is fully alive to it Be
sides having appropriated S35.000.000
already. It is now negotiating a loan
of 137,000,000 more for famine relief.
But even this sum Is totally inadequate
to the work in hand, especially as half
of the money will line the pockets of
official grafters to whom the deaths of
thousands of poor peasants is merely
an unfortunate incident in their own
short cut to wealth.
At present the relief work in Russia
consists of doling out a pound of bread
a day to sufferers. The aged and
minors get nothing.
Some families of five or six have
perhaps two who draw bread. Other
families have none. If two of a fam
ily of six draw bread and divide it
equally it means that each member
eats one-third of a pound a day. The
regular diet of a Russian peasant is
five pounds of bread daily. Thus the
most fortunate are now existing upon
one-fifteenth of their regular fare, or,
to an American who has three square
meals a day, two meals .in three
weeks.
The very seeds of the weeds have
been eaten and the ground has been
stripped of every green thing. The lit
tle horses have all been sold or eaten,
and the occasional cows, too. Nothing
remains but the hope of relief from
the outside. There Is no wood for
fires and many families have joined
together in one house for warmth,
tearing the other dwellings down for
fuel.
It is estimated that in the province
of Samara alone there will be 200.000
deaths in a total population of 3,000.
000, and others of the 21 provinces af
fected will have like averages. ;
Seek Aid of the World.
Determined efforts are now 'being
made to enlist the sympathy of the
world with the suffering, ignorant
peasants, and emissaries have been
sent to this and other countries. M.
Shiskoff, who is in America to enlist
aid. says that $8 will save the life of
an adult and that f 5 will keep a child
from dying.
ed together 'that was when -'I could
work at the washtub. yon know. she
explained. She lingered until the sun
sank in the west and with its last
glint on the .horizon her spirit depart
ed. I shall never forget the fortitude
of that old man, nor shall I ever lose
the inspiration of his Tuxselfish devo
tion. He had lied to her, it is true,
lied to her to whom he had always
confided his secrets, but the revela
tion of the secret that he carried
about with him while she lay ill
unto death he forbore to make, lest
she should be retarded in the recov
ery he prayed might come to her.
Even to me he did not utter one
single complaint.
"He is still selling his papers, and.
what Is more, insists on sharing his
profits with our society. Only an in
cident in the lives of the very poor,
but one that reaches the hearts of
those who know their straggles and
their victories. Need I add that this
old hero 'shall not be -left alone to
suffer when he; too, win he called
upon to fight his battle against the
grim reaper?"
I NO VALID REASONS
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Merchant
Copyriffbted. 1906. by Alfred C. Wrk.)
The reasons why people should
trade at home are numerous, but so
far as we are able to learn but one
reason Is . advanced for purchasing
goods of rsail order houses. 'That one
reason a saving of money Is often
no reason at all. for in many instances
the express charges or freight and
cartage will bring the cost of an arti
cle that as quoted in the price list
seemed, a wonderful bargain, almost
or quite up to the, price charged by
the local dealer. But even were one
able to save a few cents on the par
chase price by buying away from
home, it appears to us that the loss
is infinitely more than the gain, for
he who sends the money which he
earns in the home town out to swell
the coffers of wealthy dealers in dis
tant .cities cannot fail to forfeit in a
considerable . degree the respect .of
those around, hint, nor can he under
these conditions preserve his self
respect Intact.
The man who patronizes mail order
houses must have a sneaking feeling!
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The mall-order fiend is encroaching upon our town like a devastating
prairie fire, and we. should turn to with a will, and by the aid of the home
trade plow run a protecting furrow around the community that will.aave us
and our .institutions from destruction. Such is the duty 'of every leyal resident.
that everybody in town knows that
he is a hindrance rather than a help
to the community. He is not wanted
in public position's, and when ques
tions of local interest and importance
are discussed, his opinion carries far
less weight than the man who con
tributes his share to the prosperity of
the community by spending his mon
ey where he earns it. ,
In addition to losing in a large de
gree the respect of others and nis
own self-respect, the man who does
nothing to build up the town in which
he lives fails to find the contentment
which is necessary to happiness. Hav
ing done nothing to make the town
better, he is unable to see the many
advantages It possesses, and is con
tinually talking and thinking of its
deficiencies. He does not move out,
however, but stays on year after year,
a discontented parasite, getting all he
can and giving as little as possible in
return. There is an unwritten law of
nature that makes it impossible for
one to really taken an interest in a,
place until he has done something for
it, and it is oniy when we have done
our share toward building up the town
in which we live that It becomes a
real home to us..
Perhaps the local dealers In country
'towns do not always have in stock
just the articles you desire, but they
are usually willing to order whatever
their customers, want, and under or
dinary circumstances can supply you
as quickly as you can procure the
goods from a mail order house. When
you buy of the home merchant, the
goods sre before you and you see
what you are getting. In buying by
mail there is always a chance that
when the goods arrive they will not
prove to be just what you expected
and desired. In that case you are put
to the inconvenience of sending them
back for exchange, or if the need is
immediate and pressing, you are
obliged to accept that which Is not
entirely- satisfactory.
Trade at home in order that your
home' town may have stores at which
to trade. There are many times when
you are in a hurry for some article,
there Is no time to send to New York,
Chicago, or elsewhere. Your need is
immediate and imperative.' You are
glad under such circumstances to
trade with the home merchant, yet if
other people followed your example
and patronized mail order houses, J
there would be no home merchant to
trade with.' If others bought of him'
only when they wanted things In a
hurry, and sent out of town for the'
greater part of their supplies, he
would have left for more promising
fields long ago, or if he had stayed in
those circumstances, the sheriff would
finally have closed his doors. Yon
wouldn't like to live in a place with
out stores, and yet it may be that you
prefer to reside In ' a country" town
rather than In a dry. Do your share,'
tken.'towaxt' making it possible fori
the country ymsrehant to carry on
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fh circulation . In
your mntiXeatdesce town. If yon ml
spest Itfa to home store, some of
it atlesnt would have been paid ont
by the proprietor, in the form of
wanes-1 his employes, they In
wouhThave expended ItTfbr the
stttes of We'anaiit would have passed
from one to another ethe home deal;
era. provlag. an Important factor in
the. nrospertoof th eonmuntty . Har-iag-
sent it to the- mall order noase
the probabilities are that It will never
again benefit anyone 'In your
town.
You should trade with the
merchant because he is the one from
whom yon ask and receive' favors.
Perhaps yon have had a run of ill lack
yon have lost your position, had
long-continued illness in tie family, or
have experienced difficulty in collect
ing money due you. Yon are In
straitened circumstances. Would a
letter to the mall order house, stating
all these circumstances, secure for
you a supply of the necessaries of
life on liberal credit terms? Most as
suredly not An appeal to the propri
etors for aid in your extremity would
be barren, of results. It Is the home
merchant who stands ready to extend
the credit necessary to tide yon over
an emergency, and for this reason. If
for no other, he should have yonf
loyal support in your times of pros
perity. Perhaps yon are financially inde
pendent, and have never known the
necessity of asking for credit. Even
then you are indebted to the home
merchant for many of the advantages
you enjoy. The-proprietors of a mail
order house would laugh you to scorn
were you to ask them to subscribe to
ward the building of your new church,
the improvement of your school build
ing, or the expenses of maintaining
your fire department. The home mer
chant contributes 'liberally to the sup
port of these institutions so essential
to,the public comfort and well-being,
and you cannot afford to withhold
from him your patronage.
You know your local dealers. Per
haps they have grown from childhood
to manhood in your home town; you
were boys together, they have watched
by you in sickness, and comforted you
In sorrow, they take a kindly interest
in your welfare. Do you not prefer
that your trade should increase their
small profits rather than add its
quota to the millions of dollars annu
ally sent to the mail order houses? If
the home merchants prosper the town
will be a better place in which to
live. Their prosperity will be mani
fested by improvements in the appear
ance of their own property, and by
their increased liberality in contribut
ing toward public improvements, and
by helping them by your patronage,
you will also be helping yourself and
the entire community.
By doing your share toward adver
tising the interests of the community,
you will make for yourself a place
that heretofore you have never held.
You will be looked up to and respect
ed, and your advice will be sought In
public affairs. Live and let live, and
life will hold for you far more of en
joyment and satisfaction than it ever
can if you live with the idea of get
ting all you can out of the town in
which you reside and 'the people
around yon, and holding fast to what
you get, regardless of your duty to
others. Be loyal to your town, to
your merchants, to the public welfare,
and your home town will be the best
place in the world In which to live.
FRANCES A. HARRI8.
The Utility of Beauty.
Beauty and utility are not necessar
ily antagonistic. Beauty Itself is use
ful in that it augments the happiness
of life. Take away the flowers and
birds, the varying colors of vegeta
tion, the little cascades and the in-'
numerable things of beauty with
which nature has endowed .her
scenery and life would be bereft of
much of its gladness, much that ex
alts and embellishes It, much that
makes it more useful to the human
family.
Provocation Enough.
Maud (before" the laughing hyena's
cage) How provoking! ' Here we've
been 20 minutes, and the hyena hasn't
laughed once.' '
Ella Strange, and' he's been eyeing
your new spring hat, too.
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Looking Into Oefkmnclsa.
sfemsere of the boards have been
looking. Into the -matter of deficien
cies reported by the various institu
tions and allowed by the legislature,
and every effort will be made to pre
vent any such occurrence during the
rooming two years. The deficiencies
came as a decided surprise, inasmuch
at it had been reported and the finan
cial statements filed with the gover
nor seemed toindicate that all the
institutions 'with one or two excep
tions were running within their appro
priations. The-deficiencies in state
institutions, however, alone amounted
to $93,176.51. This Is merely an esti
mated deficiency, though the legisla
ture allowed It just the same. Nei
ther does it contain the claims which
were filed against the state Institu
tions and accompanied by vouchers.
The' state institutions mentioned be
low used up the appropriations made
by the legislature two years ago and
it became necessary to have money to
run during the time after the claims
bill was introduced until the new ap
propriation became available. The de
ficiencies reported by the various
state institutions for which appropria
tions were made, follows:
Veterinarian 9 300
Norfolk asylum 6,000
Return of fugitives 1,500
Adjutant general 625
Soldiers home, Milford 1,300
Department of banking 600
Superintendent McBrien 1,000
Hastings asylum -....22,000
Lincoln asylum 10,000
Home for the Friendless 5,000
Auditor's office 450
Pern Normal school 32k
Grand Island Soldiers' home.... 3.911
Geneva Industrial school 500
Railway commission 500
Industrial school 2,986
Attorney general 600
Salaries Kearney Normal school L319
Increase to Seven Judges.
Governor Sheldon signed S. F. No.
886, by. King of Polk, an act intend
ed to amend the constitution by in
creasing the number of judges of the
supreme court from three to seven.
The doubt as to the validity of the
act is occasioned because there is no
direct declaration that the proposi
tion to amend shall be submitted to
a vote of the electors of the state.
Some say this is not necessary. The
act appears to be simply amendatory
of the constitution and as the people
must vote on proposed amendment it
Is not known what effect the bill will
have. Attorney General Thompson is
inclined to the belief that the propo
sition must be submitted to a vote of
the people hi 1908 under the provi
sions of the bill. An indirect refer
ence is made In the bill to a vote by
the electors of the state, but the
title of the bill contains nothing of
that nature and is an amendment to
the constitution by legislative enact
ment, which is illegal, neither is
there any time, mentioned for a sub
mission to a vote, but the date Is. pro
vided for in the constitution itself.
The Two-Cent Fare Law:
The railroads probably will find an
opportunity of testing the 2-cent-fare
law without incurring the enmity of
an open suitgto invalidate the act.
Complaints have reached Attorney
General Thompson of the violation of
the 2-cent fare act by the Union Pacl
flcr on tickets sold between North
Platte and Sidney. The road between
these two Nebraska points dips Into
Colorado for about four miles, and
on the strength of this the road In
sists on selling tickets between the
towns at 3 cents per mile. County
Attorney Roach of Lincoln county has
sent a .complaint about the matter
end Attorney Thompson says that he
will advise bringing suit against the
Union Pacific to enforce the 2-cent
passenger rate.
State Loses Government Bonds.
The state of Nebraska has been
obliged to give up the only govern
ment bonds that It holds, amounting
to $15,000 out of a total Investment
of about I7.COO.000. Under the con
stitution the trust or educational
funds can be invested in United
States securities, state securities and
county bonds issued by counties of
the state of Nebraska. It has never
been the policy of the state to Invest
heavily in government bonds owing to
the small rate of Interest The govern
ment sent a check for $15,000.
First to Make Payment.
Superintendent J. T. Morey of the
School for the Blind at Nebraska City
is the first head of a state institution
to pay his cash fund into the state
treasury under the nsw law. He
turned in $280.45 as his cash receipts
np to March 31.
' Purchasing of Supplies.
The new Board of Public Lands and
Buildings and the new Board of Pur
chase and Supplies is revolutionizing
the financial conduct of the various
state institutions and has started in
to do the same thing in the purchase
of supplies for the state Intitutlons.
At the last letting seme of the bids on
drugs, varied from 70 cents to $7 on
the same Item. The board accepted
the lowest bid and notified the bidder
that unless he delivered the goods no
more bids submitted by him would be
considered.
May Test the Veto.
Judge Hamer of Kearney was in the
office of Secretary Junkin looking up
the bill vetoed by Governor Sheldon
appropriating $85,000 for an addition
to the Kearney Normal school. It Is
understood some of the people la
Kearney have it in mind to take the
matter Into court on the theory that
the governor failed to take action on
the measure until after the five days
allowed by the constitution to act on
measures. If this were true the bfll
would have become a law without ac
tion by the governor.
T
Mr. tBeeJamin T. .WhMe,
Northwestern mi
Lan
Root. McGhnms, general
same road- at Lincoln.
of tm
the State Railway
interpretation of the provision in the
commission law reasirine; the rail'
roads to resort tonnage, mi net
through and local freight. - Mr.
wanted the hoard to -set ont
cally jest what was wanted In
that his road could conform to
wishes of the commission. -As n re
sult of the Inquiry the coaunlsaton1
made an order directing' the railroads4
to report tonnage as fbUowa.
1 On freight which m purely
through tramc. That . is. freight
which, for Instance, originates in
Council Bluffs and goes through the
state to Denver.
2 That freight which originates la'
the state and has Its destination In?
some other state. ' ""' '
.3 That freight which originates in'
some other state and has Its destine-!-tion
in Nebraska.
The roads are also reaaired to re
port the tonnage on all freight which'
originates and terminates hi Nebraska
and in addition n report will be asked
for covering the amount of the re-,
celpts from every road in. the state.;
These reports' are 'to be separate, that
is, covering the branch fines and the'
main lines and the subdivisions of the'
corporations.
Under the law these reports have
to be nude by. August and Mr. White
assured the board his road would en
deavor to comply with the request
and furnish any Information the com
mission desired that time;
The commission also ordered post
ed In every railroad station in the
state an order calling attention to the
fact that under the law no railroad
may charge more than 2 centa a mU
for tickets to destinations In this
state. This order suggests to the pur
chaser of a ticket that inasmuch as
tickets bought to destinations outside
of Nebraska the roads may'charge 3
cents n mile, ss that is interstate
business, the purchaser going out of
the state should buy bis ticket to the
Nebraska point' nearest the state ltne
and then get off the train and buy a;
ticket to the station across the lineu
This would enable him to get thecals'
benefit of the 2-cent fare. "
Beenter Turns in Cash Fund.
Warden Gteemer of the state pent-,
tentiary deposited with the state'
treasurer $900, his cash fund, as pro
vided for in a law enacted by the late
legislature. Commandant Presson of
the Soldiers' Home at Milford was
here also, but he bad not yet 'turned
in his cash fund, which he said'
amounted to about $2,000 a year. Mr.
Presson Interprets tho law to mean'
that only that money received from
the sale of property belonging to the
state shall be remitted to the state
treasurer and talked .as though he
did not like the idea of oeing torn
loso from the cash fund. The mem
bers of the Board of Public Lands
and buildings, however, take the law
to mean all money which goes to
make up the cash fund must be turn
ed into the treasury and this is the
way the law will be enforced.
, State Cash Funds.
State Treasurer Brian has received
from Superintendent Morey of the
state school for the blind at Ne
braska City $280.45 under the new,
law which requires the heads of state
institutions to pay into the state
treasury all cash derived from the
sale of state property, such funds to
be drawn out on warrants issued by
the state auditor. The state univer-'
sity has long since been required to
make such payments and the Kear
ney industrial school for boys is an
other institution that has paid In
such funds and drawn them out on
warrants.
Kennison Can Give Bond.
Kennlson, the convicted murderer
of Sam D. Cox. who was tried In
Scotts Bluff county, has been grant
ed a suspension of sentence and he
may obtain his liberty upon giving; a
bond in the sum of $15,000. The bond5
asked for has not yet been presented
and it is not known whether the de
fendant will be able to obtain --it.
Unless he does he will be kept la
confinement. He is in the peniten
tiary for safe keeping. If unable to
give bond he will probably remafar
there, but will not be obliged to work
at hard labor.
When Appropriations Lapse.
Deputy State Auditor H. L. Ccok
has ruled that bills incurred by thtf
heads of state departments prior to
April 1 can be drawn on funds ap
propriated by the legislature of 1905.
but that all such bills must be pre
sented for allowance by August 1 or
they will be thrown in the waste
basket. He rules that under the con
stitution of the state all appropria
tions really lapse April 1 and not on
August 1, ut that if the claims are
incurred, before April 1, those pre
senting them have until the latter
date to get them before the state au
ditor. Illinois Central stalks.
The Illinois Central railroad has no-.
tilled the State Railway commission
that it has no railroad in Nebraska
and therefore has no report to make
In accordance with the new commis
sion law. While the commission has
not yet answered the jletter of the rail
road company, very shortly the com
pany will be notified to hurry dons
its report and furnish the commission
with whatever information It wants.
The same notification will be served
on the other roads in Nebraska which
come into the state over leased lines.
Ruling Not Satisfactory.
The heads of state institutions who
"saved" state funds during their
terms of office with the avowed pur
pose of spending the money for some-,
thing which the legislature did not
Intend such funds should oe ased for.
are not satisfied with the ruling of
the state auditor that claims Incurred
after April 1, 1907. will not be allow
ed, to be drawn from appropriations'
made by the legislature of 190C
Claims Incurred prior, to April 1 need
not be presented until August L hut
after that they will sot to allowed.
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