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yi 3?R5S5W svSv-.r ,. & a..Tj'. WKifJts: -"-T- T "U ST.1- ;? - ?- - "V .-y yz r - " ss :-. CoIumbusJournal n. Q. STROTHCR, P. K. mtOTHtR, cauinnvu. TIm New F The rtiHMt'i address last month Michigan 8tate Agricultural is so dear aa expression of at the the coadltioas f modern farm Ufa that a fatere atstoriaa may'tera te it to reM.fW.tiapa, AH aaticaal lead ers have asfTA'that the farmer is the C taa aataiaCi' WaaalaatOfl aai JeaTeraoa were farmer, aad good 2l -.M-- L TD liemiaois that .BreCXIncbla aft farm Chicago was then oary a SBsaH town.. The jusldeat of to-day, Bothered In farm'nYaltbough he has been. a practical rwchman, is the first to express the unity between farm labor anofaii other kinds, says Youth's Compaaion. The farmer to aim k an expert, mechanic and busi ness man, whose -problems are pre cisely those of the workman In the town, who depends for success on in dustrial and social cooperation. He must be an educated, aggressive par ticlpant in the work of life, competing with the farmer of Europe, inviting to his workshop of many acres the most skillful young men, learning from technical students and the practical experience of his neighbors the best that is known about his business. City workers, meeting in the friction of crowded life, have always learned their craft from one another. The farmer has until recently been in so cial aad business isolation. Now he Is a citizen of the world, often closer. in point of time, to the nearest city than his grandfather was to the farm ers of the adjacent town. The differ eace between the townsman and the countryman in educational and intel lectual opportunities aad in industrial responsibility is rapidly '.diminishing. That means the diminishing, of the old real or fancied disadvantage of farm Mfe which drove ambition and initia tive to the city for 'opportunity to show themselves. The advantage re aulas aad increases, for no matter how aaar together" modern instru ments of amity, the" trolley and tele phone, bring city and country,' broad acres' still remain broad, .and produce the conditions of free and Independent life. The Woman Worker. Woman's Increasing ability to se are employment in gainful occupa tions Is convincingly shown in some information gathered by the Washing ton correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. According to his statement, about one in every three women in the United States between the ages of '16 and 20 works for a living. There are over 5,000,000 workingwomen of all ages and classes in the country, 44 per cent being between 16 and 24, aad the larger number in any one line asay be found in the ranks of type- ; witters and stenographers. It would appear that women as a rule find work earlier than men, as only 25 per cent of the males are less than 25 lyears old. But here is what differen tiates the sexes as workers. Most of the girls drop out when they have a cTtaace to marry and start homes of .their own, while the men continue right along for life, or as long as they 'are capable of active effort. It is the old, old story, and no doubt will be while love and the domestic instinct exist. Electricity, like fire and steam, is a good servant but a troublesome cus tomer when it .sets out to he master, as has been shown on numerous oc casions of late, sometimes with tragic results. There were lively times in portions of New York city the other afternoon when for a while the strong current, which supplies power for moving the New York Central trains escaped from control and went cavort lag where it would. There were shocks and fireworks in many dlrec tioas as the mischievous fluid was dis tributed along the line of least resist aace, and general demoralization of trala service. But finally the power was shut of and the excitement endV ed with very little real damage done. It seems to have been a sort of elec tric half-holiday, with the subtle fluid at for a bit of a "racket" A London savant says smoke causes snub noses. Down with the filthy chimneys! If smoke merely ruined people's lungs we might permit the smokemakers to go on profiting at the .expense of others, but we must posi tively decline to become a snub-nosed race even for the benefit of the gentle men who regard the smoke ordinance .as a nuisance. A New York woman who recently :secured. a divorce wants it aet aside because her former husband Is pre pariag to aoarry another lady. She probably had 'an Idea whea she ap plied for freedom that he would sit aowa somewhere and spend the rest of his days weeping for her. Women aaoald he careful not to make such King Edward is said to be very fond of tripe. Isn't that a dainty dish to aet before a king? Reports of the American consul gea eral it Singapore confirm the. story of the discovery of a cure for the opium .habit la the leaf of a certain plant which is ,boiled in water and the residuum drunk.- So' great Is the de mand for the cure from the drug-beset masses that depots for its distribution ihave been opened in every large town ;or village. It .seems, to be as harmless :as it is effective. The soprano often gets up In the air when the basso Is a low thing. y T AMERICAN FARMERS LEADERS IN ENRICHMENT OF NATION. . OOLLAIS IT THE MLUOKS Annual itfala .aft. FaraiffieaasBi i to the. United States Or tec Thaa'- - the Output of the World's Mines." " Statistics gathered by the TJaited States census bureau afford Interest ing studies to those who care to .delve into economic subjects. According to the government reports Issued covers Ing the "years up to 1905, the total amount of capital Invested in manu facturing in the United States Is f 12.- 686,265,673. During the year 1905 there was produced of manufactured products $14,802,147,087. The. same authority gives the in formation that the farm values of the United States reached the enormous sum of $20,514,001,836. and to this, which is the land value, must be add ed $13,114,492,056, which represents farm improvements. It is needless to give the value of miscellaneous stocks, etc., but it is sufficient to say that during the years 1905 and 1906 that the annual production of the farms of the United States amounted to $6,500,000,000. It will be seen from this that while the value of farms and Improvements Is very .near ly three times the amount invested in manufactures, that the production of the farms annually is only about one half of the value of the manufactured products; but when it Is taken Into consideration that the 'farm supplies more than 50 per cent of the articles that enter into the-manufactures. It shows how important -is- the Amer ican farmer. '" 1 Last year the wealth' produced Jby American farms was flve.tbaes great er .thaa the., value of gold aad silver produced in the. United States for the year.,. It is estimated that the gold produced In the world since the dis covery of America by Columbus -ap to the present time Is approximately $lL368,fu,000. During the same pe riod; the production of the silver of the world was $12,420,000,090. Thus it can be seen that about every four years American, farms bring wealth into the world greater than all the gold and silver that has been pro duced 'since Columbus' time; The wealth of the United States Is now es timated at $112,000,000,000. American farmers are adding to this wealth at the rate of between $6,000,000,000 and 7,000,000,000 yearly. The total wealth of Great. Britain and Ireland is placed at $60,200,000,000. At the present wealth producing capacity of the American farmer, in less than ten years the wealth he produces would aggregate more than the total wealth of the. great kingdom of Great Brit ain and Ireland. The total wealth of all of Italy is estimated at $13,000,000. 000. Every two years the American farmers produce enough to buy the kingdom of Italy, and every year American farms produce wealth suf ficient to purchase all of Belgium. Outside of the 13 original states In adding to its possessions expended $87,039,768. This includes the Louis iana purchase, the Mexican purchase, Alaska, the Philippines and all United States possessions, covering 2,037,613 square miles of territory. The corn corp of the American farmers each year is valued at 104 times the amount that was necessary for the United States to pay for all its great posses sions. The cotton crop alone for 1906 was seven times enough to reimburse the United States for its expenditures on account of the acquirement of the vast territories purchased. It is need less to further make comparisons, the American farmer is the great wealth producer of the union. Upon his work is based nearly all the manufacturing, and it' may be said nearly all the com merce. While the farmer is a great wealth producer and is one of the most in dependent of American laborers, he has perhaps just reason for complaint as to compensation received for his efforts. While the results of his labor has given employment to an army of millions of workers, the American farmer has also been sub ject to the operations of combina tions that directly oppose his best in terests. These are the great trusts that control the marketing of 'what the farms produce. None will deny but that distributing agencies are necessary, but when these agencies become oppressive and make extor tionate charges for the handling of the produce of farms, they become In stitutions that are oppressive. But the American farmer to a great extent appears to be responsible for the building up of such combinations. In bis prosperity he has ignored simple principles recognized In business and which are important to him. Presi dent McKinley in one of his addresses made the statement that to locate the factory near the farm means the greatest economy aad the highest prices for farm produce; In other' words, the factory makes the home market For years farmers in the. ag ricultural sections of the United States have not alone contributed to ward the support of the stock gam blers aad the managers of the trusts, but have assisted In making possible the building up of mammoth aggrega tioas of capital In great nii cen ters, and this capital has been used In the furtherance of combinations that have made It possible to dictate to the farmer what prices he must take for all that he has to selL The farmers should understandthat money sent from districts to the huge cities means the concentration of wealth in these cities and greater Spport for the trust builders. They ould also understand that their farm values to a great extent depend upon the activity and importance of the home town. Should the farmer re lieve himself of the burden that is placed upon him- by the trusts and combinations, he can do it by assist ing to the greatest extent the build lag up of industries in his own town, his. county and state. The question Is worthy of the most careful consid eration of every resident of a rural ..district , The greatest utilization of all home resources can only be hroaght,aaout byC, cooperation of the' people? Every Iaad owner aaid every irse emptoyM'k the tM of the soil, 'should give greater stady to economic questions aad dtoearac; if possible, how, ?auKh better all con ditions under which he labors caa be Biade by a practice of the old-time lunne patronage rale. '"- -I 'e saw ewanapne DEVELOPING THE 'COUNTRY; Progress of Agricultural Districts aad Cities and Towns Go Hand in Hand.. The building up process of a conn try commences with the cultivation of the soil generally. First the pio neers, the settlers on the land, begin the building of homes, and closely in the wake of the agriculturists follow the towns. Town building is an interesting study. It is the highest develop ment of communism. As far back as we can reach in the history of the world we find the spirit of community of interests. When Columbus reach ed America he found the Indians had their villages. Even among the most barbarous races the communial spirit is found. In our state of civilization ckies and towns represent most per fect communial development Where there are people engaged ia any indusstry, it is necessary that there be tradesmen to supply neces sary wants. These tradesmen gen erally seek the most convenient loca tion in the settlement and form the nucleus of the town and city. With the settling up of the contiguous ter ritory, new Industries are brought-into existence and gradually there is a growth of the hamlet to the propor tions of a village. The village soon becomes a small city, and its Impor tance is gauged entirely by the trade that it can command to give employ ment to the people residing within it Geographical location 'is always an Important factor in town and city building. The average agricultural town has a limited territory for its support From this territory must come the trade to maintain it The large cities are small towns "grown up." While the small town may re ceive its support from the immediate territory surrounding it the city is maintained by the trade given it by a multitude of small towns, and by cer tain conditions that perhaps may make it a place where manufacturing and jobbing may be carried on advan tageously. While the geographical position Is Important to the small town, it is more important to the large city, as there are numerous con ditions to be met and such things as transportation facilities and freight rates are highly important It may be said that the majority of American cities and towns are de pendent to a great extent upon the agricultural sections of the country. The farms supply the major portion of the articles of commerce and man ufacture, and as well the trade that supports the towns and cities. The community should take pride in the progress of the town which it has been Instrumental m building up. The' town is all important to the resi dents of rural districts as it affords educational and social advantages that would otherwise not exist In 'many localities there is an erroneous impression that the interests of the residents of towns are different from the interests of the people of the con tiguous territory. A little thought will show how the interests of both classes, the residents of the country and the citizens of the town, are equal; how the town depends upon the country for its support, and the country looks to the town as a mar ket place and as a convenience in gen eral. Thus we have plainly illus trated how much to the interest of all .residents of rural districts that the home town be a progressive place and that all its interests be protected. Try for Factories. Small manufacturing plants are de sirable factors in the business of any town. There must be employment for the residents of a city or town, and any means of supplying this need is commendable. But there is one thing that many citizens do not take into consideration, and that is, it ia better for the citizens of a town to build up Industries already establish ed than to strive to gain new indus tries. A manufacturing plant is ben eficial to a place, in accordance with its payroll and its output of goods that bring a revenue to the town. Some small concerns that will em ploy a dozen hands will have a pay roll of perhaps $35 or $40 a day. The value of its products may amount to $16,000 or $20,009 annually, all de pendent upon the character of the business. But what is most consid ered is the payroll From the aver age; small town it is estimated that trade lost and which goes to large cit ies through the mails, is more than $100 a day. If citizens of a commu nity would retalnthis $1M a day and do their trading ia the home town, it is' evident that it would be twice aa beneficial as the small factory that has a payroll of $40 or $50 dally. Schemes te Defraud. ' One of the latest plans of traveling agents to defraud the people residing in the country Is the wire fence deal. Lately a number of. traveling agents have been working In different west ern states. They represent to the farmer that they will Install an eight strand vwlre fence with iron posts for only eight cents a foot No money is asked in advance, but a promisory. note is given that upon the comple tion of the fence the same will be paid for at the agreed price per foot After the fence is put in position the farmer finds that his note has been placed in the local bank for collection, and that instead of he securing his fence for eight cents per foot it is' eight cents "per wire foot," which makes it 64 cents per foot This is purely a modification of the old light ning rod swindle. It hardly ever pays the farmer to have dealings with trav eling agents who make extraordinary promises as to. the goods they tare to dispose of. SOMEWHAT OF A REFLECTION. ! iSwasarVV Sj9sw3wSBrnV, W9- TsatawWSaWawap AlftMaMS rfOCttMaV A aaarailu hostess of one of the "big houses," as they are called by taoAr-wao are .welcomed utothess, has' the added beauty of premature white hair. That which seems to her contemporaries aa added charm may appear to the crudely young a mark jot deettaeat least so it appears la oa instance of which the hostess her self tells with enjoyment , The lady is a connoisseur of an tiques. At one of her teas a debutante rick with the glow of youth, but sadly caostraiaed with her sease of novelty, was handed a cup of tea; the cup was beautifully blue aad wonderfully old. The hostess desiring to light en the strain on her youthful guest by a pleasant diverting remark, said: "That little cup ia a hundred aad fif ty years old!" "Oh," came the debutante's high strained tones: "How careful yoa must be to have kept it so long!" WESTERN MEN IN NEW YORK. Brains of Mountain and Prairie in De mand in the Financial Center. Ever since the early days, when D. O. .Mills, J. B. Haggln and James R. Keene "emigrated" from California to new York, the metropolis has been drawing largely on the west and south for Its supply of "men who do things." 'iheodore P. Shonts, both a southerner and westerner, who has undertaken to solve New York's great transit prob lem, is the latest importation in re sponse, to the call of the east The promptness, with which Thos. F. Ryan, of Virginia, turned the Equit able Life Assurance Society over to its policyholders, who now elect a ma jority ot its Board of Directors, and divested himself of the control of the stock which he bought from Jas. H. Hyde, and the success of the new management of the Society under the direction of President Paul Morton,' have created a demand for the strong men of the south and west that is greater than ever before. Under-the Morton management the Equitable has made a better showing than any other Insurance company In the way of Im proved methods, economies and In creased returns to policyholders. E. H. Gary, head of the greatest cor poration in the world the U. S. Steel Co. John W. Gates, Henry C. Frick, Norman B. Ream. Wm. H. Moore and Daniel G. Reid are other westerners who are among the biggest men ia New York. SAVED FROM DREAD FATE, Kind Woman's Assistance Meant Much te This Tramp. A -certain lady, noted for her kind heart and open hand, was approached not long ago by a man who. with tragic air, began: "A man, madam, Is often forced by the whip of hunger to many things from which his very soul shrinks and so It is with me at this time. Un less, madam, In the name of pity, you give me assistance, I will be com pelled to do something which I never before have done, which I would greatly dislike to do." Much impressed, the lady made haste to place In his hand a five-dollar bill. As the man pocketed It with profuse thanks, she inquired: "And what is the dreadful thing I have kept you from doing, my poor man?" "Work," was the brief and mourn ful reply. Harper's Weekly. A Famous Pitcher. Elmer StricKett, the "spit ball" pitcher, had been listening a long while in a New York club to the boasting of a rivaL "Well," he said, exhausted at last, "you are pretty good, Mike; but out In Mountain View there is a young fellow who can beat you. You'll hear from him next season. His specialty is the slow ball. This young fellow has such a slow ball that when he pitches it and sees that it is going to be hit he can run after it ane fetch it back again." Manlike. Breathless, they stood at last upon the towering Adirondack peak. "There," she said angrily, "we have climbed all this distance to admire the beauties of nature, and we left the glass at home." Tranquilly smiling,- he shifted the lunch basket to the other arm. "Never mind, dear," he said. "It wont hurt as, just this once, to drink oat of the bottle." A SMALL SECRET. Couldn't Understand the His Customers.' Taste of Two men were discussing the var ious food products now being supplied in such variety and abundance. Cne, a grocer, said, "I frequently try a package or so. cfasycertaln -article before offering it to my trade,-and "In that way sometimes form a diScrcnc idea than my customers have. "For Instance, I thought I would try some Postum Food Coffee, to see what reason there was for such a call for It At breakfast I didn't Hke it and sapper proved the same, so I aaturally, con cluded that my taste .wm 'different from that of the easterners who' bought It right along. "A day or two after, I waited oa a lady who was buying a 25c package and told her I couldn't understand how one could fancy the taste of Postum. "I know just what Is the matter,' she said, you put the coffee boiler on the stove for just fifteen minutes, and tea minutes of that time It simmered, aai perhaps five minutes it boiled; bow If you win have it left to boll full fifteen minutes after it commences to boil, yoa will find a delicious Java-like beverage, rich In food value of glutea and phosphates, so choice that you will never abandon it particularly when you see the great gain in health.' Well, I took another trial and sure enough I joined the Postum army for good, and life seems worth living since I have gotten rid of my old time stom ach and kidney troubles." Postum Is no sort of .medicine, but pure liquid food, and this, together with a relief from coffee worked the change. "There's a Reason." Read "The Road to WellvUle." ia ijkga. i NEBRASKA III BRIEF NEWS NOTES. OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. RelialeiM, Social Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. Harvert hands in Gage county are getting $2.50 per day .and board. James Baxter and Robert Corby have been lodged in jail at Blooming Former Governor Mickey has decid ed to return to Osceola, which place was his home before he was elected governor. Soellner Bros'. Clothing and fur nishing store at Scotts Bluffs, was al most destroyed by fire. The stock was valued at over $10,000. The Carroll Lumber and Grain com pany has filed its articles of incorpora tion with Secretary of State Jenkin. The capital stock is $50,000. Seventeen new members were re ceived into the Presbyterian church at Lyons on Sunday, three of them being received by letter and fourteen on confession of faith. v Treasurer Brian has received word from eighteen banks which refuse to pay the 3 per cent interest on state deposits and he is now withdrawing the state money from these banks. The Primrose Record scores -farmers and others who' drive into town and hitch their horses in the scorch ing hot sun, leaving the animals with-', out shade or water for hours at a time. Frank Sohlegter. proprietor of a fruit stand at Hastings was seriously and perhaps fatally injured by falling into the elevator shsft of a wholesale fiouse, where he had gone to place an order. ' " State Superintendent McBriea has gone to Los Angeles to attend the Na tional Education association meetlag, at which he Is to appear twice on the program. He expects to be goae at least ten days. Peace reigns again at the brick plant in Humboldt and the machinery is -again ruaalng at full blast Prac tically all-of the strikers have been takeg back on application and are fill ing thir old places. Monday morning William Vande berg. of Nebraska City, who was sent to the asylum some time ago as a dip somaniac, was taken to Lincoln acain. as he had violated his parole. He Is a resident of Talmage. Alexander Marll. a Bohemian farm er who lived near Morse Bluff, lost his life on the Superior line of the Northwestern when freight train No. 204 ran over him. Maril was asleep on the track. He had been drinking. At a mass meeting of the citizens and business men of Beatrice it was voted to hold a three days' celebra tion and trade carnival in commemo ration of the fifteenth anniversary of' the founding of the city of Beatrice, ton, charged with criminally assault ing Miss Mary Koehn. The story of the alleged crime as related, by a younger brother of the vlctlai, lsi that one of the men held him while the other bound and gagged his sister and then committed the crime with which they are charged. A report was received in Beatrice from Marysville, Kan., to the effect that the first new wheat marketed at that place tested sixty-four pounds to the bushel. Farmers in Gage county are of the opinion that there ate a number of fields which will yield as high as thirty-five bushels to the acre. It is said that the big cut of the Burlington near Milford is nearing completion, and that but about sev enty thousand yards of dirt yet re main to be moved on that particular part of the work. The big steam shov els have been burrowing into this hill for a year, with the result that a great gash has been cut AH Nebraska dairymen have been asked by the state railway commission to attend a public hearing on August 6 when the new proposed rates on milk and cream will be discussed. The commissioners are of the opinion that the new schedule Increasing the rates on cream will discriminate against the small creamery. Herman Boche. awaiting trial at Madison for murdering Frank Jar user at Norfolk, tried to commit sui cide four times during the day, but lived. Three efforts were by hanging on by battering his head against the cement floor of the jail. Earlier Boche also tried to run away while walking about the jail yard with Sheriff Clem ents. A traveling man who spent Thurs day and Friday along the line of the Union Pacific in Nebraska said he sa.v a carload of hogs turned out of a stock car into the yards at a little way r'ation, and that half of the hogs died from heat soon after. When they w?e unloaded some of the animals were almost exhausted, and they died soon after. A. J. Anderson, pile driver foreman for the Burlington railroad. lost his life by drowning, while at work near Gibson, four miles south of Omaha. He was working on the. driver aad In some manner lost his footing aad fell Into the river. The State Board of Equalization will meet this week to begin work of equalizing between the values of the various cou Vies as fixed by the coun ty assessors. So far only thirty-fivo counties out of the ninety have re ported, but all are expected to be in within the next few days. The street car company of Ne braska City has given notice that August 1 it will charge 10 cents fare, alleging that with 5 cents fare the line is operated at a loss. A small tornado passed over the southern part of Knox county, injuring three persons, one- ot whom is fatally hurt, and demolishing several farm buildings. The greatest damage was at the farm of Eli Usen. Olsen's home was entirely demolished. His mother was caught in the wreckage and fat ally injured,, a large stove falling across her head. ' ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON MURDERER ON THE STAND. Slayer ef Brother and Sleter-In-Law Telle Hie Story. Llacela A self-confessed murderer oa the stead explalalng his awa espo. tioi-J Insanity aad re vie wlmg has owa' feeUaga whea tempted tesrder wie the strange, situatioa 'at. the .district court of Lancaster t Barker. -who killed Us ate brotaer's wife W Webster .coaatywaa; te 4h 'witaeaa-steM aad made tovtell the ..; ut. .iw . ju .v v. -J l"; w& ! uum; nv uti uus I ! Iy and without any hesitation- or dis play of feeling.' The first questioner .addressed .to Barker were Intended to show that a tendency toward insanity Is heredi tary ia his family. He told of the sick." dizzy headaches with which his mother used to suffer and of her early death. The fact that his brother murdered his sweetheart her mother and daughter and then killed himself was brought out Oa the night of the murder Barker said that he attended church, after which he took his sweetheart home. Then he went to his father's home, on the way meeting his brother Dan and resisting a desire to kill him. Later he drove to his brother Dan's farm, put his team away in the barn, entered the house and shot his broth er. Barker declares that he remem bers only the shooting of his brother and related his surprise when, on awaking In his bed next morning with his clothes on, he went down stairs and found his sister-in-law also lying dead on the floor. He left the bodies there all day, he said, and occupied 'himself with the usual chores about the place, but that night he dug a hole in the cattle shed carried the two bodies out threw them in and. covered them up. When asked why he denied all knowledge of the murder until the. bodies were found. Barker said that he did not know. During the cross-examination Attorney Black ledge tried to show that there was sufldent motive for a sane man to commit the crime, bat Jadge Hasser, Barker's attorney, met nearly every question with objections, declaring that they did not care to try the old case over agate. Many of the objec tions were sustained. Whea asked to toll of any peculiar experleace, Barker told of ills Inability to tad his way home once when he was herdtag sheep a quarter of a mile from the house. Another time he was unable to make a lister work when planting corn, but when he returned to It after a few hours absence, he could man age It perfectly. CHEA.' SUPPLIES FOR STATE. Board of Purchase Adopts New Meth od of Doing Business. Lincoln The plan adopted by the State Board of Purchase and Supplies to buy supplies for the state institu tions from dealers having the lowest bid on the individual items, rather than sticking to the old plan of giv ing, the bidder with the lowest total the entire contract for an institution, has proven entirely satisfactory to, the state board at least At the. re cent letting more thaa a few thou sand dollars was saved. J While it is Impossible at this time to figure just what, amount was saved, reference to a few items shows that the saving was a large sum. On one item alone there was a difference of $308, and the highest bid on the item was only $600. This was for apricots for a state institution. The highest bid was $600 and the lowest $292. The' total bids made by these two firms were very close together. On twenty-five items the difference was from $2 to $3, and on fifty items, in some In stances, the difference was $14 and $15. Resort to U. S. Court Lincoln The express companies halve sought refuge in the federal court rom the threatened state su preme court injunction, commanding them to obey the Sibley rate reduc tion law. The express companies' cases are now on the same basis as the railway cases and will be taken up for argument in a few days. At torneys for the corporations allege that state courts have no jurisdiction. Prize Boozer at Taylor. Taylor Emory anyder got intoxi cated July 3, drifted into a canyon southwest of Taylor and emptied six quart bottles of whisky before he came out on the morning of the 5th. Sheriff Evans has charge of him now, and will hold him for Sheriff Richard son of Custer county, who will take him to Lincoln to be treated for dip somania. Bail for Alleged Slayer. Pawnee City Ernest Frank, under arrest here charged with the murder of his wife, was admitted to bsil by Judge Raper in the sum of $15,000 to appear at the October term of the distrecfc court. The amount of ball was readily furnished oy old neighbors of the accused. Irrigation Case Argued. Attorneys for the Belmont Canal company who some time ago made applicatioa for more water to be taken from the North Platte river and who argued their application before the wtate Board of Irrigation, have beea notified to file briefs with the board. This company operates the Cheyenne canal and irrigates 35,000 acres of land. It was awarded 270 feet of wants 400 cubic feet. Parties down the stream filed objections to the re quest, as did parties at North Platte. First New Wheat Marketed. Beatrice The first new wheat was Jaarketed here by John Andrews and Couch Brothers. It was sold to M. ,T. Cummings, a grain buyer, for 78 and 80 cents, and tested sixty-two pounds to the bushel. New Eviction Law. Lincoln Secretary of State Junkin has been preparing certified copies of the new eviction lawl This was in troduced in the legislature by Dodge of Douglas. The legality of the act I is being contested in Douglas county. Irs. Earn Stett, if ifffctM, WiSCMSU. UA cfe'Mw, mdwised metouse Pcnm. J tgrnm to tmtnve at tmce." . Mrs. Emma StoU, 1069 Oneida St, Ap pleton, Wis., writes: "Peruna has done me a great deal of good since I began taking' it and I am always glad to speak a good word for it. "Three years aro I was in a wretched condition with bmckmches.heariitgdowm palms, and at times was so sore and lame that I could not move about I had in flammation and irritation, and although I used different remedies they did me no good. "A neighbor who had been using- Te runa advised me to try it, and I am glad that I did. I began to improve as soon as I took it and 1 felt much better. "I thank you for your fine remed v. It is certainly a gedsemltmsick weaacm. Catarrh ef the latoraeJ Orfass. 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