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-i. - --- x. 1 l$f I n I Ml ra '4 v v ' i Columbus Journal STROTHER & STOCKWELL, Pubs. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA PERSONAL Henri Parman of France made two successful trial flights with his aero plane at the Brighton Beach race track, New York. Gov. John S. Little of Arkansas is in a sanitarium at St Joseph, Mo., suf fering from acute melancholia. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor denied indignantly that he had promised to deliver the labor vote to any candidate. Rex Beach, novelist, returned from Alaska with an attack of iritis that may render him blind. Frederick Dorr, a broker with ofllces in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Butte. Mont and Spokane, Wash., a member of the New York stock exchange and the Chicago board of trade, suspended business because of lack of patronage. Shegetaro Korikubo, member of a noble Japanese family, was married to Miss Marie Louise Harrison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Harrison of La Crosse, Wis. Archie Herron. who shot and killed Rev. S. V. B. Prickett, a Methodist minister, July 15 at New Brunswick, N. J., was convicted of murder and sentenced to be electrocuted. TJie prince of Wales visited the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre, where he saw hundreds of crippled pilgrims seeking relief. GENERAL NEWS. Twenty-four miners were entombed by a cave-in in a coal mine at Crow's Nest Pass, B. C. Twenty-one of them were rescued, having been kept alive by leaking compressed air pipes. Grand Army men in Ohio started a movement to raise money by popular subscription to build a big United States battleship. Plr at Philadelnhia destroyed the Hamburg-America line pier and a great quantity of merchandise, the loss being about $400,000. Mrs. Ralph Harris of Kansas City, Mo., and her five-year-old son were drowned at Walloon lake, Michigan. David Lamasuey, a dealer in fine horses, who traveled extensively but had no permanent home, committed suicide by the hari-kiri method at Burlington, la. rie was temporarily deranged by the heat W. B. Whitwell, who kept a country store in Ripley county, Missouri, was shot and killed while resisting arrest as a deserter. Bolivar, said to be the biggest ele phant ever in captivity, died in his prison house at the zoological gardens in Philadelphia. The Hotel Roberval on Lake St. John. Canada, was destroyed by fire, all the guests escaping. A demurrer by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company as defendant in the action brought against it by the United States gov ernment, was filed in the United States district court at Boston. The mining town of Stafford. W. Va., was wrecked by the explosion of 100 kegs of powder. "Carl Burton, 22 years old, a recent graduate of the University of Chi cago, and heir to property worth $200,000 In Aurora, was fatally in jured in an automobile crash in Chi cago. Thiw masked men held up and robbed an elevated ticket agent In Chicago. Leonard Hendricks of Cranston, R. I., killed himself and his two little daughters by means of gas. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul freight house at Chillicothe, Mo., was wrecked by robbers, who blew open the safe and escaped with $700. After an all-day conference of the leading government prosecuting offi cers and Frank B. Kellogg of Minneso ta, it was announced by Attorney Gen eral Bonaparte at Lenox, Mass., that every effort would be made to secure a revision of the recent decision and opinion of the United States circuit court of appeals in the case of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. William Oliver, a young aeronaut of Mason, Mich., was killed while makiug a parachute drop at Hague park, near Jackson, Mich. James S. Sherman. Republican vice presidential candidate, announced that lie would be succeeded as chairman of the congressional campaign commit tee by Representative William B. Mc Kinley of Illinois. Peter Sendak.of Cleveland, 0.,shot and killed his wife and himself. In the presence of the Sheik Ul Is lam, the head of the hierarchy in Tur key, the sultan of Turkey took the oath of allegiance to the constitution on the Koran. "Tad" Smith, a negro boy accused of assaulting a white girl, was burned to death by a mob at Greenville, Tex. Andrew Haag, prominent resident of Cullom, 111., was shot and killed by his 21-year-old son, Albert Haag, fol lowing a family quarrel. A band of men attacked the office of the cashier at the railroad station in Tiraspol, Russia, and got away with $10,000. A gasoline launch was sunk at Pitts burg, Pa., by waves from a coal boat and three steel workers were drowned. The packet steamer Neva, owned by the Green Packet company of Cincin nati, burned to the water's edge at Buffalo, W. Va. The crew swam ashore. NEWSNOTES FOR THE 8 BUSY MAN 8 Most Important Happen- X ings of the World X 8 Told in Brief! 8 A woman was killed and nine other passengers were injured in a panic on a trolley car on the Brooklyn bridge when a fuse blew out G. Winthrop Sands, a stepson of W. K. Vanderbilt, was killed just outside A the grounds of Mr. Vanderbilt's coun try seat, the Chateau St Louis de Poissy, 20 miles from Paris, by the wrecking of his automobile. He was pinned under the car, which exploded. and was shockingly maimed and burned. One man was killed and a score wounded in an attempt of a mob to storm the jail at Pensacola. Fla., and take out Leander A. Shaw, a negro who assaulted Mrs. Lillian Davis. The mob finally csKnroH thi necrro and hanged him. l,u . Sayyld Muhammed, the Persian n.a- tionalfst leader and the foremost ora- tor of the recent parliament, called the "Persian Mirabeau," was assas-uisen ana aparwuou, mu sinated at Hamadan. presumably by towns, is in doubt, they being cut off agents of the shah. from all communication. Over 100 Frank T. Wells, aged 21. of Keno- "ives are known to have been lost, sha. Wis., was arrested in Cambridge, seventy-four of them in Fernie. A ter Mass. as a fugitive from justice. He ritory of 100 square miles in extent Is is wanted at Kenosha on the charge a seething mass of flames. Through of larceny of $6,000 from the First Na- it are scattered hundreds of lumber tional bank of that place, on October men and prospectors, so that the 12 !907. actual loss of life will not be known Frank Litzenberger, owner of the for days. Eaton Lumber company, committed The properties of the Canadian Pa sulcide at Eaton. O., by wading into clfic and Great Northern railways are the middle of a creek and firing a bul- destroyed the bridges and rolling let into the roof of his mouth. stock burned, so that it Is impossible Miss Clare L. McNown, a member of to enter or leave the burning area, the Eau Claire high school faculty, The inhabitants of the towns have was drowned in Rice lake. Wisconsin, fled to open districts in the vicinity Gen. James A. Drain, president of in the hope of safety. The railway the American Rifle association, was companies have placed all available robbed in London of jewelry and two trains at their disposal and unless medals won at Bisley by the American there is a change of wind within the rifle team. next twenty-four hours the whole of An adopted daughter of Benjamin the Crow's Nest Pass county will be Hart American millionaire who died jeft to the flames. There is no pos in France, began a fight to secure a sibility of estimating the loss of life share of his estate. especially which will result, for the The sultan of Turkey proclaimed a games are driven by a hard gale, mak general amnesty to all political fugi- jng it impossible to put up a fight tives from Turkey in America. against their advance. The conflagra- Soldiers and strikers fought in tjon jg e greatest which has even Vigneaux, France, and several per- beeu witnessed in Canada and ranks sons were killed. onjy with the San Francisco disaster. Missouri and Kansas began suits For tne jast month forest fires have against the alleged lumber trust, and been raging m the mountains of the similar suits were prepared in Okla- Ejk river valley country, but they homa and Texas. have not been considered serious. Dr. L. W. Blanchard, a prominent Satur(jay morning a heavy wind physician and church worker of Har- sprang up from the crest of the rison, Ark., and his father and mother countains to the west of Fernie. were arrested as counterfeiters. Tney ran down the west and early Democrats of West Virginia nomi- in tQe afternoon the flames appeared nated Louis Bennett for governor and oyr fhe mountaln Bide, and before a indorsed negro disfranchisement fire g, cou De organized had The village of Mehrn in the Austrian entered tne t0wn. Within an hour Tyrol was destroyed by a landslide. th(j tQWn wa8 doomed and the inhabi about 16 persons being killed. tjmts sought gty in flight, leaving Two prominent Brooklynites, Col. their behind ihem A11 nlght and Edward E. Britton. formerly presi- tfae morning exodus continued, dent of the Eagle Savings and Loan destinaton beins a small prairie company ot mat oorougn, aim riu- erlck H. Schroeder, formerly second vice-president or tne same ". were arrested after being indicted on a charge of grand larcen Infuriated because she ad filed suit for the annulment of her marriage, ?bL 2JfZU:t?t arrested charged with robbing the res-are many small prairies and ail o, idence of J. E Murphy of Peoria. these haye their groups, ot ugees. Mexican troops and revolutionists The hills in all directions are a had an engagement in Mexico opposite thlng mass of flames, cutting off Comstock. Tex., and two American every avenue of escape. The fire residents of Mexico were killed. V '"h "I.""" John Schulte. paying teller of the and it Is feared that several parties First National bank of Racine, Wis., who tried to get through the pass disappeared and his accounts were have been cut off. Families have found to be $15,000 short. been separated and there Is at pres- Following up his crusade against J "O means of checking up the fa the appearance of unclothed women talltles. Mvlt, 10 in the Paris theaters, Prefect of Police At present the fire is fololwing the Leplne has given orders that the sale "est of the mountain chain above of obscene pictures on the boulevards Sparwood eating down into the val be suppressed. on eI!her 8,df ' to traveling at u a tremendous rate and unless there nounced that 30.000 men are needed a f SSJTPJS e to harvest the wheat crop In western boundaries into Montana irtttta -the Canada next twelve hours. There are thou- Thirty-six prominent bookmakers of sands of mines and prospectors New York were Indicted for violating claIms nl the track of the fire, all ot the anti-gambling laws. wWch are In peril. Joseph Chamberlain returned to England from the continent in a very Prlce a" Advanced, grave condition. His eyesight is seri- Pittsburg, Pa. The price of window ously affected. glass was advanced Aug. 1 by the The Independence party in its first American Window Glas company, the national convention at Chicago nom- increase being 20 per cent on single inated Thomas L. Hisgen of Massa- strength and 33 1-3 per cent on double chusetts for president and John Tem- strength. The advance, it is said, will pie Graves of Georgia for vice-presi- be followed by an early resumption of dent Friends of Mr. Bryan made an operations in most of the glass facto effort to bring his name before the ries. convention and the man who at tempted it produced a riot and nar rowly escaped physical violence at the hands of the indignant delegates. Dr. Andrew Bergen Cropsey, the vet- erinary surgeon who shot and killed dispatch immediately six troops of his wife in her home at Bath Beach, cavalry to the Navajo reservation. Tho died suddenly in the Raymond street order came from the war department jail, Brooklyn. and was induced by the fear that rene President Castro has issued a decree gade Utes will induce the Navajos to prohibiting the dispatch of vessels rebel. " with cargo for Grenada or other islauds in the Antilles, thereby clos ing the Venezuelan gulf ports entirely to export and import trade with the West Indies. Great indignation Is felt in the British colonies, and it is ex pected that the aid of the British gov ernment will be sought to secure pro tection against the methods of Presi dent Castro. The interstate commerce commis sion decided that shippers might com bine small quantities of freight various ownership either by arrange- ment among themselves or through the medium of the forwarding agency, and ship the combined lot at the rela- tively lower rates applicable to large shipments. The several suits pending against the Waters-Pierce Oil company in Lit- tie Rock, Ark., charging violation of the anti-trust laws of the state, were terminated when the attorneys for the defendant company agreed to a com- promise penalty of $10,000. OBITUARY. Mrs. Anna Miskus died In Chicago at the age of 107 years. VIoletta Bowen of Warsaw, Ind., died suddenly, her heart having been pierced by a needle point. Dr. Franklin T. Howe, one of the oldest newspaper men of Washington, died from heart failure. Thomas Tootle, aged S9, millionaire merchant and banker of St Joseph, James H. Budd, former governor of California, died at Stockton, aged 58 1 rears. HUNDREDS ARE LOS it! LARGE AREA IN BRITISH COLUMBIA DEVASTATED. TAfii 001101 LTCI V UllDPfl flllT (JflfN Ulfll LULLI IllTLlJ UUI Up t0 Last Accounts Seventyfour are D wjth M casualties Yet n-..rt.i to Be Reported, muunree. " , -..-- fires, the town of Fernia, B. C, is .iA tl,n ,o nc a hHrt rlP.ITlS a " " - - 7 - " f slate; Michel, fourteen 1 miles distant is in flames, and the fate of Homer m tQe va,ey tnree mlleg gouth of the town. At present 3,000 people are camped there in the open, their , ,, citor hntit f brusn Qr blanket8, wbile a con. Qf g frQm burn. th of smoke. For a time communication Fears Trouble With Navajos. Denver, Colo. General Earl D. Thomas, commanding the department of Colorado, has been instructed to Curtis Moves to New York. Washington The republican nation al and congressional committee's lit erary bureau which has been con ducted in this city under the direction of Francis Curtis, has been closed, tho furniture and documents shipped to New Yorlc. Indian Chief Slowly Dying. Menominee, Mich. David Crotch, of head of the once mighty Pottawatto- mie Indians, is slowly dying at the In- djan reservation of his tribe at Her manville. The aged Indian chief is sajd to be close to 80 years. He is sajd to be a descendant of the chief wbo signed the treaty with the United states in 1833. In his youth and prime he was considered one of the most powerful Indians in this section and bs win was law. For the last two years his health has failed and he has had few well days since, Red Cross Sends Check. Washington The Red Cross society has sent to the secretary of state a check for $2,000 with the request that n be sent to the consul general at canton, China, to be applied to the relief of the flood sufferers of Southern china, por Bryan's Notification. Nebraska City The Brvan club has chartered a special train for the 12th to attend the Bryan notification meet- jug. NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.' J Items of Greater or Lesser Impor tance Over the' State. Old settlers of Nemaha county will hold their picnic August 5th. The son of L. Young fell from a horse, recelvlne Injuries from which he died. Farmers who have commenced" threshing around Herman report an uneven yield. Treshing outfits in operation find; the yield of wheat very satisfactory and the grain of good quality. Peter Goldberg had the third finger of his left hand torn off while attempt- ( ing to tie a horse to a post in Ken- nard. The state insurance department has refused a license to enter the state to the Fraternity Reserve associa-, tion of Oshkosh, Wis. Two lawyers in a Beatrice court' came to blows in a dispute, one of them receiving a knockout blow. Hlst assailant was fined $10. While shocking cats on the farm of George Robertson in Washington county, Frank Roper was bitten on the hand by a large rattlesnake. i A. H. Jensen of Fremont took mor--phine with suicidal intent His recov ery is doubtful. Family troubles seem to have been the cause of the act N While in bathing at Capital Beach, a pleasure resort near Lincoln, Henry Hauschlldt, jr., and Joe Orlofsky. each 12 years of age, were drowned. Both bodies were recovered. A traction engine belonging to John Seakin exploded en the farm of M. C. Cassin near Columbus. Mr. Seakin was badly scalded, but is thought to be not dangerously so. The bankruptcy proceedings involv ing the property of M. A. Chandler, who went out of business in Central City a year ago have been finally ad judicated at 41 cents on the dollar. Napoleon Walbridge of Tecumseh has been taken before the local board of insanity and adjudged a fit subject for the dipsomaniac treatment He was taken to the Lincoln asylum. The T. B. Hord Grain company will put in an elevator in Columbus that will store 200,000 bushels of grain and get ready to handle the large crops of grain that Platte ccunty has raised. G. R. Mavis of Columbus has in vented and patented a concrete tie, which has been approved by street railway companies of Lincoln and Omaha. He has orders for large numbers. The beautiful ehade trees which usually grace Sidney at this season are largely becoming denuded of their foliage. The devastator is the little green worm which thrives upon maple trees and their cousins. The county commissioners have put several large forces of men to work In the various parts of the county to replace and repair the bridges in jured or taken out by the heavy storms of the past month. The present harvest in Saunders rnnntv chnws that winter wheat is running much better that was at first expected. In Sarpy county there is a general average of 30 bushels to the acre, all ot which tests high. s Sheriff Class Mencke of Washington county went to the Minnesota to bring back John Eames, a young man whose tome Is In Chicago, wanted in Nebras ka for obtaining $50 from the Blair National bank under alleged false pre- Ligthing struck at O. L. Spire's farm about eight miles northwest of Aains worth and killed two cows and calves, one horse and crippled another, and the rain and hail destroyed eighty acres of corn. The Farmers Independent Lumber company, the only independent lumber company In York county, notwith standing the great fight put up on them by the other lumber yards, have declared a 10 per cent dividend. Myrtle Walkup, who committed suicide in Colorado Springs, had lived with her parents in Saunders county on the farm, where she was born. She had been in Colorado suffering from a nervous disease for several years. The quarterly report of the births and deaths In Cuming county fcr the quarter ending June 30. as complied by the State Board of Health, con tains the gratifying information that the births exceeded the deaths by sixty-six. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bright, who have been teaching school In the Philippine Islands for the last three years and who used to be principals of the school in Winside, returned from their trip and their many friends were glad to see them back. T. H. Tolle of Otoe county filed a complaint with the board of commis sioners on insanity, charging his daughter, Miss Sue Q. Tolle, with be ing insane. The board had a hearing cf the matter and declared the young lady is all right mentally. The Commercial club of Hartington is arranging to celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of the town of Hart ington on September 18. September 18, 1883, town lots were sold, and tbe erection of buildings was commenced on the open prairie In Cedar county. Bill Hazard, who was in jail at Bancroft for horse stealing, made his escape. Two of his pals anpeared at the jail, and with guns held up the guard and forced h'm to open the cell door and let the pr'soner o'it. A re ward of $100 is offered for his recap ture. Judge W. H Westover of Rushville forwarded the necessary papers to the secretary of state to entitle him to go on the primary ballot as candi date fcr congress from the Sixth con gressional district as the cand'date of the democratic and people's Independ ent parties. Valentine is planning to give a four days' carnival this fall on Sentemfcer 22, 23, 24 and 25. A committee has been appointed to secure attractions, all of which will be of a high class nature. An appeal from the Douglas county district court has been filed in the su preme court in the case of L. D. Spaulding who won a suit there for $4 for unpaid Jury fees. The fees were not certified by the clerk cr allowed by the beard on the ground that Spaulding had not been in actual at ! tendance upon the court f.r tne two ' Saturdays deducted. One of the Essentials of tbe happy homes of to-day is a vast fund of information as to the best methods of promoting health and happiness and right living and knowledge of the world's best products. Products of actual excellence and reasonable claims truthfully presented and which have attained to world-wide acceptance through the approval of the Well-informed of the World; not of indi viduals only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtain ing the best the world affords. One of the products of that class, of down component parts, an Ethical remedy, approved by physicians and com mended by the Well-informed of the World as a valuable and wholesome family laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To get its bencGcial effects always buy the genuine, manu factured by the California Fig Syrup Co only, and for sale by all leading druggists. leAp-year laugh. "You look worried, old man!" "Yes. Had three proposals last night and I don't know which one I ought to accept!" IT SEEMED INCURABLE Body Raw with Eczema Discharged from Hospitals as Hopeless CutL cura Remedies Cured Him. "From the age of three months until fifteen years old, my son Owen's life was made intolerable by eczema in its worst form. In spite of treatments the disease gradually spread until nearly every part of his -body was quite raw. He used to tear himself dreadfully In his sleep and the agony he went through is quite beyond words. The regimental doctor pronounced the case hopeless. We had him in hospitals four times and he was pronounced one of the worst cases ever admitted. From each he was discharged as In curable. We kept trying remedy after remedy, but had gotten almost past hoping for a cure. Six months ago we purchased a set of Cuticura Remedies. The result was truly mar velous and to-day he Is perfectly cured. Mrs. Lily Hedge, Camblewell Green, England, Jan. 12, 1907." Thrift In the Family. A little girl was playing with a girl friend of her own age on the porch of her home In West Philadelphia. An elderly gentleman, her mother's father, and an elderly lady, her fa ther's mother, were sitting on the porch talking pleasantly with each other. The little girl had often wished her grandparents were of the same name, like other children's grand parents. Presently the little guest remarked: "What a nice grandmother and grand father you have." "Oh, yes." she said, with a sigh, "but ihey don't match." The Sort ef Thing He Liked. In an early day In Stone county, Missouri, a farmer's boy rushed into the office of Dr. T. J. McCord of Ga lena and urged the doctor to come quickly to see his father, who seemed to be dying. Said the doctor. "What Alls him, and what has he eaten?" The boy said: "Oh. nothing much but 14 roastln ears for supper." "Well," said the doctor, "just go back and throw him a couple of bundles of oats and tell him I will be up there in about 30 minutes." From Judge's Library- Her Face. Miss Hoamley He seemed to think he knew me. I noticed him studying my face. Miss Knox Yes. I noticed that too. He's from New England and he prob ably thought Miss Hoamley Yes, he asked you if I was born down that way, didn't he? Miss Knox No; he simply asked if you were "born that way." WONDERED WHY Found the Answer Was "Coffee.' Many pale, sickly persons wonder for years why they have to suffer so, and eventually discover that the drug caffeine In coffee Is the main cause of the trouble. "I was always very fond of coffee and drank it every day. I never had .tiuch flesh and 'Often wondered why I was always so pale, thin and weak. "About five years ago my health completely broke down and I was con fined to my bed. My stomach was in such condition that I could hardly take sufficient nourishment to sustain life. "During this time I was drinking coffee, didn't think I could do with out it "After awhile I came to the con clusion that coffee was hurting me. and decided to give it up and try Postum. I didn't like the taste of it at first, but when It was made right boiled until dark and rich I soon became very fond of It "In one week I began to feel better. I could eat more and sleep better. My sick headaches were less frequent and within five months I looked and felt like a new being, headache spells en tirely gone. "My health continued to Improve and today I am well and strong, weigh 148 lbs. I attribute my present health to the life-giving qualities of Postum." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle I Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to Well- ville." in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They zrz renuine, true, and full of human ! interest. THE STATE CAPITAL MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ALL CITIZENS. THE SCHOOLS OF NEBRASKA Reports of Superintendents for the Year 1907-8 Being Rapidly Filed in Mr. McBrien's Office. Nebraska School Matters. Reports of county superintendents for the year 1907-8 are being filled quite rapidly in the office of State Su perintendent McBrien. Reports from Seward, Sarpy, Cedar, Stanton and Garfield were received. J. L. Jenkins of Garfield is the first superintendent to report from a western county. A number of the schools of this county shared In the appropriation made by the last legislature to weak school dis tricts. The wisdom of making such' an annronriation is shown by Super intendent Jenkins' report In 1906-7 out of thirty-one school district five ' held school for a term of three months or less. According to tho 1908 report, every district in Garfield county except one held school six months or more during the last year. Burwell, the only graded school in the county, collected $110.25 for high school tuition. Superintendent E. H. Hoch of Sew ard county reports for male teachers an average monthly salary of $76.20 and for female teachers $42.68. The report from this county last year showed $61.22 for males and $39.39 for female teachers. Under the high school tuition law Seward county col lected $1,797.90. Of this amount Beav er Crossing received $333.25; Milford. $191.25; Seward, $540.25; Utica, $383. 25; Germantowu, $43.50; Staplehurst, $36.70; Cordova, $139.45; Tamora. $69.25; Bee. $61. According to the report of Super intendent C. S. Coney of Stanton coun ty, quite an interest has been shown in the new library law passed by the last session of the legislature, $553.81 being set aside by the rural districts of Stanton county for the purchase of reference books. The average monthly salary paid to male teachers, as shown by Superintendent Coney's report for the year 1907-8, was $59.77 and female teachers $45.24. This is about $4 higher than was paid the previous year. District bonds to the amount of $15,000 were issued by Stanton county during the last year. According to the report made by Superintendent H. A. Collins, seventy six teachers were employed in the schools of Sarpy county last year. Filings for Primary Election. The following filings have been made by the republican, democratic and populist parties: GOVERNOR. Rppubllcan GeorKe L. Sheldon. NV hawka. ... , Democrat and People's Independent Ashton C. Shallenbtrger, Alma; Georpe V. BerRe. Lincoln. Democrat James C. Dahlman. Omaha. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Republican M. R. IIopcwi-11. Tekamah. Democrat and People's Independent E. O. Garrett. Fremont. ' SECRETARY OF STATE. Republican George C. Junkln. Smith- Democrat and People's Independent John Mattes, Jr.. Nebraska City; Dr. A. T. Gatewood, Arapahoe. AUDITOR. Renubllcan II. L. Cook, St raul:John I Pierce. Lincoln; Robert A. Haynes. College View; George Anthes. Omaha; SHas A. Burton. Grand Island. Democrat and People's Independent William D. Price. Lincoln. Democrat Edwin II. Lulkhart. Tllden. TREASURER. Republican Lawson G. Brian. Albion. Democrat and People's Independent Clarence Mackey. Ansley. STATE SUPERINTENDENT. Republlcan-rGeorge D. Carrlngton, Jr.. Auburn: James E. Delzell. Lexington; S. II. Martin. St. Paul. Democrat and People's Independent N. C. Abbott. Tekamah. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Republican William T. Thompson. Central City. Dcmoo-at and Peoples Independent Menzo Warren Terry. Beatrice; E. D. Quackenbush. Auburn. LAND COMMISSIONER. Republican J. M. Shlvley. Fremont; William Husenetter, Llnwood. Democrat and People's Independent W. B. Eastham. Broken Bow. RAILWAY COMMISSIONER. Republican S. M. Wallace. Clay Cen ter; J. A. Williams. Pierce; J. A. A an Wagenf-n. Pierce; F. II. Abbott. Aurora. Democrat, and Peorle's Independent William II. Cowgill. Holdrege. Democrat Gtorge O. Brophy, Omaha. Change in Freight Tariffs. The Union Pacific railroad has been granted permission to change its stone and commodity tariffs to con form to the national and state laws. In most instances the change makes a reduction in the present rate. Mellor Back from Fair Meeting. W. R. Mellor. secretary of the Stale Fair Board, returned from Chicago, where he attended a meeting of rail road men and urged reduced rates to ( the state fair. The railroads agreed to a rate of one ond one half fare for the round trip. Scarcity of Automobiles. With sixteen counties not reporting the number of automobiles, the le ports of the county assessors indicate that these officers this year have shown a remarkable poor nose for gasoline. There were registered in the office of Secretary of State Junkin April 1 of this year, 2,382 machines. The assessors have returned a total nf 1 Tfifi machines with the number "- -,- , from sixteen counties missing and in this list is Gage county, where every- body is rica ana suouia nave an auiu mobile. Blocks Not Large Enough. Deputy Secretary of State Addisou Wait has rprplvpfl n. letter from ! Charles Henry Niehaus, the Xew Yotk sculptor corncerning the proposed Lincoln monument in which he sayo: "Replying to your query regarding the stone donated by the state of Tennes spp T unnld sav that if it be Tennes- ses marble it may be utilized if Ten- 1 nessee marble be decided on as tncre is no material variation in the color of that stone; otherwise unless a small monument be coctemplate-l, there is not enough bte donated. 8AVEDAT THE CRISIS. Delay Meant Death from Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Herman Smith, 901 Broad Street, Athens, Ga., says: "Kidney disease started wua slight Irregularity and weakness and developed tnto dan gerous dropsy. ILe came weak and lan guid, and could d no housework. My hack ached terribly. I had bearing down pains and my limbs bloated to twice their normal size. Doctors did not help, and I was fast' drifting into the hopeless stages. I used Doan's Kidney Pills at the criti cal moment and they really saved my life." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. CHILDHOOD'S HAPPY DAYS. The Hunter Ain't It a shame, Fldo? It says here dat mountain lions art rapidly becoming extinct I bet we'll never get a chanst to shoot a single one. Sheer white goods. In fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beau ty. Home laundering would be equal ly satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. The Prolonged Applause. "Don't you think," asked the sincere citizen, "that a man should prepare himself studiously and carefully for service as delegate to a national con vention?" "Well," answered the man of ex perience, "it would undoubtedly be a good thing to take a year or so of voice culture." 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