Columbus Journal
R. S. STROTHER, Publisher
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA
HEWS OF 1 WEEK
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Notable Happenings Prepared for the
Perusal of the Busy Man Sum
mary of the Latest Home and For
eign Notes.
PERSONAL.
James Wickersham of Juneau was
elected representative in congress
from Alaska.
Mrs. Alice Webb Duke, former wife
of Brodie L. Duke, the tobacco mag
nate, was convicted in Chicago of ob
taining money under false pretenses
by passing forged checks.
Harry K. Thaw was formally ad
judged a bankrupt in Pittsburg by
Referee in Bankruptcy W. R. Blair.
William J. Bryan was formally noti
fied of his nomination for the presi
dency by the Democratic party, the
event being the occasion of a great
celebration in Lincoln. Neb.
John W. Boehne. mayor of Evans
ville, Ind., was nominated for congress
by the Democrats.
.Mehmed AH Bey, the Turkish minis
ter to tlie United States, admitted
that he had received advices from his
government recalling him from his
post
After two false starts Wilbur
Wright, the Dayton aeroplanist, made
a successful ascension at Lemans,
France. The machine flew about two
Irilometers (1.24 miles) in 1:43.
Eugene W. Chafin, Prohibition can
didate for president, narrowly escaped
drowning while swimming in the Y.
M. C. A. pool at Lincoln, Neb.
GENERAL NEWS.
Springfield. III., was completely in
the control of a mob for several hours,
the police, sheriff's force and troop D
of the First cavalry, and the members
of Gatling gun section of the Illinois
National Guard being unable to do
anything to control the mob, which
was rendered furious by the removal
from the city of George Richardson, a
negro who assaulted a white woman.
As the result of the mob's actions one
man is dead, another will probably die
and several others were injured,
while Loper's restaurant was wrecked,
the shanties of a number of negroes
residing in the "bad lands" burned,
and Gov. Deneen called a number of
companies of the Illinois National
Guard to Springfield to preserve or
der. Among the Injured wa3 R. W.
Chafin, candidate for president of the
United States on the Prohibition
party ticket, who was struck In the
head with a brick.
Fire In the East Butfalo stock yards
of the New York Central railroad de
stroyed $1,000,000 worth of property.
Two persons were seriously injured
and a dozen others were painfully hurt
when an automobile, that was taking
part in a hill climbing contest,
swerved and ran wild into a throng of
spectators at Algonquin, 111.
E. R. Thomas, former banker and
racehorse owner, was seriously in
jured at Long Branch, N. J., when his
automobile struck and wrecked a car
riage. Bandits held up a Northern Pacific
passenger train near Spokane, Wash.,
and robbed the mail car.
Thomas E. Howell of Beardstown,
111., sacriflced his life in an unsuccess
ful attempt to rescue his nephew,
Henry M. Howell. 11 years old, from
drowning in the Illinois river.
It is announced in Holland that an
interesting event is expected in the
Dutch royal family.
Louis A. Ryan of Bridgeport. 111.,
thrice shot and badly wounded his
bride at Noble. 111., and then prob
ably fatally wounded himself.
Four men attempted to rob a sa
loon in Chicago and the bartender
shot and killed Leemond Smith, alias
William Fay, a confidence man.
The Indiana Coal Operators associa
tion ended official relations with the
United Mine Workers of America.
Two persons were killed and six in
jured by the explosion at the grounds
of the Franco-British exhibition at
London of the balloon owned by Capt.
Lovelace of the New York Aero club.
One of the dead is Miss Hill, secretary
to Capt. Lovelace.
Capt Baldwin made two successful
speed trials of his dirigible balloon at
Fort Myer.
The American battleship fleet sailed
from Auckland, New Zealand, for Syd
ney, Australia.
J. Montgomery Sears, a young mill
ionaire of Boston, was killed when his
automobile plunged over an embank
ment. He was a candidate for the
Massachusetts senate.
Republicans of Texas nominated a
ticket, headed by Col. J. L. Simpson
of Dallas for governor.
Wilbur Wright of Dayton, O., made
the longest and mest successful flight
of the series of aeroplane trials which
lie is conducting at Lemans, France,
remaining in the air three minutes
and forty-four seconds. The machine
circled the field three times at the
rate of 36 miles an hour.
As a result of an explosion of fire
damp in the Dudweiler mine, five
miles from Saarbruekin, Garmany,
15 persons were killed and six badly
robbed railway stations at
Crown Point and Griffith, Ind., of
nearly $1,000 in money and tickets.
Fire in a residence and millinery
store at Wheeling, W. Va.. caused
the death of Clara, Mamie and Mar
garet Gavin.
Pittsburg police unearthed an al
leged conspiracy of department store
employes that bad resulted in the
theft of $50,000 worth of goods.
John J. Carroll, a veteran member
of the New Orleans police force, was
cut to death by a negro cook, who
was afterwards killed by the police.
By the capsizing of a pleasure
launch at Kilbourn. Wis., Mrs. W. G.
Heath, Miss Mabel Ward and E. G.
Pfeiffer and son. all of Chicago, were
drowned.
Martin Phillips was arraigned in a
New York court on a charge of lar
ceny and held for trial and the case
brought out an interesting story of a
"high rollers' " faro game in a private
house In the fashionable upper west
side district. Neville R. Moxley, for
merly of Pittsburg, Pa was the com
plainant, alleging that he lost $600 in
a faro game dealt by Phillips, with
whom he had agreed to swindle the
house.
At Los Angeles, Cal.. H. J. Dufty,
60 years old, went violently insane
over religion and killed his son and
daughter with an ax. He then slashed
his own throat with a razor, but prob
ably will recover.
Stuart Huntley, 75 years old, en
route from California to his home in
Decatur, 111., committed suicide at
Parsons, Kan., by taking poison. He
was recently robbed of money, was di
vorced from his wife and estranged
from other relatives.
Vivian Burden, 12 years old. commit
ted suicide in Kansas City, Mo., by
swallowing carbolic acid.
George Vail, Jr., charged with the
murder of his father, who disappeared
suddenly on June 10, 1907, from Ba
tavia, O., confessed to having commit
ted the crime.
Because his wife would not talk to
him as frequently as he desired her to,
William Lush, wealthy German citizen
of Lincoln. Neb., fired four times at
her with a revolver, and then vainly
attempted suicide.
The supreme grand lodge of Orange
men elected Henry Stewart of New
York grand master and decided to
meet in Cleveland, O., in 1910.
Night riders warned Ohio farmers
there would be trouble if they didn't
pool their tobacco this season.
Miss Frances Sholes, a society girl
of Evanston, 111., was found dead in a
gas-filled room and is believed to
have committed suicide.
Pietro Brilla, a hotel keeper of
Woodhaven, Long Island, was am
bushed and murdered by a number of
men.
Fire in San Francisco destroyed the
Coney Island Amusement pavilion and
damaged other buildings, the loss be
ing $100,000.
Harry Jarrel and his sister of Balti
more, Md., were poisoned by toad
stools and died at Rochester, N. Y.
Charles Foresman and Henry Rose,
young boys, were drowned near Mar
quette, Mich.
The isthmian canal zone has a
plague of dogs and a ukase has gone
forth that all dogs at large must be
muzzled.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
begun an active crusade for the elec
tion of a speaker "who will allow con
gress to vote on the 'interstate liquor
shipment bill.'"
Six persons were killed and 18 in
jured in a gun explosion aboard the
French gunnery school ship Couronne
off Lcs Salins d'Hyeres.
Charles E. Higbee, aged 52 years,
of Denver, one of the world's most
noted tunnel builders, was almost in
stantly killed by an accident at Shos
hone. 12 miles east of Glenwood
Springs. Col.
The American Federation of Catho
lic societies finished its seventh an
nual convention in Boston by re
electing Edward Feeney of Brooklyn
president and selecting Pittsburg for
next year's meeting.
Six men were severely injured when
a Grand Trunk passenger train struck
a street car in Detroit in a blinding
rain storm.
The Colorado Federation of Labor,
in convention at Denver, by a viva
voce vote indorsed the Democratic
party in the national campaign.
With her feet tightly bound to
gether and a stocking stuffed down
her throat, Mrs. Adeline M. Miller of
St. Louis was found dead by her hus
band, a mail clerk.
One thousand Chinese soldiers sta
tioned at Konghau, near Wuchow,
mutinied, murdered their commander,
his clerk and secretary and then at
tacked a camp of soldiers at Onyung.
Wilbur Wright made a splendid
flight with his aeroplane at Le Mans,
France, circling the field five times
and remaining in the air 6 minutes
56 2-5 seconds.
E. J. Lewis, treasurer of the Savings
Life Insurance company of Peoria,
committed suicide by taking poison.
He was a thirty-second degree Mason.
A messenger's pouch containing
United States government pay checks
for nearly $2,000 was stolen from in
front of the building occupied by the
department of commerce and labor in
Washington.
Miss May Williams of Kansas City.
Mo., who won a prize last spring as
the most beautiful girl in Missouri,
committed suicide because her proj
ected marriage was about to be pre
vented by her removal to an industrial
school.
Fire destroyed the mining camp of
Ripetown, Nev., the loss being $100,
000. Fifteen workmen were held up and
robbed in relays of their month's pay
near Stirling City, Cal.
Eight men were killed, nearly a
score of others more or less seriously
injured and thousands of dollars'
worth of property damaged by the ex
plosion of a boiler in the York (Pa.)
rolling mill.
Mrs. Daniel Leroy Dresser was
granted an absolute divorce at Sioux
Falls, S. D.. from Daniel Dresser, pres
ident of the Ship Building Trust and
of the Trust Company of the Repub
lic of New York city, on the ground of
desertion.
Three persons were killed and many
injured in a collision between two
limited traction cars on the Western
Ohio Traction line, nine miles north
of Piqua.
By order of its directors, the Bank
of Arton. Okla., was closed pending
an investigation of its affairs by the j
state bank commissioner. W. H. Rey- !
nolds, cashier, is missing.
At the International Historical con
gress in Berlin American Ambassador
Hill announced that Adolphus Busch
of St. Louis was ready to give $50,009
towa-ds the Germanic museum build
ing a': Harvard.
GUARDED BY MILITIA
OVER FOUR THOUSAND TROOPS
PATROL SPRINGFIELD.
INCIPIENT RIOTS SQUELCHED
Crowds Gather but are Quickly Scat
tered by State Militia Ordered
to the Capital.
Springfield, III. With tie arrival
here of the Second and Seventh in
fantry regiments, Illinois National
guard, and two squadrons of the First
cavalry, all from Chicago, the entire
National guard of Illinois, with the
exception of the Sixth infantry and
the Eight infantry (colored), was on
duty in the diot-ridden districts .Sat
duty in the riot-ridden districts Sat
the city.
Two deaths due to the violence of
Friday and Saturday occured at SL
John's hospital. William Donnigan,
the aged colored man whose throat
was cut last night, expired at 11 a. m.
Frank Delmore, who was shot through
the lungs on Friday night, passed
away an hour later. This brings the
list of violent deaths during the race
troubles up to five.
A council of war was held at the
capitol at 4 o'clock Saturday after
noon by Governor Deneen, Major Gen
eral Young, Adjutant General Scott,
General F. P. Wells and Colonel J. B.
Sanborn. At the meeting a plan was
adopted which it is believed will ren
der furtfcr.r demonstrations improb
able. Colonel Sanborn was given com
mand of a provisional brigade, consist
ing of the First and Second infantry
regiments, with instructions to pre
serve the peace in the territory west
of Seventh street The two regiments
established headquarters on the capitol
grounds, their shelter tents bordering
the state house on three sides. Gen
eral E. P. Wells was placed in com
mand of a second provisional brigade,
consisting of nine companies of the
Fourth infantry, three companies of
the Third infantry and two companies
of the Fifth infantrj-.
General Wells, with headquarters
at the county jail, immediately posted
guards to cover the city east of Sev
enth street. Troops B and G of the
First cavalry were detailed under
Major Frank Bush at division head
quarters under Major General Young.
The Second infantry reached this city
at 3:30 p. m., under command of Col.
John Garrity. The manner in which
a line of skirmishers was thrown out
as the guardsmen debarked from the
train gained applause from the crowd
which had gathered at the railroad
station to watch the arrival. The
khakiclad militiamen marched to the
capitol to the beat of a fife and drum
quickstep and then assignment to
Colonel Sanborn's brigade followed.
As it was nearly midnight when the
Seventh Infantry and the First cavalry
troopers arrived, no brigade assign
ment was given them, they probably
will be detailed as reinforcements to
the two brigades already formed.
Governor Deneen said that he wished
to so protect the city that tne negroes
who fled will return. "We can pro
tect them here and we can't when
they scatter about the country," said
the governor. "If they will come back
we will give them food and shelter in
government tents."
WRIGHT WILL COME TUESDAY.
One of Famous Brothers Will Reach
Washington with Aeroplane.
Washington Monday the board of
Signal corps officers who have been
conducting the airship tests at Fort
Meyer will pass finally upon the Bald
win motor balloon, which fulfilled the
endurance requirements Saturday.
Orville Wright is expected to ar
rive here Tuesday with his aeroplane.
It is expected that one or two prelim
inary flights will be made during the
week. The Wright brothers contract
with the government is for a heavier
than air flying machine. For a speed
of forty miles an hour, twice that re
quired of the dirigible, the Wright
brothers will receive $25,000.
Captain of Coepenick Out.
Berlin William Voigt, notorious as
"The Captain of Coepenick," has been
liberated from prison by order of the
emperor. Voigt on December 1, 190C.
was sentenced to serve four year?
in prison.
AIRSHIP STANDS FINAL TEST.
Baldwin Machine Stays Aloft Two
Hours and is Accepted.
Washington The Baldwin airship
at Fort Meyer made a flight which
broke all records for airships in this
country. For two hous and five min
utes the dirigible flew back and forth
nearly five miles of a course. The
airship is now the property of the
signal corps of the United States
army, a few formalities only remain
ing to be gone through before Bald
win turns it over.
General Wardwell i3 Dead.
Tombstone, Ariz. General D. K.
Wardwell died Saturday afternoon
while in quarantine with his leper
wife. Her sufferings from the com
bined effects of lerropy and the nerv
ous strain following the attending no
toriety of their case has destroyed
her reason and she is totally unaware
that her husband is dead. General
Wardwell w?.s a veteran cf the Mexi
can and civil wars. Efforts to deport
Mrs. Wardwell to the leper colony
habe brought mary complications. It
is probable that she will remain here.
Treasury Balances.
Washington Friday's statement of
ie treasury balances in ths ren-rcl
und. exclusive of the $10.0 0,'0
old reserve, s'jcws: Ava'labl?, $12.
S7.SJ0; gr-H rein and tu H"n ?4n.
-11.974; geld certificates. S33.SC0C0C
No Stcte Fa Er.ts.
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NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Ir
Items of Greater or Lesser Impor
tance Over the State.
Nebraska City has made its annual
tax levy 8 per cent lower than last
year.
United Brethren at Shelby have
laid the corner stone for their new
church.
The farmers elevator at York has
proved to be a highly successful in
vestment. Big polithical guns, it is said, have
not drawn well at NebisUa Chautau
quas this year.
Barneston, Gage county. Is now
without a saloon, whereat old boozers
are in a sullen state.
Ainsworth had a hail storm that
made smithereens of twenty-seven
lights in the school house.
Out In Deuel county they are get
ting forty bushels of wheat to the
acre and corn appears the best ever.
Elmer Duncan, a young man about
twenty-three years of age, was arrest
ed at Beatrice charged with bootleg
ging. Many eastern people are this year
visiting relatives and friends in Ne
braska and are delighted with the
state.
A half-section of land two and a
half miles west of Hemingford was
sold for $25 per acre. This same sold
for $3 per acre four years ago.
At Fremont preparation Is being
made for the opening of the new $60,
000 Young Meu's Christion association
building during the week ending Sep
tember 14.
As evidence that Dodge county land
is not declining In value witness the
sale last week of a 400-acre tract in
Pleasant Valley township at the rat
of $110 per acre is chronicled.
John Frerichs, of Gage county, a
prominent German .farmer, was kicked
in the stomach by a horse and se
riously injured. While his condition is
serious, it is thought he will recover.
Elmer, aged 18, and Charles, aged
20. sons of David James, were
drowned in the river six milss below
Nebraska City. The family resides at
Minorsville. They had gone In swim-
ming.
Miss Mary Booking was killed at
Lorton by a Missouri Pacific train as
she was making 3. crossing. The road
had allowed the weeds to grow so high
that approach of the trains could
not be seen.
Old friends and neighbors of the
Pioneers and Old Settlers' association
of Burt county have been invited to
attend the sixth annual reunion and
picnic, which is to be held in Te
kamah, August 22.
Division of Knox county is being
agitated again, the plan being to divide
the county east and west, and a peti
tion asking for a vote on It this fall
will soon be presented to the county
board for consideration.
Jay Webster, age eighteen, a son
of Al Webster, a farmer living about
fifteen miles north of Tekamah along
the river, was drowned in the Mis
souri. He was a good swimmer, nut 1
never rose after he jumped into the
river.
August 25 and 26 the Northwestern
Nebraska Dental society will meet in
Hastings for its semi-annual meeting.
This society is one of the strongest in
the state, comprising about twelve
counties and the cities of Grand Island
and Kearney.
Many Beatrice people read with
regret regarding the removal of Union
Pacific headauarters from Beatrice to
Marysvllle, Kas. The company em- 1
ploys about 150 men in Beatrice and
the Commercial club will do all in its
power to prevent such a change.
Practically every section of land in
Sioux county is now filed and has a
bona fide resident on It. Before the
Kinkaid law was passed this land was
all the range of a few cattle com
panies. The entrymen are raising
splendid crops of all kinds on the
land, which has similar soil to east
ern Nebraska, and relinquishments
are hard to buy at any price.
Ingersoll Bros., who are sinking a
deep well for Gilbert E. Hanks on his
farm south of Nebraska City, are down
to a depth of 1.000 feet and have
struck several traces of oil and they
have encountered a number of layers
of shale, which is encountered above
oil fields. Their well is dry and ex
pact to go the depth of 2.000 feet. Mr.
Hanks is not bring for oil, but is after
a big flow of artesian water to supply
his home and farm.
The Omaha Corn exposition has ar
ranged to hold an agricultural con
gress during the exposition this win
ter. Plans are made for a number ol
noted speakers. Among them will be:
William J. Bryan, Zeferino Domin
quez of Pueblo, Mex.; Judge H. E.
Deemer of Red Oak, la., judge of the
supreme court of Iowa; Governor
Cummins of Iowa, Editor Henry Wal
lace, Governors Buchtel of Colorado,
Hoch of Kansas and Sheldon of Ne
braska. Spill, a Beatrice pacing horse, pur
chased some time ago by C. H. Dixon,
has been doing some fine work since
being taken east The other day he
was third In the 2:08 pace at Kalama
zoo, Mich., the time of the heats being
2:02, 2:06, 2:03. 2:06.
The.recrd price for land values in
Cuming county was reached a few
days age in the sale of a quarter sec
tion in Beemer township owned by T.
C. Kirk to Benjamin Martin of Illinois
at a price of $22,000 for the quarter, or j
$140.62 per acre. This Is the highest
price ever obtained in Cuming county
for ordinary agricultural land.
At Tecumseh, Robert Caton suc
ceeded In passing four forged checks
in the amount of $25 each at various
mercantile establishments and the
fraud was not detected until after he
had escaped on a horse stolen from
his employers. One hundred dollars
Is offered for his arrest.
Harry Kranse, the 18-year-old son of
A. L. Kranse of Bloomfield. who fell
from a two-story building in Billings,
Mont, last summer while employed on
same as a mason, as a rasult cf which
he has been partially paralyzed, died
In a hospital in Kirks ville. Mo., where j
he was sent for treatment 1
! 0 SURPLUS FUNDS THERE.
Beggar Satisfied with Evidence off
Poverty in Sight.
Two old Hebrew beggars were trav
eling together through the residence
section of Pittsburg not long ago, in
quest of contributions toward their
joint capital.
Presently they passed a handsome
residence, from which sweet sounds
of music issued. It was Ike's turn and
hopefully he ascended the steps to the
front door, eagerly watched by Jake,
who expected quite a handsome addi
tion to their funds.
His consternation was great conse
quently when he beheld Ike returning
crestfallen and empty-handed.
Anxiously running to meet him, he
said: "Veil, Ikey, how did you make
out with the good people?'
"Ach, Jakey," replied Ike, "there
was no use asking in there, because
they are very poor people themselves.
Just think two lovely ladies playing
on one piano!" Judge's Library.
BABY CRIED AND SCRATCHED
All the Time Covered with Tortus
ing Eczema Doctor Said Sores
Would Last for Years Per
fect Cure by Cuticura.
"My baby niece was suffering from
that terrible torture, eczema. It was
All over her body but the worst was
on her face and hands. She cried and
scratched all the time and could not
sleep night or day from the scratch
ing. I had her under the doctor's
care for a year and a half and he
seemed to do her no good. I took her
to the best doctor in the city and he
said that she would have the sores
until she was six years old. But if I
had depended on the doctor my baby
would have lost her mind and died
from the want of aid. But I used
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment
and she was cured in three months.
Alice L. Dowell, 4769 Easton Ave., SL
Louis, Mo., May 2 and 20. 1907."
The Methodist Times, a British
weekly, divides Its profits every year
between certain charities. This year
the aged ministers and ministers'
widows' fund got $2,200.
Smokers appreciate the quality value ol
Lews' iSinple Binder cigar. Your dealer
or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, HI.
Goodness thinks no ill where no III
seems. Milton.
Is Pe-ru-na Useful
for Catarrh?
Should a list of the ingredients of Pe
runa be submitted to any medical ex
pert of whatever school or nationality,
ho would bo obliged to admit without
reserve that the medicinal herbs com
posing Peruna are of two kinds. First,
standard and well-tried catarrh reme
dies. Second, well-known and gener
ally acknowledged toni? remedies.
That in one or the other of theso uses
they have stood the test of many years'
experience by physicians of different
schools. There can be no dispute about
this, whatever. Peruna is composed of
some of the most efficacious and uni
versally used herbal remedies for ca
tarrhal diseases, and for such conditions
of the human system as require a tonic.
Each one of the principal ingredients
of Peruna has a reputation of its own
in the cure of some phase of catarrh or
as a tonic medicine.
The fact 1b, chronic catarrh is a dis
ease which is very prevalent. Many
thousand people know they have
chronic catarrh. Thoy have visited doc
tors over and over again, and been told
that their case is one of chronic catarrh.
It may be of the nose, throat, lungs,
stomach or some other internal organ.
There is no doubt as to the nature of
the disease. The only trouble is the
remedy. This doctor has tried to cure
them. That doctor has tried to pre
scribe for them.
No other household remedy so uni
versally advertised carries upon the
label the principal active constituents,
showing that Peruna invites the full
inspection of the critics.
Food
Products
Peerless
Dried Beef
Unlike the ordinary dried
beef that sold in bulk
Libby's Peerless Dried Beef
comes in a sealed glass jar
in which it is packed the
moment it is sliced into those
delicious thin wafers.
None of the rich natural
flavor or goodness escapes
or dries ouL It reaches you
fresh and with all the nutri
ment retained.
Libby's Peerless Dried
Bee! is only one of a Great
number of high-grade, ready
to serve, pure food products
that are prepared in LibbyS
Great While Kitchen.
Just try a package of any
of these, such as Ox Tongue,
Vienna Sausage, Pickles,
Olives eta, and see how
delightfully dif
ferent they are
from others
youhaveeaten.
Libby, McNeill
Libby, Chicago
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THE STATE CAPITAL
MATTENS OF INTEREST TO ALL
CITIZENS.
LIVE STOCK IN NEBRASKA
The Total Assessed Value as Fixed by
the State Board After Much
Deliberation.
Live Stock Values Fixed.
The total assessed value of all the
cattle In Nebraska as fixed by the
State Board of Equalization is $10,2'JS.
801, against an assessment of $11,502.
876 in 1907. The total assessed value
of all the horses in Nebraska is $11.
896,047. against $12,253,479 in 1907.
The decrease in the assessment of
both horses and cattle is supposed to
be due to the decrease in number. The
decrease in the number of cattle is
supposed to be occasioned by the high
price of corn and fee stuff and the
high price of cattle, causing owners to
sell. The figures on the number,
however, are not yet available.
The board increased the assessment
of horses in seventeen counties and
decreased the assesment in two coun
ties. These were Hamilton, reduced
10 percent, and Merrick 10 per cent.
In the assessment of cattle twenty
four counties were increased and one
county reduced Nuckolls 10 per cent.
The assessment on horses was in
creased as follows Banner, 10 per
cent; Box Butte, 20; Cherry, 15; Col
fax, 15; Deuel 20; Dixon. 15; Douglas,
20; Fillmore, 5; Franklin, 15; Grant,
10; Hooker, 25; Johnson, 10; McPhcr
son, 75; Nance. 10; Pierce, 5; Saline,
10; Thomas, CO.
The assessment on cattle was in
creased as follows: Buffalo. 10; But
ler, 10; Cedar, 10; Colfax. 10; Custer.
10; Dakota. 10; Dawes, 10; Deuel, 10;
Fillmore. !": Frontier, 10; Hayes, 10;
Hitchcock, 25; Hooker, 15; Johnson,
10; Keith, 15; Knox, 10: Lincoln. 15;
McPherson, 25; Perkins, 50; Rock.
20; Saline, 10; Saunders. 10; Thayer,
5; Thomas, 15.
Writing Insurance Illegally.
John L. Pierce, insurance deputy,
gave out the following statement:
Information has just been received
by the insurance department that
agents are operating in Nebraska for
the Druggists' Indemnity Exchange
of St. Louis and that such agents are
soliciting and securing fire insurance
risks in that institution.
The Exchange is an inter-insurance
institution somewhat of the character
of the Lloyds, where individuals, firms
and corporations as subscribers mutu
ally Insure each other. As this con
cern refuses to give out sufficient in
formation to the reporting agencies
of its financial standing it is impos
sible to estimate intelligently whether
its policies are desirable or not, but
even if they were, the Indemnity Ex
change is not licensed to do business
in Nebraska and whatever business its
agents secure here is unlawfully se
cured. In fact, its policies are made
void by the statutes of this state.
For the protection of the companies
and agents that have complied with
the law and that are paying their por
tion of the state taxes this depart
ment will prosecute any agent of this
or any other unauthorized company
when proper compliant is made.
Soldiers' Homes.
Governor Sheldon has received $7,
727 as the quarterly payment from the
government for the support of the
state soldiers' homes in Nebraska for
the quarter ending June 30, at the
rate of $1,000 for each member of the
homes. There were 205 members in
the Grand Island home and 104 In the
Milford home.
Seeks to Dismiss Appeal.
The legal department of state has
filed a motion and brief with the su
preme court asking that the appeal of
Dr. J. T. Mathews be dismissed. Dr.
Mathews was charged with a criminal
operation and after a hearing his
license to practice medicine was or
dered revoked by the State Board of
Health. This decision was sustained
by the district court of Lancaster
county and Dr. Mathews then appealed
to the supreme court.
As Presidential Elector.
Secretary of State Junkin has re
ceived an opinion from Attorney Gen
eral Thompson bearing on the protest
against the placing of the name of
Nebic on the primary ballot as can
didate for presidential elector in the
Second congressional district as- a
democrat and populist. The secre
tary of state will give an opinion soon.
The opinion of the attorney general
holds that no candidate has the right
to place on the primary ballot unless
the party he represents cast one per
cent of the vote in the congressional
district and that one elector is to be
nominated in each congressional dis
trict. Grand Assessment Roll.
The grand assessment roll of Ne
braska as fixed by the State Board c
Equalization is $332.1G7,814.C0. Last
year Nebraska property was assessed
at 5329,413.349.32. This Is an Increase
of $62,754,465.28. The assessment ss
one-fifth of the actual value. There
will be some change in the total giv- J
en for this year and it will be slightly
increased by reason of an increase m
the value of horses, mules and bank
stock in Douglas county. In the total
for 1908 the returns imde by the as
sessor arc taken as official.
Decrease in Merchandise.
The State Board of Equalization has
completed the assessment of mer
chandise, making the total assessment
of this class of property SS.27 1.967.
against an assessment of $9,301,831 in
1907. The assessment in one county
only was changed. Lancaster getting
a 10 per cent reduction. The show
ing made by the delegation of Onnha
business men prevented an increase
In the assessment of that county.
though Land Commissicne: Eaten
moved that it be incrensed 15 per
cent. This was voted down.
LOOKED FOR OTHER TWO.
Little On Had But One Idea of Term
Fore-Handed."
Little Catherine has been boarding
on a farm this snmmer. and many of
the rural expressions are wholly un
familiar to her. One day she chanced
to hear her country hostess praising
the good qualities of a certain thrifty
neighbor.
"He really ain't got much, com
pared to some folks," said the farm
er's wife, "but he makes out wonder
ful well; he's so fore-handed."
That evening the man thus lauded
happened to drop in, and Katherlne
immediately sidled up to him. with cu
rious eyes. Slowly she revolved about
the chair in which ho sat. and so por
sistently did she gaze at him that the
farmer's wife finally noticed It.
"Well. Katherine." she said, "you
seem to find a good deal to look at in
Mr. B ; don't you?"
"Why." replied tho child, her little
forehead wrinkled In perplexity. "1
did want to see his two uvver hands,
but I can't Is he sittin on 'em?"
OF COURSE HE WOULDN'T.
" .. 25T
"You certainly wouldn't marry a girl
for her money, would you. Tom?"
"Of course not; neither would I have
the heart to let her become an old
maid because she happened to be well
off."
The Spider and the Fly.
In the long warfare between the
spider and the fly, tho latter has had
the housewife for its auxiliary and
friend. The flies havo been tolerated,
even fed and nurtured, while the
spiders and their webs have been ruth
lessly destroyed. This unremitting
and unrelenting war against it koeps
the spider population down, while the
flies Increase and multiply by the
millions and ten of millions, almost
unchecked. The spider Is ugly and
bis web is unsightly in tho estima
tion of most people, bat spiders hurt
no human creatare. They feed on
flies, which are the foes of mankind,
and do mankind a service. Philadel
phia Press.
Starch, like everything- else, is b
Ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discovery Defiance Starch all In
jurious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient. In
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap
proached by other brands.
Novel Use for Visiting Cards.
In connection with the forthcoming
world's drawing congress in London,
when it is anticipated that 3.000 people
will attend the reception at the Royal
College of Art, it is proposed, for the
purposes of identification, that mem
bers of the British committee should
wear their visiting cards upon the
lapels of their coats or their dress
bodices.
The extraordinary popularity of fine
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch a matter of great im
portance. Defiance Starch, being free
from all injurious chemicals, is the
only one which is safe to use on fine
fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen
er makes half the usual quantity of
Starch necessary, with tho result of
perfect finish, equal to that when th
goods were new.
Why He Felt Sad.
"Yonng man." said the stern old
broker, "I find that you slipped off
yesterday afternoon and went to the
ball game. Don't you fed bad about
It?"
"Indeed I do, boss." confessed
Tommy.
"Ah! That's one consolation."
"Yes, I felt bad "cause the homo
team lost."
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