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JR. S. STROTHER, Publisher.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
William H. Taft, president-elect of
the United Stales, announced the ap
pointment of United States Senator
Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania as
secret ary of state in his cabinet.
That the United States should have
the right of appeal to the federal su
preme court as a matter of right when
ever a conviction is reversed on ap
peal by a defendant to a circuit court
of appeals, is the opinion expressed by
Atty. Gen. Bonaparte in his annual re
port, submitted to congress. He cites
of the reversals of the fine of $29,
210,000 against the Standard Oil Com
pany. The house of representatives by
unanimous vote adopted a resolution
requesting the president to supply it
with an evidence that may be in his
possession that will justify the state
ment in his last annual message in re
lation to the attitude of members of
congress toward appropriations for the
secret service of the government.
The senate adopted a resolution for
an investigation of the inference in
the president's message that members
of congress fear the probing of secret
service officers.
It was authoritatively announced in
New York that the offer of a cabinet
position to Congressman Theodore
Burton of Cleveland had been with
drawn by Mr. Taft and would not be
renewed.
President Roosevelt sent a message
to congress denouncing Joseph Pulit
zer for the Panama canal charges and
saying it is the duty of the govern
ment to prosecute the publisher of
the New York World for criminal
libel. The World replied with an
editorial of defiance.
PERSONAL.
Wilbur Wright, American aero
planist, set two new records at Le
Mans, France, by remaining in the air
nearly two hours and then ascending
260 feet.
Fred Lied, formerly member of the
Columbus (O.) board of control, was
sentenced to four years in the peni
tentiary for accepting a bribe.
Leo F. McCullough, president of the
common council of Boston, is charged
with perjury and conspiracy to de
fraud the city out of 3200 on June 1
last.
C. M. Buckles, cashier of the First
State bank of Oklahoma City, Okla.,
was found guilty by a jury of embez
zling $1,872 while he was treasurer of
Canadian county three years ago. He
was sentenced to serve a year in the
penitentiary and to pay a fine of
f3.185.
Philander C. Knox, United States
senator from Pennsylvania, has con
sented to be secretary of state in Mr.
Taft's cabinet.
Gen. Anton Simon, leader of the
revolution that ousted Nord Alexis,
was unanimously elected president of
HayU.
Henry E. Agar, wanted in Princeton,
Ind., for alleged forgeries amounting
to $125,000 and supposed to have
been drowned in the Wabash river in
January. 1907, was arrested at Har
lingen, Tex.
Ralph H. Booth, the Detroit pub
lisher, purchased a controlling interest
in both the Muskegon Chronicle and
the Muskegon Morning News.
Alice Neilson, an actress, long prom
inent on the comic opera stage, filed
a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in
New York. She gave her liabilities as
$,200 and her assets as $75.
GENERAL NEWS.
Six robbers, after dynamiting the
safes of the Farmers' State bank at
Keene, Neb., and the Commercial bank
of Gibbon, Neb., engaged in a pitched
battle here with a number of citizens
and escaped In an automobile with
$5,500.
The tramp steamer Catalone ran
into and sunk the freighter Daghestan
of England just outside New York har
bor. The members of the Daghestan's
crew were picked up by the Catalone.
Col. Hy. B. Marchbank. a prominent
stock broker of Joplin, Mo., committed
suicide because of ill health.
Elmer Hill, alleged murderer of
Mamie Womack in Adair county, Ken
tucky, was taken from jail at Monticel
lo by a mob and hanged.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., it was re
ported In Thompsonville. Conn., was
slated for election to the next Con
necticut general assembly.
The entire Portuguese cabinet has
resigned.
A Kaowslide at Eureka, Col., de
stroyed a mine boarding-house and
killed one man.
Chu Chin Ching was found dead in
Chicago, strangled with his own queue
supposedly by highbinders.
Mobs in Caracas arose against Pres
ident Castro's rule, burned his stat
ues and pictures and pillaged the prop
erty of his friends.
Tom Longboat, the Indian runner,
won the Marathon race in Madison
Square garden. New York. Dorando
Pietri collapsing when near the goal.
In an encounter with five unknown
men Marshal F. C. Woods of Green
wich. O., was fatally wounded and
killed one of his assailants.
Turkey made, her bow as a full
fledged constitutional monarch when
the new Ottoman parliament held its
nrst session.
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FOR THE
BUSY MAN
8 Most Important Happen- 8
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Enraged because his former sweet-:
heart, Miss" Maud Hartley, had reject-;
ed him, James B. Harmon, the 18-year-j
old son of.,Police Sergeant James M.
Harmon, shot and killed her on the
street in Somerville;- Mass.
The four men convicted in the Penn-
sylvan ia capitol fraud case were sen
tenced to two years in the peni
tentiary, $500 fine and costs, the maxi
mum punishment allowed by law, and
were released on $100,000 bail on su
persedeas. James Curren, IS years old, was
killed in a boxing bout with Benjamin
Barnet, 17 years of age, at the Broad
way Athletic club of Philadelphia.
Frank Cain, city marshal of Hlgbee,
Mo., was shot and probably fatally
wounded and Elmer Magruder was In
stantly killed in the city jail by three
men whom Cain had arrested on a
charge of robbing a railway station at
Salisbury. Mo.
Eleven deaths have occurred and 13
men are seriously ill at Keithley
camp, Mindanao island, as a result of
the men of the Eighteenth infantry
drinking calumbic acid, a vegetable
compound extracted from the calumba
root.
Six hundred pupils calmly marched
out of the high school at Altoona, Pa.,
which was on fire.
Gov. Campbell of Texas announced
that the lav.- closing saloons on Sun
day would be enforced throughout the
state.
Sir Max Waechter. who is touring
the capitals of Europe advocating the
abolition of emperors and kings and
the formation of the United States of
Europe, was received by M. Pichon,
French minister of foreign affaire. Sir
Max favors King Edward as the first
president of his proposed union.
The Council of Jewish Women,
through Dr. Cornelia H. Kahn, chair
man of the committee on purity of the
press, has issued an appeal to newspa
pers for the elimination of indecent
details in the published evidence at
murder and divorce trials.
One man was fatally injured and
one seriously hurt in a head-on colli
sion between two passenger trains on
the Big Four railroad between Lilley
and Woodruff, 111.
On a charge of criminal libel, made
by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., S. S. Car
valbo, president of the Star Company,
publishers of William R. Hearst's New
York American, was arrested in New
York.
A considerable part of Rostov-on-the-Don,
a busy Russian city of 120,
000 population, was destroyed by fire.
Fredeiick A. Storm, a real estate
dealer, testified in the trial of Thorn
ton J. Hains, as a principal with his
brother, Capt. Peter C. Hains, in the
killing of William E. Annis, that the
defendant had inquired as to the
whereabouts of Annis shortly before
the latter sailed up to the dock where
Ire was shot. Charles Birchfield, a
friend of Annis, declared that Thorn
ton Hains drove him back with a
drawn revolver when he sought to
stop the shooting.
Postmaster General Meyer an
nounced that he would not renew his
order, issued in December, 1907, per
mitting delivery to charitable organi
zations of letters addressed to ''Santa
Clans."
Oregon Railroad & Navigation train
No. 1, known as the Chicago-Portland
special, was held up and the express
car dynamited by four masked rob
bers nine miles east of Portland, Ore.
Express Messenger O. H. Huff said
the robbers secured little of value.
Rev. Joseph L. Sullens of Spring
field. Mo., was shot and killed acci
dentally while hunting.
The tentative selection of Salt Lake
City as the next meeting place of the
Grand Army of the Republic was con
firmed by the executive committee
which has been investigating the ac
commodations afforded by the city.
The doors of the First National
bank of Somersworth, N. H., were
closed, following the discovery of a
shortage, placed at $85,000, and Fred
H. Varney, the cashier of the bank,
was arrested on a charge of being a
defaulter.
Nine, companies, with their subsid
iaries, afe named as constituting an
illegal combination in the final de
cree, filed in the United States cir
cuit court at New York, putting into
effect the judgment recently ob
tained by the government in its suit
to dissolve the so-called tobacco
trust.
The Dutch Battleship
Jacob van
Heemskerk captured the Venezuelan
guardship 23 de Mayo and towed it to
Curacao. In Berlin President Castro
called on the German chancellor and
was examined by a physician.
On hearing of the seizure by the
Dutch of the guardship Alix. Acting
President Gomez declared Venezuela
in a state of defense. President Castro
arrived in Berlin and was given an
ovation.
That the latest battleships built by
this country are vastly superior to
England's Dreadnought, is emphatical
ly stated by Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans in an article in the latest num
ber of Hampton's Broadway Magazine,
wherein he strongly defends the
American navy and replies to criti
cisms of it made some time ago by
Henry Reuterdahl and others.
In an opinion by Justice Holmes,
the supreme court of the United States
held that E. H. Harriman and Otto
Kaha, the latter a New York banker,
should not be required to answer the
interstate commerce commission's
questions concerning dealings in
stocks between the Union Pacific and
other roads.
Abbes Bouysson and Bardon, who
are conducting excavations at Cha-pelleaux-Saints,
in the Correze depart
ment, have discovered what are.
believed to be the oldest human re
mains, dating back 170.000 years to the
middle of the Pleistocene age.
OBITUARY.
. Capt. Campbell H. Sweeney. 55
years old, well known in the Missis
sippi river steamboat trade, died of
pneumonia at New Orleans.
Miss Caroline F. Mayer, 60 years
old, dropped dead in the street at
Montclair, N. J., while pursuing a
thief.
Donald Grant Mitchell, 84 years old,
the well-known author who wrote un
der the nom de plume "Ik Marvel,"
died at his home, "Marvelwood," in
Edgewood, a suburb of New Haven,
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GKS IN SENATE
TERMS OF THIRTY-ONE MEM-
BERS EXPIRE MARCH 4TH. j
SCRAMBLE FOR KNOX'S SEAT
All Eyes on Ohio, ' Where Several
Candidates are ' Anxious to
Succeed Mr. Foraker.
Washington. While the terms of
thirty-one senators, more than one
third of the entire membership, ex
pire on March 4 next, eighteen of thi3
number already have been re-elected
or assured of re-election, either
through successes in primary con
tests or pledges of a majority of the
membership of the several state leg
islatures charged with the duty of
electing senators before the begin
ning of next congress.
In addition to the vacancies occur
ing by reason of a provision of the
constitution there will be a vacancy
in Pennsylvania on account of the
forthcoming resignation of Senator
Knox to accept the portfolio of secre
tary of state in the Taft cabinet.
There will be a scramble between
prominent republicans of Pennsyl
vania for Mr. Knox's seat, which will
cause public interest equal to the
(contest now going on in Ohio for the
seat of Senator Foraker and in Con
necticut for that of Senator Brande
gee. That Secretary Root will be
given the New York seat now he'd
by Senator Piatt is believed and a
contest is not expected.
The republican senators whoso
terms expire at the end of the pres
ent congress, hut who are sure of be
ing returned, are Cummins of Iowa,
now serving out the unexpired term
of the late Senator Allison: Senator
Dillingham of Vermont, Gallinger of
New Hampshire, Heyburn of Idaho,
Hopkins of Illinois, Penrose of
Pennsylvania, Perkins of California,
Smoot of Utah and Stephenson of
Wisconsin. Democratic senators who
will be returned are Clark of Arkan
sas, Clay of Georgia, Gore of Okla
homa, Johnston of Alabama, Mc
Enery of Louisiana, Newlands of
Nevada, Overman of North Carolina,
Smith of Maryland and Stone of
Missouri.
By reason of defeat in primary
contests Senator Ankeny of Wash
ington will be succeeded by Repre
sentative Wesley L. Jones, Hans
borough of North Dakota by M. N.
Johnson, Kittredge of South Dakota
by Governor Coe I. Crawford, and
Long of Kansas by Joseph Bristow,
formerly fourth assistant postmaster
general.
All of these men are republicans,
and in addition Fulton of Oregon
probably will be succeeded by Gover
nor Chamberlain, democrat, who was
victorious in what is known as the
double primary system of the state.
If pledges made by certain repub
lican members of the Oregon legis
'ature are kept, Chamberlain will
come to the senate, but if they are
violated as many leading republicans
of the state are demanding, it is pos
sible, in fact probable, that Fulton
would be chosen to succeed himself.
The eyes of the country are on
Ohio because of the candidacy of
Charles P. Taft, brother of the
president-elect, for the seat of For
aker, one of the most vigorous and
picturesque characters in the senate
and one who has declined to abandon
his place without a fight.
The relationship between Mr. Taft
and the president-elect, and the fact
that the Cincinnatian has been
prominent in the councils of the re
publican party in Ohio for many
years, are powerful factors in the
contest he is waging for the senator
ial toga.
Mr. Bryan at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa. "I may not think as
well of Mr. Taft's cabinet selections
as he does," said W. J. Bryan here,
when asked for an expression on the
choosing of Senator Knox as secretary
of state "I do not believe, therefore,
that I care to discuss the appointments
just now."
No Action Agreed Upon.
Baltimore Attorney General Bon
aparte, speaking of the suit which the
president has urged against Joseph
Pulitzer of the New York World, said
that it :s still under consideration and
no definite line of action has been
agreed upon.
DEATH BLIGHTS SHOW.
Builder and Buildings of Corn Exposi
tion Pass Away Together.
Omaha As the walls of Jericho fell
at the blast of a ram's horn, so the
National Corn exposition fell Sunday
morning at the sound of the sledge
hammer, and by evening it was prac
tically a wreck, while as a strange
coincidence to its close W. E. FIndley,
the draughtsman who designed the
buildings, died at his home as the
buildings he had designed were fast
disappearing.
Herrick for Cabinet Place.
OIncinnati, O A Times-Star special
from Augusta says. When Philander C.
Knox, the Taft secretary of state,
comes to Augusta to discuss with the
president-elect the makeup of the re
mainder of the new administration
cabinet, Mr. Taft will ask him to ap;
prove of Myron T. Herrick, former
governor of Ohio, as secretary ot the
treasury. This fact can be stated as
authoritative. Before Mr. Taft offered
the treasury portfol'o to Representa
tive Theodore E. Burton of Ohio he
was seriously considering Herrick.
Urgent Deficiency Appropriation.
Washington A request for an urgent
deficiency appropriation of $5,450,000
to carry on the canal work at the
present rate during the remainder of
the fiscal year was received by the
house from the secretary of war.
Appointment to Philippines.
Washington The president will
soon send to the senate the nomina
tion of Sherman "Moreland of Elmira,
N. Y., to he associate judje of the
Supreme court of the Philippine
Elands.
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Greater or Lesser Impor
tance Over the State.
Broken Bow, amid much enthusi
asm, organized a commercial club.
The Union Stock Yards company at
South Omaha has re-elected all its
old officers.
The Gage County Farmers Insti
tue will be held in Beatrice? January C
and 7 1909.
Contractors installing sewer work
at David City have stopped operations
until spring.
C. B. Cougdon. of Wilcox; who was
found guilty of selling liquors on three
counts was fined 300.00 and costs.
Improvements involving an expendi
ture of between $4,000 and $5,000 are
shortly to be made in the plant of the
Central City gas company with a view
to improving the service.
The only flour mill in Kearney coun
ty was destroyed by fire at.Minden.
It was the property of A. D. Andrews
& Sons and was estimated to be worth
from $25,000 tp $30,000.
Scarlet fever has broken out in the
girls' .industrial school at Genova, and
the city officers have established a
quarantine over all inmates and em
ployes. Farmers should all have telephones.
Write to us and learn how to get the
best service for the least money. Ne
braska Telephone Company, 18th and
Douglas streets, Omaha. "Use the
Bell."
Poultry fanciers of West Point mot
at the ctlty hall and organized the
West ?oint poultry and pet stock asso
ciation. It was agreed to hold the an
nual poultry show January 13, 14
and 15.
William Bachman. one of the old
conductors of the Burlington, died at
Alliance of pneumonia, after a linger
ing illness of about three weeks. The
remains were taken to Glcnwood, la.,
for burial.
Two more alleged crooks who are
thought to have been implicated in the
robbery of two stores at Diller and
Steele CCty were arrested in a room
ing house at Wymore and taken to
Fairbury and lodged in jail.
In district court at P'attsmouth
Judge H. D. Travis sentenced Matt
Bozarth to serve in the state peni
tentiary during his natural life. Bo
zarth killed James Dyer by stabbing
him on the street in Greenwood on Oc
tober C.
In district court at McCoolc William
Jeffries, the well known horseman ot
this city, secured a verdict for $920
in his suit lor damages against the
Burlington Railroad company for in
juries to his fast horses in shipment
and delays.
A man named Thompson from
Brown county has written Mr. Mor
resey, an attorney of Valentine, want
ing him to have a certain deed can
celed, claiming it is a forgery. The
deed is made out to one Sutton, who
is not known in Valentine.
A Lincoln correspondent says it
will be a "show-me" session of the
Nebraska legislature which begins its
thirty-first session at noon of next
New Year's day. Every individual
and every institution that wants an
appropriation will have to put up a
pretty good reason for the need of
that appropriation to get away with
the goods.
At Central City Wr. A. Hughes has
tendered his resignation as secretary
of the local Young Men's Christian as
sociation, the resignation has been ac
cepted by the board of directors and
his successor has been chosen in the
person of R. L. McMillan of Cretea
graduate of Doane college and oneUOf
the state secretaries.
With a deafening roar and without
a second's warning the concrete dam
across the Little Blue river at the
Fairbury roller mills went out. The
first sign of a weakness in the dam
was noticed when a sixteen-foot sec
tion broke loose and was shoved down
the stream twenty feet. The loss is
estimated at from $0,000 to $8,000.
The sheriff of Grant county arrived
in Chappell after Will Henderson of
Oshkosh, who had been arrested from
a circular sent out by the Grant coun
ty sheriff, offering a reward of $50 for
his apprehension. Henderson is
charged with a criminal assault on a
young woman near Hyannis and a2o
with burglarising the premises after
the assault.
Thomas L. Hisgen, late candidate
for president on the Independence
league ticket, s going to ask the legis
lature of Massachusetts to enact one
of Nebraska's laws. Mr. Hisgen has
written Secretary of State Junkin for
a copy of the law enacted last winter
which prohibits the selling or any com
modity at a different price in one place
than in another, freight rates being
considered. .
Cummings & Pease of Beatrice filed
a damage suit of $103.07 against the
Burlington railroad for failure of the
company to deliver several cars of
cattle at Kansas City at the specified
time. The plaintiffs allege that their
cattle did not arrive in time for the
morning markets, that they were
obliged to buy extra feed and bedding
and that the cattle suffered an extra
shrinkage of thirty pounds per head
hence the sui.
Postmaster HolL'ngworth has re
ceived word from Senator E. J. Bur
kett and Congressman E. H. Hinshaw
to the effect that prospects are bright
for the passage of the bill appropriat
ing $15,000 for the purchase of addi
tional ground for the addition to the
postoffice building in Beatrice.
At Minden in the district court jn
the case of George B. Peterson, who
was charged with and found guilty of
the crime of incest, the court over
ruled the motion for a new trial and
sentenced him to the penitentiary for
a term of three years. The case will
be appealed to the supreme court.
Five business houses were robbed 'n
Seward by persons who have not yet
been traced. Cash boxes and safes
were pried open where possible, but
the entire haul did not net more than
$5.00.
Edward Fitzslmmons. who used to
live in Columbus, Is under arrest in
Cheyenne, Wyo., charged with getting
money under false pretenses. His plan
was to present a check, claiming that
he was a big depositor in the First Na
tional bank of Columbus, when the
facts were that he haM not a dollar
in the bank to his credit, nor ever
had.
THE STATE CAPITAL
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ALL
CITIZENS.
STATE MORTGAGE' STATISTICS
What is Set Forth in Bulletin No. 14
by Deputy Labor Commis
sioner Ryder.
Statistics on Mortgages.
In bulletin No. 14, which he has just
received from the printers, Deputy
Labor .Commissioner Ryder has a ta
ble showing the amount of farm and
city mortgages filed and released dur
ing 1907 and 1908 and the amount cf
money involved and the rate of inter
est paid. In 1907 there were 16,658
mortgages filed, involving capital to
the amount of $36,432,073 26; there
were released 17,990,-involving $126,
357,391.56. In the same year there
were filed city mortgages to the num
ber of 12.436, envolving a capital of
$13,258,930.57: there were released 11,
014, involving a capital of $9,SS7,902.36.
The rate on the city mortgages was
from 6 to 10 per cent and on larm
mortgages from 5 to 10 per cent.
In 190C there were filed farm mort
gages to the number of 17,451. involv
ing $3 1.903.S4S 79. There were re eas
ed 19,632. involving $26,811,512.31.
There were filed city mortgages to
the number of 11.7S5, involving $11.
664.S70.30, and there were released
10,507. involving 9,4S2,022.3G.
In his -Introductory remarks Mr. Ry
der said:
"In round numbers, 35,000,00 acres of
the 50,000,000 acres in Nebraska com
prise the deeded land, exclusive of
town lots. Thus we have a 33,000,000
acre farm, to all practical purposes.
Since the total cultivated area for
190S is reported by the deputy assess
ors at 2.17S.773 acres, the frequent as
sertions of this bureau that we have
only touched the edges of our possM
bilit.'es as a producing state are fully
borne out. Granting that a very large
part of our total area will always be
devoted to stock range and another
large part to pasturage aside from
range, still the fact remains that sev
eral millions more of our arable area
can very readily be brought under cul
tivation. This land of promise simply
awaits settlers, and its cultivable un
used :and can be bought today cheaper
than it ever will be again.
"For 190S Nebraska stands third in
the list of corn producing states, ac
cord:ng to the government crou esti
mate. The final outcome on this crop
for our state was really surprising, all
things considered, and the total pro
duction realized must stand as a fur
ther convincing proof, if such were
needed, of the immense possibilities
of Nebraska farm land. Through trib
ulation our producers have come to a
most consoling realization. They have
emerged entirely from the staggering
wav of discouragement that hit them
in 1S91. And that is saying much
when the far-spread advertisement of
that disastrous year is kept in mind."
Report of Stste Auditor.
The biennial report of State Auditor
Scarle will show that from December
30, 1906. to December 30, 190S, there
v. rre registered in the auditor's office
bonds of all kinds amounting to $2,
301,086.65. Of this amount $73,000
was issued by counties, $9,000 hy j--e-cir.cis.
SSS6.500 by cities and villag.'i
and S1.33t,lS6.Cr. by school distrlc.s.
While this large amount represents an
indebtedness against the municipali
ties and school districts, it dees not
necessarily follow that it has all been
contracted within the time stated, as
a goodly amount of it is refunding
bonds, issued to take the place of
other bonds voted years ago, which
have matured and have not been paid.
From the school districts of many of
the western and northern counties of
the state many issues of bonds have
been registered in order to provide
school buildings in districts where
none have ever before been erected.
"Unorganized Territory" Dropped.
In preparing the annual tabulation
of the membership of the legislature
Secretary of State Junkin has decided
to remove from the counties of the
far west the standing joke about the
unorganized territory. The apportion
ment of representation was made back
In 1887, when there was considerable
unorganized territory, and all subse
quent descriptions of districts have
followed the wording of the apportion
ment. The statutes have never been
corrected to give official recognition
of counties organized since that date.
It was also discovered that no pro
vision has ever been made for repre
sentation from Boyd county, as that
was not even described as unorgan
ized territory in the apportionment of
1887. It has been found, however,
that a decision of the supreme court
several years ago attached that
county to Knox in the Twenieth dis
trict. Kansas Bank Guaranty Bill.
Copies of a bill which will be intro
duced in the Kansas legislature at the
coming session, providing for the
guaranty of bank deposits, have been
received at the state house. This
Kansas bill provides that all state
banks which desire to avail themselves
of the guaranty law shall deposit with
the state treasurer $100 for its first
$100,000 on deposit in the bank and
$50 for each additional $100,000 de
posited. This sum shall be levied an
nual'' untfl the fund reaches more
than $1,000,000.
Confer on Union Pacific.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
was the subject of a discussion be
tween Chairman Winnett of the state
railway commission and -Attorney Gen
eral Thompson a few days ago. The
company en its report has failed to
report its earnings and expenses in
Nebraska, though it has made such a
report for its entire system. The com
pany notified the commission it could
not make the report 'desired The state
railway commission will bring legal
proceedings to get the information n
there is any way to do it.
Washington
Interesting' Bits of News Gthxd
at the National Capital.
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Guide Throttles Wolves in White House
WASHINGTON. Real wicked and
ravenous wolves, such as are sup
posed to chase the traveler through
the woods on a cold, snowy winter
night, were slain before the eyes of
President Roosevelt in the east room
of the White House the other evening,
nothing but the naked hands being
utilized to perform this feat.
The wolves were not stationary, but
in actual motion. Tho entire affair
was so realistic that some of the dis
tinguished guests invited to witness
the performance shied toward the win
dows, thinking they would rather
chance a leap in the dark than the
animals in sight.
John Abernathy, the far famed wolf
killer and western guide, officiated as
stage manager and did all the killing.
His alone were the naked hands that
stiilcd the panting brczth of the un
fortunate wolf. He has a reputation
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IN the make-up of the Sixtieth con
gress for this last short session
there will be nine new faces two in
the senate and seven in the house.
In the senate Carroll S. I'as;e has
been elected by the Vermont legisla
ture to the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Redtield Proctor,
which had been temporarily filled, un
der gubernatorial appointment, by
John W. Stewart.
The other now senator a man
whose name has figured in traps-Mis
sissippi politics for a good many years j
'is Albeit B. Cummins of Iowa, who
takes the place of the late William B.
Allison.
In the house the seven new men
are: O. C. Wylie, Second Alabama dis
trict: Henry A. Barnhart, Thirteenth
Indiana: Albert A. Estopinal, First
Louisiana. John P. Swazey, Second
Maine: Frank K. Guernsey. Fourth
Maine; Otto G. Folker. Third New
York, and Charles II. Burke, South
Dakota, at large. Mr. Swazey takes
the place of Charles E. Littlefield. for
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WITH the retirement of Prcsidon'
Roosevelt from office many peo
ple suppose that the German Re
formed church on Fifteenth street will
no longer be the center of interest
which it now is on Sunday mornings.
Interest may be lessened, but it is
expected that Dr. Schick will still
have a distinguished official to preach
to in the person of Vice-Presidentelect
James Schoolcraft Sherman.
Like President Roosevelt. Mr. Sher
man is a member of the Dutch Re
formed church, an organization that
has no place of worship in this city.
He is a leading member of the Dutch
Reformed church in his home town
of Utica, N. Y.. but he has never affil
iated himself with any church of the
capital city. It is thought that when
he assumes the dignity of vice-president
of the United States he will give
his attention to religious matters to
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flmooo.
SN. D. NORTH, director of the cen-
sus, has written a letter to Sec
retary Straus, his immediate superior,
asking for an appropriation of not
less than $14,000,000 with which to
take the thirteenth census in 1910.
The cost of the last census, In 1900,
exclusive of the four annual investiga
tions and two biennial reports due the
same year, was $12,520,000. The di
rector estimates that the cost of the
next census, due to the fact that he
now has a regularly organized office,
will be only $410,000 more than the
census of 1900.
If the work can be accomplished
for this sum. it will be the first time
In the history of the nation that a
census has been taken and compiled
at practically the same cost as the
prior enumeration. Formerly the In
crease in the cost of the census from
decade to decade Jus 'beaa about W
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As the tramp moKeu ai .ira. uuu
ard he felt a thrill of hope. Here was
s-uely an easy and benevolently in-i-lmed
person. "Could you gimme a
iime to buy a loaf of bread?" he
wained.
Mrs. Godards guileless soul looked
out at him through her near-sighted
eyes, and she fingered her purse hope
fully. "I have only a quarter here," she
said, "and I'm really too tired to walk
home."
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fnr iintnir this sort of thing and wanted
to live up to it. He was successful.
Mr. Abernathy gave a lifelike exhi
bition of wolf hunting at the White
House by the medium of a series ot
moving pictures. The slides illus
trated a wolf hunt as conducted by
Abernathy. who. in conquering his
quarry, eschews the use of any deadly
weapon.
Abernathy. who is now marshal of
the state of Oklahoma, served as guide
for the president on one or his recent
hunting trips. Realizing tho value of
his spectacular exploits tho wolf killer
recently made a prolonged excursion
into the woods, taking with him the
facilities for procuring characteristic
pictures. The result is about 6.000
feet of moving films wMch graphically
portray the whole contest
The exhibition was given on a hugo
canvas, arranged for tho purpose and
among the interested spectators weie
Prof, and Mme. Fcrroro and George
Shlras HI., whose achievements as a
"camera hunter" have engaged tho at
tention of naturalists.
The president fully appreciated the
performance and frequently clapped
his hands, saying: "Fine!" 'iCJ-and!"
"Splendid!"
House and Senate
years one of the most prominent fig
ures in the house. Mr. Littlefield re
signed last spring.
The number of deaths during the
present congress is three or four times
the usual number for the same- length
of time.
The first man to f;ll since the open
ing of the Sixtieth congress was John
T. Morgan of Alabama, who died Juno
11. 1907. A month later his colleague.
Edmund W. Pettus. expired. Decem
ber 23. 1907. Stephen R- Mallory of
Florida passed away. His successor
was William J. Bryan, who died last
March. Asbury C. Latimer of South
Carolina died February 20. 1908. and
March 1, 190S. Redfield Proctor of
Vermont was added to the death roll.
The next viptim was William P. White
ot" Maryland. The last and most illus
trious of all was William B. Allison of
Iowa, the undisputed leader of tho
upper house.
A noticeable feature in the long roll
of deaths was the fact that most ot
the men who passed away were among
the patriarchs of the senate. Senator
Pettus was 86 years old; Senator
White, Si; Senator Morgan. 83; Sen
ator Allison. 79; Senator Proctor. 77:
Senator Mallory. 60, and Senator Lati
mer. 57. Senator Bryan, however, was
one of the youngest men in tho sen
ate. He was 32 years old when ho
died.
the extent of regularly attending di
vine service.
When Mr. Roosevelt first came to
Washington. Dr. Schick, pastor of the
German Relormed congregation, which
occupied a modest little building hard
ly more than a chapel, wrote to him
and said that as (hero was no Dutch
Reformed church in Washington, he
would be pleased if Mr. Roosevelt
would worship with his Hock.
Mr. Roosevelt was not then presi
dent of the United States. He wrote
and said that he would come to his
church, and nearly every Sunday
morning he can he found In his pew
taking part in the service and listen
ing to Dr. Schick's sermons. Members
of the congregation say that President
Roosevelt has a liking for certain
hymns and that he joins lustily in the
singing of them. There Is no choir in
Dr. Schick's church, the music being
rendered entirely by the congregation,
led by tho precentor.
It is thought that if Dr. Schick's at
tention is called to the fact that Mr.
Sherman is in the same position re
ligiously as was Mr Roosevelt he will
send him an invitation to become a
member of his flock during his Wash
ington residence.
Census
per cent., and on this basi3 the cot?t
of the thirteenth cnsus proper, ex
clusive of the four annual and the two
biennial reports, would be $18,750,000.
nearly $6,000,000 more than tho direc
tor estimates the actual cost will he.
An important means of bringing
about this saving is the fact that the
bureau will build and own the neces
sary tabulating apparatus instead ol
renting it as heretofore. Oa July 1.
1903, the apparatus which had been
used in tabulating the census of 1900
and which was owned and operated by
a private company was withdrawn
from the bureau of the ccnsii3 be
cause the company and the director
could not agree on the rental. The
withdrawal of the machines compelled
the director to ask congress for an
appropriation for experimental work
In developing new mechanisms tobe
owned, controlled, and operated by
the government. The results of this
experimental work have exceeded all
expectations. The new mechanisms
invented are novel in plan and design,
are of greater speed and efficiency
than those they supersede, and can
be built and operated at a saving 1n
money as compared with previous ex
penditures for this purpos.
"Sure, I can change It for yon." said
the tramp, cheerfully, as be took out
a .dime and a nickel: and not until
Mrs. Godard was half-way homo on
the car did it occur to her that there
was anything unusual Jn tho trans
a.'Hion. Flattering.
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prcciate in the least what I did' for
you when I made you Toy wife
Gay Young Wife But I wf, when
I'm your widow. Baltimore-Aiaerlcaa.
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