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COLUMBUS.
NEBRASKA
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Senator Aldrich presented in the
senate a bill relating to the re-enlistment
of negro soldiers discharged on
account of the Brownsville affair, and
all Republican senators accepted it in
lieu of other measures that have been
proposed.
Negotiations between Venezuela and
the United StatesVwere brought to a
standstill -.by. inability to agree as to
arbitration of some of the American
claims. 'v
Christian Rudowitz, the Russian
refugee'-whose extradition was Tefused
by Secretary) Root, was released from
jail at, Chicago.
The house of representatives adopt
ed the special committee report recommending-
the expunging from the rec
ords of the recent speech of Mr. Wll
lett of New York denunciatory of Pres
ident Roosevelt. The house passed
the post office appropriation bill, car
rying 1234,000,000.
President Roosevelt asked congress
to appropriate money to raise the
wreck of the old battleship Maine. He
also named a commission to consider
the reorganization of the navy.
The conference on care of dependent
children, reporting to President Roose
velt, recommended the establishing of
a federal children's bureau and he
promised to urge it in a special mes
sage to congress.
A sensational and bitter attack on
William Nelson tCromwell and Presi
dent Obaldia of" Panama and others
was made by Mr. Rainey of Illniois in
the house of representatives.
The importance of the preservation
of the home intact was the central
theme around which the discussion re
volved at the confeernce on the Care
of Dependent Children, which formally
was opened by President Roosevelt at
the White House.
An agreement has been reached be
tween Secretary Root and the British
and Canadian and Newfoundland gov
ernments, through their representa
tives, on the Newfoundland fisheries
question to be submitted to The
Hague court for arbitration.
The Interstate commerce commis
sion ordered material reduction in the
rates on cream, in deciding the cases
of several creameries of the middle
west against a number of railroads.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. James Harry of Sharon, Pa.,
confessed that she murdered her hus
band because he scolded her.
President-elect Taft arrived on the
isthmus and visited the site of the
Gatun dam.
Frank P. Glazier, former state treas
urer of Michigan, was found guilty
by a jury in Judge Wiest's court of
misappropriating $GS5,000 of the
state's funds.
George Christie, son of former King
Milan of Servia and at one time a
claimant to the Servian throne, has ac
cepted an engagement to sing in a
Budapest cafe for ten dollars a day.
Malcolm R. Patterson was inaugur
ated for his second term as governor
of Tennessee.
The Right Hon. John Sinclair, who
has been secretary for Scotland since
1905, has been raised to the peerage.
Francis G. Newlands was re-elected
to the United States senate by the
Nevada legislature.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was egged and
hooted at when she tried to lecture in
London.
Dean Liberty Hyde Bailey of Cornell
announced that he was not a candidate
for and would not accept the position
of secretary of agriculture in the cabi
net of President Taft
Joseph L. Bristow was elected to
the United States senate by the Kan
sas legislature.
Former State Treasurer E. P. Shaw
of Massachusetts, a railroad financier,
filed a voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy with liabilities of $1,023,305
and assets of $275,765.
GENERAL NEWS.
The relations between President Go
mez and Vice-President Zayas of Cuba
became seriously strained over the
appointment of a man to fill the post
of chief of the secret police.
Jose Miguel Gomez was inaugurated
president of the Cuban republic and
Gov. Magoon and the other American
officials withdrew from the island.
S. G. Cosgrove was inaugurated gov
ernor of Washington. His serious ill
ness had compelled postponement for
two weeks.
Three men were said to have been
Indicted at Muskogee, Okla., by the
federal grand jury inquiring into town
lot frauds.
Miss Georgia L. Jeffrey of Juneau,
Wis., was married In Canton, China,
to Prince Alfred Ahrenhein Gargarin
of Russia.
Cabling from Peking, the corre---
spondent of the Times says that the
infant Chinese emperor is suffering
from confluent smallpox.
George Fitzmaurice shot and in
stantly killed his sweetheart. Miss
Gnsta Nelson, and then killed himself
at Mohall. N. B.
Fire destroyed most of the small
towns of Portal and Kermit, N. D.
Five persons lost their lives in a fire
that destroyed the Southern hotel.
Fort Worth, Tex.
The Ohio supreme court decided
the state tax on life insurance compa
nies is illegal.
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Several hours after the Baltic ar
rived at New. i'orkwith tnel50 pas
sengers of the Republic and Florida,
the derelict destroyer Seneca came in
with Capt Sealby of the Republic, hisv
wireless pperatbrwho stock to the
rammed JinVri until' sheWent .down
The, Florida, deadly smashed, also
reached port ,-, Ax; .
The Newf Tork senate adopted a res
olution expressing admiration for the
heroic services 'rendered "by the' Mar
coni operation. loard. the steamship
Republic during the collision-with the
Florida and-by?UKOcersjuid-crewsJ
of the colliding steamships, the
steamer Baltic, the revenue cutter
Gresham and the derelict destroyer
Seneca.
Owners of the steamers Republic
and Florida both began suits for dam
ages in the court of admiralty at New
York, the White Star line asking
$2,000,000.
The French government decided to
give a special medal to Jack Binns,
wireless operator on the lost steamer
Republic.
According to meager reports re
ceived in London, an earthquake shook
the entire Mediterranean coast of
Spain, and it was believed many lives
were lost. Barcelona was said to have
been overwhelmed by a tidal wave and
towns were reported buried by land
slides. A furious 'storm of snow, sleet and
rain, accompanied by a wind which in
places reached a velocity of 75 miles
an hour, held the United States in its
grasp from the eastern slope of the
Rockies to Detroit and from the Cana
dian boundary to southern Texas. The
storm brought with it loss of life, in
juries to many persons, suffering to
live stock, delay to railroad trains, tie
up of street car service, partial paraly
sis of telegraph service, destruction of
telephone lines and general damage
and inconvenience.
Fleetwood Lester, traveling sales
man for the Southern Supply Com
pany, and his wife are in jail at Mo
bile, Ala., charged with holding up
Hardaway Young, president of the
company, at the point of a revolver at
the former's home and robbing him of
$5,600.25.
Fire in St Paul destroyed half a
dozen buildings and threatened the
business district. The loss was $600,
000. Conrade Danielson, Porto Rican
manager for the United States Ex
press Company, shot and killed him
self in New York after a quarrel with
his wife.
John Bedford, accused of the mur
der of Oscar Hoganson, a young farm
er at Marengo, 111., the latter part of
last October, pleaded guilty in the
county court at Woodstock, 111. He
was given an indeterminate sentence
by Judge Donnelly.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announced that orders for 2,200 new
steel freight cars for use on the lines
west of Pittsburg had been placed.
Old and worn-out cars are to be re
placed by the new ones.
The suit of the Salvation Army in
the United States against the Ameri
can Salvation Army to enjoin the lat
ter organization from the use of its
name and from publishing the paper
called "The American Salvation Army
War Cry." was dismissed by Justice
O'Gorman in the supreme court of
New York.
Hawaii has set up a quarantine
against queen bees that are unhealthy.
The mails will bar such consignments.
The navy department opened bids
for locating a wireless tower at Wash
ington for communicating with ships
at sea, to the distance of 3,000 miles.
Frank D. Campbell, a traveling
salesman for Franklin MacVeagh &
Co. of Chicago, whose wife died un
der mysterious circumstances Decem
ber 24, was arrested in Kewanee, 111.,
and formally accused of having mur
dered her.
The bodies of the two American vic
tims of the earthquake at Messina,
Italy, United States Consul Arthur S.
Cheney and Mrs. Cheney, arrived in
New York.
James Mooney of Missouri, a mem
ber of the national executive board of
the United Mine Workers of America,
in a speech opposing a resolution pro
testing to congress against a repeal
of the tariff on coal, criticised the po
litical trend of the convention of the
organization.
Ten persons were badly hurt when
a passenger train on the Southern
railway was derailed near Point Wood,
Ind.
It was reported that King Menelik
of Abyssinia was dangerously ill.
Fire in London, Ky., destroyed the
Stillwell hotel, a Methodist church
and several dwellings.
Three men were killed at South
Bend, Ind., by being buried in a cave-in
of gravel in a sewer excavation.
Emperor William has established a
government monopoly of the trade in
all diamonds found in German South
west Africa.
Statistics from the .foreign office at
Tokyo show that for every Japanese
that is coming to America, three are
going home.
August Belmont the New York
financier, was operated on for appendi
citis. George Codman, a lawyer of Phila
delphia, was indicted by the grand
jury on a charge of criminally libeling
John B. Parsons, president of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company;
Peter A. B. Widener and George L.
Widener.
On the eleventh anniversary of the
arrival of the old battleship Maine on
her Ill-fated mission to Cuban waters,
the new Maine, with the still more
modern Mississippi following in her
wake, sailed into Havana harbor to be
present at the Inauguration of Gen.
Jose Miguel Gomez and the new Cu
ban government
OBITUARY.
Judge James D. Connor, aged 90, a
member of the first Republican na
tional convention, attendant at every
subsequent national convention, and
honored at the last convention in Chi
cago, died at Wabash, Ind.
Dr. Will O. Lillibridge, author oi
western stories, is dead at Sioux Falls.
S. D.
Charles Joseph Pratt former busi
ness manager of the Milwaukee Sun
and head of a large printing house in
dULJuu, jiu., is utao.
COMING NEW HOUSE
MANY OF MORE PROMINENT MEN
NOT RE-ELECTED.)
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COMMITTEE HEAOS TO RETIRE
The Problem - of .Reorganization - A!
ready-. Causes, Anxiety. Among
Leaders.
Washington. With the convening
of a new congress scarcely more than
a month distant, the' selection of the
standing committees of the next
house and particularly the award of
chairmanship, has "become the sub
ject of keen speculation and a source
of some anxiety.
The understanding among members
generally is that the rule of the seni
ority will be followed in selecting
chairmen, but there may be some ex
ceptions. In cases in -which the chair
men are re-elected, it is expected that
they will be retained in their present
places with the possible exception of
Mr. Fowler of New Jersey, chairman
of the committee on banking and cur
rency. There are, however, some im
portant committees .whose chairmen
will not be members of the next
house, and the selection of their suc
cessors is causing no little specula
tion. Among these committees are those
on the judiciary, where Mr. Jenkins
of Wisconsin is chairman; interstate
and foreign commerce. Colonel Hep
burn, Iowa, as chairman; rivers and
harbors, Senator-elect Burton, chair
man, and postofflces and post roads,
-Mr. Overstreet of Indiana, chairman.
These are four of the most important
committees of the house and the
chairmanship of each is highly prized.
The name of Representative De
Alava S. Alexander of Buffalo, N. Y.,
is strongly mentioned in connection
with two of these committees. Ho
will be the ranking member of the
committee on rivers and harbors af
ter Chairman Burton of Ohio tkes
his seat in the senate. With the re
newed agitation in the middle west
for waterways improvement there has
sprung up a keen desire to keep the
chairmanship of the rivers and har
bors committee in that territory. For
this reason Mr. Alexander's appoint
ment as chairman does not appeal to
the western representation.
The interstate and foreign com
merce and postoffice ands post roads
committees are being paired.
Unless Colonel Hepburn of Iowa
desires to contest for his seat in the
house, and the chairmanship of the
committee on interstates and foreign
commerce is left vacant on that ac
count, there will be a big problem to
be solved in that committee. The
ranking member below Mr. Hepburn
is James Sherman, vice president
elect. Next comes Messrs. Wanger
of Pennsylvania and Mann of Illinois.
The suggestion has been made that
Mr. Wanger be appointed chairman
of the postoffice and postroads com
mittee to succeed Chairman Over
street of Indiana, retired.
Terminal Fight Is Ended..
St Joseph, Mo. After preventing
the Missouri Pacific railroad from
gaining access to its terminals, upon
which $1,000,000 had been spent, for a
period of two years, the Burlington
has entered into an agreement by
which the former road will cross the
Burlington tracks, the only way of
reaching the terminals and freight
house. The Missouri Pacific will
build a line from here to Atchison and
construct a double-track road in con
junction with the Rock Island. It
will erect a new passenger station
here.
Great Britain Needs Meat
London The committee of the gov
eitnment which was appointed last
summer to inquire into the alleged
American control of the British meat
supply has concluded its investigation
and, according to the Daily Mall, will
report against interference with
American imports, for the simple rea
son that Great Britain needs the
American supply.
Frozen to Death in Blizzard.
Marshalltown, la. While on hi3
way home from Odebolt, Joseph Ja
cobsen, a well known farmer living
southeast of town, was caught in the
blizzard and was frozen to death.
Root at Hot Springs.
Hot Springs, Ark. Senator-elect
Elihu Root arrived at Hot Springs to
get away from the strenuous life aid
give a sprained knee a chance to
mend. He will remain three weeks.
Garfield not in the Cabinet.
Washington The definite state
ment can be made that James R. Gar
field, secretary of the Interior, will
not be a member of the cabinet of the
next administration.
Money for Signal Corps.
Washington By voting an appro
priation of $75,000 the house of rep
resentatives on Saturday made liberal
provisions for further experiments by
the army of balloons and airships for
use in warfare. The subject gave rise
to a spirited debate, which continued
most of the session. The opponents
of the proposition tried to defeat It by
raising aH sorts of parliamentary
points, but the chair overruled these
and paved the way for incorporating
the provisions in the army appropria
tion bill.
Adds to Nevada Reserve.
Washington The prsident has
signed a proclamation adding 600,135
acres to the Humboldt national forest
reserve in the northern part of Elko
county, Nevada, bordering on the
Idaho line.
Bryan Shortens Itinerary.
Birmingham. Ala. It was an
nounced by William J. Brvan here
that he had abandoned his contem
plated trip to Cuba. He will make
several addresses in the south, finish
ins at Tampa, Fla., nextNweek.
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
Agricultural, Social, Religious, Politi
cal 'and Other Matters of Interest
The .business men of Florence have
organized a Commercial club.
The Northwestern depot at Arling
ton' was. broken into but nothing is
missing except some bottled beer.
" George E. Clark, an old .time resi
dent of Arapahoe, shot himself
through the heart with a revolver,
dying instantly.
.Jf you are in need of old line life
insurance, or wish an -agency to write
'life insurance, correspond with The
Midwest Life of Lincoln.
Quite a number of old settlers of
Nance county met for the purpose
of taking steps to form an associa
tion to be known as the Nance coun
ty old settlers association.
William Carr &, Sons of Tecumseh
have been awarded the contract for
about $5,000 worth of grading on the
tracks of the Otoe County Speed as
sociation at Nebraska City
Harry Lehigh of Beatrice wa3
wounded in the breast while out hunt
ing. The gun was. accidentally dis
charged as he was in the act of pick
ing up a rabbit.
Boys of the Atkinson High school
defeated representatives of the O'Neill
High school in a debate upon the
compulsory arbitration question p.s
appealed to railroads.
The Baptist church of Nebraska
City has unanimously elected Rev.
Joe P. Jacobs of Kansas City, travel
ing secretary of the Baptist Publica
tion society, to the local pastorate.
Eighteen visiting members of the
legislature spent an afternoon at the
insane hospital at Norfolk and at
night were entertained at a smoker
by the Norfolk Commercial club.
Farmers should all have telephones.
Write to us and learn how to eet the
best service for the least 'money.
Nebraska Telephone Company, 18th
and Douglas streets, Omaha. "Use
the Bell."
Lawrence will have the second bank
in About two weeks. Publication of
the articles of incorporation has been
completed and the new institution
will be known as the Lawrence State
bank.
It is announced that the Y. M. C.
A. has arranged with W. J. Bryan to
deliver an address at the coming con
vention of the Y. M. C. A. of the state
to be held in Hastings February 18
to 21.
Someone has been administering
poison to Tecumseh doss and as a re
sult a number have died. In the lot
were some of value and others that
were priceless, as they were family
pets.
Daniel C. Callahan, convicted in the
district court of Douglas county on
a charge of desecrating graves dn
Prospect Hill cemetery at Omaha, has
been granted another trial by the su
preme court.
W. M. Childers, while working on
the river at Nebraska City cutting ice,
broke through while over the deep
channel and went down twice before
his companions reached there and
hooked him out with a pike pole.
N. J. Ronin, a Fremont man, has
been accorded the honor of a mem
bership on the board of d.rectors of
the national trotting association. He
was elected in New York City at a
meeting held last week.
An explosion of gas in the basement
of the Thurston hotel in Coiumbus
badly wrecked the building and seri
ously injured J. L. Hunter, the ceok,
and Mrs. Hunter, his assistant, the?
woman so badly she maay not re
cover.
Prof. C. C. Danforth of Tecumseh.
who for several months has been do
ing special work in the Chicago uni
versity, has accepted the position as
teacher in mathematics and physics
in the Illinois Normal college, and
will begin his new work on June 1.
A. L. Caviness of the state teach
ers' association, says he is meeting
encouraging letters from school
boards all over the state promising to
lend a helping hand in swelling the
attendance of teachers at the next
annual state meeting to be held in
Lincoln.
By the death of Marvin Wathall, 5
years old, who was dragged to death
by a fractious cow. Dr. J. G. Wathall
has lost the second member of his
family by accident in the last few
years. The little boy discovered the
cow had been let out of the barn by
a careless laborer and attempted to
lead her back in. He became en
tangled in the rope and the animal
dragged him through two wire fences.
John C. Watson, the well known Ne
braska City attorney, is found by the
court not guilty of conduct such as
to warrant judgment of disbarment or
suspension from practice, though it
was not such as to be commended.
Mrs. Fairchild. a ranchman's wife.
living twenty-five miles south of Val
entine, committed suicide by hanging
herself to a rafter in her own home.
She and her husband have been hav
ing trouble and she had been living
in town for some time past until re
cently, when her husband came in
and in some way got her to move back
on the ranch, and after getting back
heme she took her own life. She
leaves six small children, the oldest
under ten years cf age.
The Rev. Joseph Ruesing of West
Point left for Washington, D. C, on
the personal invitation of President
Roosevelt to attend a conference of
the board of charities of the various
states of which Mr. Ruessing is a
Nebraska member.
Cass county has long been known
as one of the most prosperous and
law-abiding counties of the state, but
for the past few months it has been
stirred by one murder after another
and in each case the victim has been
one of its best ard most respected
citizens. There have been four mur
ders is as many months.
The Tri-State Land company Isen
gaged in building a divers' on dam at
its headgate near the Nebraska
Wyoming line in the North Platte
river, at the headgate of its irriga
tion canal. The cost of the dam will
be about $23,000.
Charles Gerricke of Dodge county,
was painfully though not seriously
hurt in a peculiar ace dent at his
farm southeast of Fremont had gone
into the barn yard to chop ice out
of a trough so that the catle could
have a drink, when they suddenly
rushed forward and crushed him up
against it. He was painfully hurt.
CAPITAL CITI NEWS
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STATE HOUSE. V
THE WORK OF THE UW MAKERS
Legislative Facts and Gossip News
of the State Capital.
Mill Levy to Be Definite.
vCase of Frontier, chairman of the
committee, on universities and nor
mal schools, introduced a bill em
bodying the ideas suggested by State
Treasurer Brian in his annual report.
The bill provides that instead of levy
ing the one mill tax for universities
.as is now done without any reference
to the amount involved, the state
treasurer and state auditor shall place
95 per cent of the cash amount of
the levy to the account of the uni
versity fund and that the school may
not thereafter draw more than is in
the treasury in its fund. One clause
of the bill reads substantially as fol
lows: "When the grand assessment
roll of the state is made up each
year the state auditor and the state
treasurer shall place to the credit of
the university fund 95 per cent of the
face of the returns on the levy. They
shall also place to the credit of the
university fund $30,000 as the amount
to be used from the delinquent taxes
collected under the levies prior to the
year 1909. Warrants not exceeding
the amount of credits specified in this
section shall be drawn by the auditor
on certificates presented by the board
of regents and the warrants shall be
paid by the state treasurer."
This change is suggested by the
state treasurer and is endorsed by ex
State Treasurer Mortensen to avoid
a situation now full of trouble to the
treasurer. As the law now stands the
auditor is forced to draw warrants
whenever the claim is presented by
the board of regents no matter wheth
er the collections on the university
levy are behind the expenditures or
not. Because of this situation due to
the appropriation for the university
being a mill levy and not a specific
sum the state school often overdraws
its account and the money is paid out
of other funds, awaiting the collec
tions that are really intended to meet
the expenses of the university. This
does not mean that the state school
exceeds finally the amount appropriat
ed for its use, but that collections and
disbursements are not always paral
lel. COLONEL M. A. BATES
Editor of the Plattsmouth Journal and
Float Representative from Cass
and Otoe Counties.
National Guard Officers Held Meeting.
On the call of Col. J. C. Hartigan.
adjutant general, the officers of the
N. N. G., met in Lincoln Tuesday and
the affairs of the guard threshed out
In a number of interesting discus
sions. The antagonism that has exist
ed between the adjutant general and
the guard officers has been smoothed
away in part and the commendation
of the adjutant general's policy indi
cated that the best of harmony would
prevail in the guard. The following
officers were elected: President Capt.
J. A. Wing of Omaha: first vice presi
dent, Maj. Waldon, Eeatrice: second
vice president. Capt. S. E. Yoder of
Wymore; secretary. Col. J. A. Storch.
of Fullerton; treasurer. Major H. J.
Paul of St. Paul. These officers and
Col. A. D. Falconer of Omaha and
Maj. W. T. Baehr of Omaha, consti
tute the executive committee.
To Punish Nepotism.
Senator Fuller of Seward is the au
thor of a bill that is designed to put
the ban of the law on nepotism. It
provides that all persons holding legis
lative, executive, ministerial or ju
dicial positions in the state, city,
county or municipality will be sub
jected to a fine and removal from of
fice if they appoint relatives to any
clerkship, position or employment in
the places over which the preside or
form a part of. It provides that this
shall apply to any appointment or
any vote for any appointment of a
relative. To prevent the job being giv
en to a relative through the non-voting
of the officer, provision is made
that his colleague cannot act. The
payment of any claim for employment
by a relative is prohibited.
Nebraska State Debt.
State Treasurer Brian has Just com
piled a report that shows the debt of
the state of Nebraska before any war
rants for appropriations made by this
legislature, have been paid out, to be
$388,169.95, considering all the state
funds. The warrants for salaries for
the employes of the legislature will
probably start coming Saturday.
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Governor Shallenberger appointed , will reiuse to submit to the new rul
W. S. Austin of Kearney to be stew- jng. The Jayhawber school is as vit
ard of the industrial school at Kear- aly interested in the matter as Ne-
ney.
Another Appointment
Dr. W. D. Guttery of Pilger has been
appointed first assisted physician at
the Norfolk asylum, by Governor
Shallenberger. He' succeeds Dr. H. L.
wens ot west r-oint, recently namea
by the governor. Dr. Wells is about ,
to leave the state to take a post-gradu
ate course.
New Buildings at Beatrice.
The finance, ways and means com
mittee will recommend to the house
that $70,00 be appropriated for new
buildings at the institution for the
feeble minded at Beatrice.
Oldham to Contest
W. D. Oldham of Kearney was Wed
nesday appointed by Governor Shal
lenberger as a judge of the Nebraska
supreme court in place of .Silas A.
Holcomb, previously named for the
place, who had filed his declination
in writing. The selection of Oldham
was announced after Governor Shal
lenbergcr had summoned him to Lin
coin and conferred with him uponth
matter of a proceeding to determine
whether the appointees of ex-Governor
Sheldon or those of the present
executive are entitled to seats upon
the high bench.
The appointment of Oldham is made
for the term ending in January, 1910.
It is his intention to institute a quo
warranto suit in the supreme court
attacking the official tenure of Judge
J. R. Dean, whom Sheldon appointed
for the same term and who is now
acting as a member of the court
This will furnish the test case de
sired by Senator Ransom, the mov
ing spirit in the legislative recan
vass. Governor 'Shallenberger and
other party leaders.
To Uncover Credits.
Neils Johnson of Burt county has
introduced a bill which is calculated
to uncover credits that now escape
taxation, such as mortgages and notes.
He provides in his bill that all such
credits dated before Aprir 1 of each
year must bear the stamp of the pre
cinct assessor where the holder lives.
All such credits which are not so
stamped shall be non-collectible af
ter June ,10, unless the holder goes
to the county assessor, pays the tax
on the notes, plus 20 per cent penalty,
and then secures the stamp of the
assessor. Mr. Johnson has submitted
his plan to various state officials and
has their endorsement. State Treas
urer Brian says it is essential to main
tain equality of assessment, and aids
in uncovering hidden credit. Attorney
General Thompson says, "Ic will ma
terially assist in securing the listing
of all credits for taxation." W. H.
Cowgill. railway commissioner, gives
the bill his approval, and W. J. Bryan
says of it: "I approve of the principle
embodied in the measure."
Approves Bill to Protect Quail.
A measure providing for a closed
season for prairie chickens and quail
until October 1, 1912, or for three
years, Wednesday afternoon passed
the senate after it had boen rejected
by the game committee. Senator Gam-
mill, the new senator from Frontier
county, won the applause of the gal
leries and the votes of the senator
when he pleaded for the protection of
the birds in the interests of agricul
ture. Mr. Ganimill declared that he
had seen gifrtie so numerous in his
district that one could kill thousands
of birds in a day and that now one
would drive miles without seeing a
single chicken. If the farmers were
to be protected from grasshoppers
and similar insect pests he pleaded
that the game must be preserved.
When the measure was killed in th6
committee and seemed to be lost in
the upper house the senator from
Frontier saved it and it was passed
with a large majority.
Sullivna Accepts the Appointment.
Judge J. J. Sullivan Thursday for
mally accepted his appointment as
supreme judge before Governor Shal
lenberger. Judge Root and Fawcett
filed their acceptances Wednesday so
that the entire force appointed by
Governor Shallenberger has now com
plied with his wishes. One of the
Sheldon appointees now on the bench
accepted long ago. So far as accept
ances of appointments are concerned
the supreme court now has nine mem
bers. As a matter of fact, however,
neither Judge Oldham nor Judge Sul
livan will make any attempt to as
sert their rights until the court has
made a decision in the proposed quo
warranto proceedings.
Proposed Joint Guaranty Bill.
The joint committee on banks and
currency which is at work on a bill
to guaranty bank deposits is said to
have outlined its plans for a new
bill which will be introduced as a
joint committee bill. It is announced
that the proposed bill will provide
for immediate payment of losses and
banks 'ili be compelled to pay a tax
not to exceed 2 per cent for any one
year. The tax shall be 1 per cent
the first year and after that one-tenth
of 1 per cent, except when the fund
so raised becomes depleted. In that
event the maximum tax of 2 per cent
may be levied. There is no liimt
to the total amount of the fund to
be raised.
Want New State School.
The Nebraska association for the
protection of the blind has drawn a
bill for the erection of a new state
institution, a manual training srhnnl
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cated by the state officers, and build
ings arc to be erected at a cost of
$50,000. The idea is that the institute
at Nebraska City is for the education
of the blind, while the proposed school
is to train them for self-support
through the use of their hands.
Two Experiment Stations.
The house committee on finance
ways and means has recommended the
passage of two bills for the establish
ment of experiment stations, those
of Bushee of Kimball and Carr of
Keya Paha. Each carries with it an
appropriation of 315.000. Bushee's bill
provides for a station west of the 102d
degree cf longitude. This would be in
the stretch of land north of Colorado.
The other is to be established in the
northwestern part of the state.
Nebraska May teave Conference.
Consternation reigns in the ranks
of the students of the state univer
sity over the announcement that the
ruling recently made by the Missouri
valley conference in abolislung the
training table would stand. How
ever it is the general sentiment
around school that the ruling will be
taken up at a later meeting in June
and the fight carried to an end. It is
certain that Kansas and Nebraska
brasks
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The economical policy of the senate
was further indicated when the report
of the committee on employes. Chair
man OHis of Valley, was adopted rec
ommending that employes be paid
from the beginning of their actual
service instead of from the becinninc
i .. . i .
of the session, as heretofore.
Howell of Douglas spoke on the
other side of the question but with
out avail. His view was that, since
the employes were in Lincoln at ex
pense since the beginning of the ses
sion in anticipation of employment,
their remuneration should run back
. to the beginning of the legislature.
AWFUL GRAVEL ATTACKS
Cured by Dean's Kidney Pills After
Years of Suffering.
F. A. Rlppy, Depot Ave., Gallatin,
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give up work.. Then
came terrible attacks
of gravel with acute
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some as large as a
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to a state of continual weakness, and
I thought I never would be better un
til I began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
The improvement was rapid, and
since using four boxes I am cured and
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trouble."
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IMPUDENCE PERSONIFIED.
Robert Rustler What did you say
was the title of your new song?
Successful Chorus Lady I call it
"The Proposal."
Robert Rustler And the key?
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ITCHED FOR TWELVE YEARS.
Eczema Made Hands and Feet Swell,
Peel and Get Raw Arms Affected,
Too Gave Up All Hope of Cure.
Quickly Cured by Cuticura.
"I suffered from eczema on my
hands, arms and feet for about twelve
years, my hands and feet would swell,
sweat and itch, then would become
callous and get very dry, then peel
off and get raw. I tried most every
kind of salve and ointment without
success. I tried several doctors, but
at last gave up thinking there was a
cure for eczema. A friend cf mine
insisted on my trying the Cuticura
Remedies, but I did not give them a
trial until I got so bad that I had to
do something. I secured a set and by
the time they were used I could see a
vast improvement and my hands and
feet were healed up in no time. I have
had no trouble since. Charles T.
Bauer, Volant, Pa., Mar. 11, 1908."
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The Rev. William Y. Chapman of
Newark, N. J., thinks that the uplift
movement should be extended to the
kitchen girl. "There Is no one," he
declares, "I sympathize with so much
as the woman who serves things upor
dishes and then has to wash the dish
es again. It is the most thankless
Job on the planet"
important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
Camphor as Medicine.
As a medicine camphor is invaluable
If used judiciously. If six or ten drops
are taken on a lump of sugar when
sneezing starts, a bad cold in the head
can often be checked. This dose should
not be repeated closer than an hour
apart. Be sure that it agrees with
you.
The extraordinary popularity of fin
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch a matter of great im
portance. Defiance Starch, being freo
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 the result of
Perfect finish, equal to that when the
goods were new.
Hard to Keep Quiet.
She I should think tragedy parts
were very hard on a woman.
He Pantomime parts are a great
deal more irksome.
Red, Weak. Weary, Watery Eyen
Relieved by Murine Kye Remedy. Com
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Write Murine Eye Remedy Co.. Chicacn.
for illustrated Eye Book. At Druggists.
There Is in man a higher than love
of happiness; he can do without hap
piness, and instead thereof find bless
edness. Carlyle.
Do not neglect constipation, for this con
dition poisons the blood and leads to chron
ic ill health. Garfield Tea, the mild herb
laxative, corrects constipation, keeps the
blood pure, and the health good.
Many a man has lost his life in try
ing to collect the living he thought the
world owed him.
There Is no Safer Remedy for a Couch.
or throat trouble than "lirown'H Bronchial
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John I. Brown & Son. Boston. Mass.
The rule in a prohibition
seems to be "bar none."
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ever to Care a Cold la Ono Day. ate.
A happy medium ought to ,makc
good at a spiritual seance.
Mrs. fTlaalow's Soothlair Syrnp.
For children teetbinjr. loftens ttm (runs, reduced ?a
flBnnUoB.IIipatn,curewtaacoUc 23c a bottle.
Marriage is the hurdle between ro
mance and reality.
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