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It -V7 &sm& ,Wm. jP,,vy. Miss, t- ." W3" ' r's-ii .-Tvl "! -1 fct :. ... - ' n I s 1 nra h 1 1! i . :,S 1:S M KM ColumbusJournal R. . STKOTHER. Publisher. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA I OF ! 1 WEEK'S EVENTS i : : Latest News of Interest I Boiled Down for the I '' Busy Man. WASHINGTON NEWS. Senator Bradley declared the Amer ican Tobacco Company is responsible for the crimes of the southern "Night Riders." Congress will have appropriated 9250,000,000 for the purchase and con struction of the isthmian canal if the estimates for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1910, are agreed to next win der. Senator Bailey of Texas and W. S. Manning, a correspondent of the New York Times, had a fist fight in the capital. The. United States supreme court adjourned for the summer vacation. Senator Burrows of Michigan as sailed the sugar trust for its evasion of duty payments. The senate began the consideration of the sugar schedule of the tariff bill. A committee of Porto Ricans ar rived in Washington to ksk for citi zenship for the island's inhabitants. The senate killed the McCumber amendment to the tariff bill providing for free lumber. Mrs. Taft is much Improved In health and able to partially attend to her White House duties, but will not accompany the president to Pittsburg or Gettysburg. PERSONAL. Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur re tired from active service, having reached the age limit, and Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood became the senior of ficer of the army. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, a famous writer, celebrated her ninetieth birth day anniversary at her home in Bos toa. James A. Moffatt, a 'director of the Standard Oil Company of New Jer sey, will succeed the late Henry H. Rogers as vice-president of the com pany, according to dispatches from New York. John A. Benson, accused of land frauds, was refused a new hearing by the United States appellate court in San Francisco, Cal. E. Dana Durand was appointed di rector of the census by President Taft who accepted the resignation of "S. N. D. North. George W. Taylor, son of a New Or leans merchant, was arrested in San Francisco on receipt of advices from Los Angeles, where he is wanted on charges of swindling. William H. Burletson, cashier of a defunct bank at Parma. Mich., was sentenced to the penitentiary, the court recommending eight years. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller is recover ing from pneumonia at Virginia Hot Springs and soon will go to her sum mer home at Pocanto Hills, N. Y. Max C. Baum, a New York Free Ma son, has appealed to President Taft to intercede just a little as your con science may dictate" for C. W. Morse, a "brother Mason." GENERAL NEWS. New York has a "suicide window" on the fourth story of a building in Brooklyn. Mrs. Ella Friedmann jumped to her death from it following a simi lar tragedy four years ago. Thomas J. McCue, a fireman who helped re move Mrs. Friedmann's body, jumped from the top of an adjoining building a few hours later and was instantly killed. Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce commission and Second Assistant Postmaster General Stewart arrived in Atlanta and started efforts to settle the Georgia railroad strike. Four men on the United States cruiser Albany at Corinto, Nicaragua, risked their lives and saved the ship from fire. Two privates were killed and a ser geant of the Eighteenth infantry was seriously wounded when attacked by Moros in the Philippines. Bandits 'entered the People's bank at Benbow City, 111., held up Steven Moore, the cashier, and fled with $3,000. George Essigke, bandmaster at the We6t Point military academy commit ted suicide because of worry over charges against him which the war department was investigating. The United States Steel Corpora tion adopted a testimonial to H. H. Rogers and elected J. P. Morgan, Jr., lo bis place on the board of directors! Seven geese were plucked of their feathers, lifted from a pond and swept into a haymow by a tornado near Mattoon. 111. John Mitchell penned a hot reply to the speech of John Kirby, president of the National Association of Manufac turers. John Carter and three grandchil dren were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home at El don, la. A telegraph operator overheard plans of bandits to rob a Denver & Rio Grande train, sent a message to Helper. Utah, and prevented the hold-up. k An unmasked mob lynched a negro who had attempted to assault a white Kirl at Pine Bluff. Ark. Trial of Calvin Johnson, one of the four negroes held for the murder of Walter F. Schultz, a Chicago artist, was begun lb Alexandria. Va. The national meeting of the,. Asso ciated Harvard clubs opened In Cin cinnati, former President Eliot and President Lowell both being present BsV I I mBsH aaBm H Bbsbk sr: b H H HnSH HmwH H Bnws,wr I'M I'l III III Wm III By the will of Henry H. Rogers his millions are left In trast for his lam- tiy, and reianves in umcaso are w enjoy incomes from $400,909. Three Omaha boys helped the po lice to capture three men who are suspected of being those who robbed a Union Pacific train. They will share in a reward of $15,000. Dispatches from Paris report that the scandal over alleged poor quality in .French naval supplies and con struction is growing. - The liberals, radicals and socialists walked out of the reichstag in Berlin when the conservative coalition at tempted to pass an increase in the di rect taxation of tea- and coffee. A court in Redding, Cat, held a night session in order that it might grant a decree of absolute divorce to Mrs. Bernice Winchell, who said she wished to wed Albert Fraser before he was operated upon for appendicitis A letter signed by George Washing ton and written by Alexander Hamil ton on April 5, 1777, brought $113 at, auction in New York. The general synod of the Reformed (Dutch) church met In Rochester, N. Y., for a week's sessions. Retail grocers from all over the United States assembled in Portland. Ore., where the yearly convention of their, national association opened. England is interested in a report that Ambassador Bryce at Washing ton is trying to bring about an alli ance of the British and American navies. Twelve trains, carrying mail but no passengers, the first run in five days, were started from the terminals of the Georgia railroad. At local option elections in Indiana, Floyd and Laporte counties voted "wet" and Harrison county went "dry." The federal grand jury at Tulsa, Okla., again indicted Gov. Haskell and five others for 'alleged town lot frauds. Thirteen Turks, making 51 thus ex ecuted, were hanged in the streets of Constantinople. Dalton, Mich., was nearly destroyed by a forest fire and 3,000,000 feet of lumber was consumed. Rudolph Lederer, Edwin Hertler, Henry Schroeder and Edward Riem, students of Northwestern university, while loading shells for a sham battle at Watertown, Wis., were badly burn ed by a powder explosion. George W. Thompson shot and killed his wife in Indianapolis, Ind. He says he mistook her for a bur glar. He is frantic with grief. The senate set June 10 as the date for a vote on the Bailey income tax amendment to the tariff bill. The Presbyterian general assembly at Denver decided that its clergymen and laymen should not use tobacco, but refused to bar judges of the church from issuing saloon licenses. A divorce to every four marriages is the record of Los Angeles county, California, since January 1. If the ratio is maintained it is expected a new divorce record will have been set Burglars got $10,000 worth of loot from the home of Thomas Shields Clark in New York while the family were in Europe. A Cincinnati tailor, giving his name as Mariano Fusauo, was arrested on v charge of pinching 12 women in a crowded street The coast artillery at Pensacola, Flai, set a" new record when, with 12 inch disappearing guns, six hits out of six shots in five minutes were made. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle was fomally opened when President Taft at Washington pressed a golden telegraph key. The cere monies included land and water pa rades, speech-making and general re joicing. A man giving the name of James Williams is being held by the police or Las Vegas, N. M., as the slayer of Peter Dieter of Chicago on a ranch near Pueblo, Cal., some months ago. The interstate liquor-shipment bill prepared by the National Anti-Saloon league was introduced before the sen ate by Senator Curtis of Kansas. The State Fire Marshals' Associa tion of America began Its yearly meet ing in Indianapolis. Edward Peterson of Minnesota presiding. President Taft visited Pittsburg and participated In the dedication of a public fountain, after which he was entertained by Yale alumni. He then went to Gettysburg where" he deliv ered the oration at the unveiling of a monument to the regulars who partici pated in the Gettysburg campaign. Miss Helen Taft unveiled the shaft A statue of Abraham Lincoln was unveiled at Hodgenville, Ky., his birthplace. The orator was Henry Watterson, and Robert T. Lincoln was the guest of honor. Five railway coaches full of mem bers of the Chicago Association of Commerce left on a trade-getting pil grimage through the northwest Reports from Springfield. 111., said friends of Hopkins may ask an in vestigation of the election of William Lorimer to the United States senate. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wiscon sin, Iowa and Missouri were shaken by an earthquake which caused In jury to several persons. "" Six men were killed by the ex plosion of a boiler in the Geesey Hoop mill at Dowagiac, Mich. Three girls and a young man were drowned at Grand Rapids. Wis., when a launch was carried through the sluice gates of a dam. Face powder and "beauty spots" have been prohibited to the girl pu pils of a branch of the Washington Irving high school In New York by order of Miss Rachel Benjamin!, the principal. Harmony lodge, an organization of saloonkeepers in Grand Rapids, Mich., has passed resolutions asking its mem bers to inform against any saloonkeep ers known to have broken the liquor laws. Labor Commissioner Neill found that the Georgia railroad strike had developed into a race war. The International Commission of Fisheries, appointed to develop meas ures for the protection and propaga tion or food fishes In the .waters icon tiguous to the United States and Can ada, met In Washington. The thirteenth international confer ence of the Railroad Department of North America of the Young Men's Christian association opened in St Louis with a very large attendance and with CoL John J. McCook of New York In the chair. TOWN BLOWN AWAY ZEPHYR, FIFTEEN MILES FROM BROWNWOOD, DESTROYED. mi FUS REGOROEI Apparently One of the Most Destruc tive Twisters That Evtr Visittd . the Lone Star State. Brownwood, Tex. A tornado of great fury struck the little village of Zephyr in the eastern portion of Brown county at 1 a. m. Sunday morn ing and left a path of death and de struction seldom paralleled. The death list has reached a total of thirty-two and the number of seriously and fa taly wounded will reach fifty. A score are more or less Injured. Nearly fifty houses were entirely demolished. TJghtning struck, a lum-. ber yard and started a conflagration which destroyed one entire business block. No effort was' made to fight the fire as the care of the dead and wounded victims demanded all atten tion. A section hand rode a handcar to Brownwood and spread the alarm. In two hours the Santa Fe railroad was speeding a special train to the scene of the storm with nine surgeons and a score of Brownwood citizens. Hundreds of persons directly in, the storm's path saved themselves by taking refuge in storm cellars. More than a dozen bodies were horribly 'mu tilated. County Clerk Thad Cabler and wife and two children, who had gone to Zephyr to spend the night were killed. The big stone school building and two churches were swept from the face of the earth i By daylight sixteen surgeons were working on the wounded Brownwood hurried its second relief train at noon Sunday, loaded with provisions, cloth ing and necessary articles and forty nurses. A special train will leave Zephyr for Temple, carrying the more seri ously injured to the hospital. The storm swept the earth for only a short . distance, probably less than a mile. Its fury is .considered the most terrific of any tornado ever ex perienced in tnis section. The surgeons who formed the first party o'.t of. Brownwood found a deso-" late scene awaiting them. The hill sides at Zephyr were covered with debris of all kinds and bodies of dead animals and human beings. The ruins were dimly lighted by the burning buildings .and the cries of the wound ed rose above the sound of the ele ments, which threatened a second storm. A hog roaming through the debris-strewn streets was killed while attempting to devour the body of an Infant Bodies were found .twisted about trees and in every conceivable shape. People walked the streets al most naked. Residences which escaped the storm were turned into hospitals, into which were carried the bodies of the dead. One house collapsed on a family of nlne without serious injury to any of them. Brownwood, with organized relief work, has the situa tion well in hand. THE SENATE WILL HURRY. And Congress Will Probably Adjourn Early in July. Washington. Progress on the tariff bill is being made steadily between speeches, and while the leaders are unable to predict the end, they feel that the time for the final vote is gradually approaching, and they now predict that the work will be disposed of in time to permit congress to finally adjourn early in July. The outlook for the present week Is for many speeches and for slow progress on the schedules. The prob ability of night sessions is not so great as it was a week ago, but the policy of reference to them will not be decided for several days. OFFICERS ARE ON THE HUNT. Important Developments Expected in the Train Robbery. Omaha Developments of decided importance in connection with' the train robbery are expected shortly by the government, railway and police 'officers who are working on the case, if , present indications hold good. It is not unlikely that within the next twenty-four hours the fourth man concerned in the Lane Cut-Off holdup will be' in custody. The missing; h$t?. torn half of a mail sack -mai' also' be brought to light. Some of-the police officers think it holds valuable loot. The French Pension Bill. Paris. The amendments of the senate commission to the workmen's pension, which, after passing - the Chamber of Deputies last year, comes before the senate early in June, modifies the plan or the original bill so as to provide for specific contribu tions from workmen and employers instead of percentages, as provided for in the bill of the Chamber of Deputies. KAISER REVIEWS GARRISONS. Americans Occupy Places with Im- perial Party. Berlin. Emperor William and the empress reviewed the Berlin and the Potsdam garrisons at the Templehof field today. Thirty thousand troops, including 8,000 cavalry, passed before their majesties and made the usual brilliant spectacle. In the reviewing party were Ambassador Hill, Allison Armour or New York, Prof. W. N. Sloan of Columbia university and other distinguished people. Bogus Employment Agency Operates. Seattle, Wash. Letters from dif ferent .parts of the country, addressed to heads of departments of the Seat tle Electric company, operating the street railway system of this city, show that unauthorized -employment agents are swindling men by engaging them as street car operatives for em ployment In this city and ' collecting fees. Operations have been carried on in Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, Boston and New York, as well as in several of the smaller towns of New1 I England and the middle states. CHURCH DEMOTED DELEGATIONS FROM 4 STATES : i ATTEND CEREMOUIES. HAPPEII!II6S OVER THE STATE What la Gein en Here and There That href Interest to the Read "era Throughout' Ne- braska. Fairbury An enormous crowd was in Fairbury Wednesday attending the dedication of the $25,000 Catholic church. Priests were here from Ne braska, Kansas, -Missouri and Iowa. These four states also sent good sized delegations from among the member ship of the. church. The church was crowded to the doors when Father Nugent of Des Moines began his dedi cation sermon immediately following the sacred rites of dedication per formed by Bishop1 Bonacum of the Lincoln diocese. Father Carey, who Is in charge of the local parish, had prepared a sou venir book telling of the founding and development of the Fairbury parish and facts about Fairbury. Kearney Waterworks Sold. Kearney G. E. Hoffmeister, repre senting the American Water company of Pittsburg, was in the city Tuesday conferring with the city council re garding the purchase of the water works system. The council held an all-day meeting and ..reached a deci sion to-wit: That the American Water company shall receive for the' entire system and back hydrant rentals due it the sum of $150,000. Telegraphic communications from Pittsburg ac cepted tha offer. The council then voted, 6 to 2, in favor of a bond elec tion. . This prairically ends the con troversy regarding the waterworks system. Bonds for $100,000 had been voted at a previous election for the purpose of building a new system. The amount decided upon to purchase the system is very little in excess of the appraisement Of the late An drew Rosewater. Nebraska Sportsmen Hold Annual Shoot. Grand Island The thirty-third an nual meeting of the Nebraska State Sportsmen's association began here Wednesday with a blue rock event, ninety-three marksmen participating. The following led in the 200 target shoot: Ed." O'Brien 192 Harry Dixon 188 Wm. Veach ; 185 Dick Lindeman 184 A. P. Smith : 183 Seany, jr. .J. .x 183 Gus Sievers,. .". 182 Adams 182 One hundred and twenty-flve mem bers - attended . the business meeting Wednesday night, at-which Columbus was chosen as the place of the next meeting, and the following officers were elected: W. H. Illian, Albion, vice president; Gus Schroeder, Co lumbus, sewetary-treasurer- Institute New Chapter. Falls City Mrs. Emeda H. Fuller of Tecumseh, the grand conductress of the Eastern Star of the state, was here Monday night and organized Falls City chapter No. 225. Mrs. Fuller was acting in the capacity of grand matron. There were twenty three merpbers initiated into the chapter and the. following officers were chosen: Mrs. E. G. Whitford, worthy matron; Mrs. Zola Da vies, lssociate matron; E. G. Whitford, worthy patron; Miss Helen E. Gilman, secretary; Ralph P. Roberts, treas urer; Mrs. Alfreda Wilson, con ductress; Miss Lizette Pattzman, as sociate ' conductress. After the offi cers were chosen, Mrs. Fuller gave 1 an exemplification of the work. Escapes from Jail. Chappell Butch Wiilard, who was being held in jail here on a charge of horse stealing, made his escape Tues day night. He was given his liberty for a few moments and made good bis escape. The Chappell Telephone company, which recently filed articles of incor poration, has received its material and will soon have a first-class telephone system in the town. Arrange for Tournament. Hebron Hebron is commencing to make arrangements for the state fire men's tournament, which is to be held here August 25, 26 and 27. It is expected that there will be a thou sand visitors in Hebron on this occa sion. New Course Planned. Grand Island The board of educa tion has instructed a committee to investigate the cost of a manual train ing and domestic science department. It is expected that the same will b? installed as part of the high school curriculum for next year. Land Sells at High Price. Central City, Neb. A big real estate deal was consummated this week when Charles McEndreet and J. W. Vieregg sold the half section owned by them east of tovrn on what is known as the old Hart ranch, and which was formerly a part of the es tate of the late A. O. Smith, for $16, 000, which, considering that part of the hair section is cut off by the rail road. Is more than $50 per acre. The purchasers or the land were J. L. Hor Uck'and G. A.Wunderlick, both or David City. Reunion In August. Weeping Water, Neb. The G. A. R. reunion or the First district will be held here this year. The opening date has been set tor August 24 and 'will continue for foHr days. A frater nal picnic will be held one day during the reunion. Gets One Year Sentence. Kearney. Neb. Bennie Thomas was sentenced to one year in the peniten Jary by Judge Hostetler Monday alter ooon. He was charged with breaking Into Madsen's department store at Elm Creek. NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS. t State News and Nates in Condensed Form. The Kearney commercial -club and the business men are taking steps to abolish all manner of fake advertis ing schemes. The Lvoas -tbrasa band is now-re- spienderit In" new 'uniforms which have- just arrived. .The band is composed of thirty-four pieces. The .contract has just been let to a Fremont contractor for the erection of a new brick building by the First National bank at Arlington. The citizens of Lousiville are np In arms over the matter of disorderly houses, some of which are trying to gain a -foothold in that city. The Farmers Lumber company of Unadllla has ben incorporated with a cash capital of $25,p00 and Thomas Roadaway is president and J. W. Bas sett secretary. Harry Baird, a young .farmer near Tecumseh, was struck in the face by a ball bat during a game and was rendered unconscious for some time, but was not seriously injured. W. J. Bryan made two addresses at Fremont Sunday, one at the church and one at the Y. M. C. A. His visit marked the close for the summer sea son of the Y.'AI.C. A. meetings. Secretary Royse of the banking board has issued a call for a state ment of the condition of state banks at the close of business May 22. The previous call was for February 23. The Masons of Filley propose to erect a hall to cost between. $6,000 and $8,000 in the near future. Filley is enjoying a building boom at the present and a number of handsome residences arc being erected. While engaged in fighting the fire which destroyed his barn, granary and corncrib, George Lillich, a far mer living southwest of Tecumseh, suffered painful burns to his face and hands. It is thought there will be no disfigurement The Citizens Bank of McCook, the pioneer banking establishment of that city, has applied to the comptroller of the currency for a charter, which has been granted and the state bank will shortly become a national bank, with title of the Citizens National bank. Capital stock and official directorate will remain as at present. Judge Seifert of Pleasanton was adjudged insane by the insanity board Monday and will be taken to Lincoln immediately. Seifert took a notion in his head a short time ago that some one was trying to kidnap his children. He would suddenly start from the field and run to the house and find all his children and see if they were all right. If he found them he would become calm again. The election of Captain A. H. Holl ingworth as junior major of the Third battalion of Nebraska National Guard. is appreciated by members of com pany C. of which organization he is captain. His promotion means the elec tion or Lieutenant Charles H. Brew ster as captain to fill the vacancy. A Fairbury commission firm this week received a carload of potatoes raised in Ireland. This is the first consignment of real Irish potatoes ever ' seen here. The Erin spuds are about the same in appearance as the American varieties, only they are a trifle larger and the skins are much rougher. There was quiate a demand for the carload upon its arrival in Fairbury. D. C. Cole of Peru, who is probably the oldest notary public in Nebraska, has challenged others to show a long er continuous service. He has writ ten the secretary of state for a re newal or his commission and has forwarded the necessary fee. He f writes: "I have been a notary since Nebraska was made a state and some time before in the territory, and do not wish' to quit now. See your rec ords and let me know how many more now living' have held as long." Nider & Henrichs closed a deal for the transfer of 200 acres of Jeffer son county land at $100 an acre. The improvements on this place are only ordinary and the purchase price is considered the real worth of the land alone. This tract is located two and one-half miles from Jensen, near the Peter Jensen section, which sold last December for $64. The farm was the property of Fred Fiene and the purchasers were George and Cornelius Johnson. This is the second largest land deal ever made in this county. Plans have been made and the necessary money subscribed that will J Sive Arlington one of the best opera houses to be found in the state, out side of the larger cities. The entire first floor of the Odd Fellows' build ing will be remodeled into an up-to-date opera house that will accommo date many of the better class of com panies that now pass Arlington be cause of the lack of facilities for the presentation of their plays. A large stage, ample scenery, a gallery and all the accessories of a first-class play house will be provided. Ainsvorth is having a grand boom in the building line. There have been ox-er thirty new dwelling houses gone up and are going up. Ezra Couplin. a dairyman, is putting up a fine cement block dwelling and the Baldwin 'brothers .have commenced the erec tion of their fine two-story cement block, 55x100 feet, on the southwest corner of Main and Second streets. A cloudburst about three miles west of Heibron and extending several miles west occurred Tuesday night, but no damage has been reported ex cept to the growing crops. The grain was beaten into the ground. Henry Buchdltz, a young farmer living in the western part of Merrick county, was adjudged insane at a hearing of the Insanity board and has been taken to the asylum at Hastings. Doubts as to his mental condition were entertained, as a result of a frequent desire of the young man to get up at a late hour of the night and hitch up his team and go to work in the field. Mrs. C. S. Black, an old resident of Beatrice and widow of the late C. S. 31ack, died Monday evening. She was sixty-seven years old and is survived by one son and three daughters. CAPITAL GUY NEWS ITEMS OF. INTEREST AROUND THE STATE HOUSE. NEWS OF THE STATE GXPiTJIL Doings of the State Officials and Other Happenings That Arc cf State-Wide Im portance. Pioneers Will Meet In Lincoln. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Nebraska Territorial Pioneers' association, held Tuedsay evening, it was decided to hold the next pioneers reunion in Lincoln. September 6 and 7. The meeting will open the evening of September 6 with a memorial service held in honor of deceased members of the organiza tion. September V there will be a pic nic dinner at the state farm followed by a number of speeches by prominent pioneers and general exchange of re miniscences. The executive commit tee which will have charge of this celebration is. composed of Rev. Byron Beall, Lincoln; Prof. Lawrence Brun er, Lincoln, and William H. Bobbins, Beatrice. The membership of the' association is increasing and it is planned to publish this year a volume giving the proceedings of the association since its organization and including some of the papers that have been read at meetings of late years. This volume will be delivered free to all mem bers. An appropriate badge has been se lected by the executive committee which it is expected will be ready for distribution by the next meeting. This badge will be in tne form of a disc supported from a bar bearing the word "Nebraska." the disc to " b stamped with a design representing an ox team and covered Wagon in the foreground approaching several In dian tepees, in the background the Missouri river with a steamboat, the whole indicating the two most general modes of transportation which brought the pioneers lo Nebraska. Surrounding this disc are tne words. "Territorial Pioneers' Association." The badge will be executed in bronze or gun metal and will be furnished to all members of the organization at cost. State on the Defensive. . Attorney General Thompson , and Deputy Grant Martin were in Omaha Wednesday making arrangements for the hearing of the suits filed by rail road companies in federal court tc test the important railroad legislation, enacted by the legislature two yean ago. These suits will constitute the real test of most of the direct legis lation adopted by the republican Iegis Iature. two years ago, including the two cent fare law. the Aldrich com modity rate biir and the anti-pass bill. Testimony will be taken in writing and submitted to the court. Owing to the activity of Attorney Genera! Thompson all of the laws are enforced from the beginning and are still In force. National Guard Instructor. Capt. William K. Jones, company L Third batallion. Sixth United States infantry, has been detailed as in structor for the annual encampment or the Nebraska national guard, which will be held at Ashland July 20 tc 29. Adjutant General Hartigan asked for the assignment of two reguah army officers not above the rank ol captain. Captain Jones is on duty at Fort Missoula, Mont. He has seen service in the Philippines. State School Apportionment. The semi-annual school opportion ment for May aggregates $2&3,192.49. as compared with $334,376.68 for Ma in 1908. Much of this decrease is due to the repeal of the law under which a tax levy of one-half of one mill was made and which when collected was returned to the various counties when the semi-annual apportionment was made. The rate per scholar for the May apportionment was a fraction over 79 cents. Mr. Russell to Resign. Secretary L. M. Russell or the state board of horticulture will present his resignation to a meeting of the exeu- tive board to be hed at the Lincon hote June 2 at 8 p. m. He has been secretary for six years and is tired of the work. Chet .Marshall of College View is a candidate for the position The salary is $1,000 a year. The sum mer meeting of the society will be held at Beatrice in July. Governor On a Trip. Governor Shallcnberger has started on a trip which will occupy the re mainder of the week. He will speak before the high school graduates of five towns in Nebraska on the follow ing dates: Ravenna. Tuesday; Kear ney. Wednesday; Lyons. Thursday; Norfolk, Friday; Crete. Saturday. Dur ing the summer the governor will fill several engagements with lecture bu reaus. Great Western Objects. . Tax Commissioner Pratt of the Great Western railroad lodged a vig orous kick on the increase or his com pany last year, which was $."00.000. and intimated very strongly that he would like to have it reduced this time. He said the road has only half a mile of main track in the state and claimed the valuation was absurd. The property or the Great Western in cludes valuable freight terminals at Omaha, consisting of a large freight denot In the heart of tne city and J an extensive system of switch tracks. Eighty-nine in Corn Contest. Eighty-nine boys under the age of eighteen have entered the corn con test conducted by the state board of agriculture. The board offers $150 in prizes to those who grow the largest number of bHshels or corn on an acre. The filings closed Thursday. The con testant is required to do all the labor or preparing the ground, planting tho seed cultivating it and shucking it. The yield is to be measured by two disinterested freeholders who shall make affidavits regarding their find-j ings. To Enjoy fce full confidence of the Weil-Informed of the World and the Commendation of the most eminent physicians it was essen tial that the component parts of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna should be known to and approved by. tbcra; there fore, the California Fig Syrup Co. pub lishes a full statement with every package. The perfect purity and uniformity of pro duct, which they demand in a laxative remedy of an ethical character; are assured by the Company's original method of man ufacture known to the Company only. ' The figs of California are used in the production of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna to promote the pleasant taste, but the medicinal principles are obtained from plants known to act most beneficially. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. only, and for sale by all leading druggists. HOW CARELESS!. He There was nearly a bad fire at the theater. She How was that? He The villain lit a cigarette and tossed the match into the snow! TORE HIS SKIN OFF Shreds Itching Was Intense Sleep Was Often Impossible. In Cured by Cuticura in Three Weeks. "At first an eruption of small pus tules commenced en my hands. These spread later to other parts of my body, and the itching at times was intense, so much so that I literally tore the skin off in shred3 in seeking relief. The awful itching Interfered with my work considerably, and also kept me awake nights. I tried several doc tors and used a number of different ointments and lotions but received practically no benefit. Finally I set tled down to the use of Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Pills, with the result that in a few days all itchlag had ceased and in about three weeks' time all traces of my eruption had disappeared. I have had no trou ble of this kind since. H. A. Kruts koff, 5714 Wabash Ave., Chicago, III., November' 18 and 28, 1907." Fleeter Dne ArCkem. Corp Sola Pro?., Uostoa. Home-Made Names. "That little girl," remarked the druggist to the doctor, "was just in for ten cents worth of tincture of ben zine. But I've had it before and gave her benzoin." "That was easy," answered the doc tor. "This morning on a diphtheria case the woman wanted to know if I administered antitoxin with an epi demic syringe." Good to Remember. Physical defects can be turned into Incentives to success Instead or draw backs, what we look upon as handi caps in the end may prove spurs to en able us to reach the goal of desire, if we know but how to nse them. 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