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COLUMBUS JOURNAL STROTHER & STOCK WELL, Pubs. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA IMPOBTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Into a Few Lines for the Perusal of the Busy Man Latest Personal Infor- mation. Foreign. Headed by S. C. Sims, the anthrop oligist, who took the place of Dr. Wil liam Jones, when the latter was killed by wild tribesmen while studying the customs of the natives, the expedition of the Field Columbian museum of Chi cago, started from Eschague, in Isa belle province for the Mongol coun try, where Jones died. A force of constabulary accompanied the scient ists to guard it against attack. Baron Oskar Rothschild, the young est son of Albert Rothschild, head of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild house, died suddenly in Vienna. He committed suicide because of an unfor tunate love affair. Baron Oskar was twenty-one years old. He returned to Vienna after eight months spent in travel during which he visited the United States. All the hospitals in Belfast and Liv erpool are filled with victims of Mon day's rioting between the Roman Cath olics and Orangemen, which followed the annual ceebration of the Orange men. The fight was continued all day and grew to its most serious stage Tuesday night in Belfast, where the rioters repeatedly turned on the police and routed them. Having learned of Russia's protest to China against the opening of the Sungari river to international trade. Japan has explained her position to the Chinese foreign board and a Jap anese counter protest is expected as soon as the details of the situation are digested at Tokio. The Japanese po sitions holds that the Sungari river was opened by virtue of the Ports month treaty and by the inland navi- A new west-bound Vecord was estab lished by the Cunard liner Mauretania, which arrived off Sandy Hook light ship at 9:16 o'clock Thursday. The boat clipped seventeen minutes from her best performance heretofore cov ering the long coarse in four days, sixteen hours and thirty-six minutes. The six-year-old son of Charles Cev erin of South St Joseph died from a gunshot wound intentionally self-inflicted. At the time of the suicide the lad's parents were away from home and he was in the house with two older brothers. Before death he corroborated their statements that he shot himself. Ed. Wolgast of Milwaukee defeated Battling Nelson in a ten-round fight at Los Angeles. More than 4,000 Western Union tele graph poles were broken by the recent storms and floods in Iowa. Charles F. Silverside, a Lake Shore detective, was attacked by five tramps on an eastbound freight train -and knifed to death, after a fierce strug gle. His body was found one mile east of Otis, Ind., where it was thrown from the train by the murderers. The allied printing trades council of New York sent a letter of Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, calling his at tention to the fact that the union label docs not appear on the books now be ing manufactured for the state as specified in the contract with a print ing house. The use of a dirigible ballon guided by wireless elecuicity and without a man aboard in the life saving service is the plan which Mark O Anthony, an electrical engineer, is trying to es tablish by experiments at Sandy Hook. The inventor has sent a small model balloon over a mile out to sea and guided it easily at that distance. Rep resentatives of several foreign govern ment sare watching the experiments closely. Percy Small Wood, champion middle distance runner of the world was de feated at Sharon, Pa., in a 12-mile race by six local runners, each of whom ran two miles. Wood covered the distance in 1:1S:05, and lost by eight laps. Joseph H. Brown was inaugurated governor of Georgia at noon Saturday. Judge Walter H. Sanborn of the United States circuit court issued a final decree authorizing the special master in chancery to sell at public aution the properties of the Chicago Great Western Railway company, which has been in the hands of a re ceiver since January, 1908. The lowest bid accepted will be 12.000,000. The unveiling of a tablet to the memory of the soldiers who served in the war of 1812 closed the Champlain centenary program in Burlington, Vt. The tablet was placed on the main building of the University of Vermont which was used as a barracks for END OF THE TARIFF PRESIDENT WILL PROBABLY SIGN NEXT WEEK. FREE IRON ORE AND OIL These and Other Items Will Be Taken Up by the Conference at an Early Day. Qtlnn 1kcriil'irmc ? 1COC An edict issued in the name of the troops in the second war with Eng emneror annoints his maiestv com- land- Mi- Gen. O. O. Howard. U. S mander-in-chief of the land and naval forces of the empire in accordance with the constitutional project of the late emperor, Kwang Hsu. A military secretariat under the directorship of Prince Yulang also is created to as sist the regent. The exercise of the military powers of the emperor is delegated to Prince Yulang. In con clusion the edict appoints Prince Tsai Shun and Admiral Sah commissioners to labor for the re-organization of the navy. A son was born Thursday to the A., retired, delivered the chief address. Washington. In order to ascertain whether the heliograph can be successfully utilized in the national forests to report fires and transmit other messages in areas where there is no quick method of communication experiments will be made during the summer with instru ments like those used by the United States army, in the Kaniksu national forest of Idaho and in the Stanislaus forest of California. If satisfactory Princess De Sagan, who was Miss j the heliograph will be used to supple Anna Gould of New York. Prince ment the telephone lines and other Helle De Sagan and Mme. Anna Gould , means of communication in the for were married July 7, 1908, after her ests where easv and quick communi- divorce from Count Boni De Castel lane. Following conferences between M. Korotovitz, the Russian ambassador to China, and the department of cus- cation in connection with the fire pa trol is essential for protection against fires on the 195,000,000 acres of na tional lands. Reproductions of etchings of For- toms, a telegram was sent to General mer Presidents Washington, Jefferson wovath, the administrator or the Rus sian railroad zone at Harbin, Man churia, instructing him to arrange for the reception of he Chinese cus tom house on the Sungari river pend ing a settlement of this question by negotiations. A new dirigible torpedo recently patented by a Swedish inventor has aroused great interest in Swedish naval circles. The projectile is op erated by electricity. It is said to have a range of 5,000 yards and its course can be altered while under water at the will of the operator. Domestic. Fifteen thousand Elks were in the tarade at Los Angeles Thursday. By the collapse of a building at Philadelphia seven persons were killed, one fatally injured, and twenty four more or less seriously hurt. The supreme lodge of the Knights jf Pythias, and the grand lodge of the state of Tennessee joined in a bill, .'n which it Is prayed that the colored Knights of Pythias be perpetually en joined from using the name, emblems, pass words, insignia or other prop erty, or rights claimed by the com plainants. In an official communication Thom as L. Lewis, national president of the united mine workers of America, for bids a strike of 18.000 men employed at the Pittsburg Coal company, called by local officials. State Senator Oscar A. Bayles was I shot and killed by David K. Smith at Monroeville. Ala. The shooting was as a result of Bayles efforts to secure a pardon for Isaac and Jesse Shiirey. who are serving terms for the killing of Jim Smith, a brother of David. President Taft will make an extend ed tour of the western and southern states, starting on his birthday, Sep tember 15. One dead and nine badly burned is the result of an automobile accident which occurred about five miles from Sylvania. Ga. Fred Bachman. of Newark, N. J., is 1 the inventor of a heavier than air ma- and Lincoln and of President Taft are to adorn American embassies and legations throughout the world. The state department is shipping them neatly encased in hardwood frames two by two and a half feet in size, on the upper portion of which is a presentation in gilt of the American coat of arms. Considerable comment has been made by travelers regarding the lack of equipment of the Amer ican offices. A meeting between President Taft and President Diaz of Mexico now be ing practically assured, the president and his cabinet are giving some at tention to arrangements for carrying out such an unusual and notable event. President Taft has never met his executive neighbor but 'long has cherished the hope of doing so. The Wright brothers on account of the various unfortunate incidents that have happened since their arrival at Fort Myer, may find it necessary to obtain a further extension of time from July 28 in which to complete their official aeroplane speed and en durance trial. Upon conviction by court martial for passage of bogus checks and fail ing to pay his debts, Major Charles J. T. Clark, Twenty-fifth infantry, has been dismissed from the army, accord ing to an announcement made at the war department Major Clark was stationed in the Philippine Islands. E. C. Brockmeyer, of St. Louis, was appointed by Postmaster , General Hitchcock to a confidential position in the postoffice department. Mr. Brockmeyer was press representative of the republican national committee at Chicago during the past presidential campaign. President Taft commuted from one year to thirty days the sentence of Washington. The republican con ference committee Senators Aldrich, Burrows, Penrose, Hale and Cullom, and Representatives Payne (N. Y.), Dalzell (Pa.), McCall (Mass.), Boutel (111.), Calderhead (Kan.) and Fordney (Mich.) is now near the end of its deliberations on the tariff bill and its rerort is expected to be completed by the latter part of this week. How long it will take the senate and the house to pass finally upon the work of the conference committee and what will be the ultimate fate of the measure as a whole is the subject of varying conjec ture, but the general impression in quarters usually well informed is that the report of the committee will be adopted by both houses and will reach the hands of the president early next week. Most people here expect that Presi dent Taft will sign the bill. He, him self, caused a fluny throughout con gress last Friday night by the issue of what amounted to an informal mes sage to congress, in which he reiter ated his conviction that the national platform of the republican party meant and the sentiment of the people as a whole demanded, a bona fide down ward revision of the tariff. In all probability the five subjects which have received President Taft's personal attention iron ore, coal, oil, hides and lumber will be taken up by the conferees during the latter part of the present week. There are a num ber of paragraphs in the bill which cannot be disposed of until rates are determined for the subjects named. Proceeding on the assumption that iron ore and oil will be placed on the free list, and that existing duties on coal, hides and lumber will be materially reduced, the conferees are preparing amendments to be offered on articles related to the foregoing raw materials. In consequence all of these subjects may be disposed of immediately after duties have been determined for the more important subjects. Outside of the questions which are receiving the personal attention of President Taft the greatest difficulty anticipated relates to the wood pulp and print paper schedule. On account of the statement of Representative Mann, who was chairman of the spe cial committee while investigating this whole subject and reported reduced rates to the house, that he would vott against the conference report unless the views of his special committee were recognized, the conferees have delayed the disposition of this sched ule. The house will be in session Mon day and will probably adjourn until Thursday. The senate meets Tuesday and may adjourn until Friday unless there ap pears a prospect of a report from the conference committee by Thursday. Nothing of importance except the em ergency bill is before congress. This measure may be passed by the house Monday, but if it is not it is planned to have a senate session on Tuesday. CHANGE GRAIN RATE. Becomes and After Effective On August 10. On and after August 10 the Missouri Pacific, Burlington, Union Pacific and Northwestern railroads are authorized by the state railway commission to apply the wheat rate on all flour rliip ments in the 'state and the corn rates on all shipments of mill stuff. This order Is supplementary to a recent order allowing the roads to raise the rates on flour to a parity with the wheat rate between about 10 per cent of the mill stations in the state and Omaha. These stations had enjoyed for many years a- low flour rate, rates which were put in many years ago to encourage local industry. This order followed on a complaint of the Updike Milling company. As soon as this order was filed it was found that the Missouri Pacific had been left out of the complaint. The commission thereafter avoided a discrimination by pulling the Crete-Omaha rate on the Missouri Pacific up to the wheat rate. The railroads then filed a peti tion asking that other mill products besides wheat flour be put on the same basis as corn, the general con tentions being that the stations which aad the lower rates were not entitled :o discrimination as against 90 per :ent of the stations in the state and :hat the finished product should, as a general thing, take as high a freight rate as the raw material from which tt is made. Several hearings have been held in :he cases. After referring in detail :o the reasons justifying the order on (lour rates the commission in the order Issued says: "Mill stuff, which con sists of bran and shorts, bears the 'same relation 'to corn as flour to tvheat. Both are more valuable than rorn and, if anything, more bulky, and 3o not move in the same quantities. The commission, for the reasons fully set forth in the case of the Updike Milling company vs. Union Pacific Railroad company (formal No. 61), no special reasons being developed to the contrary, finds that the rates on flour should not be less than the rates on wheat, and that the rates on mill stuff should not be less than the rates on corn between the stations herein named." mm in brie NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM v VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. Senator T. J. Majors, appointed by Gov. Shallenberger to a place on the new state normal board, has filed a demurrer to the petition of the attor ney general challenging the right of Majors to accept the appointment be cause he is a member of the legisla ture. The demurrer alleges that the amended petition of the attorney gen eral does not state sufficient facts to constitute a cause of action and that the two causes of action are improp erly joined in the information. The validity of the new law authorizing the governor to appoint a new normal board is involved in the suit. Old Soldiers Are Safe. Members of the Soldiers' Home at Grand Island, who have exposed the management of that institution, are now getting fearful that they will be removed from the home and not per mitted to come back. A letter to this effect was received by a member of the Board of Public Lands and Build ings. The board has assured the old soldiers that none of them will be let out for telling what is going on. The ttoard has supervision over admission and discharges from the home, and the superintendent is powerless to act in the matter. SHAH DOWN AND OUT. Sultan Ahmed Mirza Takes Up Reins of Government. Teheran. Mohamed Ali. shah of Persia, was dethroned Friday and the crown prince. Sultan Ahmed Mirza, was proclaimed shah by the National Assembly, composed of the chief Mujtehids and the leaders of "the na tionalist forces, in the presence of an immense crowd in Parliament square. Mohamed Ali has taken refuge in the Russian summer legation at Zer zende. where he is tinder the protec tion of detachments of Cossacks and Sepoys despatched to Zersende by the Russian and British diplomatic repre sentatives. The new shah is yet in his minority, and Azad Ul Mulk. head of the Kajar family, has been appointed regent. Sipahdar, one of the roost active lead ers of the government, has taken office as minister of war and governor of Teheran. For Historical Society. The state historical society has re ceived a large framed portrait of Wil liam H. Russel of the old freighting Brm of Russel, Majors and Waddell, who were the most prominent freight ers on the plains in the early pioneer days. The portrait was the gift of Charles R. Moorhead of El Paso, Tex., vho was on the plains as a young man nd knew and worked for Mr. Russel. The Nebraska state historical society aas never had a portrait of Mr. Russel and has been anxious to get one. Prize Packages ,Under Ban. Food Commissioner Mains will test the pure food law, which provides that there shall be no prizes in food pack ages, by arresting J. R. Burley, a grocer here. The grocer sells food packages in which are library slips which entitle the holder to books for a certain number of slips. DON CARLOS IS DEAD. Claimant to Throne of Spain Pastes Away After Long Illness. Rome. Don Carlos of Bourbon, the pretender to the Spanish throne, died Sunday at Vareze, in Lombardy. He had been ill for a long time and the latest reports indicated that he was suffering from apoplexy, with the ac companying paralysis. Don Carlos, duke of Madrid, who claimed under the special law of suc cession established by Philip V to be the legitimate king of Spain, with the title of Charles VII, was born at Lay bach, Austria, March 30, 1848. City Attorney Stewart Resigns. City Attorney John M. Stewart has resigned and so has his deupty, T. F. A. Williams. The resignation of both are to take effect any time between now and October 1. New Shah Back in Palace. Teheran. Persia. The new shah, :he former crown prince. Sultan Ah sed Mirza, accompanied by his tutor ind a British and Russian escort. Irove from the Russian legation to the Sultanabad palace. As the shah en :ered the palace the escort quitted Hospital Needs New Engine. Attorney General Thompson, Land Commissioner Cowles and Secretary of State Junkin visited the Hospital for the Insane at Lincoln and decided on the immediate purchase of an en gine and the construction of a stand pipe. The present emergency engine is 26 years old and of little value, while the present reservoir would be of little help in case of fire. Bullard Takes Vacation. S. Bullard, head janitor at the state house for a number of years, left for a visit to Boulder, Co., where his soc! resides, month of June, 1909. compared with June, 190S, at fifty of the largest post offices, are recorded in a statement is sued by the department Dayton, Ohio, leads with an increase nf 4n nor T f T .. V-! j.j 1 , . . . . . r. yj. c, at lueir meeting in l.cs cent. Seattle, Washington, is next, Angeles. with an increase of 32.20 per cent The Commercial National Bank and The revolution in Columbia is at an t Wk A 3 mj-v J-tjJ t v JaWn 4l ta tklio ;mnrlennmn . ni.) i. . I "" uu iciuiueu iu me icgauuu, iuus rrrrri,.",50"01101! Unifying that his majesty was no . .x..wwu puoocu uu .iimiuu urej, con victed of the improper use of the mails in conducting a matrimonial agency in Elgin. 111. The commutation is based on the woman's poor health. Increases in postal receipts for the chine, which if it meets all his claims, will revolutionize flying. James U. Sammis. of LeMars, Iowa. was elected exalted ruler of the B. onger under Anglo-Russian protec .ion. A brief ceremony was held at the palace, at which the recent and other members of the council formally acclaimed the new sovereign. SIXTEEN ARE DROWNED. Schooner Bearing Excursion Party is Overturned. New York. Sixteen persons, five of them women, met death by drowning in the waters either surrounding or in the vicinity of New York Sunday the Bankers' National Bank, of Chi- j end according to a message which was I Ten of the victims perished after the cago, nave consolidated and have a . received by Sencr Gusman, Columbian .combined banking power of about $S3,- J charge d'affairs who rushed immedi 000,000. . ately with it to the state department The supreme court of Nebraska I The income tax amendment question hclCs that the non-partisan judiciary hsa passed the house and is now ready act is net constitutional. jfcr the president's signature. Warden Needs Guards. Warden T. W. Smith still insists that it is a bad venture for the state penitentiary to raise sugar beets with convicts. As evidence of the bad ef fect of working convicts in the beet field he recited on his monthly report that four convicts escaped during last month. The best field is a mile or The democratic state convention will be held In Lincoln July 27. - A test case of the eight-hour closing law is being made in Omaha. The new German M. E. church at Harvard has been formally dedicated. Landlord Thompson of York is look ing for a man for 'whom he cashed a 35 bogus check. Joseph Pop of Weston, who was -shot in the hand with a blank yistol July 3, died in an Omaha hospital. Madison citizens are investigating the proposition of a sewerage system. Albert Thomas, a farmer residing eight and one-half miles southeast of Edgar, shot and fatally wounded him self. He was of unsound mind. The body of Perry Jercian was brought to Beatrice from Rawlins, Wyo., for interment. He was drowned last September at that place and the body was not found until recently. A telegram was received in Beatrice from Los Angeles, CaL, announcing the death of W. E. Boddy, a former resident of Beatrice, which occurred at that place after a year's illness. The Alma state bank is the name of a new banking company chartered by the state banking board. The bank will have a paid up capital stock of $15,000. The incorporators are J. B. Bilings and A. A. Billings. The barn on the farm of George Col lett, near Pickrell, was destroyed by fire entailing a loss of about $1,200. Two valuable hores and a lot of ma chinery and grain were consumed by tha flames. County Attorney J. C. Cook of Dodge county and Sheriff A. Bauman by express were made recipients of two handsome leather canes as tokens from Oscar Gardner, a life convict at the state penitentiary. The Union Pacific has filed an an swer with the state railway commis sion in the complaint of George Bar rett against the company for not main taining telephone service in its depots at Sheldon and Gibbon. Andrew Meyer of Lyons was taken to Tekamah by the county sheriff for safe keeping, as there had been talk of "a public whipping. He is the man who is charged with whipping his wife on several occasions. The 2-year-old child of Mrs. Myrtle Troyer of Lexington, which had been lost in the hills twenty-six miles northwest of Lexington, was found af ter a search of forty-two hours. The child was in good condition. The oatmeal machinery in the Sew ard cereal mills is to be taken out and alfalfa miling machinery installed with a capacity of twenty tons a day. Mrs. J. W. Cook, Omaha, attempted suicide by shooting herself. Her chances for recovery are slim. A telegram from Boise, Idaho, to an Auburn citizen states that all the complaints against Edward Neal who was charged with forgerj- and enter ing false entries in a bank in that city, have been dismissed on the mo tion of the prosecution. Mr. Neal lived in Auburn several years ago. George Fendrich, a prominent ranch man near Hemmingford. had a run away with a team hitched to a mower and caught in one of the wheels and dragged several hundred rods. He was dragged through the Niobrara river twice and was terribly bruised and one leg was broken in three places. Christ Meyer, a farmer, aged about 55 years, living three miles northeast of Berlin, met with a serious accident. He was cutting wheat with a binder, driving four horses, and in some way the horses became unmanageable and ran away with him. throwing him off the seat in front of the sickle bar. He was badly cut. Omaha continues to be the fourth grain market of the United States. The comparative government report for May shows Chicago. Minneapolis and St. Louis ahead of Omaha, and Kansas City, Milwaukee. Cincinnati and other grain centers trailing off be hind. The relative standing for the month is the same as all through this year. Washington dispatch: The abstract of the condition of the national banks of Nebraska, excluding reserve cities at the close of business on June 27 as reported to the comptroller of cur rency shows the average reserve held at 16.44 against 1C.53 per cent April 23. Loans and discounts increased from $50,282,051 to $ol. 001.575; gold coin from $1,686,455 to $1,740,747; law ful money reserve decreased from $4. 127.926 to $4,112,836; individual de posits increased from $52,635,427 to $52,721,353. The Beatrice city council went upon record as opposed to skating rinks by passing an ordinance which imposes what is supposed to be a prohibitive tax upon rinks. A curious feature discovered in Broken Bow after the Fourth of July celebration was the partial demolition of the Drake store roof by rockets. It seems that the rockts shot from the fireworks stand were so aimed that a Doings &TTHF CPITL $&. Congressmen Victims of Bunco Game last month, and he's just died. I am removing the body. to Kansas, and I find I lack just $9.60 of the amount necessary for the trip. I am appealing to you as my congressman to accom modate me with this small sun until I reach home. Then I will pay you back, and if you don't help me I'll have to leave the body here on your hands." "You're trying to bunco me." said the suspicious Murdock. But he was ashamed of himself the next minute when he saw the look of pain come over the open countenance of the visi tor, and reached for his checkbook. "Make it an even $10. Mr. Murdock. and the Lord bless you," the bishop ventured. That was the last Murdock thought of the matter until he was lunching in the house restaurant the other day. Then he caught a snatch of conversa tion from an adjoining table. "Needed just $14 to get his son's body home," Mr. Gardner of New Jer sey was saying. "I thought it was a bunco game, but I didn't want to take chances on having a body consigned to my hotel, so I let him have the money and " Murdock grew red about the ears. Then he picked up his hat and started out. In the corridor he met Mr. Cur rier of New Hampshire. "Currier," he said, "did you ever happen to hear of a negro bishop who needed money to get his son's body " "Sh!" Currier interrupted. "Don't say a word. He got me for fifty." "And I'll bet most of the congress men in town. Murdock said, "have WASHINGTON. A novel and grue some scheme for forcing states men to part with their money has just been discovered in Washington, with the result that congressmen are laugh ing heartily at the recent experience of Representatives Murdock of Kan sas, Gardner of New Jersey and Cur rier of New Hampshire. Mr. Murdock. who was prominent in the house insur rection againstrthe Cannon rules, tells the story on himself to show, he says, that, though the insurrection Isn't dead yet. the hand of death occasion ally weighs upon him. The Kansan, according to his story, was sitting not long ago in his office meditating revenge on the Cannonites. when an impressive-looking negro en tered and inquired if he were Mr. Mur dock. Mr. Murdock assured him that he was correct "Don't you remember meeting me, Mr. Murdock?" the visitor went on. "I'm Bishop De Graffenried-Forest of your district. I've met you many times. I'm sure you will remember me." "No, I don't. And you didn't know me when you came in. But never mind, what is it?" "Mr. Murdock." the bishop said, "I'm in a powerful lot of trouble. My dear son, who has been to school in been contributing to that mortuary Virginia. was injured in a ball game fund." Negligee Costumes Becoming Popular us conar or "choker." a la Elkins. or Clay or Charles Sumner tripping about the senate chamber In tan shoes, a la Lorimer of Illinois. A blase observer, looking over the variegated display of unconventional dress on the floor of the senate not long ago rendered the opinion that if haberdashery had been as far ad vanced then as now the statesmen of that glorified period would have ta ken advantage of it. But it does knock school book ideals to flinders, never theless, to view the realities of to day. Convention as to attire is losing ground even faster than the traditions that are falling under the force of rad ical senators who recently have en tered the senate. Since Vice-President Sherman appeared one day in a suit of blue Georgia cotton, the sen ators have been blossoming out in the merriest and most striking modes that spell for comfort and hot weath er ease. The southern senators are more prone to cling to the "boiled shirt." Collec tively the senate resembles an aggre gation of bank clerks as it pursues its work. Dignity is very, very negli gee. As yet, however, no statesman has removed his shoes, as a southern senator did his boots one sultry day a few years ago. VIEWED sartorially as well as with respect to other attributes of statesmanship less perceptible to the eye. one is led to speculate as to what Daniel Webster, Henry Clay. John C. Calhoun and the other dead and gone heroes of the heavy oratorical period in American history would think if they could come back and take a look at the United States senate in these summer days. Time, the tailor and the modern haberdasher certainly have combined with the seasons to work a marked change from the con ventionalities. In summer as well as winter the as piring youth of the land have been wont to picture the dignified senator as a frock-coated, starch-bosomed be ing. Can you conjure up Webster thundering undying speeches in a neg ligee shirt a la Leader Aldrich. Orator Beveridge and a whole galaxy of present-day luminaries. Calhoun defend ing the ordinance of nullification min- Senate Puzzled Over Roosevelt Busts A MARBLE bust of Theodore Roose velt is soon to be placed in a niche in the senate chamber in Washington alongside all the other vice-presidents of the United States since John I Adams. The sculptor, James L. Frazier of New York city, has finished his work. He has modeled two busts and it only remains for the committee of the library to choose. That is what it is trying to do now. The trouble is the two busts are so different. One shows the calm and thoughtful Roosevelt, and it is said to be perfect in its way. The other portrays his as vice-president as the senate knew him best, with fiery eye, protruding jaw and tense facial muscles in short, the real strenuous Roosevelt. While Senator Wetmore, chairman of the library committee, has not com mitted himself in favor of either one. it is rumored that he and the other members of the committee are dis posed to award the palm to strenu osity. Tis said they think the senate will feel more at home with that one look ing down on its deliberations. Hut the rub comes on account of the fact that Col. Roosevelt has himself ex pressed preference for his reposeful self. Before he left the White House he was shown the work of Mr. Frazier and did not hesitate a moment in mank his choice. Of course, the committee recognizes that Col. Roosevelt ought to have something to say about his own bust, but the question it is trying to decide is how much. The committee is in clined to think that the senate cught to have something to say about the matter, too. It is truly a knotty problem, and one that is likely to cause the library committee much worry. School of Instruction for Diplomats fl5.0lPL0MATC .SCHOOL -,," V t. .L" JT I N ORDER to prepare new appoin tees to the United States diplo matic service more thoroughly for their examinations will have a little extra start, inasmuch as no one has yet been appointed. Before the men are appointed the course of instruc tion will be confined to generalities, but after the appointments are made each appointee will be taken into the confidence of the department and in structed along certain lines. An Oklahcman's Find. A nugget of gold that was left evi- their duties the state department has I dently many years ago by a band of more from the orison and the convicts have to be taken through a bottom portion of them fell on the building country across a stream, well wooded. At the time of the recent escape of the four trusties, the warden had guards working fifty convicts. capsizng of the excursion sloop Ros anna, carrying twenty-two passengers, which was struck by a sudden squall In lower New York bay midway be-! tween Coney Island and Hoffman, late j in the afternoon. Normal Training High Schools. Eighty-two high school districts of the state have made proper reports to the superintendent of public in struction and the auditor of public accounts has been authorized to draw warrants in their favor for $350, which is the amount allowed every high school district that meets the require ments of the law. Under the provis ions of this act the state superintend ent is required on or before the second Monday of July of each year to appor tion the money earned to each of the high school districts of the state. and punched holes through the tin roofing. One of the sticks penetrated both the roof and ceiling, and was found on the inside ot the store. Dr. E. K. Paine, deputy state veter inarian for the Fairbury district, says the farmers are very much interested in the hog cholera serum which has recently been discovered by the gov ernment, and which will be distributed for free use by the hog raisers of the state, through the veterinary branch of the state university. Dr. Paine says several farmers in his district have already applied for a supply of the serum, but that it cannot be furnished until the latter part of August, owing to time required for making experiments. established a school In Washington Mexicans that traveled through this for the instruction of men who have successfully passed examinations. Mr. Huntington Wilson, assistant secretary of state, has given partic ular attention to the selection of new members for the service, and aside from a more careful and painstaking examination than heretofore this practical training has been decided upon. Heretofore there has been a so called "instruction period" of 30 days for successful candidates for diplo matic positions by statute, which they have usually spent in receiving formal instruction from the department and "whWng away time." The new school of instruction will be under the direction of Mr. John H. Gregory, Jr., United States minister to Nicaragua, who is now in Washing ton giving the matter careful atten part of the state has made a rich man ot Edward Mershom of Butler. He found the nugget several weeks ago while digging around a tree on his farm four miles north of town and shortly afterward left for the west. Yesterday it was learned that from the proceeds of a sale of the nugget he purchased an irrigated farm, val ued at several thousand dollars, m Arizona. Prior to the discovery Mer shom was a poor farmer. He slipped away quietly and it was not known generall' what had become of him until recently. Kansas City Star. Seeds from Home. "You know you made me promise to send you seed of some of the nas turtiums that used to grow so lovely back here," wrote the girl from Ken tucky. "Well, I went everywhere try- tion. Mr. Wilson and other officials of ing to find them. I went to all the the state department and of the other groceries and drug stores, ot a ien- ,ionarmpm win eive lectures on an- s.ucn accu ii uv uu. i. vk. propriate subjects. The course will last 30 days, begin ning at the time of taking the oath of I office, and the men who have passed I down here buy the seed in New York. Go right around the corner there on First avenue f.nd you'll find what you want."