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.
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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."
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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
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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
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rrrrri,.",50"01101! Unifying that his majesty was no
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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
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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."
