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IMPORTANT HEWS
NOTES OF X WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZEr
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines for the
Perusal of the Busy Man
Latest Personal Infor
mation. Foreign.
"The Canal in Winter" by E. W.
Redfield. of Center Bridge, Pennsyl
vania, the only American picture to
receive a medal at the spring opening
of the society of French artists, has
been purchased by the government for
the Luxemburg gallery.
The boiler of the tourist steamer
Guttenberg blew up near Rolandseck,
a resort on the Rhine. One stoker was
killed and five members of tne crew
severely hurt. Several of the passen-
gers were injured, but none of them
so far as known were Americans.
Delegates from thirty countries
formed the world's prohibition confed -
eration at London.
The success of several suffragettes
in obtaining their release from prison
by carrying out a "hunger .strike" has
caused all of the suffragettes in Hollo
way jail to adopt this method of gain
ing their freedom. Miss Elsie Mac
kenzie was discharged from prison in
a critical condition, having gone 151
hours wthout food.
The body of Oscar Wilde the writer
which was buried at Bandaux in 1900,
was Tuesday transferred to Pere La-
chaise.
The Clemenceau cabinet, of France,
has resigned, and their resignation
hsa been accepted by President Fal
liers. Thp funeral of the late Helen Mod-
jeska, whose body lay in state in the
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twenty-four hours, took place Satur-,
day. High honors were paid the j
noted actress, and the last rites were
attended by a great concourse of peo
ple. Many Polish societies in the
United States sent wreaths, while the
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rities nf C.ramvr and T.emherjr. all the
national theaters, and hundreds of in-' Appriximately 908,000 acres of land
dividuals. including Count Stanislaus to Wyoming were designated by Act
Bedeni. land marshal of Salicia, who ' inS Secretary of the Interior Pierce as
sent beautiful floral tributes. ' coming within the enlarged homestead
William Hampton, a former resi- act. Up to date this makes a total
dent of Ishpeming, Mich., will be i f 11,584,080 acres of land so desig
hanged July 20 at Stearth, Cornwall, nated in Wyoming. The land in ques
for the murder there on May 2, of this ticn is not susceptible of successful
year, of Emily Tredres, his sweet- irrigation
heart Hampton was to have been A notable and brilliant gathering at
executed July 15, but a delay was al- j tended the wedding of Miss Elizabeth
lowed to permit a decision on a re- J C. Badger, daughter of Captain and
prieve. This has now been refused, j Mrs. Charles J. Badger, and Lieuten-
If Leon Ling, the supposed mur-j ant Commander Henry F. Bryan, of
derer of Elsie Sigel is in England. tne naval academy. Captain Badger,
there is a prospect of his speedy cap-1 father of the bride, was until recently,
ture. The professional pride of the I superintendent of the Annapolis naval
Scotland yard staff has been aroused, j academy and is one of the most popu-
and the police at all ports are watch
ing out-going steamers. It would be
almost impossible for any oriental to
leave the country without giving sat
isfactory account of himself.
Domestic.
The trial of Dr. Wm. Miller, Mrs. j
J. B Sayler and John and Ira Gruden,
indicted for the murder of J. B. Sayler, j
of Crescent City, 111., will be held at
the November term of court.
During a sham battle in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
stadium between 100
members of the Improved Order cf
Red Men. and an equal number of the
state militiamen, Joseph Morhinway.
of Everett. Wash., one of the Red
Men was shot and killed.
The New York Aerial Manufactur-
ing company of Brooklyn was incor-
porated to carry on the business of '
transporting passengers, freight and
other commodities by airships of all
kinds.
Wednesday at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition was made notable by
the dedication of the Japanese build
ing, which houses one of the most at
tractive exhibits of the entire fair.
The dedication was accompanied by
interesting ceremonies in which Ha
jime Ota, commissioner general from
Japan to the exposition and President
J. E. Chilberg of the exposition com
pany were the leading participants.
While rounding a curve near Glen-1
wood, ''Ala., a Central of Georgia
passenger train was wrecked, twenty
four persons being injured, six very
seriously.
A cloudburst In northern Wisconsin
damages property to the extent of
over half a million dollars. No loss of navigable wators of the United States
life is reported. ' was passed by the house.
At Chicago the jurv cleared Ella' c- J- LeveV of Capetown. South
Gingles from the charge of stealing Atr'"- a member of the parliament of
lace, but the story she told on the CaDe Colony called upon Secretary
witness stand of being a "white slave" ' Wilson of the department of agricul
victim was denounced as untrue. ' ture to discuss American agricultural
A gale at Galveston. Tex., does con-1 methods. Mr. Levey is a delegate to
siderabie damage to shipping and the the dr' farming congress, which is to
city and ten persons lose their lives. be heW at Spokane, Wash.
A Michigan' court has permanently I Thp Wright brothers made a new
enjoined the city of Kalamazoo, Michl record for aviation by making a flight
from enforcing the ordinance which ' -awing eighty minutes and covering a
reouires the union label on all city , distance of seventy miles,
printing. Officials of the department of com-
A grand jury has been called to in-; merce and labor are being called up
vestigate the murder of J. B. Sayler, on to furnish help to harvest the big
at Crescent City, Illinois. wheat crop of the north and west
James G. Purvis, the non-union An increase of $102,348,820 in total
marine ' engineer who killed two i resources, between April 28 and Jun?
strikers, injured one other and was , 23 last, an increase of $57,668,262
menaced by strike syiauathizers last i since July 13 a year ago. and total re
Saturday night, was discharged by sources and liabilities of $9,471,731,"
both the police and county coroner. . 6C3. represents the position of the
It was shown that he acted in self- national banks of the United States
defense.
Edward Hayden, junior member of
the mercantile firm of Hayden Bros.,
and one of the proprietors of the
Ccrn Exchange bank of Omaha, died
at his home of diabetis after a brier
illness. He was sixty-five years old.
He was a native of Ireland, but came
to this country at an early age.
! Glen H. Curtis, the aernaut made a
! nlght of tnirtyne minutes In his aer-
i opiane at nsmsieaa riius, iaiu jo-
land Hp lierhteri without mishan. His
j fl!ght is believed to be the longest ever
made in a heavier than air machine in
this country except by the Wright
brothers.
W. H. Ingram, trust officer of the
Hibernia Trust and Banking .Co., of
New Orleans, has been indicted by the
grand jury on a charge of embezzle.
ment His alleged shortage is almost
$100,000.
By the collapse of a building at
Philadelphia seven persons were
killed, one fatally injured, and twenty-
four more or less seriously hurt.
U. S. Ambassador D. E. Thompson is
reported to have lost $13,000 through
the alleged dishonesty of one of his
employes.
The case against Mrs. Vera De
Noie, who was arrested by immigra
tion officers, soon after her arrival
from Hong Kong, and held for depor
tation, was dismissed by United
States Judge Han ford. The woman,
who says she is well known as a
New York newspaper correspondent,
proved that she was born and edu
cated in Iowa, and the wife of a Red
Bank, N. J., man.
Escaping from a cage in the center
of the bull ring, Nero, an African
lion that refused to fight, bounded up
i riTTinnir th filoapfiprs !H rrpated a
, panic am(mg hundredg of persons a8.
J sembled to witness the lion-bull fight
in hnnnr nf fipst nhimanhau.
Mexico
Fortunately the lion harmed
no one but thc ensuing panjc resulted
jn severai injuries,
Leonard Roeder of Quincy, Illinois,
aged 110 wnose papers show him to
j nave be3n a prussian soldier at. the
time of the battle of Waterloo, fell
, down a flight of stairs, receiving in-
juries which will probably prove fatal.
Dennis A. Hayes, Philadelphia, was
re-elected president- of the Glass
Bottle Blowers' association of the
United States and Canada.
Tenders for the contract to con
struct the Missoula-Kooskia division
of the Northern Pacific, known as the
Lolo Pass cutoff, were opened by the
Northern Pacific at Missoula. Caugh
ren. Winters & Smith. Foley Brothers
& Larson, Thomas L. Greenbough and
Porter Brothers & "een were the
leading bidders. The new line will
cost nearly $5,000,000.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddj-, founder
and leader of the Christian Science de
nomination passed her eighty-eighth
birthday Friday at her residence at
Chestnut Hill, Boston
Washington.
Substantial' progress in canal con-
stnirtinn nil n Inner thn line 1R shown
by reports coming to the Washington
office of the isthmian canal commis-
i sion. Excavation work approximates
80.000,000 cubic yards.
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lar officers in the service.
The postmaster general announced
thc number of clerks and letter car
riers promoted at the Omaha post
office. Clerks, seven from $800 to
, $900 each; seventeen from $900 to
$1,000 each; twelve from $1,000 to $1,-
100; seven from $1,100 to $1,200,
Car
two riers, one, from $600 to $800;
from $800 to $900; two from $900 to
$1,000.
Postmaster Genera lYitchcock has
concluded agreements with the postal
authorities of Denmark and Japan, by
which, after August 1. 1909. parcels
exchanged with those countries may
be accepted up to $80 in value and
eleven pounds in weight. The eleven
pound weight limit now applies to all
countries except France and Sweden,
the weight for those countries being
four pounds, six ounces,
Only corporations adjudged to be
unlawful trusts, or commissions in
legal nroceedines undertaken bv the
United States, will be tabooed by
the war department in the purchase of
supplies for the army according to
the statement made Tuesday. This
explanation comes as a result of many,
corporations writing to Secretary Dick
inson since his recent order against
the purchase cf "trust" supplies, was
issued. y
A party of twenty-five senators and
members of the house is preparing to
vist Hawaii in response to an invi-
tation by the Hawaiian legislature.
The party will sail from San Fran
cisco August 24. Eighteen days will
be spent in Hawaii.
An omnibus bill authorizing the con
struction of bridges across various
i x& ouuuuulcu caiuiua.
With Presidents Taf t the central fig
r nnnmitttu1 Catntioi
ure as an enthusiastic advocate ol
waterway improvements, the meeting
at Washington ol th? national rivers I
and harbors congress on December 8.
9 and 10 next promises to be the most
notable gathering in the history ol
that organization.
TARIFF MEN CLASH
ALDRICH AND PAYNE EXCHANGE
- BITTER WORDS.
QUARREL IS OVER HIDE RATE
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Payne Backs President Taft's Demand
for Abolition of Duty on This
Western Product.
Washington. Bitter words between
Sanator Aldrich and Representative
Payne just before the close of an
hour's session of the tariff conferees
following a three hours' session, are
reported to have followed an attempt
on the part of the former to compel
a vote on a motion to make hides
dutiable at 7 per cent, half of the
existing rate.
The session was adjourned untlLat
2:30, witn the hide and leather tariff
still unsettled. From the variety of
reports concerning the incident, none
of which can be confirmed, it appears
that the senate leader was angered by
frequent statements made by the
house leader that the country and the
president were in sympathy with the
action of the house in putting hides on
the free list, and that he does not
propose to be governed by what a
majority of the conferees thought
about the question.
A formal motion fixing 7 per cent
as the rate to be fixed on hides was
made. At that time Mr. Payne is re
ported to have said that he could not
consent to the taking of a vote. He
asserted that the sentiment of the
country was in favor of free hides and
referred to the expressions of the
president on the subject. The motion
was not pressed, but it was pending
Saturday. During the forenoon ses
sion the conferees discussed the par
liamentary situation, but at night the
motion was renewed. Mr. Payne is
said to have reiterated his position
with increased emphasis.
Mr. Aldrich is reported to have up
braided Mr. Payne for his "obstinacy"
and to hove said he was tired of "dic
tatorial" methods to defeat the will of
a majority of the conferees. Mr.
Payne was unrelenting. When it was
seen that nothing could be done, Mr.
Payne's signature being necessary for
the pairing of a report, tne conference
adjourned.
The intense feeling exhibited leaked
out through confidences given by con
ferees to other members of congress.
After the adjournment of the confer
ence the house members continued in
session, and it was decided that a can
vass should be made to ascertain the
sentiment in the house concerning a
rule of that character.
While the house conferees were in
session another conference attended
by Senators Warren and Clark of
Wyoming. Sutherland, Borah and Dick
was held. Earlier in the day Senators
Smoot and Carter had met with their
western associates. -These senators
decided that they would insist upon
the shoe men fulfilling their agree
ment to permit leather goods to go on
the free list in return for the treat
ment of hides.
SEVEN KILLED ON WABASH.
Passenger Train Crashes Through
Bridge Near Kansas City.
Kansas City. Seven lives lost and
three persons perhaps fatally injured
Is the result of the wreck of Wabash
road passenger train No. 4 when it
plunged into the Missouri river thirty
miles east of here. The train left
Kansas City at 9 o'clock Saturday
night and was due in St. Louis ten
hours later. Of the eight cars which
made up the train, five and the engine
are now in the river, with the water
covering all of them except one end of
the Des Moines sleeper.
Former White House Lady DeatL
Winchester, Va. Mrs. Elizabeth
Taylor Dandridge, aged 85 years,
daughter of President Zachary Taylor,
twelfth president of the United States,
died here Sunday evening after a brief
illness.
Taft's Father-in-Law III.
Cincinnati. John W. Herron, father-in-law
of President Taft, is seriously
ill. following a mild stroke of paralysis.
Owing to Mr. Herron's advanced age,
84 years, it is said the stroke may
prove serious.
Oklahoma Editor Mysteriously Shot.
Tulsa, Okla. Mark Bassett, editor
of the Tulsa Daily News, was found
lying in a local printing office shot
through the head. Opinion is divided
as to how he was shot, but the police
say it was an attempted murder.
Carp Destroy Potato Bugs.
York, Neb. Carp saved Mr. Nelson,
n farmer, living near York, a nice
field of potatoes that were about to
be destroyed by potato bugs. The
heavy rains caused Beaver creek to
overflow its banks and just enough
water ran into the potato field to
allow the carp to swim in and devour
every potato bug.
Harriman Gets Good Land.
New York. The long contested title
of A. K. Van Deventer, treasurer of
the Southern Pacific company, repre
senting the interests of E. H. Harri
man to valuable land created at Rock
away Point, L. I., by the wind, wnves
and tides, has just been confirmed by
Judge Chatfield in the United States
circuit court. The present worth of
the point, considerable in itself, is of
minor importance when compared
with its potential worth as the base
of the great railroad and shipping ter
minals which it is to be.
OREGON CAVES TO BE SAVED.
Taft Signs Proclamation Making
Marble Halls National Property.
Washington. Oregon Caves, or
"the marble halls of southern Ore
gon," are to be preserved by the gov
ernment against the vandalism and
the inconvenience of the private own
ers. ' President Taft has just signed a
proclamation making them a national
nonument. The government will im
prove the facilities for reaching the
caves in addition to what the forest
service already has done.
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Kerns of Interest Taken Pram Hers
. and There Over the State.
The tenth annual session of the
Fullerton Chautauqua assembly will
open in Fuller Park, Aug. 13.
The First Regiment band, Nebraska
National Guard, of Bloomfield, left for
Ashland, Neb., for the ten days' state
encampment f
Cecil Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Davis, was drowned in "the
Union Pacific pond, a mile east of
Grand Island.
There is an oil fight on in York,
and consumers are able to buy kero
sene oil for 10 cents per gallon and
the best gasoline for 13 cents per gol
Ion, .Lawrence Barrett, a 14-year-old boy,
was drowned while swimming in Salt
creek near Lincoln park. The body
was found shortly afterward in -12
feet of water.
The York Chautauqua will com
mence Friday, July 30, and close on
Sunday, Aug. 8. The management is
presenting a fine array of talent this
year.
The Masonic fraternity of Grand
Island purchased the Held corner,
and contemplate the erection of a
much more pretentious building than
its present headquarters, at a cost of
$20,000.
A prosperous farmer named Sam
Larue, living at or near Ingham, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself
with a 44-caliber revolver, a few
yards east of the Burlington depot in
Holdrege. He is thought to have
been mentally unbalanced.
William Lane was arrested in Ne
braska City and placed in jail on the
charge of wife desertion. He will be
held until his wife reaches there from
Blanchard, la. The wife has been
trying to locate her recreant spouse
for some time.
June 21 was the fifth anniversary
of the going into effect of the Kin
kaid homestead law, and those "Kin
kaiders" who filed the first few days
now have completed their five years'
residence. Many of them will prove
up this .summer and fall. They are
required to have $800 in improve
ments. One of the largest public sales in
that part of the state has just taken
place at the Melton ranch, seven miles
southwest of Dickens. Over $10,000
worth of stock, implements, etc., was
sold. Twenty-five head of yearling
mules sold for $90 a head, which is
the highest price paid there for mules
for some time.
James Barry, the village black
smith at Odell, was arrested on a
charge of bootlegging, an indictment
being returned against him by the
grand jury. Barry was arraigned be
fore Judge Pemberton, pleaded not
guilty and was held to the district
court in bonds of $1,000, which he
gave.
The first wheat to be marketed in
Kearney out of this year's crop was
brought to the Kearney Milling com
pany last week, direct from the
threshing machine. It was of excep
tionally good quality, tested 61
pounds to the bushel, and is said to
have yielded about 40 bushels to the
acre.
Word has been received at Table
Rock of the recent death at the Is
raelite colony at Benton Harbor,
Mich., of George W. Myers, who lived
in Table Rock until he left for Ben
ton Harbor some two or three years
ago, after giving away to this sect
practically all of his property, consist
ing of several thousand dollars.
The divorce suit of Lucie Blakely
of Long Branch, N. J., a former
Beatrice resident, against Charles
Blakely was called in the" district
court, and after the evidence of Mrs.
Blakely had been introduced Judge
Rauer granted her a divorce and ali
mony amounting to $25,000, on the
grounds of " cruelty. The Blakelys
were for years prominent residents
of Beatrice.
Melbourne Carriker of Nebraska
City sailed from New York City for
South America, in the interest of the
Carnegie institute, and will be gone
for a year or more, and will travel
over the major portion of that south
ern country. Carriker is a graduate
of the Nebraska University, and this
is his third trip to foreign countries
in tne interest of tne large institu
tions of this country.
At Plattsmouth John Clarence was
sentenced by Judge H. D. Travis to
serve a term of fourteen years in the
state prison at hard labor. The
judge overruled the motion for a new
trial. Clarence was found guilty of
killing John P. Thaker by shooting
him with a revolver in a fight about
seven miles south of there. The men
were working about a cern shredder
at the time. Thacker lett a widow
and several small children.
Sheriff F. M. Monaugh of Stockton.
Kan., arrived in Nebraska City, hav
ing in charge James Rankin, an in
sane man, and attempted to turs him
over to Sheriff Fischer, claiming that
he was a charge belonging to Otoe
county. The officer refused to ac
cept the prisoner, and when the Kan
sas sheriff attempted to leave with
out taking his prisoner with him he
was arrested and placed in jail, being
unable to give bail. He is charged
with attempting to dump a pauper on
this county.
The police of Nebraska City arrest
ed a man who had been soliciting pic
tures for enlargement and collecting
in advance for the same, and made
him refund the money. The man
was then escorted out of the city.
This old scheme has been worked
there several times, and the police
have seen instructed to put a stop to
it in the future.
Janies Hart of Clay county complet
ed the first threshing of the se:;on.
His crop yielded thirty-eight bushels
per acre. It was hauled from the
machine to the elevator, and he re
ceived $1.02 per bushel.
England wants us to stand "side by
side with her in case of war, and it is
suggested that we clasp hands with
France in the cause of peace. Either
way, they do not seem to see theii
way to get on without us.
A Gotham magistrate refused mercy
to milk thieves because his own milk
had been stolen, too. Which, thougt
a slight incident in itself, shows how
the strictly judicial process can some
times, by force of the personal ele
ment, be turned into a human interes
1 story. "
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
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AUTO AND DOG RAGE
CO FAR "MAN'S BEST FRIEND'
IN THE LEAD.
IS
WHAT ASSESSOR ROLLS SHOW
One County Comes to the Front With
Seventeen Automobiles, Offsetting
Same With Seventeen Dogs.
The state capital correspondent of
the Omaha Bee, who has been inves
tigating Nebraska assessment rolls,
finds that the automobile may outdis
tance the horse and take his place in
the affection of the driving public, but
it will have to go some to get ahead
of the Nebraska dog. According to
reports of county assessors now on
file with the State Board of Assess
ment the dog is much more of a fa
vorite than the automobile, save in
one county. In old Pawnee the auto
mobile has caught up with the dog.
The people of that prosperous county
own, according to their county asses
sor, seventeen dogs and seventeen
automobiles. In Rock county the dog
and the automobile are close rivals
for the affection of the people, be
cause the assessor reports $80 worth
of automobiles and $8.40 worth of
dogs. Just bow many dogs $8.40 will
buy in Rock county is not known by
the state board, but the assessor
reports one automobile. Douglas
county people also give evidence of
caring about as much for dogs as they
do for automobiles, for the assessor
reported 44G automobiles and 4S2
dogs. Lancaster county refuses to do
away with "man's best friend," for
there was returned 4,113 dogs, against
241 automobiles. Lancaster tops the
state with its dogs.
Saline county's dogs population has
increased from 2,586 to 2,601, which
makes it the second largest dog coun
ty in Nebraska. Its automobiles have
also increased from eighteen to
thirty.
Thomas county reported $176 worth
of automobiles and $20 worth of dogs,
but just how much this amount of
money will buy of either commodity
in Thomas county the board has no
idea. Morrill county, the youngest
county in the state, has seven auto
mobiles, but lines up with 526 dogs.
Cherry county only has two automo
biles, but it has 154 dogs. Colfax
county has $2,615 worth of auto
mobiles and 1.314 dogs.
In most of the counties the doggie
is worth $5, or rather it is valued at
that by the assessor, while the auto
mobile ranges from $80 to $175.
Incidentally the board is very much
put out because so many assessors
have neglected to follow the plain let
ter of the schedules furnished them,
and some of the assessors may yet be
jerked up for an explanation. Several
of the officials have neglected to put
in the number of animals or com
modity, though the schedules provide
a place for this information. Others
have reduced' real estate without say
ing why, when real estate was valued
last year for four-years.
Land Values.
An analysis of the returns made by
the county assessors to the State
Board of Assessment shows that sev
eral assessors have returned the value
of lands this year less than last year.
Just how this can be the board is un
able to figure. Land is assessed only
once in every four years and each
year the improvements made thereon
is assessed. Every county, therefore,
should show an increased value of
lands. As far as reported the de
creases are as follows: Boone, $10,000;
Dawes. $6,000; Greeley. $10,000; Hook
er, $6,000; Lancaster. $34,000; Logan,
$1,000; Merrick, $3,000. Furnas coun
ty lands increased just $1. while
Knox county lands were returned at
exactly the same valuation as last
year.
. Premium Statute Void.
Judge Stewart of the district court
held null and void the statute which
prohibited thc placing of premiums in
food packages. J. R. Burleigh, a
merchant of Lincoln, was arrested for
selling food packages In which there
was a slip which entitled the buyer to
a book. The court held such a statute
was unconstitutional and thc merchant
was discharged.
Will Not Be a Candidate.
Judge John M. Ragan. in who-e
name was started the suit which de
feated the nonpartisan election law,
said he decided not to be a candidate
for supreme judge because he was
advised that his health might be im
periled by the confining work which
would be his portion if elected.
Concessions at thr Fair.
Secretary Mellor of the state board
of agriculture has up to date received
more from concessions at the state
fair than has ever been received up
to this date. This indicates a pros
perous year for tne fair, although if
Is to be held this year for the first
time in a "dry" town.
Butter and Erg Crops.
Creamer' managers state that the
butter production of Nebraska is still
below the normal and that the coun
tr's supply is no more than enough
to meet the demand. The last state
ment of the associated warehouses, an
organization covering the principal
cities of the east, showed that on
July 1, the amount of butter in stor
age was 8,000,000 pounds less than a
year ago. The same source of informa
tion revealed an egg shortage of 97,
000 cases, as compared with a year
ago.
Lower Rates on Pullmans.
The state railway commission is
about to secure a reduction in Pull
man rates in Nebraska on its own
initiative without waiting for a formal
complaint. The commission compiled
a schedule of rates and then sent for
representatives of the company to see
what they thought about it. H. B.
Clement, general ticket agent, and G.
S. Fernald, assistant general' solicitor
of Chicago, conferred with thc com
mission and agreed to send a schedule
shortly containing reduction along the
lines suggested oy the commission.
MsniNGiTON Gossip
Taft as Bachelor
WASHINGTON. President
Taft.
if the summer "bachelor" of the
White House, is sharing the fate of
many other government officials and
Washington residents whose families
have gone away to mountains or sea
shore. The president is taking the
situation philosophically, doesn't seem
to mind the hot weather and is read
ing daily with great delight letters
from Beverly which tell of the rapid
improvement in Mrs. Taft's health.
Living bachelor fashion at the
White House is not fraught with the
same discomforts that beset the mere
man who has his home "closed up on
him," when his wife goes away and is
compelled to seek food and lodging as
best he may. The president and Mrs.
Taft divided the White House "help"
when the occupancy of the Beverly
cottage was begun, so the president
is well taken care of and domestic
affairs at the White House run on
much the same.
The president, however, allowed
Mrs. Taft to take the "first cook" to
Beverly, while he is served by the
"second cook," who is a legacy from
the Roosevelt administration. She is
a negro girl named Mary, who hails
from Old Virginia and whose sway
over the White House kitchens now is
complete.
Illinois Senator Is
JUDGING from many reports of new
business ventures on the part of
the new junior senator from Illinois
which are floating into Washington,
be is soon to be known as
"Wealthy William" Lorimer in
stead of plain "Mister" and "Sen
ator." Besides continuing at the
head of a successful brick manufactur
ing company and one or two other
concerns in Chicago, Mr. Lorimer soon
is to participate in a steamboat busi
ness on 'the Mississippi and to help
operate a railroad in Colorado.
His membership in a concern which
Is to operate steamboats of light draft
between SL Paul and St. Louis and
furnish wheat cargoes to ships at
New Orleans connecting with the lead
ing rail line, was announced recently.
News now has come from Colorado
that the San Luis Valley & Southern
Railway Company has been projected,
with Senator Lorimer of Illinois and
Congressman Weeks of Massachusetts
prominent among its incorporators.
Connected with the project is a
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Uncle Sam Looks Up Turkish Cigarettes
FOR the benefit of people who have
developed a great fondness for the
so-called Turkish and Egyptian ciga
rettes, the state department at Wash
ington has made an investiration of
the tobacco industries of the east.
Practically all of the Turkish tobacco
comes from Samsoun, in the district
of Trebizond.
Large quantities of the Trebizond
tobacco are sold by the Turkish grow
ers to Egypt, where it is used to
brighten the tobacco obtained from
other parts of Turkey. The Trebizond
tobacco, according to the United States
consular agents, is weak, has very lit
tle aroma and large, very light col
ored leaves which do not keep well.
The Samsoun and Bafra tobaccos are
stronger, have more aroma, do not
Tawney Gets Taft
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EPRESENTATIVE TAWNEY, who
priations committee and lives in Wi
nona, Minn., read in the morning pa
pers the other day the itinerary ot
Mr. Taft's western trip, and it did not
mention Winona. Mr. Tawney is the
man who engineered the $2.",000 ap
propriation for the president's travel
ing expenses, and he called to find out
about that Winona omission. The
president agreed to put Winona on
his- traveling map, not, as he ex
plained, on account of the appropria
tion, but because he remembered a
story President Roosevelt had told.
President Roosevelt was touring
the west when he came to Minn2sota.
In his itinerary, too, Winona was
omitted. Mr. Tawney boarded tne
train up the line and asked for a
quarter-hour stop and speech in his
town. Secretary Loeb said it would
be impossible, as they were going
somewhere else and had to hurry or
they would be late. Then Mr. Tawney
looked up the district passenger agent
of the road, who was on the train.
For some reason, not yet entirely ex
plained, the engine got out of order
when Winona was reached, and it
took the engineer 20 minutes to find
the fault and fix it.
in the White House
The president has happily solved
the problem of disposing of the long
evenings by taking long autmobile
rides about the 'city and suburbs. He
usually starts out on these trips about
9:30 o'clock, returning to the White
House at 11 or afterward. Capt. Arch
ibald Butt, the president's ahle. is al
ways his companion on these jour
neys and usually the president tele
phones an invitation to some cabinet
officer, senator or representative, and
stops at the guest's house or club to.
pick him up. The evening rides often
extend out into the beautiful Rock
Creek park, which stretches for miles
along the little waterway whose name
it bears. At other times Mr. Taft has
his chauffeur drive about the city or
on the Potomac park driveways,
which skirt the river back of the White
House and the monument grounds.
Arising at about seven o'clock the
president gives nearly an hour to
dumb-bells, pulley weights and other
forms of exercise prescribed for him.
He breakfasts slowly and usually
alone. During his morning meal and
for half an hour or so afterward, the
president reads the newspapers. Be
tween 9:30 and 10 he begins bis busy
J day in the executive offices. At 1:30
comes luncheon at the White House
always with some invited guest for
company. The afternoon is devoted
to golf, for the president hopes to
play every afternoon that he remains
in Washington. Dinner always finds
guests assembled and usually it is
an informal and delightful meal,
which begins a little after seven
( o'clock and sometimes continues for
an hour and a half.
Railroad Magnate
scheme to exploit what is known as
the Costilla land grant. The Costilla
State Development Company, the Cos
tilla Power Company, and the Costilla
Irrigation Company all have been
launched with the railroad, and Sena
tor Lorimer and Congressman Weeks
have shares in each.
The president of the new railway
company happens to be Franklin E.
Brooks, who a few years ago . bly rep
resented the state of Colorado at
Washington as represen itive at large.
Therein lies the story of how Messrs.
Lorimer and Weeks were allowed to
participate in the "sood thing" out in
Colorado. The most important house
committee on which Mr. Brooks
served while in congress was the com
mittee on agriculture. Mr. Lorimer
and Mr. Weeks were fellow members-
They sat side by side In many im
portant meetings of the committee
during the packing house inquiry and
the discussion of the pure food bill.
Naturally they all became fast friends,
and accordingly when Mr. Brooks re
turned to private life and visited the
east in search of capital for his new
projects he sought them out and won
their approval and financial support.
Thus it was through his member
ship on the committee on arriculture
that Mr. Lorimer aas been afforded
the opportunity of becoming a rail
way magnate.
bite the tongue and have small dark
leaves. The most aromatic sorts are
what are called Marden and Dere.
The country where the best Turkish
tobacco is grown is a low mountain
ous region bordering the south shore
of the Black sea. The tobacco is
grown, like the grapes, on' the slopes
of the hills, and the climate is always
humid. A clear sky and bright sun
are extremely rare. The methods of
tobacco culture are primitive, and
much is left to chance and nature;
no systematic rotation of crops is
practiced, no scientific fertilizing and
there is little cultivation.
In Trebizond the average yield is
about 800 pounds o'f tobacco ppr acre.
The leaves are put on strings, each
quality by itself, and hung on poles in
the open air. Then, when dry, they are
put into a sweathouse. A gcod deal ot
thc Turkish tobacco is made up in
Hungary for the American cigarette
trade. In one factory in Fiune. Hun
gary, in the last year, 371,000.000 cig
arettes were manufactured. Some ot
the tobacco came from Brazil. Java
and Sumatra.
to Stop at Winona
In the meantime Mr. Tawney ftad
introduced Mr. Roosevelt to a large
crowd of his admiring townsmen, anil
the president had made a speech. Mr.
Taft said he was convinced he would
have to stop at Winona anyhow, and
he might as well promise to do to
now.
The Heron.
A heron, bird of long beak and tall
legs, was going along a river. He
saw any quantity of carp and pik
(the heron is a great eater of fishi
and he could easily have caught them
but he wasn't hungry; this was a verv
good reason. A few moments later
his appetite came back to him; he re
turned to the edge of the water to find
something to eat. But the pike and
the carp were no longer there; it was
a great loss for him. He saw some
tenches, but this did not please him.
he wanted something more solid.
"Me eat tenches!" he exclaimed
"What do they take me for?"
At last he found some gudgeons.
"Gudgeons! Did anyone ever sec
a heron eat such small fry? What!
Open my beak for so little"
Hunger overtook him, and in his ex
treme want, not being able to find
anything else, he was glad enough to
run across a snail.
Disdain nothing, and don't be so
difficult to please. Often, m being
willing to gain tco much, we run the
risk of losing everything.
The Wisconsin state militia is con
sidering the formation of an aeronau
tic corps.
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