THE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BETH.
Red Tape at Panama is Making Uncle Sam Lose $20,000 a Day
"of right. I'joc, by Fraii.i U. Carpenter.)
1ANAMA. April 20. (8. eoial Coi
Jm9 I respondnnoe of The Bee.) t'nele
r-.tin i uie i'j lust; m.lllOUS
through tho Miss Nnnrys o' con
gress before the canal It cum-
Pleted. They have already b gun their 'n-eKllg-tlon
of iho petty ti.ierR.jney pur
chases mnde by tho CHniil commission, and
they Indict that everything hnl'. be done
by plow government methods backed by
congressional action. Ruth methods a-a
nil right In ordinary government business
but. Just now, they are Ilka great iron
balls chained to tho legs of the engineers
irtardlnjr their work at an e.iormuus cost
In money and, I might say, in life as
well. Farther on In this letter I shall
show how such delays have affected the
hospitals and how they are retarding- the
actual work of the canal. At this Initial
stage the government cannot afford to be
penny wise, and pound foolish. The work
Is alrendy started, ami the high-priced
men ace cm the ground. There Is an Im
mediate need for all sorts of supplies', find
emergencies fire hound to come from time
to time which will demand the immediate
expenditure of comparatively large sums
t a moment's notice. On such occasions
minor mistakes may occur, a few men may
make more than an ordinary profit, but
the saving In money and health will be
enormous. '
l.nss of flitMMMl a Day.
The parents who have boys on the
isthmus will be Interested In tho matter
of health. The -taxpayers are Interested
In pushing the work on the canal; for
every day of delay will cost them at least
l-UOOO. We are to spend on the canal, in
cluding the money we have already given
tho French, about MOO.OnO.OOO. and it la
estimated that It will take from ten to
twelve years to build It. At 3 per cent
the annual Interest cost on that sum will
be equal to (9,000,000, but as the money will
be gradually Invested the Interest should
be averaged from beginning to end, and It
will be only half the above sum or $4,600,
000 a year. The engineers tell me that
the cost of the engineering, administra
tion, sanitation and general expenses,
which will be about the same throughout
the work, will approximate $2,000,000 a
year,- which, added to the $4,(00,000, makes
SO, 500,000 for these two elements, for each
year it is building. This Is the value of
the work. Tho moment the canal Is done
this expense stops and the canal becomes
a live account instead of a dead one on
our national ledger.
Now $15,500,000, dividing by 300, means
I.'O.OOO for each working day, and that In
what the delay will cost us year In and
year out. For every day that congress
hugglcs over tho prices we shall have to
spend 10,000. Every working hour will cost
ua 9J,vw, uuu every huikiiik iiunuiu menu
loss of more than $30, that loss going
on at tho rate of 60 cents per second at
every watch tick the working day through.
Is this the time to haggle about the cost
of wafllo irons, muffin tins, hospital sup
plies and blue print paper for the use of
the engineers?
I want to know.
lied Tape at Panama.
Indeed, congress is making such a fuss
about tho petty Items of expense at Pan
ama that both the commission and the en
gineers are afraid to buy the actual neces
sities without a lot of red tape that makes
their actual cost ten times as great as
though they were bought at double prices.
We ur building and repairing something
like 3,000 houses hore. The other day an
order was sent to Washington for 12,000
doors to . be forwarded Immediately. The
Panama department of material and sup
piles advised that they be purchased In the
open market, but one of the commissioners
tells me that they would not dare do so,
for congress would surely Investigate such
an outraueous action. Other orders have
been made for picks and shovels, others
for water pipe machinery, large and small,
and for a hundred other things which the
work iinpeialivtly needs; but ships coma
and ships go, and tho supplies are not
here. I understand that orders were lent
In for blue print paper months ago. All
drawings and engineering reports era
copied on this paper and it is almost a
necessity to the furtherance of the work.
I suppose it will come In lime.
As to the wafflo irons and muffin Una,
made much of In tho congressional Investi
gation, they were probably part of a fur
nlture order. Tho United Stales give
quarters to Its American employes. It hoi
already bought 400 or more sets of furni
ture for this purpose. It will need all
sorts of ranges and kitchen supplies and
I suppose the Miss Nancys of con grew
will demuud thai each stove lid and stove
holder be duly adverUised for competitive
bids, while in the meantimo our good)
American laborers may do their cooking
on spits.
As far as I can nee there is no extravw
agance here. The chief kicks among the
men at the top arc not on account of per
sonal illsi oinlort, hut from the delay which
occurs In the lack of tools for expediting
their work.
Twelve Whitewash Brushes.
Indeed all sorts of stories are old her
at l'anamu as to how red tape works In th
government service. A vet y pertinent oi.e,
which, however. I do not believe, is the
story of the twelve whitewash brushes. Ac
cording to this one of the sanitary officers
in the middle of the nine had sent In an
order for twelve men to come to his station
to do some whitewashing to make the plaoa
sanitary, and at the same time he sent In
requisition for twelve whitewash brushes.
The men came all right, but tho order for
the whitewash brushes hud to pass through
the government mills and the elorks in
chargH flrnt mailed a query to the sanitary
agent as to whether nine whitewash
brushes would not do quite as well. lie
replied that they would not and In the
course of two daya the extra three brushes
arrived. Meanwhile three men .had been
waiting for c chance to get In their work,
and their wages footed up many times the
cost of the brushes.
I might also tell the story of a feather
duster upon which bids are alleged to have
been gotten at the Panama shops and
other stories, but such things are only Illus
trative of government methods which are
better understood In Washington than here.
The truth is the men at Panama use every
means possible to get what they want for
their work. Home of the employes even,
take money out of their own pocket and
buy at the stores, trusting to be paid baofe
In tho future. The French supplies and
machinery on hand have been of enormous
valuo, and the French warehouses are ran
sacked to supply many deficiencies.
A Business Administration.
Indwd the enormous Interest and work
ing coat of building the canal demands
that it tihould be. pushed to completion as
rapidly us possible. We need a modern
business administration, with modern busi
ness methods. We need men who will look
at the commercial side of every proposition,
as well as the technical and political sides.
In order to shorten the time we should,
first adopt a carerul, well considered and
comprehensive general scheme of work and
then have an 'administration which -will sea
that the labor, material and machinery
necessary to vigorously prosecute that
work are promptly furnished.'
This menus that wo must have a one
man power at the head of all. things con
nected with the construction of the canal,
and that this power must be on the ground
with ability to meet emergencies and with
authority to act without the delay incW
dent to making reports to some other au
thorlty 2,000 miles away and without wast
Ing one or two months of waiting before
any Important Individual move can be,
made.
It means that the ordinary restrictions)
of our routine government work should be
modified, and that those which prevail in
Loses a Fortune by Marriage
T
HKOUUII the recent marriage of
Helen Morton of Philadelphia, 'a
beiicllcary under the will of Mar
garet R. Itolbrook, deceased, the
girl will lose the benefit of a
I rust fund of $30,000 created by tho decedent
for tho girl's benefit.
1'nder the wlllbf the decedent It was pro
vUl'd that the niece should receive the
interest on the sum of $:!0.000 held In trust
f.r her use 'during the term of her natural
life, or as long as she remains unmarried."
in case of her death It was directed that
tho principal should be divided between
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals and the Society for the Pro
tection of Children from Cruelty.
Miss Morton became the wife of Theo
dore Bunker on August 1, 19u4. The ac
countant In a petition recently filed In tha
orphan's court averred that under the terms
Vf the will tho trust terminated, and asked
vJthat the principal bo awarded to the ln
V""tltutloiiM named by the testatrix.
Judge Penrose, tho auditing Judge, how
ever, held that lit his opinion the trust
must continue during the life of the young
woman, notwithstanding her marriage, and
so ruled.
Immediately after this decision counsel
s.
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HARItOR AT COLON. WHERE 81TFMES ARE LANDED.
our great railroads and other business in
stitutions should take their place. It
means the abolition of the red tape which
now holds as to such work, and that every
thing should be done to hurry on the, com
pletion of the canal at the earliest possi
ble moment. It means that we should have
the best and the most Improved machinery,
that no time should be wasted in experi
menting, and that only machinery which
has been In actual use and has stood the
test of actual service should be employed.
This is the idea of the engineers here, and
as I have shown. In describing the handling
of the Culebra cut, it will make possible
the completion of the canal In a compara
tively short time.
It seems to me that If a man like the
chief engineer were given entire charge
of the work at Panama, with a large
enough contingent fund to meet every pos
sible emergency and with the authority
to act in emergencies, as far as the Isth
mus Is concerned; and if at the same time
a man of similar ability and training could
be placed under the secretary of war and
the president at the Washington end of
the line the canal would go Jumping from
now on to the finish. This, of course, means
consulting and advisory engineers for Mr.
Wallace, and It also means plenty of as
sistance for the men at the other end,
with the president at the head as boss of
tho whole.
Some of the most serious delays, caused,
I suppose, by advertisements for bids, have
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for tho charitable Institutions Hied excep
tions to Judge Penrose's finding. Judge;
Hanna In an opinion sustains the excep
tions and awards the fund to the above
charities. The Judge Bays:
"What was tho intention of this testatrix
when Bho executed her will? Her evident
Intention was to provide for thj comfort
und maintenance of her niece during her
lifetime, if alio so long remained unmar
ried. Bhe also contemplated the probable
marriage of her uleoe, when she would not
need the payment to her of the lucoma
of the fund set apart for her use. but be
supported by her husband, in which cass
testatrix Intended to benefit the two wor
thy charities she mentioned in her will
and directed tho division of tha trust fund
between them.
"She did not Intend to prevent or con
demn the murriuge of her niece. The
question here presented is considered -with
grcjit care. We thing the sole Inquiry ts,
what was tha intention of the testatrix?
As we fail to discover any intent by her
to restrain or forbid the marriage of her
nieuo, but merely to limit the payment of
her bounty to the occurrence of such
event, tho limitation is valid and should
bo recognized."
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been In supplying the hospitals. Stwini
of the doctors have told me Hint they have
been out of Important druss for a ennsid
ersble time, but it was not until this morn
ing that I had a ib'tnlleil M.uonn'in to
the lack of medical and surui'-al in .-i fsitli-
My Informunt Is one if the A i i 1 1 -1 , . i (
trained nur-vs who h.s li-in einplux il ,.t
Ancon for sevtial iniiiih. Said sbr:
"Wo have hail kikii tuuillc In K.ttHi.u
things of all kind on time. Wlo-u I lie
Americans took lu 1.1 Kiiiiilis were S'lil
down for a hospital of inn beds. We have
now .0 beds In line and no proportionate
Increase of supplies. This tin hum n lai k of
basins, rubber she, til.r lump and lanterns.
We have luul only a dw tempi lature tiler
morticters. In mv :inl 1 had iweni
thiee patients and III order to gi-t a ther
mometer to take their temperature 1 had
to go to another ward to borrow one. This
was the-, case In other wards, ami it so re
sulted that in one ward no temperature wasi
taken from 1 p. m. unill S n. ni. the next
day. Tbe muse in cliaiK'1 of that ward
would have had lo co out iti the dark, down
the hill, through til" tries to another ward
to borrow a thermometer. She was afraid
and did not go, and 1 don't blame her.
Such thermometers ennnot cost more than
SO cents apiece at wholesnle.
"Another thing we needed but could not
get." the nutse went on. "wis absorbent
cotton and gauze. We ordered It from the
Tinted States, but it lakes a month to get
an ordinary purchase through, and for
weeks we lacked this material to dress
wounds and drain them. We used old mos
quito netting for a time, and also bought
cheese cloth of the Panama stores and
tried that. Tho cheese cloth contained
starch, and. when it became dry It would
make a covering over the wound standing
out from It. I do not know that any In
Jury resulted from this, but it wan certainly
a great annoyance to the doctors and
nurses."
I'llow about drug supplies?"
"We have been short of a number of im
portant medicines at times. We have been
entirely out of arsenic, strychnine, potash
and digitalis, and also of Iron, lodino and
similar drugs. One of the medicines we
use Is the elixir of quinine, iron and strych
nine. Wo were once out of that for weeks,
and It was the some with Fowler s solution
of arsenic."
ursrs at Panama.
"What kind of a position Is that of
trained nurse at ranama?"
"It is not an easy one and It Is poorly
paid," was the reply. "We nurses came
here on tho understanding that we should
have all our expenses and $j0 a month.
We get $00 but there are so many Inci
dentals that there is very little of our
pay left at the end of the month. We
live at Ancon and have to have a cab
every time we go to Panama to shop. This
costs us about $1 each time, and the re
sult Is from $8 to $10 a month goes in cab
fares. And then the washing. Only the
uniforms can be done up at tho hospital
laundry, and all the small articles that a
woman must have, such ns handkerchiefs,
laces, fine dresses, etc., must be washed
outside. This costs on the average about
$5 pef month. In addition there are many
other expenses, so that all told, one makes
much less here than at home.
"The truth Is, the salary of a trained
nurse at Panama, should be $75 or $100
per month, everything Included. I think
the nurses would be satisfied with $76, but
considering the work, the risk to health
and the distance from home, $100 a month
Is little enough. Such a salary would raise
the standard of the nurses here, and
would bring the best. As it Is now we are
paid too little. Indeed, we get V2 per
week when we nurse in private families
in the United States, and that usually In
rich families where the comforts are far
greater than here."
"How many nurses are there at Pan
ama?" "I should say about forty, and of these
two-thirds are Americans and the rest Ca
nadians. They are all fairly good, but it
RUSSIAN BATTLESHIPS APPROACHING ENTRANCE TO SUEZ CANAL SUNKEN RUSSIAN COLLIER IN FOREGROUND.
Ml
N the morning of March 24 last,
at Port Said, the third Russian
Baltic fleet was approaching the
entrance to the Sues canal and a
Nebraska boy, returning from the
Philippines, trained his camera on the ves
sels. Ha sends prints of two of the pic
tures to The Bee, with the following let
ter: ALEXANDRIA. March 28.-To the Editor
of The Bee: I am inclosing herewith two
kodak pictures which I took at Port t'aid
on March 24 of the Third Russian Baltic
fleet as It was about to enter the Suez
canal, bound for the war zone. These
pictures were taken Just at sunrise with
results better than could havo teen an
ticipated under the clrcumstani'v, tho sky
being cloudy.
No. 1 is a Russian battleship approach
ing the entrance to the canal, followed by
others of the licet. The sunken Vessel in
the foreground Is a loaded Russian collier,
which collided with a Norwegian mer
chantman. No. 2 shows the entrance to the canal,
Is claltii'il that the salary is so low that
tho eiy best American trained nurses will
ii"t tome. We have no uurst s from Johns
Hopkins, tin1 rnivcrslty of Pennsylvania
.ir t'i,. Hloi kley Training School of Phlla
nelptilaj We have some from llillevue
hosiltal. New York, but noiio from the
other binre iinil well known hospitals of
ili.it eiiv or Washington. Some of our
nurse have strved ill China and the Phil
ippines anil we have one who went with
I r. Anita Meiiee to Japan and nursed In
Hie hospitals there. The nurses nre all
conscientious and they all earn their eal
iii les seveial times over."
.InuiHlcH i'riiri a Patients.
"Hive ine some Idea of the character ot
your patients."
"I don't like lo speak about that." said
th nurse. "That Is a sore subject with
us. 1 am a southern woman, and while
I tnlnht possibly not object to rating din
ner with Hooker T. Washington. I would
object to nuiMiir the black servant who
liiK ditches In Hooker T. Washington's
Iwiok anl. Most of the wards here are
tilled with the ordinary canal laborers,
men who nvelve from 75 cents to $1 a day.
They aro largely Jamaica negroes, as
black ns a stove, and native Panamans,
many of whoiii aro mulattoes. Wa have
ten wards here, and of these only one Is
devoted to thn American employes on tha
canal; tho other nine are occupied by tua
people I have described. They are of
lower class than can be found In the char
ity wards of our city hospitals. Soma f
them have disease which ara loathioma
to an extreme. Tha patients ara almost
nil men, and many of them aro such that
a woman should not be asked to touch
them."
More Money Needed for Sanitation.
I understand tliat more money ts needed
here for sanitation. Tho sanitary officer
asked for $0,000,000 to clean up tbo tstlu
mus, but they were given only one-fourth
that amount. They estimated that It
would take $76,000 to clean Panama, Rnd
about one-third that sunt waa allowed. Tha
supplies needed have been promptly or
dercd, but tho necessity of advertising' iQf
bids has caused a delay In tha order
being filled, and In tha meantime tha )ioa
pltals have gotten along as well as they
could, patronizing to soma extent tha
Panama drug1 stores at considerably high
prices than similar orders would have cost
In tha United States.
It seems to ma that tha sanitary fores
here Is excellent The corps of do o tors em
braces soma of tha best men of their pro
fession, and both doctors and nurses ara
doing earnest and conscientious work,
f- rfldltureencdous.a aryxwork cmfwyyp
As to the matter of supplies, one of tha
doctors recommends that a medical pur
veyor bo put at the head of tha medical
supply department for Panama at New
York, and that he be paid $5,000 a year.
This man would be In close connection
with the hospitals here, and would keep In
touch with the markets at home. He
would sea that Panama has always a full
month's hospital supplies in advance, and a
large enough reserve supply to meet any
emergency. Indeed, some such provision
would seem to be almost a necessity In tha
present condition of the Isthmus.
Since writing tha above, the news has
coma that President Roosevelt has reor
ganized the canal commission, and that
tha chief engineer will bo given full
authority at this end of the line, while N
commissioner Shonts, a practical railroad
man, will have charge of ordering supplies
and all other work In tha United States.
This means a business administration
throughout and that the canal building will
from now on be practically relieved of the
red tape which so clogged tha undertaking
up to this time. If congress will now but
do Its duty, the work of canal digging will
soon be In full away and we shall have
a union of the oceans In advance of the
wildest dreams of the French engineers.
FRANK O. CARPENTER.
Quaint Features of Current Life
with two Russian battleships entering, the
white vessel preceding being a Red Cross
hospital shin, which Is accompanying the
fleet. The fleet consisted of fourteen ves
sels, nine men-of-war and five colliers.
I am on my way hoiue from, Manila, P.
I., on a six mouth's vacation. I am con
nected wtth the Bureau of Public Print
ing ut Manila In the capacity of foreman
of printing. Mr. John S. Iech of Bloom
iugtou, 111., is chief of the bureau.
J. A. HOfJUSETTE,
Wahoo, Neb.
Editorial Politeness.
LIL A ....... 1., ,, ..Hit. ,.. triou t.t 1 in am
I " I polito as possible In returning un
A I ucnenteri mn nnscririts. but lie does
not reach the Oriental skill in
making his would-be contributor
comfortable. The Chinese editor says:
"We have read It with lntinlle delight.
By the holy ashes of our ancestors we
swear that we have never seen so superb
a masterpiece. His majesty the emperor,
our exalted master, if wu were to print It,
would command us to take it as a model
and never publish anything of a less strik
ing quality. As we could not obey this
order more than onoe In '10,000 years, we
are compelled to Bend back your divine
manuscript, and beg a thousand purdons."
soldiers Llxon MAukeya.
Lost In the Jungles of Mindanao, a troop
of United States cavalry subslated for nine
teen days on monkeys. The troops were
finally found by ncoutliig party sent In
search of them, and were little the wors:
for thoir experience. Sergunt John Cuvln
of the Fourteenth cavairy, who arrived In
San Francisco on tho transport Sherman,
was In charge of the rescuing party. He
said: "I was with 'Ueneral Wood in Min
danao, fighting Moros. I w.cs on scoutIiis
duty, and when thn troop was lost I was
seut to find it. Tho men had two days',
rations when they went into tho mountains,
and the supply soon ran out. The jungles
abound with monkeyo. The mon shot and
ale the animals rather than starve. They
became accustomed to the food, and for
nineteen days lived on monkey flesh alone.
When found only two of the troopers were
exhuusted, us monkey meat did not agree
with them."
As the Hoy I nderalood.
"During the taking of a religious census
of tha District of Columbia ' tho past
winter," relates a representative from Ten
nessee, "a couple of young ladles who were
engaged In the work stopped at my homa
on Capitol Hill, and when the bell rang
It was answered by tha negro boy I
brought from Tennecsee with me. Tha
ladies asked him:
"Will you please teli me who lives here?"
." 'Yessum; Mlstau Johnslng,' was the an
swer. " 'Is he a Christian?'
" 'No, ma'am. He's ar congressman fiom
Tennessee.' "Philadelphia Record.
University of Nebraska is Justly Proud of Its Victorious Debaters
iifinnv in ileliatinir with fhe Ne-
VI hrasku. university teams has be
I com a fixed habit. Ever since
Prof. Miller M. Fogg came to
the university from Harvard
three years ago and worked a revolution
In the methods of the debuting classes in
the English, department, tho students hav
won every contest In which they have
been engagod. Nebraska has gamed an
enviable; reputation In debate and to d
feat It im the aiiibi'lon of Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas, Colorado and other teams wlilcil
'lave been -worst jd.
Thin
t.e aa t'.arly Mart.
eai thu Cornhunker boys have
started off with the usual string of vic
tories. They have met Iowa and Wash
ington university of St. I.ouls and have
won In each event. In both cases the
question was. "Resolved, That tho second
sentence of the second section of the four
teen! h amendment to tho constitution
should le repealed." The section in ques
tion refers lo tho apportionment of a
state's representatives In congress. Ne
hruHka had the .itilrinuiive hi liolh de
bater. Thure Is mii cuthu&iasm over deuatiug
at tho university which is hardly second
to that engendered by a big foot ball
game. Tim victorious teams are praised
and filled to their hearts' content. There
Is never a thought of losing among the
debaters and tba students in general are
just as confident of success.
Members of the Team.
Nebraska team against Iowa:
Earl M. Marvin, 190C, Beatrice. A native
of Beatrice, who prepared for college, at
the Beatrice High school. At tho high
school ho was twice a member of thn
school's debating team.
Charles A. Sawyer. lifKi. Lincoln. A na
tive of Lincoln; prepared for college at
the Lincoln High school, where he was a
prominent debater. H entered the uni
versity In 19ta and was president of the
freshman class. Iist year he opened Ne
braska's case against Kansas when the
Jayhawkers went down for the third suc
cessive year.
Charles A. Suiitierlin, 1007, Tekama.li, Neb.
Bora at Chase, Mich.; picpared for col
lege at the Tekaniuh (Neb. and Clinton
(la.) High schools. In high school he
made a reputation us a public speaker,
representing the Clinton High school on
its ileliatiuK team. He was city editor of
lint Clinton (Iu.) Dally Ago in 1.'1 and
I'.v:. He entered college in 13. and niadi.
the University Debating syiiad in I'JW. lie
was chairman of the iophoinoro hop com
mittee. Frank A. Peterson, lSnfl. Omaha, nlter
nate. . Horn at Omaha; prepared for col
lege at the Omaha High school; entered
the university In VjvL Us h,jirH Utkun hl&ll
rank us a scholar. Ho parsed the Rhodes
scholarship examination last spring, and
is a candidate this year for appointment
to the Oxford honor.
A,lso Victorious,
Nebraska teem against Washington uni
versity of St. Louis. Mo.:
Albert M. Levy, 107. Lincoln. Born at
flun'alo. N. Y.; prepared for college ut tne
Lincoln High rtchool. While in the high
school he wus on live victorious debuting
teams. In IW'2 he won the Nebraska inter-M-hohiHtic
debate championship for Lincoln,
while studying under Charles M. Bracelem
of Omaha, now teacher of history and de
bate at the Omaha High school, l.vy was
iiiiuluted aUeriiate ou Ilia I Umi
whipped Kansas last year.
John Dean Ringer, Lincoln. Born at
Lincoln; prepared for college at the' Lincoln
High school. He will grailuato from Hie
College of Law this year. In the Lincoln
High school he rnu twice chosen as its
representative In the Inter-scholasllo de
bute, was president of his class the tlist
and fourth years, and wu prominent in
athletics. In college lie has played foot
ball five )urs and baw ball one year. II"
was president of the Young Men's Chris
tian association for two years, und has
been the general see-retary of the asbOd
atlon last year and this. '
Joseph M. Swi linen, KHiS, Omaha. A native,
of Sweden; prepared for college at the
CtrnnhK iUjilk SUUuul 1U UiS JiifiU fetilUUl
ha won first place In the senior oratorical
contest, was editor of tho paper In 19O3-1S04,
and in ado a reputation us a debater. He
was in teams twice that debatod with tha
Chicago high schools, twice against
lieutrice, twice against Lincoln, the
last time against Uncolii being in 1904.
once he was Omaha's representative and
once its ultornative In the Nebraska Inter
Meliolastio de.bute.
Morton I.eroy, Corey law, 1907, alternate-
Lincoln. Horn at IJluo Vole, Neb.; pre
pared for college at the Lincoln High
school. In high school he was prominent
in athletics and was one of the clasn
orators. He tuught three years, tha last
us principal of the (nig, (Neb.) High school
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KARL M. MARVIN, 0, Mas-trie.
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Law), Lincoln.
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