THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE BARE, Publisher Terms: $1.25 in Advance. NORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA NEWSNOTES CONDENSED Boiling Down of the More Important Events Here and There Foreign. A telephone message from Kabula Mitro states that the American expedition camped on Monday night at Katwe, eight miles beyond Kabula Mliro. Colonel Roosevelt and the others of the party are well. The hunters have covered fifty-four miles since, leaving Kampla Unganda December 23.
The immediate objective point is Kisingo, fifteen miles from Katwe. The Chinese government formally complained to Japan against the violation of the Manchurian telegraph convention of 1908. The complaint conmisted of two counts, which purported to show that the Japanese were guilty of extending telegraph and telegraph lines and traffic in Manchuria, The special committee of Copenhagen university which investigated Dr. Frederick A. Cook's polar records 18 nOW considering whether or not it will publish a second report, giving further details of its work.
If the committee should decide to do so, it will issue the report about the middle of January. Colonel von Ketten, chief of taa secret poliec of Moscow, has been appointed to succeed Colonel Karpoff, chief of the secret police of St. Petersburg, who was assassinated December 22. Henry. Lane Wilson, the retiring minister, has left Brussels, the legation now being in charge of U.
Grant Smith, the secretary, pending the arrival of the new minister, Charles Page Bryan, who formerly was minister to Portugal. The national defense committee of the Russian duma has rejected by a large majority the credit for new battleships. The body of Miss Harriet Smith of Boston, who was killed in an automobile accident in Honolulu two weeks ago, reached San Francisco on the liner Korea. General. Representative Hinshaw of Nebrasannounced that unless the state department brings about a speedy adJustment of the case of James A.
Cook, the American conductor, who is Imprisoned at Guadalajara, Mexico, he will bring the whole matter to the attention of congress. The total internal revenue receipts for November were for the first five months of the fiscal year, $113,358,162, and for the corresponding period of 1908, Total public benefactions in the United States during the last twelve months was $141,250,000, an amount just $40,000,000 greater than any previous year in the history of the country. The old war museum in Danville, where President, Lincoln had his office when he was riding the circuit as an attorney, burned. The museum contained many valuable relics. Scores of New York shirt waist strikers played the part of newsies recently.
Garbed in their best, the girls invaded the residence and bustness districts, selling copies of 8 newspaper printed under their editorship, and setting forth their side of the strike. Consul Olivares was appointed to take charge of consulate at Managua. Champ Clark says that high prices of produce are here to stay. Gambling in futures is to form the subject of a conference soon to be held at the white house. President Taft proposes to arrive at a means, if possible, of preventing an unnecessary amount of stock market trading in future deliveries of wheat, corn, cotton and other products.
Reports from the east say Mr. WIllard has been offered the presidency of the B. O. Senator Lorimer fears he is being ignored in the matter of patronage in Illinois. Statehood legislation at the present session of congress will not go beyond giving authority to the people of New Mexico and Arizona to hold constitutional conventions and provide the means for such convention.
Notwithstanding his unpopularity, there seems to be much mourning over the death of the king. The next regular meeting of the South Dakota Board of Pharmacy for the exemination of candidates for registration and general business will be held at Redfleld January 19. President Madriz has been notified that he will be held accountable for the safety of Americans in Nicaragua. Harry Orme, the inventor of an aeroplane which experts have declared to be a long step forward in the science of aviation, came to grief at Washington in a private trial and his Aying machine was badly damaged. A consus bulletin says the cost of maintaining Lincoln's police force 18 lowest of any city in the country.
At Reading, five men were stantly killed by the explosion of a boiler at the new plant of the Metropolitan Electric company. Senators Burkett. Brown may spilt on the selection district Red. attorney for Nebraska. Patens are issuing in Europe, it 18 announced, for "an apparatus for the transmission of pictures by wire, showing color and motion." The board of governors of the Expiorers' club voted to expel Dr.
Cook for alleged deception. "If direct primary laws are safe and can be operated wisely, then their scope can be extended," said Leslie M. Shaw, ex-secretary of the treasury, in an address to the Indiana Teachers' association in Indianapolis. George Hanley, a farmer living two miles east of Colfax, drove his wife from home at 2 o'clock in the morning and with the thermometer at least 12 degrees below zero, she was compelled to walk in' her gown and without shoes to a neighbor's restdence, half a mile away. She was badly frozen.
The he centenary of the birth of W11- liam Edward Gladstone was commemorated not only in the land of his birth, but in countries like Greece, the Balkans and Armenia. The sultan accepted the resignation of Hilmi Pasha, the grand vizier. President Taft is trying to find way to make future payments in the Panama canal work and reimburse the treasury for amounts expended from the working balance for canal dig. ging. To do this the president wants to devise a way to issue the Panama canal bonds authorized in the Payne tariff law.
Zelaya is on his way to Mexico City, where his stay is indefinite. He is in no sense a prisoner. In an interview he said Secretary Knox had been unduly harsh. P. L.
Gue, who lives near Tec*mseh, has a photograph, recently taken, of a grist mill erected near Perryopolls, Fayette county, in 1776, by George Washington. The mill is in daily operation at this time. Death has thinned the ranks of distinguished figures in the world of sport to an unusual extent in the year now near its close. New York striking shirtwaist makers voted to refuse the settlement offered by the manufacturers and declared their intention to continue the strike until all of their demands are granted. The Atlantic coast, all the way from Boston to New York, was swept by the worst storm for many years.
Senator Norris Brown has filed in the supreme court at Washington brief in a Nebraska railroad case. Postmaster General Hitchco*ck has set about to reduce the deficit in his department. The president is concerned lest the Standard decision, if affirmed, has a bad I effect on the business world. The Insurgent victory in Nicaragua declared at Blueflelds to have been overwhelming. Washington.
President Taft discussed with members of. his cabinet the final details of the special message he will send to congress dealing with proposed amendments to the interstate commerce and Sherman anti-trust laws. Mr. Taft began work on the important document Thursday. The state department is becoming impatient at the manner in which the Mexican government is delaying action in the case of James A.
Cook, an American citizen, who was arrested, charged with complicity in the robbing of trains. Executive clemency has been exercised in the case of Thomas Westmoreland now undergoing life imprisonment following conviction in the circuit court, eastern district of Texas, for murder committed in the Indian territory in June 1893. Representative Maguire of NebraskaY announced that he has selected George T. Liddell of Tec*mseh 88 principal to take the examination for entrance to West Point, and Thomas J. Doyle of Lincoln to take the examination for Annapolis.
Prospects for remedial legislation at this session ef congress are not entirely promising. The magnitude of the sewer systems of the largest cities is set forth in 8 bulletin just issued by the census bureau. Aggregating the seyers in the 157 largest cities of the United States, their combined length would be sufficient to girdle the earth at the equator; or if laid on the bottom of the Atlantic would provide seven subways from New York to London. The American Red Cross has taken the initiative in a new method of furnishing relief to those left destitute through some great disaster, and it the present plan is followed, it. will be put Into operation first for the relet of the widows and orphans who have been left helpless by reason of the great disaster last month at the Cherry mine in Illinois.
Personal. Governor Haskell asks governors of Nebraska and Kansas to join in an appeal in the matter of the bank guaranty law. The governor of Moro province recommends two separate governments from Philippine islands. Speaker Cannon's friends are fearful that Taft may join the insurgents. Governor Frear has been attacked by the Hawalian delegate to congress.
Rear Admiral Kimball made an unofficial call on President Madriz of Nicaragua. After two years in prison Russia's famous alleged female revolutionist 18 to have a trial. Frederic Remington, the artist, died at his home in Ridgefeld, from heart failure. The new president of Nicaragua, Jose Madriz, is taking hold of affaire, with a strong hand. NOW FOR BUSINESS CONGRESS WILL BEGIN WORK IN REAL EARNEST.
ALL HANDS TO THE PLOW House Calendar Well Filled, With Canal Zone Government Case First to Come Up. -Congress will begin business in earnest this week. With the Christmas holidays behind them and with the preliminary ante-holiday plans completed, both houses will start in upon reconvening, with the Intention of keeping their hands to the plow, to continue until "the crop is laid by," which it is now belleved will take place in the early summer. The senate is not so forward with its work as is the house, and the former body may experience difficulty in finding something to do during the Arst few days of its sitting. But the house calendar is already well filled, and as soon as the formalities permit, that body will get down to serious business.
Both houses will reconvene at 12 o'clock Tuesday, but the immediate announcement of the recent death of Senator McLaurin of Mississippi will result in adjournment of both for the day out of respect to his memory. It is doubtful also whether there will be a quorum on the first meeting day, so that but little business would probably be transacted under any circ*mstances. Wednesday will be calendar day in the house and that body again will take up the Mann bill for the reorganization of the government of "the Panama canal zone." It is believed this measure will be disposed of in one day and with it out of the way the house will attack the appropriation bills. The army supply bill is already the calendar and by the time it passed the fortifications will be ready for consideration. Following the fortifications measure will come the urgent deficiency, the agricultural and the navy bills.
Even the sundry civil and the legislative bills are well blocked out in committee. Indeed appropriation legislation is further advanced in the house than ordinarily at this season, and it is the opinion of the experts that the supply bills will be so turned out by the committee as to render it possible for the house to give almost continuous attention them during the next two months. The senate committee on appropriations will begin soon, the consideration of the bill making appropriations for the District of Columbia, which already has passed the house and until it is reported, the senate will occupy its time with the consideration of comparatively unimportant measures on the calendar. The state committees have not been so assiduous in their attention to duty as have been the committees of the co-ordinate body, with the consequence that the senate calendar is completely barren. Much interest is manifested in both houses in the two announcements that president's message on the Sherman anti-trust law and the resolutions of Senator Jones and Representative Humphrey providing for an investigation of the Interior department and the forest service will be presented on Wednesday, the first legislative day after reconvening.
New Supreme Justice. -Judge Horace H. Lurton, who will be sworn in as an associate justice of the supreme court at noon Monday, arrived in Washing. ton Saturday. With him were Mrs.
Lurton, their son, Horace H. Lurton, his wife and their 6-year-old son, Horace H. Lurton, third. Three Big Christmas Gifts Fort Worth, -Thomas Waggoner of this city has given each of his three children property valued at $2,000,000 as Christmas gifts. Wag goner is 57 years old, a ranchman.
banker and capitalist. One nundred thousand acres of land, 30,000 head of cattle and 1,000 horses are given to each child. ON TO THE PRISON. Convicted Banker Leaves New York for Atlanta. New a supreme effort to be cheerful, but with emotion occasionally getting the better of him, Charles W.
Morse left' New York to begin serving a fifteen years' sentence in the federal prison at Atlanta, Imposed upon him for violation of the national banking laws. Before leaving the Tombe, where he had been confined for the greater part of the last year, Morse received his wife and two sons and then the newspaper men. He was too affected to say anything, but he handed out a carefully prepared statement of comment on his case. Hope for Peace Dwindles. that the war will be brought to an end through the recognition of the provisional government by the United States has been abandoned.
Many believe that two more battles must be fought, one in the state of Chokales and the other near Managua. There is a popular feeling of gratitude toward the United States because of the attention given the wounded by physicians from the cruisers and the supplies sent for the relief of the half-starved prisoners of war. NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. Items of Interest Taken From Here and There Over the State. The Union depot at Fremont is declared not large enough to handle the crowds and something must be done to remedy matters.
A Holdrege man has perfected An invention by which "rubbernecks" cannot "cut in" and hear what going over the telephone wire. Mail carriers on rural routes are having much trouble in getting the mail through on time in consequence of cold weather and deep snow. In the course of a few months the proposition of voting a $100,000 court house will again be placed before 1 the people of Dawson county. The official mortality statistics for Columbus and vicinity show that the birth rate has exceeded the death rate of about 3 to 2. Cupid is working overtime all along Nebraska lines these wintry days.
Prosperity and cold weather inspires the boys and girls to get busy. At this writing Ex-Governor Mickey is very low with no hope of his recovery. He has been sick for a number of weeks. The Boys' band, consisting of about twenty-five boys under the age of 15, organized in Superior about four months ago, are now appearing on the streets and playing for public gatherings. A gun, supposed to be unloaded, WaS discharged in the home of Charles Gunther at St.
Charles, CumIng county, seriously wounding his 16-year-old boy, The gun was fired by 8 younger brother. Governor Shallenberger received a letter from former State Senator W. R. Patrick of Omaha calling his attention to what he declares is open defiance of the law by the authorities at Omaha in permitting prize fighting. A number of Omaha saloon men have lost their licenses by disregarding the eight-hour law.
Temperance people are active and keep close watch on infractions of the legislative enactment. At Kearney, Paul Raridan, a lad well up in his teens, was found guilty of obtaining money under false pretenses and fined $50 on two counts. Young Raridan signed and -passed a few checks. Lewis Allen, a farmer living near Valley, pulled a shotgun out of his buggy while out hunting rabbits and it discharged, shattering his right arm so badly that it will have to be amputated. The Christian Endeavor society of the Presbyterian church of Ponca has been working to secure a mile of pennies for their new church.
Last week the "reds" and "blues" reported $140 now in the treasury. They have been working at it for about two months. The verdict of the coroner's jury atter an inquest on the body of Thomas P. Ryan, who died at Wood River was: "We find that Ryan came to his death 88 the result of a fractured skull, the result of a blow received at the hands of Charles Thompson." Will Madgett, who has been promoting ing the organization of a stock company for the erection of a new hotel in Hastings, has announced that he has obtained subscriptions for $34,000 of stock. It is proposed to erect a building that will cost about $75,000.
The case of Mrs. Etta Lepinski vs. A. L. Yarter et al of Hastings, in which Mrs.
Lepinski sought to recover damages in the sum of $15,000 for the alleged sale of liquor to her husband was settled by agreement. The defendants agreed to pay the costs of the suit and $600. Word was received at Superior of the tragic death of John Fogler and wife, who were murdered, in their home in far away Germany. The murder was the result of thieves attempting to rob the Fogler home and being surprised in their work by the old gentleman, who was nearly 80 years old. The Fogler er family left Superior about twelve years ago.
The annual farmer's institute will be held -in Superior on January 10. and 11. It promises to be more than the usual institute this year and will be more of a combined farm product and poultry show. The commercial club has an active interest and in peration with the farmers has created a fund which will be used in giving cash prizes. The Nebraska Horticultural society has completed the program the forty-Arst annual meeting to be held at University farm January 18, 19 and 20.
One. rather new. feature is an apple judging contest. One hundred dollars in premium money will be prorated among those scoring more than seventy points out of a possible 100. Yesterday the price of hogs, says an Omaha paper, advanced under the light holiday receipts to the highest price paid in South Omaha, $8.45 per hundred.
The receipts at the South Omaha yards were not quite 4,000 head. Receipts at other points were lighter in comparison and the big de mand in Chicago and other markets reflected on the South Omaha offerings. The packers shied considerably on the prices demanded, but finally came to the high point again. At Battle Creek a man giving his name as Camby was arrested as a suspicious character. In his possession was found about $50 worth of jewelry and a purse contained quite sum of money.
The articles found on him were all identified as the property of citizens of that place. A thoroughbred bull terrier costing $150 in Boston has just arrived in Central City, being purchased by Albert A. Hastings, president of the Platte Valley Land and Loan company of this place. The terrier is a brindle, seven months old and a splendid specimen of a thoroughbred. GUARANTY BANK LAW A CONFERENCE FOR DISCUSSION OF THE MEASURE.
GOV, SHALLENBERGER INVITED Telegram From Gov. Haskell and Reply Thereto by the Chief Execytive of Nebraska. Governor Shallenberger has accepted an invitation from Governor Haskell to attend a conference between these two and the governor of Kansas to discuss a way to defend the banking law of Oklahoma, which is now pending in the supreme court of the United States. Governor Shallenberger is much impressed with the banking law of Texas, which goes into effect January 1. This law provides that the state banks must guarantee their deposits either by taking out an indemnity policy or by a mutual arrangement.
He has received a copy of the Oklahoma law and has the opinion of Attorney General Thompson that it would stand the test of the constitution in Nebraska. The telegram sent by the governor of Oklanoma was as follows: "Guthrie, Governor A. C. Shallentberger, Lincoln--Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma have mutual interests In the banking law question. Our test case originated in state court.
Our law fully upheld by our supreme court. Case now in United States supreme court on appeal from state supreme court. Will probably be reached about February or March. I believe all three states are mutually interested- in the Oklahoma case and therefore have decided to invite conference and mutual co- operation between Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Kindly advise ine if you think well of this conference and, -operation.
N. HASKELL, Governor." Governor Shallenberger announcing that he. would accept the invitation of the executives Oklahoma, Kansas Governor Haskell! for a conference of and Nebraska, wrote the following letter to the Oklahoma governor: "I have your telegram relative to the matter of a conference to be held by those. officially interested in and empowered with the enforcement of the guaranty of. deposits law in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
"In reply I will say that it seems to me that the suggestion is a good one and I will be very glad to assist in any way. The laws of the three have all been attacked upon different points and the federal courts in Nebraska and Kansas have enjoined the laws of these respective states, for different reasons, and, as you suggest, it seems to me highly to be desired, that the lawyers havin charge the cases for the different states and the executive departments having in charge the enforcement of the laws, should mutually confer and agree as to a general policy. "I will be very glad to hear, from. you further in the matter, as doubtless you have given it attention, and would like to know if it is your Idea to hold the conference in one of the respective states, or to confer at, the time of the meeting of governors, called for January 13, next, at WashIngton, D. C.
State Aid for Counties. Superintendent Bishop has made his certificate to the state auditor showing what counties are entitled to share in the state aid fund under the act of 1909. The apportionment of this fund is made in accordance with section 14b, subdivision 2, school laws, which provides that the state superintendent shall, on or before the last Monday in December of each year certify: the amount of state aid due the various counties to the state auditor, who shall draw warrants on the state treasurer in favor of the county treasurer for the amount so specified by the superintendent of -public instruction. No Need of Policemen. No force was patrolling the streets at any thne during Christmas and no necessity for such was found.
Chief Malone says a patrol force would not be necesary at any time now that Lincoln has abolished the saloons. The office force, and two or three plain clothes men ready to answer calls at any time could, in the judgment of the chief take care of the situation. The element which has in the past required constant attention has been leaving the city since it has been found so difficult to "wet up." Last of Dinnuzzo Case. The supreme court overruled the motion for rehearing in the case of the state against Dinuzzo of Omaha, winding up the effort to reopen the 8 o'clock closing case. Cowgill Rivals One T.
R. W. H. Cowgill, railway commissioner, will within a day or two have on exhibition for the pleasure of his friends the head of an elk which was brought down by his trusty rifle and which on Christmas day took the blue ribbon in a contest at Bozeman, Mont. The head with two deer heads, the result of Mr.
Cowgill's deadly aim, are now on the road to Lincoln by express. This elk Mr. Cowgill shot and killed at a distance of 500 yeards aftor trailing the animal through the snow for five or six SHEEP CAR WEIGHTS. The Case Against Northwestern Dismissed. The complaint of Oscar Thompson against the Northwestern regarding tne minimum weight to which a sheen car should be loaded was formally dismissed by the railway commission.
In discussing the case Commissioner Winnett said in his order: "By making comparison with other states of minima on sheep, we And that Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wyo ming, Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado and Oklahoma have the same minimum as is used in Nebraska, while Illinois has a much lower minimum and a higher rate. The rate for 100 miles in ois is 14.4 cents, making the amount received by the carriers per car $24.48, while in Nebraska, if the shipper fails to load to the minimum and only loads 18,000 pounds, while he pays for 22,000 pounds, his car costs him for the same distance that the Illinois shipment was carried, $25.23, or 76 cents per car more. Should each shipment in Illinois and Nebraska be loaded to 22,000 pounds the Illinois shipper would pay $28.80 per car, while the Nebraska shipper would pay $25.23, or $3.57 per car less. Applying the above calculation to a 200-mile shipment, the rate in Illinois is 18.8 cents and in Nebraska 14.02 cents. For the minimum a car in Illinois would pay $31.11 and in Nebraska $30.82, but should the Illinois shipper load to the Nebraska minimum the 200-mile shipment would cost him $40.26, against $30.82 to the Nebraska shipper.
The rates in the states named, where the minimum is the same as Nebraska, are practically the same or more than the Nebraska rates, with the exception of Iowa, which is less. "While to the commission it seems an unfair proposition for a minimum to be so high as to make full loading impossible, we believe the increased marketing of lambs has brought about this condition and that it is not being practicable to fix a different minimum for lambs than for sheep, and lambs being a more valuable commodity than sheep, the increasing rate resulting from the minimum so fixed is not excessive." Plans for Science Work. State Superintendent Bishop has secured the services of Miss Anna LA Barbie, superintendent of the schools of Christian county, -Illinois, to help him work out a more definite plan for the domestic science work in the rural schools of Nebraska. Miss Barbie- was chosen by State Superintendent Blair of Illinois to take charge of the Illinois state industrial exhibit at the national corn show at Omaha. It was here that her work attracted the attention of Mr.
Bishop. At his re quest she consented to come to coln to work with him for a few days, Mayoralty Contest. The ballots cast in the election of city officials last spring, at which Don L. Love was declared elected mayor over Robert Malone, will be counted in county court. The election WAS contested by Mr.
Malone, but before the county court had an opportunity. to count the ballots the case was taken to the supreme court by the attorneys for Mayor Love. Charges Dismissed. The board of public lands and buildings dismissed by unanimous vote the charges preferred by Lelix Newton, a discharged bookkeeper, against Dr. D.
S. Woodard, superintendent of the Lincoln asylum for the insane. The board decided that it did not have jurisdiction over complaints against officers of state institutions. Selected as Toastmaster, President George Croker of the as-: sociation of principals and superintendents of Nebraska has selected Fred. M.
Hunter of Norfolk as toastmaster at the banquet to be held on Thursday evening, January 14, at the Lincoln hotel, and L. E. Mumford of Lincoln master of ceremonies. Judge Dean Retires. Shortly after the first of the year Judge J.
R. Dean will leave the supreme court, where as a member he has so well and successfully presided, to be replaced by S. H. Sedgwick, one of the successful candidates at the last election. The judge will retire to his home at Broken Bow.
The Warden's Showing. Notwithstanding the largely creased cost of living for everybody, in state. institutions or out of them, Warden Smith of the Nebraska penttentiary calls attention to the fact that during the past seven years thei allowance per capita for maintaining: the penitentiary has been higher than: the percapita amount for this year. No Clue to Parentage. Painstaking investigation still fails: to reveal any facts tending to throw light on the parentage of the foundling left at St.
Elizabeth's hospital. The child, a baby boy, was left on the doorstep when but a few hours old. Copy of Tariff Law. Secretary of State Junkin has rel ceived a full copy of the new tariff the old tariff law and the bill, as it was originally introduced, together with a comparison of the old and the new law. He is well satisfied with It.
He believes the new law has carried out the pledges of the republican party and he is ready to defend the law. "The law is a reduction," said Mr. Junkin. "The increase is on products of the farm and on liquor. Woolen goods and leather have both been reduced.".
