Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1909, Page 1

NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WEATHER FORECAST For Nehraska—-Partly cloudy Jowa—Partly cloudy weat report ) VOL. XXXVIII—NO. — OMAHA, SATURDA - FIRST VOTE ON LEAD SCHEDULE Senate Decides to Make No Change in Rate on Lead Contained in Lead Ores. OWEN SPEAKS ON INCOME TAX Senator Bacon Discusses Effect of Protective Tariff on Prices. REAL REVISION IS CLAPP'S PLEA Grant Relief or Democrats Will Change Tariff, Says Minnesotan. FARCE TO RE-ENACT OLD RATE nt Party Prom- ined Lower Daty and Mast Keep Jord or Risk Defeat at rol WASHINGTON, May the T.~Just before ad- Journment today wiel o 08 the duty on lead contalned In lead ore at 15 cents per pound, which & the rate of the Dingley law andof the pending bill as it Wwas passed by the house of representatives. Filty-thtee senators, including all repub {«nnl present and Senator Huglies of Colo- pdo, McFerry of Loulslana, voted In favor Of the duty und nlueteen democratic sena- tors voted against 1t. This particnlar para- @raph has” not heen opposed by the low tariff republicans and the vote was not signifieant. During the day Senator Clapp and Senator Owen of Oklahoma upheld the constitution- ality of an income tax. Speech by Semator Clapp. The session of the sante was begun to- day with a speech by Senator Clapp of Minnesota. who commented upon the policy of protection and referred to distinctions be- tween a protective tariff and a tariff Yor revenue only. . Mr. Clapp declared that instead of con- gress taking np the work of a complete revision of the /custo mduttes it should have taken one schedule at a time, in which event fhere would-not have been the great excitement and the opposition’ that existed when all the tariff schedules were taken up for consideration. The effective Blkins law, he cited, as having been passed with littld popular attention, while the last rallroad rate legislation, he declared, had met opposition because agitation had ex- clted the pubfic mind and caused a wide- spread opposition and predictions of danger 10 the interests affected. So the present tarift opposition, he eaid, had been pro- voked by widespread agitation, whereas had the schedules been taken uu separately revision could more easily have been complished. The promise of ghe repaplican party. Mr, Clapp declared, was that the tariff shauld be revised downward, and he as- serted that this promise had been made in response to a positive demand. He #ila the position on the part of the pro- tective interests was. that “we should 16t well enodgh alone and on the part of the consumera that the tariff should be revieed.” Revision Downward is Demanded. “You can't tell me" he sald, “that the Jatter demand ald not mean that tho tariff should be reyised downward. To take any other position.is mere boy's play, nothing iess than a farce, and if I ald not believe the dutles were to be | lowered In response to this exaction |i would pack my grip and go home, for as | a senator 1 am not required to partici- | pate In such a farce the mere enactment of the Dingley rates. “If this prowse” he said, “was for a revision that would mean the mainte- | nance of the Dingley rates then we are confronted by the ridieulousness of the chief executive emlling congress together | to revise scmething that should staad unchanged until the end of time. When the people mude the demand for a tariff| revision downward there was no sugges- tion that these industries were not suf- ficiently protected.” ‘Izeclaring that 1f congress should fail now te lower the tariff rates, the demo- cratle party jwould be put in position to 80 revise it two years hence, Mr. Clapp sald. He did not wish to use threats, Lwt mherely to tell the tryth. “It may be in your power he said as @i faced the republican senators, “to act tnnlnn,\' to the wishes of the people, but so sure as you do that, two years from now this tariff will be revised not | b vthe friends of protection, but by the enemics’ of protection.” Stone on Lemd Dut | When the lead sciedule. was again | taken up tor consideration Senator Stone toolk fssue with his republican colleugue, Mr. Warner, on the duties provided in the biil. declaring that the rates of the house bill ware sufficient to protect the Kreat lead industry of his state and that the increases made the senate com- mittee «n finance re umnecessary for that industry . “ln my opinfon.” continged Mr “f3y cents'a pound pn lead ore than It Ought to be even from the stand- | point of the protectionist, and I will vote | & pul it down to 1 eent | Mr. Stone refused tu colnclde with a view expressed by Mwn Sutherland that it the rato was cut down ty 1 cent & pound nearly | one-hald of the lvad mines would close and thousands of mey be thrown out of em- ployment Reforring to rgmarks by Mr. Bristow yes- terday, Mr. Stode declared there were more reopie using White lead than making it, and they werd entitled (o equal consideru- tlon. senate as w Stone, | tone, | is more | Bristos Starts Something. { Resuming his opposition to levying any duty en pig lead in addition to the duty | of 13 cents aspound provided for the lead fn ore by the tariff bill as passed by the Louse, Mr. BristoW declaved that it costs no more fo make pig lead in dbis country than abroad. Mr. Bristow was imterrupte by Senators Aldrich, Bovah, Smout, Suth- erland and Heybwrn, all coutemding %hat the labor cost in producing lead was cnough greater than abread (o justify the differ- ential of 8 of 1 ceht pér pound, A8 proposcd by the commitiee on finanee, Mr. Bristow sald he would offer no resolution to the Proposed duty on lead pro because of con- Wions, but protested against any additional duty on pig tead, the product of the are. Bacom cn Protection. { Pennsylvania | train | lands on 9356 on May 1, 198, and a ten-year average | Officials Have Narrow Escape from Car Fire Awakening to Find Special Car in Flames, They Signal Crew with Difficulty. CHICAGO, officials of the lines experienced a thrilling escape today from fire Wwhich destroyed the special car on which they were travel- ing from Pittsburg to Chicago. The of- ficials weré- First Vice President Joseph Wood, Becond Vice President J. Turner and Chiet Englser Thomas Rodd. Mr. Turner escaped through a window. The Pennsylvania special. to which spe: clal ear No. 7,506 was attached, was bowl- ing along at a merry clip between Hanna and Davis Station, Ind, when the fire was discovered by Mr. Wood at 6 a. m He signaled the train to stop, shouting an alarm? to Messrs, Turner and Rodd. The latter and Mrs. Wood were near the doors and escaped in the extreme negligee as the came to a stop. Meanwhile Mr, Turner, occupying a compartment near the center of the car, aroused by the hest and the shouts of his companions, opened the corridor door, only to find his exit blocked by the flames. He promptly turned to the window and smashed the giass with his fist, no other instrument belng at hand, but the sash refused to budge. The train, obeying Mr. Wood's signal with prodigious jerks which alarmed the entire passenger list, presently came to a standstill. Then the train crew from the outside succeeded raising the sash and Mr. Turner was as- sisted to safety, with no injury more serious than a slightly cut hand. The burning car was then shunted onto a slding and left to its fate. The fire s believed to have been due to crossed electric wires. Wheat Condition is Reported Low May 7.—High Average Estimated by Government is Two and a Half Per Cent Be- low Year Ago. WASHINGTON, May 7.—An average con- dition of 83.5 per cent for winter wheat and 88.1 for rye on May 1 last, against a ten- year average on that date of 86 and 8.1, respectively, was announced in today's crop report of the Department of Agriculture. Area of winter wheat to be harvested was about 27,871,000 acres. ‘The area of winter wheat to be harvested was about 2,478,000 acres less, or 8.1 per cent Jes than the area harvested in 108, and 2,163,000 acres, or 7.2 per cent less than the area sown last fall. The average condition of winter wheat & month ago was §2.2 and a year ago 59 per cent. Rye averaged §1.2 a month ago and 0.3 on May 1, 1908, The average condition on May 1)aat and tuneyear average on May 1, respéctively, certaln states for winter wheat and the same, respectively, for rye: Kansas: Winter wheat, $ and 8 and 9. Nebraska: Winter wheat, 83 and 8; rye, % and 9. Missourt : and 9. Tliinots: and %, Oklahoma: & and 6. The average condition of meadow (hay) May 1 was 845 compared with Winter wheat, 82 and 59; rye, Winter wheat, 78 and 88; rye, k4 Winter wheat, §1 and 7; rye, on May 1 of 895 The average condition of pastures on May 1 was %0.1, compared with 926 on May 1, 18, and a ten-year average on May 1 of §8; 641 per cent of mpring plowing was completed up to May 1, compared with 8 per cent on May 1, 108, and a ten-year average on May 1 of &.4 per cent; 5.7 per cent of apring planting was completed up to May 1, compared with 5.7 per cent and 47 per cent on May 1, 1008 and 1907, respectively. The percentage of winter wheat aban- doned was SESSION ON_ COUNTRY LIFE Western Men Discuas Matters of In. terest to Farmers at Guthrie Meeting. GUTHRIE, Okl., May Yesterday hav- ing witnessed the forming of a permanent body, today's session of the Southwest | Interstate Commission on Country Life was given over to further papers and speeches, Among the speakers, all of whom are west- ern men, was R B. Cousin of Austin, Tex., whose theme was ‘“The Mission of Schools in Tmproving Country Life Conditions."” Good roads, Irrigation and the parcels post were other subjects discussed. GERMAN AMBASSADOR SPEAKS Count Vonm netors Deutscher Club of Following Lu Addresses the Milwaukee, heon, MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 7.—Count Johann Von Bernstorff, the German am- bassador, was the guest of honor at lunch- eon today at the Deutscher club, an arfs. tocratic German organization At the luncheon the count spoke happy vein. in a [LAW AGAINST . POSTAL MO Union Organization of Employes in French Service Said to Be Clearly Illegal. PUBLIC SYMPATHY AGAINST IT Government is Urged to Take Steps to Crtish Rebellion. ONLY PART OF GENERAL PLAN Federation of Labor Intends to Organize All State Employes. PROVISIONS OF THE STATUTE Law of 1884 Limits the Orga | of Syndicates to Professions Trades in Competitive Industry. PARIS, and the law seem against the posts, May 7.—Both public sympathy today to be clearly telegraphs and tele- phones employes’ assoclation, which yes- terday threw down the gage of battle to the government by transforming itself into a syndicate or union under the laws of 188. This action placed the union on the same footing as the workingmen's unions and was calcufated to give It the right to strike against its employer, the state. The newspapers this morning, with the excep- tion of the extreme socialist organs, are unsparing in their ‘denunciation of the stand taken by the assoclation as an act of rebellion, and they urge the government toproceed with energy and crush the in- surrection before the movement engulfs the other categoriés of state employes. " Bvidence accumulates today that the formation of this unfon yesterday was only the first step in a far-reaching plan of the General Federation of Labor to place the entire machinery of the government at its mercy. The law of 184 limits unions to profes- glons and trades engaged In “competitive industry’” and the attorney general of the republic is expected to decide summarily that the syndicate is illegal and order its dissoiution As soon as'this is done the organizers of the movement will be subject to heavy fines and imprisonment 1f they persist in meeting. The congress of raflroad men, at a secret session today, decided to submit the ques- tion of a general strike to a referendum and appointed a permanont strike com- mittee. Dispatches from Havre, Lyons &nd other cltles say the posts, telegraphs and tele- phone employes' association has votéd in prineiple for e general strike. The Postmen's syndicate toda¥ refwsed to glve any further communications to the press, having decided to keep thelr plans secret. " The attorney general begai proceedings today. in the tribunal of the Selne for the issolution of the postmen's dyndicate. AJACCIO, Corsica, May 7.—The rafiroad employes on the Corsican lines today voted to commence a general strike Sunday. Horses Trample Man to Death Josiah Carmean, a Wealthy Farmer of Furnas County, is Victim of Vicious Animals. eb., May 7.—(Special) —~The almost lifeless body of Josiah Car- mean was found early this morning in the horse barn at his farm, three miles south of eBaver City. Mr. Carmhean was horribly margled-and bruised, evidently by kicks from a horse. The base of the nose near the left eye was torn loose and the forchead mashed in. Bight pleces of bone were removed, leaving the brain exposed. There was also a cut on the right cheek and the chest of the injured man was bruised. It is thought he was tramped on by & horse's hoofs. Mr. Carmean was lylng across the manger when found by Mrs Carmean at 7 o'clock. The stall is occupied by two horses, which were known to be vicious. BEAVER CITY, blood Mr. Carmean has but one arm. What occurred with never be known, as { the dootors give no hope for his recovery He is one of the wealthiest farmers of Furnas county and a brother-in-law of Judge Harlin of York EVELYN THAW PAYS FINE of 1 Her Threats Sentence Settle Part 1. 1.—Bvelyn Canses t NEW YORK, May Neasbit day. Tnstead, her counsel pald over to George B. Hayes, the receiver appointed to take charge of Mrs. Thaw's affairs, the amount of §2, the fine imposed upon her for contempt in failure to appear in sup- plementary proceedings. This sum is to be applied to the extinction of the judg- ment for $253 obtained by Blsie Hartwig, & milliner. There still remains to be pald nearly $100 made up of costs in various courts and the recelver's fees, before Mrs, Thaw can have her affairs taken out of the hands of the receiver. Woman Caught by Rope on Wagon and Dragged a Ways While crossing Farnam street the west side of Sixteenth at § o'clock Friday merning, Miss Agnes Riley of the Riley Sisters, milliners at 317 South Sixteenth street, who lives at 435 Chicago street, in Dundee, was caught by one foot in a loop of rope that was dragging from a delivery wagon driven by Frank Blake of 88 North Twenty-third street. She was thrown to the ground and dragged cast from the foot crossing almost to the car tracks. escaped with only @ bad geare, general on There was a falr prospect of reaching a vote on the lewd schedule when Benator Bacon took the floor and proceedéd to di tuss the, genergl principles of the protec- tve tariff systdn. He declared that by a conservative estimate for every dollar col- Jected at the custom houses of the county (Continued on Second Page.) shaking up and a number of minor brulses. | The wugon was golng at an ordinary galt. About twenty feet of light rope looped at the dragging end, was tralling from the rear of the vehicle, and it was into the loop that Miss Riley unconsclousty stepped A plercing scream, audible for blocks, a tracted the attention was Jerked from her feet. A number of men caused the driver to -stop his team, while others helped Miss Riley to her feet and removed the rope. She was able walk with slight assistance to her place of business, a block away. 1t is thought no serlous results will arise from the accident, as Miss Riley's condi- tion promises to be normal, aside from her brulves, as soon as she regains nervous balance. Several policemen, including Sergeant | Samuelson, Ewergency Officer Nelisen, | Patrolman Jensen and Detectivés McDonald | and Walker, were at the scene almost im- | mediately after it occurred. They secured | the name and address of Blake, the driver of the wagon, also that of Miss Riley. A large number of people, on their way (to | work, witnessed the affalr. of passersby as she . The pole between them was smeared with | Thaw did not go to Ludlow Street jail to- | Y MOR* §, MAY 8, 1909—TWENTY PAGE SINGLE 1) O\ g & /S U 2 XA P L 4) | From the New York Herald. E 4 .A LOOSE WIRE {MRS. BOYLE IS IDENTIFIED | | Billy Whitla Points Her Out as the Woman Who Held Him. |CALLED HER MRS, “JONESEY” Kidnaped Lad Repeats Testimony of the Day Before in Presence of a Large Throng — Case Ready. MBRCER, Pa, May 7.—The state today cospleted dts against Mis. James | Boyle, cherged ®ith aiding and abetiing | the kidnaping of Wiille Whitla. After & | conference lasting a little over haif an | hour Mre. Boyle and her counsel deter- mined not to offer any testimony in her béhalt and’ announced *that ‘the defense rested. The court tixed {omorrow|mornirg | for fearing of arguments ‘fhe court room was packed this morning | when the trial of Mrs. Boyle, as an gcces- | sory to the kidnaping of *“Bill; Whitla, | was re To avold any repetition of last evening's hostility toward of umed demonstration of the woman, when the women | her, the prisoner was driven to the court houze In a closed carriage. The lssue raised before the adjournment of court vesterday, regarding the testi | mony of Miss Ella Boyle, apparently in- | tended to connect Mrs. James Boyle with | the formation of the kidnaping plot while visiting In Sharon, was quickly” dispensed | with today by the prosecution withdrawing the witness, | “Billy" Whitia, the kidnaped boy, was {the first witness. He repeated substan- | tially his testimony of yesterday, given in | the case against James H. Boyle. In re- | ferring Boyle the boy called him “Jonesey,” having been told at the time of the abduction the man’s name was | Jones. He testifed that when he arrived | at the house in Cleveland with “Jonesey” | they met a woman. He said: ‘Jonesey told me she was another Jones. | Mrs. Jones said she had eaten supper, but told me to eat. ‘Jonesey' told me the woman was a cousin of his, Boy Tdentitied. The boy witness identified Mrs. Boyle as the woman who had cared for him in | Cleveland and whom he had known | Mrs. Jones. He identified a nurse's outfit as the clothing Mrs. Jones had worn and { said she had red spots on her face, which she saild were the result of having recently had smallpox. He said the woman told him to tell his parents she was 44 years old and very large The prosecution offered note written for “Billy carry the street car his way the Hollenden house when he was returned to his father. The defens objected, claiming it did not Mrs. Boyle. “Billy” stated, how ever, that it was given to him In Mrs Boyle's presence and It was admitted On cross-examination “Billy" was asked but one question, as to whether Jones alone went with him to the street car when he Woman in to evidence the on on concern (Continued on Second Page.) Mercer had appiled opprobrious epithets to | as | | ana Big Battleship Lies at Anchor at New Orleans Mississippi Inspected by Many In- terested Visitors—No Fear of Jeff Davis Picture. NEW ORLEANS, La.. May 7.—Lying at anchor in the great stream whose name it bears, after having journeyed through the passes and up the river without untoward happening the battleship Mississivpt was boarded and inspected by & throng of in- terested visitors today. Among those who went on the big ship were a hundred or more Louisiana editors passing through New,Orleand,on.their, way, fo their" respective homes trom the annual’ meeting of the Loutsiina Press: assoclation. Numerous. tenders ot *hohkpitality have been extended to_ the .officers {and ‘crew of ‘the vessel during its stay in_this: part The principal feature of': entertainment will be a banquet next Tuesday night. Prominent officials of several: southern states and of the Lakes-to-thd-Gulf Deep Water association are expected to be pres ent. At the several places where sissippi will stop on its journey up the river elaborate preparations have - been made for the reception of the officers and men. Little interest was taken among the offi cers of the battleship in the resolution of Congressman Hollingsworth of Ohio, ques- tioning the placing of the picture of Jef- ferson Davis on the silver service to be presented to the Mississippi at Horn Isi- and next month. While the officers were adverse to making statements for publica- tion they left the Inference that they were not at all in accord with the terms of the resolution. All endorsed the generally expressed sentiment: “Sectional feeling among the officers of the navy has entirely disappearcd.” J. GUERNEY CANNON, ALIAS UNCLE JOE, OBSERVES BIRTH peaker Seventy-Three Years and is Presented with Gourd Dipper by Friends, WASHINGTON, May 7.—Joseph Cannon, speaker of the house, more fa- miliarly known as “Uncle Joe," Is 73 years old today. Reminlscent and epigrammatic a8 usual Mr. Cannon recelved the congrat ulations and good wishes of his friends political enemies in his office at the caplitol. The republican members from olina, where the speaker was sented him with an unusuaily large dip- per made of a gourd from that state. This brought recollections of ““Uncle Joe's” boy- hood days, when he sald they used a dip per of the same character in making maple sugar. Every visitor*today remarked upon the good health and spirits of the speaker. who was recently referred to on the floor of the house as “‘the iron duke of American politics.” the Mis North Car- born, pre- ABUSED MOTHER RESCUED !Rich Kansas City Man Finds Her in| an Iowa Poorhouse. CHEATED OF FARM AND CHILD Repentant mw, on Death Bed, Clears Up Mystery of “Crazy Mag,” Who Wil End Days in Comfort. Sister-in- CRESTON, Ta., May forty years ago, up in Madison county, therq lived a woman, Mrs. Biythe, who, while not actually insane, yet was weak- minded, and at times quite “flighty.” She was possessed of some property and owned &n elghty-acre farm. Relatives of her —(Special.)—About husband got control of this In some way | and also took from her her little Charles, who was then a lad of about years old, and led her to belleve he w dead. Dazed and grieving, the mother wondered away, coming later to this place where she earned the name of ‘“Crazy Mag," and finally became a county charge Her husband married again and the son it seems, was brought up without v knawing what had became of his mothe He prospered and hecame weaithy, finally married and went to live. Here rumors reached him caused him to wend his wife here twenty- two years ago, to the county farm, to learn if possible w Trazy Mag' was his mother. A slster-In-law Blythe who was interested In getting hold of the property which would go to Mag and her son, If the truth were Known at that time, made the young wife believe that the woman in the county Infirmary was the second Mrs. Blythe, whose name was also Margaret, and not her husband's mother; that she was dead. Returning to Kansas City with this story, the young wife and her husband *Charles Blythe, abandoned the search for the lost mother as .hopless and believed her dead. A few weeks ago this sister- in-law who decelved the young wife, on her deathbed zave out a confession that she had lled about the story of Mag and her death to the Kansas City woman and asked that the son he notified of the true state of affairs. As soom as he could verify the story the son came here and went out to the county farm to see his old mother, who is now almost 80 years of age. He no tified the authorities at infirmary to get her ready as soon as possible and send her to Kansas City, where he pro- poses ta care for her in his own beauti ful home. He brought with him pictures of the room which she will ipy, and with an attendant especially for he he will endeavor to partly atone for the neglect and sorrow of years which his mother has suffered son, ev and Two Pardons ¢ PIERRE. B. D., May T.—(Special gram.)—The State Pardon recommended pardons in Joseph Harness, sentenced county on a charge of Tobin from 1 & ted Tele- board the from srgery, and Kdward Minnehaha county charge of burglary today cases of Custer sentenced Have you started to make your gar- den? Now is the | time to get things | into the ground. Under the head of ‘‘Every- thing for the Garden’’ you will find just the information you want as to where to get plants, seeds and garden tools. You will find these things ad- vertised among the want ads. Have you read the want ads yet today? | Airships Will Not Be Great Danger to Fleet Says Fremont NEW ORLEANS, La, May 7.-Captain John C. Fremont of the United States bat tleship Mississippl, now in New Orieans harbor, is not a bellever in the theory that the battleship is to be relegated by the adoption of aerfal navigation. In dis cussing the matter be said: ‘Did you ever try to drop a marble from the second story of a bullding into & hat on the ground. Well, that is just about as easy to do as it is to drop a lyddite shell from an alrship upon a battieship or a Dreadnaught. The currents of the air will cause the shell to fall in some place other than that designed, Invariably. There s nothing of sufficlent carrying power yet to bring about the navigation of the air by any sort of a ship which will carry a #un or Instrument which would direct the fire accurately of & downward projectile. “It would be many years hefore aerial navigation - becomes & source of danger te the navies of the world, and it will never be untll there is some bhetter propelling power than a gas engine. In- stead of a force which generated one-horse- power to the pound, there must be some thing which will be able to generate a horsepower to -&n oqunce of nhustible gas. There must be something which will sustain weight in the air and which cannot be found and shot to pleces by guns from the earth. At present, from recent periments, It has shown that an aerlal vessel is helpless and can be shot to pleces at an altitude of several thousand feet, more than two miles, before it can reach a position anything like directly over the object it seeks to attack.™ extreme ex heen to Kansas City | that | JUDGE DEAN HOLDS HIS SEAT |State Supreme Court Decides that | Governor Sheldon Had Power to Appoint, SHALLENBERGER'S ACT ILLEGAL State Canvassing Board Acted Within Its Rights Last Fall. ’ r | LEGISLATIVE CANVASS NO GOOD Joint Convention Possessed No Power to Canvass Vote. OCCUPATION TAX ACT GOOD Supreme Court Upholds Action of the City 1 Levying Sach a Tax on the Pablic - Lincoln in Corporati . (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, say 7.—(Special)—The su- preme afternoon filed a d cision in the suit of Oldham hgainst Dean, holding that the appointees of former Goy ernor Sheldon the supreme bench legally entitled to their seats; that the ap polntments of Governor Shallenberger the same positlons aro fllegal; that t State Board of Canvassers had power canvass the vote on the constitutiona | amendment Increasing the number of preme court judges from three to seven and that the canvass attempted by tl legislature was without effect because the joint convention has no power Lo canvass and that the acts of the legislature relating the canvassing of votes cost for con stitutional amendments were legally adopted. The present law relating to can vassing tils vote is upheld. As there Is no spocific provielon for the anvassing of the vote on amendments and no provisions for such returns to be trans mitted to or lodged elsewhere than with the State Board of Canvassers, the couit holds that it was the duty of this board to canvass the returns last fall. The court also holds that the joint convention did hot hhve before it the returns on amendments | #ha that the law does not permit the re- | moval of the returns of this kind from the office of the secretary of state The court says any one who reads will concede the truth of the statement of Rep- resentative Taylor of Custer when casting his vote that the canvass by the joint con- vention was not in accordance with the | constitution. { The opinion was written by Chief Justice | Reese, Judges Dean and Rose not sitting Governor Sheldon named Jesso L. Root, { 4. 8. Fawcett, W. B. Rose and J. R. Deun as judges. The legislature challenged this | right, claiming that the State Canvasaing | board had no right to declare the amend | ment carried, and that it alone had ti | power to canvass and declare the result. | It proceeded to do so, and Governor Shal- lenberger numed Fawcett, Root, W. D. Old ham ‘and J. J. Sullivan as judges. Kx- | Governor Sifas A. Holcomb was offercd one of the places, but he refused to make a fight for the place and Oldham, Who was willing was named in his stead. Boy Fears Rebuke, Hangs Himself court Friday on are w to | Sixteen-Year-Old Youth of Gowrie | Commits Suicide After a Slight Runaway. FORT DODGE, 1a., May 7 | gram.)—-Fearing his father would scold him because he had allowed the horses he wagy ‘n1ll\vllx to run away, Elmer Soderbeck, 16 | years old, son of Hetor Soderbeck of Gowrie hung himself to a rafter in the granary last night His father was fn town when the runaway happened and the boy was afraid he would |be angry when he returned. His mother was in Murdock, Minn., and the lad was | alone with the younger brother. The | hrother found him hanging the rafter ! The dead boy had not been In good health | for some time, BURKETT TO TACKLE TARIFF Nebraska Senntor Will ¥ Lun (Spectal Tele ) end for Free er—Delegates to Scott's Bium, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, May 7 | ator Burkett, just so able to,galn the flor he will deliver in reply to on the lumber schedules of | tariff buL. Senator Burkett {strpng advocates of fr | rough and dre | toueh upon | lay before the | turther reducti wire peciul.) —§en- he may speech which Senator Plles the pending is one of the e lumber throughout products, but may also and steel schedules and senate in advoeacy of of the duty on ®oon as he has a barh | Plans for the location of the new agri | cultural experiment station at Scott's Bluff | Neb., perfected far | sible. of agriculture told Burkett this morning that the en who are to meet with the parties lo |cally interested have been selected dered to go to Scott's Bluff about The representatives of the Agricultural de Dr. Chileott, whe Is head of | investigations relating to dry farming, and Mr. Scofield, wh of western agricultural work. A representative of the reclumation service has also been appointed, Mr. Mcans .engiueer of the Truckes | project. These three men Director Burnatt of Lincoln experiment station on ti have The retary been s0 as pos- | Benator \d o May s, | partment are a8 charge Carson to meet with agricultural selected, day DEATH RECORD John PLAT John Dwyer. Neb., May T.—(Spe Dwye prominent NORTH lal this city, was found dead in his Wichita, Kan last night He was acting as temporary roundhouse fore- man of Mis Pacific there. He leaves a wife and five children here. The is on way Dwyer was a of the Knights of Columbus, Fred O« May (Speclal Tele- Fred Otls died suddenly Blu: Bprings elected last fall succeed R. J He was about 4% years of e and manager of the Wymore Concrete company, He leaves a widow and two egram ) chinist ¢ at th ourt body the here member Superyisor BEATRICE, Neb: gram.)--Supervisor this afternoon at his home of He Harris. at peritonitis was