Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 9, 1909, Page 3

THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1909. }l Nebraska 1'[_.Feb—raska ll | DIPSOMANIAGS NAKE E>CAPE| s | / Frontier County Citizen Complains of Their Treatment at Lincoln. LETTER SENT "0 THE GOVERNOR Board Receives Bill of Expense for Visiting Industrial H Wills of Peru Normal Mount Up. — leak state house under which state number statutes, which cannot be replaced, were ruined during (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, ~ Dée. 8—Special )—Fuilx Newton is not the only one charging mis- management at the Lincoln insane asylum. | From 8fockville, Governor Shallenberger | has received the following letter “STOEKVILLE, Dee. 8.—Governor A. C Shallenbérger. Dear Governor: Can some- thing be done to prevent the escupe of so many dipsomaniacs from the state hos- pital? “Octaber . 1909, T. J. Caraway of Curtis, Frontier eounty, was deivered at the state | haspital By order ot the Board of Insanity of Frontier county. He escaped, came back | to Curtis and was. cetaken by the sheriff of this gounty and delivered at the state | hospital agaln November 9. The sheriff cautioned those in charge that Caraway would get away If he could. Caraway | told the guard in the presence of the sher- | It that he would get away at the first | opportunity. November 24 he escaped again | and was in Curtis November 3. | “Of course you know it is no small ex-| Pense to send a man to' Lincoin from this | distance with the sheriff and an assistant and pay his board for three months in | advance. The clerk of our district court | informs me that two others who were sent down eseaped. I understand that six in all have been sent to the state hospital at Lincoin from this county who were found by the bourd here to be dipsomaniacs. Please liave this referred to the proper de- partment for the good of the service. “Lu H. CHENEY.” | Hxpenses of Visits Vary. | The Board of Public Lands and Buildings has received the expense account of Mrs. Wilcox, who is & member of the visiting | board to the Nebraska Industrial Home, | ‘whieh s interesting in that each trip has | cost the state a little more than the une | before. The aecount ls as follows | First visit of inspection . Becond visit of inspection Third visit of Inspection . Fourth visit of inspection . i Fifth visit of inspection .20 | No explanation siven why the ex- penses of the visits should vary so much. Peru Normal Runs Behind. | The State Normal school at Peru, which | for several monmths bas been under the | management of the new Normal board, | which went defunct when brought to the attention of the supreme court, will have to retrench or have a deficiency. For the seven-month period ending in November the board spent for that school out of the maintenance school fund $0.200.%7. This is| at the rate of 1,314 a month. There was appropriated for the malntenance of the school for two years §22,000, or $916.66 a manth. "~ Engineer Fatlly Hurt. Two Hock Island switch engines coilided | in the local yards near the Holdrege street D640 | the state w | Books Damaged by a Leaky Roof Almost Priceless Volumes in State Capitol Library May Be Lost as Result. (From a Staf Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Nov. $.—(Spectal.)—Due to a in that section of the roof of the is located the Ilbrary, worth probably $500000, a of Aolumes of Pennsylvania the night and morning. About fifty volumes weve destroysd or more or less damaged By the meiting snow before the leak was discovered and the books removed. These statutes wers pub- lished from 1788 to 1797 and later and were | considered very valuable by the librarian. Pennsylvania does not publish biennial compiled. statutes like most of the states, 50 t4 _make the books worth anything it Is necessary to have all the numbers. H. C. Lindsay, librarian, appeared befors both the 1907 legislature and the late legis- Iature asking for an appropriation {hat would buld a wing of a new state house in which to house the library and he showed conclusively that the present quar- ters of the lib-ary are mot only inadequate in so far as floor space is concerned, but the library s in constant danger from fire and, as has been demonstrated today, from a leaky roof. Hundreds of the books in the library could not be replaced at any price, but the legislature failed to ses the economy in protecting a priceless lot of books by the expenditurs of & few thou- sand dollars. The question will be put up to the next legislature and by that tims Mr. Lindsay hopes encugh persons in the state will be sufficlently interested to ‘get some re- sults, MYSTERY IN FIRE AT UNION Fire Marshal its City to Imvesti- ite the Omuse. veb., Dee. 8.—(Special Tele- gram.—All of the business firms wiped out by fire last Monday morning have opened again and the proprietors are fast UNION, | wetting things In shape. A. E. Stites & Co. have opened a drug store in the new Ban- ning building,- Lewis Curtis, a barber, has opened a shop in the Upton building and the Union Ledger has secured a building and the paper will be issued as usual. The loss caused by the fire is between $15,000 and §$20,00. A fire Inspector employed by here today investigating the matter and the Intention is to ascertain the cause of the blagze. This makes the third fire here within the last eighteen months and there is = mystery how the fires started. It is the intention of all to see that the matter is sifted to the botom. SALOON AT LINDSAY BURNS New Stock Destroyed, Loss Being | About $8,000. LINDSAY, Neb., Dec. 8.—(Special.)—This morning L. G. Winklers saloon burned to the ground. Mrs. Reeve discovered the fire a little befors ¢ o'clock. If the building | had not been covered with sheet fron the Nebraska discovered. It was put out without an alarm being turned In and befors much damage had been done. The second floor |18 occupled by lodge rooms, which wers occupied last evening and had the fire got a start the consequences might have | been serious. alf-Minute Store-Talk A man wanted a coat for his boy. One of our salesmen invited him to come here and look. He said, “No—this store was high class for him." Two days later he came and purchased a coat—He then hunted up his friend, the salesman, and sald— “Weil, T was all over town and what few suitable coats I saw in other stores were $7.50 or so. [ couldn’t pay it. In desperation I came here. 1 found the biggest line in town and the coat I wanted at $4.50. 1 saved at least $3.00 and hereafter I'm going to the best store first and save time and money.”—All of which proves the old maying: ‘The longest w. round is the shortest way home. too lerorr PrEiDs seLr.DEFENSE Beginning of His Trial for Joweph Richeson. | _GRAND YSLAND, Neb., Dee. §—~(Special | | Telegram.)—Late today a jury was finally | secured to try Ernest Stout, charged with | the murder on August 13, of Joseph Riche- |son of Hastings. Four of the jurors are citigens of Wood River village, business |and traddsmen, and eight are farmers from |the western part of the county, remote | from the scens of the crime which was near Doniphan. The state and the defense stated their respective cases and only a beginning was made In taking testimony when court adjourned till tomorrow. | Carl Anderson, who was stacking hay | for Stout at the time and was in the fleld |at the time the murder was committed, was the first witness. Direct examination was not completed. The defense will plead that Richeson was the agressor in a sud- den quarrel and that Stout acted in seif defense. | Murder of | We select all / | Aldrich Giving Lectures. | DAVID CITY, Neb., Dec. 8.—(Spectal) | | —C. H. Aldrich left here this morning for | | & week’'s lecture tour under the manage- | ment of the University extension depart- | | ment. He will go as far west as Benkle- | | man, lecturing at Hastings and MeCook | He returns to Omaha December | | enroute. | 16, where he will give a talk at the ban- | quet of the Ohio ciub that evening. l Bulldog Attacks Girl, SUTTON, Neb., Dec. S.—(Special.)—Ga- | sella Nuss, while on the way to church Sunday evening was attacked by & bull dog which bit her In the back. THe wound | 1s & 1arge and painful one, but as she had medical treatment immediately it is be- lleved it will not prove serious 1 Dec. 8.—(Spectal)—Bur- | lington train No. 19 was unable to reach Its | destination at Fairfleld last night, owing | to snow on the track. The Stromsburg | 1ocal came as far as Sutton today and re- turned without completing its run to.Alma. Strange Discase of Hormes. | TILDEN, Neb, Dec. S—(Special)—A new disease has appeared among horses |in Antelope county® that baffles all the| veterinary surgeons. During the sickness of the animals the pulse and temperature are both normal at all times. Veterinary Surgeon Mathews of Nellgh has thor- oughly examined one of the dead horses and found its organs In excellent con- added advan Your Money Back On Demand The Home 0of Quality Clothes Overcoat Prices that mean a real saving to you! 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Conservative Models—black and colors, $10 to $50 i Military and Auto Styles ...$10 to $35 Raincoats that shed water..............$10 to $25 The New Presto Collar— Has many advantages. Worn as a dress coat it gives no evi- dence of the ease with which it 1s converted into a Military front, or as a Military it gives no evidence of it's conservative possibilities. made, It is comfortable and doesn’t jab the neck. is the convertible coat other coats try to be. however, in medium and light weight fabrics. It It can only be We show them in an unusual grade of waterproof, black materials— $15.00 $18.00 $25.00 ditton. He says further, it 1s a germ dis- ease and contagious, as reports are ar- | iving daty from the extreme part of the county of the dying off of horses in large numbers. NEW SCHOOLS ASK FOR BIDS Grinnell and Creighton Would Join Big Seven. CORNHUSKERS ARE COLLEGE MERGER A SURPRISE (Continued from First Page.) carefully prepared and elaborate report of the educational commission was referred back to the men who had spent so much | labor in Mivestigating and in framing the | report. After conference, they presented, | in lteu of their first report and recommen- dations the supplemental report printed In The Bes, which was adopted. Fifty-Acre Campus. Nebraska New: otes. | BEATRICE—The coidest weather of the season prevalls here at present. The temperature yesterday morning was § de- below zero. BHATRICE—Rabbits are very plentiful in this locality. Gustave Brandt. living north of the city a few miles, yesterday killed twenty-three “cotton-tails” and three “jacks” In three hours. OPPOSED lowa Schools, Nebraska Belleves, Already Hold Too Much Power ——Annual Banquet for Foot . Hastings, the following resolution was adopted, which will consolidate the two schools at Hastings “Resolved that It is the sense of the synod that Bellevue college and Hastings college be united. That this united college be located at Hastings and shall be the| Synodical college and shall be known Bellevue college or such other name as the Board Trustees of the two institutions | shall determine. ““That the Board of Trustoes of Hastings and Bellevus coileges be authorized and directed as soon as possible to take suca adjoining buildings would also have burned. L. G. Winkler estimates his loss at about $5,000, with insurance about 33000, The bullding was a total loss and the new viaduct today, at a curve, and Engineer Green was fatally hurt. He was wedged fn the wreckage so that it took rescuers STERLING—Monday evening the town board was asked to grant a fifty-vear franchise to an electric lighting company, capitalized mainly by home financiers. The matter was taken under consideration. Ball Players, LINCOLN, Dec. .8—(Special.)—Grinneil action as may be necessary for turning| over the property of Bellevue college and the assumption of the debts of Bellevue coilege by the trustees of Hastings collegn. Bellevue college, which will thus, within & year, become merged with Hastings col- | lege, has a fifty-acre campus, with 37 ad- | baif aw hour fo extficate him. He has a broken hip and. internsl injuries. He was | able to direct the men who were getting him out. BISHOP NUELSEN AT FREMONT| Nebraska Methodist Home Missionary | Convention in Session. FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 8—(Special.)—The Nebraska Methodist Home Missionary con- | vention 18 holding Its regular session in the loeal chureh here this week, with many | speakers of note In attendance. Bishop Nuelsen is presiding. The principal speaker | last evening was Dr. D. D. Vaughan of Chiesgo. The speaker Is in charge of the ety mission work of his demomination and his address was a strong attack on & tems, customs and conditions now prevall- ing In this country. “Prosperity,” he said, “4s spolling the people. When they think of missions it is about those soidiers of religlon who go abroad to heathen lands, while they ride content in automobiles and leave their hoards of weaith useless In banks. Millions are needed right in this country for the missionary movement. He urged a closer attention to our own social conditjons and less of other couii- | tries. The church, lie sald, was not strietly @ spiritual body; it "as secular dutles and must save the pecple from the conditions with Wwhich they have surrounded them- | welves. At the session this morning Drs. Henry J. Coker and W. E. Dougherty of N York wera speakers. Dr, yaughan also spoke wa “The Wol of the Slum and the Child of the Factor: tn which he In more strong ani eloqu language than last evening arralgned the aystem which permits soclal vice and child labor: He narrited many instances which have come under his personal observation | of the Gark side of Chicago's slum life, | placing the biume on the people at large who allow the i evil to exist and those | who_benefit by child labor. His addresses | have stirred up an unexpected Il.llll-l’ among thoss who heard them. The ses- slons Wil last several days. ‘. NMarshall t Grinmell. GRINNELL, la, Dec. S--(Special.)—At a myting of the foot ball feam of lowa col- | lege, held today; Howard Marshall of At- | leniec was chosen captain of the team for | 1910 w Woman Can Have Beautiful Hair From French Beauty Monthly.) *No woman s uid use water upon her | hair oftener than cmce In (wo months,” | says M. Fournier, wted French scl- | entlst. “Dry powder only should be used. | Molature causes the hair to lose its color | and in tiade become thin. ‘Any woman desiring abundant, lus- trous hair should use a dry shampoo every two or three days. Mix four ounces | of pomdered orris root with four ounces | of therox. Sprinkle about a tabiespoon- | ful of this mixture upon the head; then | brush the powder thoroughly through the | hair. - This will keep it light and fluery, | and beautifully lustrous. You will soon seq. new hair starting to grow. This treat- | mgnt ' the only thing that I am sure will produce & growth of hair. “While plain orris root s used as a dry shampoo by many women, still, no such results can be obtained as by usiug the formuls 1 have given —Adv. | changes win | stock was also a total loss. Mr. Winkler had but recently closed the deal whereby he be- |came sole owner, the firm being formerly |known as P. P. Reide & Company. Frontier County Agricultural Sesfety. STOCKVILLE, Neb, Dec. 8.—(Special) —The Frontler County Agricultural so- clety held ita twenty-third annual meet- ing here at the court house this after- noon. The report of Loyal M. Graham, superintendent of the collective exhibit from this county to the state fair, showed | &t Wymore last week by picking the lock | that this county was awarded $166.46 for its county exhibit, and a number of pre- miums were awarded to individuals of the county. The report of the secretary, L. H. Cheney, showed that a number of substantial fmprovements had been made upon the fair grounds during the last year. The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, J. T. Balley; vice president, Dr. E. 8. Case; secretary, L. H. Cheney; treasurer, M. T. Ward; superintendent of speed, J. Lynch; general superintendent, L. M. Gra- ham; marshal, Robert Richey; superin- tendent state falr exhibit, W. O. Hick- man; directors, W. C. Wollam, J. H. Hin- ton, G. C. Herman, G. R. Gragg and J. W. Bliss; delegate to annual meeting vof State Agricultural soctety, Loyal M. Gra- ham. Athletie Club at Beatrice. BEATRICE, Neb., Dec. 8—(Special)— The Beatrice Athletic club was organized last evening by the electfon of the fol- lowing officers: J. R Eills, president; Dr. H. J. Toemper, first vice president; T. W. MeKissick, second vice president; Clinton Morrison, secretary-treasure: Waiter Jussup, sergeant-at-arms. A com- | cratic papers in this part of the state. Mr. | miitoe on by-laws and constitution com- {prising J. R. Elis, J. W. McKissick and John Van Buskirk, was appointed, and another meeting will be heid when the committes is ready to report. The club starts out with a. good membership. Its headquarters will be located in the Bradt bullding on lower Court street. Offtcial Changes at Alblon. ALBION, Neb., Dec. $.—(Specia’.)—Three take place In the county officials the first of the year. Thomas King wiil succeed F. F. Funru as county treasurer, Miss Hanna Johnson will suc- |eeed P. M. Hoffman as superintendent of schools und Mike Cavey will succeed J. A. Pitchforn as county commissioner. The following officers will succeed them- se'ves: Ed Evans, sheriff: C. E. Walters ounty clerk, and Charles Riley, county judge. Second Trinl Must Proceed. BEATRICE, Neb., Dec. 8.—(Special Tele- gram.)—In_the Chamberiain case today Judge Travis overruled the motion in the plea-in-bar filed by the attorneys for the defense, who held that the proceedings were irregular in discharging the jury last week on wecount of the illness of Juror Thomas Bigley. The deeision of the court means that the case will have to be tried here again for the second time. The jury for the case is now being Impaneiled. Edgar Livery Stable Burns. EDGAR. Neb., Dec. S.—(Spectal )—Fire in the N. A. Barker livery barn about 12:40 it night destroyed the building. A young man sieeeping in the barn gave the alarm and got the horses all out by the time the fire company arrived. One buggy, slightly damaged by fire, was saved. The total value of the bullding and its contents is estimated at $§.20. The twenty-four horses saved were valued at SL300 and the insur ance was §3,000. Narrow Escape from Blase. FREMONT, Neb, Dec. §.—(Special.)— The Fraoklin block had a close_call from fire last night. The Dlaze starfed in the basement from defecfive covering of some water pipes and the basement and bufld- ing were filled with smokegeters it was BEATRICE—Mrs. Rebecca Barr died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M~ B. Reddick in West Beatrice with whom she had been living with for o time, aged ¥ years. The bedy will be taken Lo Cooksville, Ill., for interment. BEATRICE—Charles Godbey and Walter Kellgy, two plumbers in the employ of C. G. Pyle, were overcome by gas yester- day while working in the Dole building. They were removed to their homes, whers | they recovered after a few hours' iliness. | BEATRICE—The story concerning the escape of Edward Burke from the city jall with a fork was ‘expioded yesterday when Constable Moses Allen admitted that he had left the keys In the door when he went up town. HASTINGS—The Scottish Rite bodies of he Masonio order, today began their | twentieth annual reunion. Degrees will be ditional acres of high class farm land. It occupies & magnificent site and has some modern dormitories and, if placed on sale, is expected to be in demand at high price. Hastings college is situated & short dis- tance from the business center of the Adams county metropolis. It has one very fine new dormitory and & new lbrary turnished from tne Carnegle fund. Its matn | building is in pretty fair condition, and one other buflding s on the campus, & dormitory, which is of anclent type. It Is hoped that eventually there will be no need of dormitories at Hastings college, the town being rellea to furnish accommoda- | tions for the greatly increased number o students which will undoubtedly flock there after the merger of the two schools college of Iowa and Oveighton wuniversity of Omaba are seeking ‘mdmission to mem- | bership in the Missourt Valley conference, and are asking that the representatives of the “Big Seven” take some action on | their petitions at the conference meeting in January. Grinnell has been knocking t the conference door for over a year, but | Creighton has just made a request to get into the league. The athletic board of Grinnell college has been sounding the various schools in the conference on the question of allowing the Jowa school to get into the organiza- tion, and has recelved uncertain replies from practically all the members of the “Big Seven.” Yet Grinnell would be given preference over Creighton if the conference It shall also be provided that the work | being done at Bellevus college should not ih‘ discontinued befors the close of the | present schoel year." Commission in Charge. The synod further recommended the fol lowing resolution “First, that the synod appoint a commis- sion of twelve members to act for the synod until the date of the next annual meeting in all matters pertaining to the colleges of the synod. ‘Second, thst the synod's executive com- mission be instructed to include in its budget of benevolences for the current year m equal to 30 cents per member for the college board, to be paid to the synodical treasurer and disbursed by him as the | conferred from the fourth to the thirtieth, | {nclusive. The class 1s composed.of about | should decide to expand. thirty candidates. Masons are hers from| Nebrasks, one of the most influential throughout the state. | members of the conference, is not decided! | sto0d at ® below sero, ascording to. the | 2PPOsed to increasing tho size of the “Big official report, though many instruments Seven” by the admission of ome or two made it several degrees lower. The roads | other schools, but It is set against any in the country are still in a very bad| s accomplished. It is also expected the | debt of something like $0,000, now resting | on ege, Wil be easily cared for, ' with but one school n the fleld for con- tributions, and that a substantial addition o the endowment fund can also be readily college commission may direct, which sume s0 paid shall be reported to the college board for credit to the individual churches. “Third, that the stated clerk advise the | pastors of this act of the synod und request |them to preach upon the subject of ‘Chris- tian Bducation’ and urge their people to condition and the supply of hay and horse feed is getting low. Farmers say it is impossidie to haul scarcely half a load, | night_for this time of the year that has ever been experienced in this section for | twenty vears, the thermometer registering |11 degrees below zero. The roads about town have improved to some extent so | that drays were able to be on the streets yesterday afternoon, the first time since Saturday. DESHLER—A deal was elosed here to- dny whereby F. V. Lowe, formerly of the Waorld-Herald became owner of the Rustler office and building, buying them of James Pontius together with Mr. Pon: interest |in the Farmers and Merchants' bank of | this place. Mr. Lowe expects to continue the Rustler as one of the leading demo- Pontius has not decided what he will do HASTINGS—The Adams county bridge contract for 1610, was yesterday awarded to the Standard Bridge company of Omaha. at prices much lower than any quoted for work here for several years. A number of bidders who had not previously competed | for the contract entered the field, but the Standard was far below them all. The prices on the main features of wood con- ction are as follows: Superstructure per lineal foot, §2.60 to $2.85; red cedar piles in place per linead foot, 30 cents; tearing out old lumber, per 1000 feet, $3.00; replac- ing old lumber, $.00 BEATRICE—Dr. Johnson, the \ Lincoin physician, who s under arrest the charge of performing a criminal o) fon on the late Miss Amanda Buehler, formerly |itved in Wymore, where he is weil known. |A few years ago while & resident of that | place, Rev. Mr. Benbrook, alsa of Li | who was then a resident of Wymore, had | some trouble with the doctor, ‘suum in the preacher shooting se: times at him. The shooting’ occurred in a store and the physician saved himself | by dodging down behind the counter. - Scott’s Emulsion is a wonderful food-medicine for all ages of mankind. It will make the delicate, sickly baby strong and well—will give the pale anemic girl rosy cheeks and rich, red blood. It will put flesh on the bones of the tired, overworked, thin man, and will keep the aged man or woman in condition to resist colds or pneumonia in the winter. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS eral Mo, name of paper and this ad for our Savings Bank sad Child's Sketch. bask cuntaiss & Good & BOWNY, 409 secured. policy that will take in anor* or Iowa school support the synodical colleg Island; C. W. Weyer, Hastings; F. G Knaver, Nelson, W. W. Lawrence and F. G. Mason, Lincoln. The decision contained in the resolution was reached after a long session beginming at § o'clock Tuesday morning and lasting until 10 o'clock at night. For many years it has been the feeling of the synod that it was a mistake in estabilshing and trying to maintain the two colleges. By the action taken it will create one strong Institution trom two weak ones. Inereases om I Central. MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, Dec. S.—(Sp» cial.)—~The Towa Central today closed wage schedules for the coming twelve month: with Iits boilermakers, machinists, black- smiths and car shop workers in this and the other points on its line. - By the new schedules the employes receive increases in wages ranging from 1 to 2 cents an hour. Over 600 men in the shops here, the terminals at Albert Lea and Peoria, and the division points, Mason City, Oska- loosa and Keithsburg, Ia., and Monmouth; Ill, are affected. Stumbles and Shoots Himuself. BLACKHAWK, Ia., Dec. &—(Special)— Stumbling and acecidentally discharging the shotgun he was carrying as he left the barn at his home, Eggert Levetzow, aged 26 years, unintentionally sent the charge of shot ashing through his braid and tear- ing away part of his skull. Death was in- stantaneous. The young man went to the barn for a moment after leaving the house. The report of the gun from so close by attracted members of the family, who found Levetzow dead. The Weather. | without giving membership._to some col- thinks | DAVID CITY—Last night was the coldest | that too much power is now vested in the Towa schools of the conference, there be- in the lege of another state. Nebraska ing three schools of that state league. lowa Has Much Power. This trio of schools, Iowa,- Drake and Ames has besn able to control considerable legislation of the conference, and the ad: dition of another Hawkeye school nearly give the Iow |sway in the association. The combine: by which the Iowa schools forced action on the tralning table was extremely distaste- s would colleges complete “Fourth, that we ask the college board | |to co-operate in the adjustment of the union | of the two institutions. “Fifth, that the endowment of the united institution be not less than $600,000," The resolutions were ail passed by the DONE BY FORMAL RESOLUTION FOR NEBRASKA—Fair with rising tem- perature. FOR IOWA~Fair with rising tempera- ture in west partion. Temperaturae at Omal Record of Commission’ at Kearney Meetl KEARNEY. Neb., Dec. 5.—(Special Tele- | gram.)—The union of Bellevue and Hast- |syrod without a dissenting vote and the ings colleges to be located at Hastings and | ytmost harmony and gnod feeling prevalled, | called Bellevue, or such other name as the | Men Taking Action. board of trusteees may decide, is the out- | Tn, commission making the report was | coms to the conference held by the Pres-|gaopointed at the regular mesting of the | byterian synodical commission appointed at | Nepraska synod, held at Minden last Octo- the last meeting of the synod held at per, This commission corsisted of the fol Minden. | lowing elders: W. M. Davidson, LL. D. At adjourned session of Presbyterian | Omaha; Rev. M. V. Higbee, D. D., Omaha, Procedure ha yesterday: Hour. 58 m. Desg SRR See-1w s lddd s dd gags & which re. | synod of Nebraska for the purpose|Rev. Samuel Light, Randolph; Rev. Frank | of recelving and acting on & report of | P. Wigdon, D. D., Elgin; H. V. P. Bogue, the commission appomted to Investigate | Alliance; James G. Clark, Mitchell; L. C. be affairs of the college at Bellevue and | McEwan, Kearney; J. G. Grabam, Grand | ful to the Cornhuskers, and they have decided upon a policy that will tend to keep Grinnell collefe out of the league un less another school can be taken in at th same time to balance up the power of the pEzzsagy s UEFETPREP B — Below zero. | colleges outside of Towa. | The Nebraska athlétic board, which de- termines the vote of its representative to the “Big Seven,” would be willing to per { mit Griunell (o join the conference if Wash. |burn college of Kansas could be taken |in at the same time. If the other members |of the league would consent to th# double admission the little lowa school could | | Prcbably get into the organization. | But the other members of the conference are not as willing to allow the conference to expand as the Cornhuskers are, and they object to increasing the membership by | |even one. Grinnell has found both Kan- | sas and Missouri opposed to any inereasc | in the membership of the league. |8 Sixth and P acific | It has been sugmested, since Nebraska is | | willing to vote for the joint admission of | Gringell and another school, that Creigh- | ton be permitted to go in as the second member. . The Cornhuskers have declared that they would consider such & proposi- ton just long enough to vote it down. Missouri and Kansas have hinted that they would stand by Nebraska in this matter. The annual Cornhusker banquet for the foot ball eleven was held at the Lincoin | hotel this evening. About 200 people were | present, J. E. Miller presided as toast- naster and short talks were made by Cap- in Beltzer, Dr. Lees, Dean Richards and | Prot. Caldweil. Make your family a Commercinls to Play Old-Time: | TABOR, Ia, De 8. —(Special. )—The | Omaba Commercials will play basket bali here on the evening of December 10 with | the Tabor Old Timers. Development Company Reorgnnizes. CODY, Wyo., Dec. 8.—(Special.)~The Big | Horn Basin Development company, which has been in the hands of a recelver for more than a year, is to be reorganized immediately and s to proceed with the completion of the Oregon Basin irrigation enterprise, under which 275,000 acres of land going up every day. Oscillating Bobsleds Swell Body and Portland Cutters Lininger Implement Company Omaha Christ- mas present of a home In the real estate columns of today’s Bee will be found many choice homes for sale on the easy term plan—ecash payment down —balance like rent. Make your selection now. Realty values are Thursday is home day.