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NEBRASKA NEWS RAILWAY COMMISSION PREPAR ING AN ORDER GRAIN 10 PER GENT LOWER Omahn Still to Have Best of Interior Towns Standard Oil Found to Be Delow Required Test. A ( reduction of freight rates on grain la Die welcome news dial floats out from the Htato house. It Is un derstood that (lie railway commission will hoci announce now rates on grain and Jobbing tariffs. All that is known or I lio proposed reduction on grain is thai. It amounts to 10 por cent. TIiIh Ik nald to be a Mint reduction, without any chuuge, Hint will satisfy the olnlinu of Interior towns Unit Omaha and other towns that are fortunate to lie 'situated near the. hanks of tho Missouri river have an udvunlago over them. Koine of the most, glaring discrimi nations in jobbing rates may be cor roded and a dozen or more town will bo given Jobbing rates on mer chandise and manufactured goods. Omaha line elevators will continue to have an advantage In that they gel the benefit of a proportional rate to Iho east, which applies only to Kialn brought. Into Omaha. The ele vators then can continue to ship from towns in the state, clcun the grain at Omaha and forward it to the east without losing the boncllt of the pro portional rate. Terminal tariffs will apply to grain shipped to Omaha while a distance tariff will apply to the rest, of tho statu. Standard Oil Below Test State Oil Inspector A. H. Allen has been Informed by Deputy Inspector Wheeler (lint a barrel or two of oil at Clay Center was found below the teal required by the state law. Mr. Aden lias nolille.l the merchant who has the oil not to sell It. Complaints were received last week that poor oil was being sold at Clay Center. Mr. Allen directed Deputy Wheeler to make tosts. The deputy made six or nigh I Inspections. At one store he found a barrel or two of Eocene oil shipped from Omnha by the Standard OH company that, tested 110 degrees, or two dogroes below the minimum n.(iilied by Hie state law. Oil of the name brand In another store tested IK! degrees. Mr. Allon reports that oil of this brand was Inspected at Omaha and his deputy reportod that lie Inst car of Eoconc nrriving at Omaha tested til!. Tho peculiar purl ot tho affair Is that tho oil that, did not come up to tho logal lest is a favorite brand in most places and Kills for G cents a gallon more than some brands of the Standard Oil company. There is no distributing station at Clay Center and usually the morchanls get oil from the Stan dard oil Mtatlon at. Edgar, but lately a few merchants have been shipping oil by barrel from the Standard Oil company's plant at. Omaha. CRUSHED TO DEATH IN CAR Illinois School Teacher Killed By Shifting Lumber. W. W. Graff, a school teacher living at Jacksonville, III., came west and spent his vacation on the M-W ranch near Clifton, Wyo. says nn Alliance, Neb., dlBpatch. s the time came for him to return east he decided that II was not a good plan to pay tho railroad any fare o he In company with G. G. McCauley, climbed into a car of lumber as a freight train was leaving Clifton. A short distance out of town the train suddenly slacked speed, which shifted the lumber and crushed Graff against the side of tho car. Ills friend Immediately notified the (rain crew and he was taken to tho way car, whore ho died about an hour after tho accident. Ills remains were talc?n to Edgomonl, S. D and Ms fiiendH wore notified of the uccl vletit. HIT BY TRAIN AT CROSSING Lynn Billington Killed Near Town of Lushton. Lynn Hllllngton, while crossing the Kansas City & Omaha tracks between Liishton and Lyman In an empty wagon, accompanied by KM Oryall, who wiib leading n team, was sur prised by a rapidly approaching south bound train. It struck the front ot his wagon nnd Mr. Hllllngton was so badly Injured that he died in Lush (on about two hours later. Mr. Ory all managed to jump in time to snvo himself weiioiiB Injury. Doceasod was in the employ of Jacob Shroyer and had hecn hauling corn to town for a neighbor, lie loaves a wife and three wiuull children. NEW GAME BIROS IMPORTED Warden Carter Secures Some Hun garian Partridges. Chief Game Warden George I. Car ter has ordere 100 pahs of Hungarian partridges and will parcel them out oer the state wherever money uin bo raised to pay for them. These birds are quite similar to the ordinary ' Hob White" quail, only they are about twice the six." of tho quail. Ti.'o birds will cost Mr. Carter $1.50 per pair and he will do the work of shipping them out for nothing. The 1'iople of Gordon have raised $150 foi securing part of these birds and at Merrlmau residents have raised $100 more . The Htato will keep four pairs at tho state fisheries at South Mend, where they will be thoroughly protected. These birds are iion-nilgratory and when "planted" In a community will make their home In that community lor all time. They are very hardy and prolific. Letters from the ward ens of Illinois and Kansas indicate that theso partridges have been "planted" to great advantage. Tho Htato of Illinois secured R00 pairs last year and they have increased won derfully. Another installment will bo secured this year. Otto I'M for of Gordon has raised the $150 for the birds at Gordon ami he it was that asked Mr. Carter to secure the 100 pairs of the birds, as miring him that, they would all bo placed In Nebraska. Mr. Carter will receive the birds In December. He has more than half of them placed already and wants the names of people in other communities where the birds would be furnished a home. LEAVES FORTUNE TO ELKS. Norfolk Order Shares In Distribution of Wealthy Property. A faithful employe who has driven his coal wagon for years, a comrade of the civil war and Norfolk lodge No. 051!, Henovolenl and Protective Order of Elks, are made the benefi ciaries of the entire fortune of the late C. W. Mraasch of Norfolk, one of tho pioneers of the town and for many years a prosperous business man. Within six years the entire Mraasch family, including W. C. Mraasch, his wife, three sons and a daughter all prominent in Norfolk, have been claimed by death. He sur vived them all, but finally expired, his death being hastened by despond ency. COURSING MEET FOR MINDEN Nebraska Town is Awarded Ameri can Futurity. The national coursing meet In 1907 which takes place la the two weeks beginning October 15, will be held at Mlndon, Nob., the executive commit too of tho national coursing associa tion having agreed to award It to that city. Tho decision was reached after bids from several places in Nebraska and Kansas had been received ask ing for the moot. Mlnden agreed to pay the association $ 1,1100 to secure the moot. The committee did not act outlroly. on the comparative size of the bids, hut took Into consideration the good of tho association. Oxford Sells Water Bonds. After a long delay, tho $15,000 bonds voted by Oxford for water works a year ago last .June, have been disposed of and a water system as sured within the near future. F. .1. Cole, president of the International Construction company of South Mend, Ind., was In Oxford the other day and took over the bonds at par, at the same time entering into contract with the board to construct tho plant wlhlu seventy-five days after begin ning work. The storage tank will have a capacity of 10,000 gallons, and a 100-foot tower will insure adequate pressure, these and tho pumping sys tem being locnted on tho hill north of the business section of town. Most of tho necessary materials have been ordered, so that little delay Is an. tlclpated. Fremont Has Gift For Clcmmons. The Fremont Commercial club gave President W. II. Clemnions of Fre mont college a pleasant surprise at the cornerstone laying for the new science hall. Through Ross L. Ham mond, who acted as speaker, tho club mado President Cloinmons a present of $7,500. It wasn't In money, but it amounted to that much. Tho gift in cluded a deed for the block of ground Immediately oast of the college cam pus and receipts for all the damages filed by property owners, who claimed they were damaged by the closing of Platte avenuo. Mr. Clemnions was deeply moved. He could not respond for some minutes. When he did he promised his big audience that he ul timately would orcct some substantial buildings on the additional hloqk. The Commercial club's gift doubles the slzo of the Fremont collego campus. Ir SIMPLE REMEDY ONE OF THE WAYS TO CURTAIL OPERATIONS OF TRUSTS. HOME PATRONAGE PRINCIPLES Systems That Oppose the Advance ment of Rural Towns and Agri cultural Communities. Never before have the people of tho country been so awakened to the Im portance of home piotoctlon as they are at present. The wide knowledge sjiread by means of the public press as to the operations of the great trusts and how the musses are made to servo the more favored classes Is having Its effect. The residents of agricultural communities are beginning to realize the dangers of business concentration in sections or the country dominated by the capitalistic classes. They are fast becoming aroused to the truth that this concentration is a menace to tho prosperity or the nation, and di rectly affects every producer, every laborer and every citizen of the coun try who depends upon his work for support. Tho building up of great trusts com menced less than a score of years ago. At tho same time there were other systems Inaugurated that tended to wards robbing the home towns or business and concentrating this busi ness in the large cities. One or these systems, most notable in its injurious operations and Its force to draw wealth from communities where It is jiroduced, is tho mail-order system of business. None will say that this sys tem Is Illegitimate, but no economist can show wherein Its principles are sound. My the system communities are Impoverished and kept from pro gressing. Ho who will give study to the basis of country development will see that It Is the labor employed that not alone enhances the value of the farm lands, but builds up the towns. When there Is little to employ this la bor, the result is depression, stagna tion and non-progress. Tho great evil of the mail-order system which has grown up, Is Its taking away the means that small towns have of em ploying labor, and the drawing from each community the profits in com mercial transactions that, represents tho wealth that is procured. It is sophistry to claim that the resident of a community who sends his money to a foreign town and saves the ten per cent, that may represent the home merchant's profits, is not a factor In impoverishing the community. While tho saving may remain in the com munity the employment or labor essen tial to every business is given to the foreign place, and the home town is robbed of tills employment giving jiower. Every dollar that Is sent away from a community where it is produced either by the tilling of the soil, by the growing of live stock, by the work of the day laborer, or by the storekeeper, Impoverishes the community to that extent, and this dollar ceases to be any factor In tho advancement of the community. Presuming that there are in a community 2,000 people, suppose that each one of these 12,000 people send away to some foreign place $50 por year. This in the aggregate is $100,000 per year that goes to tho sup port of a foreign town. Suppose that each one sending his money away saves ten lier cent.; the savings for a year would be $5, and In ten years $50. Look at the othor side $100,000 busi ness per year would support In the home town five good stores. Each one of theso storos would give employ ment to a number of hands. The small percentage of profit that would be made would be rotalnod in the com munity and bo Invested In new enter prises. Year after year there would be n continual Increase In the pros perity of the town, and the building GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. Millions of Dollar Annually Saved to the Farmers of the United States. One of the most important move ments that has been inaugurated of recent years, and which has resulted In wonderful benefit to tho people Is the good roads movement. Within the United States there are approximately about 8,000,000 farmers. If during a yenr each of those farmers can bo saved $10 In tlmo, or In wear and tear upon horses and wagons by moans of Improved roads, it moans a saving of $80,000,000 annually; but tho truth is that the improved roads that havo boon built up tho past half dozen years through agitation of tho good roads movoniont saves each farmer In the laud from $50 to $100. Thus it can bo seen that tho savings brought about through this movement aggregate hun dreds of millions of dollars each year. Good roads aro Important to the progressive town. This fact has he coma bo recognized that wherover thoro exists a llvo agricultural town up process would add to tho vrIuc of all the town property, and to tho farms within the trading radius of tho town. While by sending away tho farmer would In ten years' time save but $50, whereas by patronizing the home town the profits that would como to him In substantial increase In real estate values would bo ten times this amount. The building up of the tow u would Improve Hie home market, affording every producer on the farms bettor prices for all his pro duce. Then there Is unother thing, tho town supports the churches, the schools and other public institutions. The efllciency of these Institutions are dependent upon the life and activity of the town. Where poor towns exist, the schools do not receive the support that Is necessary to make them good, neither are the churches of the high standard they should be. Home pat ronage means good schools, good churches and all conveniences that add to the pleasure and enlightenment of a people. All the residents of- a community have common interests in it the banker, tho lawyer, the doctor, the merchant, the farmer, the day laborer all have equal interests. Tints we find that a community is in reality a large cooperative assembly. What is of interest to one is of material inter est to the other. Hut more important than all is that by a practice of the home patronage principle the possibili ties of building up trusts for the con trol of industries of the country are reduced to the minimum; in fact, a strict adherence to this simple princi ple of building up and protecting homo industries precludes the building up of harmful trusts and combinations. D. M. CARR. COSTLY LESSONS IN ECONOMY. It Is Not Always a Matter of Saving to Buy Cheap Goods. Almost every rural community has within Its confines people who have paid well for experience and have learned costly lessons as to buying of goods. Not long ago in a western town a citizen desired to buy a kitchen range. A visit to the local hardware store was made and the prices asked by the dealer were not satisfactory to the prospective purchaser, who by the way had his attention attracted by the advertising in his farm paper of "a bargain" in a kitchen range. The range was advertised as equal to those costing "twice the money at the local store." The citizen sent a money order to the concern advertis ing the range, and in the course of a tew weeks he was notified by the rail road agent that the range hud ar rived. In removing it from the sta tion to the farm house, in some Inex plalnable way part of it was broken. The broken pieces were taken to the local hardware store but could not be duplicated. A letter was written to the range company and in the course of a few weeks a duplicate of the broken part was received, but it was discovered that It would not fit the titoe. It had to be returned and a few weeks latr another piece was sent; then the stove was placed in use. Within six months the top had become so warped that it interfered seriously with the drafts. At the end ot the year the stove was burned out and ready for the junk heap. The purchaser of the stove then deter mined that he would secure another range from the home dealer. He paid the homo dealer the price he was asked which was about one-third more than the poor range cost, and after a few year the range was found to be as good almost as when first bought. This is one Illustration of how econ omy wrongfully practiced is ex pensive, it is not always wise to seek the bargain counters when good articles are wanted. Neither is it a wise idea to buy goods before you have an opportunity to carefully ex amine them and determine their value. its citizens will be found to be staunch advocates of road improvement, and there Is a civic pride and friendly com petition in the matter of having good roads leading to the towns. The work of road improvement has only fairly begun. A number of state legislatures have taken up the work and during the next dozen years great ehangOB will be wrought as to the building and maintenance of public highways. Made the Moon Blind. Tho depths to which tho lover will go for his beloved was demonstrated by a conversation between a young couple overheard recently on a trip up the bay, says the Maltimoro Amer ican. The moon and tho water were having their usual effect upon theso young people, and their attitudes were most nft'ectlonate. Suddenly tho oung lady shivered a little. "Oh," she exclaimed using an old exprosslon, "1 felt as If a gooso Just walked over my grave." "How I wish I was that goose," cooed tho youth rapturously, and tho moon Immediately wont behind a cloud. DIES AT GROSSING AUTOMOBILE DASHED INTO A FAST EXPRESS TRAIN THREE KILLED IN THE CRASH Two Others Suffering From Serious In juries Automobile Manufacturer With Four Members of Family Were the Mi-Fated Party. A Great Harrington, Mass., August IS, dispatch says; An automobile containing a parly of live persons from Mrictol, Conn., collided with tho Now York-Plttsfield express at Ashley Falls crossing, near here Sunday. Three of the motoring pa'ty were killed and the other two probably fa tally injured. The dead: CHARLES .1. ROOT, forty years old, an automobile manufacturer of Mristol, instantly killed. .MRS. ROOT, his mother, who died while being removed to JMttsfield by train. MISS RO HERTS, sister of Mrs. Root, Instantly killed. Miss Mary Root, daughter of Charles .1. Root, was removed to the hospital at Plttsfleld, where her con dition was reported as veiy critical. Miss Katherlne Root, aged fourteen, niece of Mrs. Root, internal injuries. PLAGUE HAS A HOLD. Five Cases and Four Deaths at San Francisco. Five cases of bubonic plague, four of which have resulted In death, have been reportod to the health depart ment of Snn Francisco. The patients, with one exception, were poor for eigners dwelling in the neighborhood of old Chinatown. The exception was a foreign sailor from a coastwise steamer. Prompt measures were taken by the local, state and federal authorities and a spread of the dis ease is not feared. Both President Jules Simon of the local health board and Health Officer James T. AValkins stated that the situation is well in hand. The infected steamer was or dered brought into quarantine with her passengers and will remain until released by the health department. The two shacks inhabited by the other patients were fumigated and scaled. Tho bodies of two Mexicans, an Italian and a Russian I'ole who succumbed were destroyed in quick lime. METEOR FELL IN THE OCEAN. Caused Great Waves That Did Dam age Along Shore All out of doors at Amaganzett, Long Island, were startled Sunday evening when they heard a terrific roar and at the same time saw a blaz ing mass shooting through the heavens over the ocean apparently only a lit tle way out from shore. The meteor appeared to be about twenty feet in diameter. When it struck the ocean huge breakers came tumbling shore ward. Several bathing pavilions were washed away and fishermen's nets were battered from their moorings, while considerable damage was caused to property along the ocean front. Great numbers of dead fish wero swept in. Postoffices On the Ships. Alter an investigation of tho sys tem of ocean postoffices on German and French ships, John T. McCleary. second assistant post master general of the United States, returning to New York on board the steamship Celtic, declares that the service on the varl out steamship lines will be continued and efforts made to install postoffices on other lines. Mr. McCleary said the complaint of the North Gorman Lloyd line that the compensation re ceived by the companies was not suf ficient was justified and that he had arranged that it. should be increased. Insta.ll Wireless Service. Arrangements have been completed whereby tho war and navy depart ments will co-operate in the main tenance of wireless communications between Nome and St. Michael, Alaska, and Seattle and San Fran cisco. A wireless telegraph outfit is being installed on the battleship Kan sas, whose approximate sending ra dius Is said to be 500 miles. Paying Last Dividend. The chocks for the payment or tho last dividend of 12 por cent to tho depositors of tho First National bank or Topeka, Kans., which failed in tho Devlin crash, havo been filled out and will bo forwarded to the comptroller at Washington. He will inspect and sign the checks and return them to Topeka. The money will probably bo available within fifteen days.