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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-01-29
LEGISLATIVE NEWS.
Especial correspondence
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. q, 1902.

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. p, 1902.
During the past week the leg
islature has shown a tendency to
get down to business, and while
revenue matters are engrossing
the principal attention., good
work is being done i'll other lines.
(rhe special committee appointed
by the house to look after revenue
Legislation in conjunction with
the senate committee has met
with an immediate response from
the latter committee, and good
Roadway is being made. At this
time the matter most discussed by
this joint body is whether to
frame amendments to the old rev
enue law or make a move for an
entire new bill. This has led
them, as we'll as most other mem
bers of the Legislature, to a close
study of the new revenue bill pre-
pared by the Kansas revenue COM
mission. 1t is expected that the
special committees will come to a
decision on course of action this
week.
In the meantime a number of
amendments have gone in, Caring
defects in the old law especially
in the matter of the collection of
taxes. 1t is a matter of general
note that in these matters there
is no tendency to draw party
lines or to inject partisan affairs
into this movement to better the
finances of the state. In this re-
spect as we'll as in many others
the Legislature is an improvement
on some of those of past years.
Il
The new cattle leasing bill
proposed in congress and offered
to the Nebraska Legislature for
endorsement has met with quite
general disapproval among the
members, prompted by the
numerous protests coming from
the cattle country, and at this
writing there is every indication
that this disapproval will be
officially expressed by the session.
Normal school matters have
come before the session in a
variety of ways House roll No.
l asks for an appropriation to
build state school in the west
ern part of the state. No. ? is
a bill to appropriate SIS, 900 for
Improvement at Peru. No. 5 is
to permit private normal schools
to operate and issue state certi-
ticates when they have a capital
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-01-29

The first bill to pass both
houses was the one relating to
the city elections in Omaha,
set ting the time for holding the
elections for May instead of
March. The balance of the
state had no interest in the
matter, and the bill was early re-
ported and went through without
iscussion.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-01-29
invested of $4,000. The old
requirement was 100000.

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Some other bills of general in
terest are as follows: Senate file
30, reducing the rate of interest
on county deposits from to ? per
cent. Senate file 50, repeating
the lumber lien law. This bill
is advocated by large contractors,
and opposed by lumber dealers. }
Senate file ia, the independent
telephone bill, allowing indepen-
dent companies to establish offic-
es and toll stations in cities, and
proposing to pay the muuicipali-
ties , per cent of the gross re-
ceipts thereof. House roll %,
appropriating Sl50,000 to rebuild
the asylum at Norfolk. House
roll IS, establishing penalty to
aid in he enforcement of the
compulsory educational law.
House roll 10, to equal facilities
without favoritism in the build
ing of grain elevators. House
roll 1906, appropriating $4,000
for the making of six experiment
tai gass wells in the state.
House roll l24, permitting the or
ganizing of mutual companies for
the insurance of live stock.
House rolls 223 and 224, prohibit
ing the sale of tobacco to boys
uuder IS, and prohibiting the, use
of tobacco by boys.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-01-29
u. s. Land Office.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

JAMES WHITEHEAD. ............ Register
+. II. YOUNG. Receive,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-01-29

News scarce, no berths, deaths
or Weddings. All quiet but the
corn pickers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26

Queen Louise Ulrica caused the young
prince to be brought to her when he
was about three years old, and in the
presence OF a number of the members
of the court subjected the child's fea-
lures to the most searching scrutiny TO
ascertain whether she could find any
traces of resemblance therein TO the
Moor" She was unsuccessful in her
efforts. But neither could she discover
any resemblance in the child to her son
King Gustavus III, and so she felt more
convinced than ever chat the boy, while
the child of her daughter-in-law, was
not the offspring of her son, the King.
This very serious doubt which existed
as 10 the legitimacy CT King Gustavus
". played no small role in the intrigues
which eliminated in his removal from
the throne in March, 1909, and in the
proclamation of his uncle, that is 10 say
of the younger brother of King Gustavus
III, as ruler OF Sweden In his stead I'M
der the title of Charles XIII. Indeed the
book to which I have referred above,
goes far to demonstrate the fact that
had 1t not been for this question as TO
the identity of the father of King Gus
tavus ", the intrigues of his uncle to
deprive him of his throne would never
have been successful.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
Romance in Real Life.

Yet the book Is wonderfully interest
ing, and IL l draw attention to it it is
because 1t contains one of those 70.
mances of real life which render the
family history OF old world royalty, and
of the ancient houses OF the European
aristocracy, SO far more fascinating and
dramatic than any novel produced by tie
imagination of a writer, no matter how
experienced.
1t relates to the marriage of Gustave
III of Sweden, a descendant of the great
King Gustayus Adolphus OF the Thirty
Years War. His union to Queen Sophie
Madeiaine, delght-r of King Frederick
of Denmark, was characterized by
much unhappine4s, which was fostered
rather than prevented by her mother
in-law, Queen Louise Ulrica OF Sweden,
sister of King Frederick the Great OF
Prussia. Neglected by her husband,
Queen Sophie Madelaine, according to the
stories of the time. turned a ready ear
TO the Establishments of Baron Munck
men at court, and who, owing to his
dark complexion. due to the presence CT
a strong strain of Moorish blood In his
veins. was popularity known as '-the
Moor" Therefore, when the young
Queen gave birth to the son. who subse-
queatly assembled the throne as Gustavus
~. at the age of fourteen, 1t was uni
versally taken for granted that the boy
was not the offspring of the King, but
OF the Moor
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26

It is proposed TO establish pawn shops
in New York through an association of
prominent citizens. among whom are TWO
well-known clergymen. The association
will be incorporated II 1t can secure ex-
emption from taxation and remission OF
usual chattel mortgage fees. The man
agement agrees to work without salary
beyond the salaries OF the various office
clerks and is to limit its annual dividend
to per cent. The benevolent pawn shop
Is a success IN France and Italy. The
argument for this institution is that IL
relieves the poor OF interest charges.
often rising to rs per cent. On the con-
trary, special privileges are asked for
this form OF philanthropy on the same
principle that churches and benevolent
institutions are exempted from taxation
ofaciaI philanthropy easily biackslides
But this pawn shop project is but semi
oflsisl-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
To Protect the Song Birds.
A Truce in Their Interest Signed by
Millinery Makers.

There ought to be joy in the fields
and woods and out over the waters
where the sea gull flies if the feath-
cred creation were able to understand
the terms Of compact which has Just
been executed in It's behalf in New
York.
The high contracting parties are on
the one hand the Millinery Merchants
Protective Association, and on the
other hand the Audubon Society Of
that State.
The members of the association
have pledged themselves to refrain
from importing, purchasing, or sell
ings gulls, terms, grebes, humming
birds, and songs birds, and to exert
themselves TO convict and punish all
persons who deal In these birds and
20 report to the authorities all VIC
lations Of the law by importers and
dealers III raw materials. They also
agree that after the LIST of next
January the importation, manufac-
ture, purchase, or sale of the plumage
Of egrets or herons and American
pelicans Of any species shall cease.
On the other hand, the Audubon
Society promises to try to prevent
any illegal interference by game war
dens with the millinery trade, and to
refrain from aiding the passage of
any legislation that would restrict the
importation, manufacture, or sale Of
fancy feathers obtained from domes-
ticated fowls or Of the plumage Of
foreign birds other than those speci-
fled.
This truce in the war upon song
birds is TO last three years. 1t might
be wished that it was for longer
Ieriod or that It was still more com
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
A Forbidden Book.

Although King Oscar is an omniverous
reader. there is one book of a most in
teresting character which he has never
perused. owing to the fact OF his father
having exacted from him when a quite
young man pledge of the most solemn
nature that he would never read it. The
title of the book is The Moor, or the
House of Holstein Gottorp In Sweden. ="
by Magnus Crusenstolp. This book
which deserves to be translated, deals
with the circumstances which led up to
the removal of the house of Vasa from
the throne of Sweden and the substitu-
ton in it's stead of the French peasant
born dynasty of Bernadotte, which King
Oscar so worthily represents.
The book sheds such frightful light
on the immortality. the treachery, and.
In one word. on the corruption of the
Swedish aristocracy. that King Oscar I
feared that If ever either OF his two
sons read the book In question they
would become so violently prejudiced
against the Swedish nobility, and would
conceive such a horror for the aristoc-
racy of the people over whom they were
to be called upon to rule, that the sue
cess aud the happiness of their reigns
would be endangered thereby
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
THE F7SHERMAN'S CHILD.

The twilight is sad and cloudy,
The wind blows wild and free:
And like the wings of seabirds
Flash the white caps of the sea.
But in the fsherman's cottage
There shines a ruddier light,
And a little face at the window
Peers out into the night
Close, close 1t Is pressed to the window,
AS If those childish eyes
Were looking into the darkness
To see some form arise.
And woman's waving shadow
Is passing to and fro,
Now rising to the ceiling,
Now bowling and bending low.
What tale do the roaring ocean
And the night wind, bleak and wild,
AS they beat at the crazy easement,
Tell to that little child?
And why do the roaring ocean
And the night wind, wild and bleak.
AS they beat at the heart of the mother,
Drive the color from her cheek?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
REDUCING POSTAGE
FOR MAIL To CHINA
New Arrangement to Go Into Effect
on June I.

Capt. y. NJ. Brooks, superintendent of
foreign mails, announced last week that
after June ! mail will be delivered at
Shanghai and the interior towns of China
served from that point at Postal Union
rates. Hereafter the rate will be cents
per ounce instead of cents per half
ounce.
The United States and all the other
great powers have postal stations at
Shanghai, which is rendered necessary
by the lack of complete postal system
in China. The Chinese are rapidly in
stalling a postal system which is prov
ing of great service to foreigners and
merchants. The mail is forwarded by the
postal stations, and when II is addressed
to a town which is not served by the
Chinese postoffice department. the letter
is taken TO the nearest station and from
there is delivered by private carriers.
The charges for the carrier, which
are apt to be uncertain or unknown
TO the sender. are collected from the
person receiving the letter.
Captain Brooks explained that the
rapid growth of American business in
China was the principal factor in re-
ducing the rates 10 Shanghai. but low
rates for mail to the Philippines made it
appear unfair to charge so heavily for
letters to the Chinese port and that
argument was largely instrumental in
bringing about the change.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26

The Book Real Lie
lnlvn the Removal the 1oueo Vas the neof

manifested to the Roman Catholic or
ders in general, and TO the Jesuits in
particular, by according TO them priVi-
leges not conceded by other countries.
and by preventing the execution OF the
Prussian laws actually in existence
against them, and much capital is now
being made in this connection by his
foes of the fact that Jesuit priest who
was Baron Emile Won Buelow, has
just died at the age of eighty-six, at
the Jesuit College at Calksburg. 1t be-
ing asserted that the chancellor's friend
Illness toward the JesuitS is only nat
ural since he has near relatives belong
Ing to the order.
While it is perfectly true that the
venerable priest in question was Bar
on Won Buelow, yet the relationship be-
tween him and the chancellor is so re-
mote as TO be scarcely worth mention
ing For the priest belonged to the
Wedendorf branch of the Buelow fam
lily, whereas the chancellor belongs to
the PIuskow branch and these two
branches parted company as far back Gs
the year 1898; that is to say. some 500
years ago. So II Is scarcely likely that
the chancellor would allow himself to
be in any way Influenced by kinship
so extremely remote.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
Fled From His Palace.

The granddaughter OF the deposed and
banished King Gustave " of Sweden. is
now Dowager Queen of Saxony. while a
grandson on the distaff side is the
reigning Grand Duke of Baden, whose
daughter is married to the present
Crown Prince OF Sweden.
l related some time ago in these COL
umns the scene of King Gustave Tvs
through the palace, and finally engaged
In a hand-to-hand fight with several of
the mobiles of his court, during the course
of which he lost his even sole remaining
garment. Indeed there was most ex
traordinary mingling of tragedy and of
comedy in his removal from the throne.
But what I did not mention was the
fact that from this fayorite of Queen
Sophie Madeline, that is to say, Baron
Munck, nicknamed The Moor is de-
scended that Miss Ebba Munck, who
was the maid of honor of the present
Queen. and to marry whom the now
reigntng King Oscars second son, also
nameH Oscar, renowned all his titles
and prerogatives as a prince OF the
reigning house of Sweden, assuming the
role of a mere noble with the title of
Prince Bernadotte. or course he has
forfeited by bis marriage all his rights
of succession 10 the Swedish Crown.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
Warred on Democrats.

Politics works many changes. but few
that are more interesting than that
wrought in the Hon. Rowland Blenper-
hassett Mahany. To those whose memo
ries are so short-lived that they do not
readily recall the Hon. Rowland Blenner-
hassett Mahany, it may be said that
only few years ago he was q dapper
young Congressman from Buffalo. who
owed his election TO the Republican
party. and whose well-stocked yocabu-
larry, including not few we'll chosen
expressions from the Gaelic, did not
contain words sufficiently forceful in
meaning to convey his Ill opinion of the
Democratic party.
He made worthy record for himself
in the House. but his ungrateful party
turned him down, and now Democrat
holds his seat. Since he left the House
the Hon. Rowland BIennerhassett Ma
hany has been undergoing slow process
Of political evolution. Last fall he had
so far progressed in his tendency toward
Democracy that he announced his in
tention to support the Hon. Bird S. Coler
for governor. Well, Mahany did sup
port Coler, and supported him good
and hard. but Coler was not elected
despite that fact, although Buffalo
perhaps by reason OF the influence OF
the Hon Rowland Blennerhassett Ma
hany--dtd give the Democratic candidate
a heavy vote. Since that time, the Hon.
Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany has an
nounced himself straight party Demo-
crat, and with all the fervor and en-
thusiasm of a new convert. he has start
ed in to make things interesting for his
former associates in politics.
Jim Corners and will nominate the
Democratic ticket" he says. He will
furnish the money. and I will supply
the brains" The Hon. Jim Corners ap-
pears to be saloonkeeper with rolf
and a political ambition. II he fulflls
his part OF the bargain, there should
be something doing" in Buffalo this
fall. Mr.. Mahany may cherish a de-
sire to return to Congress, as the dis
trict in which he resides Is now Demo-
cratic.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
A Clash in Ohio.
Foraker and Hanna at Odds ON a Cues.
stion of Policy.

The Ohio Republicans have gotten
themselves into curious tangle. A
contest is to be precipitated in the APP
preaching State convention over what
looks to be a somewhat inmaterial
and far-fetched issue.
The senior Senator from Ohio. the
Hon. Joseph B. Foraker, dropped the
suggestion not long ago that Ohio
should this year follow the example
set by Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kan
sas, and dozen other leading Repub-
hcan States in declaring for Presi-
dent Roosevelt's denomination. But
the Junior Senator from Ohio, the
Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, holds that
such declaration would not be "good
form" politically, and has announced
that he will oppose all efforts made to
pledge Ohio's vote in the next ma
tional convention to President Roose-
welt thus prematurely and out of sea-
son.
Mr.. Hanna and the politicians who
follow his lead give various reasons
Tor opposing the Foraker program.
The State convention of 1903, they
say, has no shadow of right to usurp
the powers of the body which is to
meet next spring to name Ohio's four
delegates-at-large to the national con-
vention. These delegates, hereafter
to be chosen, would not IN any way
be bound by such irregular instruc-
lions. And many things may happen
within a year to demonstrate the use
lessness of a State organizations
crossing political bridges before it
gets to them.
In the meantime Mr.. Hanna and
his friends stoutly repel the insinua-
ton that they are openly or secretly
opposing President Roosevelt's re-
nomination. The junior Senator de-
MES that he is himself Presidential
candidate, and announces his belief
that the present occupant of the
White House will be renominated and
reelected. His only object, he says,
is to enforce a proper observance of
political forms, and to secure to the
convention which is TO meet next year
an unimpaired freedom Of choice and
action.
Much friction, it seems to us, has
been generated over an apparently
academic issue, and we await the So
luton of this latest Foraker-Hanna
dispute with the liveliest interest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
United Against King Leopold.

Prince Philip OF Coburg, and his sister
in-law, the ex-Crown Princess Stephanie
of Austria. with her husband. have now
King Leopold to surrender to them that
portion OF the property of the late Queen
Henriette which belongs to them by law.
The Queen died much richer woman
than Is generally believed. BY her will
she bequeathed her fortune in three
equal parts to her three daughters.
This will Is not valid IN Belgian law
which Drescribes that the husband shall
be entitled to a life interest in 80 per
cent OF his wife's estate, the remainder
being divided between the children.
Leopold, however, Insists on retaining
the major portion of the fortune ~
which he has possession. and which he
refuses to surrender. Legal proceedings
have now been Instituted by Princess
Stephanie. her husband, and by her
brother-in-iaw.P Prince Philip Of Coburg.
ans the curious feature OF the situation
is the association Of Princess Stephanie
and OF Prince Philip OF coburg IN the
matter, since they have hitherto been at
daggers drawn on account OF his treat
ment OF his wife, whom he drove to
desperation by his cruelty. and whom he
has now got locked up In lunatic
asylum near Dresden AS Prince Philip
has never been divorced nor even 1udici-
ally separated from his wife, he is legal
iy entitled to act in her behalf in claim
ing her share in the fortunes of her
mother, Queen Henriette of Belgium.
MARQUISE DE F0NTENoY.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
PLANS IN GOOD SHAPE
Bishop McCabe Says Sanction VIII Be
Given at General Conference.

Bishop C. C. McCabe, of Omaha. who
succeeds Bishop Hurst a. chancellor OF
the embryo National University, arrived
in the city last night. In speaking of the
proposed institution of learning. he said:
The next general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, which
meets at Los Angeles, viii undoubtedly
give US the sanction 70 go ahead with
our work. We have $50, 900 for the Nc
Kinley Memorial building, which is TO
be the first structure we are 10 erect
The marble has already been donated.
Though our work Will be purely post
graduate, 200 applications from those
who wish TO become students OF the
university have been received.
Opposition from the other colleges
has subsidized. Though Protestant. the
university will not be run on narrow
sectarian lines"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-26
The Field of Politics.
Gold in Plenty.


The fact that Prof E. Benjamin An
drews should renounce his adherence to
the fallacious doctrine of free silver is
not surprising. The financial history OF
the country for the past seven or eight
years has proven to his satisfaction that
the single standard of value is the only
basis of a sound currency and that there
is sufficient gold to carry on the worlds
commerce. AS he was manly enough to
stand up for that which he believed to
be right seven years ago he Is likewise
honest enough now to confess CONVEX
sion of belief.
1t required far greater courage and
force of character then for Prof. An
drews to express his convictions and his
opinions than it does now for him to
declare his change of sentiment. In the
campaign of 1896, when the line between
free silver at the ratio of 16 to and the
gold standard was so sharply drawn
that every man must of necessity be
upon one side or the other in that great
political battle, Prof. Andrews occupied
unique position. He stood practically
alone as the head of a great institution
OF learning maintaining his belief in the
wisdom of the free and unlimited coin
age Of silver.