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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03
Nehraska RalIroad caae.

The opinion OF Judge T. c. Munger
In the railroad cases which are re-
tined in the federal court, is in this
language:
"The question involved In this case
Is whether the action may be removed
into the United States circuit court,
The solution of this question depends
upon the construction OF the act OF
congress of March 8, 1887, which gives
cognizance to the circuit court OF the
United States of all suits OF q civil
nature, at common law or In equity
In which there shall be con.
troversy between citizens Of different
states. In which the matter in contro-
versy exceeds exclusive OF interest
and costs the sum Of $1,000.
"The complalnants contend that the
action does not come within the
statute for the reason that the act OF
congress refers only to controversies
between citizens of different states
and not TO controversies between the
state and citizens
"The fact that the suit is brought
in the name OF the state does not de-
termine whether or not the state Is
really party in interest"
Judge Munger then quotes from nu.
merous opinions in state and federal
courts bearing on this question and
on the one referring to the point OF
pecuniary interest the state may have
in the controversy. Analysing var.
ious cases, Judge Munger finds that
they are not wholly analogous to the
one in controversy. as in each case
cited by the attorney general, the
state had some sort of actual inter-
est, either of property, or to exercise
police power in direct prosecution or
suit for penalties.
ut is also contended that in case
of doubt, 1t is the duty of the court
to remand the case to the state court.
This is not the rule of the circuit
court Of appeals for this circuit
but no doubt Is entertained that
the state of Nebraska In this case has
no real interest as an artificial per-
son and therefore the motion to re-
mand will be overruled."
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03
Government JanItor DISCHARGED.

John H. Leckliter, janitor of the
federal building, is said to have re-.
ceived discharge from the govern
ment to take effect September 80, but
his friends are moving to have him re-
instated. AS the position Is a civil
service job a discharge must be for
cause. Mr. Leckliter was serving his
six months probationary period. At
the end of that time a recommends.
ton for reappointment is necessary
to enable the applicant to hold his
place. In the case of Mr.. Leckliter 1t
is understood that he not only failed
to get recommendation from Custo-
dian Burgess but that his discharge
was recommended.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03
The State Capital
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Matters OF General Interest
FROM
.Nebraska's Seat Of Government
The Express Case Decision.


Judge w. II. Munger, In his opinion
In the Nebraska express case. had
this to say:
Under the judiciary act to entitic
party TO remove on the ground of
diversity of citizenship there must be
a controversy between citizens of diff
ferent states. A state is not a citi-
zen, within the meaning of the judi
oiary act, but It Is argued that as the
state has no interest In the contro.
versy which entities 1t to maintain
the action, therefore, it is a mere pom-
inal party
1--WE have Just held in the case Of
the State of Nebraska against the
Board Of Railway Commissioners
against the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad, brought in the SUI
preme court of the state for q like
that the action was a removable one
on the ground of diverse citizenship
for the reason that the state, though
named as party complainant, had
not such an interest as entitled 1t to
maintain the action and hence was a
mere nominal party, and that the real
controversy was between the board
of railway commissioners, authorized
to maintain the action, and the rail-
road company In this case, IL there
10 a controversy at all, 1t Is between
the state and the express company.
Whether or not such controversy
can be maintained by the state it is
unnecessary for us to decide. We
are only to determine whether or not
there is a controversy between citi-
zens Of different states Finding there
is no such controversy the case is not
removable on the ground of diversity
of citizenship.
without the emergency clause the
law did not go into effect until July
6, 1t is contended, and that the defen-
dants were not required to put the re-
duced rates into effect until thirty
days thereafter; that the action be-
ing brought on the 5th of July was
prematurely brought and therefore
presents federal question. We can
not agree to this contention. The
mere fact that an action is premature
ly brought cannot be said to present
federal question within the mean
ing of the judiciary act. If that should
be so in case Of this character it
would be so in every action brought
by one individual. against another pre-
maturely to recover on a promissory
note or other cause of action.
For the reasons given, the motion
to remand is sustained and the case
remanded to the supreme court of the
state"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03
Rice Pudding.

Half teacup rice, three pints milk.
Simmer until rice is cooked soft; cool
and beat five eggs, leaving out two
whites; add one coffee cup sugar and
one grated cocoanut. Stir in the rice
and milk when cold and set it in the
oven to bake. Take out as soon as
the custard forms. Make meringue
of the two whites of eggs and six
tablespoonfuls of sugar beaten to stiff
froth. Pile up on the top and re-
turn to the oven to brown. Eat hot
or cold.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03
Railroad Men Explain.

c. p. Spens general freight agent
of the Burlington and General Super
intendent Byram of the same road.
called on the railway commission.
They discussed classification and
talked of a complaint filed by John
G. Hengen of Crete concerning an al.
legged overcharge on car of lumber
from Clearmont, Miss, to Crete. The
defense of the road is that the two
local tariffs were added together as
permitted by the interstate com.
merce commission.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03
Pineapple Tapioca.

Soak one cup tapioca, drain off
water, and add juice two lemons ad
one-half cup of water; also add one
half pound shredded pineapple and its
juice, and one and one-half cups
sugar. Cook slowly until almost
clear; stir carefully; put into this
whites of three eggs well beaten.
Serve ice cold with whipped cream.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03
White Wallpaper.

All white watered paper for wall,
has proved to be the relief sought by
women of fastidious taste from the
overfowed cretonne papers that be-
come so exceedingly tiresome to the
eyes and nerves. The effect of a
room of which the walls are papered
in white and furnished with cretonnes
of a choice character, is charming.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03
Fire Protection at State House.

The old state house couldn't burn
now If 1t wanted to. The water has
been turned on in the new anti-fire
pipes and the hose is all ready for a
confiagration. This was all done out
Of the appropriation made by the leg
islature last winter. Incidentally the
building has settled two or three in
ches since the session. Several days
ago a creaking and cracking and
grooming was heard in superintendent
McBrien's ONCE and the plaster
popped over the door and the floor
dropped at least fraction of an inch.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03
Hiqh School Qualify.

State Superintendent McBrien Is re-
curing pupils of high schools who
take the normal training course to
pledge themselves that they will COM
plete the course. The law requires
them to remain in class eighteen
weeks and there must be ten in a
class. Each high school that qualities
will receive from the state $3.50 a
year. Some of the schools that have
qualified and the number in the class
are as fellows: Holdrege, "A; Lex
ington, "a; Hebron. 80; Geneva, 20;
Hastings, 81; North Platte, "a; West
Point, 10; Wisner, 18; Fairfield, 12;
Superior, Is.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-10-03

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The Winslow mail., 1907-06-15
ITEMS.

The man or boy who can not control
his children, horse or dog by his voice
alone, without having his hands on
them, is not a good trainer and if he
loses his temper his influence is gone.
The American Agriculturist reports
a shortage in the western hay crop,
according to canvass, of something
like 100000 tons under last years
yield. In the east the crop was on the
whole little above the average, and
it is likely that prices will be better
also.
Scarcely any other grain has shown
the adaptability of corn A native of
the warm, moist parts of South Amer
lea, it has gradually fought its way
into the colder and dryer regions,
until there are few sections in which
it can not be profitably grown. It's
adaptability is shown in the fact that
in the far nol th the plant is low and
spreading, but maturing it's ears all
the same.-Farm Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1907-06-15
GOLD NUGGET A BEAUTY.
Alaskan Mine Has Probably the
Largest Ever Found.

1t is not an uncommon thing to see
men who have enough greenbacks to
choke an elephant, but it's not often
that one meets a man with a gold mug
get large enough to make even horse
sick if he had to try to eat it without
having it run through a quartz mill.
There is a man in Los Angeles, Cal,
however, who has the nugget, and he
is the Klondike king, Clarence Berry,
who has come from Alaska on a visit
20 his brother The nugget might be
likened to a mans hand with the
palm turned upward, for it is over six
inches long, almost four inches wide,
is an inch thick at the thickest part,
and weighs" S1,510.
There are few men who can dig
such chunks of gold out of their own
mines, but Clarence Berry is one of
these lucky miners. He is one of
the pioneers of the gold mines of
Alaska, and having been one of the
first men to get to the various rich
diggings, his energy and persever-
ance have been rewarded with a large
amount of gold How much no one
knows but he, and he won't tell.
The Winslow mail., 1907-06-15
KEEPING ACCOUNTS.
How One Farmer Figures Out the
Profit on His Cows.

The overcoming bookkeeping
bugbear brings to mind a recent in
terview with one of the largest farm
ers in the east, who is bright man
and a large wholesale baker, Thomas
Kelley. He said: AS a business man
| have learned that the books must be
kept right if the proprietor is encOur
aged and not discouraged, and is led
to venture into the business still more
extensively The rule applies as we'll
to farming as to other business.
In operating my four large farms,
charge them with only the wages,
with things bought and with the other
real expenses, and never with things
the farm produces. If, for instance, |
debit the farm with it's own hay that
is used, | really charge the hay twice
because the wages paid help have pro-
duced that hay just as much as the
wages set the fence posts and do the
work.
No man is right if he figures that
the hay sold is worth stated sum
a1d hence milk is produced at such a
CCSI. IL L WIOuSSu ldIIlo IlldI way
in my bookkeeping | would appear tC
be losing money every year and l
would soon dispose of my country
property, for to carry on a business
one is not skillful enough to conduct
profitably, is not reasonable.
This winter l shall keep 130 cows
feeding 800 tons of hay. If | figure
that hay at its market value I find
that my milk costs me more than
can buy it for in the open market, but
don't do so. Neither do | figure in the
wear and tear on the stock | merely
charge a cows actual shrinkage in
value between the time | buy her and
her selling price This is an actual,
not an imaginary transaction. If |
hire help and am so lacking in skill
that l do not raise what hay, stalks,
grain, etc, | require and have to buy
them, | must charge up the things
bought, of course, just as l credit my
milk, eggs and potatoes. l am not
satisfied with a COW unless / can clear
an actual profit on her every day, even
If it is not more than five cents, and
the manure.
The Winslow mail., 1907-06-15
Night Work on the Farm.

Night work on the farm is not to be
tolerated. The old plan of working
from four o'clock in the morning till
nine o'clock at night was responsible
for creating a disgust for farm work,
and both the boy and the girl shared
this disgust. On many farms now no
work is done after six o'clock D. M,
and this is right. There is no reason
why hours should be longer on the
farm than in the city But on the
farm more time needs to be taken at
noon so that the morning and evening
chores" will come further apart. We
doubt, however, if the "eight-hour
day ever becomes the rule on the
farm, especially on the farm that is
devoted to some extent to the raising
of live stock. Farm animals refuse to
adapt their needs to the eight hour
plan.
The Winslow mail., 1907-06-15
Also a Critic.

Sir Henry Irving, the English act
or, once wanted white horse to
use in one of his scenes, but no
white horse that was suitable could
be got At last, the London Globe
tells the story, a stage hand advised
him to apply to a certain distin-
guished actor-manager who, he said
had such a horse
Sir Henry visited the owner, in
spected the horse, and the bargain
was concluded, but as an after
thought Sir Henry said he trusted
the animal was not fractions.
Not at all, Sir Henry, l assure
you; an excellent horse in every
way. Why, l rode him night after
night, and all l had to complain of
was that he would occasionally
yawn when l was on the stage"
Indeed said Sir Henry, "a bit of
critic, then, evidently"
The Winslow mail., 1907-06-15
The Fodder Binder.

ward movement of lever is pressed
into small compass. The band is
then readily adjusted The whole de-
vice is supported by the SOU; ~e piece
c, so that it may be moved from
place to place. We do not know to
what extent this will prove entirely
practical, but it is possible that it will
suggest a useful idea to some of our
r derS
The Winslow mail., 1907-06-15
DEVICE FOR BINDING FODDER.
Can Be Made at Home and Is Easily
Operated.

A. H. Denison, Kansas, writes in
one of our exchanges and suggests a
plan for binding fodder. He uses a
lever between two small uprights A
and B, as shown in illustration. The
loose fodder is pressed into the open
ing between A and B and by down
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-19
The County Chairman.

One of the keenly delightful portrai-
lures of "The County Chairman"
which comes to the Metropolitan
theatre Thursday, Jan. "a, after a
years run at Wallack's Theatre, New
York, is Thomas j. Gradys investiture
of Sassafras Livingston, described up
on the programme as touch of local
color" There is sense of double
meaning in this description, for Sassa-
fras is not only cc.ored, but strongly
given to the artful pursuits of "toucll-
ing" He is a shiftless, slipshod negro,
of the type one finds In all villages,
selling eggs he has pilfered from
neigh5cring hencoops, investing the
proceeds in candy and ladyfingers,
hanging about for invitations to smoke
and drink, borrowing trifles of money
from the opposing candidates upon the
pretense of having named his new
baby after each of them, when the
baby is really girl, and in every way
imaginable trying to get a living
without working for it.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-19
The Denatured Alcohol Bill

The agricultural and other leading
papers Of the country are quite UNI
animous in approval of Senator Hans
brough's amendment to the Free Al
cohol law. The senator has received
many letters commencing his action.
a recent letter from former Governor
Hoard of Wisconsin, who publishes
H0ard's Dairymen at Fort Atkinson,
Wis, reads as follows:
Dec. goth, 1906.
My Dear Senator:
L am most thoroughly in accord with
the purpose of the bill and believe.
at the time Of the passage of the pres
ent law, that 1t failed essentially to
meet with the real demands of the
occasion. l shall be very glad to be Of
any service to you in this matter that
l possibly can. Your effort in this,
as 1t was with the Grout bill, shows
that your sympathies are thoroughly
in accord with the necessities of the
agricultural masses Of the country.
Your Sincerely,
w. H. Hoard.
The following editorial reference to
Senator Hansbrough's amendment also
appeared in the issue of the North
western Argiculturalist of January s,
which is published in Minneapolis:
Denatured Alcohol.
When the free alcohol law was pas
sed last winter, it was supposed that
1t would enable all farmers to make
fuel alcohol on their farms, from re-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-19
nineteen hundred nd eight, domestic
alcohol Of such degree of proof as may

nineteen hundred nd eight, domestic
alcohol Of such degree of proof as may
be prescribed by the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, and approved by,
the Secretary Of the Treasury, may
be withdrawn from bond without the
payment of internal-revenue tax for
use in the arts and industries, and for
fuel, light, and power, provided said
alcohol shall have been mixed in the
presence and under the direction of
an authorized government officer, at
ter withdrawal from the distillery
warehouse, with methyl alcohol or
other denaturing material or mate
rails, or admixture of the same, suit
able to the use for which the alcohol
is withdrawn, but which destroys its
character as beverage and renders
It unfit for liquid medicinal purposes;
such denaturing to be done upon the
application of any registered distillery
On denaturing bonded warehouses spec
tally designated or set apart for de-
maturing purposes only and under con-
ditions prescribed by the Commission
er of Internal Revenue, with the ap-
prevail of the Secretary of the Treas
ury: Provided, That in connection
with distillerles for the production Of
alcohol for denaturing purposes of q
daily capacity Of fifteen gallons Of the
requisite proof for denaturing the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
shall not require any distillery, ware.
house, or the cisterns now provided
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-19
A DISTRICT B0NSPEI[
Will be Held at st. Thomas
Commencing on Next
Monday.

st. Thomas, N. D., Jan. 19.-The dis
trict bonspeil will occur in st. Thomas
next week, commencing Monday eve
ming and ending Wednesday after
noon. The district includes the clubs
at Morris, Gretna and st. Thomas.
Each city will be represented by at
least two Kinks and it ds expected Nor
ris will enter three. The matches
will be played for various trophies.
A new trophy this year is beautiful
silver cup donated by Gansle. The cup
must be won by the same rink twice
on st. Thomas ice before it can be
taken elsewhere. It is expected that
the bonspeil will attract a large num-
Der of visitors to the city and the
local curriers' are using their best en-
deavors to anticipate the needs of
their guests.
President VIM. McMurchie, of the
local curriers', has appointed the fol-
lowing committee to take charge #
the arrangements-M. Buchanan, E..
H. James, E. VanCamp, Neil Camp
bell, and Geo. w. Glass. A. NJ.
OConnor will umpire the matches.
Or Wednesday evening a banquet
will be rendered the visitors at the
Opera House. Covers will be laid
for $50.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-19

fuse vegetables. AS soon as the "re-
gulations of the internal Revenue
department has been formulated it
was found that no fuel alcohol could
be made except in large distilleries
under government inspection which
killed the economy Of its manufacture
Altogether. Now Senator Hansbrough
has prepared bill which is an amend
ment of the law whereby, If 1t pass,
it will become practicable for farmers
to run small stills on their farms as
originally it was intended they should.
Farmers in Germany do so, why not
in America?
To accomplish this end, the farmer
erects his still and then sends for the
revenue officer, who attaches "con-
tainer" made according to government
regulations. The revenue officer seals
the container, and into it goes all the
alcohol distilled, the producer being
unable to touch the distilled producet
without breaking the seal, for which
When the producer finds his still prac-
tically full, he calls the revenue Of
ficer, who detaches the container,
gauges and measures it's contents, wit
nesses the process of denaturing, and
then permits the producer to devote
his product to any purpose he
chooses.
Senator Hansbrough believes that
the existing law can benefit only the
trusts" the alcohol and the wood
alcohol makers. but that by the adop-
ton of the amendment he offered re-
Gently the production of denatured
alcohol and the utilization of many
waste products which are now lost,
will be placed within the reach of
every farmer who tills any consider
able amount of land, and that where
one farmer has not sufficient wastage
to operate still, several farmers can
combine in its operation, and thus
derive the benefit of the law. While
it is regarded as probable that certain
interests will oppose the amendment,
the Senator from North Dakota be-
lieves that most members of Congress-
intended to do last year just what this
amendment will accomplish, and for
that reason expects that II win ~.
ceive generous support.
The following is copy of the bill
to amend the act entitled Gan Act for
the withdrawal from bond, tax free,
of domestic alcohol when rendered
unfit for beverage or liquid medicinal
uses by mixture with suitable denatur-
ing materials" approved June seventh.
nineteen hundred and six:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress as
sembled, That an Act for the with
drawal from bond, tax free, of domes-
tic alcohol when rendered unfit for
beverage or liquid medicinal uses by
mixture with suitable denaturing ma
terials, be. and the same is hereby,
amended to read as follows:
"That from and after January first,