Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-17
LEo1sLATrvE.

Hot fight anticipated al Lincoln ovor
the 2-cent fare bill Tuesday. Some re-
publicans favor sidetracking the bill until
those embracing party pledges are passed
and others oppose. Page /
Nebraska university regents now
change front and now say they desire
authority TO sell text books at cost to
students and also to rent them.
Appropriation bills already introduced
at LINCOLN, unless trimmed down, will
carry the appropriations way above the
high water mark Pare 1
Senate passes conference report on i'm
migration bill by party vote. Page 3
wAsHIHGroN.
Rosebud reservation bill, reported
Thursday, passes house. Page
Kinkaid law is amended in the house
20 give old soldiers same privileges
granted by other homestead laws.
Page Q
Gamblers at York get into a nght and
flle informstions charging each other
with poker playing. Page .
DOMESTIC.
President Patton Of Princeton Theolos-
ical seminary may be called as witness
for defense in Thaw trial Pags =
Fifty persons reported killed in rail-
way wreck in New York City Page i
Twenty persons killed and fifty injured
in wreck Of express suburban train IN
New York City. I, Page
Boiler expiodes at sea killing seven
members of crew OF German steamer
Naldivia. Rage
Japanese object to terms Of proposed
immigration bill and formal objection may
be made by government. Rago 4
Catholic organ az Rome makes a fea-
ture of the American protests against
the action of the French government in
the controversy with the church.
L Page 1
Government proposes to establish new
college in connection with Dublin uni
versitv in which no religious test is to
be exacted. !, Page 1
Differences between Premier clemen-
ceau and Minister BRAND over form OF
ably lead TO fall OF ministry. !, PAgs I
LOCAL.
Omaha makes good showing In grain
markets of the world II Page 10
Judge Trieber exempts certain land IN
by the Standard Beet Sugar company.
Page 10
Burlington tracks between Omaha and
Lincoln are being used by the Union Pa
cifc. the Rock Island and Missouri raciie
because Of high water. Page .
Young women's Christian Association
committees have raised $4,000 or $4,000
necessary for new building. II Page 3
| Postal and Western Union Telegraph
companies withdraw operators from pri-
vate ofnces of packing houses Page 10
Fake story Of attempt to kidnap son
OF Mrs Bassett is denied II Page 10
Government statistics show Omaha is
third as q primary receiving plant for
corn II Rage 10
Nebraska university, after having
game won IN hrst half. loses TO Mime
sofa IN second with nnAl score of %
to 10. Z Page ?
OouNCm RLuRFs AND oanAHA-
Charles A Cook. cashier of Acme Har-
vester company. who absconded last No
vember. returns to face the music
I, Page .
MAGAZINE SECTION.
In the Magazine. Section of this number
will be found an account of the Great
Intersynodical convention Of Mems For
eign Missions OF the Presbyterian church,
to be held in Omaha; Gossip OF Plays and
Players; Musical Note and Comment;
Clara Bloodgood on Lying; Characteristic
Stories OF Count Creighton; Carpenter on
/ Spanish Convict Settlements; Abraham
i Lincoln's Indiana Home Reign of the
/ SIX Petticoat; When the Brotherhood
Threatened Base Ball; Some Late Sport
ing Chat; Notes for Automobiles; Sa-
lomes OF Many Lands; MAunA Loa's Great
Show. Ten Pages
0RnDREN's 6ECTIoa.
In the Childrens Section OF this num-
ber VIII be found Buster Brown; the
Busy Bees Own Page: the Story Of tbs
Second Steward; Fluny Rufies.
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