Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-11
LECTURERS FOR BIC SIXTH
Agricultural Department Grants Re.
quest Of Congressman Kinkaid.
CANNOT ATTEND CONVENTION
Gamble Introduces Bill for ApprOpria-
tiOn TO Enlarge Grounds Mt Fort
Meade 60 Connect Up with
Forest Reserve.
(From a staff correspondent.)

WASHINGTON, March 10.--CSpeoial Tele-
gram.) Judge Kinkaid. not to be outdone
by his colleagues of the Nebraska deiega-
tion, has been looking over matters in the
Department Of Agriculture and taking
counsel with Secretary Wilson with the
result that lecturers will also be sent to
the big Sixth.
Today Congressman T2inkald said that
specialists in agriculture and stock grow
ing would be sent into the Sixth district
to lecture before agricultural societies and
farmers institutes and that Chadron and
North Platte had been selected as two of
the places where these lectures would be
given Secretary Wilson granted Judge
Kinkald the right to name several other
places later on.
II regret 1 cannot be present at the
Sixth Nebraska congressional convention
which meets in Omaha on Thursday to
select delegates and alternates to Chicago, -
said Mr.. Kinkaid, but my duties here de-
mand my attention. 1 have faith in the
judgment of my friends In the Sixth and
believe representative men will be sent
to Chicago. While II has pleased me to
receive a number of invitations to attend
the Sixth district convention I have been
compelled to decline on account of pend
ing legislation In which my district and Ne
braska are Interested"
south Dakota Measures.
Senator Gamble today secured the pas
sage through the senate of his bill to
authorize the secretary of war to give a
condemned cannon to the University of
South Dakota to be used as an ornament
on the campus
Senator Gamble today introduced a bill
appropriating $4,000 to purchase additional
land for the enlargement OF the Fort
Meade military reservation. 1t is the pur-
pose of the Gamble bill to secure suf-
ficient additional land to connect the Fort
Meade reservation with the Black Hills
forest reserve adjoining the same.
Minor Matters at Capital.
The following army retiring board is ap-
pointed to meet at Omaha from time "a
time for the examination Of such Officers
as may be ordered before it, Brlgadier
General Charles Morton, Lieutenant Colonel
William B. Davis. deputy surgeon general;
Lieutenant Colonel William p. Evans, gen.
eral staff; Major Daniel E. Mccarthy
quartermaster; Captain James w. Van
Dusen, assistant surgeon; Captain Fred r
Buchan, acting judge advocate, recorder
The secretary of the interior has awarded
contracts for furnishing cement to be used
In the construction of government irriga.
tion projects as follows: To the Western
Portland Cement company Belle Fourche
8, D.. for the Belle Fourohe project. 12.Oot
barrels at S2.1s per barrel; Portland Ce.
ment company, Portland Colo, +. o. b.,
cars at mill, for Pathfinder dam, North
Platte irrigation project, Nebraska Wyo.
ming, 1900 barrels at SS cents per barrel
Rural route No. 1 has been ordered es.
tablished May at Ipswich Eamunds
county, s. D., serving $50 people and
eighty-four fsmilies.
Rural free delivery carriers appointed
Nebraska-Arcadia, route 2. Charles e
Lane carrier, Arthur f. Lane substitute
lowa-Correctionville, route 8, John H
Morgan carrier Maggie E. Morgan sub
stitute.
Mrs. William Fried, Fremont, Neb.. ant
Mrs. Isaac L. Hilles. Des Moines, Ia, ar,
In Washington in attendance upon the. In
ternational Mothers congress, which con
vened in this city Yesterday