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Show A tornado swept over southern central Nebraska yesterday, leaving leav-ing death and destruction in its tracks. The great international automobile automo-bile race which took place in France a few days ago resulted most disastrously, dis-astrously, the entire course of the race being strewn with dead and injured people. As a result, the French and Spanish governments have prohibited racing by these machines. Miss Clay Allred, a teacher in the public schools at Richfield, found a real man under her bed a few evenings ago. She had retired re-tired but was awakened by a noise in the room. She got up and struck a match, when a man crawled out from under the bed and bolted from the room. Upon investigation investiga-tion it was found that two dollars and a half had been taken from her purse. . . THE SOUTH AND THE NEGRO VOTE. The decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, recently handed down on the Alabama franchise case, and which declared in effect that a State has the right to determine who shall be entitled to the ballot, has created much interest in political circles. Of course, there are divergent opinions. opin-ions. Among southern democratic members of Congress the opinion is universally approved on constitutional consti-tutional grounds, while some of the northern republican members say no State has a right to disfranchise any class of its citizens. The decision deci-sion of the court is a victory for States rights. It virtually says that any State may do as it pleases in a sovereign matter of this character, and the decision will tend to clarify clari-fy the situation respecting negro suffrage in all the States of the South, and probably will put an end to other test cases. If so, it is believed that it will have a far-reaching far-reaching effect for good in the whole country and go far toward the settlement of the so-called negro ne-gro problem. It simply means that the Southern people are the agency through which the question of the negro's future can be solved, and that the first step toward satisfactory satis-factory settlement is to be found in disfranchisement. It means that the negro must first be eliminated from politics. That accomplished, the white people of the South can seek, by industrial development, the betterment of the black race, which shall not only redound to the advantage of the colored people, peo-ple, but the whites of the South as well. Manti to Salt Lake City and return, $3.55, via R. G. W. Ry., account President Roosevelt reception recep-tion May 29th; Y. M. and. Y. L. M. I. A. conference May 30th and June 1st; Brighani Young Family Reunion June 1st, and the Prima- -ry Association conference June 2, the R. G. W. Ry. will make a rate of one single fare for the round trip from all stations in Utah to Salt Lake and return. Tickets on sale May 27th to June 1st, inclusive, inclu-sive, good for return until June 4. Mr. Joseph Pominville of Stillwater, Still-water, Minn., after having spent 2,000 with the best doctors for stomach trouble, without relief, was advised by his druggist, Mr. Alex. Richard, to try a box of Chamberlain's Chamber-lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, lie did so and is a well man today. If troubled with indigestion, bad taste in the mouth, lack of appetite or constipation, give these Tablets a trial, and you . are certain to be more than pleased with the result. For sale at 25c per box bv Craw-ford. Craw-ford. - 3 The written opinion of Mr. Justice Jus-tice Holmes contains a discussion of the question how far a court of equity ought to go in attempting to redress political wrongs, and it arrives at the conclusion that such a court properly has no such power that for the court to undertake such jurisdiction would amount in the end to the administration of the government by the court, and puts the whole question up to the Congress. Some politicians at Washington believe that this decision will be an incentive for Congressman Crum-packer Crum-packer and others of his ilk to get busy again and endeavor to have their pet measure, put through reducing re-ducing the representation of the States of the South which have curtailed the negro vote. If they do, it will prove a precious boon to the democracy in the next great battle of the ballots. The people of the country simply will not stand for it, as was evidenced by the sweeping democratic victories in 1881 and 1890 after the attempt to put through the force bills. The republicans are not looking for that kind of an issue. |