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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1903)
THE WRONG SIMILE. t News from Over the State The Orlftin of Certain Peculiar nnd That la In the Cnne of a Younc I.ndy Who M'nn ti Settle Jlrcnkur. I'lclurcHiitio Feature of the I.nw. ODD LEGAL CUSTOMS. HoIiIm lliillroiid IjImIiIc, It la snfo to ride on n froo pass. Such is the decision of tho supremo court. Tlio decision, howovor, covers not tho llttlo pasteboard which polltlolnna covet, hut tho blanket sheet which 1b given to stock shippers who deslro to accompany their shipments. Tho court does not warrant tho safoty of tho per son who rides on n pass, but It says In emphatic languago that tho railroad owes him a ready and safo means of access to and from tho train at sta tions. In 1898 David C. Troyor shipped xi lot of fat hogs from Aurora and took passage on tho train on a stock inun'fl pass. While In the Lincoln yards ho walked down tho yards ucoklng a lunch counter and collided with tho drawbar of a swiftly passing engine. Ho was thrown somo distanco and In jured. IIo brought suit in Hamilton county and got a vordlct, but tho Bur lington appealed tho caso to tho su premo court on tho ground that Troyor had h6on negligent in walking down tho mazo of tracks which lino tho yards. Tho supromo court holds that tho shipper assumes tho risk necessa rily nttondlng tho caro of stock, but that othorwlso tho common carrier la llablo for tho highest dogreo of caro which human foresight is capablo of. Hold nil H'urlottH GlutrKC Bert Valontlno and a 14ryear-old girl named Hill woro married in South Dakota, aftor nn oxclting trip from tho homo in Bloomflcld. Tho couplo otolo tt team and wagon from Bloomflcld and drovo at a furious gait across tho country until they got out of Nobraska. Tho runaway couplo woro nrrostod at Niobrara. Thoy declared that they had heon up In South Dakota and woro married there. Hill, tho girl's father, is intonsoly Indignant bvor tho uffalr. Valontlno will ho held for trial. VIxltliiK Viwnllliir Hcoiipn, Ex-Gov. Nanco, of Chicago, who was Nebraska's chief oxocutlvo four years from January, 1870, vlsltod his daugh ter In Lincoln last week. In years gono ly Gov. Nanco was a mombor of tho Arm of Mickey, Morrill & Nance, do ing business In Polk county. Two mom bors of tho (Inn bocamo governors of tho state, nnd Mr. Morrill was recently ap pointed a mombor of tho St. Louis fair commission, but resigned after serving a short tlmo. The Stato Punltuntlnry. Tho report of Warden Beemor, of tho stato penitentiary, shows that tho prisoners aro by no moans in a pacified stato. Several woro sent to tho dun geon during tho month for assaulting a guard, disobeying orders, using vilo languago nnd destroying food. Ten prisoners woro received at tho prison during tho month, ono was returned, fivo wero discharged, ono dlod, and two woro paroled. Thoro nro now 271 in tho prison. I No Itfintlrifr for Turknyi. Thoro will bo no raflling for turkoys in Plattsmouth this year. A cltlzon of Omaha was thoro for tho purposo of arranging to oporato a game of that hind during tho week boforo Thanks giving, but tho proposition was turned down by Chief of Police It. W. Hyers. Tho officers havo been trying to stamp out gambling in Plattsmouth for somo time and do not caro to now remove tho bars which havo been put up against tho ovll. Sheep iin Iliiuilmiiltcrn. Road Supervisor Mitchell, of Elk- liorn township, Dodge county, uses a bunch of 8,000 sheep bolng fed on his placo as a road machine. A numbor of roads aro being graded In tho 'sticky gumbo soil of that township and Mil shell found it almost lmposslblo to break up tho big lumps. By driving tho sheep a fow times ovor tho roads tholr sharp hoofs cut and pack tho sticky solid chunks bettor than could ho done with n roller. t Iictton ShcucviIn 1'ouml. Judge C. B. Lotton, of Falrbury, was appointed n mombor of tho su premo court commission, to tako tho placo of Judgo Roscoe Pound, who re signod somo months ago to become dean of tho law department of tho etato university. Judgo Lotton is serv lug his Becond term as judge of tho First district and his resignation was accepted by Gov. Mlckoy. Uiirncil )ty IQxpInriliiir Chemlonlii. Oscar Rlcho was seriously burnoc: by tho explosion of somo chemicals ho wai? preparing for a storcoptlcon ex hibition at his homo, about six miles south of Norfolk. A big holo was blown through tho roof of tho houso by the explosion, and four joists woro blown into tho collar, and tho nouso otner wlso wroclcod, Young, Rlcho Is not fatally hurt. Cannot 'Vnx WItliont IlcneHta.. Tho supromo court has decided that low. wot, swampy lands, totally unfit " ... i. .1 i ... I rnr irrlKatlon, cannot uo uixou uu- 11 rleatlon purposes. Harvoy B. Matthows and pthors voro owners of such land nnrt tho Ltll an irrigation district at tempted to bring tho lands Within the district for tavauon. Toll it MtruiiKO Story Miss Josephine Coffin, tho 17-ycar-old girl who disappeared from her homo in East Orango, N. J., arrived in Omaha Friday and is at tho homo of her cous- n, a Miss Ward, who is a rolatlvo of tho wlfo of Postmaster Crow. Accord- ng to tho story told by Miss Coffin she was abducted while under a hypnotic spell by a man and woman, both strangors. Tho woman, sho says, met' lor on tho street In East Orango and exacted a promise from Miss Coflln that sho would moot her at a certain placo in East Orango. Sho could not resist tho woman's lnfluenco and kept tho appointment. Sho was mot by a man who placed her in a carriage and took hor to Now York. Aftor reaching tho latter city tho young woman says sho lost hor memory and know nothing of hor whereabouts until tho strango woman aroused hor In Chicago. It was not until sho reached Codar Rapids that Miss Coffin realized what had happened to her nnd sho telegraphed her relatives n Omaha to moot her, which they did. What tho motlvo for tho kidnaping was tho girl cannot toll. IlPKlitnliiir of CrtiHtnlc. Justico Holcomb, of tho supremo court, issued a writ of mandamus against tho Burlington Railway com pany to compel it to grant an olovator slto at Upland to tho Kansas Co-Opora- tlvo Grain association, of Topoka, known as tho "farmors' tniBt," which is tho relator. Tho company professes to bo willing to erect a $4,000 structure and alleges that its request of tho offi cers that the slto bo granted has been Ignored. Tho writ Is made returnablo on December 1. Tho application for tho writ is looked upon as a beginning of tho crusado which tho so-called farmers' trust Is expected to wago to Bocuro competing elevator facilities in tho stato. of IiVirlnlutorM Stiffs Members of tho legislature will con- tlnuo to draw their $5 a day for 60 days so far as Judgo Ryan and the con- constltutlonallty of tho constitution al amendment authorizing them to do so is concorncd. Tho supromo court handed down an opinion reversing tho decision of the lower court and dis missing tho caso. Tho action to test tho constitutionality of tho amendment was brought by Judge Ryan during tho session of tho last legislature, at which, timo it created a panic among tho members, who feared that they would bo compelled to accept $3 a day for 40 days, ni provided undor tho orig inal constitution. Children mid IjOHiIpiI inn. A sovon-yoar-old nophow of AK Law man, of Bonkleman, who has been vis iting with him for several months, was accidentally shot and killed by ono of tho Lawman children. Mr. Lawman had been butchering hogs nnd had laid tho gun aside and thought nothing more about it until tho report of tho discharge was heard and tho lad was found dead a fow moments afterwards with his face and head badly mutilated. HuniiTViiy Couple Intercepted. Rolla Bouller and a young woman by tho name of Scott, of Cedar Bluffs wero dotalned at Fremont ou tho re quest of young Boullor's father, who telephoned that his son, who is 20 yoars old, and tho Scott girl wore dop ing to Omaha. Tho young couplo wero obllgod to' go homo. Young Bou ller is a son of cx-Ropresentativo Bou Her of Saundors county. Shoot Off Two Tocit. Whllo out hunting along the Platte. rlvor, noar Plattsmouth In company with two other boys, Georgo Hasson had a couplo of tho toes of his loft foot blown off 03 a result of the acci dental dlschargo of a gun. I'unm on Tax I.uw Hale. Tho attempt of Valloy county to fore close on property bought at a tax salo was unsuccessful, tho supromo court holding that a county cannot forecloso without a salo first having been mado by a county attornoy. Coninmuihint Colo RoHlgnR. A. V. Colo, commandant of tho sol diers' homo at Grand Island, has ten dered his resignation to Gov. Mlckoy and it has been accepted. It was re ported that the resignation had been demanded. Monument for Old Settler. Tho handsomest monument ever orocted in Sarpj county was placed in position at Papllllon in momory of Ferdinand Peterson, who was ono of tho first sottlors of Sarpy county. OiinIi In the Statu Treasury. Stato Trensuror Mortenson received 3234,154 during Octobor nnd paid out $182,314. Tho balanco September 30 was $285,530 and October 31 St was J337.375, Klectvtl to Vlll Vacancy. John W. Bondor, democrat, o Hum phroy, was elected representative of the Twenty-fourth district .to. fill tho uncx? plred term of D. A. Beecher, tho newly chosen county treasurer. When a murderer Is executed a black flag Ib, often run up. Tho majority ol poor-Id construo this into a sign ol mourning, but it is nothing of tho sort. n olden times it was customary for those besieging, a city to run up a black Hag after a .period, which gave tho defenders to understand that the tlmo for mercy was past, and that de struction was at hand. In tho four teenth century this camo to ho applied to the law also, It being useful for the blnck flag to bo unfurled beforo the execution took placo, to show that de struction was about to bo carried out. A great many of our legal customs dato from tho timo of tho Romans, the great makers of laws, says tho Washi ngton Times. With Roman orators it was a point of otlquotto never to put pressure on a client to exact fees duo, tho reason being that tho orators worn supposed to work for nothing and the fees wero given merely as a reward for tho services rendered. So a lawyor to-day cannot exact his fees by pres sure without Injuring his reputation, because he, liko tho orators of old, la supposed to work for nothing. The law only mourns, when tho Judgo wears a black cap, and somo aro very doubtful as to whothor tho black cap is really a sign of mourning aftor all. As a matter of fact, a black cap is part of tho stato dress of a Canadian or English judgo, to be worn on great occasions. But to cover tho head al ways has been a sign of mourning from tlmo immemorial. To provo this, tho rcador will, if ho searches tho fif teenth chapter of tho second book of Samuel carefully, find tho following passage: "David wept and had his head covered." So it may bo said that tho black cap roally is a sign of mourn ing. A prisoner is to bo tried by 12 of his follow countrymen. This custom is a thousand years old, and we got it from tho Vikings. Tho Vikings divided tholr country up into cantons, which wero subdivided into 12 portions, each under a chicftan. When a malefactor was brought to Justico it was usual for each chleftan to select a man from tho dis trict over which ho ruled, and compel him to try tho prisoner, tho vordlct of thoso 12 men being declared by the judgo to bp final. Tho wig Is only worn by English barristers to glvo them a stem, judi cial appearance, and no ono can say that it falls in this respect. Tho cus tom was originated by a French judgo in tho seventeenth century, when, hap pening to don a marquis wig ono day. lie found It gave him such a stern nnd dignified appearance that ho decided to get ono for himself and wear it at all times in court. This ho did, and tho result was so satisfactory from a legal point of view thnt not only Judges, but barristers also took up tho custom throughout Europe How Soon a Train Stop. At a recent convention of air-break men nn Interesting report was presented, showing how the distanco required for tho stopping of a train had been reduced by tho now high-speed brake. A train running 80 miles an hour was stopped In 2,240 feet by tho high-speed brake at 110 pounds, where ordinary pressuro of 70 pounds took exactly half a mile to bring It to a stand. Other train speeds and reductions In stopping distances woro those: Fifty miles an hour, from 840 to 700 foot; 55 miles an hour, 1,095 to 830 feet, GO miles, 1,330 to 1,000 feet; CO miles, 1,635 to 1,000 feet; 70 miles, 2,012 to 1,530 foot; 75 miles, 2,295 to 1,840 feet. THE GENERAL MARKETS. Kansas City, Nov. CATTLE Beef steers $3 83 Q Native he! f era 2 45 Western steers 1 GO HOGS 4 CO if SHKKP 2 00 3 WllKAT-No. 2 hard 72 No. 2 red SO CORN-No. 2 mixed OATS-No. 2 mixed 31 S RYE FLOUR Hard winter pat.. 3 50 0 Soft winter patenta.... 3 70 5 HAY Timothy C 50 0 Pralrlo 4 00 & BRAN CG BUTTER Fancy to extra... 18 S- 10. 5 00 4 85 4 10 5 15 3 GO 73j 81 35 49 3 75 4 00 0 60 5 25 G7 20 lsaas CHEESE Full cream POTATOES Home grown... ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Beef steers 201 lift 0 50 3 70 3 50 ?? 2 30 4 GO R 3 00 43 tfj Texaa steera HOGS Packers SHEEP Natives WIIEAT-No. 2 red 3 25 5 15 3 GO 87Vi 4314 OATS-No. 2 3G CI 4 00 18 ii &' fl 37 54V6 RYJ FLOUR Red winter pat. BUTTEU-Crcamery CORN MEAL. BACON 4 20 23 2 30 0 00 8 50 Q) CIIICAQO. CATTLE Steers 3 HOGS Mixed and butchera. 4 SHEEP-Wcstorn 2 WHEAT No. 2 red CORN-No. 2 OATS-No. 2 RYE December FLOUR-Winter patents ..... 4 LARD January G PORK January ........ 11 NEW YORK. CATTLE Steera ? '. 3 HOGS 5 SHEEP 2 .WHEAT No. 2 CORN-No. 2 OATS-No. 2 50 5 GO G5 6 30 00 3 CO 82 35 54 00 t$ 4 20 R2lAfi G 00 00 12 02 75 5 25 50 3 5 GO 00 Q 3 75 S5 86 wyj ci He kneels at the feet of the heirew. Nnuv iti nrrlnr rt tnnko nlnili whnt in tti fol- nnv lnt itu cfiilo thnt. thf hpire wriffliH 300 pounds, eays Judge. Ttue love, however, we will concede for the sake of argument, knows no WAtet-une. And no woman is ever to tat a her tortunc, inercfore, to proceea. mcieura. Hp kni'filH. n wo hftve nrev ous V E.Hd. at the feet of the heiress. 'You are all the world to mel" ho ex claims. "Whnt?" she pant. "You wretch! are you aware of the fact that the equator is tho largest diameter of the world?" In vain does he argue that the equator is an imaginary line. This only makes it worse. Metaphorically, she nt down on mm; metaphorically, be is crushed. ART ENTHUSIASM. It Did Ilcnt All lliiw .Much Anlinn tlun There Wan In thu Picture. When the artist son of John Harper was a raw student his lather was very much in terested in his work. One day he iw a new ly finished picture on the easel, relate the New York Times. "Ah! that's line." he burst out, "line! There's lots of life, IotB of animation in that, my boy. You've struck the right thing now life and' action." "Hut, father, 1 don't understand what you mean. Why, that picture has action, movement in it. Jvook at those norcs, rearing ana tearing ahead, tugging nt, the reins and their riders are standing tin in their stirruns. shouting and waving their sabers over their hcaus ine wnoie picture is movement aim animation. What is it Napoleon's last charge at Waterloo: "No. lather, that b your beet natch in a strong wind." Solo 'Would lie Appreciated. "Allow mc to introduce you to Prof. Alncn Stocker. He has this season surmounted the diiliculties of the Mnttcrhorn." "O. dchchtcd. nrofessor. 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