DUST FROM
THE DIAMOND
Some of the Stuff That is
Flying
Around in the
Western League.
DENVER DOPEST
GETS DELIRIOUS.
Polls oB a Lot of Rot That Sounds
Foolish and Listens More So.
President Dcspajry'of the Lincoln
team has named l$ club thev'Antc
lopes." Thw is a very apt name
for the bunck. Like the Antelope
they are good looking, like that
Animal they are swift, and like it,
none can catch them. Here's to
About the worst mess of rot that
ever came from a man who pretends
to be a sporting writer wns the stuff
vomited up by the dub who imagines
he dishes out base ball dope, for the
Denver Times. Those Denver papers
never did know much about base
ball anyhow. They had rather fill
up their rags with prize fight four
flushings than to give the public a
few sticks of decent base ball business,
The portugue who tried to sny some
thing eute and began' at the wrong
end of Ins brain hag must have been
cither a stranger to the Western
League or didn't know enough about
matters in the leaguo to discuss it
When he gets off such stuff as he did
to the effect that in D. C. Despain
of tno Lincoln team the Western hat
a worse man than Duekey Holmes,
lie showed his ignorance or foolishness.
Don Despain wants Ins rights. He
wants nothing but what is for the
best interests of the game. When
lie kicks on Umpire Clark he lias a
right to kick, as every fan in the
Western who ever saw Clark attempt
to umpire a game when he was not
in Bhape to do so knows. No man
who ever stepped onto the Lincoln
field in the capacity of an umnire
ever did more to harm tho game or
bring it into disrepute than did that
man Clark. Every newspaper am
sports writer in Western League
territory could give the game
no greater flervice than to unite in
a demand that Clark should not be
allowed to participate as an umpire
in the Western. Despain has a right
to kick. If lio did not he wouh
find that his prestige as President of
the Lincoln team would not be worth
a nickle. There is not a patron of the
game in tlio capital city of Nebraska
but what will back Despain in his
scinand that Clark's appointment
be held up. The Denver sport doesn't
know what he is talking about. It
shows that lie either does not know
uespam and Clark or if he does
know them is deliberately putting
up a lot of rotten stuff that he knows
is Talsc.
The DesMoines Register Lcadc
Bays that DesMoines and Denve
arc going to set tho pace in the Western
league the coming season. If they do
it will have , to be a mighty fast
one for they will find that there arc
two teams in this league which are
going to do a little pacing themselves.
. o.n. wiuou i.i-nui.i uru not m lowa or
Colorado either. That Denver team
lias won more pennants before the
Reason opened than any team in the
Western, but somehow she was never
able to fly tho flae. It is tn 1
hoped for the good of the game that
Denver has a team this year that
can play the gamo suflicientlv w.
that the eastern team will not have
to call lor the guarantee.
It is said that Frank Isbell eriiul
when he received his release from the
;o Sox. Whether from iov
in;, e am cut loose from that wick,
cd city, or from sorrow that he woulc
have to live in Wicheta, is not known
Chicken Autry has been sent to
St. Paul in the A. A. by tho Boston
XNationals. (Jhick will makn rnn.
up there and be a shining lipjit in the
American Association.
.inonm vi me uesiern uw
pires is out every morning and takes
a run of four miles in an effort to train
himself down so to be m shnne to ?
a good fast job at arbitrating the
coming season. Jf he gets un snor
sufficient to get down to second in
tunc to see a play and not stop for
luncn on me way.ho will be doing
good stunt.
The Omaha management is going
iu iiavo a sun proposition for the
est of trie teams to go up against
n A. D. 1910. Rourke knows a base
all player as fur as he can see him
nd he is not going to trail the bunch
A any time this year. Look out
for Omaha.
Unless St. Joe gets some players
of class it is liable to be hard sledding
lown there. There were a few good
men on the old Pueblo team, but
most of them would not make good
in the Matrimonial State League.
With about four more good pitchers,
two catchers, two in-fielders and
one or two more outfielders they will
iavc some show to land in the se
cond division. It has bebn demon
strated in years past tliat St. Joe
will not stand for a punk team and it
stands Holland in hand to get as
good as there is going.
It looks at this writing as if there
was no question but that the organi
ation of a Nebraska league would
je pulled off without much trouble.
The thing which should be guarded
against more than anything else
is the salary limit, and after making
a limit see that it is enforced.
Lincoln has purchased another nit
chcr with a record. This time is it
Howard Murray of the Lancaster
Tn-Stato champions. Murray won
eight games out of eleven and then
was forced out of the game by an
accident. Another fast vounestcr
copped by the Lincoln magnates
is a young man by the name of South-
wick from the Colorado mountains
t is said that he is a coiner. How
ever the thing which is troubling
the Anteiope management just now
is that second base proposition, which
up to the present time has not been
filled. The fans however can rest
assured that it will be filled by
good man who will be able to frisk
around in proper shape.
The Lincoln management has got
ten out an advertising folder with a
picture of Jack Thomas on the front
page. Jack is a knocker of the worst
type. There has been so much heard
about insurgents knocking on Presi
dent faft the past few weeks that the
asc ball management of the Ante
opes thought it the "proper caper to
print the picture of the biggest knock
er on their folder. However Jack
is not an insurgent. He is a prohibi
tionist. His knocking consists in
putting 'em over the fence at the
ball yard, eleven having disappeared
in mat manner last year never to
return. Jack is the kind of knocker
which it pays to have around.
In County Court.
The matter of the final settlement
of the estate of Christina Kun, late
of Klmwood, who died in 11)0-1 leaving
some five hundred acres of rich Cass
county lands, which was to' have been
contested today was adjusted out
of court. Mrs. Kunz was survive
y her husband John M. Kunz and
nine children, five sons and four
daughters. She left a will which cave
the husband a life estate in the lands
and at his death willed the realestate to
the sons with the proviso that each
of the daughters should take a legacy
of about S20()(U)() The husband
survived the wife about fivo Vnn rat
dying last year. The land had ori
ginally been the property of the
husband, but for some reason had
been deeded to Mrs Kunz. At the
time of making the will lands in this
county were not so valuable as now, and
the provisions of the will did not seem
to be so unqual as at the present time.
The daughters were not entirely sat
isfied with the distribution of the
estate of their parents, and proposed
to nave administration of their father's
estate and filed a petition for that
purpose, expecting later to have the
lands administered as of his estate.
The settlement reached nllnu-t
more equal distribution than under
the will of Mrs. Kunz. Mathcw
Gcring represented the interests of
the daughters, William DelesDcrnicr
appearing for the estate and D. 0. Dw
yer the deceased daughter. Objections
to the final settlement were withdrawn
and destroyed in open court, and the
contest dismissed.
County Attorney W. C. Ramsey,
was yesterday served with tho Hill
of Exception, in the case of the State
vs. Charles J. Hacker.
Dogs Will not Begone.
Two of the business men of the eilr
are yet annoyed by the pestivcrous
dogs, ouc residing on north Sixth and
tne omer on west Tearl. Thev- in
i un mmiu up me iiiruier payment
of their taxes until the nuisance is
abated. One of the gentlemen. claimed
there were three packs, with twenty
in each bunch, while the other savs
there must be fifty in the bunch he
saw, judging from the noise they made.
He thinks it would i: '
thing if the "dog-eat ing-cavote"
which mangles so many animals in
the city n year or so ago, could return
and do some ours, "leaving nothing
but the bones."
TKE TRAINING
OF
MAUD S.'
Famous Racer's Early Days as
Told lor the First Time by
Her Owner.
On the subject of the humane
training of horses, the case of the
famous trotter, Maud S., is of special
interest, though I think nothing has
ever before appeared about it in print.
About two years before the great
breaker of the world-record of lier
time appeared on the track, Mrs.
Lena Small, of Wabash, Indiana,
determined to buy a horse for use of
herself and, her two young sons, and
went out to the farm of a Mr. Tyner,
near Wabash, to look at a colt that
he had for sale. She was greatly dis
appointed in this colt and told Mr.
Tyner that she did not care to buy it.
"Haven't you anything else in your
stable that you can offer me", she
asked.not liking to have to come all
that distance with no result. "What
have you in your barn here anyway.
What's it all shut up so tight for."
"Well yes I have another colt, two-year-old
like this," Mr Tyner admitted
reluctantly, "but I did not wish to
sell her. She's in there. I have to
keep it shut up to keep her in," he
said.
"Bring her out and let me look at
her anyway, "said Mrs Small.
So he entered the stable, which was
built with door divided horizontally
in the middle, in order that the upper
half might be open for ventilation
and the lower jet closed to keep in
stock, to lead out the colt. But. he
did not open the lower half of the
door; he simply brought the colt to
it,"and,"says Mrs Small'shc lifted
her slin, dainty forefoot and,1' came
over as lightly as if the obstacle has
been only as many inches high as it
was feet. Andshc wai just the dearest
thing I ever laid eyes on-ia beauti
ful bay, with darker man and tail,
all curves and velvet and sdeel springs,
as graceful as a fawn atJt as plajful
as a kitten."
She was evidently vojy fond of her
owner, who put her though a lot of
evolutions, and finally picked up her
forefeet and held thf'm one on each
side of his waist, walking ahead and
leading her thus, behind him,"whecl
barrowing," he called it, and he said
it was her own pet game, that she liked
better than anything else. He said
he had played with her ever since
she was bom, and petted her until
she would follow him everywhere,
like a dog. '
"She has just one fault," said Mr.
Tyner, "'and I attribute that to the
strengthening of the muscles of her
hind legs through so much romping of
this sort with me; I cannot keep
her shut up anywhere except in the
barn there, with both parts of the
door tightly closed. She'll jump a
ten? barred staked and riderml fi.nee
aiumander off at her own sweet will."
TY " , 1 1 .. .
no toid Jirs. m that the nuire
was o excellent stock, sired bv Poem
and wrtti good blood on her mother's
side als(VMrs. Small was so delighted
with thc:reauty, docility, and light
footedness' of the little mare that she
said she'd take her if Mr. Tyner would
sell. He thought it over for a few
days.thc rest of Mrs. Small's family
going out to look at the colt in the
meantime, and all coming iback as
delighted with her as she: but
finally being in pressing need of
money, he decided to take' Mrs.
Small's affer and the colt changed
hands for a hundred dollars. Mr.
Tyner had already named her Maud,
and Mrs, Small added the "S" from
her own mane. All the family petted
her.
Mrs. Small let her boys nut Maud
into harness for the first time. She
was away, when they did it, and did
not sec the event; but when she re
turned, she was met with the report:
you won t have any trouble with
that horse. Whv she went as if sho
was used to harness never made
the least attempt to run and wasn't
frightened at all."
Very soon Mrs. Small tried drivinc
the colt herself, and she says that.
from the first, tho marvel of the animal
was her lack of fear and the absence
of all bad tricks in conjunction with
her wonderful speed.
"Mie d go like the wind, and she
wouldn t let anything pass her.1
says her former owner,"but she never
shied or showed temper, never seemed
to lose her head with fright or with
the excitement of racing, and how
ever great her speed, always responded
to the slightest touch upon the reins.
Mie appeared to have absolute confi
dence in her driver. She was n little
naughty sometimes liked to slip out
f 1 I . I 1 t A I 1 .
oi uic nanus oi me ooys and rare
around over the front-lawn terrace.
The boys couldn't catch her. but
she'd come at my cull and go with mo
without a halter. I simply threw
my arm over her neck and led her to
the stable."
Alter owning the beautiful n;i'-c
for about two years, the Smalls were
obliged to part with her for a nominal
price. In less than a year thereafter
she had broken the world's record
and wan sold for a big sum.
YOUR LAST CHANCE
FOR WOLTEX GOODS.
Representative from Lincoln to
Be In Plattsmouth Monday.
Mr. . M. Fanger informs us that
the last chance to get Woltex goods
is before the people of this city. On
next Monday, February 7th a re
presentative of the Woltex house
will be in the city for the purpose of
showing the very best and latest
in spring suits and Easter stvles.
This will be an opportunity to get
tne very best at a price just a good as
elsewhere. You can be measured
for your spring or Easter suit, on
Monday and satisfaction will ; be
guaranteed you that it will be- all
right. Remember that Mr. Fanger
is going out of business and this is
the last chance to get the goods here.
Call at the store Monday and ex
amine the stock.
Grew Stock Company.
A representative of the Daily News
while in Lincoln Wednesday had
the pleasure of seeing the Grew
Stock Company w hich is to play at
the Parmelc next Wednesday night.
They were at the Oliver and put on
"The Morning after the Night Before".
As its name would indicate it is a
comedy. The company is well bal
anced and is very strong. Mr. Grew,
who has the lead is a young man who
makes a good appearance on the
stage, while Mr. Ingraham is a whole
show in himself. Mr. Bonnet, who
played the servant part in the above
play is excellent. Miss Cleveland
the leading lady is at home on the
stage and played the part assigned her
in a manner which gives her a place
in the future. Miss Sevier, who
acted the mother-in-law, gave that
much abused person a place on the
stage not usually taken, and was the
jolly, good matured woman who knew
the faults of man in general and
assisted him out of his difficulties.
Miss Bowman, formerly with the
Noble Stock Company which played
in Lincoln several years is at home on
the stage and her acting of the ser
vant part does a great deal toward
making the play a success. We
believe that the management of the
Pannele made no mistake when they
engaged the Grew Stock Company.
Busy In the Court Room.
Judge Beeson's court was unusually
busy this morning, particularly in
the marriage department. There being
no less than three cernmonies in the
forenoon. Shortly after the arrhal
of No 4, two couples headed in at
the Judge's office, and beckoning him
to one side one gentleman informed
the judge that he wanted a marriage
icence, then his companion volunteered
the information, that he too wanted
one of the fa nc sort of documents.
The judge directed them to the desk
of his efficient clerk, Miss Gertrude
Beeson, where the necessary affi
davits and papers were issued. The
Judge was then informed that he
was expected to furnish the cermony.
On taking the licenses in hand he
noticed that one bride was but six
teen, this was speedily legalized by
the other bride giving a written con
sent, and stated before doing so that
the lady was her daughter. The
The couples were then married thus,
I' rank Main, aged 52 to Mrs. Lottie
Williams, aged 30 and George Saltz
man aged 21 to Ethel Williams, aged
10. Both couples gave their addeess
as Hastings.
Washlnton Warbler.
"The world and his w ife" seemingly
were present at the first reception
evening in honor of the Senate of the
United States. Never in resent his
tory has there been such a crowd
present at a function in a private
house as gathered within the hos
pitable home of Vice President Shorma
on the occasion mentioned. President
Taft was one of the most democratic
guests of the evening; and his smile,
and the warm shake accom
panying his greetings marked him
as one specially fitted for the high
office which he holds.
The Nebraska colony in Washington
was largely represented at the reception
In addition to Senator Burkett and
Brown there were noticed ex-Congress
man Boyd, Mrs. Boyd and their
daughter, of Neleigh; Mr. M. B.
Huffman and wife and a friend also
of Neleigh, who stopped off in Wash
ington on their way to Cuba where
they will spend several weeks Hon
W. E. Andrews Auditor for the
Treasury, was there with Mrs Andrews
Raymond Morgan, Private Secretary
to Senator Burkett, and Mrs Morgan;
Mr. C. S. Snyder, Washington cor
respondent of the Omaha Bee, ant
Mrs. Snyder; Miss Anna Hawland,
Senator Brown's secretary,- and others
from Nibraska wore welcomed by
Vice President Sherman and his wife
and their three stalwart sons and their
brides.
To tho older residents of the national
capital this reception was very re-
sidential world of Washington was
welcomed with a warm hearted hos
pitality that made White House
receptions of those days memorable.
And it looks now as if both the White
House and the N ice President's Hoie
would be centers of attraction during
the winter.
Senator Burkett .and Senators
Gamble and Crawford of S. D. had
a good natured colloquy over Gamble's
bill opening the Hosebud lands in
S. D. Senator Burkett was of course
heartily in favor of the bill; but he
insisted that there ought to be some
other way devised for drawing than
that in vogue for the last few years.
Former Commissioner Richards of
the General Land Office, when in
Washington inaugurated a so-called
lottery system of having the regis
tration, and then putting the numbers
into a wheel or a hat corresponding
to the number of registrations, and
by that means determining who
should have priority of right in se
lecting land.
Senator Burkett told of experiences
he had had incident to the opening
of the Gregory county land in S. D.;
that he has had to spend a week along
the northern border of Nebraska,
and that he met thousands of people
en route for registration. Accomo
dations were bad, the weather was
hot, the trains were crowded beyond
their capacity by a motley number of
people of all shades in the social
world; and the women and children
among them were compelled to hear
all sorts of vile language and to witness
scenes not for their eves; and that the
registration and drawing were a good
deal of a farce. He hoped some
better means of allotting the land
might be devised, and the same
results accomplished without so much
lardship.
His story was a graphic picture,
and down east senators, and senators
from the middle western states, were
much interested in the account, which
is now associated only with states
laving Indian reservations, the land
in which from the very nature of
things must be opened to white
settlement.
"The Story of the Insurgent West"
which Ray Stannard Baker is writing
for a popular magizine, shows how
easily one's fame may be dimmed by
the absence of a letter in spelling a
name. A well known writer,- in
act, Byron- once said that the height
of fame was reached when a soldier
serving his country with all his power
at his command, loading his regiment
in a desperate charge against the
enemies works, falls mortally wounded
and then his name misspelled in the
efiieial gazette. Such is Fame. Judge
Norris,' whose bold face stands out
among the insurgents of the west in
the pictures printed in the magizine,
must bo contented with a photograph,
for he is called "O-R-IM-S" of Neb
raska. Even though a letter has been
dropped from his name Norris has
made himself familiar in other ways;
on the floor, and in the Committee
Room; and as a debater he is looked
upon as one of the earnest Repub
lican representatives in the House.
Taken lor Burgler.
A. Paulson who has been putting
repairs on the boiler at the Riley for
a day or two, departed for his home
at Omaha this morning, having got
everything in shape. Mr. Paulson
carried a sheet iron traveling bag con
taining his tools. He said a partner
of his was placed under arrest at
Nebraska City recently, by a brilliant
member of the neighboring city's
police force, for carrying this same
grip, the brainy cop taking the boiler
maker for a burgler. On inspection
of the contents of the iron hand bag
the suspect was released.
Wedding at Court house.
Yesterday morning at 7:30 at the
office of County Judge Beeson, oc
cured the marriage of Samuel C
Griffin and Mrs. Frances Hospenthal
The witnesses to the ceremony were
W. A. Griffin and Mrs. Grafovillc,
brother and . groom.
The bride and groum imparted for
Omaha on the morning train. Mr,
Griffin has been employed in the
Brass foundry at the local shops,
but has not determined whether he
will take up his residence in Platts
mouth or not.
Attend Convention.
Joe II. McMakin and his brother
Guy were passengers to Lincoln on
tho early train today where they went
to attend the convention of concrete
and cenrcnt artists, which convene
in that city today. The boys are up
with the tunes and expect to take on
any new and up to date improvmonts
which may be proposed for the better
ment of the craft.
Miss Agnes Gee of the Albion
News force is expected in the city
this afternoon to visit with her sister
Miss Sadie, who is employed on the
Daily News.
EDITOR HAS
A DAY OFF
Visits the Newspapermen of
the County and Gets
, Acquainted.
i
A VERY PLEASANT
TRIP TIIROUII CASS.
Gets Left by Train Once and
Trains Get Left by him Once.
The editor of this 'paper packed
his grip the other day and started
out for a trip among the newspapermen
of the county, a pleasure he has
been anticipating for several months.
At Union there was no time to go up
to the Ledgar office but we found
the lively editor Harry Graves at
the depot spotting the suspicious
characters which alighted from the
train and cither mosied up town or
changed to the Lincoln train. He
reported the town going at lightning
speed and the new buildings nearly j
ready for occupancy.
Passing swiftly through the towns
along the road, we finally alighted
at Eagle and soon ran into the editor
of the Beacon and was ushered into
lis sanctum. Mr. Allen has a nicely
equipped little office and is getting
out a nice paper. Our stay there
was of short duration as we had a
fourteen mile drive ahead of us to the
capital city, but our first visit to Eagle
leaves in our mind a good impression
of the town.
The next morning we again chartered
the M. P. and landed in Elmwood.
We discovered the office of the 'Leader
Echo and found Mr. Clark, like a
great many other newspapermen work
ing industriously. He is ably assisted
by Mrs". Clark and that means sue.
cess nitie times out of ten. For the
editor who has , the good fortune
to have a ,wifo'who can go into the
office and help him get out a paper
is a very fortunate individual. We
kiowyihat for we are in possession
of that kind of a wife, and in years
onc by.sho has set many a stick of
type andkicked off many a job on
the press. The whistle of the freight
announced that our stay in Elmwood
must be short, but we had time to
shake hands with Willard Clapp and
his father, L. A. Tyson and one or
two othc rs and regretfully pulled out
from one of the liveliest towns in
Cass county.
Our next stop was at Weeping
Water, where we found Editor Olive
busily editing the post office in addition
to editing the Weeping Water Re
publican. Mr. Olive gets out a good
paper and sells a first grade article
of postage stamps and money orders.
In fact we are assured that his grade
of goods arc so satisfactory that no
one even attempts to put in another
post office. Mr. Olive is an enthus
iastic booster for tho Cass county
editorial association and thinks that
great things arc in store for the man
who stays by the organization. Mr.
Olive has one of the best edited papers
in the county and is doing well.
Wo then attempted to catch
freight train to Louisville, but i i
usual in such cases the freight wot'" J
not run the way we wanted it to r.h .i
neither would the company give t: ;.
special, so we concluded to staj .
Weeping Water, which by tho v;
is a mighty gocd place to st&.i I,,;
and alter waiting patiently low.;
half an hour after the time fc; i-
tiain to come which was oaly "Cp '
minutes late", we jumped aby '!
and via Union arrived home all righ '.
having enjoyed hobnobbing
the newspaper boys highly, bui f
grctting that it had to bo done i
hurrcdly. That bunch cf Can tow; "
newspaper fellows are a ft? .
men and while they are a vr-r tc ,
set, they are, outeii. ' -county
seat fellows, r.
flock which will cut sort '
We might say right her.; iri , t.
editor of the Eagle Beacon is an
unmarried man and there is a mighty
good chance for some young lady
to get in her good w.rk, but she will
have to be good looking nnd senHi,el.
None other need apply.