BURGLARS
GET BUSY
Broke Into the Dovey Store
on Main Street Last
Night.
REMOVED TWENTY DOLLARS
FROM THE CASH DRAWER
Pried Open Window at Rear ol
Store and Escaped With
out Being Noticed.
(From Tuesday's Dally)
The sticky fingered men of the light
handed tribe are again at work in the
city, thi time having done their work
in the business section of town. Last
night, Dovey's store was broken in
to and the money drawers robbed of
all they contained, which did not a
mount to but $20 in change. Entrance
to the building was gained through
one of the rear windows in the east
part of the store. The window was
locked and covered with a heavy metal
fire shutter, rather insecurely bolted
into the frame of the window. The
bolt did not fit into a metal casing, but
was held by an inch and a half strip
of wood, consequently it was not an
overly difficult job to pry a crow bar
between the window and frame,
break the sasli from its foundation
and open the metal shutter. The win
dow on the inside was .locked by a
common bolt at the sash, and the win
dows fitted rather loosely, it was a
simple stunt to force a chisel between
them, breaking the cast iron lock.
Immediately in front of the window
stands the office of the concern, in
which is a large desk containing three
drawers used for change, books etc.
The cash drawer containing 815
was broken into with a chisel, the mone
ey removed and the one adjoining it
was opened and the So which had been
left for the use of the clerks in the morn
ing was sacked. The safe was not
tampered with and the stock of goods
so far as can be told, was not molested.
The robbery was first noticed this
morning when the store was opened
by one of the clerks. The small cash
drawer was laying on top of the desk,
and a few cf the contents of the other
drawer were scattered on the floor
and in a conspicuous place lay the
chisel which had been used for the
work. The tool may serve as a slight
clue for the authorities, for it does
not belong to the store, probably be
ing the personal property of the thief
the police have not any very promis
ing clues to work on, but have a few
slight suspicions. The Dovey store was
the only one broken into.
$100 Fine at Greenwood.
A drunk Irom ureenwoou, giving
his name as llogers, was brought
up by Marshall Andrus yesterday and
landed in the county jail where he has
a S1U0 fine to serve out. He was arrest
ed in Greenwood while in a badly in
toxicated condition, it requiring more
than half a dozen men to force him into
jail after making up his mind not to
nter the place. l or being drunk am
disorderly and for resisting an officer
the justice of the peace at Grcenwooe
imposed upon him a fine of $11)0 and
costs, the, later amounting to about
$11. He is a husky fellow and gave the
officers a bunch ot excitement in
landing him behind the bars. When
brought hire yesterday, he was wel
locked in the irons.
Post Master Salary Boosted.
The post offkc department at Wash
ington yesterday sent out notices,
giving the increases and decreased in
post masters salaries in the towns of
Nebraska. Plattsmouth being given
a substantial raise of $100 a year,
making the salary now $2,200. The
Louisville sidary was given a boost
to $1,100 from $1,000 the Elmwood
office receiving the same raise. Of the
long list of towns, numbering perhaps
200, there are but three which suffer
any decrease, these being Alma,
O'Neill and Shickley. The increase
in the wages of Post Master Schneider
again shows that the local office, the
mail business and the town are grow
ing. ,
Plank Dropped on Him.
Frank Koubek, a repairman at the
shops, was given a bad scar wound
yesterday afternoon by a falling
board which struck him ion the head
inflicting a deep gash on the top of
his thought parlor. He was at work
on a car, when a plank fell from the
top of the car doing the above men
tioned damage to the gentleman, who
finds it necessary to wear a bandage
today like a Hindu's turban, It was
quite a narrow escape for the young
man, for such a blow might have been
much more serious.
SHINGLES IN POSITION
FOR THIRTY NINE YEARS
Were Made Across the River In 1869
From Cotton Wood Timber.
M. S. Briggs is remodeling the house
which he recently purchased from
T. J. Hickson and converting it into
quite a comfortable little residence
which he expects to occupy when he
has the alterations completed. When
finished, the former house of four rooms
will be an eight room residence and
it will look more respectable than it
has in its thirty four years of existence.
While tearing off part of the roofing
Mr. Briggs found some vtty peculiar
and ancient shingles that have been
in position on the roof since 1S71.
They were made of cottonwood,
being sawed out in 1869 at a little
cottonwood lumber camp across the
river. After the heavy shingles had
nearly served their time, they happen
ed to be covered over by the addition
of a roof on one part of the building
and here they have remained in po
sition for the remainder of the thirty
nine years. The old house has seen
many events and witnessed many
changes in the city, being built by Miles
Morgan, father of B. C. Morgan,
many years ago for a man by the name
of Cooper. The old cottonwood
shingles, when removed from their
roof boards, appeared to be in fine
condition and would shed rain for many
years more if necessary. The old house
lias had a long life, considering the
fact that it was but an unimposing,
frame structure to begin with.
Mean to Hetty Green.
Hetty Green, decrying the injustice
accorded her by a jury which awarded
a trust company judgment against
her for $54S, due since 1905 for the
rent of a number of safety deposit
boxes.thinks she is a much abused
woman. Because she has the repu
tation of being the richest woman
in the world, she fancies all the world
is conspiring to separate her from her
niomy. Fearing that the success of
the trust company's suit against her
will prompt others to sue her, she
fled from New York on Wednesday
to one of the number of obscure lodg
ings outside the city to which she re-
eats when she wants to hide herself
from those who would annoy her.
Everybody expected that she would
take an adverse verdict to heart.
The incident is still fresh in the minds
of many when she laid down on the
floor and bellowed like a baby after
losing a case in which slic was finan
ciallv interested.
Two Hurt at Shops.
Ralph Lorenzen, a Burlington env
ployee who works in the brass foun
dry, was slightly burned by hot metal
while at work in the shops this morning.
Lorenzen was wheeling metal with
a wheelbarrow and stopping to pick
up a piece of hot metal, his right hand
was painfully burned, the second and
third fincers being the most badly
affected. He had the hand bandage
up bv the company physician and wil
probably be off duty for a short
while.
Joseph Kaoukal, a laborer at the
IBurlington cinder pit, suffered a ba
bruise on the right leg this morning
about ten thirty o'clock when he was
driving a stake in the door of a car
Tie crow-bar. with which he was
working, slipped, striking him a heavy
blow a1 little above the shin, which
put him off his job for the rest of the
day.
To Take Up Land.
James Archer, one of Plattsmouth's
old residentsstart(d this morning for
Omaha, enroute to South Dakota
where he will visit his son James II
Archer who is now located at Aber
deen. From that place, Mr. Archer
will proceed to the Standing Iloek
reservation which was recently opened
to home seekers. Both he and his son
drew claims on the land on which they
will file this spring. The reservation
is in the northern part of the state, ex
tending into North Dakota. Mr
Archer thinks he has a chance of get
ring a very good piece of land out of
the deal as some of the land in the
reservation is of very good quality
He will be gone on his trip until the
first of next week.
. Loyal Mystic Legion Convention
District convention was held in
this city today of the Loyal Mystic
Legion, the principal business of the
meeting being the election of a dele
gate to attend the Supreme Council
which will meet in August. The meet
ing today was in charge of Worthy
Coiieillor Dr. Townsend of Lincoln
Several minor matters of business was
talked over, but the showers kept the
audience down to a very limited num
ber. Dr. Townsend was elected Su
preme delegate to visit thestate council
in the fall.
J. P. Rouse, an Alvo resident, was
a caller at the county seat yesterday.
RAILROADS
BACK HIGH RATES
Chief
Executive Agrees to
Injunction Suit.
AWAIT OPERATION
Increased Schedules
Railroad Men After Talk With
President Taft.
WASHINGTON, I). C, June 10.
A complete agreement between the
government and the recently enjoined
railroads of the Western Trunk Line
association was reached at a White
House conference which lasted more
than four hours this afternoon. The
railroads represented agreed to with
draw all rate increases filed to be ef
fective on or aftei June 1, and agreed
to file no more increases until the bill
in congress which gives the Interstate
Commerce commission power to in
vestigate and suspend increases that
are not justified becomes a law and
goods into effect.
President Taft thereupon stated
that the administration purpose in
bringing the injunction suit had been
accomplished and would be discon
tinued. The discontinuance will not
be entered, however, until the new
railroad law is signed. The belief was
experssed tonight that all of the other
railroads of the country which have
filed increased rates or have such a
plan under consideration, will abide
by the agreement reached today with
the twenty-four railroads named as
defendants in the Hannibal suit.
There will be a conference at the
White House today in which Presi
dent Brown of the New York Central
railway, President McCrca of the Pen-
sylvania and other officials repre
senting railroads in the eastern and
central teriitory, will participate. That
they will acquiesce in President Taft s
proposition and hold up the proposed
increusses until after the new laws be
come effective is practically taken for
granted here tonight. Every one con
nected with this conference seems grat
ified over the out come. All that Presi
dent Taft has desired is that the In
terstate Commerce commission should
have authority to investigate to de
termine whether or not they are justi
fied by conditions and are just to the
shippers. This power is being conferred
under the new law.
The railroads, on the other hand,
it is pointed out, arc to be relieved of
embarrassing litigation, arc assured
of a "square deal" when their case
is presented to the Interstate Com
merce commission and arc free to
resume the contracts of improvements
and extensions which they threatened
to cancel had the court proceedings
continued.
The new railroad bill contains a
clause which gives its effect sixty days
after being signed by the president.
It will be necessary to make provi
sion as to the supervision of rates by
the Interstate Commerce commission
immediately effective, and for this
reason, as President Taft indicated
tonight, it will be necessary to send
the bill to conference.
President Taft summoned three
members of his cabinet to sit with him
in conference with the four railroad
officials. Attorney General Wickers
ham was included. There was sone
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surprise, however when the president
sent for Secretary of State Knox and
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel. Later Chairman Knapp and
Mr. Lane of the Interstate Commerce
commission were summoned. It was
7:05 p. m. when the conference ad
journed. Then the followingstatement
was prepared and given out :
"K. P. Ripley, president of the Atchi
son, Topeka & Santa F.e Railroad
company; Walker D. Hines, acting
chairman executive committee, At
chison, Topeka fc Santa Fe Railroad
company; Frederick A Delano, presi
president of the Wabash Railroad
company, and S. M. Felton, president
of the Chicago Great Western Rail
road company, a committee repre
senting the twenty-four rail
road companies defendant in a suit
brought by the government in Missouri
in which Judge Dyer granted an in
junction restraining increases in rates,
met the president and the atttorney
general today, pursuant to a request
sent to the president a few days ago.
The president stated to these gentle
men at the outset that the purpose
of the suit was to prevent the proposed
rate increases which, under the
existing law, could not be investigated
at all until after they had become ef
fective.) so as to preservee the status
until the new statute could be passed
and the commission should have the
power to investigate rate advances
as soon as announced and before
becoming effective.
"He stated further that he thought
the railroad companies must withdraw
the tariffs enjoined and all other tar
iffs filed by them effective on or after
June 1, 1910, and that none of them
ought to file any new tariffs involving
rate advances until the new law should
be passed, assuming that it would be
passed at the present session of con
gress. "After conference, the railroad com
panies announced that they would
adopt the view expressed by the presi
dent and thereupon the president
stated that if they did so his purpose
in bringing the suit would be aceoin
plished and, such result being acconi
plished, he saw no occasion for press
ing the suit and the same would be
withdrawn."
The rate increases specified in the
injunction suit against the railroads
in the Western Association did not
cover all the increases filed with the
commission. The railroads today,
however, agreed to withdraw all the
increases planned for June 1, or after
Tom Svoboda, custodian at the
court house, got busy on the court
house lawn this morning and nfter
playing a tune on the lawn mower,
cut away the sod that was protruing
over the side walks, geratly improving
the looks of the grounds of the county
headquarters.
and Mall Today.
early start may mean victory.
RED MEN PUSHING THE
CELEBRATION OF FOURTH
Have Subscription Paper Out To
day That Is Getting Big
Bunch ol Signers.
The committee of Red Men appoint
ed at the last meeting of the lodge
to rustle up things for a Fourth of
J7ly celebration was busy today soli
citing subscriptions among the busi
ness men for subscriptions to help de
fray the expenses of the big time
and they report this afternoon to have
met with very good success in their
work. The business men seem to take
to the proposition very well and the
boys are confident they will have no
trouble in raising the money needed to
put the celebration on a firm foundation
The committee in charge of the
matter will meet tomorrow evening
and all plans for the celebration will
be formulated. Different carnival
companies are being coresponded with
but none have yet been given the
concession of the day. The Red Men
arc in high spirits over the out look for
a big time, having received many do
nations from merchants from whom
they had hardly expected any support.
It shows you can't keep a good man
down, and when you get a tribe of
good men and a good cause, its a com
bination that is hard to beat.
Court House Proceedings.
Final settlement was made today in
the estate of Conrad Heineman,
Henry Heineman of Murray son of the
deceased was in the city in connection
with the hearing.
Mrs. R. C. Kendall filed a petition
in county court this morning for the
appointment of her father, Benjamin
Davis, as administrator in the estate
of her deceased husband.
Petition to foreclose mortgage on
eighty acres of land, the mortgage
amounting to $3,315 was entered in
district coUrt this morning, the plain
tiff being George Sheldon, the defen
dants D. C. Rhoden. Anna V. Rhoden
and Hallie M. Kiser.
In the case of the State of Nebraska
versus William Noxon and G. K. Do
vey, a motion was filed in district
court this afternoon by G. E. Dovey
moving court to strike from the pe
tition in said case, paragraphs 3, 4
and 5 for the reasons that each is
irrclevnt.
Kitchen Cabinets.
Before you buy a cabinet come in
and see the latest model made. It
is the most complete kitchen
cabinet on the market, and its advan
tage over other cabinets is that every
compart men t is enclosed making it
dust proof. The niekle plated table
is so arranged that it may be with
drawn from the interior, giving twice
the service of others. The (lour bin
is also arranged in a new way, being
of glass, with the sifter at the botom
easily aecesible. Equipped with glass
receptieles for coffees, teas, spices
etc., and is in every way superior to
anything now on the market.
My line of gocarts is large and varied
Ranging in price from $5 to $10.
Most anything you want in this line
can lie uau here.
202-0t. D. P. Jackson.
Deserter Arrested.
Oklahoma Vandevert, the man want
cd for wife and child desertion, who's
family was in the city at the Man
speaker residence a snort time ago.
was located at Pender, Nebraska and
Sheriff Quinton left yesterday morning
for that city, returning later with man
charged with the penitentiary of
fense. lie was formerluy a resident
of South Bend where he and his family
had lived until about four months ago,
when he suddenly left, failing to pro
vide for his wife and four little chil
dren. They were in a destitute con
dition and finally found it necessary
to consult the county for advice,
She is now living at the home of her
parents. Yandevcrt's hearing has not
been arranged for and it may be sev
eral days before he is brought up.
Grader Works In Mud.
The dirt elevator at work on the
Ferry road at the bar is showing today
that it is a sturdy machine and always
on the job. Only the short time that
the heavy rain was falling, was the big
machine forced to cease its operation.
It was ready for business as soon as
the noon hour was over and the dirt
started piling out of its big throat
at as lively a rate as ever. The light
showers are serving to pack the dirt
which is already thrown up, which will
add much to the road's subtautiality
Extra teams have been hitched to
the rear of the machine and now that
is below the rough surface of the soil
the grader is giving better satisfaction
to tlie Commercial Club men who are
watching with interest every move
it makes.
Bon Davis of Union, an old time
friend of John Cory is in tho city today
visiting the Corv's. Mr. Davis is
accompanied by his daughter
R. C. Kendall of Union.
Mis.
GOOD NEWS
TO PATRONS
Continuation of Harmony at
Plattsmouth High
School.
SUPERINTENDENT GAMBLE
WILL REMAIN IN THE CITY
Induced to Retain Position of Su
perintendent of City
Schools
(From Tuesday's Dally)
At the regular monthly meeting -
of the school board held last evening,
Superintendent J. W. Gamble was in
duced to withdraw his resignation
on the condition that he be granted
a two months leave of absence to re
cuperate hb health. This unexpected
action of Mr. Gamble meets with tho
most hearty approval of the people
for it was generally feared they wero
to lose one of the best men that ever
graced the city faculty and the resig
nation that was presented the board
of education a few weeks ago was the
cause of considerable regret among the
members of the board. Mr. Gamble
nid made no definite plans for the
future, but intended to refrain from
active work until he was in a better
state of health, for the confinement
of his work had greatly impaired his
hysical condition.
The Count Came Back.
With what the small boy whould
say, "borne ol the starch taken out
of his sails," Count Rudolph Festica
de Telua, who left New York Sunday
on his schooner yacht Tetona on a
three-year cruise with his American
wife, daughter of Gardiner Wetherbee,
nosed his way back into port, Tuesday.
The yacht, which was formerly the
Thistle, flagship of Commodore Tod
of the New York Yacht club, encount
ered terrific seas after she got outside
of Sandy Hook, and the Count, who
undertook to navigate her himself
became alarmed for her safety. Festics,
who claims to be an experienced
seaman, has enrolled the boat in the
Austrian. navy. The precipitous re
turn of the craft to the harbor, encour
aged the relatives and friends of his
wife to renew there efforts to dissuade
her from making the trip abroad with
the count. Society still recalls with
interest the frantic efforts made by
the late Mrs. Wetherbee, mother of
the Countess, to prevent her daugh
ter's marriage to the Count, for whom
she conceived a violent dislike. So
strong was dier antipathy to him
that it was carried with her to the grave
her will containing a very bitter refer
ence to him.
Hunting Hares, Not Heirs.
Disclaiming any niatiimonial ambi
tions 11. R. II. Ferdinand, Due de
Montpensicr brother of the queen of
Portugal, cousin of King Alfonso of
Spain, grandson of Louis Phillipc,
King of France and brother of the
Due d'Orleans, pretender to the French
throne, arrived in New York this
week, westward bound on a hunting
trip. He is accompanied by Compte
G. de Poutac, and expects to spend
several months hunting in the Rockies
and in Mexico. That the world may
know of his prowrcss as a marksman,
he has made a contract with a moving
picture concern to snap him and his
suite in action. The noble visitor is
extremely handsome and is only
2li years of age. His announcement
that his time here will be so preoccu
pied with hunting that he will have no
opportunity to devote to society, will
doubtless bring dissapointniont to
a number of ambitious mothers with
eligible daughters to whom his presence
in this country would be likely to sug
gest interesting possibilities. From
the United States the Due will sail for
China and Japan in the summer.
Walter Byers, the Rock Bluff man
who was (piite seriously hurt while
intoxicated Saturday night, presum
ably by a fall from a wagon, seems
to be holding his own today. The
physicians have heard nothing from
the bedside of the injured man and
from this it is thought his condition
cannot be any worse. He is in quite
a serious condition, his head and
chest being badly cut and bruised.
Mrs. G. E. Dovey and little son
George left yesterday for Chicago
and Winetka. At the later place they
will witness the events of graduation
week at the Gorton, which Miss Kath
oiino Dovey is attending. They will
return the latter part of the week
accompanied by Miss Dovey who has
finished her school work for this year.
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