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VOLUME XXVIII
IMYTTSMOUTJI, XEHHASKA, MONDAY, AIMiIL- 1!0S.
xumisek I
E IS! L HOFFG3AG3
Born in Prussia in 1 842, Died In Platismoulh
April 16, 1908 A Resident of this
Gity for Many Years
Mrs. Amelia HofTman was born in
Carein Prussia, in the fall of the year
1842 ami when a small girl came to this
country with her father, Samuel
Eicheirtreith and family, settling at
Wattcrtown, Wisconson, where they
lived for a few years, and from thence
moving to Manatowac, the same state.
Living at that place during the cival
war and afterwards moving to Chicago.
Here on March 21, 1870 she was mar
ried to C. J. HofTman, and immediately
came west, locating at Thurman, then
called Plum Hollow, Iowa. At this
place they lived for about six months,
and during the fall of 1870 came to this
place. Mr. HofTman secured employ
ment in the Burlington shops, as a
machinest, working there for some
time. Later he conducted a black
smith shop here but died many years
ago. In 1871, a son, Julius HofTman,
was born, who was hero some four
years ago, departing for the City of
Mexico, where the mother has heard
of him but once, and in which letter he
started he was going to South America.
Julius married Miss May Babb the
daughter of John Babb, an engineer
employed on the Burlington before the
strike, and moved to Monmoth, 111.,
some years since.
At the time that Julius HofTman went
to Mexico, his wife not wishing to
make her home in that unhospital
country, went to her folks at Mon
mouth, and they subsequently moved
FARMERS BEWARE
OF TVIKE FAKE
Parties Salt! fo Bo Playing
Their Fake Among Ne
braska Farmers
V.'e are informed that there is an or
ganized gang of fellows canvassing i:i
various parts of Nebraska for the sale !
of binder twine stock to the ' farmers, ;
and from what we can learn ve believe
the farmers had better think twice be-
fore investing his money. j
The story as we have heard it runs
something like this: The farmers is ap
proached and asked to buy stock to
the value of one hundred dollars in a
twine factory, and to him they will
give their guarantee that he shall each
year thereafter have his binding twine
at 6 cents per pound, and in addition
to this they will guarantee to the farm
er a 35 per cent dividend each year on
his one hundred dollars invested
In some of the localities the parties
represented that their factory is locat
in Kansas, and in other parts they claim
their factory is at Sioux City, Iowa.
To one farmer they will tell him he
can have his twine at 6 cents per pound
if he buys stock, and to others at from
7 to 10 cents per pound, providing he
pays the cash for his stock, and the
main thing they try to most impress
upon the farmer is the 35 per cent an
nual dividend.
We hope that none of the Journal
readers, after they have read this
article, will fall prey to this gang of
shysters. Think of it 35 per cent
dividends. We have always thought
that the farmers were being robbed by
a twine trust, but we have never
thought that any of the farmers would
be fools enough to bite at a proposition
of this kind through the representation
of a 35 per cent dividend.
Cot a Wagcn Load
This a f ternoon the sheriff and police
rounded up five of the j-613 hobo,
drunk and disorderly. One was lying
along the railroad track and insencible,
while the remainder were near the
pumping station full to the gunwale,
and a part of a keg of beer yet undrank
with alcahol and bread golore. They
sure were a hard looking set in a very
disgusting condition, looking more like
a heard of swine than human beings,
they are now bringing them back to
his world at the jail.
away from there and no trace of either,
I Julius or them can be found. Samuel
HofTman, the other son, some years
younger, learned the printer's trade in
this city, working for the Journal and
News, and later departed for the west,
dying of typhoid fever in San Fran
cisco, May 9, 1904. Samuel carried an
insurance of $2,000 on his life in the A.
O. U. W. which went to his mother,
and which she has kept intact, having
it when she died.
For the past five years Mrs. Hoff
man's sister, Miss Agusta Eicheirt
reith, has made her home with Mrs.
HofTman, and cared for her during her
last sickness. Mrs. Hoffman's health
has been much impared for the past
five years, and has grown continually
worse until the end which came yester
day afternoon. Until Sunday she had
been able to be up and around, but
since then has kept to her bed, though
was not seriously sick until about five
o'clock yesterday morning, from which
time she grew rapidly worse and died
at two o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. HofTman was an adherent of the
teachings of the Living Church of God,
as enunciated by that sect which pub
lished what is known as the "Zion's
Watch Tower, " a paper published at
Aleghany City, Pa. The funeral ser
vices will be held from the deceased's
lat home, the Rev. Dickenson offi
ciating at two o'clock tomorrow (Sat
urday) afternoon; the interment will
be made at Oak Hill cemetery.
Some People Afraid of Work.
E. W. Lincoln from the Dovey section
was in the city yesterday looking after
some business t nd among other things
was looking after a farm hand, for
which he is oftenng twenty-five dollars
per month, which includes board and
washing. This makes very fair wages,
and while there are so many men around
idle it seems it should not be difficult to
get one for - the place, but it has re
mained vacant for a number of days.
In connection with this, Dr. W. P. Ren
shaw says that he was at Pacific Junc
tion yesterday, when a man came up to
him and asked for a dime to buy coffee,
and the doctor told him to come with
him to the livery stable and he would
hire a team for him to go to the coun
try, where he could get $30.00 per
month, but when he looked around the
man was a half block away. You know
there are some people that are a little
"skittish" about work, and do not want
to get too close to it.
A Pleasant Affair.
Last Saturday evening several mem
bers of the "Bucks of the Timber" and
their wives, 'dropped in at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson, south of
Rock Bluffs to enjoy an evening of
pleasure. The occasion really being in
honor of a member of the lodge from
Omaha, who was visiting there. Time
was spent in games of various kinds,
and in general conversation, until re
freshments was announced, to which all
did ample justice. Mr. Patterson had
particularly arranged to take the party
a boat ride upon the Old Missouri, but
on account of the lateness of the moon
beams, this had to be postponed to an
other time. At a late hour those who
were present dispersed to their various
homes, not however, until after they
had voted Mr. and Mas. Patterson royal
entertainers.
Accident Near Union.
W. H. Banning, the well known far
mer residing south of town, was the vic
tim of an accident last Saturday even
ing that will disable hinrfor some time.
He was milking a cow and the animal
"had a kick coming" on his way of per
forming the operation. The kick landed
on Mr. Banning's right ankle and re
sulted in a broken bone. A doctor was
called to reduce the fracture and Mr.
Banning is getting along very well, but
he declares he will never have any great
affection for that particular cow.
Union Ledger.
All the new spring styles in neck
waar at Holly's.
WOULD HAVE
NO MORE DIVORCE
Bishop Samuel Fellows of
Chicago Announces
a Remedy
Bishop Samuel Fellows of the Re
formed Episcopal chucrch, whe found
ed Christian Psycology, of Chicago,
111., has taken another plunge into the
occult. He announces a remedy to un
its estranged husbands and wives and
kill off the divorce evil. It is to be
done by suggestion and auto-suggestion.
The bishop declared he had used the
method successfully. He also gave an
instance in which it had been used by a
Chicago lawyer to prevent a divorce be
tween a man and wife. To begin with,
when a man or woman desires to win
back his or her mate, the mind must be
kept in a receptive condition. The bis
hop continued:
"One can not love unless one puts
himself jn the position to love; one can
not continue to love unless one wills to
continue to love. Of course, we can
not will to love and then love or will to
believe and then beleive.
"What the will can do is to create by
auto-suggestion a will in this subconsci
ousness to continue in love or to be
lieve. This I make use of in my efforts
to reunite people who have entered in
to the holy bonds of matrimony and
who think that they have ceased to
love each other.
"The first thing to do when one of
these persons comes to me thinking
that he or she has ceased to love is to
set the will in operation to bring to the
subconsciousness a consciousness of the
past.
"I say to the troubled one, if a wo
man; "Go back over your whole life."
Go back and reflect on the time that
you were being wooed and won. Did
you take a great magnifying glass then
to look for faults? Were jTou happier
then than now? Go back in to the past
and think of the way you sacrificed and
toiled to make the home. Recall the
good times you have had together."
"In this way is created auto-suggestion
the will to continue in love, which
may prove more powerful than the fal
se belief that they can not love."
A Source of Relief to Parents.
The body of the little Lillie 01?en,the
four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Olsen, of Rosalie, this state,
whose mysterious disappearance five
months ago aroused widespread inter
est and sympathy, was found Monday
ih a ravine about two and a half miles
from her home. The little one was out
with her brothers after the cows, and,
it commencing to rain, was told by thetn
to run along home, but a short distance
away. She evidently became confused
in the gathering darkness and wander
ed away, ultimately falling into the
ravine and perishing from fatigue and
cold. It will be remembered that after
all search for the child had proven un
availing numerous theories were start
ed to account for her disappearance,
some even going so far as to intimate
that her own father had put her out of
the way. How ill founded and cruelly
unjust such suspicious were is now dis
closed. Why anyone should start such
a story without the strongest found
ation and cause additional anguish to
hearts already overburdened is beyond
comprehension.
SELLS DRINKS
WITHOUT LICENSE
J. L. Burnes of Louisville Charged
With Offense in County Court.
Growing out of the trauble which oc
curred at Louisville, Sunday March 29
when they had the rough house, at the
place of J. L. Burns, where some heads
were made sore with chairs and a lady
put the proprietor, "hors de combat,"
there was filed in the county court a
complaint this morning by the county
attorney charging Mr. Burns, the pro
prietor of the "Temperance Billiard
Hall" with selling intoxicating drinks
without a license. The warrent was
delivered to the sheriff who went to
Louisville this afternoon for Mr. Burnes.
Louisville has been ostensably dry and
which has been so on the surface. In
the under world, at that place, one
could always get something, as was
plainly in evidence, where the pitched
battle occurred of two weeks ago last
Sunday. The outcome of the trial
which this information, is the harbing
er is to be watched with a good deal of
i interest.
Nebraska in the Lead
A ' Burlington man says the Lincoln
division of the Burlington is furnishing
more tonnage at this time than any
other division of the system, compared
to the usual volume, and that business
is better in this part of the state than
anywhere else on the system. Some
time ago Chief Engineer Calvert, who
was formerly general superintendent
here and who knows the west end as
well as a man could know it who built
it, said that business would continue
better in this part of the west than
any other. It is said that the coal haul
ing lines of the Burlington have been
hardest struck. Lincoln. Journal.
UENRY IIEROLD
IS ACQUITTED
Message Received Thursday
Telling of a Verdict ot
"Hot Guilty."
It will be remembered that it was
reported in the papers, that Henry
Herold was arrested at Jerseyville,
Illinois, a few days since charged with
having embezzled some $17,000 from
the business houses of W. W. Coates,
and who was taken to Toulon, Illinois,
for trial. The preliminary was held
yesterday, Mathew Gering appearing
for the defense. It will be remem
bered also that Mr. Gering went for
that purpose the fore part of the week.
Thursday evening Henry R. Coring, re
ceived the following message from his
brother from Toulon, Illinois: "Herold
found not eruiltv. no grounds for
charges. ' '
House Cleaning
Walt Mason in Emporia Gazette:
My grandmother sings like a bird of a
bard, and hums like a hive full of bees;
for she has all the furniture piled in
the yard, and the rugs are slung over
the trees: she's slopping around with a
pailful of suds, and a rag and a broom
and a mop, she has soup on her topknot
and grease on her duds, and Old Henry
can't eret her to stop. The stove's tak
en down and the clock's on the lawn,
and the organ's out there on the stoop;
and as vainly I hunt for the things that
are gone, she won't care a jim-dusted
whoop. My grandmother's gone and
dismantled the place, and still she goes
'round on the jump; I sit on the grass
when I'm feeding my face, when thirsty
I go to the pump. And when the day's
labors and journeyings close, and I to
my cabin repair, I find on the floor I
must hang up my clothes, and sleep on
the back of a chair.
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mm
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Ski
Jus! Out From Serving a For
mer Sentence and Gets
Drunk and Abusive
Sam Goldman, who has just complet
ed a sentence for stealing clothes from
A. J. McFarland a few days since, be
came drunk this afternoon, and would
accost pedestrains on the streets, using
all manners of vile language, too re
volting and disgusting to think of.
After having made himself a nuisance
on two or three counts, complaint was
made to Officer Rainey who came along
and his jagship was speedly landed in
city bastile.
He Likes Lincoln
Our old friend, Henry Lehnhoff,
formerly of near Louisville, this coun
ty, was in the city Wednesday and
Thursday on business and visiting
friend. In company with his old neigh
bor and friends, Conrad Sehlater, he
called at Journal headquarters to pay
his respects, and we were pleased to
note that he was looking remarkable
well. He is well pleased with his new
home in the capital city, but still re
tains his farm near Louisville, so that
in the care of home-sickness he can
easily return to the old home place.
Are Burning Thousands of Ties.
Since the Burlington had some of their
ties hauled off that were good, which
had been supposed to have been thrown
away, they have pursued the policy of
selling not giving away any more old
ties. They do this in order to protect
themselves from the loss of a few good
ties which gets in with the old ones.
Heretofore it has been the policy of the
road to sell this stuff, but since some
one imposed upon some un-suspecting
or dishonest employe, the road has
burned thousands of cords of ties which
would have warmed many a poor man,
woman or child.
The Promoters Getting
Hove Heaven and Earth for Naviga
tion on the Missouri
The Omaha Bee Tuesday contains the
following article relative to the active
work to be started in behalf of the
navigation of the Missouri and no doubt
Plattsmouth will aid the general move
ment in a substantial manner:
Every day after congress atljourns
will be used by Representative Ellis of
Kansas City, F. D. Wead of Omaha,
J. L. Kennedy of Sioux City, L. M.
Jones of Kansas City and other officers
of the Missouri River Navigation con
gress to prepare a showing and gather
data with which to move on congress
next year to secure appropriations
which will convert the Missouri river
into a staple, reliable waterway.
Congressman Ellis says:
"It is the legitimate sphere of the
navigation congress to procure this
data and prepare a showing of the pro
priety and possibility of using the Mis
souri river and present the arguments
to the house rivers and harbors com
mute. The practicability from an
engineering standpoint of so converting ,
the river is no longer open to question, j
The or.ly matter open to debate is j
whether the expenditure of the money
which will be required to improve the
river as contemplated will be justified
by the amount of commerce for the
river. "Before the committee will
put into a river and harbor bill an
authorization for the thorough imporve
ment of the Missouri river or any con
siderable stretch of it, the committee
will have to be shown that there is an
LOWER EXPRESS
RfiTES IN FORGE
One-fourth Less in Nebraska
Koi?, Bus to b.Q Sililsy Act
A special from Lincoln, under date of
yesterday says: "Three express com
panies the American, the United Stats
and the Pacific reduced express rates
25 per cent this morning in conformity
with the Sibley act. This measure went
into effect in obediecne to an order of
the supreme court issued last week.
Attorney C. J. Greene of Omaha to
day asked the supreme court to modify
the order. He declared that the decree
was indefinite. This motion will be ar
gued next Tusday.
The Adams Express company put the
new schedule in effect later in the day.
The express companies doing business
in Nebrska filed motions in the supreme
court this morning for a modification of
the injunction issued by the court last
week. They also notified Attorney Gen
eral Thompson that next Saturday in
the federal court at Omaha they would
renew their application for an injunct
ion against the state to prevent it from
enforcing the Sibley law. The motion
filed this morning sets out that the in
junctional order is broader than the law
which it seeks to enforce and "that
said order is vague and indefinite and
imposes upon the defendant and its em
ployes the necessary of choosing be
tween reducing its charges and reduc
ing its rates as the same are shown in
the schedule and classification mention
ed in the act aforesaid."
G. J. Jones Still Sick
Mrs. E. T. Younkers, departed for
her home in Glenwood Friday morning.
after having visited in the city for
some time, the guest of her father,
Mr. G. J. Jones, who is very sick at
his home in South Park. Mrs. Younker
says that her father is showning no
improvement in his condition, and ap
parently does not lose any ground. His
many friends will be pained to know
that there is no improvment, but glad
that he is no worse.
Accidents will happen, but the best
regulated families keep Dr. Thomas"
Eclectric Oil for such emergencies. It
subdues the pain and heals the hurts.
ATIOCJ
Things in Shane to
adequate commerce for the channel
when it shall have been perfected."
Plan is to Get Members
The entire summer will be used by
Mr. Ellis in traveling up and down the
river creating the interest and getting
the people of the Missouri valley back
of the Missouri River Navigation con
gress in the work. He suggests that
it is possible to get other river experts,
who will probably give their time, but
should have their expenses paid, to take
hold of their work at once and get in
for an organization which congress will
not dare resist.
From all reports which are being re
ceived by the officers of the Missouri
river congress the North and South
Dakotas are doing more than the citiz
ens of any other state to lead in the
work. C. E. DeLand of Pierre, S. I).,
and J . P. Baker of Bismarck, N. I).,
are the busy ones in their states, while
F. E. Stranahan of Fort Benton, Mont,
is organizing a fore in the big north
western state with which In? hopes to
wake up some congressmen.
F. D. Wead, vice president of t he na
vigation congress, said: "I will take
hold of this work at once with Congress
man Ellis. I should hate to feel that
all the work we have done so far should
be forgotten. I intend to see the heads
of the transportation companies which
have been organized for the purpose of
opening the river and starting boat
lines. When I find out how much they
are going to do I will be in a position to
put forth every effort to co-operate
with the other vice president."
School
The pupils of
Bays Plana
tiie Nehav.ka
school
action,
have invested in a
piona, wriicM
when carefully
considered
is
111 1:0
way a blunder. The pupils, by means'
of entertainements, intend to j ay at
least half of the co.-t during the pros-
cut year,
will be
ho;-.d thi
liberally
certainly
One of t'iC.-e e:itei l.iinrnents
;e;i aLotit May 1st. It H
it the ente
tainrner.
"3 the
.ill be
patronized :
a worthy one
The school has needed the pi;ii:' bad
ly ail the year as in marching the organ
could not easily be heard in the upper
rooms. Then too entertainments will
be made much more attractive by the
use of such an instrument. Nchawka
Register.
The Burlington Loses Out
A special from St. Louis, under date
of April 17 says: "An opinion handed
down by the United States court of ap
peals today rules that a federal court
has no authority to interfere by injunc
tion to prevent a state railway commis
sion from changing rates until the rates
actually are fixed.
"The opinion upholds the decree of
the United States circuit court in Ne
braska which refused to restrain the
Nebraska railway commission from
modifying rates on grain and grain pro
ducts transported in Nebraska.
"The Burlington road originally
brought the action and is appellant in
the case.
"The opinion of the court states that
the petition was premature as the rates
had not been fixed, and that thirty days'
notice sbould have been allowed by the
commission in which the matter could
then be taken to court if the rates were
unfair."
Burlington's Lsrge Stock Here
The taking of the annual inventory
of the stock of the Burlington in the
supply department at this place is ncar
ing completion, and will show when
finished something over .1W,0W. lhose
taking the stock, expect to have it
completed within a few days. After
which they will go to Wymore, where
they will also take an invertory of the
supplies on hand at that place, which
is supposed to be about fifty thousand
dollars.
Lightning Rods!
Pure Copper Cable Lightning Rod, 15
cents per foot. Pitman & Davis.