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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1909)
The Plattsmouth Journa I'UBLISUED WEEKLY AT FLA.TTSMOUTII. NEBRASKA. R. A. BATES, Pi-rlishek. overed at the patioiUc l Piattsmoulb. Ne bra.ska.attccund clvs mUKr. $1,50 Per Year in Advance. Nobody should" knock" the inter urban. The man who docs so is not a good citizen of either Cass County or riattsmouth. The establishment of small fac ories in this city means a lot to the property owners. Do your share to ward helping this along. The way to build up a city is for everyone to bury personal differ ences and get together and .boost. Let Plattsmouth have an interurban railway into the heart of Cass Coun ty and let the small factory he se cured to employ the people. Forget your alleged grievances. There must be Borne object in run ning a so-called "citizens" ticket for for city offices. The voters and tax payers are entitled to know what this object is and a little personal investigation by the interested people will show. It Is a bad movement and will be defeated. The democratic ticket will be made up of ir.cn with no axes to grind and only intent upon giving the city a clean nnd decent city government free from taint. This morning's pliers report that the Omaha-Lincoln interurban rail way company has put surveyors in the field and are preparing to build their lines through Ralston, Pappil lon, Louisville mid Mtrdoek to Lin coln. The thing to do Is to build the line from Plattsrr.r.uth to.Murdock at once and get Into this field ahead of these parties. This Is legitimate riattsmouth territory and should be occupied now. If O.naha wants an Interurban line to Lincoln let them come down an 1 connect with the Plattsmoutli-4-Muriloc k line and make this the Junction point. Per sonal grievances and petty Interests have no business stopping the con struction of this line. Let every good citizen of Plattsmouth get to get her and boom the liattsinouth Murdock lnteruilmn. The building of the interurban railway from (his city to Murdock and Klmwood will mean the biggest nnd best thing which ever took place for Plattsnioulli and Cans County. It puts the entire county Into direct communication with the city and will result In untold benefit to every section. The Increase in the value of farm lanilM along Its right of way will make Cass County tho richest farming community in the state while the increase n the value of city prop erty due to the Increased business of the city will help every property owner and business man in the city. Under these conditions it Is a public duty to give this Industry a boost. Let those really Interested In the welfare of the city do what they can toward making the road a go. The devvelopmont of Cass County and Its Industries should be the object of every good citizen. Misuiiik! Lincoln. "Why is forgery deemed neces sary to the prohibition cause?" asks Collier's Weekly, which is itself not inactive as a champion of temperance Collier's goes on to explain in de tail, as follows: The brewers circulate a statement against prohibition falsely attributed to Lincoln. Along come the pro hibitionists with another, recom mending prohibition, also forged. Both desire his assistance; neither can find anything of his extreme enough to suit. If he lived today he would favor no license where public sentiment was strong enough to make that policy succeed, and he would certainly oppose anything re sembling national prohibition. The other day we were approached by a man brimful of ardor. "Lincoln," said he, "was a hyprocrite. He was a a temporizer and coward. In '65 he had a vast army at command. Why did he not use it to put down drink?" That man does more harm to the temperance cause than any other being in the town where he re sides. In a book by D. C. Baker, published last year, is this statement: "Mr. Lincoln is quoted as saying: If the prohibition of slavery is good for the black man, the prohibition of the liquor traffic is equally good and constitutional for the white man.' " Yes, he is "quoted" as saying it, but he never did say It. The pro hibitionists attribute this speech to April 13. 1865, the last day of Lin coln's life, so It ought to be possible for them to name the letter, or document, or speech, in which the words occurred. Actually, they were invented, Just as that stupid pro position about fooling the people was Invented also. "Why Is forgery deemed necessary to the prohibition cause?'' We don't know. But it evidently Is because the paper published right here in Omaha labeled "Official Or gan if the Anti-Saloon League of Douglas County," prints on its tlrst page the very same statement attributed to Abraham Lincoln The Omaha prohibition organ goes the other evt n one better by throw ing In this for full measure and bringing It up one ciay closer to the martyr president's death: After reconstruction, the next ';reat question will be the overthrow f tho liquor traffic. Abraham Lincoln to Mr. J. II. Merrlani, Aprrll 14. 18G5, the morning before ho was assassinated. Here Is some more food for the Collier man who has commissioned himself to keep Lincoln history straight. Omaha Bee. F.IXIC IlKOKillT TO LINCOLN. WILL TKLL STOKV ON TIIK WITXKSS STAND. In its issue of yesterday the Jour nal took occasion to say n few words regnrdlng the basket making Indus try In this city. This was something which few people were aware exllsted ns the man making the baskets had quietly and unostentatiously gone on about his work and by dint of .his own perseverance, and Industry had built up a Hue business. As was said Jast night, the trouble with tho busi ness Is a lack of capital to develop It The Commercial Club should take hold of this matter and investigate the possibilities. The Installation of machinery and the development of the Industry would cost but very lit tle, and local capital would be as si) red of a good Income from their Investment as there are excellent op portunltles for largo profits In the business. Mr. J lick has demonstrated that tho baskets can be sold for he sells more than than he can pro duce and has orders on his hands unfilled. This being (ho case, the field ought to Invite Investigation Time Piece I'setl In Burlington His. patching in the Seventies. An old clock, used In Burlington Missouri Ulver railroad train dis patching by Chief Dispatcher Charles K. Yates, now retired and a resident of this city, before the rond had reached Lincoln and wiiile the dis patcher's offlco was at Plattsmouth, Is now occupying a place on Superin tendent Blgnell's office wall In this city. It is a Howard, weight driven, clock of the war period vintage1. It stands nearly four feet high nnd keep good time to this day. Mr. Blgiull was a Plattsmouth visitor n few days ago and notlied It there; noticed that it still carried the lettering or the old B. & M. rail road, and ho remembered Its hls- DA1LY Jwi.'UNAIj 10c A WT.KK tory. Tho relle of old days appealed to him strongly nnd ho had it brought to Lincoln. It will be keeping time In his offlte In a few days. State Journal. l iieqiialed ns n Cure for Croup. "Besides being an excellent rem edy for colds and throat troubles, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is un- equaled ns a cure for croup." says Harry Wilson of Waynotown, Ind. When given ns soon ns tho croupy cough appears, this remedy will pre vent the attack. It Is used success fully In many thousands of homes For sale by F. G. Frlcke & Co. Oiilcr New Equipment. The Burlington has ordered twen ty-flvo Pacific locomotives from tho Baldwin works for May anl Juno do livery. The company has ordered 12 chair cars from tho American Car & Foundry Company. Theso will be built at tho St. Charles works and are for delivery In May. This equip inent Is being ordered for tho new service to be put on May 23. State Journal. Mrs. Alta Banner to Tell of the SImmiN liiK 'f Fred Banner, Her Brotlicr-In-Luw. The trial of Mrs. Alta Banner, fharsed with the murder of FreJ Banner, her brother-in-law. Is mov- ! v.itb surprising swiftness. 1 .if j.:i'' vas secured in hsb man live i.ours, when it had Veil anticipated hat two days would be consumed in ut.ng twelve mea o try the casi. H'corc' surprise came when the state rested its case at a few minutes after 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, after consuming less than four hours in the Introduction of testimony. The trial of Mrs. Banner will not be permitted to follow the lines of the Thaw case, according to the rul ing made by Judge Sears Tuesday In passing upon the objection raised by County Attorney English to charg es made by Attorney Henry Murphy In his opening statement for the de fense concerning Fred Banner's rela tions with Miss Majorie King, the daughter of Mrs. Banner. Judge Sears held that in its open ing statement and in the introduc tion of evidence, the defense has a right to show what Majorie King told her mother of Banner's treatment of her and from what she heard from other sources about it, but that proof of the relations will be barred. It was made known Tuesday morn ing that not only will Mrs. Banner go upon the stand in her own de fense, but that Miss King will also be a witness. Under the ruling of the court much of her story will be ex cluded, but at that, her recital and that of her mother, will probably be two of the most dramatic chapters in Douglas County criminal court pro ceedings. In his opening statement County Attorney English said that the state would show that the murder of Fred Banner by Mrs. Banner was cold blooded and deliberate. He said that It would be shown that seven hours before the shooting, she arranged for a place for her daughter to spend the night; that she went to a hardware store and purchased a revolver, hav ing the clerk show her how to oper ate It and load it for her. Henry Murphy for the defense, said It would be shown that Mrs. Banner's life history is such as to substanti ate the theory that she was Insane at the moment she fired the shot at Fred Banner. He said that it would be proven that her husband, Frank Banner, and Fred's mother had both warned her that he was a dangerous man for a girl to associate with, that Frank had told her that "Fred would ruin any girl for three drinks." MY. Murphy argued that Mrs. Ban ner's estrangement from her first husband nnd tho death of her son had done much to affect her health and mind. Then, ho stil.1, Mrs. Ban ner heard of her daughter undergoing an operation and of Fred Banner hav ing boasted of w ronging the girl. He said that Fred's mother had come to Mrs. Banner and asked her if she knew what was the matter with Mar jorle and when she told her It was septic poisoning, replied, "You may call It that, but I've heard unother name for It." It would also be shown, said coun sel, that Mr. King Investigated the af fair and convinced that the most ser ious story of the trouble between his (laughter and Fred Banner was true, applied opprobrious epithets to bel aud said he wanted nothing fo do with any of them any more. The Immediate relatives of Mrs. Alta Banner and of Fred Banner were In the court room and thero were frequent manifestations of un controllable grief. The state rested Us case at 3:03 o'clock. In addition to eye witness es of the shooting, and Dr. R. W. Lavender nnd Dr. Slabaugh, who tes tified concerning the wound which caused the denth of Fred Banner, the state placed Mrs. Daniel Banner, mother of tho slain man upon the stand. She told of going to the hos pital ns soon ns a message was brought to her that her son had been shot. "Did you stay there until his denlli?" asked the county attorney. "I went homo to spend the night In prayer fr my son's recovery," she replied. One of tho most important wit nesses for the state was Mrs. J. B. Wlnegard. She told of Mrs. Alta Banner taking her daughter. Mar Jorle, at 6 o'clock on the day of tho tragedy to spend tho evening nnd possibly the night there. Some time before 10 o'clock said Mrs. Wlnegard, Mrs. Banner came back. She said: "I have killed Fred Banner. ." She had the revolver with her and laid It down on on the table when they went In the house Mrs. Wlnegard said she noticed Mrs. Banner's lips were parched, but no ticed nothing elso peculiar In her ap pearance or demeanor. She gathered from what Mrs. Banner said that she had shot Fred Banner for slandering her daughter. Mrs. Wlnegnrd testified that Mrs. Banner and Marjorle left her homo early tho next morning. From the apponrnnoe of the bed it was appar ent they had not been in bed though they might have rested upon it without turning down the covers. When the state rested its case the defense asked for a recess until Wednesday morning to permit it to have its witness in attendance, stat ing that it had not anticipated that the state would conclude so soon. Judge Sears granted the request. World Herald. ;! MKKTINO OF TIIK COMMERCIAL CLIP.. Appoint Committee of Three to Look lp itasket Making Industry. The regular meeting of the Com mercial Club was held last night at Coates Hall and there wa3 a very fair attendance although there is still room for improvement in this re spect. The principal business trans acted was the receipt of reports from several committees and the laying of new plans for the progress of the club In the future. The matter of aiding the basket- making Industry which has been started in this city, came up and on motion It was decided to appoint a committee of three to look Into the matter and determine what can be done to make the enterprise larger and more profitable. This commit tee is composed of Messrs Emil Wurl, Guy McMaken and Louis Lorenz. The report of the Committee on interurban was presented by Mr. R. B. Windham and it was In effect what has been stated In the Journal heretofore. In addition Mr. Wind ham stated that some parties repre senting outside capital who will be interested in the proposed Platts mouth-Murdock Interurban will visit the city soon and it Is more than likely something of Importance will be ready for the public. He asked that a committee of three or four business men be appointed to assist the regular committee In meeting these gentlemen and In addition, further operate with the committee. The following gentlemen were chosen as such committee out of the sev eral suggestions submitted, Messrs George E. Dovey, C. W. Baylor, E H. Wescott and J. M. Roberts. The club desires to extend Its thanks to the News-Herald office of stationery furnished the secretary for corres pondence purposes. An additional matter of congratu lation was the fact that two new live members were added to the roll In the shape of Messrs. L C. Sharp an old time riattsmouth boy, and W. A. Sharp his brother, a long time resident of the city who is once more a citizen of this city. This comprises a bref resume of the work accomplished at this meet lng and a good harbinger of what the future will bring forth In the shape of doing something for the welfare of the city. Accident Results in Death. Erwin Groves, son of James droves of Alvo, died last Tuesday at Rock Springs, Wyo., the indirect re suit of an accidental shooting which occurred two weeks ago. Groves who was thirty- one years old, ac ctdentally shot himself In the fore head with a .22 calibre revolvevr about two weeks ago, while In the act of loading the gun. The bullet flying upward did not penetrate the skull but was deflected slightly and passed out three Inches from the point of the puncture. He was taken to a hospital, but the physicians said he had received only a flesh wound and he was re leased a short time later. On his release he caught cold In the wound and blood poisoning set In, result lng fatally. Tho body arrived In Lincoln Mon day morning and was taken to the family home at Alvo that afternoon tho funeral ' taking place Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock from tho Metho dist church of Alvo nnd burial was In the cemetery at that place. The deceased was a widower, without children. Lincoln News. 30C v & son i Spring Wash Goods! We have received a fine line of Economy Linen O L Suitings in White and Colored-one of the C ( new and up-to-date things for this Spring. ll I Fast colors, 46 inches wide, per yard In Stripes, 32 inches wide, per yard 35c Tissues at 20 and 25c A Fine line of Messeline and Foulard Silks, 34 ff atperyard ! V I Uvl We have just opened up our Spring purchases of Em broideries and Insertions. Some beautiful things in matched sets. 0 Children's Guaranteed Hosiery Ask for the Lastforever all sizes. Men's Lastforever Hosiery, 6 pairs, guaranteed six months $1.32 0 Odds and Ends in Corsets! Gage-Downs JUSTRITE to Close Out: $1.50 Corsets for. . . .75c 1.00 " " 50c Madras Waistings! Madras WaiBtings at 15, 25 and 38c per, yard. A beautiful line of New Percales m Light and Dark Patterns. u NECKWEAR Newest and up-to-date Collars, Ties and Jabots nl. I. DOVEY & 81 n Terry I'ttci-huck in City. Perry Utterback who is now lo cated in the restaurant business at South Omaha, came down Sunday for a brief visit in the city and while here made the Journal a pleasant call. Mr. Utterback is do ing very nicely in business, being lo cated at 2314 N. Street, South Om aha, where he will be glad to meet his many friends. Perry during tho time he ran the restaurant In this city, made himself an enviable re putation for excellent meals and this reputation he Is sustaining at his new location. 1'or Disease of the skin. Miurly all dlse?f.e of the skin su.:h as eczema, tetter', salt rheum and barber's Itch, are characterized by an intenso itching nnd smarting, which oftens makes life a burden and disturbs sleep and rest. Quick relief may be had by ap plying Chamberlain's Salve. It al lays the Itching and smarting al most instantly. Many eyes have been cured by Its use. For sale by F. O. Fricke & Co. Itonil tit Lincoln. Two pnrtles are said to be at work between Omaha nnd Lincoln. Cur rent report indicates that one party 1 out for tho Union Pacific and tho other Is out for tho newly organ Izen Omaha & Lincoln Interurban company. Itoth parties are north of the Platte Rover. Fremont People have heard that one party is out for the lUirllngton and that a new shortcut Is to be built between Omaha and Fremont. A report from Fremont yesterday said that one pnrty, supposed to be in the employe of the Uurllngton, was nt work fifteen miles west of Oma ha. State Journal. You will hunt a good while before you will find a preparation that Is equal to Chamberlain's Liniment as a cure for muscular and rheumatic pains, for the cure of pnins and sore ness of the muscles. It Is equally valuable for lame back and all deep seated muscular pains. 25 and CO cent sizes for oale by F. O. Frlcke & Co. Mrs. John Crablll Is spending tho day In Omaha with relatives, go ing tip this morning. To l!e Operated Upon. , John Hatt, wife nnd baby were, passengers this noon on the mall train for Omaha where the little one Is to be operated upon by Dr. afford. The baby has been 111 for tho past two weeks and his condition bns grown steadily worse until nt last the physician decided an operation was necessary. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hatt sincerely trust that the operation will prove a suc cess and that the parents may have the pleasure of seeing their little one completely well very shortly. Had n Pleasant Hirtlnlay. From Wednesday's Dally. Mrs. Kate Oliver today is cele brating her seventieth birthday be ing surrounded by the members of her family, her daughters Mrs. Eds of South Omaha, Mrs. Hallan and her little son of Lincoln and Miss Darrie Oliver being with her as well as her sister Mrs. Miller of'Omaha. The party was merely a riuiet, pleas ant little family one and had a thor oughly enjoyable day. Card of Thanks. We wish in this public manner to to express our sincere thanks to our many kind friends who have helped us in so many ways during the sick ness, death and burial of our be loved husband and father. The many beautiful flowers touch a chord of lave in our hearts which words can not express. The kindness and sympathy from the "Cigar Makers' Union" is greatly appreciated, and we pray that the Cod of the widows nnd orphans will shower rich blessings on you all. Mrs. Suffer and children. .Iiiilsilictloii IMenilctl. From Tiiemlay'H lnl!y. The Jurisdiction of Charles 11. Cnrtlldge, bridge engineer , of the Itiirllngton for the lines east of the Missouri Ulver, has been extended over the west of tho Missouri River. State Journal. Clans Speck Changes Place. Claus Speck who has been tend ing bar for several months past for Ed. Egenberger yesterday morning resigned his position and entered the service of J. E. McDnnlel. Mr. Speck Is quite well and popularly known In the city and Is an up-to-date bartender who understands how to handle the very best of trade. Ho will make Mr. McDanlol one of tho best of men nnd In securing him, he made a good move. Mrs. William Wetenknmp was a passenger this morning for Omaha where she will spend the day. A. E. Jameson of Weeping Water spent several hours in tho city this morning coming In from Murray on the M. P. nnd departing for Omaha on his way home on the fnst mall. OTICK TO ( IM.mi'Olt In County Court, n Count v Court. i 'I1. V1.0 II1B,"r "f the cntate of John Notice In hereliy nlven Hint the cred itor of vahl etute u meet tho executor of until mtnte. before me. J. """'V Jukp "f 'n"" County. Nehrn. ka, nt tho lountv Court room In I'lntta nioutli. In unlit i'iiiii.iv .... ii, .iii.i. of Mnrrh. lo, nnd on the SStii tiny of entemlier. 1 tl) ( nt Irt I. ' eptemlier. 1909 endi onv for the purpoMO of preiient'- iri.-ir mum ror eximlnntlon, act ....i.ii.'iii niiu iiiiownnce. MX ItlOntllN urn nlli,U'..1 tnm t. t ...... ..... , nn itor or nulil IicphmmI to ort-nent thrlr clalinn sM one y,.nr for the excrutor of MVro"hr"lM.","t0' frWm U,e 'm dtty Wltneni my'linml nml fPn of unld County Court nt I'lntlomouth. Nehran kn, thin 1st .toy of March, 1909. l.sonl.) Allen J. rteenon, IX O. I.wyer. Vwnt J'"U"- Attorney for entnto.