MONDAY, OCT. 3, 1927.
PIATTSJfiOUTH SE5H - WEESLT JOURKAL
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M&RBOCK DEPMRTMEH
THIS WEEK!
A Car of the Very
Best Colorado
$10.75
at the Car
Farmers Elevator Co.
Murdock, Nebraska
A. C. Depner has been assisting
John Eppings in the building of a
cab for the tractor which he uses on
the road maintainer.
Mesdames W. O. Gillespie and A.
II. Ward were visiting in Lincoln on
last Saturday, they driving over to
the big city in their car.
Leo McQuire of Omaha was among
the number who were enjoying the
hunting and fishing trip of the Mur
dock boj-s in the northwest.
A. H. Oehlerking was called to
Plattsmouth last Wednesday to look
after some business matters, driving
over in his car for the occasion.
Henry Riecke and wife, from near
Alvo were visiting friends and also
were doing some shopping in Murdock
on Wednesday afternoon of last
week.
Louis Fisher of Los Angeles, Cal
ifornia, and the husband of a sister
of Mrs. A. J. Tool, was a visitor at
the Tool home for a short time during
the past week.
Matthew and Victor Thimgan. who
were home for some time, returned
to Central City where they are com
pleting their work on the school and
doing some other as well.
J. H. Buck has not been feeling
very well for some time past, he hav
ing had a fight with the summer flu,
and while he still keeps going he is
far from his usual health.
Henry Klemme. in order to have
gool seed corn and know what to de
pend on when the time comes to
plant, picked his seed corn last week
and put away an abundance of it.
In a game of baseball which was
staged between the high school team
of Eagle and that of Murdock, the
Eagle team won over the Murdock
team by the score of fourteen to two.
Edward Guilstorff shelled and de
livered his corn during the latter por
tion of last week, getting ready for
the excellent crop which he is raising
this year, and which is getting better
all the time.
John Gray and wife arrived last
Tuesday and moved Into the doctor's
office where' they are operating a
crepm station. It will be remember
er that Mr. Gray was here before and
operated a cream station for a time.
The children of L. B. Gorthy have
been feeling quite poorly and for a
time grave concern was entertained
regarding the little folks on account
of serious stomach trouble, but they
are feeling much better at this time.
L. A. Gordon and wife, of Omaha,
were visiting for the week end at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. George Utt. and
also were enjoying a visit from Diller
T'tt find wife from their home at
Havelock, who were also over for the
occasion.
La i. f.'-nday John Eppings and the
family were visiting at Plattsmouth
on last Sunday, where they went to
see the mother of Mrs. Eppings who
is quite ill following an operation of
rome time since and who was even
more poorly on Monday, but since
has been resting a little easier.
The plasterers, who began work on
the Gust Ruge new home last week,
have completed the plastering of the
upper story, and were doing the fin
ishing of some work which they had
in Greenwood, and will be on the
job again on the remainder of the
work on the Ruge home this week.
The Rev. J. V. Bandy and family of
Beaver City, where Rev. Bandy has
been the minister, were visiting for
a short time at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Tool, Mesdames Bandy and
Tool being sisters. Rev. Bandy has
been assigned the charge at Grant
where they moved during their visit
here.
John Eppings. the road riian, who
keeps the Red Ball highway in the
hfst of condition possible during the
entire year, whether it he warm or
cold, is building a cab on the truck
Furniture - Undertaking
35 years experience. Most careful
service given. Your patronage solic
ited. Phone No. 65, Elmwood, Nebr.
B. I. Clements
Good Year, U. S., and Fisk
29x4-40 $10.65
Premier Balloons, 29x4-40 9.55
Premier Cord. Reg. S0x3V2 8.00
Oood Year Fabric 30x3y2 8.50
V. S. Usco, 30x31, 7.50
S. Usco. 30x3Z 6 50
Pisk 30x3i2 Cord 6.25
Columbia Hot Shot and Dry Cell
Batteries, High Grade Gasoline and
Mobile Oils
A. H. WARD
Murdock, Nebr.
PREPARED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE JOURNAL.
in order to work In the winter time
more successfully. Lfttle we know
how much work it requires to keep
the roads in condition over which we
ride In so much comfort.
E. W. Thimgan was delivering
lumber to the home of Turner Mc
Kinnon, who ia having a hog house
constructed for his fine bunch of
swine. The place belongs to Fred H.
Gorder of Weeping Water and is a
fine farm and which he is endeavor
ing to keep in the best condition. The
material was furnished by the Tool
Lumber company of Murdock.
There has been a revival meeting
in progress during the past week at
the Callahan church southwest of
Murdock, and a good deal of interest
has been manifest notwithstanding
the fact that the roads have been
heavy and the weather very damp.
The ministers conducting the services
were the Rev. Neumanberg, the regu
lar pastor who has Just arrived, Rev.
Haiest of Elmwood, the presiding
elder. Elder Jansen. of Lincoln, and
the Rev. Reuben Stauss, of Omaha.
Most interesting meetings have been
held.
The Hunters Return.
After enjoying their annual hunt,
which carried them to Beaver Lake,
south of Valentine, the party of hunt
ers composed of II. V. McDonald and
son, Lacey, Stephen Leis, Henry A.
i Tool, A. J. Tool and Gust Gakemeier,
have returned home. They surely had
a fine time with their fishing and
; hunting as well as the general trip,
i They visited Valentine while they
were away. They had enjoyed the
trip emmensely and concluded they
must have a visit at Valentine, and
so assayed to see that flourishing
place. There the Niobrara river runs
close to the town and as all know
who have been in those parts is not
on the surface of the country but be
low. In order to reach the place they
had to descend into the valley of
the river and then up again to the
city. Many of the boys say that it
is a horrible hill, especially up which
to push a car and carry gasoline to
the said car. Ask them.
ladies Aid Society.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Mur
dock church met last week and had
their regular business meeting which
they loked after with neatness and
dispatch and following this they en
Joyed the regular social hour, and
were entertained delightfully by their
hostess of the day.
Hears of Uncle's Death
Postmaster L. B. Gorthey received
a letter from his mother early last
week telling of the death of an uncle,
Mr. Walter Gorthey, who had been
engaged in farming near North Bora
dauburn. N. Y., and who died quite
suddenly on last Saturday at the age
of 58 years. Mr. Gorthey has not
seen his uncle for a number of years.
Buried at Elmwood Cemetery
The funeral of the late Fred Zink
was held from the Methodist church
of Elmwood and was conducted by
the Masonic order of which he was
a member as well as of the church.
Many of the friends of this excellent
man were present at the funeral and
were eager to pay their last tribute
of respect to a man whom this com
munity has learned to honor and re
spect. The interment was made in
the cemetery at Elmwood, where he
will rest until the trumpet of the
Angel of the Resurrection should,
sound. This community as well as the
Methodist church and the family are
losing a valued citizen and one whom
all have learned was always working
for the very best of the community
in which he lived.
Four Square Club to Meet
The Four Square club of the Home
Economics Extension Work will hold
their first meeting October 10th from
7 to JO p. m. in the school building.
All wishing to become members are
requested to come and receive bul
letins for the work. Publicity Man-ag-r.
EATING AND SEEING
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St. Louis, Sept 30. You can't see
straight when you overeat. ,
Eating too much directly affects
! the vision, according to Cyrus F.
Blanke !
"Recent experiments in which the)
stomach was distended artificially
show that the subject became drowsy I
immediately." declared Mr. Blanke. I
"Extra effort was required to read :
ry Ihr. nt'ontinn lrie-P-e,l Vvamln-
at ion of the eyes showed their ac
commodation was reduced and the
vision impaired.
"The modern trend toward concen
trated foods is a step in the right
direction. Drinking too much is not
nearly as harmful as overeating. The
harm in drinking lies in the drink.
In tea and coffee the bad effect lies
in me caneine aim tannin, except from the inside
in the case of health and tea and i the relatively poorer commun-coffee.-
which, because of a scientific ities, with their mare fragile struc
process. is free from these poisonous tures, however, the full power of the
alkaloids. In other drinks the harm i twisting and lifting ability of the
lies in their alcoholic contest or in
some other agent.
"Besides poor eyesight, overeating
is responsible for fully half of the
other ills man is heir to. It is the
greatest single cause of disease and
death. The food?, in themselves are
doubtless everything they should be. J
The fault lies in tne quantity eaten. 1
There is no more necessary lesson to
be learned by the average man or
woman than that of proper food
habits."
FOB SALE
Canaries Three young singerE
and several females. Mrs. William
Baird, Plattsmouth, phne S10
a3-2twi
500 Hurt and
20 Missing in St
Louis Cyclone
Bodies of Five Little Girls Found in
Wreckage of School; U. S. Army
Has Taken Charge
St. Louis. Work of relief and
habilitation was well under way Fri
day night when darkness settled over
the six-square-miles area devastated
Thursday when a four-minute torna
do killed 88 persons, injured more
than 500 and damaged or destroyed
5,500 homes and business buildings.
The property loss, according to
the best estimates of experts, who
spent the day in the stricken area,
was expected to exceed the $10,
000.000 record of the tornado of
1896, when 140 persons were kill
ed in an area of 10 square miles.
Damages Set at $50,000,000
After a careful tour of the path of
devastation. Building Commissioner
Christopher placed the minimum of
damage done to property of all
kinds at $50,000,000 and declared
he believed it might reach $100,000,
000. It would take more than $100,
000.000. he said, for rehabilitation.
The first of 30 insurance adjusters
brought here from other cities esti
mated the lo.s at between $50,000,
000 and $60,000,000.
Only one body, that of a woman,
remained unidentified.
Twenty persons had been reported
missing, however.
A single inquest to cover the
deaths of all St. Louis victims was
set for Saturday morning with the
coroner's jury expected to hold a
perfunctory hearing and return a
verdict of deaths by a quirk of the
elements.
No Joint Funeral Plan.
No plans had been made for joint
funerals and since the death list was
made up of men, women and children
in comparatively widely separated
areas with no intimate contacts, it
was believed each bereaved family
would take care of its dead in individ
ual ceremonies, with Saturday and
Sunday a day of funerals and burials.
Excepting for the constant conver
sations everywhere about the slowly
mounting death list, downtown St.
Louis virtually was without a re
minder of the death and desolation
within three miles of the business
district. Employes' ranks in many
concerns were thinned as men re
mained at home to dig in the debris
for possessions or to make hasty re
pairs to roofs, doors and windows
against the forecast of rain. Other
wise business went along virtually as
usual.
The situation seemed far different
from that of a smaller community
struck by a tornado with a result
ant similar loss of life. When Mur
physboro, 111., was devasted two and
one-half years ago the entire com
munity of 13.000 souls was numbed
for days. In the immense area of St.
Louis the havoc of the four minutes
of fury seemed tnnave been lost ex
cepting in the regions immediately
Effected.
Scene of Horror.
The devastated region, however,
was a scene of horror and at the
same time of intense activity Friday.
Traffic into many quarters of it con
tinued to be blocked off while res
cue parties dug in the ruins, a maze
of fallen bricks and tangled power
wires and uprooted trees.
From Lindell boulevard, a street
of tall apartment houses and fine
homes, the tornado hopped some
eight blocks to Vandeventer Place,
formerly the most exclusive residence
center of St. Louis, and thence three
blocks to Cook, the center of a large
district devoted to homes for negroes.
In the central west end. the area
tof chaos extended between Sarah
j street and Newstead avenue, north
from Forest Park avenue, across La
icede avenue, west Pine and Lindell
boulevard, widening north of Oliver
street and reaching Grand boulevard
near Vandeventer. Sarah street con-
tinned to be a street of heavy damage
as far north as Easton avenue. Near
Fairground park the trend toward
Mississippi river became more di-
Low Air Pressure Causes Damage
f all the damage done, by far
thp Created seemed to have occurred
not h the unmeasured twisting and
I'uwci ui I lie IUI nauo lisen.
but by the explosions of air inside
buildings themselves as the twister
passed and created an outside vacuum
into which the Inner air rushed.
Along lindell boulevard from Nos.
4000 to 4400. studry brick and stone
structures exhibited entire walls gone
irom pressure inside, while in some
instances Jagged holes were torn as
if a m5ghty shell had been fired thru
tornado was vented. Flimsy stuc
tures existed no more excepting a3
broken and twisted piles or debris.
There were pitiful scenes as house
wives, bent as the gleaners, fumbled
in the remains of their little homes,
or, a full day's labor of tidying up
done, sat disconsolate on front door-
steps, pictures of utter dejection
amidst the wreckage
Find Five Bodies.
Possibly the saddest story of the
wrath of the elements was revealed
when rescuers delving in the debris
of the hugh Culral High 6chool on
Grand avey.ue, just about opposite
Vandever.ter Place, found the bodies
of five little girls. Some of them
I were pinned down by eteel beams, and
after hours of digging, acetylene
T.
torches had to be used before the
bodies could be released.
When the school was struck, hun
dreds of children were endangered
but only five lives were lost, and 18
children injured. Seven school build
ings, with 6,500 pupils, were In the
tornado's path.
Throuhout the vast area of deso
lation, sightseers thronged, viewing
the damage and watching the victims
work to restore order. Streets, already
narrowed by fallen walls, uprooted
trees, poles and twisted wires, were
clogged by the visitors' automobiles.
Finally they were denounced by Chief
of Police Gerk, as "sightseeing man
iacs," and ordered to remairf out of
the district. Omaha Bee-News.
Prison Residents
of Nation Show
Marked Increase
Thirty-One States of the Country
Shows Twenty-Eight Per
Cent Increase.
Washington, Sept. 28. The de
partment of commerce makes the fol
lowing preliminary announcement of
the results of the census of state
prisons and reformatories for 192G.
Complete returns have been receiv
ed from 31 states, covering 58 out
of a total of 09 prisons and reform
atories which are included in the
census. These 5S institutions had a
total of 27,018 prisoners received
frnm the courts durinsr the vear 1926.
as compared with 21,054 in liT23, or
an increase of 28.3 per cent.
For the 31 states represented
there were 34.1 prisoners received
per 100,000 of the general popula
tion, as compared with luO.OOO re
ceived in 1923. In other words, the
number of prison admissions has in
creased much more rapidly than the
general population.
In comparing the figures for in
dividual states, it is noted that the
number of prisoners committed an
nually to the prisons and reforma
tories in a given state is affected
not only by the prevalence of crime
in the state, but also by such fac
tors as the character and effective
ness of the local policies and ma
chinery for law enforcement. Where
a state shows a large increase in the
number of admissions, or in the num
ber of prisoners in confinement at a
given time, such increase may repres
ent an increase in the severity of
the penalties imposed by the local
courts, or in the percentage of of
fenders who are arrested and impris
oned, rather than an increase in
crime.
Tht extent of the state penal in
stitutions in each state is measured
approximately by the number of
prisoners present on a given date. In
the 31 states covered by this r-tate-ment,
there has been a steady in
crease in the nun. her of prisoners in
state prisons and reformatories, ar
indicated by the figures for the dates
at the beginning of the three most
recent years for which data are avail
able, which are as follows: January
1. 1923, 47.57S; January 1, 1920:
59.692; and January 1, 1927. G3.S2S.
The number of prisoners in ccngno
ment per 100,000 of the general
population, increased from 66.6 on
Panuary 1. 1923, to 84.1 on Janu
ary 1. 1927. For the most part, also,
the figures for the individual stater
show striking increases.
OUR COUNTRY GIVES
CREDIT WHERE DUE
The recent conferring of degrees
by a Middle Western university upon
a number of farmers whose work had
been of aid in the progress of agricul
ture, is a salient example of American
democracy. It but shows again that
this is the one great country in the
world where a man is rewarded and
judged entirely upon his work, and
not by social and economic standards,
beyond his control. Those men being
given this honor was but little com
mented upon for the reason that it is
nothing unusual; the people realize
it is natural that anyone who dis
tinguishes himself in any way will
cret credit for it. In Europe, on the
contrary, should anything like thisj
happen, it would be so unprecedented .
as to be a sensation. That ia one of
the reasons for the immense differ
ence in progrcssiveness between the
two continents.
There can be no danger of radical
ism or any other "ism" where democ
racy prevails. It is impossible to
make a malcontent of a person who
knows there is nothing that will op
pose him should he have sufficient ;
ability to become a great business
man, statesman or anything else.
Perfectly contented people won't
trouble themselves to follow highly
dubious theories of "what might be
done."
MINISTER HURT IN
AUTO
ACCIDENT
Walthill, Sept. 25. One person
was seriously injured and three oth
ers suffered minor cuts and bruises;
when two. automobiles, collided on a
narrow bridge north of Walthill late
Friday.
TA; FORCLQSURE. CASE,
From "Wednesday's Dally ' -
An action has been filed in the
district court on a tax foreclosure
lien in which Joseph Spence is the
plaintiff and Francis J. Ingram and
James Ingram et al. are tb,e defend
ants. The actica covers real estate
ia the vicinity of Louisville.
Two Bandits
Get $3,700 from
Hordville Bank
Milf ord and McCool Institutions Loot
ed of $11,000 Tuesday Night;
Holdups Disguised.
Two men, appearing to be about
30 years old, both armed and both
wearing whiskers, held up the presi
dent, cashier and three customers of
i the First State bank of Hordville.
I Hamilton county, 20 miles north of
I Aurora, the county seat, and robbed
jthe bank of $3,700 at 4 p. m. Wed
nesday.
The holdup followed two bank
robberies Tuesday night, when
cracksmen obtained nearly $11,000
from the safes of the Nebraska State
bank at Milford and the Blue River
Valley bank of McCool.
The two men who entered the
Hordville bank and lined the five
men, R. C. Gustafson, president of
the bank: Roy McPherson, cashier;
H. H. Hahn of the Federal Land
Bank system, and Louis Cohtz and
A. Refshauge of Hordville, against
the wall and told them to be quiet or
they would shoot.
Wear False Whiskers.
The shorter of the two men, who
was about five feet, six inches tall
and wore false red wriskers, then
left the other man, who was about
five feet, nine inches tall and wore
a false long flowing back mustache,
to guard the victims while he went
in search of the money.
Nothing but a few dollars remain
ed on the desk and the larger man
marched hir, charges into the vault
where Mr. Hahn handed him severa1
bags of silver. But the men were
not satisfied with that and demand
ed the money there was in the back.
It was at that moment that an
other customer stepped to the door
and saw the holdun in progress.
Falls Against Door.
He turned to run away and flip
ped, falling against the door. It was
this noise that diverted the atten
tio ncf the robbers. They grabbed
what silver and currency was in sight
and started to tie their prisoners, but
evidently believed that would take
too much time, so abandoned that
idea. Instead they closed the vault
door and leaped into their car and
sped east out of town.
Their auto was a delapidated Ford
touting car, no top, no lamps and nc
license plate.
Both men were dressed in over
alls and blue work Fhirts. But ac
cording to the victim?, their hand
were white and showed no evidencr
of the hard work their dress vouh'
indicate.
Farmer Seer. Car.
The bank officials and customers
were in the cault but 10 minutes
when Sheriff J. Howard at Aurora
20 miles away, was notified. He in
turn notiked State Sheriff Conriit a'
Lincoln. The victims also notifier"
the sheriff at Central City, 10 miler
north and wept, county peat of Mer
rick, the adjoining county.
Shortly before 4:30, a farmer liv
ing three miles east of Hordville
reported seeing a. dilapidated Ford
touring car without a top, "going east
as fast as it could go." past his home.
Sheriff Howard said he does not
believe that the men were from his
county or any of the surrounding
counties. lie sr.icl they probably were
from Omaha or Sioux City.
A ha?ty inventory rhowed that the
loot consisted "f ?b.200 in currency
and 500 in silver.
Entrance to the Milford bank evi
dently "was gained by means of a key
to one of the doors. H. P. Lipply
president. saH. Elmer Yost, cashier
discovered the robbery, when he
opened the bank. An nctelyenc
torch was used to burn a hole in the
safe.
Recall Strarger's Actions.
The safe was still warm, but war
filled with water. An alarm. cord had
been strung from the vault to a point
of vantage outside the bank, occupied
apparently by a member of the gang
who was ready to give an immediate
alarm if plans went awry. These
precautions are said to have beer
used by only one gang of robbers in
the country, and never to have ap
peared west of the Mississippi river
until the Nebraska robberies.
Actions of a stranger, who appear
ed in Milford last Friday, aroused
suspicion, and it was believed Wed
nesday that he was an advance agent
of the safe-crackers. The man ap
peared in the bank twice. He drove
r. car with Iowa license plates, and
the number was taken.
Get $10,000 at Milford.
At Milford, where the safe crack
ers succeeded in getting inside the
vault, they got more than $10,000.
but at McCool, where the matted
burglar alarms systems foiled their
efforts, they obtained but a small ,
amount. j
Whether or not Sheriff Condit be-j
lieves these two jobs were done by
the same yeggs, he-would not say.
but he did say that the Milford job
was similar to the robbery of the
State bank of Jensen last week when
more than $1,500 was stolen.
Little information could be obtain
ed from McCool because the robbers!
had cut the telephone and telegraph
wires into the city. Damage to com
munication lines was set at $300.
AFTER TRAFFIC VIOLATORS
Hastings, lieu., ocpi. ou. a i."",
months' campaign staged here;
against violators of auto traffic or-;
dinances has netted $150 in fines and
$456 in costs paid in to the court of
Police Judge Schroeder. One hund-!
red persons have been fined during
the two months, the majority of the
cases being for failure to observe
stop button regulations, but violators-cf;
speed and restricted parking
rules have also been hauled in. i
OUR BASIC INDUSTRIES
MUST HAVE LABOR
Renewal of the bitter fight waged
last winter over the proposal to apply
quota plan restrictions on immigra
tion from Canada and Latin-American
countries is looked for at the coming
session of congress.
Any drastic restriction on immigra
tion from Canada and enactment of
legislation practically prohibiting
immigration from Mexico, Central
and South America, would be a phy
ical impossibility unless we should
employ a veritable army of immigra
tion officials to patrol our borders.
Hunted Indian
Sends Message
to the Posses
Would Slay Man Whose Sister He
Attacked, and Wife Also
Hunt Continues.
Winnebago, Neb., Sept. 28. Fail
ure again mocked the efforts of
white men last night in their game
of wits with Wesley Bradford, 21-year-old
Indian slayer defying cap
ture in the jungles of Big Bear hol
low at the edge of the reservation
here.
Taking up their vigil at a lonely
road from which they could view a
deserted house where they expected
the killer to make new headquarters.
Sheriff Her Jensen and his deputy
Phil McManus, waited from midnight
until dawn for Bradford to appear.
They returned this morning, empty
handed, without having seen any
trace of the Indian.
The two men went secretly to
their "plant," at the edge of the hol
low, starting about 9 p. m. Most of
the way they were forced to proceed
on foot. It was their theory that the
bitter cold and rain last night might
force Bradford to seek shelter in the
abandoned dwelling. i
After the two have had a short j
sleep an inquest is to be held this,
morning into the death of Deputy
Sheriff William Adams Saturday, for
whose death Bradford is wanted.
Message cf Death. j
Late yesterday a sinister message;
from Bradford found its way to Sher-
iff Jensen and his po-e. I
"I'm going to kill two more." was!
the short, terse reply that came over i
the mysterious moccasin telegraph of'
the Winnebagos in response to Jen-J
sen's overtures. How, or by whom j
it was received is unknown. j
Word wrs sent by the same "moc-.
casin telegraph" to Bradford last j
night that if he surrendered he would j
receive immunity from mob violence;
and a fair trial.
It is the old Indian pa?sion for re-j
venge that burns beneath Bradford's
answer. The two he will kill, he
said, are Paul Decora, a Winnebagc
Indian, and his wife.
It was Decora's 14-year-old sister
that Bradford attacked, and for
which he was sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary. The evidence
against him was presented largely by
Decora and his wife. It was after
Bradford's conviction, and while he
was being held in jail at Pender
waiting transfer to the state peniten-!
tiary that he fled jail and killed the
deputy sheriff who pursued him
No Word, from Emissary.
Into this wilderness which is Big!
Bear hollow, went a lone Indian
Monday night, to plead with Brad
ford to return and to promise him
immunity from mob vengeance. N j
word has come from him and hir
fate is doubtful. Two theories are
advanced. One, that he has not yet
'onnd the killer and is continuing
his search, the other that he has met j
death. Bradford is armed . with c j
rifle. The nrme of this messenger
for many years a friend of Jensen j
is unrevealed. !
The presence of over a dozen heiv-j
ily armed men, standing in shady '
silent groups on unlighted Fide
streets of Winnebago last night, all
of them strangers to this little In-1
dion agency town, increased the nor-;
vous tension that has gripped citi !
sens during the man-hunt that has
irone on almost unceasingly here for:
Bradford. I
Thef-e men began dr'fting into!
town by twos and throe in aitomo-;
biles at dusk. The cars were prM'ked
on the edge of the town. Sheriff
IIt Jensen, conducting the man
hunt, was "too busy to talk." brt .
it is believed the men were sent in
here to alignment the r-osr.". 1
The? sheriff is convinced that the(
Indian passion for. revenre mikrr:
useless any further attempts to per
suade Bradford to come in until he
is brought in, or until Decora is dead
Decor?. Is UncFraid. j
Decora appeared in Winnebagc
Tuesday afternoon and was told of
the word Bradford had sent in, that
he was going to kill him and his
wife. TheIndian was unarmed, and
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declared he had whipped Bradford
once and was unafraid.
Many other people are armed
however, and nervous. No one laugh
ed when Douglas Whlteomb, local at
torney, rushed from his office in ter
ror and summoned the sheriff to his
aid. A white man with whom Whit
comb had had an argument recently
had entered Whiteomb's office. Whit
comb saw a gun bulging from his
belt, and without saying a word
bolted to the street. When the of
ficers went to his office to question
the man they found he was there for
a friendly call, but was armed be
came he was afraid of Bradford on
hir, trip to town. Whiteomb's panic
represents the high nervous tension
of everyone here.
State Trappers
Making Millions
Five Thousand in Nebraska Including
Professionals and Ranchers
Who Add to Profits
Nebraska trappers add to their
incomes by nearly $1,000,000 every
year, according to the figures of State
Game Warden O'Connell. A recently
completed survey of the fur industry
in the state shows that thousands of
pelts are marketed annually.
Few professional trrpp'is, who
earn their lives solely by marketing
fur, remain In this state, Mr. O'Con
nell said. However, on the ranches
of northern Nebraska, where streams
are suitable, trappers do a thriving
business in the winter time. Owners
of the land lease trapping rights for
the season where fur bearing animals
are particularly profitable. In all
there are about 5.000 trappers in
the state, according to reports of the
licen-e department, many of whom
are school boys.
The report shows that more than
1,000 beaver weie taken in Nebras
ka last year. This year, however,
there will be no open season on the
animal which brought Nebraska
trappers nearly $20,000 in 1926-27.
The muskrat is the loader in pro
duction of fur; nearly 400.000 of
the water animals were trapped lart
year, fora total estimated revenue of
$600,000. The season opens Novem
ber 16 and lasts until March 1. Sev
enteen thousand skunk were market
ed for a total revenue of $25,000 to
Nebraska trappers.
The coyote, a predatory animal,
shows a good revenue in the produc
tion of fur. Four thousand pelts
brought nearly $40,000 last season.
During 1926 and 1927, 7,000 oppos
sums were trapped, their hides were
worth $14,000. Other furs taken in
smaller quantities were: 1,900 mink,
valued at $26,000; 1.800 raccoon,
worth $11,000; 500 badger, which
brought $20,000; 8.000 civit cats
valued at $2,500 and 500 weasel for
a total of $500.
Five hundred permits to buy furs
were issued by the state last year.
Altho this report included Only furs
shipped thru them, it is believed that
with the number of pelts sent to mail
order houses, the total value for last
season would reach at least a million
dollars.
NEW MINES SHOULD
BE ENCOURAGED
In Shoshone county, Idaho, new
mines being eleveloped spent $4.
570,514 during 1926; of which one
third was local money and the reet
from outside states.
Most of these mines will pay good
profits. The important thing, how
ever, is the confidence that a few
good mines can establish in a com
munity, and the outside money they
bring in as permanent investment.
It means profit for the investor and
for every producer within reach
the farmer, gardener, miller, trades
man and artisan.
Mining is a basic industry; as es
sential as farming or transportation
or clothing. It is to everybody's in
terest to encourage legitimate mining
pregpects. This does not n;e?n ap
proving fraud or ovcrenthusiasm
mining does not need or want that;
but the intelligent attitude of mak
ing mining an integral part of a
country's resources, on a par witli
every other industry that supports
life and brings prosperity.
ENFORCE TRAFFIC RULES
Hastings, Neb., Sept. SO. Since
the police department abandoned
moral suasion for the enforcement
of traffic rules, and besan miking
arrests, two-thirds of the cases com
ing before Police Magistrate Sell roe -der
have involved traffic violations.
Fines and costs collected in this
class of cases since July 27 total
$611. The number of arretts haa de
creased steadily in the last few
weeks.
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Bates Pock and Stationery Store,
whera you will find the complete line
at all times.
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