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RED CLOUD NEBRASKA
UNITED STATES CRITICISED BY
COLOMBIAN MINISTER.
M. W, A, INSURGENTS TO MEET
Visit of Secretary Knox Creates Seri
ous Situation Oponents of M.
W. A. Insurance Rates to
Meet at Minneapolis.
Washington. A grave diplomatic
r It tint ton between t ho I'nltcd States
mill Colombia has been prcclpltiltcd
y t ho publication of ii letter which
Sonor Pedro Nol UhpIiiii, tlio Coloin
Man minister, Iiiik written to Acting
Secretary Huntington Wilson of tho
state department, suggesting that It
might ho "InoppoituiH)" for Secretary
Knox to visit Colombia during liin pro
jccteil tour of South America. Tho
Coloinlila tnliilHter. llrst drawing at
tention to the fact that tho vIowh aro
IiIh own anil not olllclally those of his
government, seilously criticises tho
United States for not submitting to
arbitration tho differences with Coloin
lila, growing out of IIiIh government's
acquisition of tho l'nimina canal 70110
Insurgent M. W. A. to Meet.
MlnneapollH, Minn. OlllcerH of tho
national Woodmen assembly recently
organized hero to protest against tho
bo called .Mobile bill adopted at tho re
cent meeting of the Modern Woodmen
of America, aro hastening preparations
for tho "insurgent" convention which
is to bo held here on Washington's
birthday, February 1!2. According to
Dan H. Ulchtor, ono of tho local
members of tho Insurgent faction, tho
meeting will last several days. Ac
cording to tho leaders or tho faction,
action will bo taken at tho meeting
either to compel tho withdrawal by
the Woodmen heads or tho Mobllo
bill, which they declare makes tho
rates too high, to have tho courts net
on the measure or to form a separate
Drgaulutlon,
In Memory of the Maine.
Now York. The cornerstone of tho
national Maine monument wns laid
Thun-duy afternoon by Hear Admiral
"W. II. C. Lutzo, U. s, X., commandant
of tho Prooklyn navy yard, at tho
Columbus clrclo cntranco to Central
park, The monument Is designed to
commemorate tho destruction of the
battleship Malno In Havana harbor
'jurtoen years ago.
Will Fight the Amendment.
Lincoln, Neb. Tho Anti-Saloon
league has sounded tho battlecry
against "homo rule for cities," ono of
tho constitutional amendments to bo
voted upon at the coming primary and
general elections, and will dovoto
much energy from now on In tlghtlnj?
that proposed law.
Want It Changed to Monday.
Des Moines, la. Congress Is asked
to change tho presidential and con
gressional elections so they will fall
on .Mondays Instead of Tuesdays, as nt
present, in resolutions ndopted by tho
commercial travelers congress of
Iowa hero Saturday.
Stop Checker Game for Sunday.
Omaha. Hecauso It Is wrong to play
checkers on Sunday tho tournament at
tho Young Men's Christlnn association
here, wab brought to n sudden post
ponement Saturdny at tho hour of mid
night. The games wero resumed Mon
day afternoon.
Governor Aldrlch Goes West.
Lincoln. Governor Aldrlch ban
gone on a trip of Inspection through
what Is to him a hitherto unexplored
portion or his realm. He will visit tho
irrigated region or tho western por
tion of Nebraska and will be gono un
til tho last of tho week.
Pittsburg. Pa -Itnllroads In tho
Pittsburg district aro preparing for n
coal strike and largo quantities of coal
nre being stored. All companies In
tho district aro w 01 king full time till
ing contracts, much or tho coal bolng
Ktored.
Royalty o Visit Lincoln.
Lincoln, Neb All airangements
hnvo been completed by state univer
nlty authorities hero for the blt of
Count Luotow. the Uohoml.in, who
will lecturo befoio students at the con
Vocation March 1. Tho count aicom
panled by tho countess a jettnuo of
servants and several ksser lights of
toyalty, will nrrlvo lute February '")
and will bo entertahml dminK h's
stay at tho homo of Chancellor Awry
Plnchot to Support Roosevelt.
Washington. GIfford P-miim In a
Blgned stntoniont Just made public an
nounces ho has withdraw 11 i11H K'p,
jiort from Senator LnFolu iuh presi
dential candidacy mid tli.i h,. wjjj
hereafter advocato tho nomination ol
Theodoro Koosovelt,
Chicago, Commercial and othei
travelers In mass meeting hem otod
to stmt u systomatic campaign to im.
proxu hotel, railroad nnd baggage
transportation conditions throughout
tho country.
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LOOKING FOR CONFESSION BY
DYNAMITE SUSPECTS.
BANDITS TAKE VANDALIA TRAIN
District Attorney Thinks Suspects
Will Make Confessions and Ask
for Clemency Vandalla Train
Is Held Up.
Indianapolis. Intimations aro said
to have been received by tho govern
ment that homo of tho defendants In
tho dynamite conspiracy cases were
preparing to "tell all they knew." Tho
statements followed the government's
charges that 40,000 hitters and tele
grams taken from tho International
association of bridge and structural
Ironworkers showed that Frank M.
Ryan, tho president; Herbert S. Hock
In, tho second vice president, and
members of tho executive board and
business agents conducted tho dyna
mlto plots through tho mail, pointed
out "Jobs" to bo blown up and main
tained n system or destruction against
non-union Iron and steel contractu! h
Illinois Train Held Up.
Effingham, III. Train No 11, of the
Vandalla, westbound, was held up at
Liggett, Intl., four miles west of Torre
Haute, lml about !:II0 Friday night.
Tho robbers failed to obtain any plun
der, apparently through a mlBtako in
signals among tho bandits. Ab tho
train approached Liggett ono of tho
band, riding the tender, pulled tho boll
eord. Tho signal was wrong and when
tho train did not stop tho robber
climbed over tho tender and began fir
ing at tho cnglno Crew. Ono shot
knocked a cigar from tho mouth of
tho engineer, who Jumped out of tho
cab nnd escaped. It Is reported that
tho fireman waa compelled to aid the
bandits In their work. A special train
waB.sent out from Tcrro Hauto with
detectives nnd bloodhounds in re
sponse to n mcsBuge from tho operator
at Liggett.
Protests Treatment of Mormons.
121 l'aso, Texus. American Consul
fidwards, In Juarez, has protested to
Knrlquo Portillo, commanding the
rebels In tho Casus Grandca district,
against tho recent demonstration
jnado upon Mormon colonists for their
arms. Consul Kdwnrds Informed tho
rebel commander that their arms were
tho only protection tho Mormons now
huvo and they would not surrendor
them.
Free Lunch for Denver Schools.
Denver. A movement has been
started by leading educators hero to
install free 'lunch counters in tho city
schools, since a recent Investigation
by school authorities showed that
many Denver school children nre un
derred nnd nro suffering from a lack of
proper nutrition. At ono school re
ports showed llfty per cent of tho pu
pils underfed.
Favor Appointment of Nagel.
Omaha. The German-American Al
liance of Nebraska has sent a letter to
President Tnft urging tho appointment
of Secretary Georgo Nagel of the de
partment of commotio and labor to
Justice or the United States supreme
court. The letter denounces tho no
tion of tho Anti-Saloon league of Ne
braska for opposing It.
Salt Inko City. Flvo men wero
killed nnd three seriously Injured
when a locomotive drawing thrco cars
loaded with ore Jumped the track,
rolled down a hill seventy-five feet
and crashed through tho roof of the
Citizens Stato bank and tho P. Ingham
Dyo Works nt HIngham, Utah. Three
of tho men killed wero sleeping in the
dyo shop.
Denver, Col. Heprescntatlvcs of
'.ho rtate organizations of tho Woman's
Christian Temperanco union today
filed with tho secretary of stato a peti
tion containing moro than 2.1,000 sig
natures to Initiate a constitutional
amendment looking to statowldo pro
hibition. San Francisco, Cal. Fnlluro to poll
hreo per cent of the total vote of the
stato at tho general election in 1910
has deprived tho prohibition minority
nr tho right to be represented on the
ballot at the presidential primaries
to bo held next May.
El Paso, Tow American soldiers
went Into Juarez by mistake, and In
ternational trouble threatened ns a re
sult. Tho soldiers wero new men
here. A company of them nttempted
to go round from ono International
brldgo to nnother on tho Mexican
sido. They wero stopped by Mexican
guards nnd tho wholn town quickly
was In arms. Cars hnvo stopped run
Ming; no Americans can get across
.'ho river Is lined with armed Mexi
cans doing guard duty.
Says He Killed Gov. Goebel.
Ilolona, Arlc. Fatally wounded In n
duel with n bartender here, James
Gilbert, who came from Kentucky, do
elared ho wns tho man who fired tho
shot that killed Governor Goobol nt
Frankfort, Ky., In January, 1000, Gil
bert said ho had boon a momber of
tho Hargls faction, notorious In Kon
tucky feuds for two generations. Gil
bort caino to Helena threo years ago,
nnd wns mado a deputy shorlff. County
I authorities declaro ho was without
souse of physical fear.
AGAIN!
(Copyright. 1912.)
CLAIM TO HAVE AMPLE PROOF
RIGHT OF INDIAN LAND TRANS
FER QUESTIONED.
Act Will Be Rescinded at Once
Dynamite Prosecutors Making
Up Their Case China's
New President.
Washington. Doubt ns to the legal
ity of executive orders signed by The
odoro Roosevelt two days beforo ho
left tho White House has caused the
transfer back from tho forest service
to tho department of tho interior of
3,500,000 acres of Indian forest land
In California, Now Mexico and Arkan
sas. President Taft, It is thought,
will sign tho executive orders at once
reversing tho action of his predeces
sor. A dispute having arisen between
tho forest servlco nnd tho Indian
bureau as to whether the profits from
tho timber sales on tho Indian lands
which President Roosevelt's order
had made part of tho national forests,
should go to tho Indians or to the
forest service, tho question wns re
ferred to Attornoy General Wicker
sham. He decided In favor of the
Indians and in his opinion suggested
that Mr. Roosevelt's order had not
been legal.
Make Sensational Charges.
Indianapolis. Sensational and apo
clflc charges that tho dynamite con
spiracy was conducted with full
knowledge of members of the legisla
tive board of tho International Asso
ciation of nrldgo and Structural Iron
workers, including President Frank
M. Ryan; that tho whole conspiracy,
extending over years, was recorded on
paper, and that Ortle F3. McManlgal,
tho confessed dynamiter, was shirted
over tho country on missions or de
struction, ave boon made public by
District Attornoy Charles W. Miller,
who announced tho contents of nn In
dictment known aB that covering "un
consummated acts" of tho conspiracy
and It is to be the basis upon which
tho government Intends to conduct
Its prosecution.
School Children Go on Strike.
Columbus, Neb. Following tho dis
missal of Miss Ella Barrett, Instructor
of mathematics In tho Columbus high
high school, the student body went on
a strike, refusing to come back until
action was taken upon tho matter by
tho bonrd of education. Tho pupils
claimed Miss ilarrett was discharged
because of untrue charges and de
manded that the board ask for the res
ignation of Principal A. M. Vance.
Nanking, China. Tho national com
mission hns elected Yuan Shi Kal
president of tho republic and decided
tho sent of government shall be locat
ed at Nanking. A majority of the
members aro willing for tho removal
temporarily of tho capital to Poking
for convenience.
Lincoln. Albert Prince, charged
with tho murder of Deputy Warden
Davis of tho state penitentiary last
Sunday, wns arraigned in county
court Thursday afternoon, pleaded not
guilty to tho chnrgo against him,
waived preliminary hearing and wnB
bound over to the district court with
out bail.
Now York. Tho recent announce
ment that J. Plerpont Morgan would
bring a portion of his nrt collection
from London to Now York has led to
tho discovery that the financier hns
Invested a sum estimated at more than
1 00.000,000 in art treasures, consist
tig not only of paintings, statuary and
Jewels, but of collections of wide range
and enormous valuo or ceramics,
porcolaln, bronzes, reliquaries and an
tiquities of almost every foim and con
ception of eory nv.c
In the Heart of the City, Too.
New York. Twonty-llvo thousand
dollars In currency wns stolen from a
taxlcab in tho heart of tho financial
district by three hlghwn.unon who
sprang Into tho vehicle nnd overpow
ered W. F. Smith nnd Frank Wardoll,
messongers of tho Fast Rler National
hank. Both messengers wero set Ions
ly Injured, and tho robbers escaped
with tho money $1,',000 In V bills
uind $10,000 In $100 bills. Tim cur
rency whs being transported from tho
l"roduco K.xchnngo bank In tho lower
"art or tho city.
.DECLINES CHINA PREMIERSHIP
MADE SIMULTANEOUSLY ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY.
ana onao yi ueciinea cninese pre. 1
mlershlp Fifty-four Arrests of
Dynamite Suspects Made
Wednesday.
Indianapolis, Ind. Tho United
States government Wednesday arrest
ed almost all of tho fifty-four men in
dicted in tho dynamite conspiracy
cases. It took into custody within u
few hours practlcnlly tho entire of
ficial staff or the International Associ
ation or Uridgo nnd Structural Iron
workers, including chler ollicers, mem
bers of tho executive board and about
twenty business agents and former
business agents. These include Frank
M. Ryan, tho president; John T. Hut
ler of Buffalo, N. Y., tho first vice
president; Herbert S. Hocking, the
second vice-president, and successor of
J. J. McNamara as secretary-treasurer,
and each of these men wus required to
glvo $10,000 bond for his appearanco
for arraignment hero with all tho
other defendants on March 12. Moro
than forty of tho men, chiefly labor
union ofllcinls, who aro charged with
conspiring to destroy by dynnmito or
nitroglycerine tho property of employ
ers of non-union labor, wero tinder ar
rest by night, and It was declared the
apprehension of all tho others would
bo accomplished within forty-eight
hours.
"Bllllkln" Vindicates Himself.
Kansas City. Illlllken. tho god of
things nB they ought to be, has vindi
cated himself and In tho rolo of Cupid
has brought good fortune to his orig
inator, Miss Florenco Petz of Kansas
City. Miss Petz Wednesday was mar
ried to Robert Smalley, a motor car
dealer of Lincoln, Neb. Miss Petz got
tho Inspiration for Uilllken in 190C,
while sho was a teacher at tho man
ual training high school hero. Whllo
looking at a friend's collection of pen
sive idols sho decided to fashion a
god who would smile and bring to his
worshippers cheer Instead of gloom.
Tho famo of tho god Ijbb spread
throughout tho country. Although sho
croatcd tho Idol, Miss Petz received
but little money from Its salo, being
enmeshed in a mass of legal techni
calities. Doesn't Want to Be Premier.
London. Tang Shao Yi has declined
tho proffered premiership, according
to a Shanghai dispatch. All the par
ties in China, however, aro insistent,
and it is believed ho will eventually
accept tho ofllce. According to anoth
er dispatch to a news agency here, Dr.
Sun Yau Set has resigned his presi
dency in favor of Yuan Shi Kal.
St, Louis. Former Governor Joseph
W. Folk has asked friends In Nebras
ka not to consider him as a presiden
tial cundidato, declaring ho Is pledged
to Speaker Champ Clark. Ho says in
a telegram: "I appreciate your friend
ly Interest, but as I am not a candl
dato'for president nnd am pledged to
Mr. Clark, I must declluo to have my
name considered, and ask you to with
draw tho petition."
Makes Forty-eighth Star.
Phoenix, Ariz. With western
aim-
pllclty, known elsowhoro in matters of
ficial as "Jen'crsonlan," Geo: go W. P.
Hunt was inaugurated ns tho llrst gov
ernor of Arbona Wednesday. A fow
hours earlier In tho day word id
como by telegraph from Washington
that President Taft had signed tho
proclamation ndmltting Arizona to tho
union, tho last of the territories or
contiguous soil, and tho forty-elghtr
state.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Georgo F.
Davis, United States consul at Celba,
was drowned Tuesday whllo bathing
Ho attempted to swim to a bnr in tho
mouth or tho river, but was overcome,
Tho body wns recovered, Georgo W.
Davis was a native or Missouri and
was nominated to bo consul nt Colba
In August, 1011.
Washington. Tho democratic chem
leal tariff bill, mado public Tuesday
by tho ways and means commlttoo ol
tho house. Is expected to Increnso thft
government's reveuues by $3,530,840
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
Osmond now boasts electric street
lights
Pender will install a steam heating
plant In the new school building.
Pender baseball fans are making
srrangoments for an Interesting soa
on. Mary Meyers fell on an Icy walk at
Nebraska City and has brotfght suit
for $1,055.
Will H. Kline of University Place
nas boon awarded tho Allls scholar
hip at Yale.
Carl Hahn, a former Fremont
young man, is a candidate for gov
jrnor or Idaho.
A mon and religion forward move
ment organisation has been estab
'Ished at Bonnet.
Arrangements aro being completed
for holding a farmers' Instltuto at
Bancroft on February 21 and 22
Mrs. James McKee of Falrbury was
painfully scalded by tho overturning
of a kettle of boiling water on her
arm.
Two tramps broko Into Maple Grove
school house, south of York, Fiiday
night, wero nrrested and fined fGC
each,
O. 12. Elder of North Platto has do
cllned to run as 11 candldato for presl
dentlal elector on the LaFollett
ticket.
Dr. W. II. Crutcher of Palmer hat
?ono to Kankakee, 111., where ho will
serve as house physician in the stat
hospital.
In an effort to clean off the Fro
mont Y. M. C. A. Indebtedness n com
mltto is at work. Over $1,(100 hai
been raised.
Tho annual stag danco, a big event
In tho school year, was held in tin
Doano college gymnasium nt Creu
Tuesday night.
Prof. W. C. Green has been ro
elected superintendent of the Clnrkt
public school. This Is his fourth yeai
In that position.
A rumor to the effect that one 01
moreases of smallpox had been ro
ported at Kenesaw Is denied by Ken
esaw physicians.
Mayor Wolz has served notice on
danco hall owners at Fremont that
they must "cut out" the "turkey trot'
nnd "moonlight" dances.
Two red foxes wero bagged on Fro
mont island in the Platte river by six
young farmers from Saunders county
who were out on a wolf hunt.
Some valuable horsoB have been lost
in the neighborhood of Brownvillo. It
Is thought from eating cornstalks
which had not matured when the hard
frost came.
Noah Lyons of Unadllla. whllo cut
ting hedge cut a gash in tho back ol
his head with hla ax, savoring an
nrtory. He was In a serious condition
for a time from tho loss of blood, but
Is recovering.
Members of tho Biblo study com
mlttees of tho Fremont Men nnd Ro
Hgion Forward Movement had a ban
quet nt tho Y. M. C. A. Monday even
ing and later listened to after-dlnnc'i
talki on biblical topics.
A currow petition providing thai
children under 1 1 years of age be
kept off the streets artor 0 o'clock at
night unaccompanied by a parent,
parents or guardian, has been pro
sented to tho York city council.
An Indoor track meet will bo held
by tho Young Men's Christian assocla
tlon at Fremont during the llrst week
in March. The list or events will in
elude polo ault, shot put, twenty-yard
dash, potato race, broad jump and hlgt
Jump.
Tiie Lexington muslcalo rendered at
attractlvo comic opera entitled "Th
Puritans" to a crowded audience it
the opera houso Thursday evening
The fifty-seven charactera wert
dressed in full costumes especially
procured for the occasion.
The epidemic of hog cholera that
prevailed in Jefferson county last fall
which destroyed so many tine herds
of hogs, is almost extinct. Tho dis
ease prevailed in the early winter and
many farmors In the vicinity of Falr
bury lost every hog they had.
Tho West Point camp of the Cuming
county Deutsches Landwehr Vereln,
an organization of a semi-military
character composed of veterans of tho
Franco-Prussian war, has a member
ship of nearly 100, 1b steadily growing
and 1b in a flourishing financial con
iltion.
The board of trustees of the new
Odd Fellows' home ln York have
planned to put in walks, lay out the
grounds for the planting of trees and
ihrubbery, put In. driveways on the
tppronch to tho building nnd many
thor improvements to add to the
scauty or tho building and its sur
roundings. Enrollment in tho Fremont public
ichools hns reached 1,8811. which Is a
new record, or these, 200 aro en
rolled In tho high school.
Seven-year-old Margaret Ulrlch of
Hooper was so badly bitten by a
vicious dog that soven stitches wero
required to close tho wounds on her
'.ace.
The Central City school board Ib
considering tho submission of a bond
proposition for the erection of a now,
nodorn high school. AH tho schools
ro very crowded at tho present time.
Burwell hns Just organized a com
nerclal club with nn Initial membor
ship of nearly fifty
A total of G20 Individuals comprised
tho numbor of tho destltuto cared for
by tho Lincoln charity organization
luring tho month of January.
Tho two-year-old son of Nell Ken
nedy, at Plattsmouth, was badly
turned when ho foil ngalnst a hot
tovo, setting his clothing on fire,
Ernest L. Putnam of Gothenburg hnd
1 pitchfork accidentally thrust
'hrough his templo by his brother, and
lied aB a result. He was sixteen years
ld.
HAD THROAT
TROUBLE SINGE
CHILDHOOD
All Trtitments Failed, telimd
by Pemni.
Mrs. Wm. Hon
mann, 2704 Llncfitt
Ave., Chicago, III.,
writes:
"1 suffered with
catnrrh of the bron
chinl tubes nnd had)
a terrible cough cvs
since a child,
"I would cit up in
bed with pi 11 owe
propped up behind
-no, but still the
:ottgh would not let
lie bleep, I thought
nnd everybody else
that I had coneump
tint ". rending the
papers about Pa
rana I decided to
try, without the
least hit of hope that
it would do nie any
good. Hut nfter tak
ing three bottles I
tint iced a change.
Mv appetite got
l...n u. f Lnnf rn
Mrs. Hohmann. necr discouraged.
Finallv I teemed not to cough so much
and the pains in mv chest got better
end 1 could lest nt night.
"I am well now nnd cured of n chroma
cough mill core throat. I cannot tell
voit how grateful 1 nin, nnd I cannot
thank Pel una enough. It hn cured
where doctors hnvo failed nnd I. tails
Pei mm wherever I go, iccoinmend it tO
evcrjbody. Pcoplo who think they
have consumption better fita it S
trial."
Rl licit Couch Hjrrup. Tutrt (lowl. U
M In Urn. Bold br I)mjliU.
NO COMPLAINT.
Tho Jay Uy Heck! It'd certainly
hurt a feller to fall off thet 27-story
building.
Tho Guide Well, do last guy wot
did It never complained none.
Domestic Difficulties.
Husband What's the matter, dcarT
Why do you look so worried?
Wlfo Oh, I've Just got everything
all ready for Mrs. Neatlclgh's visit
1'vo done up nil tho curtains and
pillow shams and bureau covers and
centerpieces, and they're all spick and
span.
1 Husband Well, if everything is in
such npplo plo order why look so dis
consolate about it?
I Wiro (bursting into tears) Oh, I
Just know, as soon as sho sees them,
she'll know I cleaned everything all up
because sho was coming! Judge.
All Fresco.
"Why does that old maid use
BO
much paint on her face?"
"She'B making up for lost time."
Brooklyn LUo.
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