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THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOURNAL PART ONE , ] X'OU1 < XL1C , NEBRASKA , FRIDAY , , ) UNI' ] 10 , JJKKJ. PAGES 1 TO 8 , Norfolk May Be Given a Chance to Ride on Street Cars. TO RUN FROM SOUTH NORFOLK. > About Twenty Prominent Business Men arc In the Scheme to Put the ri System In Power From Electric Light Station. [ From Saturday's Dally. ] Along with the scores of other impor tant improvements whicn have iuvmlod Norfolk this spring , nml which would bo iti uo way insignificant us compared with the building of the federal building , / < the reconstruotiou of the insane hospi- , tnl , the Inauguration of now mid mammoth switching yards and railroad shops by the Northwester a company , is the prospect that Norfolk may now have an elootrio street railway system. The now proposed line comes in con nection , largely , with other improve ments in the cltvr It will rnn from South Norfolk , at the Northwestern station , to the up-town district , cover ing the principal business portion of the city. It is likely that the track will start at the Oxnard hotel , running went in Nor folk avenue to Fifth street. Turning south at Fifth , the rails will run several blocks , when it will swing into Fourth and continue south to Omaha avenue , where it takes a jog east to First street and the Northwestern depot. About twenty of Noifolk's most pro gressive business men are interested in the project , each to put in a sum of $1,000. It is considered that the power could be easily obtained from the electric light station , and this would at the same time bring an all day and all night electric light service. The scheme is prompted largely by the fact that the now railroad shops at the Northwestern yards will bring many now people into the city , and that Norfolk is now made a permanent junction. Norfolk at one time had a street railway - way system , in the shape uf horse cars which ran along Norfolk avenue and east on First street to the Northwestern depot. After the city's "boom" days were over , the line lost and it was torn out. Another electric line ran from ITonrth street to the sugar factory , but it was discontinued several years ago. There has long been need of a line be tween the city and South Norfolk , and it is to be hoped that the now scheme will bo carried through. BOYHOOD'S ' DELIGHT , "The Old Swimming Hole" of the Norfolk Youth. [ From Saturday's Dally. ] Should you any sunny afternoon see a barefooted boy hurrying down the alley and across lots whistling shrilly and holding up two fingers , the signifi cance of the sign will require no elucida tion. To older folks it br'ugs back memories of the old swimming hole under the maple or cottouwood or beech tree memories of other days , of the Eden of youth to which we can never again return , for over its gates stands the flaming cherubiu that never more on the shores of Time may we return thither again. To make those memories more vivid nnd intensify the impressions of that far away swimming hole of the long ago , go down the Union Pacific rail road beyond where the track crosses Thirteenth street. There is a low swale there , bridged by a long , low culvert , which iti dry seasons is but an ephemeral water course , depending on the showers which fall at intervales on the meadow-it drains to furnish even a suggestion of a running stream , but the present season it is a broad pond , six feet deep , supplied by a stream of con siderable volume that comes from away up the valley trickling over the grass roots of the snnkissed meadows and gathering into its embrace , here and there , little rills that come down from the sunny hillsides. This is rain water , warm , soft and clear , and charged with the ozone of June zophors and per fumed with the odors of herbs and liowers and grasses through which it has filtered in its journey adown the meadows. This is the Mecca of the barefooted boy hurrying down the alloy , and any afternoon you can see a score or two of them disporting in the warm , limpid water of the pond under the culvert beyond the Thirteenth street crossing. TOUlAliJTAFFAIRS. Special Prizes Have Been Received. Royal Tiger Club to Organize. [ From Saturday's Dally. ] Secretary HcFarland of the firemen's tournament has been receiving some valuable contributions to the prizes of * fored for the races from various fire men's supply houses. He has just received from the Fire Extinguisher company of Chicago a line nickel plated fireman's lantern , valued at $35 , and made especially for the purpose. It will be one of the hand some gifts at the disposal of the com mittee through the generosity of the company. Another valuable prize will be the flexible play nozzle on exhibition in the window of President Hartford's shop. This is likewise valued at $25 and is the gift of the New York Belting and Pock ing company. A half dozen handsomely nickel- plated signal apt. . . ,1th a whiatlo like a scalion , will bo ou 4r prizes. Tlioy are from the Chicago Flro HOBO com pany and will bo appreciated by the winners. In addition to those which are slilo prizes , the committee will give $1,455 in cash to winning teams and contestants. The local Royal Tiger Club , which will bo an auxiliary attraction at the tournament , will begin initiating mem bers Tuesday evening of next wook. The team for the work linn bean organ ized und drilled , nnd those who hnvo soon It work pronounce It first class In every particular and there v 111 bo a social membership. The scenery and costumes Uflod In the woik will bo some thing now and unique. The work of constructing the floats will begin early next week Fred II. Wallingford , a half-brothor of Ohlof Promoter Payne will bo hero at that time from Kansas Oity , to assist in the work and it will bo inshod to comple tion. Mr. Wallingford is an export at paplor macho and staff work. Ho was expected sooner , but has boon delayed by the floods. FROM THE CITY OF THE KAW , Mr. Bundick Returns From a Two Week's Stay In Flooded Place. [ From Monday's Dally. ] Manager J. 'N. Bundick , of the Amer ican Boot Sugar company , returned last night from a two weeks' trip to Kansas City , where ho was called by the flood situation on account of the precarious condition iu which a great deal of the company's stock was loft by the water. Mr. Bundick vividly tolls of the terrible condition of the city , and of mauv ex citing and critically dangerous ex periences that ho went through. Ho was sent to Kansas Oity to save several thousand bags of sugar that were stored iu a warehouse. Mauy of the sacks hud already gene into the flood. The build ing was twisted and wrenched out of shape , and expected to fall at any moment. The bags of sugar were res cued from some portions by moans of long hooks and by men who were let down into the dangerous portions , from above , with ropes tied around their waists for security. In order to got about the city Mr. Bnudlok had to carry a pass from the chief of polico. Ho brought homo a bottle of the water which is being nsed for the face and hands , and it is nearly black with the mud mixed in It. It Is pumped directly from the rivor. The streets are fil'ed ' with debris of all sorts , with dead animals heaped underneath in many cases. "The newspapers have not half told of the disaster , " said Mr. Buudick. It took twenty-six hours to get into Omaha and to cap the climax , Carrie Nation was on the car , with her hatchet aud a lecture that kept the passengers awake until midnight. THE HQRSE'GOT WELL A Case of the Fatality of Chance and the Liveryman Won. [ From Saturday's Dally. ] Not many weeks ago a farmer drove ute town with a handsome team of bay lorses aud stabled at the Krantz barns. Mr. Krantz had offered a great big sum of money for the two animals frequently Mforo , but had been unable to make a bargain. On this day one of the travel ers became ill and dropped in its stall. At night the farmer came in , gave up lope of the steed's recovery and left it to die. "I'll give yon the horse , " ho said , "to pay its livery Will. " "Done , " said the liveryman , and the tiorse was his. Morning came and the animal grow strong again. Days passed and it grew well and today the handsome fellow was shod and Is on the street , as proud and vigorous as a 2-year-old. It was simply a case of the futility of chance with chance against futility. BEGIN NEW LINE MONDAY. Telephone Company Connects Nor folk With the Bonesteel Land. [ From Saturday'a , Dally. ] A largo gang of telephone linemen are now in the city improving all of the lines in and about Norfolk , which were Injured by the blizzard in April. On Monday morning the crowd will begin the stringing of a wire , to go through directly with no stop-overs , to Oroigh ton. This will make a dozen tolls out of Norfolk and will connect the entire Bonesteel territory with the Sugar Oity. This is done because the telephouo com pauy appreciates the fact that Norfolk is the gateway to the wheat fields to the country north for many hundreds of miles , and because they know that all business in that section hinges on this city like a pivot. BAD RUNAWAY MANGLES TEAM , Pair of Horses Belonging to L. C. Hepperly Were Hurt. [ From Saturday's Dally. ] A furious runaway that tore into shreds the flesh on the breasts of a team of great , handsome horses , occurred early this morning in east Norfolk avenue. The animals belonged to L. O. Hopperly and were loft standing at the Sugar Oity Cereal mills. They became frightened , started suddenly aud ran several blocks , when they stopped short in a barb wire fence that had boon strung along the road during high water. Badly bleeding , the runners were token to a veto rinary surgeon and cared for. It is claimed that the fence was within the corporation , and there fore against the law. New Features Added to the Progress of Norfolk. MUCH MONEY IS BEINQ SPENT. Daily News Will Build an Addition , Add n Now Engine , Install Morgen- thaler Linotype Type-Sotting Ma- cliino and Two Presses. [ Fiom Monday's Dully. ] This morning marks the beginning of another era of improvement In Norfolk , and the contlnnod progress along pro jects already begun. With the two jovornment bulldlngfl , cooling $100MO each , the expenditure of between $100.- 000 and $200,000 iu the Northwestern rards , a prospective elootrio line nnd other improvements that will moan many thousands of dollarn , Norfolk seems to got farther along every day than it has in years during the last decade. Northwestern Yards. On their 220 Acres of recently ao- qnlred laud at South Norfolk , the Northwestern railroad company is progressing rapidly with the work of constructing their entire now freight yards. Twenty-two teams of horses are kept constantly going to do the grading and a half hundred men are re quired to Imudlo them. The hole for the now 70-foot turntable was finished ; oday. The table rests on a ilatoar at ho sugar factory tracks just now. The ittlo ditch which has for many years drained Corporation gulch into the Elk- ' ioro , is now causing nu immense amount of trouble. The trouoh which ias been required for a tiny stream of water will make the railroad construct nine bridges across it for their tracks. The buildings owned by James Grey , standing on the territory to bo tracked , wore started moving today. The Daily News. Among other improvements in Nor folk this season is ouo which began this morning and which will mean the ex penditure of several thousand dollars. This is in Tun DAILY NEWS. This morning contractors began the erection of an addition to the building , at the east end , a now gasoline engine was added to the motive power of'the plant and within a couple of weeks a now Linotype , Mergeuthalor typo-sotting machine , just finished at the factory , will be installed in the composing room. Two now largo presses , ouo for the newspaper printing and the other for book work , posters and other large job work , will nlso bo added to the priutery. Federal Building , A white rim of granite walls is beginning - ginning to loom up above the brick foundation on the federal building and from present prospects everything will bo in tip top shape for the laying of the corner stone on Thursday afternoon. From reports that are coming in from nearly every lodge of Masons in the northeastern part of the state , there will be an immense number of people in the city for the ceremonies. News papers of nearly every town within fifty miles of this city state that largo dele gations of local men are planning to go to Norfolk Thursday for the exorcises. Electric Railway. In speaking of the proposed electrio line between Norfolk and South Nor folk this morning , a prominent business man said : "I hope they will make the line a go. It would certainly bo a pay ing proposition , and would be an enor mous benefit to the city. While they were stringing the line , it seems to mo that it might bo run into the western part of the city and down Madison avenue , within a block of the two big hotels and directly past the government building. " Oxnard Hotel. The work of remodelling the Oxuard hotel began this morning , and people nt the hotel are busy. Carpenters have begun to tear out the skylight from the fourth floor , above the office , and will lower it to the second so that all rooms above It , in the court , will hereafter bo outside rooms and have open air at the windows. New Telephone Lino. A gang of telephone linemen began this morning to lay a copper wire be tween this city and Oroighton. This is the line that goes straight through , with no stations intermediate , and makes the even dozen tolls out of this exchange center , for the Nebraska com pany. Hospital For the Insane. The reconstruction of the insane hos pital is another assured fact and the architect is now working over plans for the new institution into which the state will put 1100,000. Cereal Mills. The Sugar City Cereal mills have recently cently ( thrown up a great dike along the east side of their mill race , to pro tect their interests from high water in the future. Even a Dog Fight Was Good. [ From Saturday's Dally. ] They were a fierce pair to draw to and they hold the boards in an exciting mill at the corner of Fourth street one Norfolk avenue lust evening , until the police drew them apart. They were not arrested , One of them was a stocky ball dog and the other a shepherd , reared on the farm , The shepherd mink IIH | tenth Into the bull pup'H Jaw , until blood of the canine appeared and jtiRt about then an ollloor of the law happened along and it wan nil oil' . After the biUtlo the bull dog acted groggy , HB though another round would have put him to the ropcH , but Shop wont uway mulling like Robert FitzltmnoiiB , him self , the day hlx wlfo called out , "Hat 'im in the alatH , Hob I" ARRANGEMENTS ARE COMPLETE , Everything Will bo Ready ( or the Visiting Machinists. [ Fiom HiUimliiy'n Dally ] A ninsmigo wim mint thin morning to the Sioux City Hhnpinou who are plan ning to hold a big picniu in this city next Saturday , that ouougli motioy has boon riiisod among hUHinrs * mini of Nor- fold to put up prizes for their Hportlng events and fluid day exordium , and that early next week everything will bo placed in readiness at Edgowator park to glvo the visitors a hearty welcome , and to make thorn want to come again right soon. Last evening a nuni of money was raised by Charles Hico , who in in ohargo of the local arrangmnontR , and it IB now an annum ! fant that the thounand people will como. The base ball park will befitted fitted for the vrlons events , such an sack races and the like , and at the park an immense platform will bo built , to gether with hundreds of seats. Dozens of fish poles will bo provided for the gueata , so that there may bo variations In their outing. The shopmen wrote today that they have a first-claim base ball team , the "Josephine Gloves , " to accompany the excursion providing Norfolk will raise a iiaiu and give thorn a game. W. W. loberts , formerly manager of one of Norfolk's crack teams , has expressed a villingness to accommodate the visitors vith a game and is now after the nocos- ary material. Ho hopes to soouro hicklou , one of the swift twirlers of ist season , and is after other men the qual of "Buck" in n reputation on the iamoud , so that a swift and exciting amo will result. They will arrive a week from today , n a special train of ton coaches. BIG CROWD IS DOMING. Eight Hundred Tickets Have Boon Sold for Shopmen's Excursion. [ From Tuesday's Dally. ] Charles Rico yesterday received word hat 800 tickets have already boon solder or the picnic excursion of the railroad hopmon to this city on Saturday , and hero are prospects that many moro ickots will bo hold before the day of ho outing arrives , so that it is likely hat when the special train rolls Into Norfolk on Saturday morning It will consist of twelve or fourteen coaches ull of pcoplo bout on spending an on- oyablo outing in the beautiful grove near this city. The train will be provided by the Omaha road which employs the men of ho party and the ohargo for the tickets a therefore intended to bo just buHiciont o pay the engine men and the train crew and cover the other expenses inci dental to the trip. The local arrangements for the picnic are progressing satisfactorily under the uporvision of Mr. Rico nnd everything gives promise of a pleasurable day's va cation for the shopmen and their fain- lies. BOGHE'S ' TRIAL TODAY. Man Charged With Illegal Fishing Is Being Tried at Warnerville. [ From Monday's Dally. ] The trial of Herman Bocho , a farmer ivlng a few miles southeast of the city , for illegal fishing , was called this after noon at 2 o'clock before Justice 0. A. Sleeper , of Waruorvillo. The defend ant waived preliminary hearing before Judge Hayes in this city last week and secured a change of venue. Ho was charged with having iu his possession ; oo many fish. Ho had seventy-four in lis wagon last Monday morning , soiling them at South Norfolk. State Game Warden George II. barter , of Lincoln , arrived in the city ast night to assist in the prosecution. The parties interested in the case drove : o Waruorvillo this afternoon. Jock Koonigstoin , of this city , is defending Bocho and County Attorney Mapes if doing the prosecution. A number oi Boche's friends accompanied him to the trial today. WILL NOT MOVE THE DEPOT. Rumor of a Change From South Nor folk to City , Is Untrue. [ From Tuesday's Dally. ] It has been rumored among folk interested torosted in the railroad circles in Nor folk , that a plan was on foot to move the Northwestern passenger station from its present location in South Nor folk to the bufinoss part of the city The tale hold that part of the money to bo extended this season by the compan ; in local improvements was to go towarc this end. The story is untrue and without foundation. When asked as to the possibility of such a change , Super intendout Reynolds said : "There is nothing in it at all. No such move has been contemplated. I would bo impossible to move the presou station into another part of Norfolk because of the loss of time in trail service and because the offices am _ ether arrangements must remain in th | freight yards. " Rccs Building Badly Damaged Today. END ENTIRELY DESTROYED. Building was Occupied by Hospo Piano Company , Which Suffered Slight Dnmngo Olhor Buildings Threatened , [ From TilONday'H Dally ] Hutweon 1 ; ! ) ( ) und 2 o'clook this afternoon - noon ilro that Nlartud aooidontly and which for 11 time llnviitonod the ontlro heart of the buBinoHH portion of the olty , destroyed the n-ar end of the ROOM building , 822 Norfolk avenue , In which wax located the rotallhouso of A. llospo Ss Co , piano duiilorri , Owing to bril liant work on the part of mivoral com panies of the flro department , the main portion of the building was navoil , merely two nluuls gjnlng. The lees Is but | 500 , covered by insurance. The origin of the flro in a mystery. It is ono flro , however , which is known absolutely to bo not Inoondiary. But five minutes before the bluzo broke out , W. N. Huso had routed the part that burned , for a store room , nnd had walked through the ontlro building in company with H. A. Brantley , of the Ifospo company. At that time there waa no fire in the building. Immediately after , a boy WIIH Hout from Tins NKWH ofiloo with fnrnaco pipes which were to bo Htored , and when ho made the second trip it was discovered that the building was iibla/o. The flamcii leaped through the roof of the shed almost instantly. Well soaked with oil , and protootod from the ( Ire fighters by a corrugated iron covering , the structurco was en veloped In angry looking redness all at onoo and from every door and window mil aperture of any sort , massive , un- nding clouds of ugly black mnoko oiled forth. With busiuoHH houses on all sides , ; looked as though ether buildings uist go. But the flro department hipped down the bla/o with tolling orco and within a half hour had it oworing at their feet. Their work was oautiful. With heavy hooks and axes no company toro down parts of the walls , while no//lomon shot Htreams of vater into the sides that ripped oil the ron covering and sent it , in bits , to the ground. Every instrument in the Hospo stook was shoved out into the street , and the Norfolk avenue sidewalk wiisBOon lined vith piano fortes. In the up-Htairn > ortiou of the building , E. P. Ilnmmol lad a number of furnished rooms that voro rented to transients. These , with ho furniture , were badly damaged. The lioso of the West Side company plit in several places , covering by- tandem with water. The building was built about fifteen years ago by Mr. Recn. PIANO CONTEST. FUults of tli Count on the Hasp Instrumnt. [ From Monday's Dally. ] The count in the Hospo piano contest hews the following results up to this naming : F.O. Eagles 82G8 ! ) Gertrude Austin 20,874 Queen Oity Hotel 82,477 rtay Johnson 10,050 3oustance Roiuhardt 5,514 , Bessie Widamau 1,054 Railway Hall 888 St. Paul Lutheran church 142 A.O.U.W 118 Hiunio Purr 91 Second Congregational church . . 88 M. W. A 82 Norfolk Gorman Choir 'M Cnights of Pythias lodge 2fl Eastern Star 22 W. ti. messing i ) Charles Brandos 8 falter Pilger 5 Paul Rndat 4 Teisio Eble 4 loyWacok 2 lamond Hoaglaud 2 ,2mma Wotzel 2 Will Boamau 1 Scott Huff 1 George Rhode , jr 1 Walter Dunn 1 lawrence Brnoggemau 1 Sliner Hardy 1 W. Hay ward 1 Florence Gaylord 1 Willie Rice 1 Earl Day Weeks 1 EdithBarrett 1 Lydia Wheeler 1 Dollle Pfunder 1 Walter McFarland 1 May Edwards 1 BALL GAME YESTERDAY. Good Sized Crowd of Fans Watched Norfolk Do South Norfolk. [ From Monday's Dally. ] A ball game that attracted a good sized crowd of fans was played in the Fourth street park yesterday afternoon , between Norfolk and South Norfolk. Norfolk won by a score of 14 to 12. It is thought that there will bo a great deal of interest in the game next Satur day between Norfolk and Sioux Oity. Invites the Fray. 0. J. Stockwell , editor of the Genoa Times , and formerly for a number of years a member of THE NEWS force , is having trouble with his competitor , who , it appears , has threatened to ohas- tiso him on sight. Mi. Stock well appears to think that ho lacks the uorvo to put the throat into execution and has loft a standing order for a bottle of nerve touio at the drag store and another for a good stroi'R ' hormi whip at a Imriww nhop , the nmiu to bo delivered to hin rival any time ho nulls for thorn. BOY'S ' THUMBJfAS TORN OUT , Young Ernst Wnchtor Was Driving' With Reins Wrapped. [ From Tucmlay'fl Dally. ] In a very peculiar and exceedingly UstroRsltig acoldnnt , Ernotit Waohtor , n lad living on the farm of his father , flvfr miles northwest of the olty , had his right thumb torn uomplotoly oil bin hand. The boy wan driving a toatn of horsoH to past tire and had the leather ruin wrnppoii about his hand. Suddenly ono of the animals hi > oiuno Htartlod and began to run. As ho lurched forward , the roln drew tlghtor , vrenched at the thumb and pulled the first joint ontlroly out , The muinlmr was badly mangled mtl Dr. F. (1. ( Walters , the mirgoon mllod from Norfolk , wan compelled to take the ontlro thumb out. Peculiarly enough , the nerves were HO quickly torn that they convoyed no sensation 6f palti to the brain and the only snll'erlng wan from loss of blood and from the snddoii shook. ARE ROBBINGJHEJLOWEH BEDS. Prettiest Parts of Norfolk Lawns In- vndod by Nocturnal Thlovos. [ From Saturday's Dally. ] Complaints are coming in from all over the city In regard to the provoking acts of uncrupulouH individuals who mvo boon and still urn stealing flowers 'rom the lawns , Peony plants have boon , in many cases , completely stripped of their beautiful largo blossoms , and , n fact , any sort of flower accessible to the nocturnal thieves , bun boon taken. Thursday night of thin week a bed of poonitw in the yard of 1. G. WcHtorvolt was cleared of its fragrant offspring , ind last night not only the now blos soms but the buds UH well were torn away. The police have boon notified and noroafter the man or woman who robs he lawns of Norfolk of their prettiest parts , must ho an artful dodger , indeed. BOCHE TRIEDTHSAFTERNOON , _ _ Was Dismissed and Ro-Arrostcd at Warnorvillo Yesterday. [ From TucHdoy'H Dally. ] The trial of Herman Booho , on charge of having too many fish in his posses sion , did not take place before Justice Sleeper in Warnorvillo yostorduy after noon , as had boon announced. The par ties interested drove to that town but County Attorney Mapos dismissed the case. Immediately following , Boaho was ro-arroHtod , to appear in Madison this afternoon at 1 o'clock , before Judge Bates. These who wont over to Madison thin morning to attend the trial , were : County Attorney Mnpes , Stnto Game Warden Carter , Deputy Game Warden Rainoy , Chief of Police Kane and sev eral friends of Bocho , including his neighbors , Julius Lehman nnd Frank Lohman. MANY MORE NEW HOMES OF LATE Scores of Houses are Being Begun All Over the City. [ From Tuesday's Dally. ] Scores of now homes have sprung up in Norfolk within the past few days. At South Norfolk nearly every square is marked with heaps of lumber and. brick aud cellars dug into the ground , whore a now house h to bo erected. Every carpenter iu the city is constantly- busy and the rapping of the hammer is heard iu every section of the city. No doubt the establishment of the North western division here permanently has been the cause of many of the new houses , as railroad men may now feel assured that Norfolk is to be their place of dwelling to a certainty. ARE GETTING BRICKS AGAIN , Government Building Begins to Move Along Once More. [ From Tuesday's Dally. ] Brick by the carload Is now coming into the city for use on the government building , and there is no longer a check on the work from this account. The material is being shipped In from Pierce and Wayne. The cornerstone is to be laid at the northeast corner of the buildIng - Ing on Thursday afternoon. Iron ma terial is also coming In for the struct ure. The handsome now postoflicogoes together with clockwork nicety , every piece of stone and every bar of iron bearing a number that corresponds to the charts , so that all the time required to figure out a setting is enough to "look in the book and see. " CO , L WILL CELEBRATE FOURTH Are Going to Stanton to Mix In Sham Battle With Others. Company L , N. N. G. , will celebrate the Fourth of July in Stanton. An in vitation from that city was read and accepted last night and about forty men. will go down , In charge of Captain 0- A. Fuller. There will also be militia from Madison and West Point , all to- participate in a sham battle and skir mish drill. Tilden Beat Madison. Battle Creek , Juno 15. About 500 people from this vicinity and neighbor ing towns witnessed a very interesting ball game hero yesterday afternoon be tween the Madison Specials and Tilden. The score was 14 to G , in favor of Til den. Charles Smith of Tilden umpired the gamo.