THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1916.
DEATH JOURNEY
FOR GOVERNOR BURT
first Territorial Baler Took
Office Two Days Before
He Died.
SOME STATE HISTORY
By A. R. GROH.
The first governor of Nebraska ter
ritory held hi office only two days.
He was, Francis Burt of South
Carolina, a man with a distinguished
public career for twenty years before
he was appointed governor of Ne-
" braska by President Pierce, August
2, 1854. V-
On September 11, he started from
his home, Pendleton, South Carolina,
for' Nebrasak. He was accompanied
by his young son, Armistead, and by
several neighbors. They, traveled by
private conveyance, stage, railway
and steamboat. - His son' has de
scribed, the hardships of the journey
as follows in the "History of Ne
' braska:"
"At St Joseph the steamboat could
go no farther on account of low
water, and the governor hired a hack
and traveled in it to Nebraska' City
which then contained one house,
where he 'odged for the night.
"The next morning he hired a two
liorse wagon from-the only citizen
and traveled in it to Bellevue.
'Thoroughly, worn out, he went to
bed and was- never again able to be
up,. He had been, for years, a dys
peptic and the journey from Nash
ville to' Louisville during the excess
ively . hot,., dry weather, drinking
strong limestone water and traveling
day and night in a rough coach so
exhausted him that he had to stop in
St. Louis in care of a physician."
Governor, Burt reached Bellevue,
October 7, and continued to get
worse. The oath of office was ad
ministered to him October 16, by
Chief Justice Fergusone, but he died
October 18. - , v ...-,.;,
Cuming as Subsrlruta. "
T. B. Cuming, secretary, acted as
governor until Mark W. Izard of
Arkansas reached here, February 23,
1855. He resigned in 1857 and Cum
ing again acted as governor' until
W. A. Richardson arrived, January
12, 1858. He served until December
.5, 1858. ' i,v "
' J. Sterling Morton was acting gov
ernor then until Samuel W. Black of
; Pennsylvania arrived, May 2, 1859.
He resigned February 24, 1861, and
returned to Pennsylvania where he
raised a regiment, was commissioned
colonel and went to the front. He
was killed in the battle of Gaines' I
Mill, June 26, 1862.
After Governor Black resigned J.
Sterling Morton acted as governor
until Vlay 15, 1861, when President
Lincoln appointed Alvin Saunders of
; Iowa, governor. He was the. last ter
' ritorial governor of Nebraska,
Nineteen Governors. '
Since then nineteen men have been
governor of Nebraska. None of them
died in office. The first one, David
Butler, was impeached. ' Another was
removed by the supreme court and
reinstated later. Ana a third resigned
. to run for United States senator. The
names of the state's governors , are
as follows: , ,
DaWa Butler. IHMI. -
W. H. JUDM (OtlltS), iiri-ti. '
Robert W. Furnae, ISTS-tS.
miss Garber, 1I7S-1S. , "
Alblnm Nan-a. 1I7I-JS.
J.mii W. 113-1?.
John M Thayer, ltJ.t, '
Junn H. Uoyd, LI91 (removed by drcltlon
f Nebreeka aupreme rnurl. Uay I. llll);
restored by derision or lmlt4 fiatee eu
preme court, ' February 1. 1SI2. - . .
John M. Thever, H.!.
JamM E. Boyd, lsos-ll. . !
. ' Lorense rrounM, usa-tfi. "'-..'i
MM A. Holcomb, ' ISSS.SS.
William' A- Pornter. Illi-lltl.
. Ch.Mss H. Dietrich, )! (raetgned to run
for eenator).
Ksra P. Revere, ifOl-SI.
Jftn H. Mlekey, 1101 7 1
George L. Sheldon, 1IIML . , '
A.'O. kliallenberier, H0S.ll.''' "
I Cheater A. Aldrtok, ltlI-13. .
Joan H. Moreneao, leii-ii,
More "Don'ts" for the Visitors
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CONNELL ADVISES
ALL TOBOIL WATER
Sixteen Cases of Typhoid Fever
Howell Says Omaha Water
is Better Than Ever. .
Sweden Comes Back Hot at Allies
i Charge It Is Not Loyally Neutral
Oitialm Girl Hushes
it Ta-Rescne-Student
Catherine Qhiria.; of Omaha, a
sophomore student at' Bellevue - col
lege, struck a heroic cpup-d ctat yes-,
terday" for'Jier class when she at
tacked and-remted George Pangle of
Omaha, a freshman, and thus saved
ferry Johns, a sophomore, from s
beating. .. , : -
Johns' was H grips with two first
year men, Pangle and James Daugh
erty of Pawnee City when Miss Oil
man and two- girl companions hap
pened along.:.-The Omaha girl lost
no time-in entering, the fracas and
yanked Panglt away... Johns then
proceeded to beat Daugherty. .
Licenses tf Two Dairies k
Suspended by Connell
Health Commissioner Connell has
. suspended the milk licenses of C B.
Post and L. P. Jensen, proprietors of
the West Omaha and Purity dairies,
respectively. Two weeks ago the com
missioner notified 25 dairymen, who
had been convicted more than once in
the police court, that the next time
their milk tested below legal standard
he would revoke their licenses. These
suspensions are subject to ratification
by the city council after regular hear
ings. -
Sleek Young Men from
-Chicago Forget Their Game
James D. Currey and George Hall
of Chicago grew so excited when they
observed the police approaching that
they handed Ralph Johnson of Red
Oak, la.. $43, just $2 5 more than they
had beat him out of in a dollar match
ing game.
A citizen observed the "sport" and
called the wagon, with the result that
Currey and Hall are bound over to
the district court with bonds fixed at
$750, and Johnson is $25 to the good.
Used Car Auction is to Be
Held Wednesday by Wilson
The sale of used automobiles is
handled in various ways by dealers
along the automobile row, but E. R.
Wilson has the best and quickest
means of turning the cars.
"We expect-' to clean up "all of our
- used cars Wednesday at our auction
and will he. very- much surprised if
we don't - We haven't much invested
so we can really let them go at auc
tion," said E. R. Wilson
(Correepondenoe of Th Aatoelated Preia.)
London, Sept. 22. The relations be
tween Sweden and the entente powers
are attracting unusual attention here
and there is every indication that the
situation threatens to become some
what more tense. With the dispute as
to mail seizures still unsettled, there
now has arisen the charge by the en
tente that the neutrality qf Sweden is
nr so loyal and impartial as it should
be. This has drawn from Stockholm
a reply, as tart and crisp as some of
the 'notes ' in the mail controversy
which were characterized by Viscount
Grey as containing words npt usuaMy
found in diplomatic correspondence.
The new point of contact with Swe
den is-th outgrowth at the practice
of belligerent shipping in using the
Swedish territorial waters , for all
Baltic traffic. Within the safety -of
this neutral three-mile limit, English
and other ships of the entente nations
have sailed defiantly into and out of
the Baltic, paying not the slightest
heed to the German fleet looking on
from th outer water. Similarly, Ger
man .merchant ships have sailed up
and down- the west coast of Swedeij,
heavily laden with foodstuffs dtneViron
ores, while-Russian destroyers. ih the'
northern reaches of the Baltic have
been impotent to act.
Hue practice placed a heavy re
sponsibility upon Sweden and kept
its fleet busy day and night, patroling
the territorial waters in protection of
the belligerent traders, despite which
precautions there were several viola
tions of Swedish neutrality. Public
sentiment in Sweden was aroused am!
the government determined to mine
the waters of Kogrund channel lead
ing out of the sound into the Baltic.
I Sweden also served notice that its
naval commanders had been instruct
ed to fire upon all submarines found
prowling within the three-mile limit.
this policy scarcely had been an
nounced when news came of the suc
cessful trip of the Oeutschland from
Bremen to Baltimore, and there arose
the question as to whether Swedish
warships would fire at sight of a Ger
man merchant submarine or whether
they would only fire at entente allied
submarines, knowing these powers
were not using commercial under
water boats.
The reply of Sweden was char
istically stiff,
"You conclude that in the attitude
adopted by the king's government re
garding, the two belligerent camps
there is' a signal difference, which
would seem incompatible with the
duties of loyat and impartial neutral
ity 'f 'it eai( "It ti tint., ( Um
king's government lodeny in the most
torinal manner that , the opinion thus
expressed has any foundation. It can
not enter into discussion on the sin
cerity and impartiality of its neutral
ity, which -have been abundantly
demonstrated. throughout the war It
will, however, observe that an alleira-
I (jo 9 this nature is fundamentally
yu.iuus, uciiiH iuuhucu umy on isolat
ed facts imperfectly discernible."
The reply declared that all sub
marines are to be treated by Sweden
as war submarines, if their employ
ment for commercial purposes is not
established with certainty by common
facts. ..
' Should Addroas MeMIUaa.
Boston. Oot. t. The committee In charge
of preaa arransementa for world' aerlee
baee bell gernee to be played n thla city
announced todey that appllcatlone for preee
enala ehould be addreeeed to Ralph Mc
Millan, chairman In hharre 0f the Boeton
American league 'Olub, Fenway park.
WATER IS TESTED DAILY
Sixteen cases of typhoid fever re
ported to the health office since Sep.
tember 1, and unusual presence of coti
bacilli in a sample of city water ana.
lyzed at the city laboratory, are the
reasons offered by Health Commis
sioner Connell for advising citizens
to boil all city water used for domes
tic ourooses.
The typhoid fever cases reported
during the last five yean were as
many as recorded this year to Sep.
tember 1. Four of the cases are at
the Klepetko home, 1956 South Fif
teenth street, where the victims are
Anne, 20; Stephie, 18; Irma, 16; lr:
win. 11.
"I am not ready to state positively
mat tnese cases are ?ue to cuy water,
but the evidence before me warrants
the suggestion that city water should
be boiled. I do not regard the situa
tion as serious, but it is unusual," ex.
plained the heahh commissioner.
. Ten of the sixteen cases were re.
ported during the last week.
Manager noweu s view.
General Manager Howell of the mu
nicipal water plant gave the following
statement:
So far as Omaha s water supply
concerned, our method of treatment is
more nearly perfect than ever before,
and last year there were only three
cities in the United States that had a
lower death rate from typhoid fever
than Omaha. Our chief chemisi and
his assistant are practicing constant
vigilance, and the report of our daily
analysis shows that the water being
supplied the citizens today is as good
or better than it has been in the past
"Typhoid fever is tracable to other
sources than a city's water supply. I:
is a well known fact that the milk
supply is often the cause of epidemics
from this tever, and it is much more
difficult to control an infection from
this source than from water, as for
instance, we analyze samoles of all
water supplied the city. How many
of the various milk supplies are daily
analyzed by the city physician?
"Again, this is recognized as the
typhoid fever season. It is a time
when people have completed their va.
cations, ' possibly in . places where
typhoid germs may have been abun
dant. They come back home and set
tle down to their daily avocations with
the result that here and there typhoid
lever cases develop: , i (::. ,
"If the waterv department believed
there was .any: danger in. Omaha's
water it would be the first to suggest
additional . precautions, bnt we feel
Vuimuciii uiai uur water supply, wnicn
has been all that could be desired in
I he recent past, is just" as good today,
.1 not Detter.
Fairbanks Brands ;
Wilson Statement;,;
"Base Utterance"
Los Angeles. CaU'Oct. 3.--Charfes
Warrert Fairbanks, republican candi-
late lor vice president, speaking at
the Auditorium theater tonight de
scribed as . a "base utterance" such
f harges as; that mide by President
Wilson at' Shadow Lawn when he
eaid the certain' prospect of republi
can success in November would be
the use of force in Mexico, and en
tanglement ot this country m the em
broilments of the European war."
"The ' suggestion which now and
then is heard," Mr- Fairbanks said,
"to the effect that republican victory
wjll tend 'to. ''our entering the Euro
pean war,- is a base utterance, which
the stress' of a political campaign does
not warrant.'- , .
Putting It Over The Line
Many a man can think up plays in sport or business who lacks the
' rugged strength and energy to carry them out
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Human power comes from food, and it is vitally essential that it
contain the elements required by both body and brain in good balance,
and in form for prompt digestion.
with Cream
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combines all the nutriment of whole wheat
and malted barley, including their mineral
salts so necessary to thorough nourishment.
Grape-Nuts is a winning food ready
to eat direct from package, easy to digest,
richly nourishing,andwonderfullydelicious.
Every table should have its daily
ration of Grape-Nuts.
"There's, a Reason"
GAMBLING EXPOSE
EXCITES CHICAGO
While Landis Quizzes Witnesses
Police Get Busy and Eaid Base
Ball Fool Quarters.
"BIO BILL'S" NAME IS USED
profit from the organization, it wa
testified, was, $4,000 a month
Police Captain Collins, who raided
the base ball pool, said paraphernalia
seized indicated elaborate prepara
tions had been made for betting on
the coming world's series
"New cards were made, each con
aining combinations of six players,"
he said, "and there were thousands
of such combinations. The documents
indicated that as high as $1,000 could
be won by the holder of an especially
successful combination."
Chicago, Oct. 3. While Federal
Judge Landis continued today to draw
from reluctant witnesses testimony of
a nighly developed organization for
gambling which the police previously
declared did not exist, city authorities
scurried around and uncovered evi
dence of a base ball pool in a raid on a
downtown office building.
State's Attorney Hoyne, conducting
an independent raid on the Sports
men's Club of America, declared he
suspected that the funds derived fr'.m
a large sale of associate memberships
was used as a political fund for the
benefit of Mayor William H.;Thomp-
m. , -;....
Extends to Many Cities. . . ;
Witnesses before Tudse Landis told
that the general news bureau, of which J
Mont 1 ennes was the head, daily tele
phoned racing results to hundreds of
cigar stores and saloons, where bets
were made. Ramifications of the bu
reau extended to Kansas City, St.
Louis. San Antonio. Tex.: San Fran
cisco, Oklahoma City, Cleveland. Cin
cinnati and West Baden, Ind, wit
nesses testified. Betting in this city
through the various agencies of the
bureau was said to have run as h'gh
as $60,000 a day. Tennes" personal
Keeps Her Children t
In Perfect Health
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep
sin the Family Laxa
tive for Many Years
Mrs. Aug. Doellefeld of Carlyle,
HI., recently wrote to Dr. Caldwell, at
Monticello, 111.,, that she has used Dr.
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin in her home
for a number of years, and would not
be without it, as with it she has been
able to keep her four children in per
fect health. ,
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a
combination of simple laxative herbs
with pepsin that acts on the bowels in
an easy,, natural way, and regulates
the action of this most important
function. Nearly all the sickness to
which children are subject is trace
able to bowel inaction, and a mild.
dependable laxative, such as Dr. Cald
well's Syrup Pepsin should have a
place in every family medicine chest.
It is pleasant to the taste and chil
dren like it, and take it readily, while
it is equally effective for adults. .
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is sold
in drug stores everywhere for fiftv
cents a bottle. To avoid imitations
and ineffective substitutes be sure
you get Dr. Caldwell's Syrup" Pep
sin. See that a facsimile of Dr. Cald
well s signature and his portrait an-
pear on the yellow carton in which
tne Dottle is packed. A trial bottle,
free of charge, can be. obtained bv
writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 465
Washington tit., Monticello, Illinois.
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Bast aid Wsst Usitid at Psomontort Poiht, Mat 10, 1869, it Itwcnos '
. of Union Pacific and Centaal Pacific Lisas
v : - ' Fccinr on Ihe lintlt track.
Hilt world behind tack back.
-Brit Hat It," What IhtEnfinttUli.'
riving the Golden Spike
comoleted the tirst line ot tnis great
railroad system and gave our country the first adequate
communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
No other event in. the History of Transportation was so
widely celebrated or so important in the public mind not
even the building of the Panama Canal.
The completion of this first transcontinental line was the
climax of a quarter of a century of agitation and three years
of record-breaking construction. The occasion was cele
brated by public meetings and parades in all great cities of
the country.' Every blow on the Golden Spike was recorded
by telegraph over the whole land. Public rejoicing in San
Francisco lasted three days.
Travtltrt and shippers know that the first road vest is still first.
UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM
- Joins East end West with a Boulevard of Steel
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