Nebraska Newspapers

    AKOTA '-COUNTY HERALD.
Stat His Soc
VOLUME XVI
DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, APRIL a, 1908.
N UMBER 31
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CURRENT HAPPENINGS
FAITHFUL CHRONICLE OP ALL
IMPORTANT ITEMS.
nntnirn -ru-wisr t i mrr t n
VAJUlii JIUUJ1 liATl JiJCi
DYNAMITER KILLS DETECl IVE
WOUNDS OTHERS.
Conviction or IC. F. McDonald, of Tern
Iluute, Intl., for Destruction or
HulldlngH at Sanfortl Comes at End
or SeiMatloi.nl Trial.
Found guilty. of va charge of arson
Henry F. McDonald, In the circuit
rourt room at Torre Haute, Ind.,
"hursday, shot and klllrd Detective
" William A. Dwyer, seriously wounded
j other officers and. was hiroself serlous-
, ' ly wounded. The shooting followed
"the announcement 'of the verdict rf
the Jury before which McDonald had
'(been tried on charges of dynamiting
IjBtores and churches In Sanford last
( When the Jury reported Its verdict
McDonald Jumped to his feet and drew
, a revolver, lie fired at Prosecuting
Attorney James A. Cooper but missed.
Tlr. Cooper dodged and, McDonald di
rected his fite at the fifflcers seated
j around the tuble.
Without an opportunity to defend
himself Detective Dwyer was" shot
down. Almost In an Instant police of-
b licers onddeputy sheriffs in the court '
1 TOOT11 dl'ew their rAVrtlippa nn1 t
fire on McDonald. The convicted man
fell with huir a dozen bullets In his 1 iX21' "9 ' i , "1,"
twTlv ' t-- fflr-rJ '"jJtVnafcuia of mSgaalne? coucnlng the
body.
4. iirvey v. Jones; superintendent of
polrtfe, was shot in the side. Deputy
Sheriff Ira Wcllmnn sustained a wound
.11) th? chin. Sylvester , Doyle court
bailiff, was shot in the leg. Another
' ,ruck by: lander.
' Tne snoo,'"ff "as the result of a
sensational trinl which was bitterly
contested. McDonald was Kfiojyn to
a baa man, but he had been per
l7.Vted his Jihcrtv rlittfMfy tim n't..
hf.Vted his liberty during the trial. The
police department has been active In
the case and several officers were in
the court room to hoar ttje verdict.
- OfTicers hud expected some denlon
elration, but they wcre not expectirtf
such action. vjon McDonald drew
his revolver ha aimed at Mr. Cooper.
The prosecirt-,1. tipped his chair. back.
.wards th fist shot went wild and, the
second, fcujict struck the table at tviiich
Mr. Ooorper hud beejl seated. "Before
IXrtexttve Dwyer had time to move the
third bullet killed him. Hy this time
the police, and deputy sheriffs began
firing.
I HHS I IKK LIPH tS IX PKltlli.
J Dauglitcr (,f Koi Ueleller Is Thrcat
ine1. The Chicago Inter-Oeean Thursday
tnornlng snys: Mis. Harold McCor-iC-inick,
daughter o John D. Uockcfel
v ler. Is vcigiug .in nervous brea'kdown
.and has picpared to depart hastily
Crom ttm city as a" result of a series
or ihr..ali nltiK loiters received by her
which have led her to believe that her
Ufa and tin lives of her children aid
i.t peril. mtrw
Ouards have been placed about the
' McCo,,ick (.. nl JMK.vue Place
and Lake Shore .l.K. Servants and
coachmen, working in relays, watch
pedestrians and no one is permitted
vt enter the grounds without being
. .utli.liied
As soon iy. Mrs. McCormlck
will .leave for her father's lw.m- i.
Cleveland. i,t the dale or her depart,
ure Is Willi held. 1
To Probe lux ftmik Theft.
When It impaneled on April IS
the Cited .states grand jury will be
4i.sk ed by lhevdi,ectors or the First Na
tlonaf cunk of Salt Ike City, Utah
to li.vestigutu the then in January of
v reserve chest
that Institution.
of
lh to Aid Iler Sister.
M.irle Lehman ,.f st. I.ouls, Mo
committed suicide Wednesday and
Investigation proved the motive wa
leave $1,000 lire Insurance to i
helpless, invalid shier, Mugglo, "t'
J!). -r'"-y.,-- " geiJ
Milchell Will Be Edito
John Mitcliell, retlied prf
tthe Culled Mine Workers o
announced Thursday that I
he will devote his attenth
aident oT
t America.
J the future
1oi labor
a.lish ln In.
p.'U" i u lili h he will cs
dla nupolls. -ft&
N oi l bel li iiieir
c DKidend.
A (lUiirterly ,.lvld
nd of 1 per cent
vvs di-chtrefl Thu-
'lay by the dlrec-
f is of tile Nortf
eoioruny. This '
'tircvlou tiuartf
ein pacific Railroad
unchanged from the
Ji:t Citfv
l.lvc Slock Munrket.
iVursduy'r
quotations on the filoux
City live st
beeves, $6.'
ock mcikct follow: Top
tf- Top hogs. $5.80.
I0ni
A disc
Tor to Ciet More Puy,
atch from Berlin
that
because
of his large family and the
A co of living, the kaiser is
his salary raised. It rw,u-
Increase
to havr
3.9:iO, 000 a year
tliio I'lans cv I' iilienllnry.'
" ie t)hlo hi-nale has passed the bill
Idlng f.,r the appointment of a
c,'n imlttee to prepare plans and pro
'e id with the construction of a new
,S0fi,0L0 tinU-i:ti.;iT,
TO RVN DISTTLLIXU SCHOOL.
Wilson Orders riant for Agricultural
Department:
A denatured alcohol school, giving
A preliminary demonstration of what
Uenatured alcohol la, how It la made
bind from what products. Is about to
be established .In the department i.f
agriculture at Washington In accord
ance with orders first Issued by" Sec
retary James Wilson. Dr. H. W. Wl
Jy, chief chettilst of the department,
has been assigned1 to the Job, which
tneans that It will be well done. He
has been directed to purchase vat,
worms, engine! and other machin
ery necessary In the equipment of a
denatured alcohol Institution, and get
It In running order as soon as possi
ble. Secretary Wilson plans to dlsilll
'denatured alcohol right In his depart
ment for the benefit of farmers and
fathers Interested who visit Washing
ton. Experts will be on duty to ex
plain distilling methods, to show Just
what products may be utilized in mak-
g denatured alcohol and othervi.-
elucidate tly- advantages that will ac
crue to the farmer who takes advan
tage of the law permitting denatured
alcohol to be made free of tax.
There Is a strong probability that a
government school of denatured alco-jhol-wlll
be established at the corn
exposition to be held In Omaha In De
cember. Secretary Wilson will au
thorize such an exposition if he Is em
powered to do so by congress. Funds
are available for such purposes, but
Secretary Wilson is disinclined to act
without an express legislative author
ization. i V TO "TEST ANTI-PASS LAW.'
feature RarrlnS Exchange or Advcr
Jnff JMorv rwU nU Court.
Testimony by several advertising
I CJ"'n(0 I auverusing space lor rail
' 'ii'ffltf tronannilall.ti. ...lit. 1 1. ni- I . .
' muwii twin imc V.IIICIliJO.
Indianapolis and Louisville rahva
was taken at Chicago WanesdiC? be
fore a special coTuTulssioner appointed
by the United States circuit court. All
the witnesses testified that the rates
jfor advertising are subject to frequeyft
jyarlation. and this, the attorney;, for
ife? eovermnent claim, Is the r pnlnl
at issue. It Is charged that the rail
road is violating the UPrstate com.
fierce law by Its tra- -- .,,, tUa
j magazines, the ctentIon beng that
' L v-"ttl"J" A Wiagazlne rates makes
the placing a flxQd va,Ue upo)1 R1)(.,
advertising Impossible, and that there
jfore 'the granting of, railroad tickets
I exchange for It form's a discrimlna-
tion In violation of the Interstate com-
mcrce law. The testimony taken
.Wednesday will be used in drawing up
'a statement of facts upon which legal
'arguments will be based In a suit for
Injunction which the government has
Instituted against the railway com
jPany In an effort to restrain It from
continuing the practice of paying for
advertising with transportation.
ItAILROADS LOWICR KATES.
Tennessee Lines Put On a 2-Cent
Fare Will Continue yeur.
The Southern railway and Its nlliAr
lines Wednesday put on a 2 -'".-(
rate in Tennessee. The rate con
tlnue in operation for on'
If it will prove profit--.tf4 " i T
vllle and NashV , T' oLo,,ls
'if le, and Nashville
Chattanooga .,, e. ... , c''1'"k.
T" w d ' f' -uIs Vaihoada
began W'(1Suaj fMachlng coupons
to an ticket9 6ol(J ,n the w) i( h
will give to evr',y purchaser the right
of a rebate for the difference between
:the old r?;te and the .southern rail
jways rale prov(ed the Unlted Stales
suprerr4e coflrt upnold!J the Alabama
rate.
' A
S 4nnnnibiil;st Is Freed.
' Rosa Vreemttn, aged 20, a victim, of
mnan Jhullsm and epilepsy-, was ac
quitted, of th8 charge of fcurglary In
Judge f Brcntano's court at Chlcr
e1 esday by virtue ef his afflictloi,.
're Tnan was accuse) of Yveuking in
to the home of Fred IfX.lger and at
te king Folger when Ihe latter sur
' 4sed the intruder in his kitchen.
Hrerery Strike Ends.
, 'Representatives of t wenty-fmr
breweries In .St, Louis and vicinity and
of the brewery workers' unions have
-signed nev contracts, endlngShe strike
of 3,500 brewery workers, whkh lias
been on for more than threo weeks.
The strjkers will be put to work under
the settlement, as soon as possible.
Ls Anarchy in Iluyii?
A dispatch received in Paris Wed
tiesday from I'ort' an Prince, llayti,
says the situation there Is extremely
grave, that complete anarchy prevails,
and that the American wurshlps are
preparing to land troops.
Ten Mm Are Over-onie.
Ten men were overcome by gas In
the Cudahy Packing company's plant
at (.South Omaha Wednesday when a
tank of ammonia gas exploded. Eight
ere taken to a hospital In a serious
condition.
Riders Xuw Illou 'p ionmtoew.
In Anderson county, y., one night
ecently night riders dynumiu-d the
tomatot bed of James Phillips. Phil
lips had destroyed a tobacco bed on
the spot and had put up a sign to
that effect.
Railroad Khnpu Reopen.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
uilway shops at Kedalla, Mo., which
rinsed recently, reopened Wednesday
with a force cf 600 men.
rhief rest ix miner.
250,000 llitumlnotift Coal Diciicn Q"1'
Work.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
picks dropped from the hands of as
many bituminous conl miners of the
United States Tuesday evening, not
to be used again until a wage, settle
ment has been reached and a scale
adopted btween the members of the
United Mine 'Workers of America and
the coal operators of the various
Melds.
The situation, however, does not In
dicate a prolonged strike. An open
winter and industrial depression have
left a large stock of coal on hand,
and the differences between miners
and operators are very slight. It Is
practicably agreed that the present
scale will be continued, but some pol
itics, with the change In the national
officers of the miners' orsanizntlon and
local differences between operators
and miners, have resulted In tempo
rary suspension of work until a nev
wage scale is agreed to'elther by dls-'j
trlcts or Individual mines.
I'n'J) lyi years ago the bituminous
coal naming Scale uis based on the
agreement reached in the central
competitive Held, eonsfi-tlng of Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana and western Pennsyl
vania, and considered as a unit. This
unit system was broken two years ago
when President .Mitt hell signed a scaie
with Pittsburg operators, who agreed
to pay the scale demanded after the
operators of, the other three states
hud refused, and the miners won their
fight In consequence. Operators
signed the scale Individually through
out the country. Simp that time the
miners have tried to get back the unit
rule, or Interstate agreement, but the
operators of western Pei'!'ylvnnl;i,
Ohio and TTiinois. aTlor negotiations'
lusting all the present winter, have re
fused to meet in Interstate convention
Willi IllM ItllllMI-U
it . -v& .
STRUCK nv OWX TOJrpEDo.
'
Acci(,!ht lo ilie iVilHbdioiu Is to llu
lllt(SllIIC(l.
As the result of being struck by a
Whitehead torpedo. Hied from one of
her own lubes, the torpudoboat lilake
ly, which has bceij engaged In target
practice oft Pensarnhi, Fla , has a
large, Jagged holL. Just below her wa
ter lino on her port side. The torpedo
was a "blank." The Plakely lias been
put in dry dock and n hoard of inquiry
named to conduct an Investigation In
to the accident.
It 1$ suld the toriiedobnat was on
the target range, about four miles
from the navy yard, engaged in prac
tice. A Whitehead torpedo had hen
prepared for u range of 4.000 yards
and fired. It had cn!y gone about
100 yards when it suddenly swerwd
and after making" n (Complete circle,
came directly toward the Blakely,
striking the vessel on the port shite
below the water line. Mattresses and
bedding were used to stop the inrush
or water arid the vessel headed for tlu
. , ,
niivy yaru. iv
new; Army rol"; England.
Volunteers Arc Displaced hy Recently
Created Ot-;aiiU:itlon.
,Vilh the slrok of luljliiniit Tues
day Great Tirlluln's volunteer army
became a thing or Die past after un
existence of forty-nine years and a
territorial army, Introduced by War
Sccretaiy Ralilane, lelKns in its stead.
The volnrdeer lorces throughout Ihe
country relegated their "last po.t"
at th'ir resperilve heaihiuartera by
rniiVrs and older festivities.
TBe festivities took on somewhat ol
A sad character, owing to the dlsap-j
penrance of the old association.
Most of the gat lici luffs were, attend
ed by vclynna and rileiids fit the serv
ice, who exchanged old memories
Ti'lnight MrucK. Iliere were nir
ring seines as to who would bo tlw
lirst to enlist hi thu wow body. fnSny
bnuflteils thus lieiog recruited.
In some cases practically Ihe 'Mmle
regiments went Into Ihe new scrviei
Ate Fee: wuiis $i otio.
Because he was diselved into eating
goose eggs, thinking lliey were chick
en eggs. Solomon Carter, of Kokomo,
Ind., has filed suit for tt.000 diimages
against David Harris. (Jailer bus an
antipathy for geese and geese eggs,
and lie alleges Ihe ergs wem lepie
sented as lien fruit He alleges neiv.
ous shock and permanent illsabilitln
arising from the deception
Aids Iic.iih wiili I'.ullet.
Just at the hour licn slut knew her
husband tvas being IoachiI into a
crave in Cleveland. . Mis Kll.abelh
lOnz. of Di'iivei. Colo., ngi-d VS, Hbot
In-rseir tliroutili ihe load, baiiin
rown uuiy of uuitlng tor iIcmIIi The
suicide occurred u the home of her
Mill.
May Hay Knilroail l.in.
A resolution culling on the Domin
ion government to ucipiiic all lailioud
! i in h in Nova Scotia .und add them to
Ihe Intercolonial system as branches
has been unanimously pUMsed by Die
provincial legislatoie of Nova Scotia.
Anna Gould Is 111.
Madame Gould is ill with bronchitis
and stomach trouble in the apartments
of her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Tyler
Mm fee. ln the Jlotti St. Regis at New
Yoik. Madame Gould was said to be
to a eiy nervous condition Tuesday.
American Singer Honored.
MIho Geraldine Furrur, the Amerl
rini hlnger, hti'i been', nominated as
"imperial court -biser" thy .the rmpe
lor of Ceruiai y.
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State News jj
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r.VTIIKIl imoWNK, NAY KM SOX.
Morris tin Istonw n, of Omaha, Palls
-Into Cistern with Child.
Morris Chrlstensen, 1325 South
Twenty-fifth street, Omaha, was drown
ed Sunday in u cistern In the back
yard. Into which he fell while he had
his 2-year-u!d son, Willie, In his uvivs.
The child was saved by the hcr.dsm
of the father, who rtoort in seven feet
of wuser. and ty stretching Ids arms I
to their hlghert managed to keep the
boy above the water until assistance
arilved. .,
It y;Q short'y befoie 3 o'clock when
the Sunday afternoon quiet of the
neighborhood wns broken i:y a wom
an's screams and Mrs. Chrlstensen was
seen by neighbors running from the
house! Fhe rushed to the home of W.
A. Uoettsclt, across the street, und
though her licllenuni had rendered
her speechhs-, Ooettsche; with; L. W.
Klpperle and II. S. Jennlng.'. Xollowed
her In a mini run back to the houses.
She pointed to thy cistern. v .
Looking down tlicy saw two humaii
hands reaching out of the blacky wute:
upholding a little child' In a l ed coal.
A ladder was quickly secured. It
was too short to rench to the bottom
of the cistern. So two of the men
held it while dorttsche climbed down
and rescued the baby. The moment
this burden was removed the hands
seemed to close and sank beneath the
water.
Several minutes were consumed In
grappling for the body. Finally It.
was brought to Vjc surface. Hut ev-i
ery sign of jjf t'is go net" r';!J
"ST
' DAMAGE Tl PRAIUli: FIRF.
Tlie Kuiihigtoii ltoad Is Caus'.n Con
siderable Iaiss.
The Burlington railroad Is causing
great damage by fire around Mullen
and In the section of the sandhills
country. Nearly one-half the land
along the right of wuy has been burn
ed over. A blaze that started at Kel
bo burned a strip of country eight
miles wide south to the Dismal river,
nearly thirty miles long. Despite the
hard fighting of the citizens In that lo
cality the llames swept "merrily on;
leaving destruction, misery and home
less homesteaders In Its wake. Quite
a number of stock Is reported J.o have
perished, but the heaviest loss to one
man befell a new "Klnkaidar" by' the
name of Nelson, who lost his honie,
wo cows,- chickens, a set of harness,
hay all he had on earth except his
tamlly and two h.orses. There is. a
strotlg bearing tovf&rd erlmlnftl t-ure-lessness
on the part o(.tv railroad
In stringing out jhoe fires amthere
Is aso grelt VlSed for the strong arm
of the law to bear down heavily on
this class qf transgressors.
POSTOFFICK AT VALLEY ROBBED
Safe frnekers rr lifth Time Take
W luit Is in the Sure iiicris
For the fifth time, safe crrtcKCrs
robbed the safe In the Valley post
ofllee. Postmaster MoiiH Johnson
says they were lild for Ihelr trouble
for the first lime, but he would mu,He
no statement of the amount ff his
loss, until he could make an examina
tion of the safe. x
Word wu received the Omaha
postollice shortly befc,re n,,,,,) 0r the
robbery of the pftolnce at Valley
and Postofllce Inot,,, Frank Frrty
ser wont at un to Valley to investi
gate. Valley tne Omaha dis
trict, whicjrt l under charge tff Mr.
Frftyser. Mr Thompson, of the Fre
mont tfls!tr,ct, was also In Omaha
Mo'.iday rooming and has gone to
Yftlley o assist Inspector Frayser In
'ferreahig out tine robbery.
Sin:LIK)X llAt'K FRO.M EAST.
Pleased -villi Results of Ills Trip to
the Nalional t'apltul.
Gov. Sheldon has returned from
Washington more thn pleased with
lils efforts to obtain niodillcatlons In
ihe government cattle quarantine Coy.
erlng Nebraska. He will soon issue u
proclamation to take the place of the
one Issued several monlhs ago, but
there will be little difference between
the two documents. The dividing line
between the western division, which
Is to remain under quarantine, iiiu:
the eastern division is thu same as thut
outlined by State Veterinarian McKIni
and Gov. Sheldon after they had ob
tained reports from counties in regard
to the existence of scabies in cuttle
Curland lhl for SIicmiiIux.
The verdict or the coroner's Jury ,n
I'roken How on the body or John iui
dei'Hon, who vas shot and Insluitl
killed curly Saturday evening; . by
James Garland, Is in part as rollows:
"That said John Sanderson came to
his death by, reason of two Kiinsli it
wounds Inflicted on him by James
Garland with a rcvo'.vii, and that said
shooting Vas feloniously done.''
New llcuil for Reenter KcimiIs,
Pror. William Thel'reu, ol the r.'ieul
fy of the West Pidnt hluh school, lias
been elected 'to the pi 'incipalshlp of
tbe.Meemrr public schools. Mr. i'hels
si n Is a graduate of the West Point
high school und the the state univer
sity. II'' hail filled the position fit
ustisl.jliit supeiinti Iinent ol Hit; West
point schools for the p:it year. He
a native of "unirnK coiiniy.
IviiiU-ilil S -nleix P. niiful.
Fifty families Unit aie h.ettllng on
Kin): lid boi.n-stta.'i lune in lived in
Mullen this splliig .lll.l seventeen cars
of live s-'tncl; mi Iioiim In, Id gooc's
have been shipped t i this point. Most
r the liilugs Mere made last fall U.,l
nci y id t:,e i i t;yi:n n built hota-..--lufi.ie
it t ii iii 1 1 -r for their famillv--.
M'lii AccliiciH.ill.v S!iol.
Iliduiiiii ii in'cka, of Weston, was
killed instaaMy Ly the accidental dls
(!::rpc i f i 2:!-cal:ber rule, the bullet
JilrJ.').? the bli)i) nbnve the left eye.
FARM I-J I SHOT IIY XFJOlinon.
Nrbrnskan Faintly Wounded In Burn
Near Ituttr.
Eric Horg. one of the most prosper
ous and highly rcpected farmers of
Holt county, was shot and probably
mortally wounded Saturday morning
by John Price, a Klnkald homesteader,
who lived about four miles from Horg.
About Jive hours after the shooting,
when hotly pursued by Sheriff Hall
and a posse, Price ducked Into a
shanty on a homestead about a mile
from his homo and put a bullet
inrougu niE Drain. .
j
rorg went xo nis nam anout
horse and opened the top half of the
door, when Price Btuck a-S8-callber
revolver up against his breast and
I' Med the ttlgRor. The ball entered
J,,st to Ule breast bono,
missing the lung and lodging In the
muscle of the back. Horg got away
from In front cf t:ie door and walked
a mile along the creek bottom to a
neighbor's house, although very weak
from loss of blood when he arrived
there. Ills condition Is precarious,
and It Is thought he cannot recover.
Th- woulj-be murderer and suicide,
after the shooting, started west along
I.'ag'.e Creek, evidently reeking some
place of concealment. JSherllT Hall
reached the place t f the shooting
about 7 o'clock and organized posse,
and stalled after Price. In an hour's
time one of the poshe located him In
a vucar.t f hantyuml bevJi''Tiel his com
j at Ions to come up. The door of the
shajty wus fastened up on the Inside
by wire, but the sheriff Jerked It open
and found Price on the floor dead with
a note through his head and the re-
ioher Uglify gr;-"::ed tn-both nandfl.
the muzzle toward his face. The body
was still warm, showing It was but a
few moments since he had killed him.
self.
VI.
:.IS GUILTY TO FORGERY.
Denver .Man I U lies Mall Box and Gets
Money on Dnift,' I The opinion holds that the state
Warren T. Montgomeiy. who gives bo,rd of aBsessment ln valuing prop
Denver us his place of residence, is un- er,v for lnvat0 in a nuasl-Judlclal
der
irre-t at Fremont on the charge ,
f f d ging the name of Clyde Foster to
a drift on the Standard Life and Acci
dent Insurance company, of Detroit.
The rompnry rent the druftUo Foster
In settlement of an accident claim, by
niall, addressed In care of Ihe Bruns
wick restaurant. It was discovered
e:irly In the evening that the mall box
had been rille:l and suspicion rested
upon Montgomery, who had been loaf
ing around town, as he had on a new
suit of clothes and some money. He
was arrested, and it was found he had
bought the outnt at Frelden'si store,
endorsed the draft and received the
balance in cash. He pleaded guilty,
and in default of bull was committed
to the county Jail.
MAX KILLED; MILE rXIIURT.
A Kunuwov Team Dashes In Front of
d train".' t - 1
..AutpnJJlIck was Instantly killed and I
his brother Enoch was fatally hirrt !
at 10 o'clock Saturday morning by.
being struck by on Omaha train three- 1
it mi - rtr ii mill, hiiiiiiihhki ill ivime- :
field. , . y i
The accident Was caused by the In
ability of the men 10 control the team
if mules which tJYey were driving and
Which polled if.i'tn onto the track.
Thu tw'o men vere driving from their
Jarm on ths reservation and were on
thoir way to town. They saw ihe
approae of the train beforo they
sturtefl across the track, but the mules
DeeaViO frightened and started to run
away- "he animals crossed me iraea
-Hfeiy, but the engine struck the wug-
n squarely, splintering It and throw
ing the two men out.
TRAGEDY AT RROKEX ROW.
Fanner Shot mid Killed III Front at
Rank Ilulldlng.
John Sanderson, a farmer living
several miles east ir llroken Row, was.
i hot and Instantly,, killed Saturday
light by James Curland, a resident of
-rokeii Row. The shooting took place
n front of the State bank and was
.vltnessed by a number of people.
amleiKon, who had been drinking,
he arter-
.vas
very quarrelsome during th
i. According to. tyl wiljjSii
itioil
ses the
wo men met and had ffe.rds over fam
ily mutters, when Uarlaml drew a
levolver and Mtl thrco shots Into
Sanderson's face., killing him instantly,
faiiuud gsv hlni:elf up after the
iihootlng. Sanderson leaves a wire and
family
Cell brutes 9'Jtli ltlrlfal
Mrs. Hartslck, tho mother uX Iftnry
Itti tsick, living near West Point, cele
brated her Hith birthday on Wednes
day. Mrs. Ilurtslck is undoubtedly
the oldest woman ln (Aiming county
and probably In that neetlon of Ne
rusku, und is hale and hearty. She
nulks to church and buck every Sun
day. .a distance f four miles, and fre
ouently visits her relatives on foot,
traveling Mx to eight miles each time.
Whciit Vo i Works 1Iuvim
J. 11. J. Tetan, Ilvlijk seven miles
northeast of Cook, -discovered that a
iiiant!ty of his last year's wheat huft
'.teen ruined by wheat weevil. He had
: bout Mio bus'aels which he conclude J
t i sell. He took n load to the eleva
tor, where. It was thoroughly inspected
and was found to be literally alive
with wheat weevil.
Guilty of Extorting .Money.
A Juiy in the district court at IJn
coln Sat unlay declared R. J. Greene
uillty of etorilng money from Lin
coln lliiuor dealers. Green was In
dicted on the charge of tiling remon--t
unices before the excite board and
cNactlng cash payments for the with
dr.'iwiil i.r the suits.
llur;'nrH Haiti Postolllce.
Cim ks'neii Saturday night used dy
namite or idtroiiyceiin on the iafe of
the periodic at l-'alrmont, partly
-..-recking ll and tlamuglng ths build
ing. The iwbbers got only $20 In cush,
' 'it tiny ruined stamps and papers.
I. .l:-tei ,1 until win tarried away und
iilteis toyi open, but no greut sum
. us si cured The mutilated mall was
:a;oV U iu 1 near the Ruiiingtitn de
li t. i'l't ie !ti no clue to the l'obtV"V
The state board of jubllc lands an
I buildings will shortly advettlse fot
I bids for labor at the state penitentiary
and It Is a safe guess to make that th
Lee Broom & Duster company will
with the state for convicts at t0 rets
per day each. Already feve'rnl let
ters have been rjcelved from Interest
ed parties for Information regarding
the contract now in rorce and ths
board expects to receive several bids.
In addltiuu to getting convicts at SI
cents a day to make brooms, the Lot
company Is aluo furnished power and
heat and considerable machinery has
been bought by the state in order to
furnish this power and heat .which
othervlsrwou!d not have been neces
sary. The state does not compel the
company to stamp Its products "peni
tentiary made goods," consequently
It can compete with any other concern
which Is not favored by cheap labor.
Nebraska manufacturers have writ
ten the board that they pay from $3
to 3 a day for broom maktru am)
they are compelled to furnish their
own heat and power, which makes II
almost Impossible to compete with the
firm having the contract with th
state.
The supreme court has denied tht
application of the Union Pacific rail
road for a writ or mandamus to com
pel the state 'board or assessment to
reconvene and make a record of ob
jections and a finding of fact. The
court held that mandamus would not
lie to compel the board to make a re
cord or a flndlnr of fact not renulred
bv i-w
ranarltv -nd Its neilon Is not subtect
to collateral attacK, except on grounu-
of fraud or other wrongful conduct
ilvalent thereio or for the exerclss
of power not conferred by law. lite
Union Pacific tiled a petition for man
damus to compel the board to nmki
a record showing Just how it reached
the value of its property.
. .
The state railway commission hai
granted permission for a telephone
company at Iiattle Creek, to make a
rate of $13 per year to farmers and
business meniii place of, the $18 rato,
If the users will pay In advance $6.60
twice a 'year. If the users pay by the
montrh they can get telephones for $1!
a year, v The commission figures It.li
not violating the principle it laid down
when It refused to allow telephone
companies to sell $J0 coupon book!
for $100. When this question enme
up the commission held this was dls
crimination because not many people
could afford to buy the coupon books
ij-no commission figures most anyon
cnn Day tne ig.so ln advance
J.-a ?
t r The Humbolt Telephone company
has asked permission or mo runrunu
commission to Increase its rates to
farmers who built their own metallic
lines from 7Ec to $1.25 per month
This Is the price paid by other, who
use the wires put up by the company
The commission concluded to oJJow
h comr.anv to make the Increase
providing the users did not come 1
by April 1 and show good cause v i
the order should not be Issued. b
To the complaint against r
ton Btock yards at Kenesn- - Burling.
Ilngton has J.led answer the Bur-
railway commission. wIln thB state
or Kelby In his ans- Oenernl, Solicit
did not come W er said the matter
th. enmr ' tni the Jurisdiction
-
procedure -
A!.l itt f rr (Via nf II Ii itifti
PTeal iO Oim local notlinrilles and
,h Y'ck frds Is a nuisance the lo
cal BufLhor'ip, have Jurisdiction to
remedy thr4 evil.
The re j)way commission, after con-
B'Jer,nK , a complaint or creamery com
TiutdeS V. ji.i...i ... i
I panles has decided to Issue an order
requir ing ajj transportation companies
to gi ye bills or lading or receipts ror
'oods offered for shipment, the re
ce,4ts to be given on demand of the
F' jlpper. The order, when Issued, will
'ipply to "empties" us well us other
consignments.
The Judgment of the district court
of Richardson county, compelling the
Missouri Pacific company o build a
transrer switch to the property of the
Farmers Elevator company, at Straus
vllle. Is affrmed by a decision written
by Commissioner Dullie. .
John G. Hamblln of Grond Island,
sentenced to be hanged for tho murder
or Rachel Engle, will not be executed.
The supreme court has commuted the
sentence to lire Imprisonment at hard
labor and recommended that he be
not released from confinement.
' A number of citizens of Crete have
petitioned the state railway commis
sion to compel the Turlington railroad
to put back the operator in the depot
there. The telegraph olllce at Crete
wus Just recntly closed.
Christiana Henry of South Omaha,
wins her case against the Omaha
Packing company for damages for In
juries, the supreme court having af
firmed the decision of the lower court.
The state railway commission has
ordered the Llnwood telephone com
pany to charge the owners of the
property the same price for telephones
as the general public pays.
Marlon Morris or Omaha has been
Instructed by Insurance Deputy Pierce
to stop soliciting business ror the
Rldgely Protective association or Wor
cester, Muss.,- because the company
bus no license to do business In this
state.
The supreme court has quieted title
to the Joseph S. Hartley homestead In
Holt county In Hugh A. Allen. In
the same decision It holds thut the sale
of a homestead under an ordinary ex
ecuriou during the temporary ubsence
of he owner is old.
WORK Of .
I C0MGRESS j
Voting oil ainembiieiits i the curreuer
Mil consumed nearly the entire session of
he Senate Wednesday. All of the com
mittee's amendments were sceepteil and
incorporated in the lull, and all ilier
amendment, except one, were disagreed
to, the voting show in? conclusively that
Daly with the sanction of the committee
rould any change be made in the bill.
In the course of a bitter denunciation of
President Roosevelt on thftloor of the
House of Representatives Mr. Stanley
f Kentucky compared him with Alexan
der Hamilton, whom he designated as "an
obscure adventurer." and both of whom
he said had profound contempt for the
constitution niul displnyed'evcrlnstlng im
patience with its restraints. Mr. ltrvan,
he said, had the respect of the country as
statesman. Apparently ignoring '-Mr.
Stanley's remarks, Mr. Cocks of New
York, representing the President' dis
trict, defended the President against the
recent attack of Mr. W'illett. Mr. Wil
lett, replying, declared his complete abil
ity to defend all that he had unid.
The Senate Thursday devoted consid
erable time fo the credentials of Senator
Meet John Walter Smith of Maryland.
The result of a long debnte was the ad
mission of Mr. Smith. The currency bill
was then taken up anl amendment wers
considered. More shafts of sarensm and.
invective were aimed at Pr -sMent Hoose-
velt in the House. Mr. Reni of Texas' '
harged the President with having been
tuilty of ' disgusting 'pmrptuion of pow
tr" not only toward the national legisla
ture, but the judiciary as well. God and
the future alone knew, h ibvlprnd, just
what niche he wns to occupy in the tem
ple of bis country. T'i agricultural ap
propriation bill wns connidercd for amend
ment, and when it was l.inJ aside for the
iloy there had been Mrlcken out the pro-
visiou for new weather stations in the
States of Texas. Knnsns, Virginia, Michi
gan, Vermont, Missouri and Indiana.
The Setinte devoted Its entire sefsioi
Friday to a consideration of the Aldricb
currency, bill.. After further amending
the measure, it wns pnssed by a vote of
42 to ll. The Senate then adjourned
until Monday. The question whether or
not President Roosevelt ih an intolerant .
man after the fashion of King George
III., arose In the J louse.' The diseussiotii
wns founded on a local newspaper story
covering what purported to be the detail
of an interview between the President
and Representative Peikenin of Michigan,
ln which the president wns represent
as thumping his desk and berating
Deikema for having joined in the rr A'. '
of the subcommittee of the judioiar- plart
mlttee censuring Judges Wilfley ' yeoav
Pnited folates Court in Chir of tne '
Deikemn nbsolvef the Presld jfi- Mr. '
migitestion of intolerance, r vflt from the
displayed the greatest V jid said he hfld,'
ing his explanation. jOerulity in rereiv- .
propriation bill w . The agrieulturfil ap- t
not Been mater' as taken up, but it had -'
laid aside. ally mended when it was
The
day Senate wns not iu session Satur
lT . RuL little progress wns made in the
-ouse In considering the agricultural bill.
The discussion dwelt mainly upon the pro
posed establishment of federal standards
of cotton grades and federal inspection of
grains. Consideration of the bill had not
been concluded when the House adjourned
till Monday.
The passage of a large number of bills
of minor importance and an extended
discussion of a measure to authorize the-,
damming of the Snake River, Washing
ton, occupied the entire time of Ihe Sen
ate Monday. The session was brought to
a sudifrn close by lack of n, quorum...
Charges of a serious nature against flif--ford
Pinchot, chief of the forestry bu
reau, were made In the House by Messrs.
Smith of California and Mondellof Wyo- ,
niing. during the consideration of the ag
ricultural appropriation bill. Mr. Smith ,
accused him of entering luto a secret un
derstanding with the City of Los Angeles
with the view to securing the city alua
ble water rights in the Owens River Val
ley as against the interests of private
parties having prior claims. Mr.Mon
dell denounced him for, as he charged, il
legally paying the expenses of forest offi- '.
rials in attending conventions in the
West. The bill was under discussion ulL
day. I
Nearly the entire scsnion of the Sennte v
Tuesday was consumed in consideration
of a biil to permit the building of a dam
on the Snake river, Washington, and an
adjournment wns only reached after Mr.
Ileyhiirn of Idaho announced that he
would not permit a vote to be taken.
During the discussion of the bill Senator
Teller made a 8-ech ogninst exefntive
encroaehinent. Several bills of minor
importance were passed. After having
underline ninny changes, the paragraph
of the agricultural appropriation bill re
luting to the biirenu of forestry, was
tinnlly pnsed by the House. Messrs.
Moiiiieil ef Wyoming ami Smith of Cull
fornla continued their attacks on the bii
renu, supported by Messrs. Ronynge of
Colorado and Cushnmn of Washington..
Tht embraced charges tht the bureau
hnd crented timber mononolies'in favor of
large corporal ions, illegally assumed jur
isdiction over water rights hclongitig to
the Western States, and juggled with fig
ures in order to obtain large appropria
tions from Congress. The appropriation,
for the investigation of soils' was increased.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi
nation of William L. Day to he I'nited
Slates Attorney for the northern district
of Ohio. Mr. lny is a son of Associate
Justice Day of the I'nited Stales Su
preme Court.
The President announced the selection
of a referee hoard of prominent scienti.ta
of the country, wl are to uid tin; De
part incut of Agriculture in passing u;ion
the Knits based upon the use of herzoate
of soda, sulphur and other preservatives,
in th foods ef the country.