'f'v'C'" "v K DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD j MOTTO-All Tkft News Wfeem Jft Ii Hewn. Suue UiMirieul:,SoVictv.. . VOL. 20. DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1912. NO. 32. ,x 71 LIVES MENACED' 30 PASSENGER3 SAVED FROM BURNING SHIP FAST ON A SANDBAR. CREW OF ' 41 FIGHT FIRE Blaze Is Extinguished After a Hard Fight Life Savers of Great Servlco S. O. S. Signals Make the Res cue Posnlble. Ditch Plain Llfo Saving Station, L. 1. The rescue of a ship In peril at sea v as again duo to tho wireless, when the 30 passengers of tho coast-wlso ateamor Ontario, plying between Bal timore and Boston, wcro taken off tho craft after a flro hdd broken out in tho hold. Tho ship ran aground off Mohtauk Point and tho passengors taken to New London by tho tug Tosco, sum moned by wireless. Tho crow, 41 men, stayed with tho captain on the boat, and after a hard fight succeeded In ex tinguishing the blazo. The vessel is hard aground with a light soa running and only a little "wind, and there is slight danger, ap parently, of her going to pieces. Life savers hovered near the vessel In their boats, ready to take off the crow, but Cnptain Bond, when the Are was under control, said there would bo no need for their services. Tho flro broko out during the night and became so threatening that Cap tain Bond ordered tho wireless opera tor to send S. O. S. distress signals. An hour later ho turned back upon his course nnd drove tho vessel full speed ahead for tho reefs off Montauk Point. Th'o wireless sputtered along tho en tire north Atlantic coast with news of tho vessel's danger. Ten minutes la ter tho mon at this station saw tho ship on tho rocks, hurried off with a "breeches buoy apparatus and later dragged their surf boat on its truck three miles over tho beach to tho burning steamer. Tho life silvers, reinforced by a crew from tho Hither Plain station, two miles away, transferred the passen gers in small boats to a tug and stood off In readiness to take the crow ashoro if need be. Tho passengers were transferred in tho Ontario's llfe "boats. The. revenue cuttcra Mohawk and Seneca picked up tho wireless call at New York and the cutter Acushnet at "Boston hurried to tho scene. They Were ahlov-to. give -little -.assistance. .: however. ' Tho Ontario is a vessel of 1.9S7 tons net. She is 290 feet long, of steol, and was built in 1904. She Jeft'Daltlmqre Saturday. OVER 100 SAVED IN SOUTH Flood Twenty Feet Deep Sweeps Away an Entire Arkansas Town Refu gees Lose Everything. Memphis, Tenn. Tho loveo at Helena, Ark., breaking, shot a flood of water twenty feet deep into tho val ley town of Modoc, Ark., completely depopulating the town and washing out even tho strongest houses in the valley. The great mass of water formed a lake, hemmed in on three sides by tho hills and fed from tho fourth by' tho river. The steamer Kate Adams was near 'Modoc when tho levee broke and res cued those imperiled. A hundred or more panic-stricken negroes were ta ken from a government barge. Later motor launches rescued a number of farm hands fiom the roofs of cablnu, from trees and peaks .of knolls which were abovo the water, The refugees saved none of their be longings. Many of Ilium were almost naked when they reached the river boats. The boat captains nnd moro fortunato sufferers .divided clothing with the neMy. 70UNG OUT FOR SENATOR Iowa Editor Formally Announces He Is a Candidate for the United States Senate. Des Moines, la. Formal announce ment of the candidacy of Lafayette "Young for United States sonator to succeed Senntor W. S. Kenyon, was mado hero In tho Des Moines Capital, of which Mr. Young is publisher. Col onel Young succeeded Senator J. P. Dolllver by appointment of Governor Carroll and served In the senate un til Senator Kenyon was elected by the Iowa legislature in Fobruary of 'ast year. Grant to Abandon Command. Now York. MaJ. Gen. Frederick Dent Grnnt, U. S. A., commanding the -eastern division of tho army, will not return to Governor's lBland to resume command of tho division. That Gen eral Grant has suffered an almost com ploto breakdown in health Is ndmlttod by many of his army friends, but that Uo Is suffering from cancor of tho throat, the disease thnt killed Gen. T'lyrtfes S. Grant, his father,-Is denied y those Close to him. Dno Killed, Seven Hurt by Train. New York. A laborer was killed nnd wven otb' re Injured when a construc tion trnli' ni' the new Port Ohogtor railroad ' r unexpectedly from ono trac' :- tio'I. r npon which the im . v.ci urk Prop r " C..-p?ny Dankrept. V.'jvid . . .;. I. A petition in bank- u',. v,.-. fled here by the Union M.ii.r.." tin '." and Drop Forge com p.,,v or ': .""n!,'! nee. The sched ule showed liubllluoc of SlCS.ioo and asd.-tscf ' i:oi5. WILSON IN DENIALS TESTIFIES AS TO ALLEGATIONS IN EVERGLADES CASE. Department Has Not Made Complete Inquiry of Florida Project. Washington. Secretary of Agricul ture James Wilson testified boforo tho houso committee on expenditures in tho agricultural department, in an swer to critics In and out of congress, on his conduct in connection with re ports on tho drainage of tho Florida Everglades. Mr. Wilson has beon under flro of opposing Interests nnd factions in Florida lands nnd Florida politics. First he was attacked for permitting to bo published departmental reports which boomed Evorgladcs lands, and moro recently because ho suppressed tho Information. Mr. Wilson denied that tho original excerpt of the report of Major J. G. Wright on tho Everglades was given out with his consent. This excerpt wns used In advertising purposes In Florida. It was obtained In tho de partment by Henry Clay Hall. Later, Mr. Wilson said, he wroto former Governor Gilchrist of Florida and nuthorizod tho publication of parts of his letter In relation to tho Everglades. Mr, Wilson expressed the opinion that the department had not mado a complete investigation of the Ever glades project on any of the features covered In the reports In controversy. He dismissed tho details of tho riv airy botween department experts and their complaints that they wcro being robbed of credit for work. TAFT HITS JAPAN BUGABOO U. S. Will Not Intervene In Mexico Jap ColoViIsatlon at Magdalcna Bay Absurd and Groundless. Washington. The Lodge resolution calling upon tho president to send to tho senate Information obtained by the Gtate department in tho investiga tion of the report that the Japanese government was seeking from Mexico a naval base at Magdalena bay Is now said to have been a part of nn admin istration plan to smash tho constantly recurring bugaboo of Japanese invn sioa or colonization of North Amer ica. Huntington Wilson, action Secre tary of state, and Representative Sul- Zfir nf TtfATV Vnrlr nlinlrmnn nf . hotfto foreign affair committee; hud a long conference With President Taft at the White Houso. After his tall: with the president, Chalrmau Sulzer said ho was con vinced that there would bo an Inter vention by the United States in Mex ico nnd that reports of Japanese col onization at Magdalcna bay -wcro ab surd and groundless. PLAN REJECTED BY U. S. Wlckersham Insists That Harvester Firm Be Divided Into Six Parts. Washington. Attorney General Wlckersham has rejected the proposal to dissolve the "harvester trust" by dividing tho concern Into two compa nies. Ho demands the division of tho cor poration into six parts, each of which shall manufacture one o the' patents on harvesters controlled by the con corn. 'This is tho first serious compli cation of the negotiations for an ami cnblo reorganization of tho Interna tional Harvester company so as to mako It conform to tho Supreme court's interpretation of tho Sherman anti-trust law. It was stated, howover, that the ne gotiations are not entirely off, but that a further attempt will be mado by tho representatives of tho company to reach an agreement with the de partment of justice. FL0RETTA WHALEY SEES KIN Girl Who Fled With, Rev. Jere K. Cooke Tells Grandmother Sho Is Sick. Hempstead, N. Y. Florctta Wha ley, who eloped from Hempstead six .years ago, when sixteen years of age, with Uov. Jere K. Cooko, rector of St. Goorgo's Episcopal church, re turned to tho homo of her grand mother here. Sho said sho was homesick for old friends and relatives. Cooko did not accompany her and sho stayed but a short while, then rejoined him in Now York. When Cooko and tho girl left Hemp stead ho deserted his wlfo, who was a member of a prominent and well-to-do family In Hnrtford, Conn. Two Die In Auto Accident. Philadelphia. John Lowls Hoffman nnd Arthur L. Hyerson, Yale studonts, were killed' In an automobile accident whllo speeding. Tho young men wofo homo for tho Easter holidays. Itydr on was tho guest of Hoffman. Theater Panic Kills Seven. Avesnos, Franco. Seven women and chlldron woro killed In this city in a rush to the doors in a concort hall, following mi outbreak of fire. Fifteen other women nnd children were Injured. Iowa Dlvor'ewe KHIc Former Husband. Des Moines, la. Wylle Pratt waa shot nnd killed hy his former wlfo here In 1: s owu home In North De3 Moines The woman g.vo herself up to the p"l"c. S!k s;:ya fclioshot In self, icfer co. HAVOC WROUGHT BY FLOOD & - ' t - : ;' ;$r vt- ' '. . .IViiMs&sft' ,.-. ;.. ..' . ' ' " v - -5; f r . 5 " iL-Z....' "IL - '''"S T:'ffr.:y?5r"y .1.'v'JiT:;!R!!?r"Si???'MN!-? ? 'i'.' ,.x;ii Photo, Copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y, Typical scene at Mound, III., near Cairo, showing residents making calls on neighbors through the medium of a row boat. The waters of tho flood can be seen on a level with the porches of the houses. I BIO FLOOD WATER CAUSES GREAT LOSS, MIS- ERY AND WANT THIRTY KILLED. DAMAGES RUN INTO MILLIONS Thirty Thousand Homeless Cairo Levees Severely Tested Mall Servlco Is Halted Flooded District Looted by Unprincipled Vandals. Memphis, Tenn. Thirty persons have been drowned, 30,000 personN are homeless, 2,000 squnro miles of country nro Inundated nnd thero ha been a financial loss of $10,000,000 an a result of the two weeks' flood in the Mississippi valley. Tho flood crest, rapidly going south. Is leaving behind it a wnko of desola tion which will cost planters millions of .dc-lltira and leave thousands home less. For fifty; mllea below .'lempbJo tho last owners and renters are still desperately working ta bold back the rushing river, but with scant success. From six. to ten-feet of -water floods tho fertile St; Francis basin, the source of one-tenth of tho cntlro cot ton crop of tho world. It will be days before this water will havo run off, and dnys beforo the river Will nave lowered to a sufficient depth to allow tho planters to rebuild their levees. Interruption of tho mall service is tho latest problem which confronts both tho residents of tho valley and tho government officials. From tho Ohio river to tho Rocky Mountains, as showing tho greatost scope of this roc ord flood, the mall service is bolng carried on' through emergency chan nels, nnd In many districts no mail has been received since Tuesday last. J. M. Mastln, superintendent nt Omaha, reports tho emtio conditions with ico gorges In tho northwest tribu taries, tho Loup, Plntto and Elkborn rivers. Short end trains and substitute mall trains are making short connections throughout tho valley. In somo places pouches of mall aro bolng carried across open places In tho trackage by cable from one short end train to an other. Postmaster Goneral Hitchcock has Issued instructions to every railway mull superintendent In tho valley to use every effort to keep the mails moving and avoid so far as possible congestion at any Junction or big handling point, bo that they can bo moved quickly when regular traffic Is resumed. Cairo, 111. Tho Cairo loveos were given a severe test With tho river standing at Dt feot, tho highest stage reached, a sovero windstorm set In nnd dashed tho waters with great forco against tho loveo embankments. Heavy rolls woro drlvon with a mighty roar against tho stono wall, striking with great force- ns to throw tho water high in tho air. All leveca stood tho sovoro strain and when inspoctcd lator wero found to bo substantial and in tact Vandal3 havo beon looting Iioubob In tho flooded drainage district and .Sheriff Fraser has put on a forco of deputies with motor boats and skiffs to patrol tho territory with Instruc tions to shoot whon necessary. A number of boats havo arrived from tho flooded district in Missouri loaded down with refugees nnd stock which wcro landed at tbo hills near Wlckllffo, Ky. Tho boats roport much stock still In the district horded on Mount Mounds, which aro gradually being submerged and also many poo plo living in tho attics of their homes. Word from Hickman, Ky., Is to the effect that 1,000 refugees reached thnt place, mnklng S.COO thero all told. Columbus. Ky., reports 800 In that town. Would Unseat Cnwmakcrs, Santa Fo, N. M. Tho houso bribery Investigation committee, by a voto of 9 to C, decided to mako a roport ad verso to the four house members ac cused of bribery and recornmendtd that they bo unseated. Mohammedans Are Slain. London, Kngland. Anti-foreign riots havo broken out In the Ohlnpso prov ince of Shonsl, whero many Moham medans have been mnssmrod. acoor.l ing o a rows agency dlspat-h from Tlentslu received hero. PERISH 1 ' 1 .,' . .W.W:. 3KUv'vfrv;j&S'sKaa- is- .-.; -"isse':v t '-v." - ;W;? . , n" ' ' ' w- VV ' . f .'-' TROOPS GUARD MILLS THREE COMPANIES' PARADE STREETS NEAR UTCA, N. Y. Fear of Violence by Striking Textile Workers Cauces Sheriff to Appeal for MIHtla. Utlca, N. Y. Fearing violence on tho part of foreigners mid others who aro out of tho textile mills in tho New York mills on a strike for in creased pay and other' concessions, Sheriff Eockor called To? the nullc-nul guard to protect life and (property, and three companies of militia aro doing patrol duty in the streets and guard ing tho closed suburban mills. Tho sheriff notified the local militia officers that tho situation was beyond his control, and tho Twenty-eighth and Forty-fourth companies or Utlca and the Thirty-first Mohawk separnto company wero at onco ordered to pro ceed to tho vlllngo. Their arrival in tho place was n complete Rttrrris to mo, of th .3,000 textile workers and their coming waa greeted with wrathy mutterlngs. Colonel Hitchcock of Binghamton la In charge of tho troops., Several small riots' 6ciirred In-various: places, but thew? were quickly quelled. A dozen arrests wero made, one woman being taken Into custody becauso sho hurled half a pound of red pepper into tho eyes of a deputy sheriff. Passaic, N. J. Tho riot act was read from the steps of tho Forstman & Huffman company silk mill at Gar field to a crowd of 400 strikers, and a double forco of polico and deputies soon cleared the streets. TWO RECEIVERS ARE NAMED D. W. Call and Otto H. Fak to Take Over Allls-Chalmers Com pany's Affairs, Milwaukee. Receivers havo been appointed for tho Allls-Chalmers com pany by Judgo A. L. Sanborn of tho United States district court Tho re ceivers aro D. W. Call, president of tho company, and Gen. Otto H. Falk of this city, a prominent manufacturer and president of tho Merchants nnd Manufacturers' uBsociation. Tho appointments wero made on tho application of the First National nnd the Wisconsin National banks of this city, both creditors of tho company, and W. W, Nichols of New York, a; bondholder and stockholder. Tho court directed tho receivers to continue Uie business of tho company so that all its assots and interests ns a going concern will bo fully protect ed. Tho court appointed Max Y.r. I3abb of this city attorney for tho receivers. Th present capitalization of tho Allls-Chalmers company consists of fl5, 000,000 bonds, of which $11,158,000 Is outstanding: preferred stock, 525,000. 000, of which Jlfi.150,00 is outstand ing, nnd common stock, $25,000,000, of which $19,820,000 13 outstanding. MAKES SANDERS SENATOR Governor Hooper of Tennessee Ap points Successor to the Late Robert L. Taylor. Nashville, Tenn. Governor Hooper has announced tho appointment of Nowell Sanders of Chattanooga as United States senator to succeed the lato Senator Robert L. Taylor. Lorlmer Victim of Grip. Chicago. Senntor William Iorlmor is reported to bo suffering from a sud den attack of grip. At tho I.orimor rcsldouco It wag said that tho sonator was conflnod-to his bed nnd thnt ho had a fovor, but hl condition was hot eoiiFi'lered sorlous. Jumps From Thirty-First Floor. New YorlcKmnk I.aw, & parachuto Jumper, dropped from the thlrty.flrt ntory of tho Hankers' Trust bulldliiR here and landed unhurt in the sub treasury hi closure vliiio an imrnenua crowd looted on. ' "I I "I ' ' m Killed by (falling OlaM. Lincoln. Neb. Btevenu. the three-yMi-nliI daughter of Joseph Kopji, was lrll'nl whll at piny v. no) a Rust of wlr Vev a pane of Rlt. frou a gro cery tin('ov in front of vh! h -:.o was t.' r'llng. BITS OF FLESH xd nmiir ni iir M unliik ion Bloodstains on tho Walls oj an Office Indicate Explosion Wounded One Bandit. THE SAFE IS CRACKED Overcharge of Nitroglycerin Folia Rob bers, Who Aro Thought to Havo At tempted Another Robbery, Be ing Frightened Away. Chicago. Several Jagged bits or hu man flesh, tho torn loft leg of n pair of trousors and crimson blood BtnlnB on wnlls nnd furnituro woro tho grow somo clues to an attompted eafo rob bery found by tho polico tho othor day in tho ofllco of tho Williams Grain company, 40G - West Thirty-ninth fitivel. Tho stains nnd ovldonco of an acci dent nro declared by the polico to bo tho result of an overcharge of nitro glycerin, nnd it Is thought ono of U10 members of tho gang of "yeggs" la dnngorotiBly wounded. Tho snfo which, tho mon woro trying to break Into was wrecked and tho walls and furnituro In tho ofllco domollshed. Tho dnmngo dono by tho explosion not only evidently wounded ono of tho robbers, but causod tho gang to fleo without attempting to tako any valuables from tho safe. Tho marauders aro believed to bo the samo ones who a short Umo bo foro wero frightened away from tho offices of tlm Ro.htilsuo Rnklnfi com pany, 139 West Thirty-fifth street, after they had drilled tho combination of Iho safo and wero prepnrlng to In sert nnd light a fuse. A watchman at tho bakoshop con cern wns abovo tho office when ho heard the combination of tho safo In tho ofllco fall to tho floor. Ho tele phoned tho polico, but tho safo blow ers gathered tholr tools and escaped beforo tho polico arrived. Tho robbers aro bollovod to havo separated after leaving the baking plant, and, by devious ways, reached Used an Overcharge. tho grain elovator office, which appar ently hnd lmnn plokod out as a place whero money might bo obtained. An examination of tho shattered irnrla of Use safo showed that tho "yeggmen" drilled tho safo carefully, but placed In too largo a quantity of tho explosive Tho nolso of tho oxploslon was heard by. several porsons and tho po lico or tho Thlrty-flfth street station wcro again notified. Whon detectives and polico entered tho wrecked ofllco nnd found tho walls frescoed with blood, they placed a guard around tho grain elevator and mado a careful search of tho building. It was bo llovod that a leg of ono of tho burg lars was either blown off or severely mangled and torn. Falling to find any traco of tho "yeggmen" in tho building, a hurried ncarcli of tho neighborhood was mado, but with no results. Whnt appear to bo finger prints on n door frumo, apparently mado by ono of tho wounded bandits, will bo mado tho subject of a study by Captain Ev ans of tho bureau of Identification In an attempt to identify tho burglars. Thero was a small sum of money and about $10 worth of stamps In tho safe. Peddler Leaveo $500,000. St. JoBoph, Mo. IleBlnnlnB Hfo In St. Joseph 2D years ago with a dilapi dated wagon nnd an old hay horse, villi tho aid of which ho poddlcd meat about tho BtrectB, James W. Ilartlgan, who died tho other night at tho ago of Boventy-clght, leaves nn eatato esti mated to ho worth $GOO,000. Ho do sorted tho cart for a stall In tho city marltot, and by Investing his oavlngs in rotl oBtato becamo wealthy. Whittles Prevent Study. Now York. Tho Mothers' club of FlatbuBh has complained to tho board t of aldcimcn that tho whlBtlora on ' peanut venders' carts, stationed In ' front of public schools, prevent tho I children from studying. H A R N ES Si Everything in the line of I Harness a.tvd Horse Goods I Concord Harness, $35.00 I Our Spring Stock of Harness Goods is now in, nnd it will ba money in your pocket to get our prices first on any thing you may need in our line of Harness, Pads, Whips, Etc. Wc make a specialty of all kinds of repair work. 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