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VOL. 20.
DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, jfotlDAY, AUGUST 23, 1912.
NO. 51.
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TOLD IN MATTER OF EQUAL
IZINQ FARM LAND VALUE8.
STATE BANKING BOARD ACTS
Governor Says State Boar Must
Raise Enough Revenue to Pay
Legislative Appropriations.
The proposal of tbo stato board of
assessment to equalize farm land
values between counties by lncreus
ing tho asBCBBcd values ot lands Ip
flfty-one counties' and reducing
values in soven counties, resulted in
the biggest pow-wow over held be
fore a state board In Nebraska, says
tho Lincoln Journal.
Tho stato board proposes to Im
creaso tho assessed values in fifty
ono counties from 5 to 20 per cent.
Tho objections that poured In upon
tho board were nlmost as numerous
as tho counties in tho list and soma
ot tho seven counties whoso valua
tions are to bo reduced from 5 to 10
asked for greater reduction.
It was ono continual round of
hard luck stories and oceans ot
worthless land. "I never knew that
Nebraska was such a poverty strick
en state, and that it contained so
much worthless land," said one who
heard tho assessors object to an in
creaso in assessed valuations. "I
am almost afraid to remain longer In
the state after hearing of tho amount
of worthless land and crop failures.
yVnd to think that ono can buy In
Richardson county for from $1 to $10
an aero land that is covered with
timber and Is suitable for fruit grow
ing." Occasionally an assessor or county
attornoy or county commissioner
would admit that much f tho land In
their countieB had been valued for
assessment at $125 or $150, but the
general tenor of their remarks was
"poor land," and opposition to an in
creased valuation.
Tho stories wore in contrast to
those, told bv witnesses called by
railroad companies before tho stato
railway commission's physical valu
ation department. Before that de
partment, where railroads desire to
boost the valuo of their right of way
witnesses state that there is no poor
land in sight-, and that values run
considerably over $100.
Almost in vain did Governor Aid
rich preach to tho county officers
present the theory that tho state
board must equalize to obtain any
thing like equality in counties and
that if assessed values are increased,
tho state board will decrease the
stato levy one mill and county boards
can decrease the percentage of levy
so that taxpayers need not pay any
inoro money on their lands than they
paid last year.
Some assessors contended that
county boards would bo to blame if
they did not reduce levies in tho
face of an Increased assessed valu
ation, but asserted that many local
assessing boards would fall to do so
and tho result would be an Increase
In the amount of monoy collected
tor taxes.
Governor Aldrich said tho stato
board must raiso enough revenue to
pay tho appropriations made by the
legislature and county boards must
look after the needs of counties and
Bchool districts, but that with an In
creased valuation tho tax levies
could bo reduced and only enough
money raised to pay tho expenses of
tho stato and local governments and
nobody w6uld bo hurt. Ho said if
levies are not reduced In the face of
an increased valuation of lands, the
local boards and not tho state board
will be to blame.
Urltf EvnnB, county assessor or
Admits county, objecting to an in
crease of 10 per cent in land values
in his county, which would bring
tho average per aero up to $61.03,
plainly said when tho political effect
was mentioned that ho felt that If he
was responsible for tho increase in
his county ho would expect to bo
wiped from tho political map.
Second Regiment Camp.
Orders havo been issued from tho
office of tho adjutant general for an
encampment of tiro companies of tho
Second regiment at Grand Island on
August 21, to remain until August
28. All companies of that regiment
except G of Omaha and K. of Schuy
ler will comprise tho camp.
Prominent Educator Dead.
C. M. Penny, a member 'of tho
teachers' stato examination board
and a prominent Nebraska educator,
died at his homo in Lincoln. Ho had
been ill for several months and was
unable to attend to his duties for
eleven weks preceding his death.
The Green Bug Pest.
According to Assistant Stato Ento
tnolgist Myron H. Swenk, the green
bugs said to be destroying tho corn
crops in the vlclhty of Fremont, bo
Jong In nil probability to a species
ot plant lice which lias been known
In Nebraska for some time. Ileports
from Fremont are to tho effect that
tho pests arc killing off the corn at
an alarming rate. Small green bugs
atnckpd tho wheut in somo parts of
Nebraska In tho 'spring of 1907, but
'it is believed that they wero of a
'fllffercut species than proBont pests:
ROAD MAKES APPEAL.
Union Paclflo Seeks Reversal of
Shippers' Damages.
The Union Pacific railway company
has filed In tho office of tho clork ot
tho supreme court an appeal from
the district court of Dawson county
in a caso wheroin Robert W. Ralston,
a stock shipper, had obtained two J
judgments ngalnBt tho company for
injuries to stock shipped from Utah.
Mr. Ralston sets forth in district
court that ho shipped two cars of
llvo stock, ono to Loxlngton nnd tho
other to Willow Island, in Nebraska.
That tho usual amount of time re- '
quired to carry tho stock from Den- '
ver to Lexington is twenty-five hours
but that tho stock was kept on the
road alxety-one hours. Ho says that '
on account of a holo undor tho
door of tKo car six of tho cattlo had
caught their legs therein and had !
tiiem broken, while seven others wore
soriously Injured becauso of tho rough
handling of tho cars. Ho asked dam
ages in tho sum of $500.
Tho second car was en route from
Denver to Willow Island, fifty-olght
hours, .when twenty-four hours was
tho usual tlmo consumed. Thrco
head cf cattlo in that car wero killed
and ono had a hip broken, besides
other damages. Ho asked for $500
damages in that case.
In the first case tho Jury awarded
Mr. Ralston the full amount nsked,
with Interest, which made tho judg
ment $536.64, while In tho second
caso they gave him in all $164.40. Tho
company appeals to tho supreme
court.
Special Sunday Hates.
In answer to a letter sent by Secre
tary of Stato Wait to L. W. Wakeley
asking for special service or cheap
rates on Sunday boforp the opening
of the stato fair so that people com
ing to the fair can got there in time
to attend the unveiling of tho Abra
ham Lincoln statue, Mr. Walt received
tho following letter from Mr. Wakeley:
Mr. Melor and I had a talk about
train service As tho result of this I
havo added more specials from tho
state Into Lincoln Tuesday. You un
derstand that people can come to Lin
coln, on as cheap railroad faro on
Sunday as on Monday, or subsequent
days: the rate every day Is 2 centa
a mile In each direction. Our regular
train service Into Lincoln on Sunday
is ample from all populous territory.
Wo havo Sunday trains on all main
lines Into Lincoln from every direc
tion. Thero Is. only certain branch
lino territory not served by Sunday
trains into Lincoln. Tho only section
from which passengers cannot reach
Lincoln before Monday is from north
of, Aurora, but that country Is so dis
tant that I would havo to start special
trains from up there long before day
light In order to reach Lincoln In tho
forenoon. Wo do not initiate Sunday
special excursions; wo doslro to givo
our crews their Sunday rest. But in
tho case at hand, there is practically
no need of our running Sunday trains
aB our many regular trains Into Lin
coln will tako caro of over 90 per
cent of any possible Sunday travel.
Close Call for Metcalfe.
According to J. L. McBrlen of Lin
coln, who returned from tho progress
ive convention at Chicago, R. L. Met
calfe of Lincoln might havo been
considered as Colonel Roosevelt's run
ning mato had his consent been ob
tained. Adjutant General Back.
Lieutenant F. C. Test and Adjutant
General Phelps returned from tho
Polo Mountain maneuvers with the
guard. Tho trip was a successful one
and very beneficial to the guard. The
march of eighteen miles from Polo
Mountain to Laramie, whore tho
guard took tho train, was mado In
llvo hours and forty minutes. Tho
boys stood It pretty well, only six
men falling out and taking tho ambu
lance. However, somo of tho boys
had their feet somowhat blistered.
Banking Board Acts.
Tho state banking board has taken
official notice that In somo states
professional promoters aro going
about organizing new banks on tho
commission plan and then departing
for now fields to earn moro commis
sions for getting stock subscriptions.
No such instances In Nebaska havo
como to tho notico of tho boprd, but
at its last meeting It adopted a reso
lution Instructing Secretary Royso to
to wlthold charters where It Is
found that their organization has
been effecotd by methods Incompat
ible with safo banking.
No Troops at County Fairs.
Tho county fairs of tho stato ot
Nebraska will not bo supplied with
cavalry troops for exhibitions this
fall, as many of them havo expected.
A recent ordhr from Washington or
ders tho cavalry troops of Fort Rob
inson and J"ort Mcado to tako part
in the maneuvers at Hot Springs
during tho first week In September.
Theso are tho two fojts from which
tho various county fairs had been ex
pecting to securo detachments.
Pardon Denied.
J. W. Connell, alias V. T. Dorson,
sent up fiom Douglas county on a
chargo of robbery in April, 1909, has
mado application to tbo Board of Par
dons for a pardon nnd the same has
been donled. Connoll Is a brothor-ln-Int
of Charles Morley, connected with
tho outbreak at tho ponltoutlary list
spring, and was sont up for holding
up Louis Parsloy at his placo.of bust
ness In Omaha. Parsley was forced
at tho point of n gun to hand ov
$120 In cash, und In addition an over
coat which was Identified.
. NE of tho Interesting sights at the water carnlvdl, recontly hold at Chloago, was tho "Lad" a mlnlatupro ropro
vJ duction of tho Mississippi river packets. Its owner and captain Is Dr. J. W. Nixon of Burlington, Iowa, and ho
and his family havo been cruising all over tho Mississippi river system In tho llttlo boat "Lad" is a convotod
towboat with gasollno motor, the smokestacks being only ornamonts. Tho boat measures 67 feet In length.
DIE IN CLOUDBURST
STORM CAUSES DEATH AND DE
STRUCTION IN MICHIGAN
AND INDIANA
WASH AWAY SEVEN BRIDGES
Railroad Tracks Inundated Big $1,
OCO,000 Dam Breaks Three Men
Struck by Lightning Fourteen
Inches of Rain Is Recorded.
Nlles, Mich., Aug. 20. Confined In
its devastating effects to an area with
in a radius of threo miles of this city,
a phenomenally heavy cloudburst
Sunday caused the death of two per
sons. Injuries to many others, washed
out seven railway bridges, destroyed
miles of railroad tracks, stopped street
car traffic In Nlles and other towns,
held up trains of the Big Four und tho
Michigan Central and did hundreds of
thousands of dollars damage.
Fourteen Inches of rain fell In Nlles
and the neighborhood. Tho following
wero killed by lightning:
Otto Seaver, thirty-four years old;
farmer near Nlles.
Blllwoch, seventy years old; farmer
near Nlles.
Charles W. Hushowor, a railroad
official from South Bend, was driving
near hero In an automobile with threo
expert linemen when tho entire party
was struck by lightning. Hushowor
and the three linemen wero severely
Injured and rendered unconscious.
Abraham Harrod of NUbh was also
struck by lightning and rendered un
conscious while ho was driving his ma
chine on tho highway on tho road to
South Bend.
Tho million-dollar dam of tho Cha
pin Power company on tho St. Joseph
river, which was erected recently by
Chicago capitalists for the purpose of
supplying electric power to South
Bend, Mlshawaka, Elkhart and St. Jo
seph, threatens to break, and hun
dreds of mon with sandbags endcav-
Uored to save It.'
Other hundreds of workmon worked
desperately to savo tho big dam built
by the city of Nlles, which supplies
power for the electric lighting and
traction companies.
Alf tho bridges on the Big Four and
Michigan Central rallroadB for a dt
tanco of threo mllos east and west of
this city havo been destroyed by tho
cloudburst, and scores of freight enrs
have been swept into tho St. Joseph
river. The Mlchliran Central railroad
yards, covering six ncres, are undor
water.
Tho dam of tho Cantrell Flour com
pany nt Nlles burst, nnd the mill and
othor buildings for half a mile around
wero flooded.
Nino cars full or anlmalB and effects
bolonging to tho Tlgor Bill circus,
which was to appear at Benton Har
bor. Is stalled in threo feet of water
nenr here.
Interurban street car service be
tween Nlles and St. Joseph and othor
towns is entirely stopped. Great dam
ago has been dono to telephone and
telegraph wires.
Gets Cash In Bold Day Theft.
Toledo, O,, Aug. 21. Nearly $1,000,
mostly in curroncy, and tho rest In
checks, was filched from tho office of
tho Detroit nnd Clovoland Nnvigatlon
company office here Monday In a bold
t'avilght robbery. An hour later tho
robber roturned $100 to tho company
through n third person.
Volcano of 8tromboll Imperils Island.
Messina, Italy, Aug. 19. Tho volca
no of Stromboll Is In violent eruption
and the Inhabitants of tho Island of
Htiomboll are panic-stricken. Terrific
showers of aides were pouring from
the volcano s four mouths Filday.
U. S. Troops In Managua.
Managua, Nicaragua, Aug. 19. Capt
Warren .1. Torhune, commander of tho
I'nltod States gunboat Annapolis, with
a forco of American marines com
posed of 11 officers and 351 men, ar
lved In tho capital Friday
MISSISSIPPI PACKET CN LAKE
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U. S. SUES "TRUST"
MOVING PICTURE CONCERNS
NAMED IN ACTION FILED.
Combine Accused of Overstepping the
Bounds of the Lawful Monopoly
Granted Them.
Philadelphia, Aug. 19. For tho dis
solution of tho Motion Plcturo Pat
ents company and tho General Film
company, tho federal government at
tacked tho so-called moving plcturo
trust in a civil Bult filed hero. Ten
prominent moving picture film con
cerns are accusod of combining to mo
nopolize tho business, pvon to tho
extent of increasing or decreasing the
number of motion plcturo theaters, In
which they havo no proprietary In
terest. Each of tho defendantp is nllegpd to
have overstepped the bounds of the
lawful monopoly granted by their
patents and tho petition asks that sev
eral complicated Interlocking license
restrictions, tying patents togother, be
ordered canceled.
Tho government declares that a sum
greatly In excess of $100,000,000 has
been Invested In tho different branches
of tho business.
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I NEWS FROM FAR
AND NEAR
Juarez, Mexico, Aug. 20. For a fow
hours a Mexican Jean d'Arc was tho
dictator of thlB town. With ton rebel
soldiers marching at tho heels of her
horse, she rode up to the police sta
tion and disarmed tho provisional
chief of police and six of his men.
The rebels rodo away mounted on tho
policemen's horses.
Atlantic City, N. J.. Aug. 20. Tho
fashlonnblo cottago colony at Chelsea
was nrousod again on learning that
$12,000 worth of Jewels wero stolen
from tho hoino ot Air. and Mrs. Wal
ter K. Klemm.
Fort Leavenworth. Kan.. Auc. 2n
With 6,000 troops In tho field, supplied
"II inousands of rounds of blank am
munition which will bo used when tho
Bed nnd Biuo armies meet, tho big
gest mimic war over held in this stnto
began on Monday. Tho maneuvers win
continue for ten days.
EX-CONVICT IN A NEW START
Councilman of Philadelphia Who Told
of Prison Term Will Return
to Position.
Philadelphia, Aug. 20. William
Burke, common councilman nnd ox
convict, who, to escape tho blackmail
ing of a former prison mate, confessed
his criminal career and fled, will re
turn to this city within a week.
Encouraging words and offers to as
sist htm regain an honornblo position
In tho community mado by Mayor
Blankenburg and other prominent city
officials aro responsible for his de
cision to ngaln look tho world in the
face.
"After weeks of sleoplcssnesB and
terror I at last feel llko a man," said
Burko to a correspondent at his place
of seclusion. "No longer pur
sued by tho fear of exposure and the
consequences to mysolf and family, I
will bo nblo to dovoto my best onor
gles to galnlnft nn honosOIlvellhood."
Taft Signs Pension Bill.
Washington, Aug. 20. President
Tnft's first official act Saturday was
to sign tho $160,000,000 pension ap
propriation bill. Tho pension office
sent telegraph orders to tho eighteen
outlying agencies to start payment.
Panama Crash Sinks 8hlp.
Panama, Aug. 20. Part of tho now
American wharf collapsed hero Sun
day and two electric cranes fell on
tho Pacific mall steamer Newport,
causing it to sink. Blasting had weak
ned tho pler'a foundations.
MICHIGAN
SUSPECTS ABE SLAIN
MEXICAN SOLDIERS EXECUTE 210
SUSPECTED OF BEING REBEL
SYMPATHIZERS.
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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Major Rice's Command Is Safe De-'
tachment of Third U, S. Cavalry1
Will Be Kept In Big Bend Country1
to Preserve Order.
Mexico City, Aug. 21. Suspoctod
of being robol sympathizers 210
persoiiH hnvo buen executed at
Puruandlro, Btato of MIchoacan. Ac
companied by horrible barbarities, tho
executions havo aroused protests
throughout tho republic, according to
letters published Monday In El Im
parclal, tho leading dally newspaper
of this city.
Tho victims of federal rovongo were
not granted trials, but wore Bhot upon
tho accusation of government sympa
thizers and tho executions wero hold
wherover tho men wero caught, In
their homes or hi the streets.
Twelvo of tho victims wero loss
thnn fourteen years of ago and all
wero young men, most of whom hnd
refused to Join tho federal army. Tho
rebels, under Jose Morn, a lleutonant
of Emtllano Zapata, looted tho town
July 12, abandoning It about August
1. Tho federal authorities entered
and put to death all suspects.
Washington, Aug. 21. Tho Mexican
government, through Ambassador Wil
son, Monday promlsod tho stato de
partment that everything posslblo
would bo dono to traco and punish tho
parties guilty of tho murdor of Rowan
Ayres, tho young Clnclnnntl civil en
gineer, who was found beheaded In
Contrnl Mexico last week. ' Ayrcs'
body will bo sent back to tho ,Unltod
States at tho expense of tho Mexican
government.
Brigadier General Stcover assured
tho war department of tho safety of
Maj. Sodgwlck Rico and his detach
ment of tho Third cavalry Bent Into
tho Big Borid country in Now Moxlco
to prevent smuggling nnd who woro
In danger of being nttackod by 1,500
Mexican robols across tho rlvnr. Major
Rice's dotachmont haB been rein
forced and will bo kept at Its present
post for somo tlmo.
AST0R BABY IS EXPENSIVE
Reported Doctor Is Paid $1,000 Day,
Making $45,000 for Care of
Mother and Child.
New York, Aug. 19. John Jacob As
tor VI. Is reported to bo th'o most ex
penslvo baby oyor brought Into tho
world. Gossip In tho medical world
Is that Dr. Edwin Bradford Cragln,
who Is responsible for tho safe advent
of this baby, la receiving $1,000 n day
for each day ho Is In attendance on
Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor and her
young eon.
Ityls expected Dr. Cragln will re
main n member of tho Astor house
hold until early In September, for Mrs.
Astor 1b most anxious that her son
shall bo correctly started o n healthy
and hearty career and that sho herself
shall suffer no relnpso.
Dr. Cragln may be In constant at
tendance nearly six weeks. At tho
rnto or $1,000 a day his feo would
total letwoen $40,000 and $50,000. No
heir to n kingly throno over entered
tho workl under such expensive condi
tions. Captain Kills Family and Self.
Eustbourno, England, Aug. 21.
Capt. Hicks Murray of tho Gordon
Highlanders klllod his wife, throe chil
dren and himself Monday. After
shooting ho poured petrol over tho
house floor and set flro to It.
Agree on Naval Bill.
Washington, Aug. 21. Tho confer
ees on tho naval appropriation bill
reachod an agrcemont Monday to au
thorlzo tho construction of ono now
battleship to cost $15,000,000. lnoiniv.
of armor and armament.
DARR0W IS NOT GUILTY
LAWYER MAY HAVE TO FACE SEC
OND INDICTMENT.
Remarkable Demonstration In Court.
In Which Judge, Jury and Specta
tors Participate.
Los Angeles, Cal., Auc 20. Clar
enco S. Darrow, Chicago lawyor, wob
acquitted by a Jury hor Saturday ot
th chnrga of having Attempted to
corrupt n prospoctlvo Juror in tho Mc
Namara murdor trlar. This was tho
socond count In tho Indictment, tho
first charging tho bribery ot Goorgo
N. Lockwood, being dismissed by
Judgo Mutton In his instructions to
tho Jury.
Another Indictment remains against
Darrow, charging tho bribery of Rob
ert F. Bnln, tho first Juror sworn in
tho McNamara case.
It was roportod Immediately after
tho announcement of tiro verdict that
tho action practically closed the case,
but District Attornoy Fredorlcha sold
that tho prosecution would continue.
The Jury was out Just 31 minutes.
Although tho members declared they
woro always of ono mind, throo bal
lots wero tnkon, In ordor, ns ono of
thorn snld, that no "unduo hasto" bo
shown.
Tho first ballot was eight to four for
acquittal, and tho second ten to two.
Tho third was a unanimous voto for
"not guilty."
TRY TO KIDNAP SCHEPPS
New York Police Endeavor to Tako
Gambler-Prisoner From District
Attorney Whitman.
New York, Aug. 21. Sam Schopps,
who Is said to havo been tho paymas
ter ot tho gang which killed Horman
Rosenthal, was rushod Into tho West
Bldo"pollco station prison Monday aft
er two attempts to kidnap him had
boon mado by tho Now York police
Sohopps has not been formally an
reBted, but Is held as a witness. Dis
trict Attornoy Whitman mot Schopps
at Albany. On tho train two detec
tives mado a demand for tho llttlo
gambler In tho namo ot tho poltco de
partment. Mr. Whitman replied that
he would indict tho first man who laid
hands on Schopps and tho dotoctlvos
loft the train.
ScheDDB was taken off thn train at
tho Grand Central Btatlon. At Forty-
third Btreot Captain Glllen and Detec
tives Dietrich, Hauser, McMnhon and
Gallagher, nil Central ofndjmen, at
tomptod to drag Schopps from' a taxi
cab, but Whitman Interfered ami thn
gamblor was brought Bafely to a coll
In the samo balcony with Louis Llbby
and Jack SulIIvnn, bettor known as
Jacob Reich.
On tho way from Albany Schopps
talked freely with tho district at
torney. It wns learned that Schopps admit
ted that ho saw tho murderers paid
for killing Rosenthal. Ho doclarod
that ho waB fully familiar with nil tho
details of tho murder plot. Ho ac
cusod Pollco Lioutonant Bcckor of be
ing Implicated In tho plot. His stato
mont Is said to support perfectly that
of Rose, Webber and Valion.
PASS PANAMA CANAL BILL
Senate Refuses to Adopt Steel and
Wool Measures Over Vetoes of
President Taft.
Washington, Aug. 19. Tho sonnte
agreed Friday to tho conforenco re
port on tbo Panama canal bill by a
voto of 48 to 18 and rofused to pas
tho tel and wool bills over tho presi
dent's voto.
It took but n fow minutes to tost
tho feeling in tho senate In regard to
passing the metal bill over tho voto,
the voto being 39 to 32.
The voto on tho wool bill voto wnc
3D to 3G. Six Republicans voted with
tho Democrats. Theyo wero: Brlstow.
Clupp, Ciawford, Poindextcr, Works
and La Folletto.
Tho Democrats agreed by a voto of
io on - -...i.-.w.-i u . . t
"u u o i" n BuuHuuuo wicrea oy
Chairman Moon of tho postollSco com
nlttco, creating an experimental par
cels post system In Hon of tho perma
nent "zono system," which was offered
in tho senate by Senator Bourno nnd
pansed.
The houso by n voto of 138 to 78 de
clined to pass over tho veto of Presi
dent Taft tho bill compensating cer
tain subcontractors In Wyoming for
government work.
Five Killed Two Hurt by Train.
Cumberland, Md., Aug. 20. A Bal
timore nnd Ohio pnssengor train
struck an outing party of eight on the
Western Maryland railway extension
ono mile west of Frostburg station,
near tho Bordon water station, killing
llvo and Injuring two.
Three Killed In Auto Accident.
White House, N. J., Aug. 19. Mr.
nnd Mrs. Edward A. Horllng or Hunt
ington Valloy, Pa., and thoir chauffeur,
John Kilroy, were killed Friday when
their nutomobllo turned turtle nt
Oraybrook, two miles from here.
Noted Hymn Writer Dead.
Philadelphia, Aug. 10. William Gus
tnyus FIschor, known throughout tho
world whorover tho Christian religion
Is to be found, died nt his homo, 203
North Thirty-sixth stroot, Wednesday,
aftor a brief Illness,
Edwin Austin Abbey Left $134,050.
Now York, Aug. 17. Edwin AuBtln
Abboy, tho American nrtlst, who died
In London on August 1. 1911, loft an
estHto valued at $134,050. His widow,
May Gertrudo Abboy, la tho solo loga-tea
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HALL WON MEDAL OF HONOR
Made Daring Attempt to Rescue Lieu
tenant Weir and 8cout From
Attack of Ute Indians.
Adjutant-Gonornl William P. Hall,
who retired from actlvo service last
February, was a Wee; Pointer and tho
holder of a medal of honor. General!
Hall entored tho military acadomy la
1864, graduating four years lator and
being assigned to tho Nineteenth In-
fnntry us a second lieutenant. In
March, 1869, ho was placed on the
list of unnsslgncd offlcore, whero he
remained until July in thnt year,
whon ho was assigned to tho Fifth
cavalry. It was whllo ho was with
that regiment that be received his
modal ot honor. In tho fall of 1879
a forco of Uto Indians surrounded a
small dotachmont of regulars In tho
Whlto River country. For threo days
and threo nights tho soldtors held oft
tho Indians. Rescue camo finally, and
the Indians made way before tho
chargo ot Colonel Merrltt and his
mon, who had made a record ride
to tho aid of the beleaguered troops.
A day or two after the rotreat of
tho Utes Lieutenant William B.
Weir, ordnanco department, and a
scout lott the camp on a deor hunt.
Not long after their departure, Lieu- ,
tenant Hall with threo men were or
dered out on a roconnalsance. The
nontenant and his llttlo command
circled through tho mountains for
several hours and In tho afternoon
they hoard a succession ot shots.
They struck nut far thn npot from
which tho firing came. On rounding
tho Bhouldor of tho valley Lieutenant
Hall saw at a little distance across
the open spaco a band ot nt least
forty Utes. Tho officer saw thnt
Lioutonant Weir and tho scout had
bocn surprised and had taken to a
rocky ledge. Lieutenant Hall sent
four Bhots Into the ranks of the Utes,
making thorn change tholr shelter.
The lieutenant knew that It he could
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Stood Up at Full Length on the Rock.
draw the flro of all the Indians at
onco that Lleutonant Weir and his
companion might make a dash to
ward him while the rifles of the In
dians wero unloaded.
Lieutenant Hall Btood up at full
length on the rock. The Utes saw
him and the Indians emptied their
rifles at him. Lieutenant Weir and
tho scout dashed out from tholr shel
ter tho Instant that tho Utes had let
drive nt Lieutenant Hall. They made
half tbo distance to their comrades
before tho Indians had reloaded. Than
tho two dropped behind ,a rock and
waited. Tho Indians did not again '
respond to tho flro of Lieutenant
Hall's command. Then tho lieutenant
stood on the rock onco moro facing
the Utes. Lieutenant Weir and the
scout dashed out but the Indians
hnd learned tho trick. One-half ot
tho Indian band turned tholr guns
nt Lleutonant Hall. Tho other halt
fired at Weir and tho scout, both of
whom fell dead, whllo Lieutenant Hall
escaped unhnrnied. Then they at
tacked Lieutenant Hall and his three
comrades, who retreated slowly from
covor to cover, holding their assail
ants In check until the shooting was
heard at tho camp and a body ot
men rode out to tho rescue and the
Utes fled. Lieutenant Hall was given
u medal of honor for his gallantry.
All of his service was in the west
until appointed an Assistant adjutant
general with the rank of major In
November, 1E93. He bad boon a
member of the department, division,
army, and distinguished marksmen
teams between 1879 and 1892, and
won medals upon all these teams,
shooting with carbine and revolver.
He left tho department cf Texas In
April, 1898, whore ho bad been adju
tant general, to go to the de
partment of tho Gulf at Atlanta,
nnd In February, 1899, ho was sent to
the department of Porto Rlco. Ho
went to the department of the Lakes
in 1901, and tbo Philippines division
In 1902, He becamo lieutenant
colonel In 1897, colonel In 1901, and
brlgudlorgencral In 1904,
A Correction.
When "Scotty," of tho Eighty-fifth
Massachusetts, was captured tha
rebels disarmed him, and ono Eald;i
"If you move yo're a dead man."
"Ye'ro wrong thero," said Scotty,
"If I mcvt I'm a llvo ona." " I
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