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DAkOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1917.
NO. 32.
VOL. 25.
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Items of Interest
Gleaned from
Our Exchanges
Pender Times: E. J. Smith was
over from Homer, Wednesday.
Ponca Advocate: Edward Ebel dc
parted for his home at Dakota City
Tuesday, after a three weeks' visit
here with his uncle, F. J. Harder.
Oakland Independent: G. W.
Hays, for some time operator at the
Burlington station, yesterday loaded
his household goods preparatory
to moving to Waterbury, where he
will hold the position of station
agent,
Wynot Tribune: Miss Irene Mc
Cormick, who is attending Wayne
normal, arrived at home last night
for a few days vacation. She was ac
companied by Miss Mildred Wood
ruff, of Sioux City, a senior student
at Wayne, who visited here until to
day. Fonda, Iowa, Times: Will Dough
erty was called to South Sioux City,
Nebraska Friday by the death of his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Dan Dougherty,
which occurred very suddenly. She
leaves to mourn her loss besides her
husband, three sons, the youngest
xb2ing ten days old.
Walthill Citizen: George Lamson
went to Sioux City Saturday and re
turned Sunday Mrs. E.J. h-ietz
and Mrs. R. J. McBride, of South
Sioux City were in town Monday
and Tuesday visiting at the Mason
home. They also attended the or
ganization of the new Rebekah
lodge, returning home Tuesday
evening.
Tekamah Herald: The Nebraska
legislature is in a deadlock, the sen
ate is soppy wet by a safe majority
while the house is bone dry by a good
majority. The chance is good for
adjournment without any law to en
force the amendment. The Herald
is pleased to note that oilr senator
Haase has made a splendid record.
Ponca Journal: H. Brewer went
to Willis Wednesday.... E. F. Ras
mussen was in Jackson on business
Wednesday Mrs. Chappel has
bought the residence property form
ly owned by John Clary. The prop
erty was purchased from John Hur
ley and is located on Third street in
the wes part of town. Wm. Lenox,
who occupies the residence, will
move to the Cook residence on Fourth
Btreet.
Wakefield Republican: Robert
Caulk and wife moved back to Allen
yesterday. During their few months
residence here they have made many
friends who regret to see them go.
..'..As Dr. Henton affiliates with
the other party, he declined the nom
ination for village trustee by the
Citizens party. George Kohlmeior
was drafted in his place. Two strong
Dakota City
Grocery
Specials for Saturday
2 Cans Sweet Potatoes , 35c
1 Large Car) Peaches .A 15c
1 Doz. Bananas 20c
3 Grape Fruit 25c
2 large Can of Tomatoes ..... 25c
3 Bars Trilby Soap 25c
2 lbs Dried Peaches .- 25c
Country Butter 35c
3 Cans Chile Con Carne 25c
HigHest Price Paid for
COUNTRY PRODVCE
W. L.
Dakota City,
tickets are up. This is as it should
be. Voters will have a real choice
at the polls In addition to the per
sonality of its candidates, the Civic
Enterprise party has a very definite
platform for the guidance of voters,
while it is more or less a matter of
speculation as to what the Citizens
party stands for.
Lyons Sun: Word has been re
ceived here by relatives of thb mar--iage
at New York City on Sunday,
larch 4th, of Miss Ruth Elizabeth
Jhimway daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. lVShumway of Wakefield, and
Mr. JeromeB. Burnett. Miss Shum
way had been at Chicago for some
time training for a nurse and the
wedding came as a surprise to folks
here. Mr. Burnett made a business
trip to South America and during
his absence his bride returned to the
home of her parents at Wakefield
where she will remain until her hus
band returns to this country. The
congratulations of friends here are
extended to these young folks with
the wishes for a long and happy
wedded life. We have not learned
where they will make their future
home.
Sioux City Journal, 2nd: The fu
neral of Mrs. George Zentmire was
held at 2:30 o:clock yesterday from
the Methodist Episcopal church at
Homer, Neb. Burial was in Potter
cemetery Clyde Lake, 27 years
old, a farmer living six miles west of
Homer, Neb., was arrested early
yesterday morning by Sheriff George
Cain, of Dakota City; Chief A. L.
Mathwig, of South Sioux City, and
Detective James Britton and Gus
Danielson, and was brought to Sioux
City. Lake is being held in connection
with the theft of an automobile be
longing to Dr. J. P. Dougherty, 1415
West Seventh street. The car was
stolen from the residence on the
night of March 28. A charge of
grand larceny will be placed against
Lake this morning.
Lake recently finished serving a
term of thirty days in jail on a
charge of disturbing the peace which
grew out of an assault on Attorney
Wilbur Owen.
Emerson Enterprise: The Enter
prise unintentionally failed to report
the arrival of a baby boy at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Knox on
March 18 The girls club met
with Miss Floy Poole last Saturday
night and christened the organiza
tion the Chatter club The mem
bers are making big plans for a good
time the coming season, an outing at
Crystal lake being one of the things
to "be undertaken. The next meeting
will be two weeks hence at the home
of Miss Mary Doyle. . . M. S. Nelson
of Ponca, deputy sheriff for Dixon
county, came down Monday and ar
rested Chas. Elsinger on a forgery
charge. Elsinger passed a check
with Chris. Harrigfeldt's name sign
ed to it. He asserts that a newcom
er living near Nacora by that name
gave the check to him and that he
supposed it to be genuine. As far
as can be found only the one Chris.
Harrigfeldt can be found in this vi
cinity and the check was not his.
Mendes Roe cashed the check for
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Sioux City Journal, 29: William
O'Neill, of Jackson, Neb., who re
cently underwent an operation at
St. Vincent's hospital, is expected to
be able to return home today
Harold Bergquist, 23 years old, an
employe of Great Northern railroad
bridge repair gang, was drowned
yesterday forenoon jn the Floyd river
at the Leech avenue bridge of the
Sioux City Terminal railway while
engaged at repair work made neces
sary by the recent Floyd river flood.
When a piling upon which Bergquist
was sawing gave way, his platform
sprung and he was thrown into the
river. He swam about forty feet
on his back, then sank. One of his
comrades of the bridge gang, John
Williams, of South Sioux City, doited
his coat and leaped in after him, but
failed to reach him in time. The
body was r "overed thirty minutes J
after Patrolmen J. P. Farlsy and M.
E. Farley, with the aid of A. L. Zil
lar started to drag the river. It
was found lodged in the mud be
neath the Leech avenue bridge.
The lung motor from No. 1 fire sta
tion was used vainly for forty-five
minutes. The body had been in the
water an hour and eighteen minutes.
Bergquist was taken to the Westcott
undertaking establishment. Berg
quist, as a member of the bridge
gang, lived in the house cars under
the supervision of Foreman George
Robertson. G10 Sixth street. He
came to America from Sweden about
three years ago.
Sioux Citv' Journal. 30: Born In
Sioux City, la., Thursday, Inarch 29,
1917, at Maternity hospital, to Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Hicks, of South Sioux
City. Neb., a son Rev. H. En
glish, of Hubbard, Neb., is critically
ill at at. Joseph s hospital, lie is
suffering from a complication of
diseases which grew from an attack
of grip.. . .Dakota county, Neb., au
thorities are seeking two roughly
dressed men who, Wednesday night
held Joseph Gregg and his family,
near Homer, at revolver points while
they took $14 in money from uregg s
pockets. The men entered the house
about 11 o'clock, just as the farmer
and his family were preparing to go
to bed. After robbing Gregg they
threatened to kill him if he made
any attempt to spread the alarm by
leaving the house. Gregg has no
telephone in his house. In reporting
the robbery to Sheriff George Cain,
of Dakota City, yesterday Gregg
said the robbers made no efTort to
search the house for valuables, and
that the family was not molested.
The men were unusually large and
of about the Bame proportions, ac
cording to Gregg. Ha said each
man is about G feet in height and
weighs about 200 pounds. About
two weeks' growth of whiskers hid
their features, he said.... Harry E.
Shoberg and Dr. J. E. DeWalt. of
Sioux City, probably wjll be request
ed to appear as witnesses in the trial
of Elbert W. Blancett, who is being
held at Santa Fe, N. M., on a charge
of murdering Clyde D. Armour.
The case will come to trial shortly
after April 5, according toJRoy Ar
mour, of Hubbard, Neb. That Blan
cett will be indicted by the grand
jury, which convenes April 5, is re
garded as a certainty by Melvin Dun
lavy, the Armour's attorney at Santa
Fe. Roy Armour has been notified
to come to Santa Fe by April 5 in
order to appear as a witness. Sho
berg probably will be asked to go to
Santa Fe to identify the automobile
which he sold to Clyde Armour. The
car is now at Albuquerque, N. M.
It will be brought to Santa Fe as
evidence, according to District At
torney Crist, of Santa Fe. Dr. De
Walt'a connection with the case
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comes through the dentist's charts
of Clyde's mouth, which were used
'in the identification of Armour's
body when that was found near
Glorieta, N. M., in a decayed condi
tion. The charts will be used in the
trial. Both Roy and Glenn Armour
will go to Santa Fe, it is thought.
Roy Armour was told to notify his
sister, Mrs. May 'Herbenson, of Mi
hot, N. D., that the trial would be
called shortly after April 5. Mrs.
Herbenson probably will go to Santa
Fe with her brothers.
Sioux City Journal, 31: Died In
Sioux City, la., Friday, March 30,
1917, Mrs. George Zentmire, 2G
years old, of Logan Park, in a hos
pital, after an operation. She is
auryiyed by her husband and one
son, aged 1 week; two half sisters,,
Mra.Claud Heikes, of Dakota City,'
.Neb.,' and Miss Grace Nixon, of
sioux City; two halt brothers, JYlel
roy Nixon and Lawrence Nixon, of
of Sioux City, and a stepmother,
Mrs. A. M. Nixon, of Sioux City.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the
Methodist Episcopal church at Ho
mer, Neb. The services will be con
ducted by Rev. C. Keckler. Burial
will be in the Potter cemetery ....
With arrest of Owen ("Hans") Chris
tiansen, of Sergeant Bluffs, and with
the recovery of more than a ton of
copper wire by Detective Amos Cur
tis, the mystery connected with the,
theft of over 3,500 pounds of wire
from the McGraw company, 515
Fifth street, near Salix, la., in De
cember, 1915, has been solved, ac
cording to the police. Curtis, with
the aid of Chief Al Mathwig, of
South Sioux City, discovered the
wire buried several feet under the
barn on the property of Christian
sen, located on the Missouri river
bottoms over five miles southwest of
Sergeant Bluffs. It required four
horses to pull the wire from the
place in which it had rested for
nearly two years. Christiansen Was
arrested in Sioux City at Fourth and
Douglas streets. The wire which
was recovered is valued at more than
$838 by Max McGraw, president of
the McGraw Supply company. The
circumstances connected with. the
theft of the wire baffled forces sent
out by the sheriff and of several
Pinkerton men who were hired to
work on the case by the McGraw
company. The wire was being
strung from Salix to Sergeant Bluffs
in December, 1915. The men had
gone about a mile west of Salix. At
night the wire was left in a farm
yard outside of Salix. It was stolen
during the night. Wagon tracks
were traced to the home of Chris
tiansen, but tht wire could not be
found. As Christiansen's house
was over two miles from the nearest
habitation, aud as it was on made
land near the river bank, very few
persons visited him. It was not un
til a short time ago that "Hans"
was suspected of being connected
with the deal. During the winter
months Christiansen moyed his house
from the land and came to Sioux
City. It is thought that most of the
wire which is missing was disposed
of shortly after it was stolen. Curtis
and Mathwig found the wire buried
under one corner of the barn which
has remained standing. The wire
had been removed from the spools
and had been coiled into twenty-six
bundles. Christiansen is being held
at police headquarters for investi
gation. No definite charge has
been filed against him, although it
is probable that he will be charged
with grand larceny.
Sioux City Journal, 3rd: E. W.
Nordyke, 319 West Fifth street,
while driving an automobile at West
Sixth and Bluff street last evening
struck Samuel Swinford, tho4-year-old
son of Mr. nnd Mrs. D. C. Swin
ford. 1702 West Fifteenth street.
The boy was slightly injured. Tho
accident was reported to the police
by Nordyke.... Clyde Lake, a, farm
er living near Homer, Neb., who
was arrested Sunday morning in con
nection with the theft of the auto
mobile owned by Dr. J. P. Dough
erty, M15 West Seventh street,
waived preliminary hearing before
Police Judge hidings, and was bourfd
over to tho grand jury. He is charg
ed with grand larceny. A bond was
fixed at $1,500. . . .The trial of Elbert
W. Blancett, who is being held in
the state penitentiary at Santa Fe,
N. M., charged with the murder of
Clyde D. Armour, of Sioux City, has
been set for April 12, according to a
message received by Roy Armour,
of Hubbard, Neb., a brdther of the
murdered man. The case will be
brought before the grand jury which
has convened at Santa Fe, hut it is
a certainty that an indictment will
be returned against the accused
man. A large number of witnesses
will nppear before tue jury, it is
stutt'ii, who will identify Blancett as
the tnuii who drove into Santa Fe on
the afternoon of the murder with
Armour's car and was tho man who
impersonated Clyde. It is thought
that the defense will base their case
on the question of mistaken identity.
bo far Blancett has denied ever be
ing in Santa Fe or Albuquerque. He
will not recognize any of the witness
es who have been obtained by the
state, it is said. Roy Armour prob
ably will leave next week for Santa
Fe. He will meet his mother, Mrs.
Mary E. Armour, and his sister, who
have been living at Fresno, Cal.,
since the time of the murder. Har
ry Shoberg, who sold Clyde Armour
the car in which he made his cross
country journey, has decided to
make the trip to New Mexico, it
was stated yesterdy. He will identi
fy the car, which is now at Santa
Fe Tension of the guard at tho
Omaha railroad bridge over the Mis
souri rivertightened last night and
preparations for a permanent camp
are being made as a result of the
outlook for a state of war being de
clared in existence between the
United States and Germany follow
ing" President Wilson's message.
While" the guard at ihe bridge has
not been increased in numbers, the
vigilance of the men doing sentry
duty has increased as the prospect
for probable unfriendly action grows.
Running water is to be piped into
camp in a few days, according to
Capt. J. H. Pile, commander of Com
pany E, Fourth Nebraska regiment,
on guard at the bridge. Thomas
Dealtry, president of the Sioux City
Live Stock Exchange, yesterday con
ferred with Capt. Pile relative to a
water extension to the camp site.
Mr. Dealtry said he will tako steps
toward having water brought to the
camp. A distance of less than 100
yards separates the camp with a
water main. "All our efforts for
several weeks," Capt. Pile said,
"will be directed toward getting tho
camp perfected, fully equipping the
recruits and instructing them in mil
itary fundamentals and guarding the
bridge. It will be some time before
we will be able to give exhibition
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drills for Sunday or holiday visitors.
To increase the efficiency of the
bridge guard and lessen probable
dangers, houseboats moored to the
river bank in the vicinity of the
bridgo have been ordered removed
and not one is left. Yesterday I
traversed the entire bank of the riv
er from the combination bridge to
the high bridge and looked over all
the craft. F. L. Eaton, acting in
tho interest of the Combination
bridge company, conferred with me
yesterday. We have no orders for
gunrding the combination bridge
but. such action likely will be taken
in the event of hostilities with a
foreign country. In fact, every
bridge of size or importance will be
guarded." A new silk flag was pre
sented to Company E, of the Fourth
Nebraska regiment, by three Sioux
City young women Sunday night.
The ceremonies were performed
shortly after sunset, when most of
the Sunday visitors had departed.
A detachment of soldiers obtained a
ten feet sapling, planted it at the
head of the company street and the
flag was nailed to the top. It is sug
gested that the only way to lower
the flag at sunset will be to dig up
the tree each night. Five recruits
reported Sunday night for duty.
This makes the twenty-sixth man
who has been added to the company
since its arrival at the now camp.
Several more men are expected du
ring the next week. Sergeant
George Church, who has been sta
tioned at Meadow Grove, Neb., ob
taining recruits, is expected to re
turn to the company some time this
week. It is expected that he will
bring a number of new men with
him.
Looking Backward.
SiouxCity Journal. March 24, 1897:
W. T. Bartlett and W. Reninger, sr.,
of Jackson, and J. P. Twohig and C.
C. Smiley, of South Sioux City, left
last night for Lincoln to join the
friends who are working for the
passage of the bill providing for th&
appropriation of $50,000 for the nor
mal school at South Sioux City.
When Mr. Bartlett was asked as to
tho probable outcome of the bill he
said there was a very good prospect
of it becoming law. It is receiving
the enthusiastic Bupporl of nil the
influential men in northeastern Ne
braska. Dakota City Mail, April 1, 1877:
The persons who attended church in
Sioux City last week from this side
of the river are under many obliga
tions to Col. Sawyer for his kindness
in running the ferry boat after the
evening service. The colonel's heart
is as largo and well developed as his
frame, and no man will do more for
the accommodation of his friends
than he.
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