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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1922)
DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD V ) Is ;' x . f KEBRASKAJN BRIEF Timely News Culled Prom All Part3 of tho State, Reduced for the Busy. According to the report Just made hy tlio State Department of Agriculture In regard to the sanitary condition of Hie packing plants In Nebraska tho report States sleeping quarters In the Nebraska City and Omaha plants are entirely separate from the rooms where killing, cooling and currlng are carried on, the report said. No viola tions of the sanitation laws were found. . Julius Englkelmeler of near Mauley attempted to thaw out his acetylene lank and used a hot Iron with the re sult that his left arm und several bones in the left hand nre broken, left shoulder dislocated and his face bruis ed and burned, besides other bruises. A court of domestic relatl.ns before which cases concerning relations be tween man and wife and children will be decided, was established by order of Douglas county district Judges at their annual meeting. The court Is tho first of Its kind In Omaha. One of every four families In Buffalo county Is the owner of a Jitney, truck or motorcycle, according to County Treasurer Stevenson. During the past year he Issued over 5,000 car licenses, with a couple of cycle permits thrown In for good measure. While hunting southwest of Barnes ton, George Gulbrod, 18, -of Bnrneston, was accidentally shot In the right arm by Floy James of Beatrice. He was taken to a Beatrice hospital. It Is be lieved he will recover. Negotiations have been completed whereby the First National bank of Seward, the oldest bank In tho town, will be absorbed by the Farmers' State bank. The nmno of the First National will be retained, Endicott wants n new $10,000 church and subscription petitions nre In cir culation to raise the funds. While this will be under the supervision of tho Methodist denomination the edifice will be used as a community meeting center. Farmers In Custer County are hav ing trouble paying their taxes this year on account of the low price of corn and other farm crops, more taxes are delinquent this year than hns ever been know in Custer county. Raymond Kochrow of Alexandria was awarded the $75 scholarship of fered by "the Union Pacific In the state .agricultural college. Ballroad fore al so Is included. He took first place In boys' club work. Grain, hay, forage and beet pro duction In Nebraska during 1021 was less than InlfKM), according to the final crop summary issueu uy me snue mm federal bureau of markets and crop estimates. At a special session the Fremont city council ordered the purchase of the plant and business of the Independent Electric Light company, owned by the DoheYty Interests. The city Is to pay $25,000. The Curtlss airplane nndlts hangar belonging to Hector car of Ogallala. wns destroyed by fire. While starting the ship Inside the hangar it back-fired nnd Immediately became a mass of flames. Chester may get Its olectrlc "juice" from, the Desliler plant. A group of business men from that place Inspect ed the Deslder powerhouse with j view to recommending a transmission line. Bobbers who broke Into the Wondra market at Petersburg and stole about 100 In cash used a large amount of pepper which they put on tho tloor In order to foil tracking by bloodhounds. The Lnnchester district court judge decided to call a special grand Jury for January 2G to Investigate fraudu lent stock promotion schemes and bus iness failures at Lincoln In 1021. Charles 13. Black has been Installed ms postmaster In Omaha, succeeding Harry Daniel, noting postmaster since the death of Charles Fanning. Department of trade and commerce announced that the Goodrich Bros, bank of Falrbury, Neb., had been closed. Fur lined leather suits are now being worn by the pilots of the mall plains operating on (lie Omahn air mall route. The Farmers' union of Nebraska will bold Its annual convention in Omaha January 10-11. William Ferguson, stock raiser of Scrlbner, reported to the Dodge county olllclals that 1 1 head of purebred sows had been stolen from his ranch. He values tho missing stock at $1,100. Acting Police Captain James Mc Donald, shot twice in the left leg In a jnin battle with yeggmon in Omaha, will be Immediately appointed fo the portion of captain, Police Commis sioner Henry W. Dunn announced. A fund, subscribed to gcnc'-nusly by sev-- oral buslines and professional men for tho Injured olIlcer,.has now surpassed tho 000 mark. Burglars threw a brick through the ' plate glas window of llohert Geodall's Jewelry store t Ogallala und escaped witli two diamond rings. Farmers In the vicinity of Friend are of the opinion that If the prlco of " corn remains whore It Is now that 2." per cent less corn will be planted this spring (ban last. However,, some of them agree that when spring opens upland the weather Is favorable for corn planting and the prospects look good for a large crop, more corn will be planted thau Is at present contemplated. Nebraska's share of the $75,000,000 federal appropriation for the 1022 fiscal year road building campaign will amount to 151,581,100.50, according to word received by the state department of pubtlc Works from the agriculture department. The state may use as much of this money as It Is nble to match. If the state falls to raise a like amount within tho blennlutn end ing January 1, 1021, the remainder of her share goes elsewhere. All the government money passed on to Ne braska under an old appropriation has not been used. The last legislature ap propriated approximately $2,i:w,O0O to match Nebraska's share of the federal appropriation. The federal aid move ment for stato highways was born In 1017 and since that lime Nebraska has received .?5,80S,701.00. Governor McKelvIe will resist all ef forts to have him call off his extra session and legislature will meet on January 24. "Persons Just as well ask the question, 'Will the sun riser as to ask whether there will be an extra ses sion of the legislature," the governor Is quoted as having declared at thu state house. The governor Is emphntlc In his assertion that the extra session will save the people ?2,500,000 If It fol lows the program of retrenchment and tax raising cut out for Its considera tion. Tlie December payments to farmeri of the North Platte valley for sugar beets amount to $850,000 nnd the entlro payment this year to nearly $5,000,000, according to Jlgures from tho vnrlous Nebraska factory districts. This month the Scottsbluft factory made a final payment of $207,103, the Goring factory, $223,458; the Bayard factory. $213,910, and the Mitchell factory, $137,158. Jobless men and women, totaling 10,721, applied for work during 1921 at the federal and state free employ ment ofllce at Lincoln, according to the annual report of C. C. Becker, manager. Of these, 0,021 men and 530 women were given employment. Discoverery of oil soaked rags and papers In a hot air pipe at the homa of FrnnkWroe at Fremont upon the re turn of the Wroe family from n trip to Lincoln, caused Deputy Fire Marsh al Harry Ilauser to call for an Investi gation of the several recent fires. A community house, which will con tain a library, auditorium and women's rest room, Is being planned by the Elmwood legion post nnd members are securing pledges. Shower rooms, a kitchen and moving picture outfit also are Included. District Judge Munger, In federal court, Issued an order finding eleven Nebraska City plant employes now on strike, In contempt of court. A cita tion was placed In the hnnds of Deputy United States Marshal McClung, wlu left to serve It on the eleven men. Twenty-six of tho neighbors of J'ohn Nicholson, who resides near Callaway. gathered at his farm and husked out his entlro corn crop of over a thousand bushels. Mr. Nicholson has been very 111 with pneumonia for the past month. According to figures compiled by the Nebraska state department of agricul ture In the agricultural census, a larg er proportion of farms are operated by owners In Pawnee county than in any other county in this section. Fire originating in the hardware store belonging to M. F. Gates, de stroyed the hardware store, the Lc wellen Mercantile company store, the Robinson lunch room nnd a vacant building at Lewellen. Rev. Chester Wood of Lansing, Mich., who hns accepted the rectorship of the Episcopal church at Central City, for a number of years was pastor of the Little Church tAround tho Corner In New York City. By wireless, Omaha recently listened to nnd heard a speech delivered In Boston by R. W. Bnbson, former sta tistician for tho United States. He predicted an Improvement In all lines of business. The Midwest Implement Dnlers' as sociation comes to Omaha January 4-0 for Its annunl convention. Jnmes Wal lace, Council Bluff i Is secretary. All Omaha railroads have put Into effect a reduced freight rate on ship ments of livestock, gain an ' farm pro duce going In car load lots. A movement Is on foot to raise $10, 000 to pay the cost of holdlnj enncorts In the Omaha-parks next season. The Nebraska Lonpuo of Municipal ities will hold Its annual meeting It) Omahn January 23-25. Tho Nebraska Stato Central Demo cratic committee will meet In Omahn January 14. Work will start soon at Pawnee City on seventeen blocks of now paving. The enrollment at the night voca tional school which will open at North Platte, numbered about sixty the first day and registration;! nre still being made. Nebraska Insane asylums are further from prewar conditions than ever be fore In history. The state board of control announced that a.l three Insti tutions maintained fiy tho state for the Insane nre carrying "peak loads," which means they are housing more In mates than nl any previous time. The total Insane 'cared for by-tho state during December numbered 2.S00. . Sirs. Henrietta Musters, of Palmyra, died at tho advanced age of 10(5 years. Sho was born In Germany, December 18, 1815, and had lived In (he United States seventy-three years. The violent windstorm which swept over Albion and vicinity damaged the new $10,000 amphitheater at tne Boone county fair grounds. The structur wns partially unroofed and pieces oj steel roofing were scattered through the grounds and adjoining fields. The storm also damaged buildings In the business district. Many windows wore broken and small sheds unroofed. JMWWHMMm A Man To I " ' "i .' . RA1NEY A HERO. SYNOPSIS. Lottorlng on the Bun Francisco water frbnt, John Ral ney, newspaper reporter. Is accost ed by a Riant blind in nil, who asks Ralney to lead him aboard tho sealing schooner Karluk. Tho blind man tolls ltnlney he Is an old ship mate or Captain Slmms. In the cabin thoy find Captain Slmms and a man named Carlsen. Slmms rec ognizes tho blind man, calling him Jim Lund. Lund accuses Slmms ot abandoning him, blind, on an Ice Iloe, and denounces him. Slmms denies the charge, but Lund re fuses to bo pacified. He declares his Intention of accompanying tho Karluk on Its expedition north, where It Is going In quest of a gold field which Lund has discovered. Peggy, Slmms' daughter. Is aboard, and defends her father. Carlsen, who Is a physician, drugs Ralney. Awaking from his stupor, Ralney finds himself at Bea. Carlsen In forms him he has been kidnaped. Ho offers Ralney s share of the gold, and Ralney fs forced to de-ola.-- himself satisfied. Lund gives fclm a brief account of a former expedition of tho Karluk, tells him he distrusts Carlsen, and suggests a "partnership." Ralney to act as Lund's "eyes." Ralney Is mado secopd mate. Captain Slmms Is III and the navigation ' entirely In tho hands of Carlson. At the Iat ter's suggestion a shooting match Is staged between tho seal hunt ers, then CarlBcn tells them there Is no more ammunition to be found. ti CHAPTER III Continued. Ralney gave over the spokes and went to the starboard rail with Lund, watching the preparations between fore and main masts for the competi tion, nnd telling Lund what was hap pening. Carlsen gave out some shott gun cartridges from cardboard boxes. twelve to each of the six hunters. Sandy, the roustabout, had been requisitioned to toss up empty bot tles, and those who failed cursed him for n poor thrower. A hunter named Demlng made no misses, and secured first pilze of ten dollars In gold, with a man named Benle scoring two be hind Mm, nnd getting half that amount from Carlsen. Then came the test with the rifles. The weapons were all of the same caliber, well oiled, and In perfect con-' dltlon. Each of the hunters had a few shells In his possession, but they lacked the totnl of six dozen by n considerable innrgui. Carlsen went below for the neces sary ammunition while tho target was completed nnd set In place. A keg had been rigged with a weight under slung to keep It upright, and a tin con, painted white, set on a short spar In one end of the keg. A light line wns attached to a bridle, and tho mnrk lowered over the stern, where It rode, bobbing in the tall of the schooner's wake, thirty fathoms from tUo taffrnll where the crowd gath ered. More bullets hit the keg thnn the can, ani Carlsen wns often cnllell upon as umpire. But the tin gradual ly became ragged and blotched where the steel-Jacketed missiles tore through. Bealc and Demlng both hnd ie clean, undisputed hits, tying for first prize. Benle offered to shoot It off with six moro shells apiece, nnd Demlng consented. "Can't bo done," declared Carlsen. "Not right now, anyway. I gave out the lp,st shell there was In the maga Mne." "Dr-rned funny," snld Demlng, "a scaler shy on cartridges! Lucky wu ain't worryin about thet-sort of a (nrgo." "Probably plenty aboard some where," said Carlsen, "but I don't know where they nre. You boys have got me beaten on rllles nnd shotguns," life went on, producing from his hip pocket a flnt, effective-looking auto matic pistol of heavy caliber. "How tre you on small arms?" The hunters nhook their heads dubl nisly. "Never use 'em," snld Demlng. "Never could do much with that kind, rnnyhow. Give me a revolver, an' I might make out to hit a whale, If he Nan close enough, but not with ono o' them." "Not much difference," snld Carl ion. "Any of you got revolvers?" No one spoke. It wns against the anwrltten laws of a vessel for pistols to bo owned forward of the main :nbln. Benle finally answered for the rest. "Nnry a pistol, sir." "Then," said Carlson, "I'll give you an exhibition myself. Any bottles 'ell? Beale, will you toss them for lie." There were eight shots In the auto jiutlc, nnd Carlsen smashed seven tattles In midair. The hunters shout td their appreciation. "Brenk all of 'em?" Lund asked Ralney. "Enny bottles'left at all?" Ho walked toward tho taffrall, ad Iresslng Carlsen. "Kin you shoot by sound ns well ns y sight, Doc?" ho challenged. "I fancy not," said Carlsen. "If I had my eyes I'd snapshot ye or a hundred bucks," said Lund. "As t Is, I might target ono or two. Rnlnoy, have some one run a line, lead-high, an' tlr a bottle on It, will je7 I nln't got a gun o' my own, By J. ALLEN DUNN COPYRIGHT BODBS Doc," he continued, "will you lend me yours?" Carlsen filled his clip and Lund turned toward llalncy, who was rigging the target. "I'll want you to tap It with a stick," he said. "Slgnnl-fiug Btaffll do fine." Ralney got the slender bamboo and stood by. Lund felt for tho cord, passed his fingers over the suspended bottle and stepped off five paces, heft ing the automatic to Judge Its bal ance. Ralney tapped tho bottle on the neck nnd It gave out a little tinkle, lost Immediately In the crash of splin tering glass ns the bottle, hit fairly In the torn label, broke In half. "How much left?" asked Lund. "Hnlf? Tetch It up." Again he fired and again the bullet found the mnrk, leaving only the neck of the bottle still hnnglng. Lund grinned. "Thet's all," ho said. "Jest wanted to show ye what a blind mnn can do, If he's put to It." There was little applause. Carlsen took his gun In silence nnd moved for ward with the hunters nnd the on lookers, disappearing below. "Given 'em something to talk about," chuckled Lund. "Carlsen wanted to show off his fancy shootln'. Wnl, I've shown 'em I nln't entirely wrecked, If I nln't carryln' lights. An' I slipped moro'u one over on Carlsen at that." Ralney did not catch his entire meaning and said nothing. "Did you get wise to tho play about tho shells?" asked Lund. "A smart trick, though Demlng almost tumbled. Carlsen got those dumb fools of hunt ers to lire away every shell they hap pened to hnve for'nrd. If the maga zine's empty, I'll bet Carlsen knows where they's plenty more shells, If we ever needed 'em bad. But now those rifles nn' shotguns nln't no more use than so many clubs not to the hunt ers. An he's found out they nln't got enny pistols. He's got one, nn' shows 'em how straight he shoots, Jest In case there should be enny trouble between 'em. Plnys both ends to the middle, does Carlsen. Slick I But he ain't won the pot. They's a Joker In this game. Mebbe he holds It, mebbe not." Ho nodded mysteriously, well pleased with himself. CHAPTER IV. The Bowhead, Captain SlininS appeared again In the cabin and on deck, but ho was not the same man. His Illness seemed to hnve robbed him permanently of whnt was left him of tho spring of man hood. It was as If his Juices had been sucked from his veins nnd nrterles nnd tissues, lenvlng him flabby, Ir resolute, compared to his former self. Even as Lund shndowed Ralney, so Slmms shndowed Carlsen. Sometimes the girl would come up on deck In her own waterproofs nnd stand against tho rail. And presently Carlsen would come from below or forward and stand to talk with her until sho wns tired of the deck. They did not seem much like lovers, Ralney fancied. They lacked the little Intimacies that he, though he mado himself somewhnt of an automaton at the wheel, could not havo failed to see. If tho girl slipped, Carlsen's hand would catch and steady her by The Sea Struck the Opposite Rail With a Roar. the arm; never go ubout her waist. And there was iio especial look of welcome In her face when tho doctor came to her. Carlsen seldom took over tho wheel. Ralney did moro thnn his share from sheer loyo of feeling tho control. But ono day, at a word fiom the girl, Carl sen nnd sho enmo up to Uuluc-y s h handled the spokes. His Mate MERRILL CO. "I'll take the wheel n while, Ralney," snld the doctor. Ralney gave It up and went amid ships. Out of the tall of his eye he could sco that the girl was pleading to handle the ship, and that Carlson was going to let her do so. Rniney shrugged his shoulders. It was Carlsen's risk. It wns no child's play In that weather to steer prop erly. It took not only strength, but wntchfulness nnd experience to hold the course In the welter of cross-sens. Lund nnd Rnlnoy stood together by the wenther-rall. It was still Rnlncy's deck watch, and at any moment Carl sen might relinquish the wheel back to him as soon ns the girl got tired. Suddenly shouts sounded from for ward, n medley of them, Indistinct ngnlnst tho quartering wind. Sandy, tho roustabout, came dashing aft along the sloping deck, catching clumsily nt rail nnd rope to stendy himself, flushed with excitement, al most hysterical with his news. "A bowhead, sir I" ho cried when he snw Ralney. "And killers nfter him I Blowln dend ahead I" Beyond the bows Rniney could see nothing of the whale, that must hnve sounded In fear of tho killers, but ho saw half a dozen scythelike, blnck fins cutting the wntcr In streaks' of foam, all abreast, their high dorsals waving, wolves of tho sea, hunting for the gray bowhfnd whale, to force Its mouth open nnd fenst on the deli cacy of Its living tongue. So Lund told htm In swift sentences while they waited for the whale to broach. Ralney glnnccd nft. Sandy hnd cnrrled his warning to Cnrlsen and the girl, and now was craning over the lee rail, knecdecp In tho wash, trying to see something of the com bat. Peggy Slmms' lithe figure was lennlng to one side ns she, too, gazed ahead, though she still paid attention to her steering and held the schooner well up, her face bright with excite ment, wet with flying brine, wisps of yellow hair streaming free In the wind from benenth the close grip of her woolen rod tnm-o'-shnnter. "Bl-o-owsl" started the deep voice of a lookout, from where sailors nnd hunters hnd grouped In the bows to witness this glndlatorlnl combat be tween sen monsters, staged fittingly Jn a sea that wns running wild. "Bl-o-owsl" Tho deep voice almost leaped nn octavo In n sudden shrill of apprehension. Others voices mingled with his In a clamor of dismay. "Look out! Oh, look out I Dead ahead 1" The enormous bulk of tho whale had appeared, not to spout, hut to He belly up, rocking on the surface with fins outsprynd, paralyzed with terror, directly In the course of the Karluk, while toward It, Intent only on their blood lust, lenped tho killers, thrust ing nt Its head nslho schooner surged down. In that tremendous sen the Impact would be certain to mean the staving In of something forward, per haps the springing of n butt. "Hard a leo!" yelled Ralney. "Up with her! Up!" Forward, the men Jumped to hnndlu the headBalls. Tho Knrluk started to spin about on Its keel, Instinct to the changing piano of the rudder. Bur tho waves were running tremendously high, nnd, the wind blowing with great force, tho water rolling In grent moun tains of sickly greenish gray, topped with foam that blew In a level scud. As tho schooner hung In a deep trough, the wind struck at her, bows on. Ralney Biiwono huge billow -rlslrfg, curving, high ns tho gnff of tho main, It seemed to him, ns he grasped at the coll of tho main halyards. Down came the tons of water, booming on the deck Jhnt bent under the blow, spill ing In n great cataract that swashed across the deck. His feet wcro swept from under him, for a moment ho seemed to swing horizontal in tho stream, clutching at tho hnlyards. The sen struck the op poslto rail with a roar that-threatened to tear It away, piling up and then seething overboard. With It wont u figure. Rniney cnuglit sight of a ghastly fuce, a mouth that shouted vainly for help In tho pandemonium, and was Instantly stoppered with strangling brine, pop eyes appealing In awful fright as Sandy wns washed away In tho cas cade. Tho halyards were held on the plu with a turn and twist that Ralney swiftly loosened, lifting tho coll free, making n fast loop, and thrusting hcad and arms through It as ho flung himself after tho roustabout. A great bulk wallowed Just beforo him, tho helpless body .of the bowhead whale, tho killers darting In a mad moleo for Its head. Then a figure was literally hurled upon tho slippery mass of the mnmmal, Its gray belly plain In tho welter, a living raft against which the waves broke and tossed their spray. Clawing frantically, Sandy clutched at tho base of the enormous pectoral (In, clinging with maniacal strength, mad with fear, Striking out to little purpose, save to, help buoy himself, blinded by the flying scud nnd broken crests, Ralney felt himself uprenrod, swept Impotcntly on nnd slammed agulnst the slimy hulk, Just cloi enough to Sundy to grasp him by lh, collar, ns tho whale, stung by kill cr's tearing nt Its oily tongue, flailed with Its flu and the two of them slid down Its body, deep under water, Rniney fought against tho suffoca tion nnd the fierce desire to gasp and relieve his tortured lungs. Tho lnd'3 weight, seemed to bo carrying him down ns If he was a thing of lend, but Ralney would not rela his grip. Ha could not. Ho had centered nil hla energy upon tho dcslro to save Sandy, nnd llls nerve centers wcro still tonso to that last conscious demand. Tho Karluk was Into tho wind and they were In whnt little leo there was, dragging aft nt tho end of the hnl yards, being fetched In toward the rail bv the ntlghty tugs of Lund, a 'i C sSlJUII "That Wat Splendid, Mr. Ratneyl' Wonderful! It waa Brave of You I" weird sight to Rnlney's smnrtlng eyes as ho caught sight of the giant, with red hnlr uncovered, his benrd whip ping In tho wind, his black glasses still In place, making some sort of u blessed monster out of him, Ralney had his left fist welded to tho line, his right wns set In Sandy's collar, and Study's death clutch had twined Itself Into Rnlncy's oilskins, though the Irrd was limp, and his face, seen through tho watery film that streamed over It, set nnd white. A dozen arms slfot down to grasp him. Ho felt the Iron grip of Lund upon his left forenrm, almost wrench ing his nrm from Its socket ns ho was lnhnuled, caught at by body and legs and deposited on the deck of (ho schoonor, thnt almost instantly commenced to go about upon Its for mer course. Lund bent over him, asking hlm with a note that Rniney, for all his exhaustion, Interpreted ns ono of real anxiety : "How Is It with you, matey? Did yo gt lunged up?" Rnlnoy manage to shake his head and, with Lund's boughlike nrm, for support, got to his feet, winded, shnken, aching from his pounding and the crash ngnlnst tho whale. Sandy was lying face down, one hunter kneeling across him, kneading his ribs to bellows action, lifting .hla upper body In time to the pressure, while another worked his slack anna up nnd down. "Thnt wns splendid, Mr. Ralney I Wonderful I It was bravo of you I" Peggy Slmms stood beforo Ralney, clinging to the mainstays, a different girl to the ono thnt ho had known. Her red lips wcro opart, showing the clean shlno of her teeth, above her glowing cheeks her gray eyes spnrklwl with friendly admiration, ono slender wet hand was held out eagerly toward hlm. "Why," said Ralney, In thnt embar rassment thnt comes when one knows ho has done well, yet Instinctively seeks to disclaim honors, "any ono would havo done that. I happened to bo the only ono to seo It." "I'm not so sure of thnt," replied tho girl, und Rniney thought her lip curled contemptuously ns sho glanced toward Carlsen at tho wheel. Yet Carl son, ho fancied, had full excuse for not hnvlng made tho attempt, busied as he had been adding needed strength to tho wheel. "Oh, It was not what he did, or failed to do," said the girl, and this time thero wns no mistaking the fact that sho emphasized her volco with contempt and mado suro thnt It would carry to Carlsen. "He said It wasn't worth while." Sandy forecasts a long pro gram of trouble. ITO U13 CONTINUED.) 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