NEBRASKA NEWS
H. T. CLARKE, JR., NOMINATED
FOR COMMISSIONER.
RAGE A VERY CLOSE ONE
Mr. Clarke's Opponent, Mr. Caldwell,
Only 302 Voteo Behind Him
According to Latent
Returns.
Returns from the uliu'ty counties of
lie state have now been secured, and
unless Home glaring mistake has been
made in the figures, II. T. Clarke leads
Caldwoil ly Ml on the final count. The
cuiivuhb by the state board Is not like
iy to change these figured HerlotiHly.
SVluch delay was experienced in scour-
mmm
H. T. CLARKE, JR.
Who was successful in receiving the
Humiliation for stat railway conunls
Wlouer at the primaries Sept. 3.
ling the finnl returns from the outlying
bounties and uncertainty as to the out
route existed until the last one had
come and been counted. The totuld
were, Tor Clarke, 10.1210; Caldwell,
18,!07.
CHILDREN OFF THE STAGE.
Labor Commissioner Ryder Serves No
tice on Theater Managers.
, No more children will bo permitted
Ito perform on the stages in Nebraska.
John T. Ryder, deputy commissioner
of labor, who under tho law is em
powered to enforce the child labor law,
notified managers of Lincoln the
aters that hereafter any stunts with
children in them would have to bo cut
from (lie bill. He is anxious that the
managers of other theaters take notice,
lor he Intends to enforce the law In
,tho future. All thi3 came about by
Iroason of Mr. Ryder's visit to a Lincoln
play house, where he witnessed a skit
lln which
yours old
a little
was one
child,
of the
probably
hits.
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FIRE AT GRAND ISLAND.
Spectacular and Threatening Blaze
Burns an Old Church.
Grand Island had the most spectacu
lar and thieatemng fire Friday It has
HulTered for years. An elevator owned
by A. D. Sears, and the old Presbyter
ian church, formerly -j school building,
used as stores for hay. were burned.
the elevator being completely, and the
School and church, landmarks, partial
ly destroyed. Tho Humes had reached
Iho cupola of tho elevator before tho
'department arrived and It was unable
to save much of the building.
Insurance Orders Would Combine.
It Ik reported, though the report is
not continued by Insurance Deputy
IMorce. that the American Order of
Protection, with headquarters at Lin
coln, wants to combine with the Fra
Waal Life association of Hastings.
(Application has been filed with the
(state auditor for mich a combination,
k the law requli , and the insurance
iloparlment Is investigating tho affairs
of the two organizations before giving
its consent to tho merger.
Present Rouse With Token.
As a token of their friendship and
appreciation of his services while prin
cipal of the Plattsmouth schools for
fc'Ivo years, tho teachers of the Platts
mouth schools presented Prof. E. L.
(Rouse a handsome signet ring, bearing
:his initials and grade rank, and a pair
Jof fine gold cuff buttons. Prof. E. L.
IRouso and family departed for Peru,
whore he has accepted a chair In the
State Normal school.
Brakeman Hurt at Friend.
While attempting to board a passing
.car, W. A. Shannon, a Burlington
jhrakemau employed in switching in
jtho yards, at Friend, fell under the
car and had one leg severed at tho
iknoo and about half the foot on tho
ptjier limb. Local physicians dressed
the wounds. Shannon Is a single man
whoso homo Is in Oklahoma.
GIRL TOO MUCH FOR ROBDER.
Fromont Young Woman Put3 Would
Be Thief to Flight.
Miss Maud Johnson, a young womnn
employed as a domestic at the home of
Mr. 0. fl. Hodges, Fremont, proved
too much for a would-be burglur, and
naved the family silverware by putting
up a bluff with u butcher knife which
put the thief to flight In Hhort order.
Miss Johnson was alone In the house
at the time she discovered the robber,
but Oils fact was of no advantage to
the latter. The thief, a young man,
obtained entrance to th- house by rep
resenting hiniHolf as an employe of
the gas company who had come to
read tho gas meter. Miss Johnson
showed him tho way to the cellar,
and went about her duties, supposing
ho was what lie represented himself,
to he. A few moments later, however,
she came on him in the dining room,
witli several pieces of silver in ills
hands. She at once grabbed a big butch
er knife from tho table, ordered the
fellow to drop the silver, and then
drove hlni out. of the house.
After tho departure of thf visitor
Miss Johnson turned the butcher knife
on the potatoes for dinner, doing great
execution.
ANDERSON TO FILL VACANCY.
Crete Man Named to Take Place or
Board of Regents.
Charles B. Anderson of Crete has
been appointed by Governor Sheldon
to fill tho vacancy caused by the resig
nation of University Regent E. C.
Calkins of Kearney. Mr. Calkins took
a place on the supreme court commis
sion some time ago. Mr. Anderson
was nominated for regent by the re
publicans of the state at the primary
held on September 3. The appoint
ment will hold until the election in
November. Inasmuch as Anderson Is
a candidate for the term beginning the
first of January, there will be a period
or two mouths intervening between the
expiration of his appointive tenure and
the time for him to begin serving regu
larly. Is Nearly
George Joiner,
Morton printing
City, came near
Electrocuted.
nn employe of the
company, Nebraska
being electrocuted.
Ho found a loose telephone wire laying
in the alley back of the olllce and pick
ed it up and it was alive being crossed
with one of the high voltage wires
from the electric light station. He fell
screaming to the earth and none dared
upprouch him because a light rain was
falling and sparks flew in every dl
rnctlon. People stood around and saw
the tlesh burning from his hands. Ho
would have been killed but for the fact
that Manager Eagan. of tin electric
lighting plant heard the screams and
telephoned the power house and the
current was cut off. Tho young man
was unconscious and It was some time
before ho was restored. His hands
were so badly burned that he will not
he able to work for some time.
Game Warden Wins Trophy.
Chief Game Warden George L. Car
ter now has in his oillce the Thorpe
trophy for markmanshlp at trap shoot
ing. The trophy is an immense silver
smoking set, the principal design be
ing a horseshoe, all in solid sliver. The
prize was won lust time from W. D.
Townsend ot Omaha, Carter scoring
SI to his opponent's 80. Mr. Carter
lias be?n challenged by Dr. M. A.
Housen of Arapahoe and the match
will take place in Lincoln, September
215. At .the end of two years the trophy
will be shot for by all who have won
It during that time and it will then be
come the permanent property of the
winner In tho final contest.
Block Stock Yards Project.
The Union Pacic Railroad company
has removed to tho federal court the
Injunction case which John Frazier
brought against the company and in
which lie secured a temporary restrain
ing order prohibiting the further con
struction of the extensive stock yards
at North Platte, because, as he alleged
In his pstltlon, the refuse of the stock
yards would be emptied into a stream
which fed a lake from which he se
cured his supply of Ice.
Leg Caught In Wheel.
Albert McVey a young farmer re
siding with Ills parents on a farm flvo
miles west of Nebraska City, attempt
ed to stop a horse which was attached
to a buggy and In some way got his
left leg caught In the wheel of tho bug
gy, was drugged some distance and
was whirled about like a top. Tho
hones in tho leg were broken In i
number of places and protrudei
through the tlesh. Tho foot was almost
torn from the limb.
Man Killed at Alliance.
k L. All r . i .
ii Aiiiunoc ueorge it. fsauu, em
ployed by the Forest Lumber compnuy
on one of Its drays was Instantly kill
ed the other day. He had dolivered a
coal ordor and was off tho wagon when
his team started to run. Ho tried to
catch tho horso by the bit hut missed
his hold and fell under tho .wagon.
One of tho wheels passed over and
crushed his head. Death was Instantaneous,
COA8T
l. V
NEW COMMANDER OF 6. U,
Charles G. Burton, of Kausas
the New Officer.
City,
Internal Revenue Collector
ern District of M'ssouri
of H.s Life.
for West--Sketch
Saratoga, New York. Charles
G. Burton, formerlv of Nevada, Mo.,
now of Kansas Clt. a former member
of congress, Thursday was elected
commander-in-chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic which is holding its
forty-Hrst annual encampment here.
Tho now commander-in-chief was op
posed by three candidates Gen. John
T. Wilder of Knoxvlllo. Tenn.; Chas.
Burrows of Rutherford. N. J., and
Patrick H. Coney of Topokn, Kan. His
plurality was more than 300.
fudge Burton is Internal revenue
collector for the Western district ot
Missouri, having hen appointed by
President Roosevelt. Ills headquar
ters are In Kansas City.
He was a candidate for national
commander of the G. A. R. at the Min
neapolis encampment last your, and
was at that time one of tho four lead
ers In the race. He has been com
mander of the Missouri department of
the G. A. R.. his election to that post
having taken place In Jopliu in 1893.
He is one of the youngest men enlist
ed in the civil war. Judge Burton was
born in Cleveland. O., April 4, 184(5.
In childhood his parents moved to
Trumbull county, O., where he re
ceived his early education. In 1SGI
when he was 15 years old, he enlisted
In the Nineteenth Ohio Infantry. He
was in tho battle of Shiloh and skir
mishes around Corinth, Miss. After
14 months' service ho was discharged
for disability. Later, however, he re
enlisted for the "100-day cutnpalgu"
In 1804.
After the war he finished his school
ing In C hlo. studied law, and wus ad
mitted to the bar in 18(57 in Warren,
O. Tho following year he moved to
Virgil City, Mo., atr formed a law
partnership with the lute E. E. Kim
ball. In a few years ho move 1 to Ne
vada, Mo., whore he lived until ho
moved to KansaB City. He was elect
ed circuit attorney In 1872, and in
1879 was given the republican em
eus nomination for United States sen
ator. Tho next year he was elected
circuit judge of the Twenty-fifth ju
dicial district, and he served m that
ofllce six years. Ho was .i delegate
to tho republican national convention
in Chicago In 1884. In 1891 he was
elected representative of tho Fifteenth
Missouri district.
Killed by a Trap Gun.
Topokn. Kan. Marshall Tuttle,
aged 9 years, was killed Saturday
night at Sibley, a small station south
of here In a pitiful maimer. G.
Karnes, a merchant, had set a re
volver fastened by wire to tho door of
a henhouse to catch a thief and the
boy diil not know the trap had been
loaded and opened the door.
Neidrlnghaus Has Resigned.
St. Louis. Chairman Thonuus K.
Neidrlnghaus, of tho republican state
committee, resigned Thursday at a
meeting of the committee and Walter
S. Dickey, of Kansas City, was select
ed as his successor. Mr. Neidrlnghaus
gave pressure of business as ills rea
son for resigning. Secretary McCoy
also resigned.
Moors Reopen Negotiations.
Paris. Admiral Phllbert cables that
tho Chaoulas and some of tho other
warring tribesmen In the vicinity of
Casa Hlanca ha"o reopened negotia
tions for peace.
CLEAR?
MARCHED IN A STORM.
T?n Thousand G. A. R. Veterans
Braved the Elements to Follow
the Flag Once More.
Saratoga, N. Y. The Grand army
of the Republic hold Its parade Wed
nesdav: It's forty-first, in memory of
the days of war. Ten thousaud vet
erans, the remnant of the once vie
torlous army whose scores of thou
sands i assed In review at the nation
al capital when the war was over
braved a driving storm to march again
beneath their battle (lags. Unmind
ful of the stress of storm, as in the
days of "sixty-one, tltose that were
left passed In review, over a mea
sured mile through village streets, a
distance suited to their gathering
years. For an hour and more the
veterans walked between linos of
cheering people, keeping step to the
music, which again and again right
cheerily played "How Dry I Am" and
"Walt till the Sun Shines, Nellie."
Governor Charles E. Hughes, his
military staff, the National officers
of the Grand Army and distinguished
visitors stood on the reviewing stand
a 1 t e while, sheltered from the driv
ing storm only by a flimsy covering
of clotli through which the rain swept
almost unchecked. It was not a
cheerful day, nor a good one for men
burdened with the weight of years.
"I have never seen anything so In
spiring or so pathetic," said Governor
Hughes, when the lust flagging, drip
ping veteran had passed the stand.
"When the serious consequences of
the march through the rain to many
of the veterans ara considered, it is
a revelation of the courage and de
termination of the American people
seldom seen. It should serve as an
inspiration and an encouragement to
us all. It wns splendid, magnificent."
The Kansas Is Not Swift.
Washington. The battleship Kan
sas, slstership to the Vermont, has
Just completed her speed trials and
while her record Is slightly below the
18-knot speed which the ship was re
quired to make in her acceptance trial,
several months ago, it is said that the
navy department that her record Is en
tirely satisfactory. Captain Souther
land, president of the trial board on
board of the ship reported to tho navy
department Thursday by wireless via
Provincetown, Mass., as follows:
"Kansas finished successful steaming
and gun trials. The average speed
for four hours with full power was
17. SI knots and for 24 hours endurance
trial 17.00 knots.
A Race War on Shipboard.
San Francisco. One hundred and
fifty Japanese and Chinese cannery
hands engaged in a desperate battle
with knives on the high seas during
the voyage of tho bark Electra to this
port from Nushagak, Alaska, and the
encounter terminated only after more
than a dozen of tho contestants had
Heen wounded and as many more
placed In Irons In tho vessel's brig.
Earthquake in Aleutian Islands.
New York. The earthquake report
ed to have occurred in tho Aleutian
islands on September 1 and 2, news
of which has reached Seattle through
an ofllcer of the revenue cutter Rush,
Is believed to be the "lost earthquake"
recorded early In the month on tho
seismograph at Washington, in En
gland and at Ottawa.
Spanish War Veterans Adjourn.
Sandusky, O. The fourth annual
encampment of the United Spanish
war veterans of America adjourned at
Cedar I'olnt Wednesday afternoon.
Boston won out for next year's en
campment over Asburry Park, Denver
and Cedar Point.
RESIST A TWO-CENT RATE
Railroads Decide to Defy the Kan
sas Commissioners.
Cov. Hoch Declares He Will Go LI
of Executive Power to Com
pel Obedience.
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Chicago. At n conference held In
Chicago Tuesday the Kansas raUVoads
decided to ignore the railroad com
mission of thnt state and refuse to
obey Its order requiring a two-cent
passenger rate. The roads were rep
resented by their general counsel and
their executive officers in charge of
traffic. ..le refusal was based upon
the alleged un.'airness of the situation
brought about by the action of the
commission which requires two-cent
fares beginning October 5. The rail
roads Insist that the action of the
commission is a political move in the
interest of the commission and not
of tho people. They declared that
they had appealed to the sense of
justice of the commission without
avail and that if a two-cent rate is to
come in Kansas It must come by
compulsion of law.
Topekn, Kan. Gov. lloch stated
Tuesday night, on b'elng Informed- of
the action of the railroads In Chi
cago In deciding to Ignore tho Kan
sas two-cent fare order, that ho
v Id go to the limit of his executive
power to enforce the order. He would
not say flatly whether or not- ho
would call a special session of the
legislature.
Problem for Gov. Hoch.
Topokn, Kan. Pressure is being
brought to hear on Gov. Hoch to pre
vent him from calling a special session
of the legislature to act on the two
cent fare question. Attorney General
F. S. Jackson thinks he can secure the
two-cent faro without a special session.
He suggests that a case before the
railroad commissioners be brought on
the plea of the "reasonableness" of
the rate. If the railroads refuse, the
case would be carried to the supreme
court. This course would necessitate
another hearing before the railroad
commissioners. Gov. Hoch, it Is un
derstood from his close friends, wants
to call a special session and thinks
it the best way to settle the question,
Requires a Big Bond.
Chicago. Appeal bonds aggregating
between $5,000,000 and $7,500,000 must
be furnished by the Standard Oil com
pany of Indiana before; the supersedeas
asked for will be Issued by the United
States circuit court of appeals. With
out the supersedeas the government
I will be at liberty to levy on the prop
j erty for execution under the judgment
j of $211,240,000 returned against this
I company in Judge K. M. Lnudis' court'
for rebating.
Railroad Shows Good Earnings.
Cl.icr.fio. The annual report of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
road, which was Issued Wednesday,
s ows gr is earnings of $00,548,000;
operating expenses and taxes, $41,080,
500, leaving net earnings of $18,802,
100. After the payment' of interest
on bonds the revenue for tho year
showed a net balance of $12,919,300.
J ring the year 7 per cent dividends
were paid on botli the common and
preferred stock.
Wellman's Dismal Fiasco.
Trondhjem, Norway. Walter Well
man arrived at Tromsoe Thursday
night on board the Frithjof from Spitz
bergen on Ills way home. Mr. Woll
man announced that lie had definitely
abandoned for this year after a dis
astrous trial of his airship, the pro
posed attempt to reach the North pole.
Children Barred from Stage.
Lincoln, Neb. Labor Commissioner
Ryder has sent notices to Nebraska
theatrical houses, warning them not to
permit ehlldrno under 10 years to ap
pear on the stage. The rule also ap
plies to all opera or theatrical com
panies giving perlormances in tho
stnte.
Dr. Blue Will Assume Charge.
San Francisco Dr. Rupert Blue, of
the United States marine hospital ser
vice, arrived hero Thursday from
Washington to assume charge of tho
campaign against contagious disease
in this city. He will act in conjunct
tlon with tho local board of health.
New York Bonds Sold Well.
New York. New York City bond
issuo of $40,000,000, bids for which
wore opened Tuesday, was heavily
oversubscribed at premiums
up 103. J. P. Morgan & Co.,
tlonal City bonk and Kulm,
Co., bid for large blocks.
ranging
tho Na
Loeb &
Hawaii Has Bonds for Sale.
San Francisco. A. J. Campbell,
treasurer of tho territory of Hawaii,
arrlvod here Thursday on his way east
to float an issuo of $308,500 of terri
torial bonds recently authorized by tho
legislature for the purpose of con
structing public works.