NEBRASKA NEWS
AT LEAST ONE FATALITY IN
NORTH NEBRASKA TORNADO.
STARTS IN CUMING COUNTY
Many Houses Destroyed In Path
the Wind Which Reached
Great Velocity Legisla
tive Blunders.
of
A tornado passed ovor northern Ne
braska Thursday resulting in the
death of a hnhy Rirl, aged one year,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
MnngloBon, residing In Cleveland
township In Cuming county. Tho
family was seated at dinner whon tho
tornado, coming from tho Houlh,
ulruok tho dwelling, a laTgo two-story
house. Tho family consisted of Mr.
Mnngleson, hie wife, motlior and flvo
children, all of whom woro more or
losH Injured, hut the father nnd hus
tin mi la tho only ono who was dan
KirouHly hurt. A splinter' of wood
.s driven into his head, making a
terrible wound, allhough tlioro nro
hopes of his recovery.
Not a hoard of the dwelling wan left
nnd ovory hutldlng was swopt from
tho earth.
Tho atorm, which wan accompanied
by a terrific roaring nolao, next hit
jthe farm residence of Richard Waao
W, a mile from tho Mnngleson home.
rthc dwelling wan ontlrely demolished,
hut none of tho nlno members of tho
family woro dangerously Injured, al
though all aro tnoro or leas hurt..
The Glovor plncc wan the next farm
house visited by tho whlrlor. Tho
house Is a mile from flic Waacker
homo. Tho wind demolished a num
ber of fnrm buildings. Tho family
oacapod serious injury.
From hero tho storm traveled to
ward tho northeast and struck on
tho farm or Honry GrlsHtnau, where
all the buildings, excepting tho dwell
ing, woro completely demolished.
A half mile north of tho Grlssman
niaco tho tornado decended on. tho
farm of Honry Schaeffor, whero it de
stroyed all of tho buildings, carrying
. Jtho house a distance of 60 foot from
itt foundation. Tho family took
refuge in an out door cave and thus
etcaped Injury..
tio tornado demolished buildings
and other property on tho promises
occupied by William Kolloy, Jacob
Cosh and on the James place.
Chickens, hogs, cattlo and horses
were killed nnd maimed throughout
tho ontlro path of tho storm.
BLUNDER OF LEGISLATURE.
No
Time Limit on Appeal
from
County Boards.
Tho last legislature blundorod whon
It passed Representative Mlko Loo's
house roll No. 427, according to infor
mation now boforo Attorney Gonornl
Thompson. The act, which 1b now a
law, repcalB that portion of section 37,
chapter 18, compiled statutes of 1005,
which provides that any ono desiring
.to appear from tho disallowance of a
,cialin boforo a county board must gtvo
notice to tho county clork wlthiy
20 days of such decision. A
tcounty attorney culled tho attontioti of
jtho attorney gonornl to tho now law
iand Its chnngo In tho formor statuto.
if tho net remains in force all limita
tions will bo removed and a claim dis
allowed by a county board can bo ap
pealed from yoars aftor tho doclslon of
tho board. Tho act, howovor, loaves
another provision In force iu section
8.;, chapter 18, compiled statutes of
3005, which snys upon tho nllowanco of
a claim against a county tho warrant
shall not bo delivered to the party un
tili tho time for taking an nppoal has
expired, and if the nppoal bo taken
.then, not until tho samo shall havo
been determined.
NEBRA8KA COURT REVER8ED.
Oeclsion at Washington 8ays
Hop Fong Can Stay.
LIU
Tho supreme court of tho United
StatoB decldod that Liu Hop Fong, a
.Chinaman who camo to tho Unitod
Status lu 1891) na n student, but who
has slnco been found working, should
not bo doported as was docrood by
the Unitod States district court of No
braska. Tho latter declared that Hop
had only studied to tho oxtout of tak
Ing lessons in n Sunday school and
finding that hla cortlflcnto declaring
that ho was coming to tho Unitod
States for tho purposo or ongaglng In
the pursuit of scholastic knowledge
waa fraudulent, ordered that "ho bo
sent back to Chlnn. Tho opinion was
by Justlco Day and rovorscd tho ordor
of tho Nebraska court. Justlco Day
took tho position that thoro was no
testimony boforo tho district court to
Jcs.Ufy tho disregarding ot ho cer-
DENTIST A SUICIDE.
Dr. J. R. Walden Takes Doss of
Cyanide of Potassium.
Dr. J. Ransom Waldon, a prominent
dontlst of Iloldrego, committed sul
oido by taking cyanide of potasBtum.
His body wa.s discovered by hla father
In tho olllco about two o'clock, lying
on a couch with life extinct, with ono
hand In hla pants pocket nnd the other
thrown across his stomach. A glass
l.i which ho had made the mixture
was on tho floor at tho dido of tho
couch, iio left two notes to his wife
lolling her how to settle up hla bust
ness and explaining what ho had
taken to kill himself. No reason is
given for tho act. Ho seemed to bo
successful in IiIh business and his
domestlo relations woro pleasant and
hnppy. There was enough of tho
drug loft In tho glass to havo killed
2b or 30 men. Tho coronor's Jury
brought In a verdict that ho carno to
Ills death by his own hands from tho
effects of tho cyanide. He leaves a
wife and one child.
FREMONT MAN DISAPPEARS.
Member of Ship's Crew at Seattle
Qoec In Night.
.It Is bollovod that Arthur Pschoror,
a Fremont boy, has lost hla life. Tho
young man 1b missing from a boat on
which ho worked us a mombor of tho
crow for n construction company nt
Seattle, Wush. Ho disappeared a fow
nights ngo, being missed at 5:30
o'clock In tho morning. Tho boat had
been in tho rlvor and thoro had been
no possiblo chanco for him to land.
Ills trunk remuined undisturbed in htB
room. Tho nows cumo to Fremont
recently in a lottor from do boat
mates to Pschoror'a paronts, Mr. and
Mrs. Pscheror. Tho young man was
128 years of ago. Ho was formerly a
biakoman on tho North woatern rail
road. Ho holds membership In tho
Fromont firo department and sevorul
ftatornal societies.
FARMER MURDERS HIS WIFE.
Frank Coner Commltts Crime Before
His Llttlo Children.
Frank Connor, a farmer living near
Marlon, Neb., about 15 miles south of
McCook, klfied his wlfo and now
nwalta his preliminary hearing In tho
county jail at that place. Tho mur
der was tho most cowardly and cruel
and waa witnessed by qono but tho
two llttlo children of tho couplo.
Two bullets were fired into the wife's
head. Tho murderer admits tho kill
lug and offers nothing in extenuation,
rather desiring to be hung for tho hor
rible crlmo for which he sIiowb no
more romorso than if ho had killed
a dog.
Lumber Dealers Lose Out.
Attorney General Thompson has
wjn a victory in the suit againBt tho
Nebraska Retail Lumber Dealers' as
sociation In tho supreme court, which
ho sought to enjoin from restricting
trade and freo competition. Bird
Crltchfleld, secretary of the associa
tion, in enjoined from continuing prac
tices In restraint of trade and tho
officers of tho association are hold
chargeablo with knowlodgo of such
acta and they aro also enjoined from
prj-mltting tho unlawful acts in viola
tion of the statutes prohibiting com
binations in restraint of trado. While
the association as a body 1b not dis
solved, sevoral individual members
aro enjoined, whilo in some Instances
tho report of the reforeo is upheld.
Father Parts with Children.
Pour children of Mr. ZImmormann
havo boon turned over to tho Nobraska
Children's Homo society and thereby
hangs a story of sorrow. Mr. Zlra
mermnnn 1b a laboring man who only
rtcontly arrived from Gormany. On
tho way over his wlfo sickened, died
and was burled at sea, leaving tho
father to como on nlono with the four
llttlo ones. Slnco ho is unablo in the
new land to provido board for all of
his llttlo ones without tho aid of tho
mothor, ho has contributed to the so
ciety all of tho resldu of a collection
taken on board tho Bhlp for him In
ordor that tho society may not be
at a loss In finding good homes, in
Luthoran famtllea, if possiblo, and has
contracted with thorn, voluntarily, to
pay so much por month to tho socloty,
Fremont Man Loses Big Sum.
William T. Cohoo of Crowoll com-
plnlnod to tho Fremont police that
lour atrangors had robbed him of
drafts, notbs and curroncy amounting
to $5,575. Cohce was in Fromont on
business and went to tho union pas
songor station Co tako an afternoon
train for Crowoll. In tho crowd of
pnssongors thoro whilo ho was getting
nboard tho train, Cohoe was rudely
Jostled by four men. Ho did not
know, howovor, until afterwards that
mm ppqqoa pun, Ao)
Snakes.ln Douglas County.
Mrs. Thomus Arnold, living a fow
miles south of Watorloo, stopped Into
n bunch of snakes ami wag bitten sev
oral times about tho anklo. Sho was
greatly frlghtoned and at first thought
tho snakes woro rattlors, but Inves
tigation showed they were not venomous,
ANOTHER
MESSAGE
PRE8IDENT ROOSEVELT AGAIN
REMINDS CONGRESS OF ITS
DUTY TO THE PEOPLE.
ACTION ON PENDIN6 MEASURES URGED
Abuse of Power by Injunction and Con
trol by the National Government
Over the Great Corporations Doing
an Interstate Business Especially
-Mentioned by the Executive.
Washington. The following is an
abstract, of a special message sent to
both housea of congress by President
Roosevelt urging action on certain
measures at this session:
To the senate and house of represen
tatives: In my message to tho congress of
March 25, 1008, I outlined certain
measurea which I holleve tho majority
of our countrymen dcslro to havo en
acted into law at this time. These
mensures do not represent by any
means nil that I would like to sco
done If I thought it possible, but they
do represent what I believe can now
bo done If an earnest effort toward this
end is mndo.
( Slnco I wrote this message an em
ployers' liability law has been enacted
which, it is true, comes short of what
ought to havo been done, but which
does represent a real advance. Appar
ently there Is good ground to hope that
thero will be further legislation pro
viding for recompensing all employes
who suffer Injury while engaged iu tho
public service; that there will be a
child-labor law enacted for tho Dis
trict of Columbia; that tho waterways
commission will be continued with suf
ficient financial support to increase
tho effectiveness of Its preparatory
work; that steps will bo taken to pro
vide for such investigation into tariff
conditions, by the appropriate commit
tee of tho house of representatives
ami. by government experts in tho ex
ecutive service, as will securo the full
Information necessary for immediate
action In revising the tariff at tho
hands of tho congress elected next
fall; and finally, that financial legisla
tion will be enacted providing for tem
porary measures for meeting any trou
ble that may arlso iu tho next year
or two, and for a commission of ex
perts who shall thoroughly investi
gate tho whole mattor, both nare and
In the great commercial countries
abroad, so as to be ablo to recommend
legislation which will put our financial
system on an efficient and permanent
basis. It is much to bo wished that
ono foaturo of the financial legislation
of this session should bo the establish
ment of postal savings banks. Ample
appropriation should bo made to enable
the Interstate Commerce commission
to carry out the very Important feat
ure of tho Hepburn law which gives to
tho commission supervision and con
trol over tho accounting systems of the
railways. Failure to provide means
which will enable tho commission to
examine the books of tho railways
would amount to an attack on the law
nt Its most vital point, and would bene
fit, as nothing: elso could benefit, those
railways which aro corruptly or in
competently managed,
There seems, however, much doubt
about two of the measures I havo re
commendod; tho measure to do away
with abuso of the power oi Injunction
nnd the measure or group of meas
ures to strengthen and render more
efllclont nnd more wise the control
by tho national government ovor the
great corporations doing an Inter
state business.
First, as to tho power of Injunction
and of punishment for contompt. In
contempt caso3 save whore lmmodiato
action is Imperative, tho trial should
bo beforo another judge. As regards
Injunctions, koiiio such legislation as
that I havo previously recommended
should bo enacted. Tho process of in-
junction iu labor disputes, as well as
where state laws are Involved, should
bo used sparingly, and only when
tnoro is tho clearest necessity for it;
hut it Is one so nocessarv to th om.
cicnt performance of duty by tho court
on Demur of tho nntion that It is in
xno nignest Jogroo to be roirrettod
that It should bo fiablo to reckless use
for this reckless uso tends to make
nonost men desire so to hamper its ox
ecution as to destroy its usefulness.
Tho strengthening of the nnti-trust
law is demanded upon both moral and
economic grounds.
Powor should unquestionably be
iuuhuu SOniOWlloro ll the nxnmiMv
branch of tho government to permit
; combinations which will further tho
puouc interest; but it must always be
remembered that, as regarda tho groat
m woaitny comb mat ona Mirm,,,;,
which most of tho Interstate iniHi,,naB
of to-day Is done, tho bunion of proof
D.iuum uu on mom to show that thov
iigui io exist. io judicial tri
mum Ihiq
" WIU IY11U lUUUt III T in rVltnn
lence to dotermlno in tho first placo
whether a given combination la advis
able or necessary in tho intoroat of tho
public. Somoboly, whether a commis
sion or a buroau under the department
of commorco and labor, should bo giv
en this power. My personal belief la
that ultimately wo ahall have to adopt
a national incorporation law, though I
am woll aware that this may be Im
possiblo at present.
Tho decisions of the supreme court
in tho Minnesota and North Carolina
cases Illustrate how impossible Is a
dual control of national commerce. Tho
nation alone can adt with effectiveness
and wisdom; it should have the con
trol both of tho business and of tho
agent hy which tho business is done,
for any attempt to soparate this con
trol must result in grotesquo absurd
ity. At present tho failure of the con
gress to utilize and oxorclso tho great
powors conforrod upon It as regards
interstate commorco leaves this com
morco to bo regulated, not by tho state
nor yet by tho congress, but by tho
occasional and necessarily Inadequate
and one-sided action of the federal
judiciary. However upright and able a
court is, it can not act constructively;
It can only act negatively or destruc
tively, as an agency of government;
and this means that the courts arc and
must always be unable to deal effect-
vely with a problem like tho present
which requires constructive action. A
court can docido what is faulty, hut
t has no powor to make better what
t thus finds to bo faulty.
Therefore It Is clear that (unless
a national incorporation law can bo
forthwith enacted) some Body or bodies
n tho executive service should bo giv
en power to pass upon any combina
tion or agrooment in relation to Inter
state commerce, and every such com
bination or agreement not thus ap
proved should be treated as in viola
tion of law and prosecutod according-
y. Tho issuance of tho securities of
any combination doing interstate busi
ness should be under the supervision
of the national government.
A strong effort has been made to
rave labor organizations completely
exempted from any of the operations
of this law, whether or not their acts
aro In restraint of trade. Such ex
ception would in all probability make
tho bill unconstitutional, and the leg
islature has ,o more right to pass a
bill without regard to whother it is
constitutional than tho courts havo
lightly to declare unconstitutional a
aw which tho legislature has solemnly
enacted. Tho heartiest encouragement
should bo given to tho wageworkers
to form labor unions and to enter Into
agreements with their employers; and
their right to strike, so long as they
act peaceably, must be preserved. But
wo should sanction neither a boycott
nor a blacklist which would be illegal
at common law.
The measures I advocate are in the
Intorest both of decent corporations
and of law-abiding labor unions. They
aro, moreover, preeminently in the In
terest of tho public, for In my Judg
ment tho American people have defi
nitely made up their minds that the
days of tho reign of tho great law-
defying and law-ovadlng corporations
aor over, and that from this time on
the mighty organizations of capital
necessary for the transaction of busi
ness under modern conditions, while
encouraged so long as thoy act hon
estly and in the intorest of tho general
public, aro to bo subjected to care
ful supervision and regulation of a
kind so effective as to insure their
acting in tho interest of tho people as
a whole.
Allegations aro often made to tho
effect that thero Is no real need for
these laws looking to the more effec
tive control of the great corporations,
upon tho ground that they will do
tholr work well without such control.
I call your attention to the accompany
ing copy of a report just submitted by
Mr. Nathan Matthews, chairman of tho
finance commission, to tho mayor and
city council of Boston, relating to cer
tain ovll practices of various corpora
tions which havo boon bidders for fur
nishing to tho city iron and stool. This
report shows that thero havo been ex
tensive combinations formed among
the various corporations which havo
business with tho city of Boston, in
cluding, for instance, a carefully
planned combination embracing prac
tically all tho firms and corporations
ongagod in structural stool work in
Now England. As regards tho city of
Boston, tho combination resulted In
parceling out tho work by collusive
bids, plainly dishonest, and supported
by falso affirmations.
I havo submitted this report to the
department of justlco for thorough In
vestigation and for action If action
shall prove practicable.
Suroly such a stato of affairs as that
above set forth emphasizes tho need of
furthor federal legislation, not merely
becauso of tho material 'bonollts such
loglslatlou will secure, but above all
because this federal action should bo
part, and a largo part, of tho campaign
to waken our people as a whole to a
lively and effoctlvo condemnation of
tho low standard of morality implied
In such conduct on tho part of great
busluoss concerns,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
THE SIXTIETH CONGRESS
CONDENSED NEWS FROM
NATIONAL CAPITOL
THK
Tht Most Important Items Gathered
From Each Day's Session of
enats and House.
Washington, D. C. A conference on
currency legislation was held Wednes
day between the house and senate
leaders and was attended by Speaker
Cannon and Senator Aldrlch. Tho
Judgment of the conference was that
tho program lately decided on can bo
put through. This program calls for a
caucus of tho Republican members of
the house, probably next week or the
week following to dotermlno tho pass
age of a bill creating a commission to
investigate thoroughly tho curroncy
subject and the financial situation of
the country In general and to report on
remedial legislation at tho next ses
sion of congress. It is furthor tho de
sire of tho hoiiHo Republican lenders
to put through tho Vreeland 1)111 which
embodies what are thought to bo the
best features of tho Aldrlch bill and
eliminates the provisions to which,
most objection lins been made. All'
that the senate leaders nsk of the,
house leaders is to enact some piece of
financial legislation, so that tho senate
will have a measure to use as a work
ing basis, all thought of enacting of
the Aldrlch bill In tho form in which
it. passed the senate having been aban
doned. Tho program Is then to have
the senate strike out everything after
enacting clause in the house bill and
to Insert the Aldrlch bill. This will
havo the effect of throwing tho amend
ed bill into conference and care will
bo exorcised both in th esennte and In
the house to appoint as conferees,
members who favor some legislation at
this session. It will be the task of
the conferees to patch up from tho
Aldrlch bill and Vreeland bill and the
commission hill a modified act em
bodying such provisions as the leaders
feel sure of putting through the two
houses'.
No Action Against Venezuela.
Washington, D. C. Administration
officials have practically abandoned
the expectation that the senate will
at this session of congress authorize
the president to take punitive meas
ures against Venezuela for her refusal
to refer to arbitration the disputed
claims ot American citizens and con
porations againBt that country.
Two More Arbitration Treaties.
Washington, D. C. General arbitra
tion treaties with Great Britain and
Spain were ratified by the senate Wed
nesday. They are identical with trea
ties heretofore ratified with France,
Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Norway and
Portugal.
Passed 1,000 Bills In An Hour.
Washington, D. C The largest
batch of pension bills to recelvo fav
orable consideration by the house this
session wns passed Friday. Tho bills
aggregated over a thousand and all
were put through In nu hour.
New York Catholics Rejoice.
Now York. Every Catholic church
and the houses within the arch-diocose
of New York were In festal array Sun
day while perhaps a million men,
women and children gave thnnks for
the progress Catholicism had mado In
New York since It was formally estab
lished 100 years ago. It was tho be
ginning of the week of rejoicing in
honor of tho completion of n century
of nctlvlty.
Remarkable English Storm.
London. A romarkable blizzard, the
worst experienced iu tho south of
England slnco 1881, continued practi
cally all over the United Kingdom
throughout Friday night and Saturday
until Saturday mid-night. It was ac
companied by a violent northerly gale
and a low temperaturo, and In many
places the snowdrifts aro eight feet
deep.
His Natural Gas "Jag" Fatal.
Bartlesvillo, Ok. John Douglas, a
driller, whoso home was near Harrls
vllle, W. Va., was found dead noar
hero Saturday morning. Ho was lying
on a platform of a derrick of a gas
well with his mouth closo to a gas
iplpo. He had been addicted to ln
haling naturnl gas as a stimulant
No Rights On Goose Island,
Topeka, Kan. In tho federal court
hero Friday Judgo Pollock decided that
the stato of Kansas had no rights of
law in connection with tho control of
Goose Islnnd In tho Missouri rlvor,
Kansas City. This was simply a con
firmation of the report of tho special
maBter made recently.
Snow In South Dakota.
Pierre, S. D. A snow storm startod
here Saturday night and continued
most of Sunday, growing worso Sun
day evening. Tho temporaturo Is mild
however, and tho snow ia melting as
fast as It falls.
uuoate an was dono by that court.