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NEBRASKA NEWS
BURLINGTON CROP REPORT EX
CEEDS EXPECTATIONS.
WHEAT HARVEST IS HEAVY
Estimated Yield Is From Twelve to
Thirty Bu3hels Per Acre Accord
Ing to Soil Conditions
Other Newc.
Wheal, is now being harvested In
eastern and southern Nebraska and
the estimated yield Ih from twelve to
I hlily bushels an acre, accord Inn lo
the soil and crop report of the Utir
llngton road. This will he ahont 88 per
cent of an average yield, or six
per cent more than was expected a
week ago on the Wymore division.
On the Lincoln division the reports
show IIS per cent of the average or
two per cent more than a week ago.
The estimates on the McCook division
are from five to twenty bushels per
acre and on the Lincoln division from
hltoen to thirty bushels per note.
Spring grain is maturing rapidly and
will soon he ready for harvest. Oats,
spring wheat, and parley should all
make an average crop, judging from
present. indications.
Lust week was the most favornhle
for corn since the wet weather begun,
aa It was the week of the highest
temperature so Tar this season and
there was not too much moisture tt
prevent, cultivation.
Agents' reports show a prospect for
an 85 per cent crop on the McCook
division, 80 per cent on the Wymore
division and 100 per cent on the Lin
coln division. The coin fields have
been thoroughly cultivated during thh
week.
Prospects are good for nn average
crop of potatoes. The sugar beet
crop is doing well wherever raised.
The meadows and pastures nre in
most excellent condition, wjth the first
cro'p of alfalfa In the stack. Rainfall
wan general over the district last
week.
GEORGE HUNTINGTON DEAD.
-Veteran Dispatcher Succumbs to
Heart Disease.
George Huntington, one of the old
est dispatchers on the Northwestern
railroad, died Thursday morning at
bis home in Fremont. Ho bad b'een
nlllng for a long time with heart
trouble, but up to two weeks ago
vns able to fill his usual position as
"tlrat trick" man -at the Fremont
Northwestern office.
1 Mr. Huntington was born December
7, 1853, at Pamesvllle, Ohio. Ho be
gan railroading when 15 yenrs of
nge, entering the office of the Lake
Sltorc & Michigan Southern. Thirty
years ago he came west to South Da
kota for the Northern Pacific. Twenty
five years ago at Missouri Valley. Ta..
ho entered the employ or the old F. 13.
& M. V. as dispatcher. He was trans
ferred to Norfolk and tlien to Fre
mont. Ho had the uninuo and re
markable record of serving to years
ut a telegraph key without contract
ing that, common ailment among all
telegraphers of operator's cramps.
DECIDES AGAINST GAUVREAU.
Hastings High License Councilman
Ordered Unseated.
Judge Dungnn of the district, court
reversed the decision of Judge Ragan
of tho county court nnd issued a
writ of ouster against Councilman
Oauvreau of Hastings who was seated
n week ago upon tho order of Judge
Ragan. Tho removal or Councilman
Oauvreau will ngaln throw the city
council into the same condition it
was bororo the decree of Judge Ragan
and will leave it a tie uh regards tho
pi'oribltion question.
13. L. Gauvreau, u supporter of
high license, was seated two weeks
ago on order of Judge Ragan, special
judge of tho county court, before
whom tho contest was first tried.
Judgo Dungan roversed the decision
of Judge Ragan and issued u writ or
ouster against Gnuvreau.
Cuts His Throat.
Remorse which rollowed an ex
tended spreo is believed to have been
the cause of Cyril Gallk, a Pole, liv
ing at 241G Walnut street, Omaha,
attempting to commit -suicido Wednes
day morning, In Ills room. He was
discovered by a fellow-lodger, lying
on his bed with bis throat cut from
ear to oar. Ho was unable to talk,
t'no windpipes having been partially
hovered, but by gestures and tho aid
of a pencil ho told his name and
occupation cabinet maker. Ho was
removed to tho Omaha genoral bos
pital and attended by Pollco Surgeons
Harris and Fitzglbbons. His chances
lor recovery nre very few.
SEEKS TO TAKE A STREET.
Union Pacific Move Agitates North
Platto People.
A suit of far-reaching importune
to North Platto Is about' to be filed
in the local federal court by the
Union Pacific railroad. It involves
the ownership of a strip of land 100
feet. In width. W. M. Cunningham
and Roy 13. Tabor, trustees, are made
the defendants In the suit. The land
in question covers all of Front street,
running to the north property line
or that street. Tho claims or the
railroad to the land are based under
two acts or congress. The original
act of that body, passed in 18G2,
granted a right-of-way 400 root In
width and alternate sections of land
for ten miles on either side of thu
ilglit-or-way to 200 feet and Increasing
the land grant to 20 miles on each
side of tho right-of-way. The con
tention or the company is that the
amendment was not to apply to the
width or the right-of-way -in other
words, the company claims the best
of both grants. In the bills filed the
company admits there Is a contro
versy, and brings the suit In the
nature of a test cast. While the suit
of Itselr would affect only the parties
mentioned, yet there is no question
that all property owners within the
limits Involved not only In that city
but In every point along the Union
Pacific would lose should the com
pany win. At North Platto the effect
would bo radical, and much of tho
best business property is within the
disputed district.
BOY SHOOTS BOY BY ACCIDENT.
While Cleaning Gun Trigger Is Pulled
Unintentionally.
While Edgar Manning a lC-year-old
boy of Schuyler, was emptying the
chamber of u 22-caliber rifle at tho
slough where more than a dozen
boys had gone to spend tho after
noon, a shot was caught In tho barrel
and while he was extricating the
shot tho trigger went off. Tho gun
was pointed at the back of Frank
Schley, who was undressing to go in
swimming. Tho bullet entered tho
boy's back and went straight through
his body cutting the main artery.
Tho other boys were all scared and
ran. Manning ran for a doctor, but
the bullet had done its work and
Schley was dead before medical as
sistance was secured.
Escaped Convict Brought Back.
A convict named Ingram from
Lancaster county, who escaped from
the Nebraska penitentiary nearlv nine
years ago, J3 back In tho penitentiary
once more to serve one month of an
unexpired term. As he lost two
months' time by escaping, he will
have to serve threo months instead
of tho one unexpired month that was
heroic blm when ho left. He was
serving a term of one year for bur
glary and was employed as a trusy
.ibout the grounds when he decided to
desert the place, lie lost no time in
committing a burglary in Kansas and
was sentenced to ton years In tho
state prison at Lansing. Kas. At tho
(xplratlon of his service there he was
brought back to make good tho sen
tence of the law in Nebraska. With
three of the hottest months of tho
summer beroro him the prisoner will
have u chance to meditate behind
the bars on the fortunes or a law
breaker. North Platte State Farm.
Chancellor Androws, Dean Burnett
and the regents of the university re
cently visited the state experimental
farm at North Platte. All wore
pleased with tho farm conditions, and
could not speak too enthusiastically
or the work being done there. Chan
cellor Andrews expressed himself
freely as to the splondld results be
ing obtained that, mean s.o much to
western Nebraska. Nowhere In the
Hato did he see better crop condi
tions and tho only pity, as ho saw It,'
was that the results or the farm wevo
not as widely known na they ought
to be. One or tho regents is much in
favor or establishing on tho rami a
brunch or the state agricultural col
It go so the students from tho western
part of the state -can receive the same
Instruction as at Lincoln with tho
further advantage of studying tho
ciops and their culture under condi
tions as they exist in that district.
Boy Shot in Knee.
Irving Ducklln, a 12-yenr-old boy,
was hit on the left leg below the
knee by a stray 22-calIbor bullet
while playing on an Island In tho
Platte river south of Fromont. Roys
who had beon seen playing with a
gun on the island ran away when
they heard nucklln's screams.
New School at Maywood.
At a special election held at May
wood, at the time or the annual
school moot Ing, $11,000 worth or
bonds were voted for the purpose of
erecting a now school building, it
Is Intended to build an eight-room,
pressed-brick building on the lots now
owned by the district.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings -of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
efit of Our Readers.
Miscellaneous.
In a head-on collision between two
fast paaaenger trains on tho Missouri
Pacific railroad at Knobnoster, Mo.,
nine persons were killed and up
wards or 59 injured. The accident
was due either to disregard or train
orders or failure to receive them. All
the fiend and most of tho Injured were
on the eastbound train.
Last month was the wettest June
in 41 years In Kansas, according to
Dr. Snow's records.
The negro arrested at Monroe, Mich.,
suspected or stealing a mull pouch con
talnlng $50,000 at Kansas City, proves
to be the wrong man.
It has been finally decided to have
tho notification of Mr. Taft's nomina
tion take place at Cincinnati on Julv
28.
Gold in' paying quantities has been
bound In the Brown wood oil field
about 100 miles southwest or Fort
Worth. Tex.
A negro giving the name or Charles
Stevens bus beon arrested In Monroe,
Wis., charged with stealing the $50,
000 registered mull pouch at Knnsns
City. He wns Identified by photo
graphs. An airship flight that lasted all day
was made recently by Count Zeppelin
starting from Lake Constance, Swit
zerland, in the morning and returning
there in the evening.
A. J. Bliss of White Cloud, Kan.,
bus been arrested on a charge of per
ury for making false returns to tho
tux nssessor. He listed $400 when he
bud $9,000 on deposit in a bank.
The new Lehigh viaduct In Buffalo,
N. Y., was badly damaged by the ex
plosion of two heavy charges of dyna
mite. One man has been arrested on
suspicion.
The New York grand jury has re
turned two Indictments against Mae
Wood on charges of perjury and for
gery in connection with the suit
against Senator Piatt.
Justice Lambert directed the jury
to find a verdict for Mayor McClellan
In the suit brought by William R.
Hearst to oust him from ofllce as
mayor of Now York.
Tho Kansas supremo court has dis
missed nil the attachment Bults recent
ly filed against Pittsburg jolntlsts.
A. Booth & Co., one of the largest
fish and oyster concerns In the west
has pleaded guilty In Chicago of hav
ing accepted rebates from railroad
companies. The maximum penalty
for the ofTense is $20,000.
Revolutionists attacked the Mexican
post at Pnlomns, Chihuahua, but were
repulsed by the garrison.
Recause the education given was
not satisractory the Japanese or Se
attle, Wash., have decided to with
draw their children rrom the public
schools. .Japanese schools with nn
tlvo teachers will be estubllshed.
As the result of a cloudburst at
Wellington, Kan., four persons were
drowned and hundreds of families were
forced from their homes by tho rush
ing waters which washed the houses
from their foundations.
Tho Northern Kansas Millers' club,
whose primary object Is to procure
better seed wheat for farmers has
been organized at Junction City. C.
R. Curran of Concordia Is tho first
president.
The westbound Calirornla limited
on the Snnta Fe railroad was wrecked
near Hardy, Arizona, killing two
train-men and a passenger and injur
ing about 20 persons.
The Missouri Pacific has opened tho
freight car works in the new shops at
Sedalin, Mo.
Tho tracks or the Joplln & Pitts
burg Electric lino were blown up with
dynamite by indignant citizens of
Chicopee, a coal camp, who objected
to an increase in car Tares.
Lightning caused tho destruction or
four l.GOO-barrol tanks of oil In the
Glenn Pool In Oklnhoma rocently,
muklng the llfth lire in that section
in threo months.
National Committeeman Sullivan of
Illinois says that John Mitchell can
be tho state's candldato for vice presi
dent at Denver if bo says tho word.
Two St. Louis "soclnl" clubs were
recently raided by tho pollco, G5 per
sons arrested nnd 49 kegs of boer con-
pllBcated.
Fifty thousand school teachers from
all parts of tho country aro attending
tho forty-sixth annual convention of
the National Educational association
at Cleveland, Ohio.
Two men wero killed and throe oth
ers soriously Injured by the collapse
of a building in process of demolition
in Minneapolis, Minn.
Attorney General Strauss, of Mary
land Is to second Gov. Johnson'p nom
ination for presidont at tho Denver
convontlou.
Two hundred minors met death bj
nn explosion of gns in a mine at)
Yuvoao, European Russia. Seventy-;
tnree men wero rescued alive but ten
of them died after being taken out at
the shaft.
Sylvanus E. Johnson, for many
years Washington correspondent fori
the Cincinnati Enquirer and other pa
lters and a former president of tho
Gridiron club, Is dead.
Six persons, five women nnd a five-year-old
boy, aro dead and a scpre
of others injured as tho result of an
explosion of fireworks in a five and
ten cent store in Cleveland, O. A
panic among tho hundreds of custom
ers and employes followed the explo
sion and many were injured in jump
ing from the windows of the upper
floors.
A slight earthquake shock shook
j San Francisco and Los Angeles the
other day but did no dnmnge.
Frank Coy, a wealthy farmer and a
United States mull currier of Tanoy
county, Mo., was shot from ambush
and dangerously wounded while on his
route recently.
Grant Ferguson, a negro credited
with having saved 12 persons from
drowning at Des Moines, la., bus been
presented with a gold medal by the
Commercial club of that city.
The public debt Increased $l,79H,
791 during June.
The United States mints coined dur
ing tho Inst flscul year $215,714,8G2.
The receipts of the government for
tho fiscal year just closed wero $599,
895,76:5 and the expenditures were
$059,552,124, leaving a deficit of $59,
CGG.RCI. Three brothers named Rbodus, or
ganizers of the Central Life Securi
ties company nnd hair a dozen sub
sidiary concerns have been arrested
In Chicago charged with using the
mails to defraud.
F. C. Rrockhauser, a Chicago man
who swindled working girls out of
$8,000 by selling them fake mortgages
has been returned to Chicago from
Oklahoma where be was captured.
The railroads of the middle west
have decided to restore tho old rates
on package freight. The movement
means a saving of thousands of dol
lars to shippers.
The certificates or the official list of
candidates to be voted on at the pri
mary election in Kansas has been sent
to the county clerks. The list Is five
reet long and' six newspaper columns
wide.
Secretary Cortelyou has issued a
statement saying that the deficit of
$(50,000,000 shown by the treasury
statement Is more apparent than real
because or the antiquated system of
bookkeeping in vogue.
Personal
A temporary restraining order has
been Issued against the Prairie Oil &
Gas company, restraining them from
further work on the oil pipe line from
Caney, Kan., into Oklahoma.
Five persons were killed, 10 In
jured and many rendered homeless by
a tornado at Fort Summers, N. M.
Sunday theaters are Illegal In Kan
sas under a recent decision of the
supreme court.
The entire Japanese cabinet has
tendered its resignation to the om
peror. Prominent publishers have offered
Mr. .Roosevelt $1 per word for the
story of his impression of Africa af
ter Ills coming hunting trip.
Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas,
U. S. N., retired, who was second in
command of the Atlantic battleship
fleet on its voyage to the Pacific, died
suddenly at Del Monte, Cal., of heart
failure.
.Joel Chandler Harris, familiarly
known as "Uncle Remus," and an au
thor of note, is dend at his home in a
suburb of Atlanta, Ga.
Herman Rldder, editor of the New
York Stnats Zeltung, one of the recent
callers at Mr. Bryan's home, asked the
Nebraska candidate to withdraw from
the race for the Democratic presiden
tial nomination. Mr. Uryan refused.
Thomas P. Bashaw, a former speak
er of the Missouri bouse, Is dend at
his home in St. Louis.
H. C. Townsond, for many years
general passenger agent of the Mis
souri Pacific railroad, Is dead In Port
Huron, Mich.
Bishop H. C. Potter of New York
is dangerously ill at Cooperstown.
The return of Representative Sher
man to his home In Utlca, N. Y., wns
the occasion l'or a great non-partisan
demonstration by his rellow citizens.
Murat Halstead, one of the leaders
of American journalism for over half
a century, widely known as a vigor
ous editorial ami magazine writer, is
dead at bis home in Cincinnati of
cerebral hemorrhage. He was in his
seventy-ninth year. Mr. Halstead per
sonally reported many battles In the
Civil, Franco-Prussian and Spanish
American wars.
An operation for gout has been per
formed on Rear Admiral Evans at
Lake Mohouk, N. Y.
Tho will of Grovor Cloveland baa
been filed for probata In New Jersey.
Tho bulk of the property Is loft to
the widow. Tho amount or the eB-
j tnto Is not given.
NINE DIE IN WRECK
COLLISION ON MISSOURI PACIFIC
NEAR KNOBNOSTER, MO.
TRAINS MEET AT FULL SPEED
Change Made In Orders and Soma
One Supposed to Have Blun
dered Fully Fifty Per
sons' Injured.
Tho California special train from St.
Louis on the Missouri Pacific railroad
collided with tho equally fast St.
Louis train from Kansas City two
miles east of Knobnoster, Mo., at 5:110
o'clock Friday morning. Nine persona
wero killed, nil on the train from Kan
sas City, and at least fifty were in
Jured. The dead: Michael Burke, Poplar
Bluff, Mo.; S. R. English, Fred .Story,
Franklyn, Ky.; W. J. Frlsble, St.
Louis; John Hood, Hurley, Mo.; W.
H. Harding, negro mall clor.c, St.
Louis; Baggageman Campbell, or Jcf
forson City, Mo., and his two assis
tants. All or the killed were on the train
rrom Kansas City, but eight of the in
jured were on the other train. Both
trains were going at full speed.
Tho Calirornla special left St. Louis
on time Thursday night carrying five
cars, including two muM cars. Tho
train from Kansas City was held two
hours to await two cars of discharged
soldiers from Fort Leavenworth. This
train carried eight cars.
A. Strang, train dispatcher at Se
dalla, issued an order for the trains toi
meet at Knobnoster. Later this order
was changed and the meeting place
fixed at Lamonte, seven miles east of?
there. Whether the dispatcher at Se
dulla railed to deliver the order to tho
crow or tho St. Louis train, or the op
erator at Lamonte erred in not nag
ging the train is a matter of official
investigation.
Both engineers reversed their en
gines and Jumped. The impact of the
two engnnes threw both off the track.
The cars piled up on the wreckage,
four cars on the St. Louis train and
three cars on the train from Kansas
City leaving the rails. While both the
big engines were derailed, neither
turned over. Two of the cars on the
train from Kansas City were new typo
stoal mail cars. Both were derailed
and badly damaged.
DEATH OF MURAT HALSTEAD.
Veteran Editor Succumbs at His Cin
cinnati Home.
Murat Halstead, one of the leaders
In American journalism for over half
a century and widely known as a vig
orous editorial and magazine writer,
died at his home in Cincinnati, Thurs
day afternoon in his seventy-ninth
year. At his bedside were his wife,
his son Robert and one daughter, Mrs.
Arthur Stem. Mr. Halstead had been
failing In health for three months, and
Wednesday suffered from cerebral
hemorrhages
Mr. Halstead was one of the great
editors of the last hair of the nine
teenth century and one of the strong
est tributes to bis Inclslveness as a
writer wns lu 18S9, when his nomina
tion by President Harrison to be Am
erican minister to Germany was re
jected by the United States senate be
cause of articles he had published
charging corruption to some members
of that body.
He was a native of Butler county,
Ohio, and after a short sorvlce on a
literary weekly he, in 1853 becamo
connected with the Cincinnati Com
mercial, in which he secured a small
interest a year later, becoming chief
owner in 18G5. For a time he was ed
itor of the Brooklyn Standard-Union
and for the last ten years he has fig
ured largely as a magazine and spe
cial newspaper writer, besides issuing
u number of books on current mat
ters of historical Interest. During tho
war Mr. Halstend personally reported
niany battles, being rated as a war
correspondent of the first class, and
Inter in the first Franco-Gorman war
and in tho Spanish-American war ho
added to his reputation In that line.
For fifty years he attended and repor
ed all republican nominating conven
tions, and In 18G0 ho was the only
newspaper man who reported all tho
varied political conventions of that
year.
Killed By Koreans.
News was brought by tho Empress
of China from Korea that nearly a
thousnnd pro-Japanese Koreans, mem
bers of tho II China Her, a soclet fa
voring Japanese, havo been murdered
by Korean insurgents, according to
statistics collected by Japanese offi
cials. Tho Korean cabinet, at the di
rection of Japan hns transferred tho
Korean private Imperial estates to tho
national assets, covering tho general
situation in Korea, since the disband
ment of the Korean army.