Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O’NEILL FRONTIEr,
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
VNEILL, NEBRASKA
Aldermen E. E. Phillips, of Path.
England, formerly mayor of that city,
says that the othei morning he saw
an assembly of rooks In the trees sur
rounding his home. The birds, about
one hundred In number, uppeared to
hold a courtmartial on three wrong
doer*. Suddenly they fell upon tile
three victims, who soon dropped dead
Into the gardens below. One. had a
broken and lacerated wing, another a
lacerated wound In the throat and the
third a severe Injury to the head. Mr.
Phillips cannot say what the offense
was, but he suspects that Jeulousy was
at the bottom of It.
A missionary traveling down the Lau
river In Mongolia says he passed thir
ty-one rapids In one day. At most of
them were water mills for the grinding
of aromutlc trees Into powder to make
Incense. The trees were chopped into
small pieces and thrown Into a hole In
a heavy millstone, which revolved on »
larger stone as the water rushes
through below. In the rainy season,
when the river flows full and fast, a
pair of mills can grind 200 cattles (266
pounds) of incense a day. It Is made
up Into bundles of this weight and
sold on the spot for fifty strings of
cash, (about $6).
In recent years it has become a mat
ter of increasing difficulty for a living
English artist to find a market for. his
wares, says the Academy. The middle
classes appear to have concluded that
original pictures are entirely beyond
the means of persons with a moderate
Income, and content themselves with
photogravures. The wealthy, on the
other hand, appear to consider picture
buying merely In the light of an In
vestment. and all they want is a safe
thing like preference stock—the estab
lished reputations.
When tlie Rev. George R. Palmer pre
sented himself at the meeting of the
New England Methodist Historical so
ciety the other day he carried with him
tw’o chips from the mast of Peary s
ship Roosevelt. One of these he gave
to Rishop Mallnlteu, who said that the
receipts from its sale would go to start
a church in Texus. The sum of *C0
was required to furnish the doors and
windows for the little church in ques
tion and a member present immediate
ly paid the bishop that sum for the sou
venir. _
1 Ernest Treeton, a writer of serial
stories, has lately told of the young
woman amateur who chanced to get an
unfinished story accepted by a w-eekly
paper for Immediate publication.
Months passed and the thing went on.
A desperate editor wrote letter after
letter imploring her to wind up.. The
unhappy girl wrote despairingly that
she couldn't stop It; the elongating
thing had wound round her as the sea
serpent wound about Laocoon. Finally
the editor himself ended It.
A smuggling case which Is probably
unique, even In the strange annals of
contraband, has Just been before the
customs court of Marseilles. On board
the French steamer Touratne there was
found a large quantity of opium smug
gled, not by nny Individual In particu
lar, but by the whole ship's company,
and the strange spectacle wns wit
nessed of the heavy fine of £2,000 be
ing levied on nil, every man In the ves
sel being mulcted In his proportion, as
sessed necordlng to wages.
In Rrasslpy's "Naval Annual for 1905,
which has Just appeared, the figures on
effective fighting ships of the five great
notions are as follows: Great Britain,
all ships, 178, battleships 85; Fiance all
ships 93, battleships 36; United States,
all ships 76. battleships 36: Germany,
all shins 69. battleships 36; Russia, all
ships 44, battleships 26. As to first-class
battleships the figures are: Great Brit
ain, 60; France, 17; United States, 25;
Germany, 22; Russia, 18.
* A captive Japanese officer, Imprisoned
at Omsk, tn Siberia, bet the Russian of
ficer In charge of the prisoners a
kopeck fop every minute that Port Ar
thur held out after June 1. He owed
the Jallsr on October 1 nearly 81,000.
The Russian asked for payment on ac
count and offered to terminate the bet.
The Japanese said nothing, retired to
his room and shot himself dead with a
revolver. _
F. R. Benson, addressing a meeting
>f the Dramatic Debaters in London the
other day said his company was play
ing "Romeo and Juliet," and In the bul
Eony scene a cannon went off. He sent
for the property man, who explained
that It was the cannon that should have
gone off In the performance of "Henry
v," two days before.
B. P. Combs of Parker, Kas.. says
his prospect for a big apple crop this
P , year is the best he ever had. He ex
pects to raise 50 cars, which represents :
§ *7,500 barrels. He has never yet sold j
i a barrel of apples for less than $3, and
If his prospect keeps up and also the
price he will get $262,500 for his apple
’ crop.
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; English doctors had an unexpected
entertainment When they visited Dr.
forugsn In the course of a trip to Paris.
When he had Shown them his museum
fae ushered them into his operating
imam, where he performed eight import
ant operations, including one for ap
pendicitis, in two hours and a half.
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Messrs. Beardmore. of Glasgow, on
I May 15 laid the first keel of a new
S British battleship to be called the Aga
rhemnon. She Is the most powerful
•hip of the first line yet ordered. She
! will have a displacement of 16,600 tons,
fl and be more heavily armored than any
I thing afloat.
1 Marshal Van Worley has gone into a
new business, viz., the shipping of cats
out of Titusville. He has shipped about
j twenty to the farm of Ell Walker, at
V. Quay. There were all sorts of cats,
4v large and small, and all shades of col
)!Vjpr: some with ears and tails and some
| ^without.___
Hi The town of Cardiff, Wales, recently
Was attacked by millions of foreign
Wes, brought by a south wind. Such
was the severity of their sting, espeoial
I tjr along the water front, that the docks
| Were deserted, and all people who could
•hut themselves within doors did so.
Ii Sienna. Italy. Is famous for the large
hats of Its women, and the long horns
4 of Its cattle. The hats, which we know
In America as Leghorn hats, are a pe
T euliar product of Sienna, although they
1;. are known abroad by the name of the
|| «ty from which they are exported.
Ii Znrbaran’s portrait of Vulesquez,
which contemporary writers praised
very highly and which was supposed
to have been burned in the Retire Pal
ace. has been discovered in the Cathe
dral of La Seo, Saragossa, Spain.
The exportation of ostriches from
Booth Africa haR practically been pro
hibited by an export tax of $487 each.
Intended to preserve to that country, as
fn- as possible, the monopoly of the
cratlve trade of ostrich farming.
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ALLEGED ELEVATOR
TRUST BEING SUED
An Omaha Grain Company
Seeks to Recover Damages
Amounting to $ I 28,000.
LATTER WAS BOYCOTTED
The Organization, Which It la Alleged,
Operates Over Nebraska Fixes
Pricee, Stifles Competition
and Then Divides Profits.
Omaha. Neb.. June 21.—In a suit filed
ft Blair. Washington, county, by the
worrall Grain company of this city,
asking for a judgment of $128,800
against thirty-nine elevator companies
gild prominent elevator proprietors and
grain dealers of Omaha and Nebraska,
some of the Innermost secrets of the
Nebraska Grain Dealers' association—
the soculled elevator trust—are laid
bare. With this flinging open of the
doors of the Nebraska grain dealers’
combination charges of the most sensa
tional character are made relative to
the method of operating In fixing prices
and absolutely annihilating competi
tion.
The president of the Worrall Grain
company and the voucher for the truth
of the startling Information contained
within the twenty-three type written
pages of the petition, Is Thomas D.
Worrall. for twenty-seven years a
grain dealer of Nebraska, for a number
of years a member of the Nebraska
Grain Dealers' association, and Inti
mately acquainted with the methods
and manner tn which it operates.
Because he refused to be bound by the
agreements of the association he al
leges that an attempt has been made
to boycott him Just as other independ
ent grain dealers have been boycotted
since the organization was perfected,
and It Is this fact which has led him to
ask for damages.
The petition sets forth In minute and
-!-=^S
These cards are unsigned, but are of
ficial instructions, binding upon all the
regular buyers until they are super
seded by new cards. The state. It is
alleged. Is divided ofT into thirteen dis
tricts, In each of which certain mem
bers of the association have charge of
seeing that all the dealers with their
district are supplied with the price
quotations fixed by the committee.
The purposes and objects of the asso
ciation tire alleged to be to maintain a
pool in the prices paid to farmers; to
fix and control the sale of grain in all
the markets of the country; to prevent
all persons not members of the associa
tion from handling grain In the state;
to prevent Independent dealers from
erecting and maintaining elevators; to
prevent farmers from loading their
grain into cars for direct shipment; to
prevent farmers from establishing ele
vators; to compel farmers to deal ex
clusively with members of the associa
tion; to bankrupt and destroy all deal
ers who are not members of the associa
tion or are unwilling to abide by its
agreements; to coerce all grain dealers
in the United States into handling only
sufh Nebraska grain as comes from the
members of the association.
KILLED J3Y LIGHTNING.
Young Man Met 8udden Death While
Plowing Corn.
Aurora, Neb.. June 21.—Arlie Kerns
was killed by lightning near here. Thq
father owns a farm two miles out from
town, where the young man was plow
ing corn. A slight rain was falling,
acconipunied by a good deal of light*
nlng.
NEBRASKA CITY MYSTERY.
There It No Trace of the Negroes Who
Attacked Montgomery Home.
Nebraska City, Neb., June 21.—The
sheriff and police have made a thorough
Investigation of the alleged mysterious
attacks on the home of J. F. Mont
gomery. south of this city, which reJ
suited in the death of Mr. Montgomery
from fright, but they have not dis
covered any clues which would sub
stantiate the story of Claude Lewis, the
grandson, who said that negroeR were
trying to kill him. The boy tells prac
tically the same story that he did the
morning following the death of his
grandfather. He was taken suddenly
sick today from nervous prostration
and the physiean in attendance says
the bey 13 threatened with brain fever.
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FIVE GENERATIONS IN THIS FAMILY.
Allan. Neb., June 21.—A family of
five generations, the oldest member 81
years of age and the youngest about
2 yeurs of age, lives happily in the
same neighborhood In Spring Bank
township, Dixon county, Nebraska. The
oldest member, Mrs. J. M. Pomeroy at
84 years Is the president of the Ladles'
Aid society at Allen, Neb. She was
born in Steuben county, N. Y., in 1821
and married Nelson Pomeroy in 1839.
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Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Pomeroy, tlx boyo and four girls. Mrs.
Pomeroy’s oldest daughter, Mrs. S. H.
Wright, of Allen, Neb., is the repre
sentative of the second generation In
the picture and stands on the right in
the picture, Mrs, H. W. Isotne. is the
oldest daughter of Mrs. S. H. Wheeler
and a member of the third geenratlon.
Mrs. Insome's daughter, Mrs. Emma
Paul, holds her baby, the representa
tive of the last generation In this re
markable family.
scathing detail the manner In which the
elevator trust operates to tlx a rigid
maximum price to be paid farmers for
their grain, the absolute annihilation of
competition by boycott of all independ
ent grain dealers, and the methods em
ployed by the trust to keep the wheels
greased and the machinery of the or
ganization running in first-class order.
The petition explains the organization
of the Nebraska Grain Denlers' asso
ciation by alleging that its affairs are
directed by a president, vice president
and governing committee of from three
to five persons. All Its members are
known as "regular grain dealers" in
distinction to the independents who are
known as "irregular grain dealers.”
Those eligible to membership in this
association, it Is pointed out, are grain
dealers having one or more elevators
located on the right-of-way of the grain
carrying roada of the state. Those own
ing or controlling elevators off the
right-of-way of railroads, known as
“scoop shovel” houses, are deemed "ir
regulars. ”
The membership of the association, it
Is alleged, does not confine itself to Ne
braska dealers alone, but takes in big
grain buyers in the eastern murkets.
It is alleged that there are In the
state about 1.250 elevators in the hands
| of about 200 "regular dealers." These
elevators handle practically all the
grain raised in the state with the ex
ception of that consumed on the farm.
| This amounts to an annual output of
i 120,000,000 bushels of grain, as follows:
I Wheat, 25.000,000 bushels.
] corn. 70,000,000 bushels.
Oats, 25,000,000 bushels.
Rye, 200,000 bushels.
Barley, 100.000 bushels.
Of the "scoop shovel," "Independent”
or "farmers’ ” elevators It is said there
are only about fifty in the state.
Getting down to the warm parts of
the petition It alleges that although the
members of the association should be
in competition with each other, they
have, for the purpose of preventing
competition among buyers and sellers
of grain, "entered into and formed an
unlawful poo), combination, association
and conspiracy.” It continues that there
is an agreement between the members
of the pool whereby they contribute
money for its maintenance, the mem
bership fee being $2 and the monthly
1 tax 50 cents for each elevator controlled
j by a member.
The workings of the pool are ex
plained in the story of the establish
j ment of a "price committee,” alleged
j to have been formed in 1902, The peti
; tion states that this committee, con
sisting of five members, arbitrarily,
from day to day, fixes the price to be
paid farmers for grain at all elevators
known as "regular" throughout the
state. Detailing the manner in which
this is done it is said that the prices
are printed on cards which are sent out
to the dealers throughout thi state
The coroner and county attorney inves
tigated the cause of Mr. Montgomery's
death and decided it was not neces
sary to hold an inquest. The first part
of the boy’s story that his father had
assisted in driving the negroes out of
Whitesboro, Texas, and thus aroused
the enmity of the colored people in that
vicinity is correct, but the authorities
here do not believe that any person at«
tacked the Montgomery home.
COAL DEALERS TO MEET.
Annual Convention of Iowa and Ne
braska Association.
Omaha. Neb., June 21.—The annual
convention of the Coal Dealers’ asso
ciation of Iowa and Nebraska Is ex
pected to bring 500 members of the or
ganization to Omaha during the com
ing w rek. The full membership Is
about 1,100, divided equally between
the two states. The convention will
assemble on Thursday and conclude
Friday.
For this meeting a rate of a fare
and a third for the round trip has been
authorized by the Western Passenger
association. Members of the associa
tion say that the relations with the
railroads have been of a pleasant na
ture during the past year, the trans
portation companies having met the
coal men more than half way in set
tling the short rate question and other
matters.
Last year the convention met in
Sioux City. Ia.
FATHER STOLE CHILDREN.
Omaha Man, Who Triad Twica for Di
vorce, a Kidnaper.
Omaha, Neb., June 20.—Marion and
Roberta Coulter, the 10 and 7-year-old
daughters of Mrs. Alice W. Coulter,
whose husband. Dr. Frank E. Coulter,
has endeavored to get a divorce in
both this city and Stqux Falls, S. D.,
wire taken by their father and have
not been seen since.
It has been the custom In the past
for Mrs. Coulter to send the children to
see their father every time he sent a
note requesting her to do so. The last
time, however, was about four months
ago, at which time he took up his per
manent residence at Sioux Falls. S. D.
Dr. Coulter failed to get a divorce
from his wife in this city about a year
ago, but the children were awarded to
Mrs. Coulter and he was ordered to pay
her $60 a month for their maintenance.
He then went to Sioux Falls, S. I).,
and took up a residence there. Four
months ago. Dr. Coulter brought suit
at Sioux Falls for divorce, but it was
denied on account of Dr. Coulter's fail
ure to pay Mrs. Coulter's attorney fees,
as ordered by the court.
r MURDERER HAS
RECEIVED REPRIEVE
Frank Barker Will Not Hang
as Sentenced by the
Court.
THE STORY OF THE CRIME
It Was One of the Most Cold Blooded
Assassinations in the History of
Nebraska and Also as .
Mysterious.
Lincoln, Neb., June 20.—Governor
Mickey has announced that he has ex
tended the reprieve of Frank Barker,
the condemned murderer, who was to
have been hanged yesterday, for two
years. The crime for which Frank
Barker was convicted and sentenced
was the murder of Daniel and Alice
Barker, his brother and sister-in-law.
It was one of the most cold-blooded
assassinations that has even taken
place In the history of crime. Frank
Barker murdered his victims In the
hope of gaining possession of a few
:hattels worth perhaps less than $1,000,
10 that he might the speedier marry
(lis affianced. It is said that the
arotlvers were on the best of terms and
:here was more than ordinary affection
leemingly between them. No one had
leard the one utter an unkind word
ibout the other. Young Barker made
ils home with Dan and Alice and al
ways expressed admiration and liking
(or his sister-in-law.
The awful deed was committed about
nldnight January 31, 1904, on the
Vrnold ranch, seven miles from Red
2loud, Webster county. Frank Barker
itealthily entered the house of his
jrother* and while he and his wife lay
isleep killed them, firing several shots
nto their bodies at close range.
Ho Then Buried Victim*.
Then the murderer carried the life
less, bleeding remains of his relatives
from the house and burled them under
Ihe cattle shed. The next morning the
assassin reported with other men to
cut ice a short distance from the Bark
er home.
During the day he remarked that he
had bought out his brother, paying
$1,000 for his chattels. He mentioned
that Dan and his wife had decided to
remove to Denver and had gone to Red
Cloud the night previous to take the
early morning train.
People began to wonder why the
Barkers had taken a notion so sud
denly to leave the community and Mr.
Arnold, the owner of the ranch, whom
Dan worked for, was greatly surprised
at his departure. He owed the man
money for labor and Dan had failed to
call and settle. It was a rather odd
procedure, Arnold thought, for his
tenant to leave without collecting his
money and apprising him of his inten
tion to sever the term of employment.
Lived in Victims’ Home.
Young Barker continued to live at
the house of ills brother, and later he
was questioned more closely about the
absence of the missing man and his
wife. Barker said that Dan expected
to return in time for the beginning of
the spring work. A few days later
Frank went to Red Cloud and persons
who had begun to suspect that some
thing was wrong concluded during his
absence to search the premises of the
Barker home.
In the loft of the barn were found
clothing belonging to the missing cou
ple, blood stained carpet and papers
saturated with blood. Charles Hunter,
a merchant of Invale, was in Red Cloud
at the time and to him was telephoned
the horrible discovery.
Hunter at once swore out a wrrant
and Barker was arrested as he was
about to leave for home. He would
say nothing and excitement was rising
over the possibility that he was the
slayer of his relatives.
Meantime the search was continued
by suspicious neighbors and others on
the Barker premises. Human foot
prints were traced to the river. It was
believed that murder had been com
mitted and the slayer had placed the
bodies of his victims under the ice.
The river was dragged, but without
success.
Important Clue* Found.
Search was then resumed near the
home. The next day a soft place, indi
cating the removal of fresh dirt, was
discovered under the cattle shed. A
short but vigorous use of the shovel In
willing hands and tne naked knee of a
man was uncovered.
The coroner at Red Cloud was hur
riedly summoned, the digging was re
sumed and the remains of Dan Barker
and his wife was discovered and posi
tively identified. The dead man and
woman were garbed in their night
clothes, indicating that both had been
killed during the night, evidently while
they were lying asleep in their beds.
Crime* in the Family,
The crime of Frank Barker was not
the first one that had been committed
by a member of his family. Tom
Madison, an uncle, committed murder
i September 14, 1903, only a little over
j a year before. Iladison became des
I perately infatuated with Mrs. Edna
: Williamson, but she did not return his
love and refused to marry him. The
crime was accomplished less than
i eleven miles from the scene of the
Barker killing. Madison killed Mrs.
Williamson, her daughter and her
mother.
RAVAGES OF HESSIAN FLY.
Investigation Shows Considerable
Damage in Buffalo County.
Keorney, Neb., June 20.—The report
having been circulated tor some time
past that the Hessian fly, the most
dreaded and destructive of the wheat
pests, had crossed the Platte river and
invidea the wheat fields of Buffalo
county, the Hub has been busy for the
last week muking an exhaustive in
vestigation.
The result of these investigations is
the establishment of the fact that there
is some fly in the county, but not suf
ficient to do a great deal of damage
I this year. If the pest is not extermi
nated. however, and climatic conditions
: are as favorable for its propagation
this year as last, there is no telling
what the next season may develop.
The Hub has interviewed large num
bers of farmers, and the invariable re
ply to inquiries was that there were
no Indications of the presence or work
of the Hessian invader. In fact the
greater portion of the farmers declared
that their wheat was looking fine, and
except where hail had done damage a
very satisfactory crop was looked for.
These inquiries, however, developed
another fact, and that was that very
few of the farmers were at all famiUai
with the fly and its habits.
The state agricultural department
sent out circulars on this subject last
year, but as there had never been any
trouble here, Buffalo county farmer*
paid little attention to he matter.
'NEW DAM FOR MISSOURI
—
; Power to Be Transmitted Seventy-Five
Miles.
Helena. Mont., June 19.—The Mls
i ?ouri Riv^-e Power company will build
j a second dam across the Missouri river
I for developing electrical power at a.
j cost of $1,009,000. Work will begin at
; once. Power will be transmitted to ;
; Helena and Butte, as well as intermed
; iate points, a distance of seventy-five
i miles. The Butte mines will be the
| chief beneficiaries of the new plant.
The news was brought to Helena by
ex-Senator Power, who has Just re
turned from New York, where Presi
| dent Hauser, of the company, vouch- ;
safed the Information. Details have all i
been arranged and the financial back- j
ing secured upon showing the hand
some profits of the present plant, which j
operates the east Helena smelter, the
Helena lighting and street car sys- j
terns, as well as being an important
factor to the Butte mines, which re
ceive 15,000 horse power therefrom.
The new dam will develop 30,000 horse
power.
STRIKE DOWN MERE BABY
Five-Year-Old Girl at Shelbyvitla,
Ind., Victim of Robbers.
Shelbyville, Ind., June 19.—May Hill,
the 5-year-old daughter of Charles Hill,
a cabinetmaker, was attacked by
thieves about 9:30 o’clock this morn
ing and may die of her injuries. The
thieves escaped and the entire police
force of Shelbyville, with a large posse
of citizens, is searching for the fugi
tives.
Mr. Hill, who is foreman in a local
factory, went to work at the uaual hour
this morning and soon afterward Mrs.
Hill left the house to make some pur
chases for the noon meal. She was
absent about ten minutes and on her
return found the house in confusion
and her little daughter lying on the
floor in a pool of blood with her head
crashed. Thieves had entered the house
thinking no one at home and on find
ing the child had struck her down to
prevent an alarm.
WIFE MURDERER HANGED
Spent Night Preceding Death Telling
Lewd Stories, but Lost Nerve on
Scaffold.
Peoria, 111., June 17.—Otis oBtts, aged 21
was executed In the county jail today for
the murder of his wife, January 6. Botts
spent the night laughing, joking and tell
ing lewd stories. His moiher wanted to
attend the execution, but he said:
“Don’t do it. You’ll make me lose my
nerve.’’
When he faced the crow’d the air of
vbravado which had marked his career to
this time, deserted him and he broke down
.and wept. He was barely able to stand
w'hen the straps of the rose were being
fixed.
Botts strangled his wife to death by
tying a hair ribbon around her neck.
SKIRT TOO SHORT.
President Objects to His Picture Be
side Mountain Maid’s.
Denver, June 17.—President Roosevelt
has protested against a photograph in
which, beside the picture of himself, is
that of a young woman wearing a skirt
which lacked many inches of touching the
ground. The photograph is one of the
presidential hunting party, taken when it
was returning from the mountains of
Colorado. The young woman is the Glen
wood Springs correspondent of a Denver
newspaper. On account of the president’s
objections several hundred copies of the
picture which had been printed have been
destroyed.
EMBARASSES HIS HOSTS
New Orleans Preacher Draws Color
Line at Chicago’s Official Gradua
tion Luncheon.
Chicago. June 17.—The University of Chi
cago was dealt two unexpected criticisms
at the fifty-fifth quarterly convocation
Tuesday by its two most distinguished
guests of the day, the Rev. Beverly Elli
son Warner, university chaplain, and Dr.
William Peterson, convocation orator.
The presence of a negro student among
the candidates for degrees excited the
wrath of Dr. Warner, who is pastor of the
Trinity church of New Orleans. At the
official luncheon following the exercises he
wras called on to make a speech, and re
sponded by declaring that he was sur
prised a northern university should confer
a degree on a negro.
Dr. Peterson, who is the head of the Mc
Gill university, Montreal, severely criti
cised schools permitting a lax system of
electives instead of required studies for a
degree. Apparently his criticism was un
intentional, for Immediately after his ad
dress Dean Judson, wno presided in Pres
ident Harper’s place, announced for the
first time officially that the university
would ask less required work In the fu
ture for graduation, following a new plan
adopted at the last meeting of the faculty.
The remarks of Dr. Warner at the lunch
eon were met with many grave faces.
Nearly the entire faculty was present, as
well as many alu ni and students who
had just received their degrees. The ne
gro, whose name is Alexander Bismarck
Terrell, did not attend the luncheon.
*‘I am much surprised that a northern
university would confer a degree on a ne
gro,” said Dr. \ arner. “In the south we
do not let negroes attend our colleges. In
solving this problem of the negro we must
leave out of all consideration the idea of
social equality.
4*The greatest social problem of all the
ages is the negro problem. The solution
of the problem must come from the south
and not from the north, or the east, or
the W’est. No one should interfere with
the south in this matter.
“There are many grave looks before me,
but I know It Is true. I plead with you to
leave the negro question to the south and
not inter^re ”
SECRETARY HAY RETURNS
Appearance Shows He la Far from a
Well Man.
New York. June 19.—Secretary of
State John Hay arrived from Europe
yesterday on the Baltic, much improved
in health, but plainly showing that he
was far from being a well man.
His presence In this country evident
ly was anxiously expected by President
Koosevelt. for an Imposing and long
documents was delivered to him at
quarantine by a special messenger
from the White House.
Mr Hay said in response to questions
that he had no intention of leaving the
cabinet. _ _
BANKER SENT TO PRISON.
Toledo June 16.—Orus M. Burns, a
banker of Mt. Pelier. O., today pleaded
guilty to embezzlement of bank funds
and was sentenced to eight years’ im
prisonment. _ _ _
NO LONGER "PROFESSORS.”
Columbus, O., June 16.—The American
National Dancing association today
elected Oscar Duryea president and de
cided to discard the word "profe«sor”
jus a much abused word.
NEBRASKA AT THE
PORTLAND SHOW
Agricultural Display at Exposi*
tion Is the Best of All
States.
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MANY ARE IN ATTENDANCE
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An Average of Fifty Nebraskans Rcg»j
ister Each Day at the State
Pavilion—Great Exhibit of
Corn and Wheat.
Fremont, Neb., June 19.—George la.
Loomis has returned from Portland,
where he went in his official capacity as
one of the three Nebraska commission
ers to the Lewis-Clark exposition. Mr.
Loomis put in most of his'time while at
Portland assisting in getting Nebras
ka's exhibit ready and the results that
have been obtained he is highly pleased
with.
"Nebraska has unquestionably the
finest and most attractive display in the
agricultural building,” said he. "It ia
not only the best but It is the most
talked of on the grounds. It is decid
edly ahead of what the state had at St.
Louis a year ago, though it is on the'
same general plan.
The exhibit is mostly of corn, some
350 bushels of nearly eighty varieties
being used. It is located in the rear of
the agricultural building in a space 40'
by 75 feet. It is given an excellent
chance for display on account of the
other exhibits near it being low. The
ears of corn varying in shades from
deep red to pale yellow are worked up
into a great variety of effects, both In
side and outside the pavilion. The in
terior of the theater, where the moving
pictures are displayed is decorated with
corn and varieties of grasses formed
into attractive designs. An additional
splendor is given it by the use of many
electric lights.
The attendance of Nebraskans at the
exposition, Mr. Loomis says, is much
larger than has been generally believed
over the state. The register in the pa
vilion has averaged fifty names of Ne
braskans a day since the gates opened
and is growing larger. Some of these
persons who register are former resi
dents of Nebraska who are now located
in Oregon or Washington, but most of
them are direct from the state.
GIRL ACCUSES HER FATHER.
Terrible Charge Against a Well Known
Johnson County Farmer.
Tecumseh. Neb., June 19.—Miss Min
nie Schroder, Whose home is about
eight miles east of this city, came into
the county court and swore to a se
rious charge against her father, August
Schroeder. Miss Schroeder is about 20
years of age. She says the crime was
committed last January. Schroeder is
about 50 years of age and has always
borne a good reputation. Sheriff W.
H. Cummings went to lus place, placed
him under arrest and brought him to
Tecumseh, where he is now confined in
the county jail. The date of his hear
ing has been set for July 12; Miss
Schroeder’s mother is living and she
has several brothers and sisters at
home.
HE NEARLY STARVES.
Creston, la., Lad Falls from Exhaustion
—Had Eaten Nothing in Four Days.
Omaha, Neb., June 19.—Starving to
death and too proud to beg any one
for something to appease his hunger,
Arthur L. Hawkins of Creston, la., fell
from exhaustion in the alley back of
the Millard hotel and was found later
in a comatose condition by an officer,
who. thinking him drunk, sent him to
police headquarters, where he was
locked up.
Rallying from the stupor shortly
after being placed in a cell, Hawkins
stated to tlje trunkey that he was
starving to death. Surgeons Wigton
and Kennedy were called out of bed
and found that Hawkins was not in
toxicated, but suffering from the pangs
of hunger.
Hawkins stated that he had eaten
nothing for four days. The surgeons
gave him milk in small quantities all
during the night.
Hawkins said that he is 20 years
old and came from Creston to Omaha
In search of work. He had only a
small amount of money with him,
which gave out while he was searching
for employment. Several times he
started in restaurants to ask for some
thing to eat, but his spirit rebelled
against begging. He decided to write
home for money and go without food
until it came, but he collapsed before
the letter had time to reach his father.
KILLED BY TRAIN.
Millard. Neb., Man Too Deaf to Hear
Its Approach.
Omaha, Neb., June 19.—Lars Johnson
of Millard, Neb., was struck and in
stantly killed by Union Pacific passen
ger train No. 4.
Johnson, who was deaf, started to
cross the track in front of the ap
proaching train. The engineer saw the
man on the track and whistled a num
ber of times, but Johnson continued to
walk leisurely across the track. The
mglneer was unable to stop the train.
JAILED AT OMAHA.
! Murderer of Alma Goos Taken from
Plattsmouth for Safety.
Omaha, Neb., June 19.—Max Pleohn,
who was arrested at Plattsmouth, Neb.,
and Jailed for the murder of Alma Goos
and the wounding of her sister, was
brought to the county jail In this city
lor safekeeping. Sheriff McBride of
Plattsmouth stated that a large crowd
had gathered at the Cass county jail,
but that no violence had been offered
the prisoner. He said he brought Ple
ahn to Omaha to avoid crowds of cu
riosity seekers and others calling to
jee the prisoner.
WIPES OUT WHOLE FAMILY.
I.aCrosse, Wis., June 15.—Herman G.
Hurand, aged 53, whose wife and five
rhildren died suddenly recently, com
mitted suicide over the graves of his
lead. Despondency Sue to loss of fam
ly is the cause.
BARSNAKES FROM HAWAII
Killed When Landed by Steamer fo>
Exhibition—None in Islands.
Honolulu, June 17.—A box of snakes
anded here by tne steamship Alameda fex
•xhibltion has been confiscated because
here are no snakes In the Hawaiian is]
inds and the policy is to keep them cut
Efforts were made to prevent the hinti
ng of the reptiles, but these wen; u:ih
■eastul. They were killed, howev , i
lollector Strackable before the.v ■, »
hrough the custom house