THE O’NEILL FRONTIEF D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. yNEILL, NEBRASKA xssrrr-,: • .-.rj—-: Marie Peary, daughter of the ex plorer, Is the plucky little girl who was *>orn in the Arctic regions some twelve {years or so ago and about whom and her adventures there her mother has written a charming book. The Peary home is one of the wonders of the new world, If only because of the marvelous collection of furs which may there bo seen. Many of these furs belong to their little daughter and there is cer tainly no more beautiful collection of white bear skins In America, while the famous eiderdown quilt presented to the explorer’s wife and child by the natives of South Greenland Is quite a work of art. ’Inquiry Is made now and then," said James Atkinson, of Philadelphia, ’’as to where Patrick Henry, the tongue of the revolution, is buried. The great orator lies In a quiet grave on the es state In Charlotte county, Virginia, where he formerly lived. Red Hill, is the name of the estate, which Is pn the Staunton river, thirty-eight miles from Lynchburg. When Patrick Henry bought the place It comprised about 8,600 acres. One of the nearest neigh bors was the celebrated John Randolph, of Roanoke, fifteen miles away. Red Hill Is now owned by Henry’s grand son, William Wirt Henry. An English physician declares that it is better to keep scarlet fever patients at home, where tho germs die out grad ually In the fresh air, than to send them to a hospital, where they are In the midst of dozens of other cases In all stages of the disease. On their re turn to school the germs are called In to activity by the foul air In the room, and the disease Is spread to others by coughing, etc. Germany has forty-three large steamships In her South American ser vice, and six more are nearly ready for launching. The forty-nine vessels ag gregate 217,195 gross tons. Most of them arc of recruit construction, nine teen having been built in the years 1900 to 1906. They ply on four routes, all starting from Hamburg, connecting the latter port wiu the La Plata states and Brazil. __ In 1891 Castlenne Gercalon died In Oakland, Cal., leaving $700,000 for the establishment there of a hospital for incurables. The law’s delay Intervened and the trustees have only Just re ceived permission to proceed with the execution of the trust. The buildings aflre to cost $260,000, and $600,000 Is, •ac cording to the will, to be kept as a fund for the maintenance of the hospital. Fossil of blue Ivory Is sometimes found In commerce, and is used occa sionally In the manufacture of Jewelry. It Is evidently from the tusks of ante diluvian mammoths buried In the earth for thousands of years, during which time they have become slowly pene trated with metallic salts, which huve given them a peculiar blue color, allow ing them to be used as turquoise. According to tho Japanese Blue Book for 1895, tho empire of Japan, compris ing nearly 100 main and nearly 500 ad jacent small Islands, has about 18,000 miles of seacoast. It has an area of 161,148 square miles. The total popula tion was a little over 33,000,000 In 1872, and has risen to 47,812,702, besides 3, 069,285, for Formosa, these being the figures given at the close of 1904. A bird which can talk In two lan guages and whose repertory consists of seventeen phrases is the latest ad dition to the London zoological gar dens. The bird belongs to a species which flourishes In northern Ind4a. Three ol Its phrases are In an Indian dialect and the rest In English. The bird's name Is Tommy and it asks all visitors “Who are you?’’ Recently a third survey of the his toric Mason and Dixon’s line between Pennsylvania and Maryland has been completed. The new survey was not on account of any dispute as to the boundary, but for the purpose of re storing to their places many of the his toric monuments along the line, first surveyed In 1767, which had been re moved. “By next January,” says the Loodon Mall, "the Royal field artillery In the United Kingdom, numbering ninety three batteries, will be In such a con dition that In case of war two batteries would have to unite to form one effl . clent battery for service In the field.” Recruits will not come forward and there are few re-enllstments. The advantages of motor traction are beginning to be appreciated in South Africa. In the upper part of Transkel (Kafflrland) a service of mo tor cycles has recently been estab lished, ridden by natives, to carry the malls from Mt. Frere to the outlying stations, and so on to Kokstadt. a dis tance of seventy miles. The Immigration to this country for the fiscal year ending June 30 foots up 1.027,429 people and exceeds all pre vious records. It surpasses the flood tlc'e of i#0S hv almost 150,000, and means an addition of one-elghtleth to the population of the*Vountry In a sin gle year, in adidtion to the natural ln crease'by births. An Interesting decision by the West Virginia supreme court of appeals holds that where a street cur company stops Its cars for the purpose of re ceiving passengers it Is charged with the highest degree of care to see that all passengers lawfully entering Its cars get to a place of safety before starting Its cars. Organ grinders In Vervleres, Bel gium, are by law compeled to appear every morning before the police super intendent and play their Instruments. The organs which chance to be out of tune must be set In order before a license to play on the streets will be granted. Theater-goers In Spain can purchase a seperate ticket for each act, and often do not stay to see more than one act at * time. It Is quite the usual thing to •pend four nights over a four-act play, seeing one act each night, the second act a tew nights Inter, and so on. ft Prelng a suspicious character, while Mrs. Kroeger was allotved to return to her home with her husband. CARTRIDGE MANGLES HAND. Beatrice Boy Picks Up Piece of Dyna mite Ignorant of Nature. Beatrice. Neb., Aug. 23.—Clarence Lash, the 13-year-old son of J. O. Lash, who lives southeast of town, was badly hurt by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge. He was playing at a sand bank where some workmen had dropped a cartridge white engaged in blasting. Picking up the cartridge he began picking It with a pin and an explosion followed. His left hand was mangled so badly that the thumb and forefinger were amputated. A piece of flesh was blown out of the forefinger and he was also badly burned about the face. It Is thought he will recover. HIS HAND UNDER WHEELS. Nebraska Boy Tries to Climb Up on Car with Serious Result. Fremont, Neb., Aug. 22.—Jacob Freiden, a 7-year-old son of Samuel Freiden, had his right hand mashed and the last three Angers of his left cut off while attempting to catch on to a freight train on the Union Pacific. He was playing with a number of other boys when a train passed, moving slowly. A hoy who was with him says that Jake tried to catch on to about the middle car and he fell down. He was tak en to the Fremont hospital. The hand will have to be amputated at the wrist and the ends of three lingers of the other taken off. kidnapedIiirl found. Nebraska Woman Finds Long Lost Family After Seventeen Years of Wandering. Norfolk. Neb., Aug. 23.—Mrs. Herman Wippern of Sf. Louis arrived at Gross, Neb.,- todny and proved to be the tong lost daughter of Mike Schelnost, from whom, on a Brown county ranch, she , was kidnaped eighteen years ago. Hhe went to Butte from St. Louts, be lieving her father to be Anton Schel nost. but he la her uncle. She remained over night at the uncle's house and drove to Gross, an Inland town, today. She had been with a clrous woman till five years ago. She thought the woman, Mrs. Beard, was her mother, but the performer told her at death that her name was Lein Franklin and she had been sto’ i from a Nebraska town. NEGRO WITH WANAMAKER But Washington Did Not Escort Any Female Member of Family. Birmingham, Ala.. Aug. 23.—President i Booker T. Washington, of the Tuske-gee i ' Normal and Industrial school (colored), ; mis addressed a letter under New York date to the Age Herald, of this city, concerning his recent visit to John Wariamaker at Saratoga. He says: "I did not escort :\y female member of Mr. Wanamuker’syfamily to or from the dining room. I did dine with Mr. I ] Wumunaker and members of his family at a hotel at his request, for the pur pose of talking on business, but at the time was a guest myself at a colored hotel In Saratoga. •'During the last fifteen years I have been at the hotel where Mr. Wana maker was on three different occasions, w hen I was to speak at public meet ings, as I was at this time, and no comment was made it." TAGGART DIVORCE CASE Court Refuses to Dismiss Charges Against Four Men. Wooster, O. Aug. 23.—Judge Eason has rendered his decision in regard to the motion tiled to rule out the charges against the principal niev named as co-respondents in the Taggart divorce case. Judge Eason stated that he wosstd dismiss the-charges against Cap tain Hither and against Clinton Speneer of Chicago, but that he would not dis- i miss the charges against General Miner, Lieutenant Fortesque, Captain Bash and William Taggart. In regard to the letters. Judge Eason stated that if half of the charges against Miner imprisoning Taggart were not dis proved. Major Taggart would have been justified In writing almost ajiy kind of letter to gel out of prison. He went' at length into the other charges and severely scored Miner, For tesque. Bash and William Taggart, stating that the evidence so far pro duced must be disproved or it was against them. VINSON WALSH KILLED. Loses His Life in an Auto Accident— Four Others Hurt. Newport, R. I., Aug. 21.—Vinson Walsh, son of Thomas F. Walsh of Washington, was killed, and four other prominent mem bers of the Newport summer colony were injured in an automobile accident here Saturday afternoon. » • The automobile, which was driven by young Walsh, struck the railing of a bridge spanning a creek near j&astoiti j i J’oint and plunged into the -vater SIDEBOARDS FOR BANK ACCOUNTS Golden Harvest of 1906 Is En riching Many Nebraska Farmers. HAVE MARVELOUS CROPS The Same Country in Which Settlers Deserted Their Holdings Some Years Ago Is Today Yielding Bumper Crops of Grain. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 21.— The farmers of Nebraska are ordering sideboards for their bank accounts to prevent the surplusage falling overboard. Just now they are threshing out the biggest wheat harvest, with the largest av erage of pounds to the bushel and the best quality ev , raised by the state. The golden Hood has already started towards market, and at every banking center in the west huge sums of money have been gathered for the purpose of expeditiously moving it. Finest in Quality. Grain men and railroad crop experts , say that the wheat (his year is the | finest in quality and in milling results i that has yet been marketed in the j state. Burlington crop exports, after careful computation, say that the crop j will easily reach 40,000,0(13, as against i 25,000,000 last year. T!l acreage is but slightly greater—about s per cent.. None of the grain that has been‘■tested j hus gone below rixtj pound;; and the bulk will run Irom sixty-two lo sixty four. Last ycir the wheat ran from I. forty-two to six pounds to the bushel, the average b< ing about fifty. Harvest About Finished. Harvesting is about over in the state and threshing Is th ■ order of the day. rile movement of grain, judging from the quantity at the start, will be very heavy for the rtxt two months. Ma nipulation in Chicago and Minneapolis, where the bulls had a long line of wheat to get rid of. has kept prices up md there Is a rush of farmers to rake In the present top prices. A 40.000.000 bushel crop means in the neighborhood 3t $28,000,000 addition to the hunk credits of the farmers. Many of them liavo wheat that will run forty bushels to the acre, and at 70 cents, the price : lust now, that means it good gross rev- j snue on land that cost many of the : wheat growers $20 and $25 an acre. Other Crops Good. In addition lo the wheat crop all coa litions tire' favorable for large- crops i rf cereals and grasses. Rains in the :ast half of May delayed corn planting for several weeks, and much shaking 3t heads has b; en indulged in over the ! [irospect of its ripening before killing j ’rost comes. The hot weather of the I past two weeks, however, has not only rrought corn up to about Us normal, I put it has boomed every other crop, tats, barley and rye, as well as alfalfa ! r being withheld, the pessimists have he time of their lives. If it rains, the wheat, is hurt by rust: if it is warm md dry, the Hessian fly and the •htnch bug are brought forward as pogies. If there is too much rain about ■orn planting time, there is much talk tbout the poor prospect of getting the -orn in in time to escape frost in Sep ember. And so it goes all through he growing season. Farmers Out of Debt. In these eight years every acre of ‘arm laud in the state has doubled in ralue, every town lot and city busi less property hits seen an Increase of rom 40 lo SO per cent, and there never tas been such an amount of building lone as in that period. Here in the . dty of Lincoln 713 new houses have >een put up since the 1st of October. I'ho same story comes from every oth ■r town in the state, and there never vns a period when business failures vet-e so scarce. In the same time mil ions of dollars of indebtedness has teen paid off by the inhabitants of the date. This does not refer exclusively o the farmers. Millions in farm mort gages have been wiped off, am] as the prosperity has reached other classes hey have reduced their debts also. ’ , Banks Prosperous. In 1S96, in the banks of the state 'here was less than $32,000,000 on de- 1 posit, of which but $10,000,000 was in itate banks. This week the state bank- 1 ng department gave out a statement ' ihowing that the tofal deposits, state : md national, footed up $120,000,000, of ' which $44,000,COO is In state banks, an 8 per cent, increase in one year. This s greater even than Kansas, and Batik Commissioner Royce asserts that sta istics show that In the last eight years Nebraska has Increased her per capita wealth more rapidly and in greater ,-olume than any other state in the ' mion. marvelous ueveiopment. Most marvelous In its development las been that portion of the state in cluded in the short grass country, a . ract that runs from southwestern Kan sas across a tier of four or live counties stretching from east to west up to northwestern Nebrasku. Ten years tgo nobody had a good work to say for hat section. Agriculture had been Tied, and more than 60 per cent, of the farmers had abandoned their places ind gone back to their wives’ folks in [owa or Illinois. There were no mln ?ral resources. There were no forests. Droughts and hot winds had yearly (tilled all wheat and corn and even burned to a crisp the buffalq grass that save the district its name. Where FOR AIDING AMERICANS Nicaragua Consul Explains Why Ex equater Was Cancelled. Washington, Aug. 21—Nicaragua can celed Consul Chester Donaldson's exequatur because of his objection to the imprisonment of Americans with out trial. On August 12 he Informed Minister Merry from Managua that the Albus brothers, local agents for a Phil adelphia concern, had been held in jail for ten days without trial, and that the government had canceled his exequater because of his attempts to obtain their release. neither grass nor grain can be raised Is no place for cattle. Thousands of men moved away off the*arms and the peo ple of the towns followed suit. Farm houses were left tenantless and In some cases entire towns were depopulated. Everybody who remained was "agin' the government,” and on the relief. To day the same district is raising big crops of barley, wheat, oats, corn, rye, potatoes, Kaffir corn, alfalfa and mil let. It Is sending thousands of fat rattle to market, and the towns and the farms have nearly all tilled up again. Rainfall Increasing. The Increased rainfall is responsible for this magic change in great part, although the use of improved methods of cultivation and conservation of moisture have played their parts. The baked soil is no longer baked and the demolition of the hard-rooted and much-matted buffalo grass and the substitution of plowed areas makes it possible to save the water that once ran off at once into streams and coulees. The statement was recently made that out of the station of old Fort Hays in Kansas the Union Pacific last year hauled 2,104 cars of grain. Twenty years ago this was dowm on the maps as a part of the great American desert. Now it is the center of a big wheat heit. One-third of Kansas’ wheat crop and one-fifth of that of Nebraska will be garnered from that section this year. Farms; Gold Mines. East year, according to the computa tions of the state bureau of agricul tural statistics, Nebraska farms and stock ranges produced nearly $289,000, 000, and four-fifths of this was shipped out of the state and sold. This year tiie volume will be greater, but wheth er the total receipts will be greater In proportion is a question that the mar kets have yet to determine. Ne braskans grow light-headed in figur ing upon what will follow the repeti tion of this flood of dollars her way this year. Real estate will continue to rise in value, business will expand in every line and every citizen will be almost compelled to hire somebody to count his money for him as it rolls in. — I UmNMLMJ UtO I nuu I IVt. Great Damage Is Done in Lincoln County, Neb. Wellfieet, Neb., Aug. 21.—A destruct ive tornado passed north of this place Inst night, destroying barns, crops, stock and stacks of hay. At the farm of Votaw brothers, twenty-six head of horses were crushed to death. Next in the path was Mr. Reynold’s ranch, where it killed fifty-six head of cattle and crippled many more. So far as re ported no" lives were lost or serious In juries Indicted. GIRLS IN SWINDLE. Young Woman Says They Had Her Under Hypnotic Spell. Dodge, Neb.. Aug. 21.—The arrest of two gypsy girls for obtaining property from Miss Matthiesen, a milliner of this place, has caused a good deal of inter est here, as the circumstances of the •use are of an unusual nature. The two girls called upon Miss Matthiesen and told her fortune and induced her to believe that she was 'bout to have some serious troubles, riiey pointed out. however, that this ■oMld be averted if she would have im plicit trust in them. But it was a part if their scheme to also have her deposit with them a quantity of millinery, con sisting of a dozen or so of hats, some silks and ribbons and a diamond ring, w hich she did. The goods were not re itimed. The gypsies went to Howells, where they were arrested and brought Dark to Dodge. NO SALOON AT HOMER. Citizens Aid in Work of Defeating Purpose of Petitioners. Homer, Neb., Aug. 19.—Another effort o re-establish the saloon business in this ilace proved futile yesterday afternoon vhen Odell & Smith, applicants for a li luor license withdrew their petition ask ng for a license. At the special meeting tf the village council held this afternoon he petitioners werfc represented by Attor ney E. J. Eames and the remonstrators by \ttorney ZL E. Evans of Dakota City. Counsel for both sides agreed that the in ‘orporation of Smith’s addition to Homer vas illegal. Henry Loomis, one of the members of he town board and a resident of Smith’s iddition, when the facts were presented •csigned his office as trustee; T. D. Curtis, vho is a member under the same clrcum itances states he will remain in office un it the courts decide otherwise. Attorney Svans, who appeared for the remonstra ors, received pay for hi3 services from he fund of $500 which was subscribed last ipring by the business men of Homer to jrevent the selling of liquors, both le* tally and illegally in our village. TIED TO ENGINE. Dying Man Found Strapped to Pilot of Creat Northern Engine When It Pulled Into Norfolk, Neb. Norfolk, Neb., Aug. 21.—When the Ireat Northern freight train from Sioux City pulled around the curve into Brunswick, Neb., late last night, per ions who stood on the platform of he station were startled with the light of a human figure lying appar ently dead on the pilot of the engine, Heeding at the mouth and strapped iown to the steel horse with a rope mound his waist. The man was. a itranger in the vicinity and no explan itlon could be given to the mystery, [“he enginemen were ignorant of his presence about the locomotive, having leen no sign of him at their preceding itop, Plainvlew, and learning nothing if him en route. The mysterious passenger was cut oose and carried into the station. It vas found that he was still alive. Whether he had been tied to the engine ly some one, or whether, having limbed on himself and felt a fit ap proaching, he had tied himself down or safety, was the problem that per plexed the citizens. ARREST DEPUTy'p. M. Dfficial Confesses to Rifling Letters After a Decoy Betrays Him. Shelbyville, Ind., Aug. 21.—Frank In pls, deputy postmaster, was arrested Wednesday morning by postoffice in ipectors, charged with rilling letters. He was caught by a decoy letter and •onfessed. WAS NOT THE RI^HT MAN. PI lOctth, Mass., Aug. IS.—Chicago men who came here today to see George L. Marsh, failed to identify him as the man wanted in Chicago in connection ivith the murder of William Bate in November last. FORCED HER TO SUICIDE. Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 18.—Frank Ward. Foreman of a yard gang at the Pueblo Steel works, has caused the death ol -lls daughter Frances, aged 16, by Forcing her to swallow a quantity of j poison. He then committed suicide by | using the same drug. LOOTED MAIL WAS FOUND ON TRACK Mysterious Loss of Letters on Northwestern is Being Investigated. DRAFTS IN MISSING MAIL Nearly All the Mail Had Been Sorted Out for Fremont and Had Been Carried Beyond That Station —Net the First Loss. Fremont, Neb., Aug. 19.—The finding of $3,000 worth of drafts on the First National and Commercial National banks of this city beside the North western railroad track about five miles east of Arlington, on the Omaha line, has caused a small sized sensation in postal circles and started an investiga tion in which the postal inspectors are participating in a lively way. The drafts along with a number of letters mailed from towns along the main and branch lines of the road were found by a section foreman named J. W. Johnson, who promptly turned them over to Tom Finnell, who is vice presi dent of the state bank at Arlington. The drafts and letters were scattered along the railroad track, indicating they had been dropped or thrown from a moving train. Some of the letters had been opened and their contents re moved. The letters all bore postmarks showing they were mailed Sunday even ing or Monday morning, which indi cates they were placed aboard the morning Northwestern main line train that arrived in Fremont at 9 o’clock Monday morning. How they came to be carried past this place to which they were plainly postmarked is a mystery the authorities are trying to solve. The consignment of drafts to the First National bank of this city was sent from Creston, Platte county, a town on the Scribner line. The papers had been paid by the Creston bank and were sent to the bank here for record. They \. re valueless to anyone hut the Creston bank, and that institution will not be loser since they will reimburse it upon the showing of its records. SECTION HAND’S RISE. Rapid Advance Made by Hugh Wilson, of Lincoln, in Six Years. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 19.—Burlington railroad officials in Lincoln have been advised of the appointment of Hugh Wilson as division superintendent on the Missouri Pacific railroad with head quarters in Carthage, Mo. Mr. Wilson is only 29 years old. He Is one of the youngest division superin tendents on any American railroad. His advancement has been rapid. Six years ago he was a section hand on the Burlington in Nebraska. He is a grad uate of the engineering department of Nebraska university. QUARRELED; KILLED SELF. Farmer Commits Suicide as Result of a Divorce Suit. St. Paul, Neb., Aug. 18.—On the day that the assault and battery case be tween himself and ills wife was to have been tried here, Joseph Toman, a Bo hemian farmer, killed himself three miles east of here by shooting himself Lhrough the head with a revolver. Two months ago Toman’s wife filed i petition for divorce, -alleging cruelty. She took her 5-year-old son and went lo live with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Soff. Toman filed a cross-petition, charging infidelity, and naming two well known citizens and a non-resident as co respondents. A bitter family feud re sulted. Last week Toman went to the house of the Soff3 and threatened to shoot ho woman and take poison unless the -uit was dismissed. Mrs. Tomafi then filed a charge of assault and battery. NEBRASKA WOMAN SUICIDES. Mrs. Bertha Finney, of Lincoln, Shoots Herself in Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 19.-—Mrs. Bertha E. Finney, of IJncoln, Neb., shot herself n the left temple yesterday at the some of a sister, Mrs. W. W. Oakes, n this city, and died as a result three hours later. Mrs. Finney was one of the wealthy women of Lincoln. Her first husband, '. P. Quick, was a Nebraska pioneer. Her second husband was E. F. Finney, father of Dr. E. B. Finney, of Lin .’Oln. FOR WAR; NOT WORK. Fifty Private Soldiers Have Deserted from Fort Snelling. St. Paul. Minn., Aug. 19.—A whole sale desertion of privates from the irmy post at Fort Snelling was report 'd at army headquarters here today, vhen it was announced that about flf y privates had quietly left the post without asking the permission of the commanding officer and without leav ng their future addresses. The cause of the desertion is said to lave been a disinclination on the part if the men to do manual labor. The lesertion occurred shortly after August L, w+ien the men were paid. The government recently purchased i large tract of land to extend the rifle range at the post, and instead of hiring common labor to do the work im pressed the privates to do the leveling uid grading. KEEP 'SAILORS IN CHAINS Bark Dundee Reaches Singapore with Mutinous Crew. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 19.—With her mutinous crew the British bark Dundee has arrived at Singapore from Java, according to a telegram received here. The Dundee was bound from Bremen to Anjer, and in the Japan port her crew refused to do further, duty. Sev eral of the ringleaders were placed in irons and with these men out of the way she set sail for Si. gapore with tho Intention of prosecuting the men. THREE DEAD; TEN INJURED Trolley Car and Fast Train in Accident —Said to Be Fault of Gate Tender. Cincinnati, O.. Aug. 19.—Through the mistake or negligence of some one a fast running through express from New York to Cincinnati on the Balti more and Ohio Southwestern crashed Into a Winton Place trolley Tar on the | grade crossing at Mitchell avenue, j Winton Place, a suburb of this city, | last night, and three people were killed 1 and ten others injured. I WOMAN AND HER CHILDREN ARE LOST Dark Mystery in Disappearance of Saline County Farm er’s Wife. USELESS SEARCH IS MADE. Footprints in a Corn Field Are the Only Trace So Far Discovered— g It Is Feared Woman Became At Insane from Heat. Wilber, Neb., Aug. 18.—Mrs. Slama,, Wife of Joseph Slama, a farmer living about nine miles southwest of Wilber, disappeared from her home with her little stepdaughter, aged 6. and her own. child of about a year, last Thursday Bvening. She had been to town In th& afternoon, where she appeared in her usual health and rational, and invited tome friends to pass Sunday on the farm. On returning home she sat on the porch while other members of the family did the evening chores. When Bupper was ready she and the children were missing and no trace of them has yet been found except some footprints In a cornfield where they had eaten green corn. Search has been made by friends ever since, but nothing has re sulted. A systematic search by citi zens under the direction of the sheriff will be had today. No cause is known for the woman's strange disappearance except that she has been for years a great sufferer from acute headache and the excessive heat may have affected her mind. FARMER SHOT AT BOY. Two of the Shots Took Effect in Lad's Body. Norfolk, Neb., Aug. 18.—Because he swam In the Elkhorn river at a spot where a sign said "Keep Out," Barney Elseffer, aged 20 years, was shot twice by a farmer named Dietz. The two charges from the shotgun splintered Elseffer's right leg, the thigh and an kle, and it is not known whether he can recover. Elseffer, with a crowd of boys, was bathing in the river and had waded into Dietz’s premises. Dietz approached, loaded gun in hand, ordering the swim mers to leave. Their repartee angered him and he shot at the crowd, the load striking Elseffer. Dietz then took the swimmers’ clothing and when they at tempted to regain the garments he or dered them to halt. Still pursued, he deliberately shot Elseffer, but a few feet distant. The gun was wrested from him, still containing a loaded shell, after a hard battle. Officers have gone for Dietz. He had frequently threat ened the boys. Elseffer is the only sc.t of J. B. Elsef fer, Union Pacific railroad station agent at Norfolk. Young Elseffer is hand some and popular. The citizens are highly enraged. MANY A MOUTH WATERY Sunken Steamer and Cargo of Whisky Found After Fifty Years. Belleville, Neb., Aug. 17.—After lying In the mud and sand of the Missouri river for fifty-three years the old steam boat City of New Orleans has been un covered by the recent high water and its cargo of 160 barrels of whisky prob ably will be recovered. The remains of the boat were found two miles above this place. The finders have placed guards in charge and are rigging a der rick above the old hull so that the bar rels may be hoisted out. The City of New Orleans was. one of the early steamboats which plied the Missouri river and was owned hy Cap tain La Barge of St. Louis. In 1S52 the boat went up stream, having a cargo of 160 barrels of whisky for traders near Sioux City. Near night the vessel struck a snag and sank, the crew taking to the boats. The hull drifted with the stream and. although efforts were made at the time to locate it they were unsuccessful. Originally the cargo was supposed to have been valued at $75,000, hut fifty year-old whisky is worth much more today than the same grades were when new. During the high water of this spring the Missouri began cutting .into the bank above Bellevue, with the result that when John McCarthy and another resident of Bellevue island were rowing to the mainland they were astonished tc see the remains of an old steamboat firmly embedded in the sand, only a. portion being above water. The story of the City of New Orleans is known all along the river here and the news quickly spread. McCarthy made a hasty examination and discovered the whisky barrels in the hold. CORN YARNS FROM NEBRASKA Dubois, Neb., Aug. 115.—Nearly 7,000 people from the surrounding country attended the corn carnival here yes terday. It required fourteen ears of corn to feed the multitude. Pierce, Neb., Aug. 15.—While J. II. Williams was hauling a small ear of corn to town yesterday, the weight of the ear on the wagon broke down the bridge over Dry creek and Williams’ valuable team of mules was killed. Hartington, Neb., Aug. 15.—A terrible accident, which cost nine lives, occurred at St. James, a village near here, last night, during a light wind storm. Dur ing the height of the wind a stalk of corn growing in the yard of the home of J. M. Comeback toppled over on the house, crushing it like an egg shell and killing Mr. and Mrs. Comeback, their four children, a servant girl and two hired men. Emerson, Neb.. Aug. 15.—John D.. a 2:04 trotter owned by Dr. T. B. Mead dws, valued at $S,000, was choked to death last night while Dr. Meadows was attending a patient a mile west of town. The doetdr hall tied the horse lo a cornstalk in the yard. A light rain was falling and the stalk grew so fast that when the doctor returned the horse had been lifted clear off the ground and choked to death. O'Neill. Neb., Aug. 15.—The Short Line local, No. 1$, eastbound, was wrecked here this morning in a pe culiar manner. A corn seed which had probably fallen from a freight car took root alongside the track and grew so fast that it pushed the track clear off the light-of-way. This occurred tills side of a deep cut a mile west of town, mil before the engineer could stop the train it ran onto the "pushout" and ivas ditched. Fortunately the train was slowing up for the Elkhorn crossing a tew hundred yards further on ami no E>ue was hurt