Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O’NEILL FRONTIEF
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
yNEILL, NEBRASKA
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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 Pr<res given for long service among
agricultural employes at the Lincoln
shire agricultural show. In England, re
vealed some Interesting records. There
were cases where men had been In the
employment of their masters for 57, 51,
44, 42 and 39 years.
The Imperial Tobacco company of
Great Britain reports profits for the
half year ended April 30 substantially
I.: Increased over the same period last
,year. An Interim dividend of 6 per cent,
has been declared on the preferred or
dinary shares.
Only a stone's throw from the Ets
tneer station on the railway up the
Jungfrau mountain. In Switzerland,
which has Just been opened, lies one of
the refuge huts. "Berglihutte.” which
It takes expert climbers nine hours to
reach.
' WIFE BREAKS GAMP
WHILE HE IS AT GAMP
Captain Kroeger, While Attend*
ing Nebraska Guard En
campment, Loses Wife.
FOUND HANDSOMER MAN
Little Child Wa* Turned Over to An
other—When the Father Returns
He Finds Hie Wife with
Another.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 23.—While Cap
tain A. W. Kroeger of the Omaha Light
Infantry was pitching camp with the
Nebrasl r national guard at Kearney
this week, Mrs. Kroeger was breaking
camp at the Kroeger home, 4210 Pierce
street, so the records at the police sta
tion read.
Captain Kroeger returned from camp
with his company. Returning home he
found his 5-months-old baby In charge
of the hired girl and his wife gone for
parts unknown. He Immediately placed
the matter In the hands of the police,
with the result that after several days'
search Mrs. Kroeger was located Sat
urday afternoon by Detective Ferris In
a room at Sixteenth and Cass streets
with a man by the name of A. Siskind:
Siskind is charged at the city jail with
?>elng 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 !
<nd prairie hay.
Eight Years of Plenty.
This Is the eighth successive year
)f big crops for the state, and not
inly has this condition of affairs
poured money into the laps of the pro
fiteers, but it has wonderfully revivi
fied every fine of trade in the state,
rhe western states have comparatively
title manufactures, and these are ln
idequatt to supply even the home de
nund. Every business, from that of
he baqks down to the smallest store,
s bottomed upon agriculture. The one
ople of conversation uppermost from
Vpril until July and from August until
September 15 is crops. Every farmer
vho comes to town or city is inler
,dewed as to prospects, and for that
“ntire period, when the rain is falling
>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.
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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