THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
>*NEILL, NEBRASKA
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The most curious almshouse In Eng
land is St. Mary’s hospital at Chiches
ter. There eight old ladies live actual-*
ly in the church, which is a fine old
building dating from 1680. It was orig
inally a monastery, but when Queen
Elizabeth came to visit there she turned
It Into an almshouse, to endure as long
as almshouses exist. The old ladles
have two neat little rooms each down
the sides of the main church, with
windows looking out on the garden.
They have each a coal supply, a kitch
en range, water and gas. At one end
of the church is the chapel, where
dally services are held. The choir stalls
are beautifully carved old oak, the orig
inal seats that the monks used. The
church stands in a quiet little square.
The late Georges Charpentler was the
publisher of Zola's works, as well as
of those of Daudet, Goncourt and other
eminent French men of letters. Zola
had a modest contract with Oharpen
tier, but when his novel, “L’assom
molr.'j made him famous, the publisher
tore up the contract and made an
other, more favorable to Zola. Char
pentler’s house was headquarters for
the impressionists as well as the revo
lutionaries and "intellectuals.’’ The
eminent publisher walked the streets
of Paris, ut the age of 69, looking young
and In the best of health, only two days
before his death.
Robert Harborough Sherard, author
of “Twenty Years in Prison,” tells that
Guy de Maupassant despised literature
as a profession, and gave to almost
any other topic of conversation the
preference over books. "There are su
many other things of so much greater
Interest to talk about," the novelist
would say. Of yachts and the sea he
could talk delightfully, and he was
rather proud of the fact that some time
previously he had rescued from the
waves at Etretat the English poet
Swinburne, who, Byron-llke, a magnifi
cent swimmer, had for once outsvvum
his strength.
There Is something like a sense of the
tragic In the tall of majestic trees. One
has Just, been cut down near Burgdorf,
In Switzerland, which really deserves to
be described as a monarch of the for
est. It was an oak. At a height of
sixteen feet from the ground the trunk
measured not less than four and one
half feet In diameter, which gave a
circumference of sixteen feet three
Inches. The concentric rings showed
the tree to have been planted about the
year 1(100. Of these rings 311 could, be
counted.
A French botanical explorer hns dls- j
covered in Central America a new cof
fee plant, with fruit of superior quality,
to which he has given the name of cof
fee excelsa. The tree grows wild and
attains a great height. At five years
ipecimens are twenty-five feet high and
older trees have been discovered that
were sixty feet high. The coflee seeds
are small, rounded, and according to
analysis and expert opinion ore among
the best sorts known.
Wireless telegraphy broke Its own
record again when the operators at Co
lon "overheard” the conversation that
took place one evening last month be
tween the stations at Manhattan Beach
and Pensacola, the total distance cov
ered In the circuit being more than 2,
000 miles. This record is all the more
remarkable when It Is remembered that
the distance covered by the first trans
atlantic cable was only 1,860 miles.
A Japanese scientist named Matsura
has been studying the effects of dis
eases and the varying, physical state of
the body upon the growth and thick
ness of the hair. He finds that hair
especially In the case of persons whose
hair Is of course structure, is so sen
sitive to bodily condition that it con
tains a veritable history of the state
of the individual to whom it belongs,
for the period covered by its growth.
Lord Roberts opened at Woolwich on
December 21 a theater, toward the i
erection of which the war office has
contributed. It Is to be called the Roy- j
al Artillery theater, and is In connec- |
lion with the barracks. It is possible
that civilians may be admitted to the
performances, but the main efforts of
Its promoters Is to cater for the mili- !
tary, and by providing amusements !
keep them more In barracks.
Lieutenant General Fork, who recent- '
ly left Nagoya for Russia, presented a
pair of kid boots to the priest resi
dent of the West Hongnnjl temple of
Nagoya, where he had been quartered;
S,000 clgarets to the gendarmes and sol
diers on duty at the temple, 100 rubles
to the poor In Nagoya, and the furni
ture of his room he gave to Mr. Takata,
an Interpreter in the French language,
says the Japan Mall.
Senator Clark has bought for $1,750,
000 the famous Union 'mine, K1 Dorado
county, Callfornhi, for which the
Standard Oil company offered $1,250,
000 last spring. Former owners of the !
mine lost the vein after taking out i
$1,500,000 In bullion and sold the mine
for $1,400. The new owners found the
vein again, und up to date It has yield- I
ed $12,000,000.
It Is a curious fact, says the London 1
Book Monthly, that manuscripts by j
women are rarely as clean and tidy as
; those prepared by men. "Most editors
will admit—in candid If ungallant mo
ments—that they would rather tackle
| two manuscripts by men than one in
a hand that should be fairer."
A correspondent says that if he eats
eggs In any form he has all the symp
toms, more or less pronounced, of lr
I ritant poisoning. Many persons are af
| fected In like manner by articles of
I food. Some persons cannot eat straw
berries. to others mutton is poison, and
j many persons dare not eat crab.
Ireland’s department of agriculture
; appropriates a sum of money to each
> county annually for poultry tmprove
! ment. There are now employed thirty
| women instructors In poultry keeping,
j Meetings are held for the instruction
I of poutry keepers and the department
Ihas special centers for distributing
eggs of the best breed.
I In Calvary church, In Fourth avenue
J avenue,. New York, a Christmas eve
| service was lighted entirely by can
s’ dies, 2,500 of them outlining the arches
| and running along the aisles. The low
er lights were of unusual size, ihe to
1 tal “candlepower," as an eleotriciuE
would reckon It, being probably con
Blderably above 5,000.
The military budget of the French
republic foots up to a total of 29,000
$ officers, whose pay alone amounts to
| nearly £4.000.000. Italy, under the
I tome head, has 14,000 officers, drawing
| £1.450,000 annually. Spain pays, on
1 account of 23.000 officers, the sum ol
| £2,750,000._ _
| Not satisfied with the usual grafting
I adopted by floriculturists,' a Frenoh
| man. M. Molliard. of Parts, has started
t In to transform vegetables. Already h«
!" has succeeded in turning a radish 'into
• potato—according to a recent con
sular report
I
MOTHER GIVES BOY
POISON BY MISTAKE
Thought Potion Was Blackberrj
Wine, But It Was
Liniment.
SHE KISSED H'VI GOODBY
starting for School, the Lad Was T»
ken III and Stopped at a Pool Hall,
Where He Died in Great
Agony.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 31.—Jay Williams,
a 17-year-old high school boy, died In
great agony on a pool table here this
morning as the result of swallowing
some medicine his mother had given
him supposing It was blackberry wine,
The boy left home for school this
morning after taking it. His mother
kissed him goodby, saying she hoped
he would soon be better, but on his
way down town became so ill that ha
stopped In the pool hail. Within a few
minutes he was dead. The doctors say
,the stuff swallowed was liniment and
poisonous.
The mother Is distracted. The fathel
Is traveling somewhere in Iowa.
SEEKMISSING GIRL
Corning, la., Relatives Are Looking for
Pansy Hoselton, Fifteen
Years of Age.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 30.—Iowa relative!
arc making strenuous eltorts to discover
the whereabouts of Pansy Hoselton, the)
15-year-old girl who disappeared fromj
Coming, la., during last October. The
girl’s grandfather, who Is a Mason all
Corning, Is conducting the search through!
the efforts of the Masonic lodge.
JANKE GETS ACQUITTAL.
Northwest Nebraska Aroused Over tin
Turn in Case.
Alliance, Neb., Jan. 30.—Word was re-i
celved here from Rushville that August)
Janke on trial for the murder of Michael
Slerck In this county three years ago, was'
acquitted. He had served almost three
years of a twenty-year sentence when a
new trial was secured for him with a
change of venue from Box Butte to Sheri-]
dan county. Considerable Indignation is
expressed here where public sentiment is
very unfavorable to him.
HONEST MAN AND WANT "AD.”
Norfolk, Neb., Jan. 29.—John Werner, a
German farmer living near Hoskins, drove
twenty-six miles yesterduy to hunt down
the man who had lost $50 In bills on the
streets of Norfolk a week ago. A little
newspaper want ad that had cost less a'
half dollar aided Werner in restoring the
money to T. M. Hull, formerly sugar beet,
solicitor. Mr. Hull gave Werner a reward1
of $5 for the trouble and his honesty.
MANY HOGS DIE.
Norfolk. Neb., Jan. 29.—Within the past
three months a great many of the hogs In
the country to the north, the east and the
west of Norfolk have died from hog'
plague. The disease Is a sort of con
tagious pneumonia. The area covered by
the disease extends for ten miles out.
MAKE ’EM TELL
Movement to Compel Publication o.
All Campaign Contributions Is
Actively Begun.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 30.—Publicity of
election contributions and expenditures,
and the formation of organizations to pro
mote these purposes in all states are urged
In an address .lust issued by the National
Publicity Bill organization. The address:
follows:
For the purpose of eliminating by all ap
propriate methods the evils resulting from
secret contributions and expenditures of
larg«* sums of money on elections, a meet
ing was held In the city of Washington on
the 16th of January, 1906, an association
was formed to b*> known as the National
Publicity Bill organization, and this ad
dress was authorized.
The secret and corrupt use of money in
the election of the chief magistrate of a
nation. Its legislators and its state and mu
nicipal oftleers, is a dangerous menace to.
the institutions of a free people. The prof-'
ligate use of money for such purposes en
ables the consolidated interests by secret
contributions to dominate political organ
izations. depriving the many of their po
litical rights to confer with them on the
few.
It is confidently asserted that the first
and most important measure of relief is
the passage of a national law requiring the:
disclosure under oath of every contribu
tion of money and every promise of money:
in national campaigns and in case of eva-i i
slon providing for exposure, detection and)
punishment, substantially as set forth in
the bill prepared under the auspices of thisi
organization. * * * '
This organization desires to promote the
organization of similar organizations in;
every state of the union, in order that the;
movement may be supplemented by statei
legislation of similar character and as; I
nearly uniform as possible. This move-, j
ment lias the support of leading repre-', •
sentative men of the political parties and,
of organized labor. It concerns the rights
and honor of every citizen, and the ap-j i
proval and active co-operation of all are’
earnestly invoked to carry this reform to
a successful conclusion.
Perry Belmont,
Nowr York, President.
Frank K. Foster,
Massachusetts. Secretary.
MUST STAND TRIAL
Former United States Senator Green
and Alleged Conspirators Fail to
Get Indictments Quashed.
Washington, Jan. 29.—Justice Gould
today overruled the demurrers of
George W. Beavers to indictments
charging him with conspiring with
Former State Senator George E. Green,
of Binghamton, N. Y„ and W. D. Dor
emus, to defraud the government in
connection with furnishing of postofflce
supplies, and also to Indictments
against Beavers individually charging
him with bribery.
Justice Gould overruled the pleas in
abutment of Green and Doremus to in-i
dictments charging them with conspir
ing In connection with Beavers to de-;
fraud the government in furnishing
postofflce supplies.
REASON FOR SUICIDE.
Son of Admiral Van Ruyperi Though
Mind Was Failing.
New York, Jan. 29.—The family of
Admiral Van Huypen has issued a
statement concerning the suicide of'
William K. Van Ruypen. son of the ad
miral. which occurred Saturday. It is
declared that the young man was afraid
his mind was failing and that his death
would cause the family less distress
than if he should go mad. Overwork
is assigned as the cause of falling pjen
j tallty.
REMARKABLE RIFLE
FEATS OF NEBRASKAN
Captain A. H. Hardy of l_ir»
coin, Establishes an Envied
World’s Record.
SOME UNUSUAL TESTS
He Ejects a Twenty-Two Cartridgr
from a Rifle Into the Air, Reloads
and Hits It Eefore It Reaches
the Ground.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 30.—A marvei
with the rifle and revolver is Capt. A.
H. Hardy, of Lincoln, who performed
the remarkable feat in this city on
December 23 last of hitting, without a
miss, 6,152 wooden bulls, each two and
a quarter inches in diameter, thrown
into the air at twenty-five feet.
Hardy is a cowboy from up in Grant
county. Shooting at wooden balls is
mere recreation for him.
Here are some of the feats he per
forms: Takes two revolvers and at
the same Instant breaks two bottles
placed fifteen feet apart and twenty
five feet distant.
With an ordinary Colt’s revolver he
cuts cards in two edgewise in all man
ners of positions. He hits washers,
pennies, hickory nuts and other small
objects thrown into the air as fast as
two men can toss them, without a
miss.
At fifty yards he puts ten shots with
in a five-inch circle.
With a 38 Colt, six and a half inch
barrel, he places six shots in six sec
onds within a four-inch circle at ten
yards, cocking the revolver each time.
Hardy is also an artist. He takes a
square of white cardboard, and out
lines upon it with remarkable accuracy,
with an ordinary rifle, the head of an
Indian, Uncle Sam, a jaekrabbit or any
other object the spectators call for,
each bullet going as true as though
dabbed on with a brush.
He throws a small wooden ball in
the air and hits it three or four times
before it touches the ground.
His most difficult stunt is when he
ejects a 22-caliber cartridge from his
rifle into the air, without touching
it, and reloading it before it reaches
the ground.
The trick shots of professionals, per
formed with the aid of a mirror, are
easy with Hardy.
With an ordinary pump gun he hits
four blue rocks thrown into the air,
hits a tin can six times before it
touches the ground, and similar stunts.
A sensational shot is performed
when he shoots off half a dozen hazel
nuts stuck in skewers, forming a semi
circle on the head of his assistant..
Stepping back twenty paces he breaks
these in succession. Each skewer is
the same length after the performance,
showing that he hits the nuts squarely
in the center.
One of his prettiest acts is to bor
row a watch from one of the specta
tors, making a spot on a card about
the size of a penny and giving the
card to an assistant who places him- j
self ten paces distant. With his body
facing to the east, his head facing
south and his rifle resting on his hori
zontal left arm, he sights in the watch
case and puts the bullet in the marked
spot on the card. He was looking in
the contrary direction to the card, and
the hand of the assistant was never
more than three inches from the mark.
Hardy is a handsome, stalwart young
man of 30. He began shooting when
10 years old. His mother had a horror
of firearms, and he was forbidden
them. He managed to get hold of a
rifle, and his remarkable proficiency
soon became known. His mother gave
•i reluctant consent.
LAUGHS AT THE STORY.
Thad Browning Says He Is Positive
That He Yet Lives.
Fremont, Neb., Jan. 29.—1Thad Browning,
:>f Winfield, la., is in Fremont to satisfy
his friends and the public that he is not
the victim of the Booze farm murder. He
is positively identified as Browning by .
John Lyman, Bruce Haven and other
■ounty men who know him. He strikingly
-esembles the murder victim but is smaller
!>f stature and feature. His hair is the ,
rame wavy brown, his eyes the same light |
brown, his height the same—5 feet 7—as :
the murdered map. Also, he has an arm j
that was deformed by a fracture as has '
the murder victim, but with Browning it
, |s the left, while with his deceased double
is the right.
FOR A CORN PALACE.
Likely Such an Exhibition Will B.
Held in Nebraska.
Tcrumsch. Neb., Jan. 29.—Hon. William
Ernst of this city, who is president of the
Nebraska Corn Improvers' ascsoeiation,
says that his society is contemplating
(something big in the way of a show next
fall.
I It is proposed to erect a corn palace
! either at Lincoln or Omaha, and to hold a
corn carnival of no ordinary magnitude.
Exhibits of the productions coming from
I corn together with the implements used
In the planting, cultivating and gathering
of the grain, as well as those used In the
manufacture of corn products, will he
made.
Liberal premiums will lip offered on corn
exhibits and competition will be encour
aged from each of the states constituting
the great corn belt. If the plan material
izes the corn palace and carnival will be
one of the greatest demonstrations of the
kind ever held in this part of the United
States.
ROBBED OF VALUABLES.
Broken Bow Man Says He Was Mys
teriously Fleeced.
Broken Bow, Neb., Jan. 29.—William
Hopkins, of this city, says he has mys
teriously robbed of quite a sum of money
and a couple of valuable rings, one night
this week. He was taking a walk on the
north side of town, enjoying the cool of
the evening, when a stranger approached
and asked if he could he accommodated
with change for a bill, which he tendered.
Mr. Hopkins seems to have forgotten the
| intermediate transactions and later on
awakened to the fact that ids poekotbook
I containing $35 and two rings, had disap
peared.
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FARMER KILLED.
Jacob Preston, of Hartington, Meets
Heath in Runaway.
Hartington, Neb., ajn.' 30.—Jacob
Preston, a well known and highly re
spected farmer living five miles south
of Hartington. was instantly killed in a
runaway accident near his home. In
company with ids son he had hitched
up a broncho team to drive to a public
sale. Shortly after leaving the farm
yard the team ran away and in turning
a corner both men were pitched out of
the wagon. Preston struck on hia head,
breaking his neck and fracturing his
skull.
GOLD IS OF NO AVAIL
Mine Owner on Doomed Valencia Tried
to Purchase His
Safety.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 30.—Among those
who are supposed to have perished
when the Valencia went to pieces was
J. B. Graham, a passenger and with
him went a bag containing $1,500 in
■ gold.
I Survivors of the wreck say Graham
frantically offered the bag of gold to
anyone who would place him on shore.
But others paid little heed to his plead
ings and his gold lay on the broken
deck, kicked under foot, no one bother
ing to even pick it up. Graham recent
ly sold a mine In Alaska for $60,000.
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 27.—All survivors
who reached shore near the scene of
the wreck of the Valencia have now
been cared for, the last party of nine
having been stalled at Darling river on
account of flooded waters reaching the
steamer Salvor at Bamfleld creek last
night. They were In a very bad con
dition.
' Great credit Is due to the party from
the Salvor, headed by Capt. Ferris, who
left early Wednesday and traveled al
most an Impassable trail for fifteen
miles. After one night spent on the
trail they started for home with the
survivors.
Before returning Ferris visited the
wreck. He reports the beach literally
covered with wreckage at that time,
and five bodies were on shore being
Identified.
' The second party left the Salvor
yesterday. They went as far as
Pachena, carrying packs of provisions
and extra ciothing. At 3 o’clock they
were joined by a landing party sent
from the United States revenue cutter
Brant. At Pachena the provisions
were made to succor the survivors.
The party was sighted at 3:10 p. m.
on a point of rock, having taken to
the beach, as the trail was too hard
for the men to travel in their famished
condition.
An Associated Press correspondent 1
was the first to reach them. All the
survivors were completely fatigued.
The entire party was equipped with
shoes, those who had been without
having been supplied with shoes taken
from corpses washed ashore. The sur
vivors are loud in their praises of the
rescue party from the Salvor. The
trail is In frightful condition and Is
most difficult at best.
There are eleven bodies reported
washed ashore. F. F. Bunker of Seat
tle said there was an evident lack of
discipline among the officers and this
statement has been corroborated by
other passengers. A mess boy cursed
an officer to his face for not giving
the proper orders. |
■ The loss of life is not altered from
yesterday’s account, 119 being missing,
FROZEN, THEN BURNED, j
—
Terrible Fate of E. Van Meluch, Who
Was Lost in Minne
sota Woods.
Virginia, Minn., Jan. 30.—Lost for
several days in the deep woods near
this place, freezing his feet and burn
ing them In the fire so severely that
uraemic poisoning resulted, E. Van
Meluch, aged 28, died yesterday In the
hospital as the result of his injuries.
Van Meluch started to walk during
H bad storm to the outskirts of Vir
ginia. He lost his way during the bliz
zard and wandered In the woods for
several days until the toes of both
feet were frozen. Almost exhausted he
succeeded in making a fire at the base
of a tree and rolled himself in a blanket
and went to sleep. During the night
he rolled about in such a manner that
his frozen feet came In contact with
the blaze and were terribly burned.
LIBERALS IN FULL POWER
Will Have Over Eighty Majority Over
All Other Parties in House
of Commons.
London. Jan. 30.—The voting is prac
tically over and as a result of the gen
eral election the liberals will find
themselves at the meeting of the house
of commons with a majority of more
;than eighty over all other parties com
bined.
Only ten contests remain to be de
cided. Totals now are: Liberals, 371;
unionists, 157; Irish nationalists, 82;
laborites, 50.
ANEWCOMET.
One Discovered in Northeastern Sky
Moving Moderately in North
westerly Direction.
Geneva, N. Y.. Jan. 30.—Dr. Wil
liam B. Brooks, director ot the Smith
observatory, today discovered a new 1
comet in the northeastern sky. Its po- I
sition is right ascension 16 hours, 19
minutes, 30 seconds, declination north
47 degrees, 10 minutes. It has a mod
erate motion in the northwesterly di
rection.
TONS OF STEEL FALL.
Crash Through Several Floors of Build
ing, Killing One Man.
New York, Jan. 30.—Nine tons of
steel girders fell from above the sev
enth floor of the new Altman building
in process of erection on Fifth avenue
today, tore through several floors and
crushed a workman. Edward Stein- I
man, to death and seriously Injured live *
other workmen.
The foreman In charge of the derrick
Was arrested.
ROLL GETS SHORTER.
In Past Six Months 28,006 Civil War
Pensioners Have Died, Leav
ing 679,234.
Washington, Jan. 30.—During the
past six months 28,000 pensioners of
the civil war have died, according to
the statement of Pension Commission
er Warner. This, he says, is evidence
3f the rapidity with which veterans
are being diminished. The total num- I
her of pensioners December 31 was
679,234. _ _
BAD FIRE CHECKED.
Enveloped Hospital at One Time and
Threatened Tenements.
New York, Jan. 30.—Fire which
swept Telia, Pergmont & Co.’s three
story oil and candle factory near East
River today threatened the surround- |
,ng buildings for a block on every
side.
The fire was near the heart of the
East Side tenement district and with- |
in a half block of Gouverner’s hospi
tal. The institution was enveloped at 1
times and the eighty-nine patients in
It were prepared for instant removal.
The flames were checked after the
oil factory and three-story frame:
building adjoining had been de
stroyed. Loss, <100,000. *
THREE-GENT FARES
FOR STRAP HANGERS
Novel Ordinance Introduced if
the Council at Omaha to
Aid the Poor.
ASK OTHER CONCESSIONS
fha Street Car Company Is Asked, in
Addition to Cheaper Fares, to
Grant Universal Transfers—
Ordinance Carries Penalty.
Omaha. Neb., Jan. 27.—An ordinance
calculated to bring the Omaha street
railway service to a state of greater
efficiency and at once provide cheaper
fares for the patrons is in the hands
of the railway committee of the city
council.
A system of universal transfers, the
sale of twenty-four tickets for $1,
3-cent fares to school children and U>
persons compelled to stand because of
overcrowded cars, are among- its pro
visions.
Penalties ranging from a fine of $25j
or twenty days’ imprisonment to a fine
'of $100 or thirty days’ imprisonment, or
hoth, are provided for violation of tha
provisions of the ordinance.
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BRIDE CAME HOME.
Three Days of Wedded Life with Colo ,
rado Rancher Satisfies Girl.
Prosser, Neb., Jan. 26.—Mrs. William A.
Meyer, nee Blanche pecker, has returned
to her home at this place, having enjoyed
a three days’ honeymoon with her hus
band at Denver.
William Meyer, a ranchman near that
city, belongs to an organization of a hun
dred ranchmen and cowboy bachelors who
resolved to advertise for wives and em
brace the first opportunity. An advertise-;
ment of Meyer was answered by Miss
Decker. This resulted in Meyer visiting
her at the home of her mother in Prosser
eight weeks ago. A week’s courtship and
the would be groom returned to Denver.
Six weeks’ correspondence was followed
by Miss Decker’s visit to Denver, where
they were happily wedded.
The honeymoon, however, was of brief
duration and the bride returned to Pros
ser, stating that her husband would bq
here in a short time and invest in an
Adams county farm.
The husband failed to arrive and a
story comes from Denver to the effect
that three days after the marriage the uni
happy couple appeared before the county
court, demanding the license money, as
they had decided marriage was a failure.
The fee was returned, when it was learned
upon inquiry that the marriage had been
solemnized. The bride and groom of a
few days seemed very much surprised
when they learned that it would take th^
proceedings of a district court to divorce
them.
Mrs. Meyer is thirty years of age and
this is her first known experience witfc
♦he tricks of Dan Cupid.
FIRE AT ELBA.
Disastrous Blaze Sweeps the Little Ne
braska Town.
Grand Island, Neb., Jan. 26.—Fire of un
known origin was discovered in the gen
eral store of Anderson & Co. at Elba,
thirty miles northwest of this city. The
volunteer department responded promptly,
but the blaze spread so rapidly the fire
men had to be content with saving sur
rounding stores. The building, known as
the Miller block, the largest in town, is a
total loss. Loss on building, $5,000, and on
stock $13,000. The stock Is insured for
$8,000.
PRISONERS DUG OUT.
They Are Discovered in Time, How
ever, to Be Reconfined.
Wilber, Neb., Jan. 26.—Two prisoners al
most broke jail here. They were allowed,
outside of the steel cages so that they
could care for the fire in the jail till bed
time, and about 9 o’clock In the evening
were heard digging their way through the
wall of the jail. A lady living close to the
jail heard the noise and immediately tele
phoned for the sheriff, who arrived just
as the prisoners had made a hole large* ;
enough to let them out, and were about to
climb out.
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R AILROA DS JUBILANT.
Get an Injunction Restraining Nebras
ka Treasurer Collecting Taxes.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 25.—Tax Commission
er Pollard, of the .Burlington railroad,
served injunction papers on State Treasur
er Mortcnsen. This prevents the treasurer
from collecting or receiving the railroad j
.taxes for 1905.
GETS MILEAGE BY RUSE
Senator Burton Is Seen by the Clerk
Through Glass Door, Although
Not in Senate.
Washington, Jan. 2B.—Senator Bur
ton of Kansas will get his mileage. He
is here awaiting the result of his apt
peal to the supreme court, as he is un
der sentence to jail for accepting fees
from a get-rieh-quick concern while
senator. He has been told to stay out
of the senate chamber until his case
is decided.
He needed his mileage money. In
order to get it, it is necessary for some
official of the senate to take oath that
he has seen the senator in the sen
ate chamber. There is no disposition
to withhold either mileage or salary,
and Burton, who frequents the senate
cloakrooms, was asked to step into thej
senate chamber.
He declined, but an employe drew
him over near the glass door that leads
from the cloak room to the senate
chamber. An official had been sta
tioned outside the door. The employe,
who was talking to Burton turned him,
around, the official saw him through
the glass door and the proper certifi
cation yvas made. Burton got his
money—20 cents a mile from Abilene,
Kan., to Washington.
FOURTEEN ARE KILLED
Explosion in Mine Due to Fire Damp
Causes Awful Result—Three
Bodies Recovered.
Poteau, Indian Territory, Jan. 27.—
Fourteen lives were lost in an ex
plosion yesterday in slope No. 4 of
Wittevilie mine.
The explosion was caused by fire
damp. Three bodies have been recov
ered, but it is impossible to enter the
mine because of gas.
Fort Smith, Ark.—There is sleighing
here, the first in Arkansas for many
years. A sleet storm began here Sunday
night, and was followed by snow, which
continued to fall yesterday. Street car
traffic is interrupted. The temperature U
it freezing.
NEBRASKAN’S 0 I
RESULT OF A DER
Isaac Syfe, Assyrian of Bone*
steel, Held, Charged With
the Crime.
HE WILL HAVE A HEARING
fhe Crime for Which Syfe Is Charge#
Occurred December 30—A Week
Later Peter Kaden’s Body
Was Found in Well.
Norfolk, Neb., Jan. 26.—Isaac Syfe,
the Syrian who was suspected of foul
play in the death of Peter Kaden, the
Rosebud tenderfoot from Hoskins,
Neb., whose dead body was found in a
well, and who, a letter on Kaden’s ta
ble made it appear, had committed sui
cide because he was called a horse
thief, has been arrested here on the!
charge of murder in the first degree.
Syfe entered a plea of not guilty and!
the preliminary hearing was set for
iSaturday, January 27, in Bonesteel, be
fore Justice J. M. Biggins. i
The arrest was made on a complaint
filed by State’s Attorney Bachus on an
order from the county commissioners
of Gregory county. Syfe has retained!
E. M. Starcber and Charles A. Davis
for his attorneys and the case will be
i hard fought.
The warrant charging Syfe with first
degree murder was filed by Sheriff?
Sproul. Syfe was arraigned before
Judge Biggins, entered a plea of no#
guilty and was taken to jail to await
. his preliminary hearing.
The crime with which Syfe is
| charged’ occurred December 30. Peter
j Kaden, a Rosebud farmer, was found
dead in a well on the homestead of
j Rancher King. The two men, Syfe and
■ Kaden, left the Erickson house to
gether late Saturday night and Kaden
was never seen alive again. His body!
was found next day in the well.
Erickson, who last saw the two to
gether, feared something might have
happened after the pair left his claim
jand went early the next day to the,
iKaden home, where he found the doon
(Standing open, the windows nailed upj
'with blankets and the following note
on the table:
Through this I let you know my life is
ended. We, this Bleegel, P. Peterson, his1
wife and myself, we intended to play a
joke on Isaac for the drinks. I took his
| horse purely in fun. I am as innocent aS
I my God, and those who blame P. Peterson
and Bleegel, God will surely punish. L
never beat anybody and stole no horses.
That is too much for me. Mr. Hurlbert
Itook half of my life and Isaac and the Rus
sians say I took Dolly and Erickson’s
horses. This makes my life an end. If
the Russians were as innocent as Bleegel.
IP. Peterson, his wife and myself, they;
would be different people. God will punj
ish those that blame Bleegel, P. Peterson!
and his wife. If there is any money left,
isend it to my dear parents in Germany.!
They need It, but do not tell them I com-'
Imltted suicide. You will find me in King’s
well, where the Innocent one wishes to be:
iburied. I am done.
It Is said that Syfe, on that same
i morning, together with a crowd of six
or eight armed Russians, had driven to
the Erickson farm, and, arresting Pe-t
terson, had taken him four miles south-,
west to the homestead of a rancher!
named Rubel.
Postmaster Billlnger and R. A. Pat-i
rick, of Dallas, who were spending the*
day on their claims, heard the mob.
drove to the scene and persuaded Syfe
and the crowd to release Peterson.
It is said that trouble between Syfe
and Kaden started in a trade in which1
Kaden had agreed to trade off his farm
for property of Syfe’s and that later
Kaden backed out, arousing Syfe’s
wrath.
There is much excitement on the res-,
ervation over the affair and sensational
disclosures are promised at the trial.
Three weeks after the dead body was
found the board of county commission
ers have determined to try Svfe fob
''lis life.
A
PROPOSED BY MAIL.
Nebraska Bride and Colorado Ranch
man Quit After Three Days.
Hastings, Neb., Jan. 26.—Word has
been received here that Mr. and Mrs..
William Meyers, of Brighton, Colo.,i
have “dissolved partnership.’’ Mrs.'
Brighton was formerly Miss Blanche
Dexter, of this place. Their marriage
experience was of three days’ dura
tion.
The iove-making of the two was.
made by correspondence. The young'
woman answered an advertisement of;
Meyers, who sought a woman to bei
manager plenipotentiary of his hornet
and manipulator extraordinary of his
waffle iron.
At the end of three days of wedded
“bliss,” the two returned to the court
house to return their license to the clerk
and asked that the officer refund their
money. He learned that the two had1
been married and informed them that,
they must go into court and get a di
vorce if they could not live together.
Both are planning on a method to pur-j
sue for separation.
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LINCOLN STAR SOLD.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 26.—C. B. Edgar,
of St. Joseph, formerly manager of a
newspaper there, today became inter
ested in the Daily Star as publisher.
David E. Thompson, now ambassador
to Brazil and recently nominated for
ambassador to Mexico, is the principal
owner of the Star. E. P. Miekel, who
has been business manager of the paper
Rince its first issue, will retire. E. P.
Ueizer, formerly of the Sioux City'
'Journal, is editor of the Star.
MILE IN 32 1-5 SECONDS
New Record Is ^Made on the Florida
Beach.
Hotel Ormond, Fla., Jan. 26.—The,
world’s record for the miie was twice
lowered yesterday in the fourth annual
Ormond-Daytona automobile tourna
ment, and both times by the same car,
the cigar-shaped steamer driven by
■ Fred Marriott. In the first start, the
contest for the Sir Thomas Dewar tro
phy, the racer made the mile in 32 1-5
seconds.
The summary:
Mile international, for tbe Sir Thomas
Dewar trophy—First held won by Mar
riott, steamer, :32 1-5: second, Karp, gaso
line, :40 flat. Second heat won by Lancia,
gasoline, :37 3-6; second, Cedrino, gasoline,
:38 1-5. Finals won by Marriott, :32 flat;
Cedrino second, :38.
Heavvweight championship for gasoline
cars—F'irst heat won by Cedrino, :3!i 3-5:
Fletcher second, :39 4-5. Second heat won.
Lancia, :42 flat; Barp. :43 3-5. Final wot*
by Lancia, :42flat: Fletcher second, :S7 3-a.
Mile steamer championship one entry—
Marriott went the mile in :31 4-5.
James Richardson, of Rodger Mills
county, tendered a mule today as a
chattel to a Cheyenne money lender in
order to get funds with which to get a
marriage license and pay the preacher.
He had ridden the mule in—eighteen
miles—and expected to walk back home
in time for the wedding,__
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