Nebraska Newspapers

    (HE O'NEILL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
>*NEILL, NEBRASKA
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Lecturing upon (ho "Hygiene of the
Home," at the hygienic institute yes
terday, Mr. Somerville Hastings advo
cated the abolition of carpets, hangings
tnd everything that could harbor dirt
end dust. The quantity of dust that
would He on the point of a pin was
sufficient In which to raise 3,000 colo
nies of germs, most of them nocuous
to human beings. Our hardy forefa
thers of the reigns of Mary, Kllzabeth
and James I. never washed face, hands
or clothing, and a bath was unknown.
(Ting James confined his personal ablu
tions to wiping the tips of his fingers
with a damp napkin. Only students ol
history know the horrors of life in the
middle ages. It was almost incon
ceivably dirty.
Manufacturers of talking machine*
are elaborating their enterprises to an
extent never dreamed of before, it will
not be long before an entire opera cast
will be heard on one of these machines.
Formerly a tenor or prirna donna was
enough. Now the costly artists from
the opera house sing duets, trios and
quartets. The services of such per
formers are made possible by the fact
that all of'these celebrities are now
content to take a royalty on the sale
of their songs rather than a fixed
price. It was formerly customary to
pay a certain sum, but the singers now
clamor for a percentage, since there Is
such a great demand to hear them in
this way.
Curious talcs are told of the Masai,
one of the most warlike of the native
African tribes. They have been attack
ing the natives In the German protec
torate with great daring, driving off
great herds of cattle with singular ease.
Half the attacking force will sweep
down on a peaceful village, engaging in
* a bloody fight with the inhabitants,
while the other half will drive away
the herds. The Masai have a wonderful
knack In the management of cattle. A
German writer says that a single Masai
Is often able to coax behind him a
whole herd of cattle by lightly whist
ling and tapping with his spear against
bis huge shield.
General Grant once described an Il
literate surgeon In the employ of a cer
tain northern regiment. A promising
roung officer had been wounded, und
this surgeon had dressed the wounds
General Grant sent for the surgeon
later to ascertain the young officer's
chances. "He Is wounded," said the
Surgeon to the commander-in-chlef, "in
three places." "Are these wounds fa
tal?” General Grant asked. The sur
feon nodded a grave assent. "Two of
he wounds are fatal,” he said. "The
third Is not. If we can leave him to
rest quiet for a while, I think he will
pull through."
An Innovation is said to have crept
Into the English house of commons re
cently, when hand-ctapplng, familiar
the world over, but forbidden In the
mother of parliaments, was for the first
time heard. The custom of the house
calls for “Hear! Hear!” as the ex
pression of approval, often Ironical
"Hear! Hear!” according to learned au
thorities, Is a modern shortening of
"Hear him! Hear him!" the regular
parliamentary shout of approval down
to the early part of the last century.
Icelanders have a strange but effect
ive plan for preventing horses from
Straying away. They tie the head of
one horse to the tall of nnother, and the
head of this to the tall of the former.
In this state it Is impossible for the
horses to move on, either backward ot
forward. If disposed to move at all, it
will be only in ft circle, and even then
there must bo mutual agreement to
turn their heads th.1 same way.
The voracity of the eagle is a well
known fact, but it has been left to a
Swiss hunter to define exactly the var
iations which take place in its dally
menu. In a nest In the Alps, side by
•lde with an eagle, he found a hnre,
freshly killed; twenty-seven chamois'
feet,four pigeons’ feet, thirty pheasants’
feet, eleven heads of fowls, eighteen
heads of grouse, and the remains of
rabbits, marmots and squirrels.
Dr. Nicholas Senn, of Chicago, will
■tart on April 4 for a four months’ trip
through Africa, to make a study of the
lowest types of humanity. He will go
from New York direct to Lisbon. Por
tugal, where he will attend the an
nual session of the medical congress
from April 1# to 2B. Crossing the Med
iterranean to Africa, he will travel the
length of the continent by caravan and
■all to Cape Town.
With the exception of the larger \
towns the precautions against fire in
; France are remarkably Inadequate.
Many towns of from 500 to 3,000 people
have no water supply other than or
dinary wells, operated generally by
I bucket draws Instead of pumps, and no
Are apparatus except occasionally a
hand force pump, such as Is used by
contractors.
The Chinese Imperial commissioners.
In the Boston public library the other
I day. expressed great astonishment that
it no one could tell them which book In
• the library was the oldest. From the
I Chinese point of view the oldest book
E 1» the best. There are no "six best
I sellers” in Chinn. A book under 1,000
I years old Is read by no self-respecting
: wan.
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f A curious circumstance In connection
|; with the death of the king of Denmark
; , Is the fact that one of the Danish col
li «mies, Greenland, will not learn the
|| news for three months, owing to the
|| difficulty of ships reaching the land.
It In Ignorance of the event, the Green
1 landers will celebrate King Christian's
|1 birthday on April 8 in the usual man
ner.
;|! The British government stands to
; lose Its naval reserve unless It changes
f recent regulations, which require twen
? ty-elght consecutive days’ service at
| j «ea on a battleship each year. As most
b °r thp mpn arp engaged in liners and
' other seagoing vessels, this gives them
! j the choice of leaving the reserve or
;’f losing their ships.
f t Fishes have no eyelids, and necessar
U ily sleep with their eyes open; they
i f swallow their food whole having no
i,j' dental machinery. Frogs, toads and
|| sernents never take food except that
l.V-lrh they are certain Is alive. Ser
|^|;rp'’f" are so tenacious of life that they
I;live for six months or longer with
,'out food.
• T’-'ron Takahi says four-fifths of the
j',T-»-nese boys are now studying Eng
J'sh. and that It will soon become the
t Isn-rage of Japan and later of the
IJtjiw'-*. The language seems to tie fol
jlj—vh’g the drumbeat in Its circuit of
| globe, and It represents a conquest
tjtjsf a far higher order.
If Tr> recent years the construction of
il-llways proceeded in Germany at the
of about 621.5 miles a vear. The
!||otlre trackage exceed" at present 34,
|.jgW miles. The electrification of rall
L jr^VS I* *1111 confined to a few suburban
ilaeto ^where the system works satis
RACING CIRCUIT OF
NORTH NEBRASKA
| The Final Arrangements Made
at Neligh With the
Towns.
£IGHT ARE MEMBERS
Races of the Circuit Will Open at Nor
fpik on August 15 and Continue at
Convenient Points During
Eight Weeks.
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Norfolk, Neb.. March 28.—P. J. Barnes
of Norfolk, and J. L. Ryneurson of
Madison returned from Neligh, where
they attended a meeting of the North
Nebraska Racing circuit, composed of
the towns of Norfolk, Neligh, Battle
Creek, O'Neill, Creighton, Madison,
Stanton and Tllden. The meeting was
held at Neligh and was for the pur
pose of making final arrangements Ra
the race meetings to he held In the
circuit during the season.
The dates determined upon are as
follows: Norfolk, August 15-17; Ne
ligh, August 22-24; Battle Creek, Au
gust 29-31: O’Neill, September 6-7;
Creighton, September 13-15; MadlBon,
.September 19-21; Stanton, September
'26-28; Tllden, October 3-5. This ar
rangement of dates will insure a big
string of horses at all of the meetings,
for the reason that a horse can start
at Norfolk and be sure of a purse In
sight during the remainder of the lac
ing season. The purses throughout the
circuit run from $200 for class races
to $250 for free for alls. Stanton will
give an additional merchants’ purse
of $300.
The entries for the various races will
dose as follows: For Norfolk, Neligh
and Battle Creek ori the evening be
fore the races at Norfolk; O’Neill and
(Crelght on, August 29; Madison, Stan
ton and Tllden, September 13.
It was decided that each association
belonging to the North Nebraska cir
cuit shall become a member of the
American Trotting association, thus
muktng the rules of the meetings uni
form throughout.
The various tracks interested In the
association were represented at the
meeting in Neligh as follows: Norfolk.
P. J. Barnes; Neligh, Mat Hoffman
and W. W. Cole; Battle Creek. W. C.
Day; O'Neill, S. J. Weekes; Creighton,
W. C. Caley; Madison, J. I,. Ryneurson;
Stanton, John Hancock; Tllden, Chas.
Wurzbacher.
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FALLS DEAD AT BIER.
Woman Victim of Heart Disease at
Friend’s Funeral.
Hastings, Neb., March 28.—While
here to attend the funeral of J. F. Keal
ey, the Burlington yardmaster who was
run over and killed here, Mrs. Cather
ine Young, of Lincoln, died of heart
failure.
Mrs. Young started to the church to
attend the funeral services, and felt
severe pains near her heart before she
had gone more than a block. She sank
to the ground and very shortly died.
She was the mother of Conductor
Ed Young and John Young, employed
by the Burlington at Lincoln, and at
one time resided in Hastings with her
family.
She was over 70 years of age.
SHORT IN ACCOUNTS.
Assistant Cashier of Beemer Bank Is
Under Arrest.
West Point, Neb., March 28.—Charley
Mead, assistant cashier of the Beeme.'
State bank, was arrested here and now
lies In the county Jail on a charge of
embezzling the sum of $8,300, the funds
of the bank. It Is alleged that the
peculations have extended over a period
of three years, during the whole of
which lime Cashier Ira E. Williams has
been suspicious of crooked work, hut
has never been uble to detect Mead in
my specific fraudulent act. The alleged
shortage occurs In the account of time
deposits which the accused is ullegecl
to have manipulated to his profit. A.
D. Beemer, warden of the state peniten
tiary, is president of the bank. It is
believed that the friends of Mead, who
Is well connected, will make good the
shortage. The hank Is one of the solid
Institutions of Cuming county.
FISH HATCHERY.
Hinshaw Secures Amendment to Bill
Affecting Nebraska.
Washington, March 28.—Representa
tive Hinshaw has secured an amend
ment to Senator Rurkett’H omnibus fish
hatchery bill, appropriating $25,000 for
a fish hatchery In Nebraska, the loca
tion of the Fame to be left to the flsb
commissioner.
GOLD AT BEATRICE.
Beatrice, Neb., March 26.—The discov
ery of gold in a sand bank along In
dian creek has created a furore of ex
citement. The gold was found in a
sand deposit north of this city and was
largely mixed with Iron pyrites.
NOVELTIES OF THE NEWS.
Paris.—A woman of 60, calling herself
the Countess Potockt, has been emulating
Mme. Humbert by piling up debts amount
ing to $2,500,000. on the strength of an
alleged Inheritance of that sum. Sym
pathetic friends lent money to her freely,
and recently some of the creditors discov
ered th*' her debts very nearly equaled
the amount of the "Inheritance.” She
barricaded her house, and the police had to
burst open the door. Even then she would
only consent to accompany them on condi
tion that she might take her pet spaniel
with her to prison.
New York.—In a codicil to her will, exe
cuted September 3, 1891, at 246 West One
, Hundred and Eleventh street. Mrs. Neva
March, formerly of 47 Clinton place, says:
"I wish to be cremated. If my little dog.
Beauty, Is living when 1 die, I wish her to
be chloroformed and cremated with me,
and scatter my ashes to the winds." Her
will has been offered for probate. Mrs.
Marsh died December 13 last.
Wilmington, Del.—Mrs. William Ken
nard. 66 years old, died In this city of
hydrophobia.
Darlington, Pa.—The unusual spectacle
of a group of muslc-lovtng farmers bid
ding up a second-hand $10 phonograph to
$125 just because It rendered such popular
songs as "Nobody Works But Father’
and "Always In the Way" In good share
was presented at an auction sale of Wlil
' lam Fausnaught's furniture. Fausnaught
operated the machine while the sale pro
gressed and kept everyone In a good
humor, and when the auctioneer put the
music box under the hammer as the last
i article to be sold the crowd surged forward
j and the most spirited bidding during th*
I sale began.
STATE WITHOUT MINE
NOW BREAKS RECORD
Professor E. H. Barbour, Geol
ogist, Inspects the Coal
Prospects.
HE IS WELL SATISFIED
Samples of Coal Taken from Forty
Four-Inch Vein Near Peru Found
to Be Excellent in Fuel
Test.
Lincoln Neb.. March 27.—‘‘Nebraska’s
record as a stute without a mine will
be broken, I feel sure." said Professor
E. H. Barbour, state geologist, after
he had examined the coal from the new'
Peru mine. A sample of the coal was
brought to the governor's office yester
day by T. J. Majors and J. W. Crab
tree and it was pronounced by Profes
sor Barbour to be a splendid specimen
of bituminous coal. The sample is
about a foot square and almost as
thick. Colonel Majors stated that the
coal produces a hot fire and leaves a
clean, white e.sh.
Professor Barbour expects to visit
the mine at Peru and will bring sam
ples for examination in the geology
laboratory. Tests will be made as to
the heating power of the fuel, the
amount of carbon and the amount of
water. Professor Barbour will exam
ine the vein and make his report to
the state officials. He believes he will
he able to make a report which will
allow the discoverers a right to the
$3,000 offered for the first discovery of
a 36-Inch vein of coal in Nebraska. The
appropriation has long ago lapsed, but
it is thought the next legislature will
renew it.
President Crabtree stated this morn
ing that the miners have followed the
vein about fifty feet and find it con
stantly thickening. The top of the vein
is level but the bottom is dipping.
Professor Barbour says it does not
seem possible that the vein will grow
thinner as progress is made. He be
lieves it will thicken and that it will
be found to cover an area of several
square miles.
"ft is a so-called pocket, but a large I
one,” said he. "A well was bored to a
depth of 1,000 feet at Nebraska City a
few miles away and only a 6-inch vein
of coal was found. This shows that
the Peru strike Is in the form of a
pocket.”
President Crabtree stated that the
coal was found by digging into the
bank of the Missouri river. A sort of
charcoal extruding from the bank led
to investigation. As the miners pro
gressed, the vein became more coal
like and right now is 44 inches in thick
ness and of a good variety. The strat
um above the coal is hard and that be
low1 is soft, both of which is considered
fort unate.
"Plenty of coal has been found In
Nebraska, but not in veins thick
enough to pay for the mining.” said
Professor Barbour. “A vein of less than
IS inches will not pay. Usually, other
veins have been found with hard strata
above and below the coal. This great
ly Increased the cost of production, as
some of each layer had to be dug out
to ;ret the coal.”
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STRUCK BY TRAIN.
Or. S. F. Hunt of O'Neill Killed by
Freight.
O'Neill. Neb , March 27.—Dr. S. F.
Hunt of Stuart was instantly killed in
the railroad yards here while attempt
ing to board freight train No. 63. The
doctor was here as a witness in the Ir
win murder trial, and went to the de
pot to take the freight for his home
at Stuart. The train had started when
he reached the depot and he made a
grab for the front end of the caboose,
slipped on the icy ground and fell un
der the wheels, the rear trucks passing
over his body just below the arms, in
stantly crushing his life out.
Coroner Flynn soon arrived upon the
scene and impaneled a jury, and after
viewing the body adjourned. The body
was shipped to his home at Stuart.
Dr. Hunt was one of the most popu
lar physicians in this county, and had
practiced medicine at Stuart for near
ly twenty years. He leaves a wife and
three children.
NORTH NEBRASKA TEACHERS.
Norfolk, Neb., March 27.—Present in
dications point toward the largest at
tendance at the coming meeting of the
Northern Nebraska Teachers’ associa
tion, >ver known. The meeting begins
In Norfolk April 4 and closes on the fol
lowing Friday night. There are rea
sons to believe that there will be fully
a. half thousand pedagogs in the city
for the meeting.
The program has been issued by
President Wilson, of Wayne. It is as
follows:
Wednesday, April 4—
General session, assembly, high
school building.
Invocation. Rev. W. J. Turner.
Papers on "A Broader and More Sub
stantial Elementary Education," Super
intendent A. V. Teed. Dixon county;
Superintendent J. S. Stine, Hartington;
Superintendent J. A. Stahl, Cuming
county; Superintendent L. P. Sornson,
Neligh.
Annual contest North Nebraska De
clamatory society at Methodist church.
In this contest representatives from
schools all over the northern part of
the state will take part.
Address, "Industrial Education In Ne
braska." Deputy State Superintendent
E ,C. Bishop.
Violin solo, selected, F. C. Marsnall,
Center, Neb., county superintendent of
Knox county.
Address, “The Personal Element in
Teaching,” Superintendent J. A. Mc
Lean. South Omaha.
Address. "The Characteristics of a
True Teacher," Professor J. M. Pile,
Wayne.
Address. "The Certification of Teach
ers." Deputy State Superintendent E.
C. Bishop, Columbus.
General session, featured by a lec
ture delivered by Dr. Thomas Green.
Rev. J. F. Poucher will pronounce in
vocation and there will be music by
Misses Mabel Bruner and Nellie Stew
art. Miss Johanna Anderson. Miss Flor
ence Yukish.
Dr. G. E. Condra of the state uni
versity will feature the Friday morning
-rogram with an address on methods
of reclamation. J. A. Doremus of Mad
ison will tell to what extent a teacher
should enter into the life of her pupils
and Mrs. Frances Carter will give an
address on "Reading."
"English in the high school,” will be
dealt with by J. H. Welch, Stanton;
"Government and Discipline in the
High School," by W. H. Alwlne. Bloom
field: State Superintendent McBrlen
will deliver an address and topics of
Interest will be dealt with by W. J.
«eetey. F.merson: Elizabeth Sheehan,
Columbus; Edith Kinsman, Madison.
| CRAZED GY DRINK.
Ed Miller, a Nebraska Farmer, While
| in That Condition, Attempts to
Exterminate Family.
| Winside, Neb., March 24.—After
j shooting his wife, his father-in-law and
‘mother-in-law, this morning, Kd Miller,
! a farmer living eight miles south of
i here, mounted a horse and fled.
A posse of wildly excited and enraged
neighbors are seeking him and if he is
caught today he will surely be strung
up to the first tree.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hohneke, parents
of Mrs. Miller, came to see her this
morning in answer to her appeal. Hei
! husband had been abusing her. They
had scarcely entered the house when
Miller, still ugly from a drunken spree,
entered the house and began shooting
at all of them. When all the bullets
had gone from his revolver his wife
and both her parents lay on the floor.
He then fled.
Mrs. Hohneke Will Die.
Although all three victims are seri
ously wounded it is thought the wife
and her father will recover, while Mrs.
Hohneke will surely die.
Miller Is 40 years of age and he was
married two years ago under compul
sion, his wife being then but 14 years
of age. They have always been un
happy.
Two weeks ago Miller tried to drown
his wife in a well.
Mrs. Miller died last night of her
wounds. Mr. Hohneke, Miller’s father
in-law, may recover In spite of the
three wounds in his arms and legs
while his wife merely lost two fingers
when she grabbed the revolver to pro
tect her husband. After the. wounded
father-in-law seized a shotgun and
drew blood in the assailant’s neck Mil
ler ran a mile lo the home of a neigh
bor named Miller, borrowed a horse
and rode away. The shooting began ir
the barn at 7 o’clock yesterday morn
ing, where Miller found Hohneke. He
began firing and followed Hohneke lntc
the house.
G. W. FRANK DEAD.
Noted Nebraskan Who Built the Kear
ney Canal.
Lincoln, Neb,, March 24.—George W.
Frank died at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. C. H. Elmendorf, yesterday
He was 75 years of age. Death fol
lowed several years of feebleness
caused by a general breaking down of
health. He will be buried at War
saw, N. Y.
Mr. Frank was for many years a well
known business man of Kearney,
where he was prominently engaged in
the management of many enterprises,
some of them of considerable magni
tude. He went to that city in 1884, af
ter having for several years owned con
siderable property in. that city. He at
once organized a company to dig the
Kearney canal for the purpose of fur
nishing water power to the city, and
he spent his fortune and the best years
of his life in trying to make Kearney
a great manufacturing city. His en
terprises were well under way when
the boom struck Kearney in the late
’80s and property values were greatly
Inflated. During that period he assisted
in bringing many industries to that
city, and it was largely through his
donations and his energies in promot
ing the matter that the little city gave
$250,000 in money and property to se
cure the location of the cotton mill.
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BUTTE WANTS ROAD.
Norfolk, Neb., March 24.—James J
Hill is going to penetrate into the Rose’
bud country of South Dakota, by way
of an extension northwest from O’Neill,
if the citizens of Butte, Neb., have no*
missed their guess. An official of th$
road has been in Butte this week talk
ing with business men regarding the
new road, and it is said t.o be known
at Butte for a positive fact that the
Great Northern has purchased an old
abandoned grade between O'Neill and
Butte.
This line into the Rosebud will give
the Great Northern a vast stretch of
territory in competition with the North
western, and will start them toward the
Black Hills. It will throw much stock
and grain into Sioux City, St. Paul
and Minneapolis.
Butte is the county seat of Boyd
county and is three miles from a rail
road. When the Northwestern built
into that county, Butte's hill was too
steep to climb and it was passed by.
Now it knows it is to have a railroad
and the citizens are happy.
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A FARMER OUTRAGED.
Pierce, Neb.. March 22.—Nick Lackas,
one of the prosperous farmers of Allen
precinct, says that last Sunday night
some one tried to kill all the hogs on
his place. Monday morning eight of
them were found lying around the
yard, some being cut around the neck
and others on the legs with the flesh
sliced off from two. Eight were either
dead or in a dying condition. He offers
$50 reward for any information leading
to the arrest of the guilty parties.
ORATORICAL CONTEST.
Pierce, Neb., March 22.—The high
school declamatory contest ivas held at
the opera house, and every seat in the
auditorium und gallery was filled. Ev
ery number on the program was well
rendered and received hearty applause.
Miss Nora Henzler, of the dramatic
class, won first honors. Her piece was
“The Sioux Chief’s Daughter.” Lloyd
Mohr, of the humorous class, won sec
ond honors, his selection being "The
Flood and the Aria”
WANT 3-CENT GAS.
Omaha, Neb., March 22.—Fine Illuminat
ing and heating gas produced at 3 cents
per thousand cubic feet is a proposition
that has come before the Commercial club.
The executive committee has Jumped at
this as important, If true, and has ordered
the selection of a commission of scientific
men and engineers to go to St. Joseph tc
Investigate. The machine that makes It Is
known as the Parker gas producer, and
the gas is produced from bituminous coal.
FIRE AT RANDOLPH.
Handolph, Neb., March 22.—A fire which
broke out In the Pill Bros.' general mer
chandise store caused a loss of about $18,
000. The stock of Pill Bros, was a total
loss, with one-half to two-thirds of It cov
ered by Insurance. The building is owned
by N. IV- Trent, and Ills loss Is $2,000, cov
ered by Insurance. The firemen did ex
cellent work In fighting the flames and
preventing their spread to the adjoining
buildings. The blaze is believed to have
been caused by spontaneous combustion in
oil soaked rags left by painters in the
stole of Pill Bros.
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IN JAIL AT DAKOTA CITY.
Dakota City. Neb.. March 22.—Bert Dav
is, the 18-year-old Bon of Andrew Davis,
of Homer, is In Jail here charged with an
attempt to outrage Miss A. Labohn. ot
Homer, on last Sunday. The charge was
made In Judge J. J. Elmers' court by the
girl's brother, Charles Labohn. On last
Sunday evening Miss Labohn left the
home of Elmer Blessing, of Homer, where
she was employed, to visit at Gus La
bohn’s two miles from town. While on the
way there, It is alleged, she was attacked
by Davis. James Harrington heard the
girl's cries for help arid came to liar res
cue.
DAN CUPID’S ACTS
ARE UNFORGIVEN
Many Otoe County, Nebraska,
School Teachers Yield
to Him.
INSTRUCTORSARE SCARCE
In Several Instances Teachers Have
Shown Such Inclination to Wed
That Directors Have Been
Forced to Close Schools.
Nebraska City, Neb., March 26—Love
affairs have been so numerous among
the school teachers of Otoe county, of
which this city is the seat, that many
of the children are without instructors
and several of the schools are closed. A
real marriage epidemic has prevailed
for several months and the condition
has become so serious that the county
superintendent of schools has had to
appeal to the state department of edu
cation for help.
Professor R. C. King, the county su
perintendent, realizes that he has been
defeated in his contest with Cupid. He
has, in fact, been forced to acknowledge
that defeat by issuing a number of
emergency certificates, to teachers who
could hardly stand the ordinary test,
in order that some of the schools might
be kept open.
Nearly fifty “school ma’ams’’ have
been married in this county since last
fall, and the prospects for a greater
number of affairs of the heart among
the feminine instructors are so strong
that the superintendent is in a humor
to issue a proclamation against all mar
riages during the teaching months. He
would if he dared. With only 100
school districts in the county, Cupid
has played his pranks in about half of
them.
The board of education of this city
requires women teachers to sign a con
tract at the beginning of the year’s
work not to wed within the year, and
the county authorities are thinking of
enforcing the same rule in the rural
districts. Some teachers have broken
their contracts, but the agreement holds
good with most of them.
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STANDARD OIL MAN
AND ELK A SUICIDE
Otto T. Tappert, Oldest Traveling Agent
for the Rockefeller Trust, Takes
Poison in Lodge Room.
Norfolk, Neb., March 26.—Otto F.
Tappart, the oldest commercial travel
er In America for the Standard OH
company, having been In its service
thirty-five years, and the most prom
inent traveler in northern Nebraska,
committed suicide in the paraphernalia
room of the Elks club, of which he had
charge for six years, as the jolliest fun
maker In the lodge. He took carbolic
acid.
The funeral will be Sunday after
noon.
STATE COMMITTEE.
Republicans Will Meet at Lincoln First
Week in April.
Lincoln, Neb., March 26.—William P.
Warner, chairman of the republican
state central committee, has issued a
call for a meeting of the republican
state central committee at the head
quarters in this city, for 8 o'clock on
the evening of April 5.
This promises to be one of the most
important gatherings of a state com
mittee in recent years. The call pro
vides that the chief business shall be
to fix a date and place for the next
state convention, but as the committee
is the master of its own destinies, it
can discuss other things if it wants to.
The question of holding a state pri
mary is one that will be brought for
ward. Some time ago Victor Rose
water, one of the committeeman from
Douglas county, submitted a plan for
a primary, which has been favorably
commented upon In some quarters. Mr.
Rosewater is coming prepared to bring
the matter to the attention of»the com
mitteemen and urge its adoption.
Some time ago the railroad politi
cians secretly boasted that they had
the committee plugged so that it would
not Include senator in the call for a
convention this year, but recent devel
opments have demonstrated that this
looks like an Idle boast. In fact, St
Is understood the railroads have about
made up their mind that they won’t op
pose it at all.
CIGARET LAW HIT.
Lincoln, Neb., March 26.—The mak
ing of “coffin nails” for one's own use
is not a violation of the law. The
cigaret "fiend” may "cook” his own
"pills” without fear of interference by
the police, because the word manufac
ture as used in the Nebraska antl
eigaret law means "to engage in and
carry on the business of manufactur
ing.” The supreme court has so decid
ed in the clgaret case appealed from
Omaha, where Edward Stout was ar
rested for rolling a cigaret for his own
use. The decision affirms the decision
of the district court of Douglas coun
ty and dismisses the defendant from
custody. The syllabus and opinion are
by Chief Justice Sedgwick.
TO SAVE THE FORT.
Washington, D. C., March 26.—The
prospect that Fort Niobrara will be
*1 ven an appropriation and rehabili
tated as an important center of army
activity has slumped oft recently. Con
siderable effort has been made by Ne
bAaskans in behalf of the movement.
Other states with influential delega
tions want a share of the army post
business; and whatever the depart
ment might like to do, it finds em
barrassments in the political require
ments of influential statesmen.
The Nebraska delegation will meet
soon and visit Arlington national cem
etery for the purpose of inspecting and
formally accepting the monument to
Captain John M. Stotsenburg of Ne
braska, killed in the Philippines. The
monument, built under an appropria-i
tion by the Nebraska legislature, is a
handsome granite block with appro
priate inscription, and will rank among
the impressive ones in the great biv
ouac of the national dead.
DEATH OF G. A. R. VETERAN.
Butte, Neb., March 24.—C. P. Dewey, ai
Old and highly respected eltUen of Boy<J
:ounty, died at the home of his daughter,
i few' miles east of Butte, of pneumonia.
He was a member of Horten G. A. R. post.
This is the second member they have been
palled upon to give up In the last week,
is only last week they buried their com
mander, A. R. Uttley.
PAPERS CONSOLIDATE.
Geneva, Neb.. March 23.—The Press and
Jasetlt of this place have consolidated.
ANOTHER CATTLE
BARON IS IN TOILS
The Arrest of Thomas Hunting
ton May Now Implicate
Several More.
IT IS AN IMPORTANT CASE
The Prisoner Is in Hands of Federal
Lew on Charge of Subornation of
Perjury in Connection with
False Homestead Entries.
Omaha, Neb., March 24.—Upon a
charge of subordination or perjury in
connection with the procuring of false
■homestead entries within the Richards
and Comstock enclosure, Thomas
Huntington was arrested yesterday at
Gordon, Neb., by Deputy Marshal
Proctor.
The arrest is an important one in
the land fraud investigations and pros
ecutions now being carried on by the
secret service department of the gov
ernment.
Huntington is the president of the
Maverick Loan and Trust company
and is a prominent banker of Gordon
He is a son of D. W. C. Huntington,
former chancellor of Wesleyan uni
versity of Lincoln.
It is alleged that Huntington pro
cured perjured affidavits from Samuel
M. Maynard and Francis J. Porter of
Woodbine, la., when they swore con
cerning their homestead entries.
It is alleged that the affidavits were
false, inasmuch as they stated that
the men had taken up a legal resi
dence on the homesteads. The gov
ernment claims that no good faith res
idence was established and that the
benefit of these homestead entries was
derived by Thomas Huntington, Bart
lett Richards and William G. Com
stock.
Huntington will be taken before the
United States commissioner at Cody,
Neb., and given a preliminary hearing.
With his arrest, the government has
forged another link in the chain which
is rapidly being welded around Bart
lett Richards and William G. Com
stock, the noted cattlemen. Thirteen
land fraud cases have been worked up
by Secret Service Agent L. C. Wheeler
and his men and will be submitted to
the federal grand jury in May.
Many of these cases concern the
making of false entries in the Richards
and Comstock enclosure. Two bank
ers, two government employes and a
county attorney are implicated in the
recent arrests made.
It was the first arrest by Deputy
Marshal Proctor, who served as order
ly for President Roosevelt during the
latter.’s career with the Rough Riders,
THE THAYER FUNERAL.
Big Military Parade to Honor the Late
Nebraska Soldier-Statesman.
Lincoln Neb., March 24.—All state
offices will be closed tomorrow during
the funeral of General J. M. Thayer.
Adjutant General Culver, who is in
charge of the funeral arrangements on
behalf of Governor Mickey, has issued
a general order specifying the forma
tion of the funeral escort. The mili
tary detail will consist of one officer
and sixteen men from each of the com
panies stationed close to Lincoto, the
Second regiment band of Osceola and
the companies and detachments of the
national guard stationed at Lincoln,
The formation will be as follows:
Second regiment band.
Military escort.
Clerical escort.
Funeral car.
Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers
Members of the family.
Mourners.
Surviving members of the original
First regiment.
Grand Army of the Republic.
Veterans of the civil war.
Spanish war veterans.
Philippine war veterans.
Distinguished visitors.
Citizens in carriages.
General John M. Thayer will b«
buried with military honors.
WAS INDIAN FIGHTER.
Late General Thayer Was in Battle
Creek Battle.
Norfolk. Neb., March 24.—The death
of General John M. Thayer at Lincoln
recalls to Northern Nebraskans Ills fa
mous campaign against the Pawnee In
dlans In 1869, whom he defeated com
pletely at a creek near here, after
ward called Battle Creek, because It
ran red with blood, and for which the
present town of Battle Creek was
named.
The winter of 1869 was a most severe
one and the Pawnees, from 6,000 to
10,000 of them, went hungry. They be
gan to rob settlers and killed whites
to get at the stock. General Thayer
was ordered over and with one piece
of artillery and 150 men started war
on the reds. He drove them up the Elk
horn valley eighty miles before he sub
dued them. A thousand white skele
tons were left on the prairie near the
present site of Wisner to attest his sol
diers’ skill. At Battle Creek he ac
cepted surrender after the reds gave up
several Indians guilty of an awful out
rage on women further down the
stream. These prisoners, tied to wagons,
finally escaped and got away. During
the battle Governor Bla<ck was nearby
in an ambulance dead drunk. He or
dered one soldier to go to Columbus,
fifty miles away, and get a half a bar
rel of whisky. General Thayer ordered
the soldier not to go, put Black In the
ambulance and stationed a guard
around him till he sobered up, when he
thanked General Thayer.
Among the Incidents that attracted
attention just before General Thayei
waged his war was the skinning alive,
of a young white. He had just arrived
from the east and kept a vow to kill
the first Indian he saw by shooting u
squaw. The Indians surrounded his
comrades, demanded the guilty party
or the death of all, and then, tying
him down to stakes, stripped off por
tions of his flesh until he was literally
skinned alive. He died in terrible agony
His flesh was pinned on a rough
board tombstone and the creek nearby
was named Rawhide creek, which
name It bears today.
FELL SEVENTY FEET.
Omaha, Neb., March 23.—Ole Johnson, an
s-mploye of the Paxton & Vierlhig Iron
works, was probably fatally injured by
being knocked from the fourth floor of the
new Brandels building by a crane,
Johnson was working on the building
when the crane swung around suddenly,
striking him on the shoulder.
In falling, Johnson’s head strut-* an Iron
girder. Hts body then turned completely
over and fell to the ground below a dis
tance of about seventy feet.
Johntcn has a wife and family.