THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
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Five steamboats are being built for a
Kiel shipping company which are said
to be wholly unslnkable. A recent trial
of one of the boats was carried out In
the presence of representatives of the (
Imperial navy and many shipping
firms. The vessel was fully laden to
represent 200 passengers, and It was
assumed that, In consequence of a leak
caused by a collision, the entire engine
room division, Into which water was
pumped, had filled, while a hole was
made to the exterior to admit water
freely. The ship accordingly sank, but
when It was full of water It had still
about a foot of free board above the
surface, thus satisfying the conditions
imposed. _ __
James Bruce, the eighteenth century
traveler and explorer, owed his discov
ery of the source of the Blue Nile to
his ability to amaze the Abyssinlans.
He hud some reputation as an astrolo
ger, but his cure of smallpox wib more
of a feather In his cap us a medicine
man. His firing of a tallow candle ;
through a table established his fame
still higher as a worker of miracles.
His taming of savage horses and shoot
ing of kites on the wing were the final
maneuvers which opened the way to
the river to whose discovery he had
dedicated his life._
According to recently published
statistics there Is a further reduction
In the meat consumption In Germany.
In the first quarter of 1906 It was not
only less thnn In the last quarter of
1905, but also shows a decrease as com
pared with the first quarter of 1905.
Per capita, the population of Germany
used during the first quarter of 1906
20.94 pounds of meat, during the fourth
quarter of 1905 21.40 pounds, and dur
ing the first quarter of 1905 22.17
pounds. _ _
Educators and the public In general
are showing much Interest In the recent
opening of the Oread School of Agri
culture, Manufactures and Commerce,
which occupies 4,000 acres of land some
eighteen miles from Baltimore, Md. Its
founder and head is Henry D. Perky.
From each state two students will bo
admitted to work their way through,
but the number of pay students is un
limited. All will be trained In actual
cultivation and management of farms.
According to the government returns
S8,900,000 bunches of bananas were Im
ported Into the United States for the
fiscal year ending 1905. The declared
value of those bananas as given on
their entry Into America, taken from
the Invoices at port of shipment, aver
aged 25 cents a bunch. The selling price
of the same banana Is about $1.50, thus
showing that the "banana trust” has
about $50,000,000 nnnually for transpor
tation and profits.
The Rehool board of Racine, WIs., has
recently adopted the policy of with
holding 10 per cent, of the teachers'
wages each month until the end of the
school year In June. The purpose Is
to prevent teachers who receive offers
of better positions from breaking their
contracts In the middle of the term.
Teachers and principles have objected
to this rule, and threaten to resign In
a body If It Is enforced.
Statistics of coke and anthracite pig
Iron production for the first five months
of this year show a production of 10,
810,625 gross tons. The production in
June, If it continued at the rate for
the month of May, will bring the total
up to 12,523,986 tons, Including 182,416
tons of charcoal Iron. This Indicates a
production of 26,000.000 tons for the
whole year, against 22,992,880 tons in
1905 and 16,497,033 tons in 1904.
The Irish language Is spoken In the
Bahamas among the mixed descend
ants of the Hibernian patriots banished
long ago by Cromwell to the West In
dies. One can occasionally henr ne
gro sailors In the East End of London
who cannot speak a word of English,
talking Irish to the old Irish apple
women who gather round the docks.
The Idea of teaching children to read
phrase by phrase or sentence by sen
tence at the outset, Instead of the old
fashioned alphabet method or the pres
ent word system Is advanced by Di
rector De Croly of the Brussels In
stitute of Special Instruction, accord
ing to a translation for the Literary
Digest.
Now York City consumes nearly 1,000
million units of electricity per annum,
while London, with nearly double the
population, consumes not more than
one-fourth of that amount. The con
sumption per head of population In
New York Is stated to be 282 units,
against only 42 per head In London.
The liquidator appointed by the
French government to munage the
property of the Carthusian monks sold
by auction recently the trade mark of
the Grande Chartreuse, together with
the right to reproduce the form of
the bottle. The trade mark realized
8125,000.
As the British war department Is
about to move from its old quarters In
Fall Mall to the new quarters in
Whitehall, the suggestion Is made that
it sell Its furniture In 8he old place and
buy It back, at an advance, for the new
place. South African style.
Owen Seaman, the new editor of
London Punch, lectured the other night
on the art of parody, "and," says the
Express, “without a blush he quoted
examples of his own parodies to Illus
trate the apotheosis of the art.”
Some plants are affected by chloro
form, Just as animals are. Sensitive
plants, which shrink from the human
touch In ordinary circumstances, lose
their Irritability In air charged with
chloroform vapor.
manreu purasois were tne novelty at i
the recent Henley regatta. The seal i
■weed Is used and Is sktlfollv applied to
a background of fine biscuit or pastel
tinted gauze. An outer layer of gauae
is then placed over It.
Mr. Lloyd-George was recently re
elected from the Carnaroon district,
England. When the returning officer
ascertained the figures the town hall
clock showed 12:24 p. m. The majority
was 1,224.
People usually live longer in islands
and small peninsulas than on contt
| rents, a scientist asserts. Barbadoes,
Greece, Madeira and the Shetlands are
, all favorable to long life.
There is living at Recife, near Per
rambuco. a child of 5>4 years of age,
who Is four feet two Inches In height,
and who boasts a mustache and a deep
bass voice.
A candidate for parliament from Bod
min, England, a fishing town, Is can
vassing rorr.e of his constituents at sea
in a steam launch.
Wapi 'i' " opera. ’ X)ie T ’e:sterrlngor,w
!wn« su-'.' for the fir-t tit' e in America
at the Vi -opo'.ltan opera house, Jmu
ary 2, 1;|CC.
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j TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
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Reading, Pa.—A terrific cloudburst
struck the borough of Hamburg, this
county, Friday. A ten-foot flood swept
through the main portion of the town,
leaving In Its wake ruin and devasta
tion. There are washouts In tho streets
to the depth of ten feet. Allen .T.
Itomlg, who was working In a tinsmith
shop, was drowned. Tho shop was
swept away. More than fifty dwellings
were damaged. Loss, $50,000.
Charleston, S. C.—William Marcus,
the first white rnan to be executed In
Charleston county since the civil war,
was hanged her^ Friday for the mur
der of his bigamous wife on Sullivan’s
Island last April. The victim was
stabbed forty times with an Icepick. It
was not learned until within the last
few days that Marcus had a wife and
five children living In Cincinnati.
Pensacola, F1«.—An investigation of
the alleged peonage at the Jackson
Lumber company’s camp at Lockhart,
Ala., by tho United States commission
er resulted In three men being held to
the United States court for trial un
der heavy bond. They were Robert
Gallagher. Superintendent W. N. Grace
and Oscar S. Sanders, employes of the
company.
Providence—Sixty thousand glass
milk Jars In use In this state were de
clared to be of short measure by Cap
tain George H. Pettis, state sdAler of
weights and measures. Captain Pettis
charges that many of the glass milk
bottles which have been condemned by
Massachusetts Inspectors for the last
(Pteen years liuve bwen shipped to this
eUy.
Rome—A court of appeals has award
ed Pietro Mascagni, tho composer,
damages against the Rossini lyceum,
file musical conservatory at Pesaro, for
Saving deprived him of the dlrector
ihip of tho lyceum In tho summer of
1902, In consequence of his having un
dertaken a concert tour In the United
States.
Memphis, Tenn,—J. G. Wellington, a
saloonkeeper, was killed; W. J. Cook,
S Judge of election, Is fatally wounded,
and a third man less seriously Injured
In a fight at a polling place a few
minutes after the closing of the polls
for the election of county officers here.
B. F. Conn, tho third man wounded,
was another Judge of election.
Buena Vista, Colo.—After a dramatic
trial Mrs. Grace Hutchinson was ac
quitted at killing Mrs. Mary Bodv at
Snllda last Juno. During the trial M'H.
Hutchinson’s hnsband admitted on tho
witness stand that he had been Inti
mate with Mrs. Bode and that he had
confessed ta his wife the night before
the murder was committed.
Fort Worth, Tex.—In keeping with
the provisions of the new Terrill elec
tion law, under which the state pri
maries were hold last Saturday, Sena
tor Joseph W. Bailey has tiled at
Oalnesvllla an Itemized statement of
the expenses Incurred by him in secur
ing his renomination. The Items foot
up a total of $41.80.
Washington, D. C.—Miss Mamie Shee
han, of New York, is the heroine ol
Sulllvun county, New York, through hot
bravery In plunging into the Never
slnk river and saving from drowning
James Edward Connolly, a retired mer
chant of Washington, D. C„ and per
sonal friend of President Roosevelt.
New York—For the purpose of test
ing the reports regarding the quality
of meat served to tho enlisted men at
the navy yard at Brooklyn, Rear Ad
miral Coghlan, commandant of the
yard, lias appointed a board of inquiry
with Captain Stanton, of the cruiser
Colorado, as senior officer.
Wooster, 0.—Information purporting
to come from an army officer In Co
lumbus has it that Captain Elmore F.
Taggart, of divorce case fame, is soon
to wed a Spanish beauty of great
wealth whom he met in Manila, where
he went after getting his divorce.
Ouray, Colo.—After being missing
for a week the bodies of L. A. Thomp
son, general manager, and V. W. Math
er, foreman of the Tempest Apex com
pany, were found among debris In a
small tunnel. It Is thought they sought
refuge from a cloudburst.
El Reno, Okla.—Two highwaymen
held up and robbed Samuel Roland and
Miss Cortnne Jones, of Dallas, Tex,, at
(i railroad station near El Reno, as
saulted the woman and werfc cup Lured
by a posse ufter a pursuit in which an
unknown man was killed.
Hartford—Dwight Slate, one of the
most prominent mechanical experts in
the country, died here, aged ito years.
He had been klentifled with some of
the. biggest manufacturing concerns in
America and was tho Inventor of many
drills and tools.
Zion City, III.—Vollva was tho only
candidate presented at a meeting In the
Tabernacle to run for general overseer
at the election in September ordered by
the federal oourt. He received 1,310
votes. Dowie's name was not men
tioned.
London—News was received here of
the death of Herbert Eastwiok Comp
ton, the novelist, biographer and wrltei
on historical subjects, who committed
suicide at sen. while on his way to the
Island of Madeira He was born in
1853.
Philadelphia, Pa.—Drs. Ottinger and
Fulton, who made a balloon ascension
a week ago in the interests of science
»ay they both feel uncomfortable as a
result of their pulmonary orguns be
ing affected.
Wellington, N. Z.—The W. Paul Jones
ministry has resigned. Sir J. G. Ward,
colonial secretary and postmaster gen
eral. has been summoned to form a new
cabinet. Parliament will reassemble
August 31.
Detroit—After repeated « urges with
drawn revolvers the police successful
ly put down a riot of strikers and strike
^sympathizers at the Ideal Manufactur
ing company's plant on Franklin street,
Seattle, Wash,—Mrs. Ell A. Gage and
her 6-year-old son left for Chicago with
the body of her husband, E. A. Gage,
who committed suicide at the Tourist
hotel In this city.
New York—The expense of the Bry
an reception hero will be $10,000.
Chicago—Trunk line traffic officials
have adjourned till next Wednesday,
having* failed to agree on differentials
on grain from Missouri river points tc
the gulf and soabourd.
London—Sir Sydney Hedley Water
low, who was lord tnuyoi of London,
1872-73, Is dead. He was born in 1822.
York, Eng.—The British Association
for the Advancement of Science decided
to met at Winnipeg in 1909.
New Ycrk—Union lithographers are
generally responding to the strike or
der throughout tlie country.
FEDERAL OFFICERS
GET B. & M. PAPERS
Big Package of Documents Res
cued From Box Gsr Fire in
Attorney Lane’s Hands.
INVESTIGATION BEGUN
Authorities Secure Affidavits from Lad
Who Secured Papers and Section
Man Who Assisted in
the Burning.
Greeley, Neb., Aug. 6.—As thi result
of the commencement of a federal In
vestigation Into the burning of two
Burlington freight cars loaded with al
leged incriminatory papers at Belfast,
north of here, a big fat package of
letters and papers was surrendered last
night by young Garfield Luce, the find
er to Assistant United States Attorney
Lane. These are the papers which were
examined by County Attorney Howard
of Greeley county, and said by him to
be of great value as evidence In rebate
cases.
Attorney Lane states that he hasn't
as yet had time to closely examine the
papers and is not therefore prepared at
this time to give an opinion as to their
legal phase. He has the papers in his
possession and will at once examine
them carefully.
Investigation Begun at Once.
Lane, accompanied by L. P. Wheeler,
a government secret service agent, to
gether with Logan Sammons, a deputy
United States marshal, arrived In
Greeley Center yesterday at 4:30 p. m.
Immediately upon their arrival they
visited the office of County Attorney
Howard. He was anticipating their
arrival at the court house, having been
previously notified they were coming.
As soon as Mr. Lane had Introduced
himself and his companions, Mr. How
ard entered into a detailed account of
what he knew of the burning of the
box cars.
He reaffirmed his assertion that the
papers picked up by Garfield Luce were
of an Incriminating character and con
clusively proved that the Burlington
road has been giving freight rebates
during a period of something like twen
ty-five years.
Asked If these documents were still in
hla possession, Mr. Howard said that
some of the letters were placed In his
hands Sunday afternoon. Luce had
asked for them Monday and the letters
had been surrendered.
After the situation had been discussed
by the authorities it was decided to
proceed at once with efforts to secure
possession of the evidence held by Luce
without further delay. Three livery
conveyances were ordered and the
party drove hurriedly out to the Luce
home eight miles northwest of Greeley.
With the party was J. C. Jervis, sten
ographer In the secret service at Om
aha. He took with him his typewriter,
the Intention being to take affidavits of
all members of the Luce family who
knew anything about the documents
rescued from the blaze by Garfield
Luce.
bection Man liuits job.
Dan Reed, assistant section foreman.
Is no longer in the employ of the Bur
lington road. Asked last evening if he
had been requested to resign he an
swered briefly: "I just quit.”
Now that his connection with the
road has been severed he talks freely
regarding the burning of the boxcars.
"When I saw tbero was going to be
a fire, I saw I didn't want anything to
do with it,” he said.
“How did you know there was go
ing to be a fire?” he was asked.
"Well, when Roadmaster Burns
broke open the top of one of the oil
barrels and then when my boss told
me to get in there and break open
some of the boxes I thought I had bet
ter be moving.
“I had been cutting weeds that day
along the roadbed and Campbell, the
section foreman, told me if I was go
ing to run away I had better leave the
scythe and the other tools at the place
where I quit off work. He said if I left
them there they could be found again
when wanted."
"Did they tell you to run away when
they saw you did not mean to break
open the boxes?"
"No, they did not tell mo to, and I
didn't run; I walked, and I walked
pretty fast. People say I ran, but I
didn't.”
Debris Taken Away.
Thursday afternoon a freight train
pulled out to Belfast siding, and its
crew loaded the remains of the wreck
age into a box car. The siding is now
cleared of the trucks of the burned
cars.
WILL HAVE BIRTHDAY PARTY.
Freemont Will Be Fifty Years Old in
September.
Fremont. Neb.. Aug. 6.—The city
will celebrate its fiftieth birthday,
which comes September 3. Last night
the subject came up before the coun
cil when Louis H. Hanson on behalf
of the labor unions of the city ap
peared, to say that the unions would
like to co-operate with the city in any
move that might be made. The day is
also Labor day and Mr. Hanson said
he believed it would be well to have
laboring men take an active part in the
celebration. By unanimous vote of the
council Mayor Wolz was Instructed tc
appoint a citizens’ committee to take
the initiative. Whatever expense is
incurred will be paid from a fund that
will be raised by subscription. It has
not been decided what the order of
celebration should be. The labor unions
will have a prominent place in a big
parade that will be given.
IN JAIL FOR BIGAMY.
Wife Desertion Also Charged Against
Nebraska Bridegroom.
Beaver City, Neb., Aug. C.—Walter
Degarmo, a man of good address. Is in
Jail here on the double charge of big
amy and wife desertion. Three weeks
ago Degarmo married Miss Luella
Thompson, a lady of wealth and prom
inence. Within a week he deserted her.
He was arrested, brought here and in
county court yesterday confessed he
had an undivorced wife at Carthage,
m. ,
ADJUTANT GENERAL CRICISES.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 5.—Adjutant ("Sen
cral Culver of the Nebraska national
guard lias Issued a circular officially ex
pressing disapproval of the tendency
among thu state troops to form cliques
and tactions which work for their own
benefit and not for the good of the whole
body. The manifesto also criticises po
litical activity as something that should
have no place in the nation;.1 guard or
ganization. In making himself plain at
this time, the adjutant general hopes to
secure a better degree of cc-operation
among the companies and individual
guardsmen at the Fort Riley encampment,
which begins Saturday. '
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HELD FOR SERIOUS CRIME
Plainview Woman Charged with Giv
ing Drug with Criminal Intent.
Pierce, Neb.. Aug. 8.—Mrs. Relda
Clow, of Plainview, charged with ad
ministering a drug to Miss Mattie Roil,
of the same place, with the intent to
commit a criminal offense, will have
her preliminary before the county
judge on Tuesday.
County Attorney Van Wagenen was
called to Plainview last week by dif
ferent parties io investigate the al
leged immoralities that were being
practiced at that place. As a result
he had Mrs. Clow arrested and had a
warrant issued for the arrest of a
young man by the name of Julyan, who
is wanted on the charge of seduction
and giving the young girl the poisonous
drug. It is stated that when the girl
was in a delicate state that Julyan took
her to the Clow home and there a
quantity of pills were administered.
They failed to have the desired effect
and later she was taken to the same,
home and asked for some of the same
liquid medicine that the Clow woman
had given to other girls in the same
condition. This was refused, but that
night Julyan brought the girl a bottle
of medicine, which upon being opened
was so strong that she could not take
It.
Young Julyan left for parts unknown
a short time ago and has not been seen
since.
LANE GETS ALL B. & M. PAPERS.
Every Scrap Picked Up After Bonfire
Is in His Hands.
Greeley, Neb., Aug. 8.—Every scrap
of paper picked up after the burning
of the two box cars is now supposed
to be in the hands of Assistant District
Attorney Lane. He, with L. C. Wheeler
of the secret service department, fin
ished h si investigation at 7 o'clock last
evening.
Ten additional papers were received
by the federal authorities from George
Van Osdell, who lives three miles away
fro^l the scene of the fire. He found
a. number of Burlington records last
Sunday when he visited the place
where the fire occurred. Papers of va
rious sorts have been received by Lane
from four persons.
DAKOTA COUNTY TEACHERS.
Will Hold Institute at Dakota City
• Week Beginning August 13.
Dakota City, Neb., Aug. 8.—The
teachers of this (Dakota) county will
hold their annual institute in this city
the week beginning Monday, August
13. E. L. Rouse and E. B. Sherman
will assist County Superintendent
Boucher in the institute.
The local lodge of the Modern
Brotherhood of America will hold its
annual picnic and outing at Talbot
lake on Friday, the 10th. State Man
ager Hayman, of Grand Island, and
Director Scott, of Norfolk, are ex
pected to be present. The local lodge
has elected Mell A. Schmeid, George I.
Miller and Miss Ida Bodenbender as
delegates to the district convention at
Omaha, September 5.
The republican county convention
for the selection of delegates to attend
the state convention will be held in
this city the 11th Inst. Dakota county
Is entitled to six delegates. A mass
convention to be held the 25th will
nominate candidates for county attor
ney and county commissioner for the
Third district,
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DENOUNCE E. ROSEWATER.
Nebraska Epworth Leaguers Declare
Him a Friend of the Lawless.
Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 8.—The Nebraska
issernbly of the Epworth league has
idopted a resolution declaring Edward
Rosewater untit to represent the state,
tnd denouncing his candidacy for the
United States senate. The resolution
declares Rosewater is an open and
ivowed champion of the liquor traffic
tnd “a friend of the lawless and Im
moral element." It appeals to Chris
tian voters not to support any candi
date for the legislature who will vote
for him for senator.
TWO BOYS KILLED BY LIGHTNING
Ellsworth, Neb., Aug. 8.—During a
severe thunderstorm Saturday, Louis
and Fred Dillman, the 17 and 19-year
old sons of Louis Dillman, a ranchman
near this city, were struck by lightning
and instantly killed. While lightning
Is quite severe in the sandhills and
storms this year are more frequent
than usual, these are the first fatali
ties so far recorded.
HARVESTING At HARTINGTON.
Hartlngton, Neb., Aug. 8.—Winter
wheat is turning out better than was
expected, the first threshing having
Just been done. Fred Cole, living on
the Linkhart farm, near town, has
threshed 1,700 bushels that tests 68
pounds to the bushel. James Steffen
has threshed 1.200 bushels that yielded
22H bushels to the acre. The spring
wheat also looks good and is filling
well. There is a considerable acreage
In this locality.
I, I 23 ARE SACRIFICED.
That Number Lost Lives in Pennsyl
vania Mines in Year.
Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 8.—Teh annual
report of James E. Roderick, chief of
the state department of mines, for the
year 1905 shows that Pennsylvania con
tinues to lead the mining Industry of
the country, producing practically all
of the anthracite and 30 per cent, of the
bituminous coal.
The total cost output of Pennsylvania
for 1905 represents a value at the mines
of about $350,000,000 and at points of dis
tribution of about $650,000,000. The an
thracite production was 78,647,020 short
tons, and the bituminous 119,361,514
short tons.
In producing the tonnage of the year
the total loss of life in and about the
anthracite mines were 644 and in and
about the bituminous mines 479.
The report states that from 1881 to
1905, inclusive, 4,425 miners and 2,452
mine laborers were killed in Pennsyl
vania and that more than half of these
fatalities are due to negligence, care
lessness. recklessness and ignorance on
the part of the victims.
The report says that nothing but
stringent laws that will reach both em
ployer and employe, with penalty clause
attached that can be enforced, will pre
vent the sacrifices of lives in the coal
mines of Pennsylvania, and suggests
that a commission of experts be ap
pointed to prepare a mining law that
will be comprehensive enough to cover
the needs of both the anthracite and bi
tumlnous mines.
NEED NOT HAUL THEM.
Wisconsin Railway Commission Sayc
Road Isn't Common Carrier as
to Private Cars.
Madison, Wts., Aug. 8.—The state
railway commission tocmy handed down
an opinion to the effect that the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St, Paul railway
is not a common carrier of private cars
and that the practice or custom of the
railway in carrying private cars does
not have force of law compelling it to
do so in the future. |
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PROHIBITIONISTS
NOMINATE TICKET
Two Hundred Delegates Namo
Candidates for State Of
fices in Nebraska.
SUTTON FOR GOVERNOR
Aside from Reasserting Adherence to
the Principle of No Traffic in
Liquor, Convention Adopts
Reform. Platform.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 3.—Nebraska
prohibitionists held an all day state
convention at the Oliver theater yes
terday with an attendance of nearly
200 delegates. A state ticket was nom
inated, with the exception of United
States senator, which was passed over
with the understanding that the state
committee would designate the candi
date. Following is the ticket:
Governor—Professor H. T. Sutton,
Bethany.
Ideutenant Governor—Rev. J. D.
Forsythe, University Place.
Railroad Commissioners—J. S. Mc
Clary, Beatrice; E. A. Girard, Monroe;
Samuel Lichty, Falls City.
Secretary of State—J. M. Bell, York.
Auditor—W. E. Nichol, Minden.
Treasurer—W. H. Maddox,Falls City.
School Superintendent—Bert Wilson,
Humboldt.
Attorney General—J. D. Graves, Peru.
The platform reasserts adherence to
the principle of no traffic whatsoever in
liquor, but insists that the people have
the right to vote out the saloon by
states, counties or municipalities and
to that end declares for the enactment
by the next legislature of a county op
tion law.
Declaration is made for the initiative
and referendum; election of United
States senators by direct vote; for a
law prohibiting railroad passes and the
granting of rebates; for a reduction of
freight rates and government owner
ship of railroad, telegraph and tele
phone service.
OFFICERS ONES TO BLAME.
Indian Department Employes Accused
of Being at Bottom of Trouble.
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 3.—Rev. Joseph
Schell Is In the city from Emerson.
Speaking of affairs on the Winnebago
reservation, he says:
“Mr. Singhouse of Tekamah has been
Appointed special inspector to ascer
tain the specific Indian accounts as
claimed by the speculators. Mr. Sing
house is with John Alam and takes the
Indian’s part in an apparently con
scientious way, since the grafters cor
dially despise him.
“Indian Commissioner Leupp is said
to pay Mr. Singhouse 10 per cent, of
the amounts he cuts down in the spec
ulator’s claims. Mr. Singhouse has cut
down as much as $1,500 in one single
account. He does not seem to spare
the speculators and is not liable to be
nought nor to be dismissed, since Sen
ator Millard and Congressman McCar
thy’s influence in Washington has de
clined.
“It is strange that Mr. Singhouse has
no jurisdiction to look into the fraudu
lent actions of the agent and his pre
decessors. These lands that were sold
it $20 per acre to grafters, when farm
ers had offered $40, and other similar
frauds cannot be corrected, nor can
the Indians recover.
“Mr. Burchelman, a farmer who
bought land two years ago, paying the
highest price ever offered, has not yet
his deed, nor the interest on his money,
nor any returns from the land. What
fine inducement for farmers to buy
land! It was the same Burchelman who
offered $40 per acre to the agent for
land and a speculator got it for $20,
and two months later sold it to another
farmer for $45 per acre.
“It seems that the root of the dis
ease that ruins the Indians is not the
bootleggers, nor the saloonkeepers, nor
the speculators, but officers in the em
ploy of the Indian department.”
NEGRO SUES FOR DAMAGES.
Alleges That Ha Was Subjected to in
dignities on Account of Color.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 3.—Alleging that
his rights as an American citizen were
rudely disregarded, William Johnson, a
negro student at Nebraska university
and a football player on the ’varsity
eleven for four years, has secured an
attorney and taken other steps to in
stitute an action for damages against
the Thompson Hotel company of Lin
coln, of which United States Ambassa
dor Thompson is the chief stockholder.
Johnson declares that the hotel man
ager refused to serve him with a lunch
because of his color. “Deacon” Koeh
ler, a former Chicago university foot
ball player, is Johnson’s chief witness.
Johnson has asked the county attor
ney’s office to prosecute the manager
under the criminal code, but so far has
been unable to induce that official to
make out the complaint.
RAINFALL BELOW NORMAL.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 3.—The past
week was cool with little wind and
with heavy local showers in southern
rounties, says the official weather and
crop bulletin.
The mean daily temperature aver
aged 2 degrees below the normal in the
eastern counties and only 1 degree in
the western. The maximum tempera
tures were generally slightly above 90
degrees. Thursday and Friday were
the warmest days. Bunday and Mon
day were the coolest days, with mini
mum temperatures slightly above 50
» wo.
The rainfall was above the normal
In most of the southern half of the
state, ranging from one to slightly
more than two Inches. While in the
northern counties and in places in the
southern the rainfall was light, quite
generally less than one-quarter of an
inch. On Wednesday the heavy show
ers were accompanied by severe hall
storms covering small areas in several
of the central and southern counties,
rhe total rainfall from April 1 to date
is below the normal in most counties.
The departure is small in a consider
able portion of the state, but tho de
dciency exceeds two inches in several
;ounties.
LEG DANGLING FROM SADDLE.
Loose Horse Found With Grewsome
Relic of Accident.
RushviUe, Neb.. Aug. S.—A horse was
discovered yesterday about thirty miles
southeast of here on the prairie with
a saddle on its back and from one of
the stirrups was suspended the foot
and leg of a man.
Search failed to reveal the rider and
as none of the range riders in this im
mediate vicinity has been missed it is
supposed that the horse has come some
distance.
Another search will be instituted to
find the man. j
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CHARGE OF GRAFT
AGAINST GEN. WOOD
; Serious Accusation by Kansas News
paper Against Philippines Com
mander.
Leavenworth, Kan., Aug. 7.—The
Leavenworth Times publishes a
lengtny editorial in which charges are
made against Major General Leonard
Wood, commanding the division of the
Philippines. The newspaper declares
that its information is based upon un
mistakable authority at the hands of
officers of the army and others recent
ly returned from the Philippines, and
to a correspondent the statement was
made last night that the proper steps
would be taken soon to have the mat
ter referred to the secretary of war.
The Times says: "A recently re
turned army officer from the Philip
pines declared the administration in
Moroland is rotten. The force and ef
fect of the presence of our soldiery is
annulled and counteracted by the ar
bitrary acts of General Wood. There
aught to be an authoritative investiga
tion of the conditions there, he de
clared, adding that such inquiry would
•eveal an appalling state of diserimi
lation, incapacity and graft.
A Previous Episode.
“It will be recalled that while he
was in authority in Cuba it was a
matter of common report that Wood
received a large salary from civil funds
in addition to his pay. In the same way
ne received a large civil salary as gov
ernor of the Moro province, both in
violation of the provisions of the re
vised statutes of the United States.”
Other charges made are that General
Wood accepts wine and liquor from
saloon keepers In Manila and places
almself under obligations, so that he
recently rendered an illegal decision
igainst the canteens and for the liquor
men; that Wood allowed them to sell
malt extract to the canteen guaran
:eeing it non-alcoholic, until orders
:ame from Washington commanding
:he discontinuance of this license, and
;hat then General W’ood made the Bol
sters’ canteens pay for all they had
ordered and not received, refusing,
nowever, to permit it further sale.
Recently the charge was made
against General Wood that he added to
bis pay by charging excessive mileage
while returning from the Philippines to
the United States. Instead of taking
the direct route he sailed by a cir
cuitous one, which added several thou
sand miles to his allowance.
Washington, Aug. 4.—General Ains
worth, acting secretary of war, says
that no charges have been filed in the
war department against General Wood.
POLICE THINK HIM
REAL LORD DOUGLAS
Believe They Have Arrested Genuine
English Nobleman Instead of
Noted Bigamist.
Portland, Me., Aug. 7.—The Porland
police believe that they have arrested
the real Lord Sholto Douglas instead
of the smooth talking American who
has been traveling about the country
under that and other names, marrying
girls right and left after brief court
ships, only to desert them after ob
taining their money.
They" have detained here a fine look
ing Englishman, who declares that he
is the real English lord, and who has
the indorsement of a firm of bankers
here as to his genuineness.
Several days ago the police here wero
asked by the Asheville (N. C.) police
to arrest a man who was occupying a
cottage on Sebago lake under the name
of B. G. Douglas. The local officers
complied with the request and brought
the prisoner here.
The bogus lord is wanted in Ashe
ville for bigamy, the claim being that
his marriage to Miss Josephine Hood,
of that place, was bigamous. He is
also said to have contracted numerous
marriages throughout North Carolina
only to abandon them after securing
their funds.
The prisoner when brought here,
protested that he was not the man
wanted, and so convincing were his
arguments that the police have notified
the Asheville police that they believe
the wrong man has been arrested, and
advise that his release be ordered.
The Lord Douglas who was summer
ing at Sebago when the officers de
scended upon his cottage says his name
is Sholto George Douglas, and that he
is an English lord. With him at the
cottage were a woman, whom he said
was Lady Douglas, and also a young
boy, the future Lord Douglas.
The banking firm here says that
bouglas appeared with letters of credit
and drafts in the name of Douglas, and
they were convinced that he was every
thing he represented himself to be, and
that they have had no reason to since
doubt his identity.
“SCOTTY” CASH PILE.
Declared His Wealth Comes from Old
Stage Coach Cache.
Tonopah, Nev., Aug. 7.—The secret
i>f the wealth of “Scotty,” the Death
valley miner, has been discovered.
•Scotty” has found an old cache of
robbers who held up the transconti
nental stages In the early days. Dozens
Df Wells-Fargo treasury notes that
were dragged from the coaches were
never heard of again until now. A
party of easterners were traveling in
the Death valley region in an automo
bile recently when they met a pros
pector.
“See Scott?" he was asked.
He explained that “Scotty” was
somewhere ahead of him, because he
had stopped in the shade of his mule
to rest while Scotty pushed on. "He
showed me some high grade ore and
he’s goin’ out to realize on It. He
finds out I’m broke, pulls out a lot of
jold eagles and he stakes me to two
hundred,” said the prospector.
In the light of the lamps he held out
some gold eagles. The date was 1840
on each one, \i#i a mint mark of D.
In 1840 there was no Denver, but a
mint in Delganus, Ga„ coined money
for a time.
"They have had detectives after
Scotty,” said the prospector. "These
me samples he carries are a blind. He
jets to a town, dumps the sand in his
uags and turns up with legal money.
He’s got the old stage coach cache and
le’s slick enough to keep it, too.”
TRUST BREAKING UP.
Paper Combine Said to Be Winding Up^
Affairs.
Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 7.—The direct
ors of the General Paper company held
t meeting behind closed doors yester
lay afternoon with a view of winding
up its affairs as a corporation In com
pliance with the decision handed down
i few months ago by the United States
ircuit court. Secretary L. M. Aiexan
3er stated after the meeting that the
T': piny had ceased to exist, but that
me or two more meetings would prob
<b!y be held before the final details of
ilsEolution were completed.