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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1907)
THE O’NEILL FRONTIER O. H. CRONIN. Publisher. PNEILL, NEER/WKA There Is no One* sportsman living tthan the earl of Tankervllle. He is capable of shooting bears In the Rocky mountains or painting the most artis tic miniatures you ever saw. In the morning he might take part In a fenc . ing match with single sticks, and even blindfolded beat the most expert fenc ers. In the evening you might hear him ■ing a hymn at an evangelistic meet ing, and move thousands to tears by the pathos of his voice. He was a great admirer of Mr. Moody, of Moody and Sankey fame, and considered him the finest Christian he ever met. His bobbles are carpentry and wood carv ing, and he has a capital workshop fit ted up for his own use at Thornlngton House. Lady Tankervllle Is almost as adventurous as her husband. On one occasion she drove the engine of the Canadian Pacific express for six hours, from Glacier House to Slccamoos. The young duke of Zarazoga, beside* being a grande of Spain, Is a young' man with Ideas that look frolicsome on the surface. Twice a week he may be •een driving the express train from Madrid to the French frontier. When' the duke first expressed his wish to be) i appointed driver of one of the trains ; running from Madrid to Irun he nat- ji urally much astonished the members of , the committee of the North Spanish p railroad, most of whom are noblemen and personally acquainted with him. i The application was at first thought to . be a hoax, but on the duke of Zara goza Insisting he was put through an t •xaminatlon, In which he proved to be i a very skillful driver. He dresses as a 1 common driver and lives the same I kind of life as his working comrades, with no regard to his title or bis wealth. i • • r ... :i When natural gas was first brought >1 Into use In America there seemed to he i a general Idea that the supply was In- ■) •xhaustible, says the Iron Age. It was ■old at low rates and usually without measurement. This method encouraged < waste In the consumption of gag, and !1 was snoruy aDanaonea Dy me larger n companies. Today nearly all consump- 1 tlon Is sold by measurement. It Is be- < tleved that the time has now come i when It Is possible to procure statistics 1 Df the quantity of gas consumed, and < next year this will be undertaken. The method will give such figures In the t future that a more direct knowledge I Will be obtained of the capacity of gas f areas to maintain a commercial sup- 1 ply of gas for a certain number of * years. A spinster with money to burn re- 1 eently paid $5,000 for a bulldog, says the New York Press. A man In Massa chusetts has Just bought a cow for $8,000. Walter Garvey has a hog for Which he refused a cash offer of $4,000. James Keene refused $200,000 for Hy son by, a race horse. There are several roosters of fashionable blood priced as high as $800 each. You can buy a fins lion for $300 anil a tiger for $700. By snd by we shall have a craze for breed ing fishes, and a fine male salmon, edu cated to pond life, might be worth $1,000. The $8,000 cow has one calf a year, worth $4,000. The female salmon may become the mother of 300,000 little > fellows In the same, worth In the ag- • gregate, possibly, as much as the calf. I ——— Scientists still study the cause ami meaning of earthquakes, but, acord |ng to an exchange, uncivilized people long ago settled the questions Involved to their own complete satisfaction. In Mongolia It Is the breathings and skip- r pings of a huge frog that causes the i mischief; In China, a gigantic dragon; r In India, a world bearing elephant; In * Celebes, a hog, and In other countries l the Idea Is varied by the Introduction ot i a bull and a tortoise. Earthquakes la Siberia are believed to be due to the < frolics of mammoths which live In tha l center of the earth. White in Van- • couver Island It is the spirit of evil, , with his marshalled hosts of all the l Wicked people who have ever lived. t -— • » -- j Wrhen a submarine boat becomes i disabled beneath the surface of the 1 water and cannot rise, its crew is in , a bad predicament. To remedy the t difficulty an Inventor has contrived an t auxiliary boat to be carried in the sub marine and to be a part of it, practl- i cally, until needed. In time of accident 1 the crew of the incapacitated sumarlne i Would enter the little craft and when i the containing chamber bad been l flooded the bolts would be withdrawn > and the vessel with Its human freight would clear Itself and rise to the sur- t face. ! - -ft - . < uerinan oDservers recorded as long 1 mgo as 1747 that a luminous emanation I t of variable shape will appear In the ! dark ut points on the surface of the - earth below which there are extensive I ore deposits. Immediately before or l during a thunderstorm these phenom ena are said to be especially striking, i Similar observations have more re cently been made In North America in the neighborhood of ore deposits. The electric emanation given off from the eurface of the earth has been repeat edly been ascertained photographically. Divorces are, happily, rare in so ciety circles. Separation by mutual consent, however, grows more frequent every year. Every one has upon bis or her visiting list husbands and wives who never meet If they can help it, but , between whom there has never been an open breach. Incompatibility of tem per Is the usual cause, and the rea son for that ts one imagines, the still common custom of encouraging the young’r generation to marry before they have begun to approach years of discretion. Pope Julius II.. who died In 1513. was the first pope to allow Ills b.nrd to grow In order, it was said, to inspire greater respect among the faithful. Ho ■was called the military pope. When Michael Angelo was making his statue he said to him: "Holy Father, shall I place a book In your lurnd?" "No," answered his holiness. " a sword rather —I know better how to handle It." By a poll taken recently by the Peo ple's Friend Is was ascertained that “RoblnEon Crusoe" is still the first ta vorlte with the English boy. Next to It eonte "Cornl Island." Uncle Tom s Cabin." "Ivanhoe,.t'he Ewing Family Robinsen,” Treasura Island." "PI grim's Progress." "Westward Ho" “Oliver Twist" and David Copperfield.” Women should not get credit. Neith er should men. Cash is the cure. Tradesmen, maybe, would have a bad time for six or twelve months, and many a lady would have to • tie low." but In the end we would g t both out trade and our money, and ah? would get her dress, and'at. far less <ost. During his may at Peshawar, the Amir of Afg-haulsian. In r tlklng with his English fU-uis. Int ari-ibly predated his stories with tie remark: "Sir, I am going to u uke a Joke." This he would snj iro»e gravely In Knglisa, an 1 then tell Ms stray jo Pushtu or i'er Olai.. 2-GENT FARE BILL IS TO GO UNSIGNED Governor Sheldon Will Let It Become a Law Next T uesday. HE IS BUT CONSISTENT Did Not Favor Flat 2-Cent Rate, bif Would Have It Left to Railway Commission — No Pro test Yet. Lincoln, Neb., March 6.—The 2-cent passenger law will not be signed by Sovernor Sheldon. This will not be jecauge the governor would not like to <ee a 2-cent fare In vogue In Ne jraska, but because the governor In ends to be consistent. When he was a candidate last year le said that he did not favor a flat !-cent rate, for the reason that this night afford the railroads a handle to prasp and with which they might beat he law to death. He favored empow irlng the state railroad commission to ■egulate all rates, passenger and reight. The main lines, he thought, :ould and should reduce fares to 2 ■ents, and these might be put In class The branch lines and weaker roads hat run short distances and between inprofltable points might be put In ither classes, and fares fixed aecord ngly. Become Law Without Signature. Now that the legislature has put It ip to him to sign a 2-cent fare bill he loes not believe that he should stultify ilmself; neither will be afford the rail oads gratification by vetoing the bill, t will, therefore, become a law next fuesday without his signature. Just what the railroads propose to lo about it, nobody knows. They will lave until Tuesday to make up their whether they will go Into the federal ourt or let the experiment be tried, eservlng the privilege of later contest ng It on the ground of being non ompensatory. As a saving clause the railroad com rilsslon will be given the power asked >y the government, and if the bill hould be knocked out the commission rill still have the power to summon he railroads and compel a showing, 'hen that body can proceed to make It cents on the main lines and a higher ate on the other lines. Miir SEAL MYSTERY Jrink, Accused of Killing Hj Sweetheart, Is Dying; Wont Talk. Ponca, Neb., March 5.- Death, after 11, will likely save Frank Brink from trial on the charge of murdering Bes lo Newton, his sweetheart, who was hot to death about twenty-four hours efore the hour for her wedding to a lval of Brink's. Lockjaw has developed as the result f the bullet wound in his head, a re tpse having set In several days ago, ince which time lie has had several onvulslons. In his rational moments, Srlnk preserves the same silence he has Ince the day he was picked up In a alf conscious condition In the street fter shooting himself lit the head and iody. All attempts to induce him to lscuss the tragedy which resulted it. he death of Miss Newton and his likely atal wounds have been futile. Ills relatives have secured an attor ey who has frequently consulted him, ut It Is stated that the wounded man efuaed absolutely to discuss the shooi ng, Even when told he might be tried or murder he has maintained a grim lienee. A strange circumstance in eonnec ion Kim me altalr is that were he dared on trial there is no one who an swear positively that he killed Miss tfcwton. The man who shot her en ercd the home unobserved and was eon departing the back way by two oung women, who ran to the assist nee of Miss Newton as she staggered rom the house and crossed the street, ks tile girls bent above Miss Newton he wounded girl gasped: “I’m shot and I didn’t do it myself." Then death closed her lips forever One of the girls happened to look across he street in lime to nee a man walking at the back yard of the Newton home, ihe thought from ttie clothing that she eeognlzed Brink and called: “Frank! Come help us!" The man did not turn nor pay any at enttoj. to the call but walked down the dloy, l.ater when Brink was picked up n the street. Ills blood-soaked clothing ran burned, so that while the girl s de erlptioo of the clothing of the man who vent out the back yard of the Newton lome. tallies with the description of the lothing burned, there is no way to iden ify It positively. And Blink has steadyfastly refused to nake uny statement regarding the affair, f he recovers, as now seems unlikely, his Lttorneys apparently have an excellent op >ortunlty to clear the client of the charge >f murder. The killing may possibly re nain always a mystery. 3ASSETT LIkElY TO GET THE CHILDREN Omaha, Neb., March 5.—Charles O. Bassett, the Washington man who Is Jefendaiit in a divorce suit recently lecidtH against his wife In an Omaha :ourt, and wherein E. Lawrence Hunt, i Presbyterian minister figured as co respondent, today met Judge Redick "id Mr®. Bassett s attorneys in an in formal conference, in an effort to se cure control of Ills children. The session was an interesting one I In which Bassett declared Ills wiiling ress and ability to care for the children md again severely scored Hunt. Judge Rediels has promised a decision Mon Jay, when it is expected Bassett will be charged witli the cure of the chil dren. BOTHA IS PREMIER IN THE TRANSVAAl. Pretoria, March 5.—The cabinet ap pointments under the new constitution have been announced. Genera! Botha Is premier. HERE IS A TANGLED MATRIMONIAL SKEIN Father and Son Arrested for Alienating Affections of Another’s Wife, but Formerly Son's Spouse. Bincoln, Neb., March 6.—A remark able tangled case has just been con cluded III the local district court, al though the verdict of the jury has not yet been rendered. The suit Is one where Gun Adler, a local butcher, sues YV. H. Bennett, a wealthy ranchman, of Sterling Col., and his son. Joseph Bennett, for J10.000 for the alienation of the affections of Mrs. Adler. Adler was once an employe on the Bennett ranch. Thither came a young slip of a girl, aged 15, with a band of harvesters, In 1900. She gave her name as Martha J. Moore, and ad mitted that she had run away from home at Riverton, Neb. The girl re mained as a domestic. Adler became her sweetheart, but young Joe Ben nett's superior attractiveness enabled him to eventually win the girl away fromGus. The elder Bennett, angered at his son's Infatuation, ordered the girl away. She went, but Joe followed her to Denver and married her. More Tangles. The old folks finally forgave him, and the couple returned to the Bennett ranch. Here Adler renewed his at tentions and the girl’s fickle affec tions again became his. Joe got a di vorce, and the pair, leaving the ranch, became man and wife. Bast summer Mrs. Adler was visiting in Riverton and happened to meet Joe Bennett again. She says Bennett convinced her that the divorce was not a legal one, and she, nothing loth, again be came a member of his household. To escape Adler they journeyed to Bin coin In a prairie schooner. Here they met the elder Bennett. The latter's wife had died meanwhile, and accord ing to Mrs. Adler’s story, both father and son regarded themselves as her husband. Has Both Arrested. Adler was on their trail, however, and when he found them the woman readily returned to him. He caused the arrest of the two Bennetts, and then sued both for the alienation of his by the woman has been remarkably frank, and In some respects outdoes that In the Thaw trial. The Bennetts deny the woman’s story, and the old man—he is a tremb ling old fellow of 75—declares that her story of her relations with him is ab solutely untrue. She says he threat ened to kill her and frightened her in to submission. THOUSAND AND ONE BILLS INTRODUCED But Halt Has Been Called in the Legislature of Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., March 6.—The total number of bills introduced in the Ne braska legislature is 1.001, and here after none can be introduced except in response to a special message from the governor. Of the measures presented, 558 orig inated in the house and 443 in the sen ate. The house has passed 57 of Its own bills and 13 senate measures and has killed 85 of its own measures and 1 senate bill. The senate has passed 81 of its own bills and has killed .84. It has passed 12 house bills and killed 2. Twelve house bills and 13 senate bills have passed both houses and 5 house bills and 9 senate bills have become laws. There are 416 house bills and 278 senate bills still pending. The most important work of the past week was the passage by both houses of the 2-cent passenger fare bill which will next Wednesday become a law without the signature of the gov ernor. The house has also passed the anti-pass bill which will without doubt be enacted by the senate without amendment early in the week. Both of these are joint committee meas ures. Passed the Insurance Bills. The senate also disposed of all the insurance bills which had been intro duced at the request of the insurance department, the bills having been drafted by the committee of fifteen ap pointed by the various state insurance commissioners. The fight on these measures was extremely spirited, the lobby having done some effective work. The bill providing for an annual ac counting and apportionment of surplus on all deferred dividend policies now in force was defeated, but a companion measure, providing for such account ing and apportionment of like policies to be hereafter written, passed. Most of tin, other important measures got through the senate, including one barr ing from doing business in the state any company paying a greater salary than $50,000 per year. CHILDREN ARE DIVIDED. Omaha, Neb., March 6.—Judge Redick today compromised between Charles D. Bassett, of Washington, and his wife, Fanny Rice Bassett, now in Omaha, by awarding the custody of the older son, Chester, to his father, and the young er son, Rice, to his mother. Mrs. Bassett is also awarded $20 a month alimony for the care of the boy. When the decision was announced there was a scene in court. Chester Bassett, who is 13 years of age, wept bitterly when he was told he would be taken away from his mother. The decision provides that Mrs. Bas sett shall be permitted to see the boy at intervals. Two other children of the couple are with relatives of Mrs. Bassett in other states. The youngest child, Lawrence, whom Mr. Bassett dis owns, is still with his mother. The other two children, one in Den ver and the other in Washington, were not provided for in the decision, the court declaring it had no jurisdiction over them. Neither Rev. E. Lawrence Hunj, named in the husband's divorce suit' us corespondent, nor Mr. Bassett was present, but the mother and her two boys were intent listeners. On hearing the decision, Mrs. Bassett embraced Chester and gave way to tears, the boy returning the caress and weeping bitterly. Mrs. Bassett's attorneys say the case will be appealed. LITTLE CRIPPLES NOT FOR EXPERIMENTERS Lincoln. Neb., March 6.—The house tills morning debated at great length the question of removing the orthopedic hospital from Lincoln to Omaha and finally killed a bill that had more in view. The debate developed that the principal reason for the change was a desire to have the medical students tl.ere have a chance to attend clinics upon the unfortunate little crinplcs. NEBRASKA SALONS VroctcdingJ of the Week in Brief m Both Houses of the Legislature. j> jt f/SSHWSMISSWUWHIWSSOSrtKSf THURSDAY’S PROCEEDINGS. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 28.—The senate ihia morning passed the 2-cent fare bill by a vote of 23 to 8. As passed, the bill carries the emergency clause. A plan was on foot to cut out this clause, but the number of supporters dwindled to eight this morning. The eight were: Burns, McKesson, Gibson, Gould, Hanna, Sanders, Thomas and Glover. Later Gibson, Sanders, Thomas and McKesson changes to yes, stating that they were not opposed to the bill, but thought that the thirty-day notice of change of rates required by the fed eral law ought to be observed. The other four stood pat, but made the same explanations. Lata and O’Con nell, supporters of the bill, were ab sent. Senator Sibley moved a vote of cen sure against Chief Clerk Gerrick be cause, as he said, the latter had ab stracted some letters to Sibley from constituents protesting against the 2-cent fare bill, and given them to the newspapers. The resolution went over. In the house the new anti-pass bill was read the second time and was sent to the general file. The house spent the morning listen ing to bills on first reading, this being the lost day for the introduction of bills. The total now is 533 for the house. Among the new bills introduced today are: Reducing express charges one-third; Increasing the number of supreme Judges to five; electing one each year and paying a slary of $3,500; to estab lish a state binding twine plant at the penitentiary, appropriating $50,000 for a building and $150,000 for capital. L>IU6SWU3 IUIUU5UUUI LUC BLfcLLC UfctVC Degun bombarding the members of the senate with telegrams and letters in opposition to some of the provisions of the pending pure food law. prohibiting misbranding of drugs, foods and Ikiuors, and providing that socalled patent medicines shal> bear on the out side label and upon the one on the bottle a list of th»ir contents. If they contain any poison they shall be so labeled in red letters. Newspapers throughout the state are also receiving telegrams from the patent medicine manufacturers asking them to use their Influence against the bill and stating that its passage would result in the dis continuance of their advertising. The senate yesterday Indefinitely postponed the national divorce law and and the Randall bill imposing upon the regents of the state university a fine of $100 to $500 for failure to supply stu dents with text books at cost. A bill was introduced in both houses prohibiting telegraph, telephone, ex press, street car or sleeping car com panies from giving to any person any frank, pass, free coupon, ticket or ser vice that is not given free to every body. The bill also makes it unlawful for any person to tcccpt or use any such free ticket or service. A bill was introduced by Chairman Keifer, appropriating $250,000 for a new south wing to the state house, for the supreme court and state library. In the senate a joint resolution was Introduced by King for the submission of a constitutional amendment in creasing the number of supreme judges to seven and increasing their salary to $4,500 per year. Also to Increase the pay of district Judges to $3,000 per year. FRIDAY’S PROCEEDINGS. Lincoln, Neb., March 1.—All amend ments to the anti-pass bill were frowned upon by the house leaders on both sides. Amendment after amend ment was proposed, several deliberate ly designed to open the doors to elude the act. Each was voted down. After a long light the anti-pass bill was recommended for passage without amendment. It allows passes only to railroad employes and families, includ ing lawyers and surgeons receiving at least $1,000 a year and care takers of (ivo stock, fruit and poultry. Thursday was the last day for intro ducing bills in the house and Saturday was the last day in the senate. Twen ty-four bills were introduced in the house, making a total of 533, while fourteen were introduced in the senate, jnaking a total of 417. Among the new house bills Is one by Hamer, to repeal a law adopted at this session and not at the time en tirely understood by those interested In having bonds voted in aid of rail ways. The bill as originally introduced was lo amend the present law relating to voting bonds, so as to allow c ities and villages to vote bonds for the con struction or purchase of t- lcphotie plants. It was amended so as to cut UHL LIU' pi U V 1S1U11 iUIUHUI^ I.MiJl ■ l *.l U" voted as a bonus for railroad construc tion. The railroad contingent did not find out what had been done until the bill had been signed by the governor,, so they at once set about to have the new law repealed. The house judiciary committee, which has the bill in chaige. will oppose it- passage. For Investigation. A joint resolution was in 'reduced in the house directing the railway com mission to investigate freight rates be tween Nebraska and the Pacific north west on commodities shipped both ways. If the commission finds any thing upon which to base a case the matter is to be referred to the inter state commission. Quakenbush. of Nemaha, introduced a bill appropriating $200,000 for the es tablishment of a binding twine factory at the state penitentiary. Smith, of Boone, introduced a bill appropriating $5,000 for experiments in tobacco cul ture in Nebraska soil. Harvey, of Douglas, offered a bill providing for the appointment of the Omaha fire and police commission by me mayor of that city instead of by the governor as at present. In the senate Ashton presented a bill providing that where a defendant pleads guilty to the charge of murder without a trial, the maximum sentence shall b** life imprisonment. Thomas introduced a bill fixing maximum sleep ing car charges within the state at $1.50 for a lower berth, $1 for an upper berth and $2.50 for a section. Accounting on Policies. After indefinitely postponing senate file No. 203. providing for an annual apportionment and accounting on all life insurance policies heretofore writ ten in the stale, the senate amended and recommended for passage a com panion bill, senate file No. 212. provid ing that such accounting and appor PANDORA'S BOX HOLDS ANOTHER FOR ROADS Lincoln. Neb., March 4.—A joint reso lution was Introduced today in the Nebraska legislature instructing the state railway commission to investi gate the rates on lumber, coal and building material from the northwest, a* a preliminary to the filing of a com plaint before the Interstate Commerce commission tlonment shall be made on all policies hereafter written. A bill was also rec ommended for passage limiting the sal aries of officers of insurance com panies. A number of colored porters and waiters appeared before the house ju diciary committee to protest against the passage of the anti-tip bill which has already passed the senate. One of the men, who lives in Omaha, stated that the republican party woqld lose 500 negre votes if the bill passed. The senate passed seriate file No. 214, providing for a fine of $50 upon anyone selling liquor to anyone who has taken the cure for the liquor habit. In the senate a committee, consisting of Saunders, Root, Patrick, McKesseon and Wiitse, was named to draw up res olutions commemorating the fact that the day is the fortieth anniversary of the admission of Nebraska into the union. The railway commission bill struck a little snag in committee of the whole In the house this morning and a commit tee will be appointed to investigate the legal effect of section 5. That section provides that the commission shall make a rate first and then give the railroad thirty days' notice in which to protest. Barnes introduced an amendment in tended to give the railroads a hearing before the rate is made, asserting that a law like the one proposed had been declared bad in Minnesota as due proc ess of law means that a hearing must be first granted. The committee amended section 4 to include telegraph and telephone companies as common carriers and making them subject to the regulation of the commission. BIG OMAHA CROWD HEARS BRYAN PRAISE CREIGHTON Omaha, Neb., March 4.—Three thou and citizens of Omaha gathered last night at the auditorium to pay tribute to the memory of the late Count John A. Creighton. William J. Bryan, for many years a close personal and poli tical friend of the dead philanthropist was the principal speaker. Congress man-elect G. M. Hitchcock and other lifelong friends of the deceased ad dressed the audience. CROWS WORSE Stevens Resigns, But Is Reap pointed, Goethals Engineer, But Board Member. -I Washington, D. C., March 4.—The kaleidoscope is changing so rapidly in the canal matter that those in touch with isthmian affairs are puzzled as to who is boss. , Mr. Stevens' resignation is accepted and yet he is to be reappointed chair man of the commission. Major Goethals is named chief en gineer and now he is to be designate..' a member of the commission. That President Roosevelt has no in tention of visiting upon John F. Ste vens the castigation he adminis tered to John F. Wallace, is shown by the decision reached to name Mn Stevens chairman of the canal com^ mission if he will accept, which he say.' he will not do. Mr. Stevens would hold office only temporarily, however, and be appointee, when the resignation of Shonts taker effect next Monday. Another reason is given out why Ste vens was deposed. It is he refused ti be dictated to by Taft. He said that unless he could have full swing in all big matters pertain ing to the canal construction he would resign. —4— WHITE CANAL WORKERS ASK STEVENS TO STA' Panama, March 4.--The following pi tition signed by all the while employe of the canal works has been sent ti Engineer Stevens. ■'Please withdraw your resignatioi and remain in charge of the work. W will show our appreciation and loyal: . by working for you even harder ti:■ • we have up to this time.” TOPERS’ BLUE BOOK COMPILED FOR JUDGE DRINK SALES BARRED Chicago Jurist, Addressim Saloonists, Warns Them to Discriminate in Wares. Chicago, March 4.—Judge Clelano of tlie municipal court in the Maswe!. street district, is having compiled "blue book" of topers. Their names, ages and occupation; will be printed and the hooks will bt distributed to the saloon keepers ol tlie neighborhood. The judge summoned WO saloonkeep ers and told them his plan to reform drunka ids. "I will give each of you a copy ol the book ” said he, "and you must not sell liquor to any man whose name i in the book. If you do I will have you brought in here for contempt of court." The saloonkeepers promised to help the court and refuse to sell to the mer on the taboo list. FAVORABLE REPORT ON MONGER’S NAME. Washington, D. C., March 4.—The committee on judiciary this morning ordered a favorable report to be made to the senate on the nomination of Thomas C. Munger, as federal judge of the newly created district in Ne braska. ANNA GOULD WOULD LOSE CITIZENSHIP Washington, D. C., March 4.—If Anna Gould had waited until now to wed Count noni de Castellane she would lose her American citizenship because the senate has passed the expatriation t bill, fixing the status of American worn- [ en who marry foreigners and foreign women who marry Americans. In the latter case the citizenship of the wife Is retained as long as she contlnies to | jive In the United States. j NEW FEDERAL JUDGE IS A FINE LAWYER Thomas C. Munger, Who W Occupy Bench in Nebraska District. BEEN ACTIVE IN POLITICS Was Burkett’s Manager for Som* Years—He Is Now Aligned With the Dominant Faction—46 Years Old. Lincoln, Neb., March 2.—Thomas C Munger, the Lincoln lawyer, who was i recommended for the newly-created, federal judgeship by the Nebraska coni gresslonal delegation yesterday. Is no relation to Judge W. H. Munger, of Fremont, who has heretofore held un disputed sway over the district of Ne The new judge Is still a young man, 46 years of age. He has been very ac tive In politics, and his present prefer ment is immediately due to the fact that for three campaigns he was th* manager of senator, then Congressman( 'Burkett. There are few lawyers In the South Platte country who have been in receipt of a larger income front prac tice than has Mr. Munger! who Is jun ior member of the law firm of Stewart & Munger. ms mgn ui due ni»vin«/. While some effort has been made t® discredit him as a lawyer, yet the fact Is that he Is a high grade attorney, well versed In the law and a man of most prodigious and painstaking en ergy. He was born in Ohio, but came to Nebraska when a boy. His mother was for years a teacher in the publlo schools of Nebraska City, and Mr. Munger worked his way through col lege by teaching country schools ill Lancaster and Otoe counties. Mr. Munger began the practice of law here in 1S86. He has held but one public office, that of county attorney for four years. In politics he trained for years with the element that lias but. recently been eliminated, and in D. E. Thompson's fight for senator six years ago he was one of his lieuten ants. Aligned With Right Side Now. The statute of limitations in politics In Nebraska runs for about six months in Nebraska affairs just now. Several years ago Mr. Munger detached him self from his old alliances, and while occupying a back seat in the reform wagon he has been honestly and earn estly in sympathy with the movement that has resulted in giving the state two United States senators who owe nothing to the railroads. He was a supporter of Norris Brown, but because of his position as Mr. Burkett's man ager and that theretore whatever he did would be taken by the politicians as an expression of Burkett's desires, he remained in the background. Mr. Munger under the terms of the new bill will divide his time between n Lincoln and several other points in the district, where the holding of court is made imperative. The probabilities are, however, that the great majority of the trials will be held in Lincoln and Omaha. NEIGHBORS AND THE ANTI TRUST LAW AID Center, Neb.. March 2.—Irate neigh bors and the anti-trust laws are the combined forces which may prevent the International Harvester company, from f taking every head of live stock, and all other personal property from Adam Rasley, a farmer near here. The interference of neighbors came when two attorneys of the harvester trust came here to sell out Rasley un der a chattel mortgage for $158 given last year. The court records tell the story which is likely to be the basis for some significant history. Fifteen years ago Rasley purchased a second hand McCormick harvester giv ing his notes for $100. The machine, It is alleged, never worked well and Ras ley had a Herculean task to get it to cut sixty acres. Then it was shelved as useless. He made complaint to the company but got no redress. The col lectors never overlooked him, and al inuugn protesting, Kasley paid over some money, which it is claimed fin ally totalled the $100 which he originally agreed to pay. But the Interest kept growing and compounding and last year the general collector of the International Harvester company, successor to the McCormick a.nd other harvester companies, with two local agents and a deputy sheriff went to the Kasley farm and' the old man was induced to give new notes for a total of $108, secured by every head of live stock, wagon and other utensils on his farm. It was when attorneys started to sell under this mortgage that the neighbors rose up in wrath- told the lawyers to go about their business In language which carried weight and Induced Rasley to refuse payment and to plead violation of the anti-trust law. The case has stirred up county-wide interest and upon the outcome depends action in hundreds of cases through out the state of a similar nature. • • -- Wi-L MACHINE 10 ACRES OF CORN PER DAY Mankato, Minn., March 2.—A machine drawn by three norses that will hus’r standing com at the rate of ten acr-s a day has just been perfected and pat ented by G. L. Marc how, formerly of Wisconsin. The first machine has been construct ed and was tested last week in a field of corn. It took the ears from the stalks and husked and conveyed them to a wagon. It is said to work In the tallest corn. Inventors have been trying for thir ty years to construct a corn husking machine, for it is believed that the de mand will be as great as for self bind ers. At present the farmers have diffi culty to find men to husk their corn and as high as 10 cents a bushel h-.K been paid in South Dakota. One man oan only pick and husk about an aero and a half a day. QUITS AT SON’S TRIAL WILL BE FEDERAL JUDGE Wahsington, D. C\, March 2.—The president has decided to appoint Col D. Pat Dyer federal judge of the east ern district of Missouri. He is now United States district attorney. Colonel Dyer temporarily resigned as district attorney to avoid having to prosecute his son, recently tried on the charge of stealing $63,000 from the Sr Louis subtreasury. Young Dyer waji V. acquitted.