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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1907)
I _L_. . -ir THE O’NEILL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. 1 ... g——" 11 —■ ' ■ --—> PNEILL, NEBR/WKA w — . ...—■ In Canada the French settlers still continue to use large brick ovens out or doors such as were built In France 260 years ago. The perfection of the stove and range In the last fifty years has driven many of these ovens out of com mission, but many of the habitants think that no good baking can be done jin any other oven. Its use Is simple. (A fire Is made In the oven of good bard '■wood and when the oven Is exceedingly jhot the ashes ore raked out and the large lonves ready to bake are placed ion the bottom of the oven without pans. •This method of baking makes a very thick croute or crust. As all of the (natural elements of the grain nre left in the flour the break Is dark In color. i' Connected with the Mohammedan mosque at Lucknow, India, Is one or the largest rooms In the world without | columns being 162 feet long, 64 feet ; wide and 53 feet high. It was built dur ing the great famine In 1784 to supply work for a starving people. It Is a solid > mass of concrete of simple form and ■till simpler construction. In Its erec tion a mold or framework of Umber and brick several feet In thickness was first made, which was then filled with I concrete. The concrete was allowed about a year to set and dry, when the mold was removed. Although the build ing has been standing 122 years, It is \ «ald to show no signs of decay or deter : loration. ! South America has a frog of peculiar ; habits. Dwelling In the virgin forests, at the tops of the highest trees, It chooses as a site of Its nursery some hollow stump and then proceeds to line It with resin procured from trees in ; the neighborhood. This lining serves to catch and hold the rainwater with which It quickly becomes filled. As »oon as this takes place the eggs are laid therein and here they undergo de velopment Into tadpoles, llow the resin (is collected Is a mystery, nor Is It yet (known how the separate pieces become welded to form the water tight basin 'necessary to Insure the safety of the treasures deposited therein. According to Mr. Cnrl Snyder, wrlt Ilng n Everybody's Magazine, not a passenger was killed during the last fiscal year upon 279 American, railways, Which Include more than half the track hiileage of the country and carry more than one-half of the passenger mileage. ! |Th« writer mentions only one of the I companies on this roll of honor and (that., the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapo lis and Omaha, Is clearly entitled to the Iglory, for It does a yearly business of 646,000,000 passenger miles and not a ■passenger has been killed on Its 1,700 : fellies of track In the last ten years. Ainsworth R. Spoftord, librarian of congress from 1864 to 1897, has a won derful memory. Until the new system of catlogulng was Introduced ho had practically the whole library catalogue ■ In his mind and it would astonish vis itors when they asked for a book which might not be very well known to have him say to an assistant, "Go to ■ such a Btack and on such a shelf and bring me the book (naming Us number) from the end.” He rarely, if ever, made ! a mistake, and he can give references I offhand on almost any subject. A translation of the whole bible, in cluding the Deutero-canonlcal books, has been made for the use of Freneh S speaking Roman Catholics. It Is made, ! not from the Vulgate, but from the original Hebrew and Greek. It Is made by a canon of Amiens, who did not live to complete the enormous undertaking, but left It to be revised and finished by Jesuit fathers and professors, and It Is Issued by pontlflclal publishers. It has not yet, apparently, received the ap probation and benediction of the Ro man see. A telegram from Winnipeg states that the demand for flour from China continues. 60,000 sacks having been sold by one company alone. Further telegrams contain an Inquiry for all the product of certain grades of Hour that can be spared. During April and May all the surplus American Hour on the Pacific coast will have been purchased for the Orient, and the demand for China Is so great that the buyers are willing to pay extra railway freight rates from Winnipeg to the Pacific coast. Six years, 540 yards of duchess silk lace, 400 yards of silk thread, and an Infinite amount of patience were con sumed by Miss Amelia M. Kedel of Marshalltown, la., in making a black lace dress she is showing to friends In Chicago. Miss Redel conceived the Idea: of a hand-made lace dress six years ago, and Immediately set to work to carry out that idea. Last week she finished her task. The waist and skirt each are In one piece. The design was worked out over a foundation of cam bric. The sixty or seventy babies fed on Sterilized tnllk supplied by the Lam beth municipal depot during the lust seven and a half months have cost the taxpayers J75 each. The medical otti icer states that the death rate of depot fed Infants Is 68.90 per 1,000 only, where ; as the rate for the Infants throughout ■ the whole of the borough Is 134 per 1.000. An eminent Spanish scientist has ; (made the recent discovery that the {sunflower yields a splendid febrifuge that can he used as a substitute for (quinine. Accordingly, the sunflower iShould not only, bv its growing, exert Eeat fever dispelling effect, but also eld a product which Is used advan geously In all fevers. The "Han library,” at Pekin, con , (tains the works of several thousand i (authors on philosophy; of several thousand on mathematics; of many 'hundreds on war; of hundreds on medt jclne; of more than 1,000 poets. The library was founded some 2,000 years | I*go. _ _ _ The greater part of the tube railways, (the construction of which has been undertaken by the underground electric railways of London—about twenty two miles In all—are expected to be topen for operation before July 1. Japanese real estate has gone up Immensely in some instances at Ksm ocht, Fuklai. Kasugano and Mirurr.e, to two and four times the former price and at other points to seven or eight times the previous values. , A tame crow escaped from a cage at Poole, England, and tried to join a col ■ony of crows in a neighboring grove. (But the wild crows resented the intru ' Ision and killed it. Germany has taken great Interest in 'bee culture of recent years, and the icrop is about 20,000 tons a year. Spain (Is a close second of the European ■countries. Srt i ___ ( Probably no man in Maine has held a (town office longer than Q. a. Butts (Of Canaan, who died ree nfly, after dlBfty-two years’ continuous service as (town dark. MAY HAND OUT PLUMS AND SURPRISES SOON 'loverrior Sheldon Is Very Har^ for the Office Hunters to Handle. Lincoln, Neb., April 24.—Three heath of state departments, Labor Cotnrnis sloner Hush, Oil Inspector Church and Adjutant General Culver, it was an nounced today, would be let out May 1. l*on C. Despain will succeed Hush, All of the present hospital superintend ents will be retained, except at Heat rice, where Dr. Johnson has resigned, to take effect July 1. Lincoln, Neb., April 24.—Prizes for the office hungry may be awarded this week. . It has been expected that Governor Sheidon would distribute some offices and the long delay has discouraged many of the veteran plum hunters. They have begun to fear that the gov ernor meditates non-partisan appoint ments, civil service reform or "some other d-n foolishness," as a pie hunter expressed It. However, It Is believed that the gov ernor Is almost ready to act. It Is be lieved that the private secretaryship will go to Lancaster county and the oil inspecorshlp to Douglas. It Is believed that "Mike" Lee may stand some chance of the latter office although the candidates are legion. Sheldon has sought men who were not applicants. His appointments have been delayed by a search for men who cannot afford to take the places. These he has appealed to on the ground of personal friendship and duty to tlie state. Governor Sheldon Insists that the man who Is out looking for a state Job at a meager salary is not qualified to hold It. He intimates that ftt present the capable men have good Jobs while the snip hunters long to be connected with the state pay roll. PHYSICIANS CANNOT GIVE AWAY CONFIDENCES ON STAND St. Louis, Mo., April 24.—A decision was rendered In the United States court of appeals upholding a law ot Nebraska which gives ample protec tion to the medical code of ethics The Nebraska state code prohibits physicians and others from making public confidential Information relative to treatment, confessions and kindred matters. The case was that of Mrs. Ora Thomas, who brought suit against the Union Pacific railroad In Nebraska because of injuries received in a col lision at Omaha. In the trial the court refused to admit the testimony of two railroad company physicians who treated her on the ground that the state law prohibited such testimony. The suit was won by Mrs. Thomas. The railroad company appealed, hold ing that the court erred in refusing to admit the physicians' testimony. The decision affirms the decision of the lower court. SIOUX CITY MAN GETS CONTRACT TO BUILD SCHOOL Laurel, Neb., April 24.—R. K. Schott, of Sioux City, received the contract for the erection of Laurel's new school house, his bid being $19,865. The heat ing and plumbing went io Werner & Wlnterbottom, of Falls tlity. Neb, for $3,149. This makes the contract for the building $23,004, and the structure Is to be completed by the first of Jan uary. This will give Laurel one of the best school buildings in tills part of the state. WEDS THE SAME MAN j FOR THE THIRD TIME Wife of Three Husbands, Fou, Times Divorced, Says She “Really Loves” One. Riverton, Wyo„ April 24.—Mrs. Amanda Glover, divorced wife of George Glover, a sheepman, who for- I merly lived in the Newrork region in this state, has married Henry J. Wa ters, a Montana railroad man, for the third time. Mrs. Glover has been married five times, three times to one man, and she has been divorced four times. Waters was her first husband, and she says that since he is the only one she really loved, he will be the last. Two Other Husbands. She was first married to him twen ty-odd years ago and divorced him within three years. Then she married Hiram W. Romiller. After divorcing him she was remar ried to Waters. Within a year she again divorced him and soon afterward married Glover. A year ago she obtained a divorce from hint and she again married Wa ters. "I WILL NURSE MY OWN CHILD,” QUEEN OF SPAIN ASSERTS Victoria Resists Royal Custom, Remaining Firm For the Infant’s Good Health. Madrid, April 24.—Queen Victoria in sists she will herself nurse her child when It comes, despite the opposition of the royal household to such a de parture from the custom In the case of a royal infant. The queen declares her desire to nurse the child is for the purpose of in suring 11s good health. COSTLY FIrThAS ITS ORIGIN IN BIRD'S NES' Philadelphia. Pa., April 24.—Painter burning the paint off a house set fit. ! to a bird's nest in Camden and nim dwellings in Camden were damage nnout $200 each. Through a large knothole In th, weatherboarding of Somers Vaughn's home birds had entered and built nest. When the lantern of the painter came near this hole the nest caught fire, and the tlames being inside He weatherboarding spread rapidly. DAUGHTERS TO STICK TO RAILROAD BONDS Washington, D. C„ April 23.—The six teenth continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution was brought to a close today. The seal ot approval was Indirectly put upon the action of the committee on finance in purchasing $24,000 worth of railroad bonds with the funds of the society, as an investment. The financial Investments of the so ciety have been a bone of contention for some time, It being charged by the treasurer general, Mrs. Davis, that the transactions were too •'Insecure specula tions,” and she recommended cnat hereafter only government bonds be purchased. The matter came up In the report of a committee to which were referred the recommendations of the treasurer general. The recommendation that only gov ernment bonds be purchased was dis posed of by the committees reoommend Jng to congress approval of the report or the finance committee regarding the Investments of the society's funds. This recommendation was accepted by the congress. toledoansTndicted ON TRUST CHARGE Toledo, O., April 23.—Over seventy five indicements against wealthy and prominent local manufacturers and dealers were presented to Common Pleas Judge Morris, by the grand Jury today, including true bills against lum ber dealers, brick manufacturers and members of the Master Plumbers' asso ciation. The heads of firms, wherever possible are Indicted and the agents or under lings are Ignored. No corporation Is Indicted, the purpose of the prosecutor being to bring ouster suits against these and to punish their officers. Indictments are returned against nine brick manufacturers for violation of the Valentine anti-trust law and the lumber men are also Indicted for viola tion of the same act. JUST THE LOVEBUG, SAYS YOUTH OF 101, WHOSE BRIDE IS 101 Joy Rose McGuire Halts at thg Century Post to Say Cupid Has Nothing to Do With It. St. Louis, April 23.—John B. Bun dren, a bashful swain of 101 years says it was the lovebug. Miss Rose McGuire, a blushing coy maid a year younger, in a letter from across the sea, say3 she doesn't know, but anyway, it wasn’t Cupid. Cupid, she avers, gets through shy ing darts nt people when they reach the century post. Then John takes up the thread of the conversation again and reverts to the lovebug. . John is a firm believer in the germ th1 ory as applied to affairs of the heart. He says Jove is a disease, same a.i smallpox and diphtheria, and that he and Rose have It bad. At any rat a this young pair will be rr. riLd next August, they announced ji stevday. •' i' hen folks get as old as we,” quoth eh. hail, discussing t'ae approaching i,., , id. . "n .•• a clear case of lovebug. v M in' -1 t to 1'. Tun brg’r been bit u me aim! Rose ever so long, and wo jn ,! ve to give In." :.e i l.liis McGuire were sweet 's a: t.. in Tcnmsse in their youth, iter i. r t ., of English d< scent* would not cun', nt for their marriage, and ml .- r (...riled o England, taking th ir . aug-Uer with (hem. B 'inSicn has long, white hair and a lluv! ig, whits b ard. He does not : ' nor drink liquor, and nppur ■ t’tly Ij hide and hearty. In June he wiil go to Preston, Lancao ershlre, Mm,land, to eseore hi ; inti sided bride to his home in Tennessee, for the wed ding. 4 OPERATION TO 4 4 STOP HICCOUGHS 4 4 -e -*• Ithaca, N. Y., April 23.—James 4 4 Loveless, of this city, is lying -v 4 < ritlcally ill In the local hospital 4 4 from a continued attack of hie- 4 4 coughing. An operation will be 4 4 performed in a desperate at- 4 4 tempt to save his life. 4 4 For sixteen days he has hie- 4 4 coughed incessantly, and every 4 4 known remedy for the disease 4 4 has been tried unsuccessfully. 4 4 Dr. Judd administered elec- 4 4 tricily, placing one pole at the 4 4 back of the man's neck and the 4 4 other was connected to his dia- 4 4 phragm. The current was turn- 4 4 e-el on several times, but the hie- 4 4 coughing did not cease. 4 4 Creosote was administered, 4 4 but proved only a temporary re- 4 4 ltof. ♦ 4 Loveless is now so weak that 4 4 his life Is despaired of. 4 ♦ 4 FIRE DEPARTMENT IN FIERCE RACE WAR Asbury Pnrk. N. J., April 23.—About 95 per cent, of the eight white lire companies hi Asbury Park threaten to step down and out if the council de IcHnes to disband the Eureka colored j company. Displeased firemen have signed a monster petition. They say the Eurekas are the only colored company in the i state. Unless tli® council obliterate? the Eu rekns officially by next Monday or agrees to do It, the colored company | will run by itself, while the other coin panics will stay home whep a fire breaks out. The situation is so acute I that a l-aeo war is threatened. In the colored district resentment Is Ftrong against the white firemen and a political revolt is threatened. MINE STRIKEHALTS THE UNION PACIFIC Winnipeg, Man., April 23.—More than 15,000 coal miners are involved In a s'like hi Alberta and the situation is critical. In another week the Canadian Pacific will not be able to operate Its passenger and mall trains. Until navigation opens there is no relief in sight. Every man is willing to take chances of being cini.,1 iiv prosper1 NEBRASKAN WOULD DASH FOR THE POLE To Facilitate His Speed He Is i Now Trying to Raise $300,000. Lincoln, Neb., April 22.—Charles B Rillet. Lincoln's only Arctic explorer, Is home again. He is just now engaged in trying to raise the $300,000 capital that he requires to head an expedition! in search of the north pole. Rillet has been with Peary once and was on the Ziegler expedition in 1903. He is only 29 years old. He is an ex pert balloonist. "The pole can be reached,” says he, “but it is a trip that is filled with perils every hour of the time after civilization has been left behind. Floating Ice and the Intense cold—usually about 64 de grees below—not to speak of the polar bears, make It a trip not altogether in viting to the average man. The wind is terrific at times. I have seen it blow ninety-eight miles an hour.” Rillet has had numerous narrow es capes from all three perils, but he says that his experience is not unusual with, members of an exploring party, and' modestly declines to figure as a hero. EDITOR HAMMOND IS OUT AFTER THE JOB Lincoln, Neb., April 22.—Editor Ross Hammond, of the Fremont Tribune,; wants to be collector of internal rev-i enue, which carries a salary of $4,500! a year and takes no great amount ofi time. Mr. Hammond’s resolution has precipitated an embarassing condition ot affairs for the two senators, both, of whom are under peculiar obliga-: tions to Mr. Hammond. It was his! paper that first set in motion the move ment to make Burkett senator, and it occupied an almost exactly similar position in the Brown fight. The two senators would gladly have handed it over to the editor If he had Bald he wanted it, but not long ugo he appeared as the backer of T. L. Matthews, of Fremont. Sinoe then it transpires that Mr. Hammond had it In mind for some time to ask for the place but when R. B. Schneider, who Is Matthew's brother-in-law, asked Hammond, who is under numerous ob ligations to Schneider, to help him get the place for Matthews, the editor could do nothing but assent. Now that Mat thews is out of it, Hammond wants It himself, but in the meantime Sena tor Brown has promised State Chair man Will Rose that he will support him for the place. COUrt 7 HAS ALREADY UPHELD THE PRIMARY Lincoln, Neb.. April 22.—Statehouse lawyers say if Senator W. V. Alten at tacks the direct primary measure he will have to find some other point to criticise than that which requires a voter to disclose his party affiliation. The senator says that this is a viola ‘ion of the secrecy of the ballot and to that extent a restriction of the suffrage, Which the constitution forbids. The supreme court, however, has passed upon that point, in a case from Douglas county, where the direct pri mary has been in force for four years, tt there held: "The provision of the act making the right of an elector to participate in a primary election to depend upon his party affiliation is a legitimate exer cise of legislative power in no way "onflicting with the fundamental law guaranteeing freedom in the exercise of the legislative franchise.’’ In the discussion of the case the murt says that it is no illegal restric tion to require that persons desiring :o take part in a party primary shall Hate whether or not they are members of that party. THREE MORE CONVICTED OF BIG LAND FRAUDS Omaha, Neb,, April 22.—Thomas M.' Huntington, Ami B. Todd and Fiedi Hoyt were today convicted in United States court on charges of conspiracy to cheat the government out of half a; million acres of public lands In Sheri-i dan and Cherry counties, Nebraska. l’he cases have been on trial here for the past ten days. Huntington is a banker of Gordon, Neb. Hoyt Is a partner of Huntington. Todd is from Denver, and procured old loldiers of Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois *.o place fraudulent filings on the home steads. These cases are similar to those which recently resulted in the convic tion of the millionaire stockmen Rich crds and Comstock of Chadron, Neb. PLACED VALUATIONS ON SELVES TOO HIGH Ml of the Ninety Assesors in Nebraska Are to Retire Under New Law. Lincoln, Neb., April 22.—Ninety men i\ ho imagine they would remain in pos session of nice fat offices as county as sessors in tile several counties of the state are doomed to disappointment. While they were not watching the last legislature passed an act providing that '.heir terms should end with the cur rent year. Two years ago a series of bills were passed by the legislature intended to introduce the biennial election system in Nebraska. Everybody whose term of office expired, under his original elec tion, in 1905 and 1907, were to have a year added to their olficial life. When the supreme court got hold of the laws it knocked them out in order on the ground that tlie constitution could not be amended by a legislative act. The assessors' act was the only one that passed legal muster, but the last legis lature made their terms end as before. As none of them are eligible to re jection. they are correspondingly sad dened. This will put the entire assess ment system of the state in untried hands. GOVT. CONTRACTS MUST BE REPUDIATED Lincoln, Neb., April 22.—The state, railroad commission has issued an or der to street railways throughout the state to abrogate contracts made by the government for the carrying of mail carriers at reduced rntes. PolicMnen and firemen are also in cluded in the older which prohibits the carrying of any person at less than regular f ire or for any rate not ojen to the general public. RECEIVER NAMED FOR UNCLE SAM OIL Topeka. Kas., April 23.—Judge Pol lock, In federal court today, named J. C. O. Morse receiver for the Uncle Sam Oil company under the bankruptcy 1 petition filed in Fort Scott by stock I holders. Morse, who is manager of the tele phone company of Wichita and was formerly state railroad commissioner, furnished bond in $20,000. His home is in Hutchinson. The court also required three stock holders who petitioned for the re ceiver, to furnish a bond of $10,000 to cover any injury to the company that might arise out of the appointment. MAN PULLS BAR FROM HIS BODY Ouray, Colo., April 23.—At the camp Bird mine William Peterson, a miner, 'was working in one of the lower levels, clearing the track for an oncoming oar directly beneath an open upraise. A steel pinchbar two feet long was knocked from a stall 125 feet above and fell point down. The bar struck Peter'son squarely In the hips, and all but six Inches passed through his body. The blow knocked him down, but he immediately regained his feet and pulled the steel from his body. Then he dropped in a faint. Pe terson was hurried to a hospital, where he died. He was one of the men deported from Teiluride at the time of the miners’ strike there several years ago. SISTER DIES Eight-Year-Old Lad Manfully Fights Flames Burning Six-Year-Old Girl. Knoxville, Tenn., April 23.—Battling heroically to save his 6-year-old sister from the flames, Roy Moon, 8 years of age, stood by as the little girl died in terrible agony by her burns. The child’s clothing was ignited by the flames swept by the wind over her while burning grass in the meadow and tho boy manfully went to the res cue. With his bare hands he beat out the fire, eating its way into her flesh, and attempted to check the cruel flames as they crept their way into her scarred and wounded flesh. Eli Moon, the fa ther, attracted by the screams of the children, hastened to the scene. He found the baby girl clinging to her brother, with the flames enveloping them both, begging him piteously to stop the hurt. But the work of tho boy was futile. Tho father rushed with the girl to the house in an effort to save her, but death relieved her misery a few hours later. The boy’s hands, face and arms are burned and while he will live, his wounds are painful. Mr. Moon had started a fire of the dead grass and had gone to the house, leaving the chil dren playing nearby. The screams hur ried him back to the place. The wind had Hanned the flames with such fury that the baby's clothes were burned entirely off her body, which was black from head to foot. The mother Is prostrated. TOWN DEFIES PRIESTS HAS ITS FIRST DANCE IN HALF A CENTURY ■.. Expulsion From the Church to ; Follow Attendance at Festivity. Appleton, WIs., April 23.—Fifty years if predominance by the priests who nave never allowed a night dance in the villag • of Little Chute, a town of 3,000 inhabitants, mostly Poles, was overthrown when a big dance was held at the saloon and dance hall of Joseph Van Camp in strict defiance of the edict of Father Knetgel, the presiding priest. In the entire village there is only one Protestant family, the balance being Catholics, and this family is that of Frank Stockton. It is said he is to move away next week. When the village was settled fifty years ago the priests decided there should be no dances and this decree was lived up to. The priests announced that expulsion from the church would be meted out to all who attended. 300,GOO RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS COMING South Dakota, Minnesota and North Dakota to Get an Unusual Number. St. Petersburg, April 23.—Owing to the political and economical crises 200, 000 Russian subjects will emigrate to America this year, according to the di rector of emigration. Hitherto the yearly exodus has been about 250.000 of whom two-thirds were Jews. The percentage of orthodox Rus sians who emigrate is increasing. The director Bays most of the emigrants will go to Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and the Dakotas. NO MORE ATTENTION TO ALLEGED PLOT Washington, D. C.. April 23.—An nouncement is made today by the secret ; service officials that no further atten tion will be paid to the statements , Bartula, who informed the police i Newark, N. J.. that a conspiracy is o.i foot to assassinate Roosevelt. The,y say the story has no foundation and that TJartul Ts mind lias 1> . unbalanced by the death f Ins "has LOST 25 POUNDS OF HIS‘‘REPUTATION’* Alotorious Tom Dennison Tell» of Mental Anguised Caused by Report. SUES FOR BIG DAMAGES Each Juror Was Asked if He Though# Being a Gambler Hurt a Man’s Reputation—Effort to Impeach Plaintiff’s Testimony. Omaha, Neb., April 20.—After several hours of direct examination by his o,vn. counsel, Thomas Dennison, the aa-% mitted “gambling king,” is undergoing a rapid fire of questions fired at him* hy Attorney J. H. Van Dusen, attorney, for the Daily News, which paper Den-' r.lson has sued for $50,000 damages on? account of alleged libelous statements^ made by that paper relative to a bomb, being exploded on the porch of Dimer j E. Thomas about two years ago. Attorney Van Dusen is going after? Dennison without gloves. He secured j from him an admission that he had ( operated every kind of a gambling game from “craps” to a race bureau. Following close upon these admissions,^ Dennison swore that the publication im the News had damaged his reputation, and caused him mental anguish to the; extent of $50,000. Dennison stated that; he had lost twenty-five pounds within a month because of the publication of-' the story the result of worry over the; effect it would have on a case he then, had pending in the district court at, Logan, la., in which he was charged' with being a party to the robbery of James Pollock of $70,000 worth of dia-' monds near Missouri Valley. To Impeach His Testimony. Dennison was confrotned with an af-, fldavit he had made in 1904, in which he swore that he owned a gambling' house at 1409 Douglas street, in the, city of Omaha, and was one of the proprietors of the establishment. In that affidavit he gave the names of four other persons who were Interested* In the business. Immediately after this, showing ho was shown the court rec ords of a case in which he figured' shortly after making the affidavit, in which he swore that he knew abso lutely nothing of any gambling going on within the city. Attorney Van Dusen did this to show that Dennison's' testimony under oath could not be re eled upon as being true. The defense is making its strong points on Dennison’s record as a gam-' bier, and when each talesman was railed for examination he was askedj whether he believed that an admission by a man that he was a confirmedj gambler was a serious blot upon his reputation. Quite a number admitted* that they did not think it hurt a man’s reputation to be a gambler, and Judge Estelle promptly excused them. One man admitted very promptly that he thought, a gambler was as good as a. preacher, and another who was a gro cer. stated that he would much rather do business with and trust a gambler, (han any preacher he had ever met. Repartee flows freely between the at torneys and in several instances it has been necessary to rap for order. ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION IS ONLY SIGN OF SPRING Lincoln, Neb., April 20.—Governor Sheldon’s official proclamation calling upon the people of Nebraska to observe April 22 as Arbor day is about the only! sign of spring yet noticeable. The man ifesto was Issued from the executive office yesterday forenoon. Like all of Governor Sheldon's state papers it con tains no superflous verbiage. The proc lamation ready thus: "The observance of Arbor day was Intended to accomplish a material pur pose and the grove-dotted prairies of, the west speak with voices eloquent1 af an object attained. “The season is again at hand when the thoughts of our people revert to' matters pertaining to the planting of shrubs and trees, the ornamentation of grounds, and kindred pursuits. In accordance, therefore, with this pro vision of the statutes, and in harmony with time honored custom, I hereby, proclaim, Monday, April 22, as Arbor day, and ask the people of Nebraska, on thnt date, to give speical attention to the matter of tree planting. Parents and teachers are urged to inculcate in the minds of the children the import-! ance of the subject and by example as well as precept instruct them in the practical features of tree culture. Whenever convenient let public exer cises be held in conformity with the general character of the day. "In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the Great, seal of the state to be affixed. Done at the capitol, in the city of Lincoln, this 16th day of April, A. D„ 1907 “GEORGE LAWSON SHELDON. “Governor.”; DIVORCED TWO MONTHS THEY DECIDE TO REMARRY. Lincoln, Neb., April 20.—Because an experiment was unsuccessful once Is no reason why it should be so a sec ond time. This seems to be the theory of Mrs. Elizabeth Branstetter, of Have lock. who was married in Council Bluffs this week to A. J. Young, from whom she was divorced twenty years ago. In 1883 she married Charles E. Branstetter at Elwood, Neb., and about two months ago obtained a divorce from him on the ground of non-support. The Nebraska law forbids divorced persons to remarry until a six months’ interval has passed. So when the first husband reappeared and urged his for mer wife to try the matrimonial path with him again, it was decided to have the ceremony performed In Council Bluffs. HIS KINGLY QUARTET COST NEBRASKAN $30 Fremont, Neb.. April 20.—C. O. Payne, of Lincoln, got Into a game oi cinch with three strangers, presumed to be traveling men. while the North western-Albion line was here. Th6 game was turned to poker. Payne drew four kings and wagered his roll of $30 on them. A man with a diamond ring, who sat opposite him. held four aces. Payne got off the train and went to the police station. The strangers have not been located. CRAZED BY ACCIDENT TO CHILD, MOTHER S LIFE IS FORFEITED Lincoln, Neb.. April 20.—Mrs. Michael tVaibel, wife of a well-to-do farmer liv ing near Columbus, died at tlie state hospital for insane today of acute de mentia, after six days' incarceration She became crazed over the death of an 8-year-old daughter, who was seized with lockjaw from the accidental run ning of a nail in her foot i