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THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
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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.
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( 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
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-*• 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
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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
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