fHE O’NEiLL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. yNEILU NEBRASKA , No state in tne union has larger o •more numerous springs than Florida Many of them form good slued stream from the start and some of them ar navigable. The largest spring in tie state, and one of the largest and prob ablly the best known in the I’nitet States, is Silver spring, which is lo •rated six miles east of Ocala. Thi spring forms the source of the, Okla waha river, a tributary of the St John find steamboats traversing the river • n ter the spring basin, which has an a ref •of several acres. The water is froti twenty-five to thirty feet deep, and it wonderfully clear, appearing absolutejj devoid of color. Professor McMillan Brown, ethnolo gist, holds that the future Australian ’people will, in all probability, be black The Polynesians*, he said in a ieeti e at Sydney, came originally not from America, as has been suppost U. but from Asia. They were whites and changed color Just as the future Aus tralian may do as the centuries go on, at least In the tropical regions of the north. The violet rays of the sun will ♦turn him black In course of time. . The Imperial University of China, rwhich Is under the direct supervision of that government, employs native in structors with the exception of six An ,Klrv-8ax<>n educators, whose work the Chicago professors are unable to per form. I>r. T. F. Head, professor of min ing and metallurgy of Colorado college, ,*t Colorado Springs, Colo., has just re signed to accept one of the professor ships at the Imperial University at Tlen-Tsin. t A inlld winter, says John Peterman, Butler’s hornet nest prophet. The hor nets are building high In the air. If the signs are for severe cold they build on the ground, where the snow drifts over them to protect the larvae from the cold. If they select a place high for their nest they prophesy a warm, open winter. The corn husks, too, tell of a mild winter, says the hornet nest prognosticator. The husks are thin and few. Persian Is said to Jpe not a very diffi cult language. The modern Persian is very much like the English in Its sen sible rejection of the inflections that burden so many of the world’s tongues. There Is no difference of termination to mark the gender, either in nouns or adjectives, and all Inanimate thiny* are neuter. In other ways the Persian con forms to the English. The harvest festival was being held In Old Windsor parish church, England, and a verse in the Psalm, “Thou mak est darkness and It is night,’’ had Just been reached, when all the electric lights went out. A number of candles were borrowed from neighboring houses, and these were fixed upon the pews, ho that the service might be con cluded. "Servant" in the United States is of ten displaced by the word "help.” But “servant” itself owed its vogue in Eng land to the fact that it is a substitute for other words that had declined in dignity, such ns "knave," which orig inally meant only "boy,” hut in time acquired a more and more slighting sense until it became Intolerable. A billy goat climbed a tall fir tree at Hood River, on the ranch of Frank Chandler. Tne witness is Hans Luge. While on his way to the city, Luge dis coveredone of Mr. <’handler's aerobatic billy goats up fifty feet in a large iir tree, browsing as contentedly as if swiping sweet peas through .1 neigh bor’s picket fence. While whale hunting off May ness the Norwegian steam trawler, Dlarnon en countered a huge whale, which, after being harpooned, struck the vessel with such force that her plates were stove In. The crew was rescued by tHo traw ler Salvia, Which towed flic Dlarnon, 1n a sinking condition, into Grimsby, England. The camphor bureau of Formosa pro hibits the cutting down of frees • of a lees age than fifty years for the mak ing of camphor. At 1 he present rate of cutting, the supply of old trees will be come exhausted in less than fifty years. To meet tills contingency the govern ment Will plant hereafter 750,000 trees a year. A few months before the last general election a good authority (L. g. C. Money, in 'London Dally 'News, August 7, 1905), calculated that one person -in every seventeen of the population of ttil« country was or had been a -pauper In the year ending Labor day. 1905. For >the completion of the Damascus railway line to Mecca. $0:800.900 more will be needed. The labor bill is being reduced 'by the employment of 5,000 sol diers-on the work of construction. U Js expected that the line w«M Ik* com pleted in three years. It is asserted that the saving over fit earn bv the use of electric -power on the raflvoadg of the United Mates av erages $638 a mile, which, if applied to the e-mire railway system, 'would ef fect a raving of $159,500,000 a year. Fifty fragments of the finest early ! English carving In polished Purbeck marble*, supposed to be portions of the shrine of St. Swithln, were brought to light recently during the restoration of certain parts of 'Winchester e?i.t>h,edral. Escaping from a menageries. & large bear patrolled the town of Aara^i.-eapi tal of Argovie. ‘Shvltssei land. Streets were deserted and houses Hosed for ufveral hours, while the bear ruld«xl the fruit stalls. It was shot in a cafe. The parishioners of Wood, a village In Fret Dorset. England, sent their church bells, dated 1606. IC’D and 1728. to the roundel's to be tuned and new ones added to the peat, and their return was made a renPrrl Monday. NVtherlnnd penis ere to he benefited by the widening and deepening of the North Sea canal, so that large vessels will be able to move at all \ct,jyes of the tide. For night traffic the canal It to be I gated by electricity. The East I.ondon Primitive Methodist mission has given 73.141 breakfasts to hungry children, besides taking care of 6.210 homeless and destitute men and women. Tb«* cantaloupe derives Its name f*om the papal palace Cantalupo. in Ancona, long famous for it* melons. The »nel*>ns which grow wild in some southern countries lack the lucious fla vor of hi* ro!*|v rn«1on. — — ■ ^ • — ■ ■. .■ - Twenty billion phvs an 1 flv® billion buttons wrrc modmrd hv American factories in 1606. The Drilled States* j»lso produced in that war 200.ft0l.0ni) needles. nfftrly 400.0ft0.ft00 safety pins, und 270.000 .ono he tv ’ns. r?i and t>< ar> are tne si; pin ar ticles of diet of ih. vvrking eloMt's of lliilre DOCTOR ADVISES AN OPERATION TO RIO BOY OF BAD TRAITS Parents of Roy Bortles, c/ Plainview, Nab., Incorrigible, Adopt Suggestion. Pierce. Neb., Nov. 6.— In the trla» hove «>f Roy Bortles, a 10-year-old boy, on tiie charge of incorrigibility, Dr. J. (M. Arden, former superintendent of the Norfolk insane asylum, testified that the boy was afflicted with adenoids, a swelling that affects the throat, which made him cross and ugly, and an op eration would make him good and rid him of all his bad traits. The boy will soon be taken to Orna •ha to be operated upon. Young Bortles, who lives at Plainview, has made life miserable for his mother and teachers for some time. STRONG SHOWING FOR 2-CENT FARE Lincoln Neb., Nov. 6. Ticket sale* on •all Nebraska railroads have been ex tremely good during the last month. In fact the reports filed with the state rail way commission make It extremely em barrassing lor the unti-2-ctnt fare advo cates. Stat» K Xpert Powell, of the railway cam mission, has just completed compiling the monthly returns of the roads and he finds tlmt the state business Increased 9 per cent, and the Interstate business 22 per cent. The following table shows the sales in the passenger departments, class ified by railroads; July. August. Missouri Pari tie.$ 13,730.6') % 19.485.07 Northwestern . 87,996.04 89,527.16 Grand Island . 7,268.99 6,562.83 t'nion Pacific . 86,772.57 86.881.01 Burlington . 202,860.72 217.04,8.23 Great Northern . 2.651.2-1 2.446.86 Rock Island . 13,607.93 14,959.64 .Minneapolis . 28,977.3 7 26,595.54 Total state sales .$143,764.65 $463,485.55 Missouri Pacific .$ 6,886.25 % 8.929.83 Northwestern . 9.237.60 I3.T06.83 Grand Island . 578.33 2.298.82 I’nion Pacific . 25.806.38 57,333.73 Burlington . 127,353.06 176,619.75 Great Northern . 1,944.73 1,416.02 Rock Island . 33,053.74 41,129.95 Minneapolis . 6,959.82 6,005.54 Total interstate sales.$211,816.91 $307,840.47 This does not give* Nebraska credit for the through business. STRAY BULLET KILLED YOUNG LINCOLN MAN Lincoln, Nob., Nov. H. The fact was uncovered today that Fred M. Kling, the youthful waiter, supposed first to have been killed by the cars and later to have been murdered, was the vic tim of an accident. August Foust, an express messenger, was showing his new shotgun to a friend in his car Friday night when it was accidently discharged. Foust went on his run unaware that the bullet had found a mark, Kling’s body not being found until after the train hud gone. The boy happened to be passing the car at the moment and gnt the bullet in his head. —♦— NEBRASKA WOMAN LOSES LIFE IN WISCONSIN FIRE Kenosha, Wts.. Nov. (5. Mrs. Han nah Amelia Hotting, aged 51 years, of -ted ('loud. Neb., died at the home of her loot her. Salmon Upson, in the town of Bristol, west of this city yes terday. Two weeks ago Mrs. ('oiling was taken from a burning building in an unconscious condition and her death resulted from burns and exposure suf« fored at the time of the lire. FIVE KILLED, 20 HURT, IN A RAILWAY COLLI SION IN ARKANSAS Lit-lie Rock. Aik.. Nov H. -Five .per sons were killed and a score injured in a headon collision between the north bound passenger train and n south bound freight near KlgginswJth, eight miles from Little Rock, on the Iron Mountain railroad, last night. The dead: CADY BATIK. negro, a railway postal ederk. ALVIN H. HR l' MMLO'W, a postal •clerk. NAM. W HiTAKKIt. negro, itrainp. two rxk xcfwx hoys. The Injured: Will Neil, a porter on the passenger train. Imdly scalded about Lb hips and !h>\vei Tim’bs. X. S. Hughes, fireman on the pas senger .train, badly scalded about the left side. Frank Meek, of Winfield. L.v„ iaeera tion of the forehead. Alfred Ripei’. 16 years -old. Little Stock, fa Lilly scalded. AY. .R. Moss. Hot Springs, knee in jured. J. J. WHgh.t. Little ‘Rock, express loes^enger. arm injured and back bruised. Twenty others .were injured, tome s^r- j iously. but theiv names are unknown, ; BALKS AT ASHES OF DEAD KITTEN New York. Nov. 6.—Publii Adminis trator Hoes has disposed of the entire legacy or' Mrs. Lulu B. Hover exc ept ing the asm s of her cremated kitten. He failed to get lid of this interest ing relic. President Roosevelt o whom Mrs. Glover, who committed suicide in >er ap:u tinents at 2081) Lexington avenue, on December 10, left the* estate, firmly refused to aid the funeral urn which contains the ashes of her feline p* r to ills stock of curiosities. Today in* found the ?state valued at more than $60.0- 0 and that witnin the hist few days President Roosevelt had notified him that he would giw th* me my to charitable institutions. LABOR WILL STRIKE IF WAGES ARE REDUCED D< s Moiras. Ia., Nov. 6.-—Th? execu tive couikU of the Iowa F**ciet men of la bor last evening adopted resolutions calling upon all rmmbeis of lal . ; un ions to co-operate in very wav with barks and business interest* dmng the pre sent financial stringency The resolution also ui pcs the la cor ing men to accept no re ruction in heir I wages and declares that u.v tedei alien ■win Miami by mis resolur'or to t pari of iking if SLAY A STRANGER; " THEN PLAGE BODY ON RAILWAY TRACK Brutal Murder Committed a' Lincoln, Neb.—-Attempt to Cover Up Deed. Lincoln. Neb., Nov. 5.—Fred M. filing, of Philadelphia, was found dead last night In the Burlington yards with a bullet in his head and one in his neck. The body had been placed on the track and was fearfully mangled by a switch engine. THOMPSON CONTINUES WAR ON jCORPORATIONS; ASKS FOR INJUNCTION Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 5.—Attorney Gen eral Thompson has filed notice with the supreme court that he would next week ask for a temporary injunction to restrain the express companies from Violating the Sibley act of the last leg islature providing for a reduction of 2.r» per cent, in express rates. He will also make the allegation for the first time that the emergency c lause of the act is valid, and that the law became effective April f». There is now pending in the supreme court a motion by the attorney general to strike out tiie statement of the ex press companies that the act did not take effect until August 5. 4 The express companies on the former action of the attorney general carried the case to the federal court, but Dis trict Judge Mlinger there declared he had no jurisdiction and remanded the •case to ttie state courts. This brings the matter squarely before the supreme •court of Nebraska when it meets next YY ednesday. ATTEMPTS TO BLACK MAIL PRESIDENT OF STORZ BREWERY Omaha, Neb., Nov. 5.—Charged with attempting to extort $4,000 In gold from Gotlieb Storz, president of the Storz Brewing company, by means of a blackmailing letter, Mathias Stefan, painter, musician and artist, has been placed under arrest by the United States authorities. The letter Stefan is charged with writing makes the threat that Mr. Store's family will be destroyed un Jess the gold is put in a designated place or if he reports the matter to the police. Stefan strenuously denies that he is the writer of the letter. BRYAN GETS PASS TO BIG LEAGUE GAMES Lincoln., Neb., Nov. 5,—Win. J. Bryan today received an annual pass from President Murphy of the National baseball league. Bryan devoted a forceful editorial to boosting baseball several weeks ago. NEBRASKA MERCHANTS MAY WEIGH PRODUCE Lincoln., Neb., Nov. 5.—To change the system of selling such commodities as apples and potatoes from bulk weight is a matter which will be presented to Pood Commissioner Johnson in a few days. The measure of such article is most inaccurate, it is chained, and any grocer who is inclined to be dishonest can easily hold out several pounds on the peck and the purchaser be nene the wiser. One man who has been lamenting over the inadequacy of the pure food law in this regard declared today that he recently had occasion to purchase half a peck of potatoes. He was talk ing with some one while the vegetables were measured out and did not notice what the grocer put into the sack. When he got home he found the sack rather smaller in contents than he thought half a peck should amount to. He weighed out the potatoes and found just three and one-half pounds. Half a peck of potatoes ought to weigh seven and one-half pounds. GOV. CUMMINS TO SPEAK AT OMAHA / Omaha. N>b., Nov. 5.—Governor 1’uin mins of Iowa will be the principal speaker at the annual memorial of Om aha lodge of Mik.a, the first Sunday in December. r He has been invited in previous years. j>ut until ibis time some other engage ment has prevented his coming. • Klks and their friends, who always fill one oi the opera houses on that 'occasion, are delighted that he can and will come this time. STABS WIFE, THEN CUTS HIS OWN THROAT Idix'ote. Neb.. Nov. r>.—John Koaey, ^a liveryman of Hubbell. stabbed his wife and then cut his own throat yes terday. He wan Intoxicated. Both‘are expected to die. SOUTH DAKOTA FARMERS FILE VIGOROUS KICKS Lincoln. Neb.. Nov. 5.—F. M. Ferris, of Dell Rapids, S. D.. would like to have ! the railway commission help him get ; pay for a box of clothing shipped from Madison, Neb., to Hampton, la.. May .37. Nothing has been heard from the box since it was shipped and he lias been unable to get replies from the Knion Pacific officials about it. , He wants to know what procedure shall be adopted to get pay for It. He was told by the commission to file his claim according to regular rule. Thom as S. Smith, of Ashland, was charged $‘i*'».0t> for freight on hovsehold goods from Westport. S. IX. to Ashland, and lie has not paid it. the bill pending ac tion of the railway commission to whom he has complained. The goods were shipped October 3 and arrived Octo ber 37. FOURTH RECEIVER FOR STEEL COMPANY Huntsville. Ala.. Nov. 5.—Judge Hundley last .light appointed Oil. r (i. Bush, as fourth receiver in bank ruptcy for the Southern Steel com pany. Receivers Thompson anil Chand ler represented to the court there was lui k of harmony between themselves and Receiver Adler. It is understood Bi.sh will be made chairman of the board of receivers and well be able to raise JllO.tKtO estimated as necessary to operate the plants the next sixteen Ua,_ JOKE GOST FIREMAN AN ARM; SUES ROAD FOR BIG DAMAGES When Employes Cried “Fire’ He Leaped Out of Cab Win dow and Was Run Over. Lincoln. Neb. Nov. 4.—Claiming to have lost his right arm because of a practical Joke played upon him by some 1 railroad men. Thomas C. White is suing the Burlington railroad in the , federal court here for $50,000 damages. I White Is a fireman from a southern [railroad, and was on his way to western 'Nebraska to take n job. tie had a ticket over the raliroad. and was in structed to take a certain train. , While waiting for it, he was made the guest of some railroaders in their cab. During his stay there, ids train not leaving till late at night, he went to sleerk Some of the jokers set fire |to a pile of hay on the floor close by his bunk, and suddenly roused him from .Ills slumber by stentorian cries of rflrel” He leaped out of the cab win dow and in trying to get away was thrown under a moving train and his arm cut off. Testimony offered by the railroad so •far has tended to combat the theory of a practical joke, employes testifying that the alarm was genuine. The rec ords of the department show to the con trary. however. GROOM DIO NOT APPEAR SHE WANTS $10,000 Lincoln, Neb.. Nov. 4.—"Forget it," Is what Miss Kate Hinckley tells the district court Charles D. Jewett, a wealthy farmer, told her, when she took him to task for falling to show up at her home on the day set for their wed ding. As he followed up this declara tion with a decided disinclination to fulfill his promise she has sued him for $10,000 for breach of pronjise of mar •iage. Jewett is a fine looking, wealthy ro thed farmer of this city. Miss lltnck •ey, a slender, dark haired voting wom an of 25, first met him at the restaur ant where she officiated as cashier. t-he says she lias a big batch of letters of caloric character which will convince a jury that she has been bad ly treated. She went back home to Michigan to be married, but he never shewed up. Miss Hinckley is now em ployed .as a saleswoman. Jewett lias been a widower for twenty years, is 60, and well preserved. TANK SWINDLERS CAUGHT AT WAHOO Lincoln. Neb.. Nov. 4.—A special rom Wahoo to the Star says; Two men who have been floating spurious hank notes drawn on the Merchants aiul Planters bank, of Savannah, Ga., ranging from $1 to $20 in value are now in jail in Wahoo. They have oper ated along the Northwestern main line from Fremont to ('hadron. They also passed certificates in Geresco and Swedburg. The forgers gave the names of .Axel Johnson and Thomas O’Brien. ROADS ENJOINED FROM RAISING COAL RATE Omaha. Neb., Nov. 4. —An injunction was issued late yesterday by Judge \V. IT. Miinger in the I'nited States court at Omaha, against all railroads doing business in this state, preventing the railroads from putting in effect an ar bitary reconsignment rate of $:> per car on lumber and coal. The order was made upon application of lumber and coal dealers in Omaha. The new charge was to go in.to effect this morning. Some time ago the Om aha dealers applied to the Interstate Commerce commission for relief from tlie increase threatened, but were told the commission could not hear the case for six months or a year. The Ne braska state railroad commission was .appealed to, but could not ha\e a hear ing at present. The order of ihe court signed yester day will hold good pending the appeal lo the railroad commission. —▲— IMPORTANT CHANGES IN RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE Omaha, Neb., Nov. 4.—Changes in • he railway service on the Northwest ern line west of the Missouri river are announced today. Full cars heretofore operating out of Missouri Valley will now go out of Om aha. and twenty-seven clerks employed on these trains between these points and Dead wood will report to the chief clerk at Omaha, instead of at Sioux City. -Clerks heretofore performing service between Omaha and Oregory. S. IX, will be assigned to runs on Omaha and Long Pine trains Vos. 1 and 2. Ser\ i