Nebraska Newspapers

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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.
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- 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.
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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.
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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<se between Norfolk and Dallas will
be by apartment tar under the super
vision of the chief clerk at Sioux Oily.
Uuns of clerks on the Fremont and Lin
coln railway postoffice will be extend
ed to start from Missouri Valley. This
service also will be under th*‘ supervis
ion of the Sioux City office.
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NEBRASKA FARMER GORED
TO DEATH BY SAVAGE BULL
W aluH* Neb., Nov. 4.—The county
coroner was yesterday called to Moss
Bluff to hold an Inquest or. the body
of a farmer mimed Flails, who w;\a
gored to death by a savage bull.
C3EAM RATE HELD UP;
NEW DODGE BY ROADS
T.iiii'oln. Nob.. Nov. 4. Traffic: Mali
nger l-lusils of the Burlington has In
formed tlie suite railway <-munlsslon
that his mad cannot pm In force the
new oreatn rate schedule In this slate,
lie Insists that the Injunction granted
by Judge Kolilsaat si I'liicago last sum
mer prevents action by any road enter
ing tlist oily, 'the commission con
ferred with the attorney general and is
considering a plan to prosecute the
load and In lids way lest rights. Kustis
claims Interstate business is affected.
WATERWORKS MEN
INDICTED BY JURY
Dnhudtie. 1 a., Nov. 4. The grand jury
today imliiied Arthur McArthur arid
Pay-son Berg, former supeiintendent
and lolWator of th. city water works,
for embezzlement.
PENNSY DIVIDENDS DECLARED
Philadelphia. Nov. 4. -Tap board of
■directors of the Pennsyiyaula railroad
met at !*:3b a. m. today and declared
the usual semi-annual dividend of T,
per cent.
[HARD BUMP ON HEAD
I GIVES NEBRASKAN „
j MANIA FOR FORGERY
i
Respected Hastings Youth De«
velops Into Criminal After
Falling From Wagon.
Hastings, Neb.. Nov. 2—Since bis fell
from a load of hay, a year ago, Harry
Kilgore, son of a Hastings merchant,
has developed into an inveterate forger.
The insanity board has adjudged him
insane and has committed him to the
asylum for treatment.
lTntll five months ago there hadn’t
been a cleaner, more upright or better
respected young man among the Hast
ings younger set than Kilgore. At that
time he seemed seized of a mania for
Heating worthless palter. The checks,
twenty-seven in all, were all drawn on
his father and cashed by local mer
chants. Tile father took up the checks
as fast us they were presented and the
son escaped prosecution.
Later he went to Illinois and repeated
the performance. He was arrested, but.
liberated through the intercession of his
parents. He was at liberty only long
enough to get to Basin, \Vyo„ where he
was again arrested for the same of
fense. At the request of the young
man's parents Judge Burton, of
Hastings, went to Basin and brought
him home.
An insanity charge was filet] against
him, as evidence indicated plainly that
young Kilgore was bereft of Ills rea
son. When he fell from the loud of
hay he struck on his head and this
was undoubtedly the cause of his recent
strange behavior.
mmn throws up
vSEVEH-INCH FROL
Plattsmoutli, Neb., Nov. 2.—Mary A.
O'Leary, a resident of this city for about
; six years, had a queer experience which
may be interesting to physicians.
On August 27, 1906, Mrs. O’Leary went
to Morecroft. Wyo., where her son-in-law.
C. A. Peterson, was bridge foreman for
the Burlington railroad, and acted in the
capacity of cook for about fifty men. She
is 70 years old. While there she used
.water from a slough and the Belle Fouic’ie
river for cooking and drinking purpose s.
She stayed until December 23, 1906, when
she returned to Plpttsmouth. feeling a
considerable uneasiness in her stomach.
While she had a good deal of distress
she did not call a physician until Febru
ary of this year, when she grew much
! worse. She said something was moving
within her stomach.
The doctor, who is a practioner of con
siderable repute, told her It was not pos
sible for anything alive to stay in the
stomach, as any living thing would be
digested and thereby killed.
She maintained her belief as to the na
ture of the trouble, and after calling the
physician a number of times, discontinued
his services.
Later in the summer, :is her distress
grew worse, she tried first one thing and
then another in an endeavor to obtain
relief, and among other things she tried
whisky, later alcohol diluted. This seemed
to give her more relief than anything
else, but it would only last for a lew
hours or a half day. She would have
choking spells and said that it seemed
as though something was trying to crawl
up her throat. From time to time she
had to increase the doses of alcohol, and
Monday at about 3 o’clock she was feeling
very bad and took a half glass of the
spirits and as much water and drank it.
She vomited a frog which, with its feet
stretched out. measured over seven inches
long. The animal was still alive. I;
was placed in a bottle of alcohol. It is
very light in color. Its skin is almost
gone, but it retains its shape and is in
tact. It can be seen by any one. Since
the expulsion of the animal Mrs. O’Leary
says she does not feel the least bit of the
symptoms which she experienced before.
She filters and boils the water she drinks
now and will from this on.
YORK GIRL STABBED
BY “JACK THE RIPPER’
York, Neb., Nov. 2.—News of the
stabbing of Miss Lois Newman has
been received here by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George J,. Newman. Mips
Newman is employed in Louisville. Ky.,
in a fashionable millinery store, and on
Friday evening, while returning to her
boarding place, she was attacked by a
man. who made a lunge at her with a
knife, and it was jabbed into her
thigh. The streets were crowded, and
although every effort was made to cap
ture the assailant, he escaped.
Miss Newman is well known here
and it is supposed that the assault was
made by a so-called “Jack the Ripper.”
who has made several assaults in
Louisville recently upon women.
SIOUX CITY BRAKEIV5AN
CONVICTED AT OMAHA
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 2. William L.
Williams was convicted of a statutory
offense against Clar Bails, a Yankton
school girl, in less than twenty minutes,
by a jury in Judge Troup's court. Wil
liams was charged with inducing the
girl to run away with him. He brought;
her to Omaha and then deserted her.
He was arrested at Grand Island and
it was later discovered that he has a.
wife and child in Sidney, and. according
to a letter from his father-in-law to the
county attorney, lie deserted them In
Denver some time ago.
FERGUSON BRINGS SUIT
AGAINST LINCOLN TRADESMEN
Lincoln. Neb.. Nov. 2.—Rev, V.\ P.
Ferguson, former pastor of the First
Methodist church of University Place,
has filed in the district court suits for
$5,000 each against the firms of Atwood
& Guile and O. Ft. Smith & Co., of Uni
versity Place. He alleges these firms
attached his furniture to secure the
payment of small bills while he was out
of the city last summer. The mem
bers of the firms w'ere influential in his
congregation.
TELEGRAPHERS SING
STRIKE SWAN SONG
Chicago. Nov. 2.—A closed meet
ing of the Telegraphers’ union will be
held tonight and a proposition to im
mediately terminate the strike will
probably be voted on by secret ballot.
Members of the national and local ex
ecutive boards will a “end the meet
ing, and the feeling among the national
officers is that the Chicago local should
take the lead in ending the struggle,
inasmuch as it began the strike.
; RED CAP, CHIEF OF
j UTES, MAY RE MADE
A FEDERAL PRISONER
Expedition Against Indian*
Stopped---Feared Another
Wounded Knee Massacre.
Cheyenne Agency, via CeUysburg, S.#
D., Nov. 1.—No more picturesque ori
molly crowd of would-be Indian fight
era was ever sent out to quell a dis
turbance than the civilian relief expe-1
dilion sent from here and Forest City,1
across the river, to Thunder Buttes,*
the rendezvous of the rebellious Utej
Indians, eighty miles in the interior.
Armed with anything they could get
their hands on, many carrying merely
a fowling niece, and some having no.
firearms at all, the men calk'd for by
Captain Downs set out to capture In
dians numbering eight times as many,’
and all fully armed. No 'commissary
department was provided by the volun-,
teer militia; most of its members did
not even take overcoats, and all had;
to depend entirely for shelter and sub
sistence on friendly Sioux living along
the line of march.
Recalls Wounded Knes Massacre.
This first expedition sent against the
Utes was very much like the one that
caused the Wounded Knee massacre
several years ago. After sending for
the nrmetj force, Captain Downs has
tened to head it off and not allow the
men to enter the Ute camp. As the ac
cidental discharge of a gun by a civil
ian caused the Wounded Knee mas
sacre, so it was feared that a similar
result would come from the bringing
in of the excited and absolutely un
trained mob of farmers and tradesmen
“aching" to take a shot ar. itn Indian.
In the sullen condition the Utes have
been for some days, one shot from a
white man’s gun would have precipi
tated a free for all fight, in which the
Indians, by force of numbers as well as
by training and natural cunning, would
have sadly worsted the civilians.
Scout Advises Caution.
It was here that Frank Philbrink.
who was a scout with Roosevelt in the
Cuban campaign, showed knowledge of
Indian ways by advising caution, and
it was by his efforts that the council
was secured with Red Cap. the Ute
chieftain.
According to officers at the agency,
Red Cap is at the bottom of tlie w hole
trouble and they state that they ex
pect to have more or less difficulty
with the Utes In the future, unless the
government takes their chief prisoner
and places him in a federal prison. Ma
jor Sibley, who campaigned with Cus
ter and is an old Indian fighter, knows
Red Cap and considers him one of the
most influential chiefs living today,
wielding the power of a Sitting Bull.
Major Sibley is in command of the
troops there.
CUPIC USES RAPID FIRE
IN DAKOTA ROMANCE
Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 1.—Miss Lola
Gaibreath, of Sioux Fails, was one of
the principals in a romantic marriage
which took place at the home of Judge
Gangland near Lake Andes, in Charles
Mix county.
Miss Galbreath recently went (o Lake
Andes to'visit a few days. She was
about to depart for home when Lars
Knudtson, owner of a valuable farm
near Lake Andes, learning that the
young lady might be matrimonially in
clined, drove hurriedly to town and
sought an introduction to her.
He arrived at Lake Andes at about 5
o'clock iu the afternoon and soon after
was introduced to the young woman
by a friend who was acquainted with
her. Knutson pushed his suit with ail
possible vigor, and before the dock
struck fi. or about an hour after his
arrival in town, he had proposed mar
riage to (lie young woman and had
been accepted.
It was a case of love at first sight,
Miss Galbreath being as much smitten
with her ardent wooer as lie was with
her. Bright and early the following
morning Knudtson drove to Wheeler
the county seat, wlier- he procured a
marriage license. The trip was long
and il was not until evening that tie re
turned to Lake Andes. Desiring to he
married by Judge Langland, Knudtson
took his prospective bride into his bug
gy and together they drove to I he home
of the Judge, and at 9 o'clock that even
ing they were pronounced man and
wife.
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CCVOTE HUNT SUCCESSFUL;
RANCHERS PLAN ANOTHER
Belle Fourche. S. D., Nov. l._Wolves
and coyotes were driven to cover and
nearly two scoie of them slain in the
wolf drive held just above this city
The riders, for the sake of protection,
'vere allowed only shotguns and given
their course in the hum. Most of them
returned to the starting point after six
hours hard work, with hides hung over
their saddles. The driv- proved such
sport and so beneficial to the stockmen,
whose cattle have been prey to the uni-'
rnals, that another one has been ar
ranged to take place in two weeks
wlicn idles will be used by the hunters!
They will he out for two days
IN OUEST CF DUCKS,
BOY KILLS HIMSELF
White Rock, S. D., Nov. 1.- Carl An- »
derson, [he 17-year-old son of Otto Am
(let sot;, living a few miles north of thisl
place, accidentally shot himself in the
armpit while hunting ducks, dying
shortly after from loss of blood.
LITTLE KIMBALL CHILD
DIES FROM EURNS
Kimball, S. D.. Nov. l.-W. Richard's
little twin daughter, Dorothv, who was
to baoty burned from her Nothing cateh
lng tire Monday morning, lied late the
same afternoon. The chti.i was fright
fully burned from her knees n, ti,c crown
of her head and beyond human a ,t when
the burning garments wet an dlj vim
pad front Iter and the Karnes xtinguis'lnd
With her twin sister, Dorothy was
Ing in an upper room of tin, house wlur
their mother heard piercing s,•teams , om
its Rom the room. When she leached the
children Dorothy's cloth ng was all ablate
and in stripping the garments trotn t • -
child Mrs. Richards was r.-eif i adiv
burned about the hands.
The twins are a few i..., j,....
S years of age. It is supposed that
were playing with mati
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FIND DEAD MAN
AT ENTRANCE CF HOME
Alcester. S. D„ Nov. cuming
in from the cornfield lav; ,,-.;it ,j
o'clock Willie Peterson, .rt tin Mat I ,
terson place six ittii-m youth west of
Itere. saw what he supposed «,.s a
drunken man lying on t!.o , ,,,-,
by the gate. Upon la, lgatu.il he
lotirui it to ir the <le;;.; ... . ,' ,uu^,.
Shields, a turyenter. \ | i,,,,
working in l:te < nniii... ,y , ,ao,.,
juty Pound lout i.is •! i;.; - . , ,tu.
oat oral causes.