Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
KNEILL, NEBRASKA
The power ot advertising Is told by
a manager of the toiUt department of
• large New York department store.
"We have six different makes of one
toilet article," he said, 'and they ere
bo near alike in quality that even ex
perts can't tell the difference between
them, yet we sell as much of one aa
we do of all the others together, just
because the manufacturer is everlast
ingly advertising It. The other five sell
In proportion to the amount of adver
tising given to them. If there is any
difference in quality It is it. favor of
the poorest seller.”
Accompanied by a friend and wear
ing a brand new hat, an Englishman
entered a restaurant in lteriin one even
ing. The two visitors lingered on and
on until it was very late. When, at
last, they rose to go the Englishman's
bat was not to be found. What sort
of a hat was it. mein hen '.” Inquired
the person in charge. ''It was a new
top hat.” said the Englishman, some
what annoyed. "Ach, but mein herr,
all the new hats have been gone for
half an hour,” said the Herman pla
cidly.
The firRt competition for the Harvard
Menorah society prize will lake place
this year. The prize is $100, which will
be given by Jacob H. Schiff "every
year until further notice" to ihe under
graduate writer of Ihe best essay on a
•ubject connected with Ihe work and
achievements of the Jewish people. The
•tudents at Harvard have received no
tice that essays on subjects which have
been approved by the prize commission
must be handed in not later than
May 1.
The Woman's Trade I'nlon league, of
Chicago, supplies medical consultation
ami advice to working girls who are
members of trade unions for JO cents
• year. The league has announced the
appointment of I>r. Rachel ,c. Karros,
of Hull house, as its staff physician.
Dr. Karros has set aside portions of
three days in each week for these ron
•uitatloris and will give special inten
tion to diseases which are (ho result of
occupations followed by women.
A remarkable piece of work was re
cently shown at a German exhibition In
the shape of a well-execnle-.i landscape
made of colonies of different colored
bacteria thriving in gelatin and meat
extract. The thing was shown at an
exhibition of eccentric art. where there
were also artistic compositions In spin
ach and egg and other effects secured
by resorting to the use of spices of dif
ferent colors Instead of paint.
After live years’ work, Australia's
great transcontinental rabbit-proof
fence has been completed. Its length is
2,038 miles, and the c/ost of Its erec
tion has been nearly £250,000. It Is
furnished at Intervals of five or six
miles with systems of traps, in which
hundreds of rabbits are captured and
destroyed dally. Inside Ihe barrier
there appears as yet no trace of their
presence.
It Is mainly from Africa, America
and Australia that the world draws its
supply of gold, some $400,000,000 worth,
won regularly every year. Africa leads
with about $150,000,000; next comes the
United States with about $05,000,000.
Australia ranks third with nearly $85,
000,000, while Russia, both In Europe
and Asia, Mexico, Canada and several
Other countries make up the remainder.
Few people will have had Ihe courage
to sit down 13 at table for the greet
ings of a new year. Hut live and fifty
years ago Lord Roberts was one of
13 who sat down to dinner on New
Year’s day at Peshawar. Eleven years
latef-—though most of them had been
through the Indian mutiny and half of
them had been wounded—they were all
•live. And Lord Roberts Is still very
much alive.
The reconstruction of the bridge of
“Notre Dame," at Paris, has been com
menced. None of the bridges across
the Seine has undergone more trans
formations than the one which takes
Ms name from the great cathedral.
Originally. like the Ponte Vecehlo. at
Florence, it was covered with houses,
but these were demolished in 1780, just
before the revolution.
Miss Blanch Bates, the actress, in the
course of a luncheon that she gave at
(Kerry's, in New York, to Miss Gerald
M>e Farrar, said a witty thing about
marriage.. "In heaven, we are told.”
■he remarked, "there Is no marriage
nor giving in marriage. No wonder,
when there are not men enough even
here to go round.”
-,.v uviui I rarge. or me
Jesuit order, son of John La Furge the
*reat landscape and flgure painter, has
•ccpted a profesorshlp In modern lan
guages at Loyola college, Baltimore. He
fa one of the youngest priests in the or
der, being only 27 years old. He is
•aid to bear a striking resemblance to
hla father.
October 26 last the Chilean gold peso
•old at a premium of S5 per cent In the
paper currency of the country. This
disturbed business, especially in the ex
port line, aince the beginning of July
the gold peso has been fluctuating be
tween 40 and 55 per cent premium re
cently. when It reached above the
murk.
Members of ihe royal family always
•end their own wine to public dinners
and. In many cases, their own special
brands of cigars also. The wine Is in
the charge of a responsible servant in
the employ of the royal household,
whose duty it is to stand behind the
chair of his master and wait upon
Hashish has the power of inducing
Bleep and producing pleasant and fan
tastic dreams. Continued use of it
renders Its devotees wild and restless
•ml results in a complete wreck of
their mental und physical constitution
*er this reason the Egyptian govern
ment has prohibited the importation of
the drug.
Senator Stephenson, of Wisconsin. Is
one of the best evidences of the self
made man in the Senate. His father
was 80 poor that when lie was a boy he
bad to go barefooted even In winter. Mi
ls one of three new senators who was
old enough to take part in the civil
war and the only one who did not.
In various Mexican states the som
brero is to be placed tinder a heavy
tax. In hope, it Is said, of abolish
ing it entirely. This hut often (o.-ns so
much that the workingman spends e
year’s wages for it. The tax takes the
form of a llcens?, with a number af
fixed.
Vladtmar Poulsm, the Danish in
ventor, who Is only 28 y. ars old, is the
•on of a Judge In thu high criminal
court, of Copenhagen. lie has sue
ceded In making » It. 1. as tel pnono
connection between Linsby and Weis
•iiusi, a distance of 250 miles.
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NEBRASKA COURT
RULES AGAINST
DOUBLE TAXATION
Says Assessor Cannot Make
Wealth Spring Up Where
It Does Not Exist.
Lincoln, Neb., March 24.—The su
preme court has unfolded some new
law on the matter of taxation. When
Judge A. R. Oleson, of Cuming county,
met the assessor last year that officer
insisted upon putting him down for
$3,500 worth more of property than
the Judge believed he possessed. Some
time before the Judge had sold a farm
in Stanton county, and taken in part
payment a mortgage for $3,500. A lit
tle later he bought another farm and
as part payment he executed a mort
gage for $3,500 upon It. He desired
to offset, on the tax list, the mortgage
he owned against the one he owed,
but the assessor insisted that as the
law said he must pay taxes on money
loaned and Invested, he would have
to list that mortgage he owned. The
district court held the same way. Ole
son appealed to the supreme court.
That tribunal says that it was no
part of the intention of the legislators
when they enacted the new revenue
law to put Into the hands of the as
sessors a magician's wand, to make
wealth spring up where it did not exist,
to make $7,000 where only $3,500 really
is. It. holds that a note and mortgage
taken in exchange for property is not
"money loaned and invested” within
the statute, but Is a "credit." from
which the holder may deduct the just
debts by him owing at the time of
making his tax returns.
OMAHA ATTORNEY-'
TO NOMINATE BRYAN
Lincoln, Neb,, March 24.—Ignatius J.
Dunn hast been selected b v the Nebra
ka delegation to the national democrat
ic convention at Denver to nominate
William J. Bryan for president of the
United States. Mr. Dunn is one of the
four delegates at large selected by the
Nebraska convention. He is city at
torney of Omaha and has been Identi
fied with democratic politics In his
home state for 12 years. He Is a strong
supporter of Mr. Bryan, a brilliant or
ator and an attorney of high standing
In Omaha.
During the internal dissensions which
have rent the democratic party from
time to time he has managed to strike
a happy medium and now represents a
united party In Nebraska. Unassuming
and of a quiet disposition, Dunn Is
nevertheless considered equal to the oc
casion for which he has been selected.
He has a well rounded, clear voice and
will be able to make himself heard, lu
all parts of the big auditorium,
THREE PRISONERS ^
ASK PARDON FROM
NEBRASKA “PEN”
Lincoln, Neb., March 24.—Governor
(Sheldon is at Ihe penitentiary today
hearing Ihe requests of three prison
ers for pardons. One comes from a
tramp named Sullivan, who pleaded
guilty to killing a pal at Sidney, while
a mob outside the court house was
clamoring for a chance to get at him.
Now he says he wasn't guilty, and two
of his companions, also serving time,
have made affidavit that he didn't do
the killing. Prank W. Woods, who
stole $4,000 from the keeper of a Craw
ford house of ill fame, money she had
sewed up In un old skirt, wants out.
He had been an associate of the wom
an, but happened to pull off his stunt
at a time when a law enforcement de
mand was virulent, and the presiding
judge recommends mercy for him. The
other prisoner, Robert Howard, shot at
a bartender in Kearney because he had
been told he roughly treated his young,
er brother.
TWO CHILDREN BURN
TO DEATH IN FIRE
THEY KINDLED
Lincoln. Neb, March 24—Two children
aged 4 and 6 respectively, of John Hofr,
six miles south of Geneva, Neb,, were
incinerated this morning when the barn
burned. The children were playing with
matches.
CROFTON POSTMASTER
HAS BEEN REMOVED
Crofton, Neb,, March 24. -Postmaster
O. R. Robinson lms been "removed for
cause" and Chas. Ruden appointed as
his successor.
TUKIu PLEASED WITH
FLEET S ACCEPTANCE
Tnkio, March 24. - 'Die American
government’s acceptance o£ Japan’s
official invitation to the battleship ileet
to visit Japanese ports, was received
with every evidence of gratification
whin communicated to the foreign of
fice and i he naval department by the
Associated Press. Today being a na
tional holiday, all departments were
closed. Foreign Minister Hayashi re
ceived tlie Associated Press correspon
dent at the official residence and said:
"It affords me and the people of Ja
pan much satisfaction to know that
our invitation nus been accepted so
promptly. 1 placed the matter before
the cabinet March IS, and the ministers
unanimously adoptcu it. Instructions
were sent to Ambassador Takahira
March 10 to extend the Invitation.
”1 believe that Ihe visit of the Ileet
will afford opportunity to demonstrate
the sineei lly of Japan’s friendship for
America and her appreciation of the
courtesy of the attitude of the admin
, istration and congress. A full recep
j lion program wilt be prepared late;.”
TO SURVEY LOGAN CREEK
A DISTANCE OF 75 MILES
Oakland, Neb.. March 24:—Thera was
a large and enthusiastic crowd present
I at the meeting here for the purpose of
perfecting an organization for the
straightening and di citing of the Lo
gan. II P Shumw’ay. of Wakefield,
was elected president, and E. Morrill,
of Oakland, seon taiy. J. J. McCarthy
was present and delivered an address,
after which lie v s instructed to get
the government to sutvey the Eogan
i from its mouth in Dodge county to
j Concotd, a dis ance of about 75 miles.
COURT’S DECISION
CHEATS HANGMAN’S
NOOSE OF VICTIM
Sentence of John Hamblin, Who
Murdered Sweetheart at
; Grand Island, Commuted.
Lincoln, Neb.. March 23.- Join. G.
Hamblin, who murdered his sweetheart.
Rachel Kngle, at Grand island August
3. 1906, has been saved from the hang
man's noose by the supreme court.
Judge Reese, who wrote the opinion,
says that the man’s physical and men
tal condition make It necessary to hold
that he shall not be hanged, but "that
they also fully persuade the court that
he should never be given his liberty, for
he would be a menace to those with
whom he should associate.”
Hamblin shot the girl In a fit of an
ger. She lingered for six months, a vic
tim of paralysis. Her mother broke a
glass catheter while attending the girl,
and the broken part not being extract
ed peritonitis set In and she died.
Hamblin's attorneys sought to get their
client freed of responsibility for her
death because the shot was not the di
rect cause of her death.
This idea is shattered by the supreme
court, which holds that the person pri
marily responsible for the conditions
leading to death Is not exculpated be
caust ihe direct cause of death was
something else »Ith which he had uoth-.
Ing to do.
DIVORCE FOLLOWS
A DISAPPEARANCE
Wayne, Neb., March 23.—Mrs. Caro
line Trenn, of Winside, has been grant
ed a divorce from her husband, C. Wil
liam Trenn, in the district court of
Wayne county, after a year’s efforts
to solve the mysterious disappearance
of her husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Trenn were married
three years ago and lived In Winside
apparently happy and contented. One
day about a year ago, Trenn informed
his wife that he "was going lo ran
down to Sioux City and look around a
little,” and giving her an affectionate
kiss and telling her not to be lone
some, he left town and has never re
turned. Not a word or message from
him has ever been received. No reason
can be given for his disappearance for
he had no financial or other troubles
as far as can be learned. His wife
is confident that he is dead. He was
seen some lime after his disappearance
In Sioux City by two Winside par
ties.
Trenn is about 33 years old, congen
ial and “sunny,” a member of several
secret orders and a butcher by trade.
His parents reside at Ponca and they
claim to know' nothing about his where
abouts.
FATHER SCHELL GETS
BUSY IN WISCONSIN
Madison, Wis., March 23/—Rev. Jo
seph Schell, the fighting priest, has
made good again. Through his per
sistence. indictments have been re
turned against some of the officers of
the national bank that failed at Lady
smith, WIs., in June, 1905.
The failure antedated the appearance
on the scene of Father Schell as the
priest of the parish. When he came he
found that some of the parish funds
had been involved In the failure, and
that an examination of the bank’s ad
ministration has resulted in a report
indicating that there was work to do
for the federal grand jury.
Then all official interest In the affair
appeared to languish. Father Schell
got busy at once. He knew just how
to go at It, for he was the prime mover
in the Oregon timber fraud prosecu
tions and in a federal investigation
which disclosed abuses in the handling
of Indian funds on a northern Nebras
ka reservation. He appealed to the
district attorney to act, and when noth
ing came of it ho carried the case to
ttie department of Justice at Washing
ton.
Still there was delay, and, the fight
ing priest addressed the president—and
kept at it.
As a result of it all, the federal grand
jury sitting at Madison, returned in
dictments based on the bank failure,
and G. E. Newman, president of the
Ladysmith National bank, and former
Assemblyman Leroy McGill, vice presi
dent, were arrested on the charge of
making false reports to the govern
ment. They appeared before Judge A.
L. Sanborn here today and entered a
plea of not guilty. The trials will be
held at Eau Claire in June. Bail of
$2,000 was furnished.
J. A. Corbett, cashier of the bank,
who was also Indicted, is in the sttite
of Washington, and arrangements will
be made for him to enter his plea there
without coming here until June.
BERLIN WRITERS IN
ROW WITH REICHSTAG
Berlin, March 23.—There was an up
roar in the relchstag during the debate
on the colonial budget, when Herr Erz
berger, centrist, in a speech referring
to the government's treatment of ne
groes In ihe colonies, made use of the
phrase, "A negro has an immortal
soul.”
As the speaker paused after this re
mark. jeering expressions were heard
from the gallery, some of which ap
peared to come from the room set
apart for the press. The centrist party
Immediately rose to Its feet In Indigna
tion, and Herr Brober, the center lead
er, pointed to the journalistic tribune
and shouted the word "Swine!"
This resulted In a general uproar,
whereupon the president rang the bell
and threatened to dear the galleries.
Later the representatives of the press
met and passed a resolution of pro
test. which was read to the house by
M. P. Mueller, member from Meiningen.
Th- president of the house then made
a statement which did not satisfy- the
journalists. They again met and voted
to po on strike unless an adequate
apology was made for the Insult to the
newspaper profession. A deputation
was sent to tin- president lo inform
lil-u of this decision.
ITALIAN WARSHIP 7s
ORDERED TO HAYTI
New Orleans March 23.—In Lie midst
of a banquet last nig.-.t by the Italian
residents of New Orleans, the officers
of the Italian cruiser Etruria were In
terrupted by a message from their gov
ernment ordering the warship to pro
ceed at once to Port au Prince. Hayti,
lo protect the Italian citizens there 11.
Ihe event that disorders should become
more seuous. The Etruria has been
here for several weeks. Officers of
liie warship said the vessel would !ea\e
'or us soon as they could obtain
a IUn supply uf coal.
NEBRASKA JOBBERS
TO OPPOSE DISTANCE
TARIFF IN STATE
Claim Trade Will Be Diverted
te Sioux City, Minneapolis
and Kansas City.
Lincoln, Neb., March 21.—The 10 cities
in Nebraska which now enjoy jobbing
rates will make a united protest to the
state railway commission at the gen
eral hearing next Monday against in
troducing the distance t-ariff on freight
shipments within the state. These 10
are Omaha. South Omaha, Lincoln,
Beatrice, Fremont, Nebraska Clty,
Grand Island, Hastings, Norfolk and
Kearney. They will be opposed by half
a dozen other cities which want the
chance to become wholesale centers and
which are shut out of the opportunity
of commercial growth.
One of the bugbears is that if the dis
tance tariff is inaugurated the trade
now held by some of these cities, es
pecially in northern Nebraska, will be
dispersed and scattered to the material
advantage of Sioux City and Minneap
olis, and in southern Nebraska It will
give St. Joseph and Kansas City un
due advantages.
The opposition is based on the fa
miliar objection that it will be such a
radical departure from existing rates
and trade conditions that it will be a
serious blow to jobbing and manufac
turing industries built up under present
rates. The demand for l he distance
tariff Is led by the Commercial club ot
Fairbury, which insists that the com
mission has no right to recognize con
clusively old conditions as good condi
tions, and that the only test it can ap
ply is whether or not there is any dis
crimination.
FARMER, INSANE,
BLOWS HEAD OFF
Lincoln, Neb., March 21.—John Kreit
ner, a well-to-do farmer living south
east of Adams, Gage county, killed him
self this morning by blowing his head
off with a shotgun. He is supposed To
have been mentally deranged. The
tragedy occurred In a corn crib.
IOWA EDITORS TO
MEET AT WEBSTER CITY
Webster City, la.. March 21.—The
Upper Des Moines Editorial association
will meet here March 26 and 27. The
program:
Thursday Evening—Association sup
per. Address, "The Newspaper's Rela
tion to the Enforcement of the Law,"
Attorney General H. W. Byers.
Friday Morning—"Hand vs. Machine
Composition:" (a) "The Linotype,”
Frank E. Stouffer, Sac Sun; (b) "The
Simplex," W. I. Branagan, Emmets
burg Democrat; (c) "The Junior Lino
type,” P. H. McCarthy, Rock Rapids
Review; (d) "The Improved Topo
graph," H. V. Chapin, Mapleton Press;
"State Fair Advertising." J. L. Long.
Osceola Sentinel; “Best Means of Stim
ulating Advertising," Janies E. Down
ing, Fort Dodge Messenger; "Is Editor
ial Expression on Questions of Public
Concern an Essential Part of a Country
Paper?" Frank Jaqua, Humboldt Re
publican; "The New Postoffice Ruling,”
J. W. Jarnagin, Cedar Falls Record.
Friday Afternoon—Business; reports
of committees; election of officers: se
lection of place for next meeting; “In
creasing Cost of Getting Out a Paper;
How Is It to Be Met?” Milton Starr,
Upper Des Moines Republican; "The
Newspapers and the Newspaper Men of
the Scandinavian Counties," C. W.
Wennerstrom, Des Moines.
SCHOOLS CROWDED, BUT
TOWN REFUSES TO BUILD
Hoskins, Neb., March 21.—Although
the Hoskins village schools are so
crowded that it is necessary to use a
church to accommodate the overflow,
an effort to vote bonds for the the pur
pose of building a new school house
was defeated after a bitter fight.
DEVOTED IN LIFE;
IN DEATH TO LIE
BY FIRST LOVES
Chicago, March 21.—Although deeply
devoted to each other during the eight
years of their married life, Louis and
Mary Larson of 257 Farqnhar st., each
is to be placed in death, close to the
body of the first love. Mrs. Larson
died of pneumonia Monday at the Lar
son iesidence, and her husband, over
come by grief and worry, succumbed to
the same disease Tuesday.
In accordance with a compact be
tween the couple, Mrs. Larson's body
was buried today at the Forest Home
cemetery beside that of her first hus
band. Charles Coban, while the body of
Mr. Larson will be interred in Grace
land cemetery on Friday in a grave be
side that of Amelia Krickson-Larson,
his first wife.
A FRENCH ESTIMATE
OF THE PRESIDENT
Paris. March 21.—The Temps today
publishes an article on President
Roosevelt from the pen of Andre Tar
dieu, its foreign editor, who has just
returned to Paris from America, where
he was received by President Roose
velt three times.
After picturing the president's youth
ful vigor and his love for struggles
against wrongs, abuses, Tardieu quotes
from the president's utterances to him,
especially in connection with his ''cru
sade." The president declared his strug
gle against plutocracy was because he
was an enemy of socialism and an
archy.
"I pm, after my fashion, a conserva
tive," Tardieu quotes Roosevelt as say
ing. "And It is for this I combat the
abuses of plutocracy. I know people
that think I am a good patriot. 1 am
not a sentimentalist. Let them attack
me. I will defend myself by appealing
to the spirit of justice in the country.
] will return the blows."
WILL FIGhTsUNDAY
BASEBALL AT LINCOLN
Lincoln, Neb., March 21.—Sheriff II.
V. Hoaglund today declared that he
would attempt to enforce the Sunday
baseball statute in Lancaster county.
Guy Green, manager of the Lincoln
Western league team, has secured an
■option on a park a short distance from
the ci'y and is trying to inaugurate
.Sunday baseball. The sheriff says he
will arrest the players.
PROHIBS PLAN A
MONSTER PARADE OF
SCHOOL CHILDREN
Question at Lincoln Has Nar
rowed Down to Saloons or
No Saloons.
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—Tlie pro
hibition campaign in Lincoln is to be
enlivened by a monster parade of Sun
day school children that will traverse
the principal streets and which is ex
pected to stL- the city to Its circumfer
ence. The parade will be led by a
chorus of 1,000 boys and girls singing
prohibition songs, and here and there
in the parade will be great banners
making a plea for votes on the ground
that these children need protection
from the open saloon.
The indications now are that pro
hibition will be adopted by the voters.
The excise board sought to divert the
issue by adopting a rule providing for
daylight saloons only, but the lawyers
seem agreed upon the proposition that
under the law, after the petition ask
ing for submission of no license had
been filed, the board was deprived of
power to make any new rules for a
year, which means that the issue is
narrowed down to saloons or no sa
loons.
This will be Hie first trial of the In
itiative and referendum in Nebraska
it was adopted by the city a year ago
and under it the people, by petition
ha\;e initiated an ordinance refusing
saloon licenses, which, if adopted, be
comes the law without any action bj
the excise Doard or other municipal au
thorlty.
SCOTCHMAN RETURNS TO
NATIVE LAND TO FIGHT
AVinside, Nob., March 20.—Declaring
that there wili soon be a great war be
tween Great Britain and the United
States. John Lawson, a Scotchman, has
sold his blacksmith shop in this p'ace
and will return to his native land “'c
be leady to fight for his country."
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BOCHE GETS TEN
YEARS IN "PEN.’
Norfolk, Neb., March 20.—Herman
Boche has been sentenced to 10 years
in the penitentiary at hard labor for
killing Prank Jarmer a year ago
Manslaughter was the verdict of the
Jury and the sentence imposed by
Judge AVelch Is the maximum limit.
Sentence has been suspended 10 days
until Bocbe’s attorneys can file a peti
tion with the supreme court for an
appeal.
CHORUS GIRLS IN
A LONG DISTANCE
KISSING CONTEST
1
New York. March 20.—How would
this look on canvas, that is, if some
artist could paint it?
Three dozen young and pretty :
: chorus girls, masked above the :
: chin, but not so much below, in :
a long distance kissing contest :
on a ball room floor, with :
Sheriff Tc m Foley as judge—the :
old rascal. :
All these young women, who figure
they can kiss just as long and ardently
as Mary Garden, Sophia Brandt, Olga
Nethersole, and any of the other spir
itual osculators, will make this “Soul
kiss contest” such a delightful dream,
they say, that even the triple bass
drums from the Hippodrome baud will
not pound ’em apart. And, mind you
these gills usually make good.
All of which is intended as a feature
of the annual mask ball of chorus girls
at the Amsterdam opera house Satur
day night
ENGLISH PREMIER
IS NEAR|DEATH
London, March 20.—The strength of (
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is ebb
ing daily and his friends take the
gravest view of the dropsical symptoms
which have appeared in his extrem
ities.
There was much speculation in the
lobbies of parliament this evening with
regard to the coining cabinet changes.
It is understood with the Accession of
Herbert H. Asquith to the premiership
there will be a reconstruction, the
marquis of Ripon and Sir Henry Fowler
both retiring on account of advanced
age. and Winston Spencer Churchill,
under secretary for the colonies, and
Sir Walter Runcima, financial secre
tary of the treasury, being promoted to
cabinet rank.
MRS. GOULD S SISTER
SPURNS HER CHARITY
Sari Francisco, Cal., March 20.—Mrs
Howard Gould, of New York, has of
fered to share her portion of her bus
hand’s wealth with her sister, Mrs.
Wong Sun Yue, of San Francisco, tc
give her protection and a home.
From ihe bedside of her ill and pen
niless Chinese husband, Mrs. Wong Sun
Yue has sent an answering message:
"No!” :
These two women had held no com
munication for tight years. The si
lence has been broken by an acquain
tance of Mrs. Wong Sun Yue, who
wrote recently to Mrs. Howard Gould
begging her to save her sister from
want.
Mrs. Gould replied that she woulc
gladly extend aid to her sister, that
upon the condition she come alone
she would send a check for immediate
use. for clothing and other personal
necessities.
Mrs. Yue said she was grateful for
her sister’s generous offer, but she
loved her husband and would rather
starve with him than desert him.
NEW YORK CENTRAL
CUTS ITS DIVIDEND
New vork. March 20.—The New York
(>i tral today declared quarterly divi
dends of 1 ’4 per cent, a reduction of
1per cent as compared with the last
quarterly dividend.
SENATOR PENROSE ILL.
Philadelphia. March 20.—United
States Senator Penrose is confined to
his home sufftiihs from a severe attack
of £ilp.
EXPRESS COMPANIES
NOT MAXING MUCH
MONEY IN NEBRASKA?
Declare Enforcement of Sibley
Law Would Be Disastrous
to Business.
Lincoln. Neb.. fdaroh 19.—If he rail
way commission insists upon enforcirg
the Sibley law it will bring great
monetary loss to the five express com
panies doing business in Nebraska
This fact was communicated to the
state supreme court this morning by
the legal representatives of those cor
porations.
They assert that they wouid very
greatly like 10 oblige the state by re
ducing the carrying charges 25 per rent,
as the Sibley law provides, but it. would
be so disastrous to business interests
that they don't feel like making the
experiment. The Pacific says it re
ceived for transportation of express
matter in Nebraska last year 1169,019,.
and paid out $154,535. A 25 per cent re
duction would mean a loss of nearly
$1,500. The American took in $136,0(1®
and paid out $127,000. To obey the iaw
would incur a deficit of $4,000. The
Weils-Fargo lost $700 last year and the
United Slat's $400, under present rates,
while the Adams says a 25 per cent
’■eduction would mean a $20,000 deficit
tor it.
The state’s attorney suspects that in
making these computations the com
pany has not fairly divided the expense
account between the Nebraska business
and that with other states, and asks a.
referee to be named to go into the
company’s accounts' and make report.
Commissioner Williams takes the
stand that the rates should be per
mitted to go into effect for a specified
term, believing that the increase in the
volume of business will demonstrate to
the express companies, as It did to the
railroads with the 2-cent fare, that re
duced rates is a great stimulus to busi
ness. The companies decline this prop
osition. and want the' court to enjoin
the enforcement of the law.
One feature of the case that is call
ing for some comment is that the state
is represented by special counsel in the
person of Ha Deck F. Rose, who was
recently'named as counsel for the Bur
lington Railroad company, which is
chief owner of the Adams Express
company.
ANOTHER MYSTERY
PUZZLES OFFICIALS
Hartington. Neb., March 19.—The sud
den disappearance of Michael Kaiser
and the strange actions of the man
who it is reported bought the Kaiser
farm are causing considerable anxious
comment iri the north part of the
county, where Kaiser had been living
on a small farm, a few miles east of
Aten.
In the early part of this winter, a
stranger came to Kaiser's place, asked
for work, and was given a job. Two
weeks ago Kaiser stated that lie had
sold the farm to the stranger, and since
that time has not been seen by the
neighbors. Even a brother living in
the community says he knows nothing
of his whereabouts. The stranger is in
possession of the farm and orders
everyone who comes to the place to
leave at once, nourishing a gun or an
ax as an indication that he means what
he commands.
The people residing in that section
are positive that Kaiser, who is weak
minded, lias been buncoed out of his
farm, and his sudden disappearance
and the stranger's behavior has given
rise to many rumors.
ESCAPES FROM SHERIFF
ON WAY TO SUPPER
Bloomfield, Neb., March 19.—John
Decker's farm home, nine miles north
west of Bloomfield, was broken into
Thursday night, the thieves taking a
trunk, rocker and all the bedding. K.
J. Startzer, who rented the farm and
was just moving in, discovered the
theft and tracked the wagon, in which
the plunder was hauied away, to a
farm 15 miles southwest of town, near
Morrillville, occupied by Dave Rodgers
and Will Wilson, where the goods were
found. Both were arrested, also Pat
O’Donovan, who, (hey claim, brought
the stolen articles to their farm and
requested storage for a few days.
Saturday evening, when O’Donovan
and Wilson were taken from the jail
to Maxwell’s restaurant for supper.
O’Dnovan made a successful break for
liberty. At the preliminary hearing the
bonds of Wilson and O’Donovan were
fixed at $500, in default of which they
were locked up.
NEBRASKA ATTORNEY
IN CONSULAR SERVICE
Tekamah. Neb.. March 19.—Attorney
P. E. Taylor, of Tekamah, who is weil
known in North Nebraska political cir
cles, has received notice of his ap
pointment for examination for the con
sular service. He secured the appoint
ment through the efforts of the Ne
braska congressional delegation and
leading politicians of the state.
FLEET CAN SAIL TO
ANY PART OF GLOBE „
Magdalena Bay. March 19.—"The xrij
from Hampton Roads to Magdalena
Bay has demonstrated that the At
lantic fleet can go to any part of the
world if coal is provided.' declared
Captain E. R. Ingersoll, chief of staff
to Rear Admiral Evans, today when
asked for a statement by the Associ
ated Press. I’pon Captain Ingersoll de
volved a large portion of the work of
executing the cruise. i
"The plans formulated last August,"
he continued, "for coaling on the pres
ent cruise, provided for the use of St)
tons per steaming mile. Then there
was added eight additional tons daily
for various necessary allowances. We
found we were able to keep well within
this estimate and maintain a 10-krior
speed. Arrangements for coaling . ;
all our various stops have been carried*
out and the plans have proved entirelv
adequate.
“The supply ship loads and provisions
for the fleet were computed as was th<
coal estimate and submitted to the de
partment. These nave worked out to
perfection."
WOODWARD’S ASSAILANT
ON TRIAL FOR MURDER
Kansas City. March 19.—The trial
Of Genera! K. c. Home, charged with ;„e
killing of II. J. '>toves, managing editor
of the Kansas City Post, has begun In
the criminal court here.
On November 23 last General Horne,
who was vice president of the Post Pub
lishing company, shot Graves, managing
editor, and wounded O. D. Woodward, a.
part owner. Groves died three days later
but Woodward recovered. Horne, who had
Invested Ills savings in the paper, asserted
he had been robtKj,