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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1908)
THE O’NEILL FRONTIER O. H. CRONIN. Publisher. PNEILL, NEBRASKA Writing from Jerusalem to a friend In New York. Adolf Stirner. who made * tour of the United States last year to study economic and social conditions, says: I know the energy and the creative power of your people. New: states, great railroads, monster works of engineering and architecture a « taken a.s matters of course and excite little comment. But when I see what Is being done here 1 must reserve a fraction of enthusiasm for the people of Jerusalem. They are not goaded on by competition, and their surroundings make for indolence and stagnation. Nevertheless, a spirit of progress has developed which commands respect. If you lived here you would know what a new house in Jerusalem means, and you would stand aghast, as I did when I was told that 200 had been completed In the last three months." The Oaulols, of Paris, has been en tertaining Its readers with a patent leather taint story. It seems thru every ■lx months each sewer man of Paris receives a pair of heavy boots. At the end of the period these articles are ■worthless as far rts the original pur pose is concerned, but they have act ually increased in value. The old boots ■re sold to the leather dressers. It is ■aid, as the conditions under which they have been used make the leather peculiarly adapted for conversion into patent leather for dress shoes. Frederick van Krden's drama. "The Promised Band." which had its first performance before the Nederland Ton eel veree-niglng at Amsterdam recently, has been the theme of considerable dis cussion. A Berlin paper in Its account of the first performance says: The central feature of the play Is a com munist community. This and the con trast shown between the Christian and the anarchist view of the world and so ciety can not fall to Interest an audi ence." The carnahubn palm of Brazil is said to be the world's most useful tree. It gives everything from medicine to cat tle food. Its roots make a valuable drug, a blood purifier. Its timber takes ■ high polish and Is in demand among cabinet makers for fine work. The sap becomes wine or vinegar, according to the way it Is prepared, and starch and sugar are also obtained from this sap. The fruit of the tree is a cattle food, the nut Is a gtsjd coffee substitute and the pith makes corks. The work of cutting and polishing the great Cullfnan diamond for King Ed ward has begun at the Asoher factory, In Amsterdam. It is expected that nearly a year will elapse before the process can be completed. The diamond In the rough measured four and a half Inches across. No visitor is now al lowed to enter this part of the factory without Identification. The work goes on In a strong room closely guarded. With a total population of 43,659,121. the United Kingdom expended for liquors of all kinds during 1906 the sum of $809,681,829. or an average of $18 per capita. Of (his amount $495,187,316 Was spent for beer, the quantity con sumed being 33.S91.101 barrels; $253. S01.812 for spirits, or 39,302.402 gallons; 163,992.951 for wine, or 12.328,691 gal lons. and $7,299,750 for other liquors, or JE,000,000 gallons. ——— • ♦ -— In American secondary schools In the year 1906 there were 925,000 pupils— 742,000 at the public high schools and •nly 183,000 at private schools of all kinds. Many thousands of these lat ter were In the preparatory depart ments of the numerous small colleges all over the land, but largely In the South and West. The majority were In the private schools in the large Cities. Having been fined for neglect of duty. • postal subordinate in India addressed his chief in the following terras: "Your honor may be right, I may be wrong;, 1 may be right and your honor wrong,: let honor give me back the tine, and: then at day of resurrection, when all! kearts will be open, if I am wrong, I1 will most gladly, sir, return your honor the money.” Public streets in the towns of Java «re daily swept and kept clean by na tive convict*. They go to work chained together in parties of 20 or 30, under the superintendence of barefooted native soldiers clad in ill-littlng uniforms, who would Instantly shoot their charges down If they tried to escape during their working time, when they are un chained. Lieutenant General Francois Jouher Plenaar, who worried the British forces exceedingly during the Boer war, but who is a most loyal subject of Edward VII nowadays, is coming to Washing ton to have an audience with the presi dent, and to see if he cannot interest 14r. Roosevelt in his crusude against slavery and its kindred atrocities in the Portguese Colony of Angola in West Africa. Wissen feur Alle had a symposium to -discuss the value of salt in digestion. One of the physicians wrote that, while •alt in moderation is good for the stom ach, and often absolutely necessary, it ought to be taken apart from'the meals, In much the same way as medi cine. He baseB his judgment < n 'he way artificial digestion proceeds in the presence of marine salt. From the year 1890 to the close of 190fi 22,840 men met death in the coal mines of the United States. Net since 1897 has the annual list numbered less than 1.000, and each year the number has grown larger. In 1906 the fatalities were 2,061 and 1907, when the figures •re all In and compiled, will number more than that, A new British rapid-fire gun, de scribed in the March number of Pop ular Mechanics, contains eight barrels, arranged In two tiers of four, and wtli discharge 460 shots a minute, its great est feature is the patent cooling cham ber. which allows it to be fired for on unlimited time without becoming overheated. Mrs Elizabeth Custer Intends to built; • home for Impoverished literary wom en as n memorial to her husband, whr fell In the Little Big Horn tight wltt the Indians 29 years ago. Mrs Cuatei has recently bought a site for the pro pose,I home In Bronxvll.'e, Westehestei count. New York An old broken Roman case, suppose, to be 1,879 years old. width was casu ally picked from the ruins of tb- ,,ai MC<' of the Roman Emperor Callgul; •e-ora! years ago by W. M. Milne Lie Angeles, is now sought liy the li'ai.ai piv.miWBt and Is believed to be o very great historic value. Representative Xehemluh V. Sperry ®f Connecticutt, is the oides. u an It th. ilouse of Kepreaentntiv- a. He wll be 81 years old in June. This is hi •< venth term He was postmaster li New Haven under I.lnioin. and Iitlpe to niitke ttu- Monitor possible. SHALL PHYSICIANS HAVE PASTEBOARDS OR GO PASSLESS? Statu* of Special Passe* Comes Up for Adjudication in Nebraska Court. Lincoln, Neb., Apr!! 7.—When If h pun* not a pu(w is the question being debated today before Judge Cornish. of the criminal division of the Lancaster district court. The Union Pacific Hail road company, which ha.s objections to going 10 jail because it issued a pass to pr. F. A. Graham, its local surgeon raised a point that because the law makes the giving of a ‘free" pass a misdemeanor it cannot be punished be cause Graham agreed in his contract to perform medical services when called upon In return for the bit of paste board. Besides, says the company, the law Is ambiguous and a violation of the right of contract. The attorney general contends that if a railroad company has the right to make such a contract with a surgeon or a lawyer, it also has the right to make it with a politician, and as the aim of the law was to put the railroads out of politics and place everybody on an equal footing, to permit a construc tion that wouTd allow a political boss to contract for a pass in return for services he may render will make the Jaw inoperative. What hurts the railroad company most is that its ninety doctors are all afraid to take a pass because of the penalties that may follow, and as the company needs their services now and then they insist on pay equal to tha value of the pass to them. DRUGGIST WOULD FORFEIT LOT TITLES THROUGH CONVICTION Wullhill. Neb.. April 7.—O. A. Boughn ind VV. R. Ream, the two WalthIU druggists who were arrested last week for bootlegging, are facing u more ser .otis proposition. The deeds of the WalthIU townsite property provide that If any liquor is ever sold on (he premises conveyed, the same shall he forfeited lo the orig inal owner and this provision was re quired before the department of the Interior would approve the deeds. It is known positively that the government does not propose to allow Ibis restric tion to become a dead letter. Its rep resentative here In charge of the prose cution will give no promises of im munity. He can. If he wishes, Insti tute proceedings for the forfeiture of property owned by all those proven guilty. Boughn could lose 510.0(10 and Ream 53,500 by such action. The secret service official has gone to Omaha to appear before the fed eral grand jury and It Is likely that many Indictments will follow. DISGRACE SAID TO BE KILLING EDMISTEN Lincoln, Neb., April 7.—His Indict ment at the hands of the federal grand Jury on the charge of being Impli atcd in land frauds, has brought J. Harley Kdmisten, for years state chair man of the populist committee, to the verge of a nervous breakdown. He Is at Ills home here a victim of pro found melancholia, unable to obtain sleep save by the use of opiates, and hts physician says that If his brooding aver his troubles cannot be stopped, he fears for the worst. Kdmisten was a big cattleman in western Nebraska, and his Indictment came as a thunderclap. He was re leased on $10,000 ball, but when his case was called for trial he could not be found. Friends had taken him to Florida in the hope of restoring his health, but he refused to stay there, and a few days ago got on a train without saying a word to any one «>nd returned to Nebraska. His bond has been forfeited, and the federal of ficials say they w*H refuse to consent to the default being set aside, not withstanding Kdmisten's return. . Kdmisten was one of the best poli ticians the state has ever produced, and almost every winning campaign thi populists fought In the ’90s was under hts direction as chairman. MISUSED THE MAILS WITH NATURE PICTURES Lincoln. Neb.. April 7—Herman Lach mund, a farm hand, has been arrested for sending obscene matter through the mails. Lachmund sent a number of pictures of "nature scenes" on post cards to his friends throughout the United States. TWO POSTMASTERS JUMPED THEIR JOBS Coleridge, Neb., April 7.—O. Ritchie, postmaster at Coleridge, and Will Havekost, postmaster at Fordyce, have resigned. —♦— GIRLS FOLLOW FLAGS AND ATLANTIC FLEET Omaha, Neb., April 7. Misses Louise McPherson and Marie Mi Shane, popular society girls of this city, have secured permission from the govern ment to follow the Pacific fleet around the world. They will sail on a mail steamer In June and follow the course of the fleet until It has made the complete circuit and returned to the home ports. ROBBERS MAKE ANOTHER HAUL IN OKLAHOMA Muskogee, Okia.. April 7.-—Robbers blew open the safe of ihe Hank of Mounds, at Mounds. Okia., 30 miles west of here, ob tained $3,400 in currency and silver and es caped. When the charge which opened the safe was set off the detonation awakened half of the town, but the robbers kept up a constant fusillade from behind a barri cade of barbed wire, barrels and boxes which they had erected in the street, and then retreated to their horses in safety. Posses were Immediately organised and arc in pursuit* of the robbers, who are making toward Muskogee. ATTORNEY GENERAL GIVES OPINION ON ANARCHISTS Washington, April 7.—Attorney (len oral Bonaparte at the cabinet meeting handed to the president an opinion on a he question as to w hether the editors and proprietors of the alleged anarch ist newspaper. La Questione Sociale, of Paterson, N. J.. could be criminally prosecuted for urging murder by dy i namite. The opinion will not be made I public until the president has had an , opportunity to read it carefully. It is , said to be important in that it deals I somewhat generally with the question of handling the anarchist situation in * the United States. IR. R. COMMISSION SEEKS TO AMEND WESTERN RULES Will H«ar Grievances and Re m«n»trance« on Present Classification April 27. I Lincoln. Neb.. April 6.—Any person who doesn't like the rates charged them individually or against the town in which they do business, or has any complaint to make about classifications and minimum weights Is cordially In vited by the state railway commission to come to Lincoln on April 27, and pour their troubles into the commis sions waiting ear. The Items that will be specifically taken up are. An examination into the present classification and the re adjustment and correction of any In equalities or discriminations that may exist; an examination of tlie rules as to minimum weights on carload ship ments and the regulations of the var ious carriers applying on business done between stations in this state, and the correction of any rules that are un just or discriminatory, and an exam ination of the schedules of rates and charges now in effect for the trans portation of merchandise and all com modities between stations In this state. Tin commission has under consid eration She advisability of amending western classification rules so that articles taking the same class if shipped in carloads, may be shipped l» mixed carloads at the same rate. POETRY FIGURES IN A NEBRASKA DIVORCE CASE Lincoln. Neb.. April 6. Ray MeGrew, a banker and lawyer of Bloomington, Is defending a suit for divorce brought in the Lancaster district court. He claims that it is a case of too much motheriniaw. and that he will gladly take his wife back again if she will bar the doors against her mother. Mrs. Funk. The latter was a witness in the case yesterday, and after giving MeGrew several verbal black eyes, was brought into confusion by McGrew’s attorneys, who asked her If she had not written a certain piece of poetry, which was handed to her. She was asked to read it, but demurred on the ground that it contained references to parties who were not concerned in the case. Her attorneys flew to her defense, and the poetry was temporarily barred. Mrs. Funk is a modest looking, white haired woman, and the intimation of attorneys for her soninlaw that she had been writing for her owvn delec tation. poetry that is usually a stranger to a feminine pen, brought from her the declaration that she had thought it was locked securely in her own trunk. 4 COUNTY OFFICIAL IS 4 4 NOT AMERICAN CITIZEN. 4 4 4 4 Ponca. Neb., April 6.—The state- 4 4 ment of a government inspector 4 4 that William Kay. county treasurer, tis not an American citizen has 4 caused a sensation throughout this, 4 4 Dixon, county. 4 4 This startling discovery was made 4 4 bv an inspector, who came to 4 4 Wakefield to Investigate some de- 4 4 feets in the naturalization papers 4 4 of a party who had had Kay sign + 4 as a witness. 4 4 The Inspector found that Kay was 4 4 5 years old w hen he came to Amer- 4 4 ica an<l that his father had never 4 4 taken out papers. 4 ♦ Ivay was a county supervisor four 4 4 years before he was elected county 4 4 treasurer last fall. 4 4 A most tangled legal proposition 4 4 now confronts the county. 4 4 4 ♦444444444444444444444444 v RAILROAD NOT BLAMED FOR KILLING OF BLICK Wakefield, Neb., April 6.—The cor oner's Jury has brought in a verdict thut no one is to blame for last Fri day’s tragedy in which the two Blick brothers were run over by a train, one of them being killed and the other se riously Injured. It was proven that the engineer blew the whistle, rung the bell and made every possrole effort to prevent the acci dent. ft appears that the brothers reck lessly attempted to get over the cross ing ahead ot the train. NEBRASKA STUDENT WINS RHODES SCHOLARSHIP Lincoln, Neb.. April 6.—Joseph E. 1 Smith, a student of Cotner (Christian | church) university, of Lincoln, was to day designated as this year's Nebraska winner of the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford university. He is 19 years old, a Junior in Cotner and his home is at Overton, Neb. lie will sail for England in September. AUTHOR OF BOGUS CALL FOR TROOPS IN 1864 IS DEAD New York, April 6.—Joseph Howard, jr.. died in the Hotel Nevada hi the age of 75. He was widely kndwn as a newspaper writer, having worked at one time or an other on most of the large dailies of, the country. Howard in 1964 wrote a proclamation purporting to come from President Lin coln, calling for half a million more troops. The hoax was published by the Journal of Commerce and the World, both of which were seized by the government and their publication suspended. Howard was arrested and locked up in Fort Lafayette. Henry Ward Beecher and Howard’s father, who was a deacon in Beecher's church, succeeded In per suading President Lincoln to release him, WABASH LIMITED TWAIN WRECKED Danville. 111., April 6.—The Wabash Continental limited was ditched six miles from here this afternoon. It is reported oil the coaches left the track and overturned. No one was killed, and only a small number received any injuries what ever. DESERTED HIS BUSINESS AND LEFT HIS WIFE Wlnside, Neb., April 6.—Anton Jen sen closed his meat market in Winside yesterday, left a note saying that his brother could have the business, and took a train for Sioux City. Jensen was unable to meet the demands of his creditors. Clreat sympathy felt for Jensen’s wife, who made every effort to stop th€‘ t rash, and several business men of the town have notified her that they will stand back of her if any effort is made to stize her home. POSTMASTER WAS ■ STABBED WITH AN OLD SCREW DRIVER °eculiar Accident Occur* in Altercation Between Po*t master and Patron. Lincoln, Neb.. April 4.—The author ities are pUzzled over the case of Wil liam Tangemann, postmaster at Roca. who was stabbed with a screw driver Sunday in an altercation with Frank W. Dunham, a patron of the office. Dunham went Into the office to take the lock off his box for purposes of repair. Tangemann ordered him out and as he did not hasten sufficiently tried to throw him out. He says that in the row that followed Dunham stabbed him with the screw driver he had in his hand, that his lung was perforated, and that a part of the blade was broken off in the wound. Physicians have examined Tange mann and find no perforation whatever in his clothing, although close to the armpit there is a hole about three quarters of an inch deep. How this could have been inflicted and yet there be no hole in the clothing that cov ered the spot is what puzzles them, although there is a possibility that the force with which the blow was struck drove the cloth that deep into the flesh, and that the breaking of the blade at that instant dragged it out again. No part of the blade was found in the flesh. Dunham was hit over the head with a hammer, and is in a local hospital. A PILLAR OF FiRE AT RUNWAY SPEED STARTLED STUART Stuart, Neb., April 4.—Mounted on a load of hay that was afire and the four-horse team frantic with fear, run ning away, Loyal Gill, a farmer living near this place, had a most exciting and spectacular adventure. Gill was driving to Stuart with a load of hay and when near town and while lighting his pipe, a sparlt from the match set fire to the hay beneath him. In an instant the flames shot up around him and he attempted to save the load by throwing overboard that which was burning. Then the four horses became frightened and commenced to run and Gill was obliged to let the hay burn and get the horses stopped and unhitched which he did after a hard tussle. The burning hay scattered along the roadside set fire to the prairie and it was only after a strenuous fight on the part of 40 or 50 citizens of Stuart, who arrived on the scene, that neighbor ing farm yards, hay and buildings were saved. FROM PHILIPPINES TO NATIONAL CONVENTION Lincoln, Neb., April 4.—Professor C. L. Hoover, superintendent of schools of the province of Samar, Philippine isl ands, arived in Lincoln today with his family to visit relatives. He is an al ternate delegate to the republican na tional convention and is instructed for Taft, who he says, the Filipinos wish to see nominated for president. ARE LETTER! FROM ~" GERMAN EMPEROR? | — Berlin, April 4,—The publication in a Munich Journal which is issued twice a month of what if claims is a copy of the letter which Emperor William sent to Lord Tweedmouth, first lord of the British admiralty, which created a sensation both in Germany and in Eng land and a copy of a letter from Lord Tweedmouth in reply created consid erable commotion in Berlin. The for eign office declared that the letters pub lished were not copies of the original and the official news agency pro nounced the publication an "April fool joke.” Despite these declarations, the im pression prevails in well informed cir cles that both copies were authentic. The paper does not explain how the letters came into its possession. As reproduced the emperor's letters ap pear quite harmless in character, there being not the slightest attempt in it to influence Great Britain's naval policy. LABORI TAKES A FEW SHOTS AT MRS. M’KEE Paris, April 4.—Maitre Labori con cluded his argument in the hearing of the suit for divorce brought by Mrs. A. Hart McKee, formerly Mrs. Hugh Tevls, and a daughter of Colonel Georgs W. Baxter, of Tennessee, against her husband, with a severe arraignment of Mrs. McKee. Instead of marrying his wife for the purpose of robbing his stepson and stepdaughter, as the plaintiff alleged, and trying to induce Colonel Baxter to renounce the rights upon her fortune of $800,000, held in trust, M. Labori de clared it was Mr. McKee who arranged the trust in order to prevent the dis sipation of the fortune. He described the wife as constantly quarreling with members of her family. He argued that the testimony given by the ser vants of Mrs. McKee against her hus band was not worthy of credence, and concluded his argument with the state ment that Mr. McKee made no charges against his wife's honor. YOUNG SOCIETY SWELL WEDS A CHORUS GIRu Chicago. April 4.—''Billy” Parker, 1S year-old son of Mrs. H. O. Parker, of Wheaton, has married a music hall singer. It is far from his first affair with gay young women of the stage, but It is the first of his romances to result in matrimony. 'Billy's” father, who is dead, was a wealthy and well known board of trade man. The bride's name is Nadine Rinne. They were married yesterday at San Rafael. Cal. The young man's mother tried to prevent the marriage, but she was too late in reaching San Rafael, whither the couple had gone from Los Angeles. GRAND JURY WILL PROBE BANK THEFT Salt I.ake City, Utah, April 4.—When it is impaneled April 13, the United Stutes grand jury will be asked by the directors of the First National bank to investigate the theft in January of $106,250 from the reserve chest of ilia, institution. The statement is made by W. S. McCormick, president of die bank. MEMBER OF THE OLD DALTON GANG AGAIN IN LIMBO Wanted for Crime in Kansas and Requisition Papers Secured in Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., April 3.—Requisitiqp papers wore honored by Governor Shel don today for the return to Kansas of Thomas Taylor alias Steve Taylor, who Is wanted at Marysville, for a murder alleged to have been committed 10 years ago. The story as told to the governor was that Taylor was a member of the famous Dalton gang of marauders whc kept Kansas in a turmoil for years. Taylor and one of the Daltons was un der arrest at Marysville In 1898, wait ing trial for one of their raids, when the two attempted to break jail. They were met in the corridor by Charles R. Batterson, one of the guards, and Taylor or Dalton struck him down with an iron bar, killing him. In 1902, Dal lon was recaptured and tried. Taylor wais not overtaken. He burled himself in the West, but the old instinct was too strong in him, and he was recently arrested and put in jaii in Dundy county, on a charge of burglary. It so happened that reposing m the jail at the time was one Green Allen, once a friend of his. but who had raised ihe blood feud against him. Alien tipped him off to the authorities, and back to Kansas he will have to go. IMAGINARY DISEASE AND PATENT DOPE FIXED THIS MAN Lincoln, eb., April 3.—O. A. Elliott, at one time a prominent business man of Lincoln, died yesterday, the victim of the excessive use of patent medi cines, according to the verdict of the coroner's jury. Elliott has had the pb session for several years that he was tried all of the various medicines he saw advertised or heard of, but he said he found nothing that gave him relief. The medicines used, said the doctors, weakened his heart, and he died of val vular trouble of that organ. Elliott roomed at one of the smaller hotels of the city. The last he was seen alive was on Sunday morning. Tues day a light was discovered in his room. It was broken into and he was found on the door, dead. He had fallen out of bed and struck his head oil a radi ator, but the concussion was not enough to cause death. explosioinTof ammonia OVERCOMES 10 PACKERS Omaha, Neb., April 1.—Ten men were overcome by gas in the Cudahy Pack ing company's plant todav when a tank of ammonia gas exploded. Eight were taken to the hospital in a serious con dition. ALMOST CENTENARIAN GRANDMA IS LIVELY West Point, Neb., April 3.—A remark able person is "Grandma” Harstick, of West Point, whom the whole commun ity loves and honors, and who has just celebrated her 99th birthday. She walks four miles to church every week and does housework, needlework and gar dening. Though old in years, she has a clear intellect, a wonderful memory and her sight is yet so good that she can tell colors at a glance. BURNING SANDS FOR HORSE THIEVES AT PENDER Pender, Neb., April 3.—Because sev eral attempts have been made to steal horses in this locality, a branch of the Anti-Horse Thief association has been organized here, and an attempt will be made to rid the country of men who can't let go of the halter strap of other people's horses. 4 4 4 BUNCH OF PENSIONS A 4 FOR NEBRASKA VETS. 4 4 4 4 Washington. April 3— The com- 4 4 missioner of pensions lias advised 4 4 Congressmen Boyd, HInshaw and 4 4 Kinkaid of the allowance of pen- 4 4 sions to their constituents as fol- 4 4- lows: 4 4 Congressman Boyd's district: Geo. 4 4 W. Stewart. Boone, $15: William 4 4 W. Cloyd. Battle Creek, $20; Isaac 4 4 Chamberlain. Plainvlew. $20: Fred- 4 4 crick J. Buck. Wlsner, $12: John M. 4 4 Jones. Nickerson, $12; John M. 4 4 Whitt, Cedar Rapids. $15: William 4 4 Barr, Norfolk, $20; John C. Whit- 4 4 eaker. Silver Creek, $8: Herman J. 4 4 Hueohen, Creston. $15; John Oster- 4 4 lab Hooper, $15: Frederich Reahm, 4 4 Klgin. $15; Edwin O. Rector, Colum- 4 ♦ bus, $24; Frederick Spinte, Colum- 4 •4 bus, $20; David Henry Schuyler, $15: 4 4 Henry Honey, Plainvlew, $16: 4 4 Joshua O. Wells, Wakefield. $20; 4 4 Sarah Hosure, Creighton, $8: Robert 4 4 T. Robinson, Cedar Rapids. $16: 4 4 Thomas Bryant, Schuyler, $15: Ja- 4 4 cob Maple, Schuyler, $15; Seth M. 4 4 Hunt, Fremont. $16. 4 -f -♦ MADE COLOR LINE EXCUSE FOR BURGLARY Lincpln. Neb., April 3.—Governol Rheldcm went, down to the penitentiary this morning to listen to the plea ot J. H. Robinson, a colored man, who is serving a 7 year sentence for bur glary in Omaha. Robinson told the governor that be cause of his color he was unable tc get profitable or pleasant employment to support his wife and family of six children, and therefore, he had to take to burglary as a means of livelihood A DESERTED LOVER BECOMES A MANIAC Stanton. Neb.. April 3.—Because the sweetheart of his youth in Bohemia spurned his love and wrote him that she was going to marry another, Jo seph Kekrdle, a Stanton county farmer, became violently insane and has beet! sent to the Norfolk asylum. . Biblical students have searched ir. every possible quarter for the origin o( the custom of carrying candles in the candlemas, procession without finding any recc"f J. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY INDICTED FOR FRAUD New York. April 3.—The grand jur> handed down two Indictments against for mer Special Deputy Attorney General Na. that Vidaver, charging him with tryinj to extort money from William R. Mont gomeiv, former president of the Hamil ton bank, on the alleged representatior | that he could stop attacks alleged u j emanate from the office of the attornej i general and to prevent Attorney Genera. I Jackson front interferrlng with Mr. Moot-] pomer/s plans to open another bank. Mr ■ Vidaver has bad several hearing? in tin police court in connection with the charge) FATHER RESCUES CHILD BUT LOSES HIS OWN LIFE Both Fall In the Cistern, But Only the Little On* is Rescued. Omaha. Neb.. April 1. — One nf those peculiar fatkii.ties combining the heroic and pathetic transpired iwir, yesterday. Holding his child 'in whom he had fallen into the cistern, above his head, while standing iri seven feet of water, Morris Christianson saved the life of his 2-year-old boy un til help arrived and then sank to the bottom of the cistern and when rescued life was extinct. His wife was a wit ness of the accident which happened while the father was walking about tl.o yard with the boy in his arms and acci dentally stepped on the thin cover!: g of the cistern and went through. The wife notified the neighbors, but it was too late to rescue the man who hud been standing with his head under wa ter. Once or twice he succeeded In rais ing his head above water to catch a breath, but when the boy was rescued the father was too much exhausted to longer handle himself. After the imdy was recovered three doctors worked long over it in the effort to restore res piration, but the effort was futile. INTOXICATED MAN HAS NECK BROKEN Pierce. Neb., April 1.—The body of Will Storleger. aged 27, was picked up under a culvert two miles northwest of Pierce at 3 o'clock Sunday morning by his brother Bob, who had gone in search of him. Will -ns in Pierce Saturday ifter noon intoxicated and left for homo about 10 o'clock at night with a le.nn and a lumber wagon. The team later came home on the run without a. driver. His brother, who went in search ..r him. found him with his neck and shoulder broken. The funeral will be held tomorrow. There will be no inquest. He was a. single man. —— BELDEN BEATS “TO IT” IN FIRST BALL GAME Belden. Neb.. April 1.—This town claims the honor of having the llrst ball game of the season in Nebraska. On Saturday the high school team played the business men and beat them. IT TAKES A “SPOTTER TO SPOT A “SPOTTER ' Wausa. Neb.. April 1.—'Suspicious that much bootlegging was going on in. Wausa, local prohibitionists hired a “spotter” and he worked up a against Charles Jepperson, a liveryman. The trial will be held April 15. Much, feeling has been aroused over the af fair. Then to further complicate tn» situation and give circulation to many rumors, the “spotter” has disappeared and it may be necessary to “spot" th<* “spotter” before the trial. EXPRESS AGENT IS BRUTALLY MURDERED Telluride. Colo., April 1.—As lim Bailey, of Kansas City, an express mes senger for the Wells-Fargo express company, was killed by an unknown person on Santa Fe train. No. 116, be tween Florence and Newton early yes terday morning. The murder was a. very brutal one, with robbery pjj rite object. Both safes, the local and through safes, were ransacked and at least $1,000 in money and some jewelry taken. Whether this Is the full amount the robber secured is not known The dead body of Mesenger Bailey was found at 4 o’clock in the mornii g when the train reached Newton. It was stretched on the floor of the car, the head beaten to a pulp and lying i:i a pool of blood. The back of the skull was crushed and the end of the <. ,-r in which it was lying was Spattered with blood. The blood spatters reached to the ceiling. Two theories are held by the officers. One is that the robbers entered tha car unobserved at Emporia, Strong City or some other point along the line and concealed themselves until a fa vorable opportunity came and the other Is that Bailey admitted somebody ho knew and considered a friend. When the train slowed down at the Missouri Pacific crossing in the east part of Ne« - ton two men were seen by the engineer to jump front the train and run south. Posses are out scouring the country. A reward of $1,000 has been ofTnred by the Wells Fargo express company for the apprehension of the guilty parties. STEVE ADAMS’ JAIL CLOSELY GUARDED Newton. Kans., April !.—ft. A result of the attempt to murder General Bulkely Wells, general manager nf the Smuggler-Union mines and mills, at Pandora. Sheriff Fitzpatrick in tak ing precautions to guard the Jail In which Steve Adams, charged with ih> assassination of Arthur L. Collins, Gen eral Wells' predecessor, is confined. The feeling against Adams is becoming more bitter from day to d ty. He is supposed to represent the element among the miners that believes in vio lence against I he mine owners. General Wells, it is alleged, secured a. confession from Steve Adams in Idaho, in which Adams implicated himself -i« the slayer of Collins, but Adams has since repudiated his confession, and h-r * this reason It is believed that Adams friends may think that if Wells should be gotten out of the way before th* case comes to trial it would be difficult to convict Adams. JAW IS SHATTERED BY KICK OF PONY Carroll, Neb., April ’.. —Kicked by a pony in the face, ti.e iti-year-ohl daughter of Anton Jorgenson is in a horrible condition. Th - lower Jaw !> shattered into pieces aid. th teeth all gone while on the upper Jaw the teeth were all smashed and driven into the gums. _ HEADACHE KN0CKER3 KNOCKED HER OUT Central City. Neb., April 1.—Miss Mary Skiff, a waitress of tills city, came near dying as the result of hik ing headache tablets. After a friend had prepared some of the tablets for her she had occasion to use them and called over the ’phpne to know how many should be taken. Another psi t> answered the phone and mid her in Joking way to lake nine, which she did and kept the physicians busy for se\ eral hours administering restoratives, ter. One or twice he sue -ceded in rais