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 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