Nebraska Newspapers

    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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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