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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1908)
THE O'NEILL FRONTIER D. N. CRONIN. Publisher. FNEILU NEBRASKA Prizes have been off -red by the ltoyat Academy for tlie Graphic Arts of Deip «ic for artistic visiting cards. A corre spondent in that city writes to a Ber lin paper: "This opens a new field for, artists, and its development will be fol lowed with interest. Visiting cards, except for style of type and size, are always the same. In every country" certain peculiarities may be observed, but a card is a card. Now. under the protection of the Crown Princess Oecilie and the Princess Johann George of Sachsen, there may be a change. The, artistic visiting card may become the companion of the book plate, and the exhibition which will result from the Reipslc offer may furnish as much in teresting material as an ex-llbts dis play. An illustrated visiting card! It ■will in some instance* make the note of Introduction unnecessary." One of New- York’s ministers, the Rev. Win. R. Huntington, said recently that it was more dangerous to be a railway brakeman than to be a mur derer and proved his assertion with statistics showing that one murderer in 73 was hanged, whereas one brake man in 30 was killed. Dr. Hunting ton believed that the widespread spirit of selfishness was no doubt responsible. "We are too much like the art stu dent,” he said. “There was, you know, a poor Vermont art student who shared a studio bedroom with a journ alist from Wisconsin. The Vermonter went out one morning to do the mar keting and brought home two chops. He laid them on the table and the cat leaped up and devoured one. "Hang it,’ he said to his Wisconsin friend, the cut has eaten your chop.’” Four big white winged freighters sailed from the Golden Gate yesterday, bound in a race to the Hawaiian isl ands. Ali were towed to sea nlmost at the same time, and as they stood off under full sail they looked like a covey of huge birds. The vessels contending for victory belong to the merchant ma rine. Two of them are big four-masted •hips, one a bark and one a barkentlne. The vessels in the run are the four tnasted ship Erskine M. Phelps, the big four-masted ship Ft. George, the bark entine Irmgard and the bark Gerard C. Toby. As the distance they wdli Cover will be nearly 3.0(10 miles, ship ping circles will watch with interest the result of tile time made by the different •hips. In order to prove that adroitness and diplomacy can be carried too far Asa Goddard, of the American Automobile association, tells this story of a sales man: "A friend of mine went to this man and said: ‘I want an automobile.' •Yes, sir, a good one?’ said the sales man. 'Yes. What will a first class ma chine coat?' 'Well, a really first class machine will cost you from $6,000 to 17,000. It Isn't economy, you know. to--’ 'Great Scott, man! I can't go OS high that that. Haven’t you got Something which-' 'Oh, yes,' said the salesman, ‘we've got a splendid line from $650 up. Nothing better going. It Isn't economy as I was about to say, $0 pay a fancy price Just for name and •tyle."’ _ _ _ During the five years preceding 1904 •tti the total acreage annually under in digo cultivation in India was 755,900. In «5-'06 this area had decreased to 130,400 acres, or a falling off of if little teas than 44 per cent. During l!»06-'07 the acreage decreased to 329,800, Under new methods of cultivation and more economic processes of extraction, which ;9tfe claimed to have been discovered in India, It Is said that natural hullgo can be produced more cheaply than srnthetlc indigo, therefore It Is less con. Ideally predicted that the Indian In digo rop will rapidly Increase in acre age and in the quantity of indigo pro duced. •IJorc lumber was cut In the United Itatea last year than In any other year U Its history. The enormous amount of $7,560,736 ird feet was produced, and toe mill value of this was $621,151,388. h addition there were produced 11,858, |B.Q09 Shingles, valued at $24,155,555, aid 3,812,807.000 lath, valued at $11,490, $70. )n the whole, It Is safe to say that he present annual lumber cut of the Inited States approximates 40.000,000, 00 feet, and that the total mill value of llte lumber, lath, and shingles each year (reduced Is not less than $700,000,000. These figures give some idea of how Bst I® the lumber industry and how great la the demand for its products. One of the most curious of all known phosphorescent larvae Is found B British Guiana, near the Brazilian korder, where it Is known to the na §Ve* by the name maeadoub. It is be lieved be the larvae of some Beetle. A specimen was recently car tod to England by <\ W. Anderson and ■ptlbited, dead, at a meeting of the «lnnean society. When living the crea ture shows a ruby light in Us head and a double row of phosphorescent toots along the body, two on each seg ment. The lights arc not intermittent. But glow continuously. One of the greatest bequests to a bile Institution made recently ts the of $1,000,000 by the late Morris K. P to the American museum of nat 1 history In New York. As the city vldes the building, the money Is to used for purchasing specimens. Mr. up had long been a patron of tha titutton, and his wishes and example scientific matters are thoroughly un tood, and It will be followed us far possible. In his life he paid the penses of expeditions doing research and the museum Is now largely with the results of these trips. small frogs of the species wn as rhinoderma darwinl have hed London from Chile and have ved much attention from natural ts. The tadpoles are developed in a curious manner. The female lays ut a dozen eggs, and these are im iately swallowed by the male und posited In a pouch in his throat ere they remain until hutched and fltclently developed to emerge into outer world. The lack of external S is a remarkable characteristic of tadpoles. After 72 years of continuous work in e ministry of the Southern Presbyte n church, the Rev. Angus Johnson Just died at Avalon, Tex., in the He was probably In SIBLEY DEMANDS REASONS FOR THE LOW PRICED GRAIN I Asks Railroad Commission to Determine Why Nebraska Prices Rule So Low. Unco!n, Neb., April 23.—"I am going to find out If I can," says Senator Sib ley, of Lincoln county, w ho Is here to 1 prosecute a complaint before the state railroad commission lhat the grain rates are too high, "why Nebraska farmers don't get better prices for their grains. Kvery time the government is sues Its annual crop report, the fact Is disclosed that the net returns to Ne braska farmers are lower per bushel than Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Mis souri and other states adjoining. My Idea is that It Is because of the rail road rates. I want to find out if this Is true. Will Know Why. “The Burlington denies my right to file complaint because 1 don't ship grain. I own 500 acres of farm land, however, and every dollar of Its pro duct is fixed In price hy the railroad rates. \ can’t get a grain man or a coal man to make a complaint. They talk real spunky In private conversa tion, but they close up like clams and duck when somebody suggests that they come before the board and tell what they know. They arc afraid the railroads will exercise their power of putting them out of business. I own a farm, and they can’t do that with m<* Hence I am here.” Meiklejohn to Wed Brazilian Widow HON. G. D. MEIKLEJOHN, . Fullerton, Neb. Norfolk, Neb.. April 28.—George D. Meiklejohn. former assistant secretary of war and who served six years In congress from this congressional dis trict, has booked passage from New York for Columbia, South America, where he goes, rumor has it, to wed a beautiful and wealthy Brazilian widow. The attachment was formed while "Gentleman Geoige” was assistant1 sec retary of war. “DQUHLE HEADER” FEES WILL BE ELIMINATED Lincoln, Neb., April 2S.—Men and Women who draw salaries from the public for services performed will not be permitted to draw witness fees In criminal cases, where the state pays the bill, in Lancaster county. This is what the county board has decided. Some of the disgruntled say they will appeal to the courts, and the commis sioners say that if they do and are upheld, they will be docked, If in coun ty employ, for the time they spend hr court as witnesses. The enormity of the bill of costs for criminal cases at the last term of dis trict court caused the board to make a close Inspection. On the list were the names of the chief of police, city detec tive. policemen, sheriff and deputy sher iffs, various employes in county offices and nne or two county officers. On the theory that this Is equivalent to draw ing1 two salaries at the same time, the commissioners have refused payment, and they further declare It to be as much the duty of an officer to testify against a man as to arrest him. OSBORNE WAS A VETERAN, PIONEER AND INDIAN FIGHTER Oakland, Neb., April 28.—George Os borne. who hud been a resident of Burt county since 1887, Is dead. He took a prominent part in public affairs for years and had a w ide acquaintance. In 1862 while serving as a frontier soldier, he was wounded in a skirmish with Pawnee Indians, six arrows entering his body, from which he never fully recovered. M’CARREN’S AFFINITY SUED FOR DIVORCE Buffalo, X. Y., April 28.—Mrs. Mary A. Downs Dixon, who now is being sued by Dr William A. Dixon, of Buf falo. for divorce, accompanied Senator Patrick H. Mct'arreu to Albany dur ing the sessions of the legislature as well as to other places in the country wording to affidavits tiled today in the Erie county clerk's office. The affidavits charge that Mrs. Dixon was with the senator in Brooklyn and Saratoga aial was quartered during the legislative sessions in the Ten Eyck and Newkemore hotels in Albany. It is alleged that Mct’arren main tained a fine house with two servants » nurse and maid for her on Lennox mat! in Brooklyn. She registered in 1808 the affidavits declare, at the Wal lorf-Astoria as Mrs. Mct’arren and was requested to leave. The affidavits say ’(he living Image,” Patrick Henry Neill .Mct’arren. Jr., is not the only child bv Mct’arren born to Mrs, Dixon; that she sent him word front Saratoga to Brook lyn In 1803 that she had given birth to it girl baby. FARNUM CASE PReFaTES HOWARD GOULD FUSS New York. April 28.—"The troubles of Dustin Farnum and his wife would have come to a head some weeks ago had It not been for the unpleasant no toriety thrust Upon the actor through the mention of his name by Howard Gould." said a friend of Mrs, Farnum'B. "This action—the Farnum case—pre dates any publication of a disagree ment in the Gould family, and would have been brought long ago had It not been for the Complication caused by Mr. Gould.” GETS 15 YEARS IN PEN FOR RUINING HIS OWN DAUGHTER Supreme Court Sustain* Sen tence of Tribunal---Stranger Accused. Lincoln, Neb., April 27. — Melvin P. Smothers, of Boyd county, will have to spend 15 years In the penitentiary for ruining his own daughter. The latter Is now married, and Is the mother of a child of which her own father is the progenitor, according to the presump tion adopted by the supreme court in holding that this evidence was cor roborative of the woman's story of Smothers' incestuous conduct. This evi dence was to the effect that her pres ent husband, when he sought her hand in marriage was told by the father of her condition, he adding that a cer tain man, whom it was afterwards shown was a stranger and guiltless, was responsible. Smothers Insisted that he was con victed on the uncorroborated testimony of the daughter, but the supreme court holds the contrary. It also denied his claim that 15 years in prison was ex cessive, declaring it not disproportion ate to the crime, but informed him that his age. and exemplary conduct in prison may later earn him executlvo clemency. EXPRESS COMPANIES CHECKMATED BY COURTS Lincoln, Neb., April 27.—For the fifth time In a week the express companies of Nebraska have lost out in their various legal attempts to avoid having their rates cut 25 per cent. When the supreme court enjoined them from dis obeying the law it used the terms "rates and charges." The companies came into court claiming that in ex press nomenclature a rate meant so much per hundred pounds and a charge was the sum fixed for packages less than that weight. The court holds, however, that the two words are synon omous, that they mean the same thing, and that when it issued the order it meant a straight cut of 25 per cent on every charge made for carriage. The holding means a difference of 10 or 15 per cent in the company's total rev enues. ITALIAN WINS BIG AUTO RACE *44444444-M-444-f44444-f4-+444 4 ITALIAN IS WINNER. 4 4 Priar Cliff, N. Y„ April 27.—Louis 4 4 Strang, the Italian driver today 4 4 won the Briar Cllffe trophy for 4 4 automobiles. His elapse time for 4 4 the 253 miles was five hours 14 min- 4 4 utes and 13% seconds. 4 4 Cedrlno, Italian, was second, 4 4 time five hours 21 minutes 6% sec- 4 4 onds. 4 4 Guy CatiRhah, American, third 4 4 five hours 28 minutes 29% seconds. 4 ItllUtMUUUtUMMIIIt Briar Clift, N, Y., April 27.—Twenty-, two automobiles of the finest American and foreign types started at dawn to day In a 253 mile race over the most hazardous course ever chosen for a motor car speed contest. Almost every turn of the 32-mile course Is a danger spot. There were many predictions ol serious accidents. Long before the hour scheduled for the start the course was lined with automobiles filled with spectato’rB. As early as 3 o'clock It Is estimated not less than 11,000 ulomobiles were packed ■iloiig Ihe course. Thousands of persons crowded the vantage points and when the first racer wa» sent away he en tered a course lined with humanity or. either side, from end to end. At exactly 5:07 the starter’s pistol rang out. The Italian car. with Sar tor! at the wheel, shot across the line. Other cars followed at intervals of 0 minute. It became apparent within a very few minutes after the race start ed that, despite predictions to the con trary. tremendously high speed was tc be made over at least some portions ol the course. Forty-two minutes had been reported as the best time over the 32-mile course In the trials. Many be lieved no better time than this could be expected during the race. Strang (the Italian), the first to complete the cir cuit. crossed the line in 39 minutes and 42 seconds. He was lending Lytl« (American) by only a few- seconds. He maintained the lead until after the end of the fourth round, when half the dis tance had been covered. At that lime he had led 21 seconds In elapsed time over his nearest competitor. Tip to this point the leader had averaged 46 miles per hour. Watson (American) was the first tc come to erlef. His machine collided with a post at Eastvlew and was sc badly disabled that it was three hours after the start before he had made Hit repairs and finished the first round. The finish of the fourth round fur nished one of the prettiest sprints tc that point. As the cars swung around a sharp curve above- the .fudges' stand Barney Oldfield and Hilliard, both driving American cars, were flghtln? it out side by side. They came ilowr the narrow rourse at a frightful spec' the rides of their enrs separated only by inches. Almost in front of the judges' stand Harney Oldfield forged to the front and in sin instant flashed away, well abend of Hilllas-d. While t’’e leading cars were in the fifth sound the ear of Murphy. Aus t'-i-n. met with an accident bet wear Vtihallo and Eastvlew. One of his front wheels collapsed and he and hit mechanic were thrown out. Fortu nately neither was injured. Severn' nti-,rr cars met with mishaps rendering 'hem unfit to continue TREND OF PUBLIC OPINION MORE HUMANE Washington, April 27.—The feature ot today's session of the International l,a\v society was the annual address of Kliiiu Root, president of the society, in which it was most interestingly shown that the world is being governed hy public opinion and that public opin ion is becoming more humane and less »va alike. ; TOWN AND CITIZEN | ' AT WAR OVER FENCE Winside. Neb.. April 27.—Five times has a representative of the town gov ernment tore down a fence and opened I up a street In the suburbs of the town I and five times has an adjacent property 1 owner repaired the fence and shut uj; I the stieet. Thus it has been this wee!; f ml seen.s likely to continue. , A long and hard fought battle in the courts seems Inevitable as neither side is disposed to yield an inch and the ,'icie of ground in controversy now >nlued at J1C0 will undoubtedly prove ■erv expensive to the victor when pos si'i>»iaa is flua.lv rewarded ARE RATES AND CHARGES SAME IN THE SIBLEY LAW? New Question Raised by At torneys for Express Com panies in Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., April 24.—The express companies have raised a new point in their litigation with the state. Now they contend that the Sibley law re duced rates and not charges. The su preme court injunction required a change in both rates and charges. Attorney Greene for the companies explained to the supreme court that a rate is not a charge, but only the basis for one. A certain figure per 100 pounds is the rate. Then this rate is graduated to the different weights under 100 pounds, and the result is the charge per package. A reduction of 25 per cent under the Sibley law, the attorney con tended, means a reduction per hun dred pounds, and not a reduction of 26 cents per package. The difference to the companies Is considerable. If the Sibley law affects every charge on the old schedule it means a reduction of 25 per cent in revenue. If it means a reduction of 25 per cent in the hundred pound rate, which is the basis for charges for small er packages, it would mean a cut of from 10 to 15 per cent only in total revenue. WIFE DIVORCED HIM AND SUICIDE FOLLOWS Lincoln, Neb., April 24.—Because his wife divorced him in order to again marry her first husband, Charles E. Branstetter, of Havelock, bought some strychnine, went out into a field and swallowed it. He died a few hours after being found. Branstetter had been a hard working carpenter, but when Mrs. Bra listener's first husband again came within the circle of her acquaintance the old love was rekindled and she divorced him on the charge of nonsupport. He did net resist, but after that was a changed man. He gave up steady work, retired to live a hermit's life, eking out his existence only by odd Jobs about a livery stable. To a few acquaintances he told that life had no more attrac tions for him. A penny was all of the possessions found in his clothes. NEBRASKA WEATHER ABOVE NORMAL Weekly weather bulletin for the week ending April 20.—The first three weeks of April were warm, with less than the normal amount'd rainfall. The mean dally temperature averaged about 6 degrees above the normal. Low temperatures, accompanied quite gen erally by frost, occurred on the morn ing of Saturday, the 11th. The last 10 days were uniformly warm. Light showers occurred quite gener ally on the 7th, while fairly heavy showers occurred in most of the state on the 16th and 17th. In most of the eastern counties the rainfall exceeded half an inch and in a few central and northeastern counties exceeded an inch. In western counties the rainfall was less than half an inch at nearly all places. M’CORNACK STARTS DISTRICT Y. M. C. A.’S Norfolk, Neb., April 24.—F. A. Mc Cornaek, of Sioux City, is back of a movement to organize a district T. M. C. A. in northeast Nebraska. The district will hire a permanent secre tary who will organize local organiza tion in the various towns. NEBRASKA EDITORS HOLD A MEETING Emerson, Neb., April 24.—A meeting was held yesterday of the editors be longing to the association of north eastern Nebraska. Those present were: C. K. Ott, Lyons Sun; A. V. Suther land, Tekamah Herald; AV. M. AA'arner, Lyons Mirror: Erick Morrell, Oakland Independent: C. E. Jones, Ponca Jour nal: C. E. Nevin, Laurel Advocate; A. V. Bunk, Concord AVorld; J. L. Phil lips, Bancroft Blade; M. AV. Murray, Pender Times; C. S. Harris, Coleridge Blade; Howard Seehrist. Beemer Times: C. S. Hughes, Pender Repub lic; P. A. Anderson, AVausa Gazette; H. I. Peck, Reporter: Richard Caluson, Carroll Index; \V. L. Kirk, Creighton News; D. E. Neller, Randolph Enter prise; J. C. Ecker, AA’inside Tribune; AA'. I. Cartright. IMAGINARY WEALTH “LOCOED” THE LADY Lincoln, Neb., April 24.—Mrs. A’iolet Gaster. an attractive young woman of 2a, who imagines that she is soon to become the possessor of great wealth, as soon as a few legal obstacles can be cleared away, was sent to the asy lum today. The woman came from Omaha, and has relatives at AA'est Point. Asked about her husband, she said he was killed while in the hos pital. AA'hep an inquiry was made as to the cause of his death she explained that he committed suicide by going out and chopping down a tree and when it started to fall he just got under It. ADMIT BREAKING UP OF TOBACCO TRUST Richmond, Va,, April 24.—Frightened by the evidence gathered against it by the government, and rather than face the trial in New York on May 19 be fore the United States circuit court, the tobacco trust, according to a story cur rent here, is about to dissolve. The dissolution of the $350,000,000 combine was practically admitted by officials of the American Tobacco com pany. This step, it is said, has been decided upon on the advice of the at torneys for the trust in Washington, who are of the opinion that the com pany will be liable, anyway, to forcible dissolution by the federal government under the Sherman anti-trust law. Another explanation is that the trust lias grown to such enormous size and its methods have become so compli cated that dissolution has been agreed upon more as a matter of business ex pediency. TWO FARMERS KILLED BY FALLING HORSES; LIGHTNING’S WORK Osmond. Neb.. April 24.—Whiie plowing in a field yesterday afternoon hi. J. YorV and his son took shelter from the storm by the side of their horses which had been driven near to a straw stack. A bolt of lightning struck the stack and killed five of the horses which fell on York and his son, and before they couid be rescued they were burned to death. NEBRASKA WILL FIGHT IT OUT IN FEDERAL COURT Disappointment Over Failure te Get the Case Into State Supreme Court. Lincoln, Neb., April 23.—The denial by the United States supreme court of the application of Attorney General Thompson for a writ of mandamus re manding the railroad cases to the state supreme court leaves the cases with the federal court, just where the railroad and express companies succeeded in placing them, and it will be In the fed eral courts that the attorney general will have to fight out the cases In which the state seeks to prevent the railroads from charging more than the intra state rates. There is considerable dis appointment expressed over the failure to get the cases into the slate courts. Justice Puller, of the United States supreme court, stated in his opinion that the case should have come to the supreme court on appeal and not in the form of an application for a writ of mandamus. BITTEN 17 TIMES BY RATTLE SNAKES Lincoln, Neb., April 23.—Mrs. Thom as Arnold, wife of a prominent farmer residing four miles south of Water loo, stepped Into a nest of snakes Sun day morning in her orchard and was bitten 17 times on the leg. Whether the bites will prove fatal is not known, as the variety of the snakes has not been ascertained. Mrs. Arnold went into the orchard about 9:30 a. m. to work. The nest of snakes was concealed in high weeds and she stepped squarely into the bunch of writhing reptiles. Her leg was entwined by th». angered snakes, who bit her repeatedly. She ran screaming to the house and fainted as she reached the door. labor commissioner ASKED TO HELP CLERKS Lincoln, Neb., April 23. — Appeals have tome to the labor commissioner from clerks In the employ of country morchants at Greeley, Axtell and other points, asking for relief in the mat ter of working hours. One letter says: "We are worked to death, from 7 o'clock In the morning until 9 at night every day, with a few hours open on Sunday to accommodate the dear peo ple. It is more than the poor clerks can stand for. It gives us no chance for rest, no chance for enjoyment, no chance to spend any time with our families and no chance to go to church or indulge in any pleasure. Therefore, we appeal to you for help." But the county clerk is up against it. That is, if it be a man. There is a law preventing the working of women over ten hours a day, but the male clerk has no protection. Labor Commissioner Ryder says that as a mutter of fact the women clerks are overworked, because they are afraid to complain since it means the loss of their jobs. Nothing is left but an appeal to the sense of fair play of merchants. CHAMBERLAIN1 TO RESIGN HIS SEAT AS M. P. London, April 23.—Joseph Chamberlain has at last abandoned the hope, which his physicians and friends knew all along could never be realized, of reappearing in public life, and will soon resign his seat in parliament. His favorite son, Austen, formerly chancellor of the exchequer, is now with him at Cannes, South Prance, where they are consulting as to the best moment for presenting the resignation. The pretense so determinedly main tained for nearly two years that the erstwhile great political leader would re sume his active career has served its pur pose. That purpose was to save the tariff reform movement from collapse. The expectation among the tariff re form party that Chamberlain would re turn to lead it saved the cause from ex tinction in the overwhelming disaster of the last general election. Now tariff re form is the foremost plank of the con servative platform. Arthur Balfour leads the conservative rarty by grace of Austen Chamberlain. Even the two talented sons of the late Lord Salisbury, one of whom is admitted ly the ablest man in the conservative par ty, are Inexorably excluded from the ranks of the party their father led for 20 years, because they oppose tariff reform. That Joseph Chamberlain, after the ca lamitous issue of his South African policy, should have been able to cause a diversion so effectual by espousing the hitherto ut terly discredited cry of tariff reform, which none more than he formerly derided, i constitutes the most sfgnal personal tri umph of hi$ erratic career. DUCHESS RUNS SKATING RINK, JUST FOR FUN London, April 23.—The duchess of Bed ford has an extraordinary hobby. She is proprietress of Prince’s skating rink at Knight abridge. Some years ago she bought out the other owners and has since run the piace (at a loss, it Is said) Cor her own amusement. She is an ardent skater, and hardly a day passes in the" winter season chat she is not to be seen on the artificial ice at Prince’s. Tt is a favorite place for flirtations, and the instructors there ha*ve some of the fairest of England’s society women among their admirers. While the duchess is conducting a skat- j ing rink, the duke has an idea chat he i ought to be made secretary of state for | war. He talks on military subjects in j the house of lords, having been a captain j in an infantry regiment, as poor as a i mouse, when he was unexpectedly brought j into line for perhaps the richest duchy | in England. The duchess was the daugh- i ter of a clergyman in India. 4 ♦ 4 PHYSICIAN COMMITS 4 4 SUICIDE AT HOLDREGE. 4 4 ♦ : 4 H?.ldredg\ Neb., April 23.—Dr. 4 4 J. Ramson Walden, a prominent 4 4 physician here, committed sut- 4 4 cide last evening in his office + i 4 by taking poison. He was found 4 i 4 dead by his father. A note to 4 I 4 his wite told how to settle his 4 i 4 affnlsv. No reason can be as- 4 j 4 signed for bis act. 4 j 4 ♦ 4 -V ; ♦444444 ♦44 44444-4444'*-*4444* JOHN N. BALDWIN HAS PASSED AWAY Advocate and Speaker of Na tional Renewn— Prominent 1 in Many Campaigns. Omaha, Neb., April 22.—John N~ Baldwin, general solicitor of the Union Pacific Railroad company, died a few minutes after midnight Sunday of Bright’s disease. John N. Baldwin was born in Coun cil Bluffs, la., 50 years ago. He was the son of Judge Caleb Baldwin, at one time chief justice of the Iowa supreme court. He had been connected with the legal department of the Union Pa cific railroad for 29 years, being gen eral solicitor since 1896. He was repub lican in politics and had figured prom inently in the party's national conven tions. Mr. Baldwin gained a national repu tation as a polished and forceful, speaker In 1896, when he nominated Senator Allison for the presidency at. the republican national convention at St. Louis, and that year and in 1900 he made many speeches for McKinley in various western states. A notable ad dress of his was made in February, 1903, before the Iowa bar association on the 100th anniversary of the installation of John Marshall as chief Justice of the United States. In the same month he was the prin cipal speaker at the annual banquet of the republican club of the borough of Manhattan, at the Waldorf-Astoria. This speech was printed In full in the New' York papers and was warmly commended. OLD TIME DETECTIVE DROPS BY WAYSIDE Lincoln, Neb., April 22.—Albert L. Pound, a veteran police officer of Lin coln, head of the Nebraska Detective agency, dropped dead from apoplexy yesterday. Twenty-three years ago Pound shot and killed James Griffin in the state capitol building after Griffin and a companion had held up and robbed State Treasurer W'lllard In his office. Pound was indicted, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary, but was pardoned by Gov ernor Dawes. —♦— WHEN HUSBAND AWAKES WIFE IS NOT WITH HIM Alien, Neb., April 22.—Mrs. F. A. Clark and a man by the name of Hewes, who worked for her husband on the farm, have disappeared and It is thought that they have eloped. Clark awoke in the night and found that his wife was gone and then going to the hired man's room found that he had also disappeared. The couple evi dently walked to Allen and it Is thought they took a night freight for Sioux City. The Clarks have several small children. PRISONER WOULD LIKE TO PUT IN HIS CROPS Lyons, Neb., April 22.—Bruce Bundy, a Burt county farmer who was sent to the penitentiary last May for man slaughter. after a trial that attracted considerable attention, has applied to Governor Sheldon for a pardon. YARD-WIDE HAT HOLDS UP TRAIN Pittsburg, April 22.—There was much (rouble at the East Liberty station of the Pennsylvania railroad today and the Pacific express was delayed five minutes because a soulless corporation which makes Pullman cars builds their corridors so narrow that a woman can not w alk through them with her hat on. A girl from New York started to nlight at East Liberty wearing her new Easter hat. When she attempted to pass through the narrow passage way at the side of the car the hat became W'edged and the more she tried to walk forward the tighter the hat stuck. The porter attempted to push her for ward, but It was no use. Then it sud denly occurred to the young woman to remove the hat pins. The express pulled out five minutes late. The hat measured 36 Inches in diameter. FLEET WILL NOT CALL ON EUROPE London. April 22.—It has been de cided definitely that the American fleet of battleships will not call at any Eu ropean port on its way home, with the exception of certain points in the Medi terranean. Where it's necessary to stop for ooa!. The Information is conveyed in the American reply to the Invitation ex tended by Great Efritain that th“ fleet come'to England. The answer has just been received at the foreign office. The American government expresses regret that the fleet will not be able to touch at any Europena ports except those in the Mediterranean. President Roose velt expresses cordial thanks to Great Britain for (he invitation and for the facilities offered for coaling anil to make repairs at British ports along the fleets’ route. HER DARK HOSE HALTS MAD BULL Port Jervis, X. Y . April 22. — A burrt got out of a barnyard near Cailicobn Center. Sullivan county, yesterday, and wandered in the highway just as Miss Carrie Mulhern, wearing a red cloak, appeared. The bull charged the young woman. She started for a fence, urged on by the farmer, who was after his runa way. She tripped over a log and fell. The bull stopped within a dozen feet of her, then turned and allowed his master to drive him back home. Miss Mulhern asked the farmer why she an imal had become so docile. • Young woman,” he replied, “when, you fell the bull saw nothing but your white skirt and black stockings. He evidently thought he was color blind, or had made a mistake, which, so dazed him that he allowed himself to be driv en home without trouble, something which I have never known him to do before.” YOUNG GIRL HAs’ ~ WONDERFUL ESCAPE Verde 1, Neb.. April 22—While Mary Nelson, a 13-year-old girl, was assisting her father in the field she met with an accident in which it seemed that only an act of Providence saved her life. She was discing with four horses hitched to the machine, when they started to run away. The child was thrown to the outside of the machine, but not entirely clear of it. and one of ,the sharp discs struck the heel of hei ■ shoe and followed the limb to the hip, ■and a slight scratch was ter only In jury. All the horses were injur: d! one iof them having a leg cut off.