THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
O. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
FNEiLL, NEBRASKA
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The labor laws in France for the
^protection of women and children only
extend to those employed in industrial
as distinct from commercial establish
ments. Thus, when a child is seen In
the streets carrying too heavy a load
a prosecution follows if it is employed
by an Industrial concern, but nothing
Is done if it belongs to a commercial
house. The minister of labor, M. Vivl
anl, has Introduced a bill to remove
this illogical distinction.
The chamber of deputies of Greece
has passed a law by which, for the
first time in modern Greece women are
admitted in the public service. In ac
cordance with this law, the director of
posts and telegraph is authorized to
employ 60 women, to be used mglnly
In the telephone service. They are to
be between 21 and 35 years old, and
are to receive 70 drachmas (about
113.50) a month, for six hours’ work a
day.
A Dubois (Pa.) firm of dealers In
musical instruments offered as a prize
a 1350 piano to the one who could
write the name of the piano maker the
most times on a piece of cardboard
| three by four inches In size. K. L.
Cathcart, of Clearfield, won the piano
| by writing the name on the card 2,126
times. The firm name has two words,
§ one of six letters and one of five let
s' ters, connected by the word and.
/ M. Radovltch, former prime minister
i of Montepegro, has been summoned
| from Paris to take his trial at Cettinje
on a charge of high treason. He Is
I Implicated In a charge brought by the
I present government against the na
fi tional party of being concerned In an
f anarchist plot against the life of Prince
5 Nicholas and the members of the
| reigning family. _
| “Vegetable milk” Is used In Japan.
£ It Is made from the soja bean. The
liquid Is exactly like cow’s milk In ap
f. pearance, and In taste can hardly be
£ distinguished from It To make It the
§ beans are first soaked and then boiled
| In water. Some sugar and phosphate
| of potassium are added, and It is boiled
fe down till it has the consistency of con
f Censed milk.
1 I am more than confirmed in the lm
* pression I always get when I visit Ger
| many—the Impression that the drill ser
§ geart pursues the German citizen from
1 the army to all departments of life;
g that the nation remains a well watched,
« well drilled and very docile army inside
I Invisible barracks and submitting to
6 Iron discipline all the moments of its
I life. __
I The Berlin Medical society recently
discussed the sanatorium question. Dr.
Frankel insisted that the "Heilstatten”
do a great deal of good. Other speak
ore declared them superfluous, pointing
out that in France and England, where
there are no sanltorfums like those In
Germany, there has been nevertheless a
steady decline in the mortality from tu
berculosis.
To say that anything is ’’as blue as
ni * sapphire" Is to make use of an in -
§ correct comparison. * Sapphires are not
|H exclusively one color. The sapphires
§§ of Ceylon vary from a soft blue- to a
H peacock blue, which last Is practlcully
it a green. There Is also a red sapphire,
I sometimes called a Ceylonese ruby.
H Further, many fine sapphires are yel
!! low or white.
The death has taken place at Petcr
B borough of Miss Anne Mander; the old
Sji est resident of the city and believed
i to be the oldest spinster In the coun
§1 try. She was within a few days of en
B terlng her 100th year. On at
Ig talnlng her 90th birthday she had a
1 letter of congratulation from Queen
H victoria.
If Paris Is suffering from a plague of
I eurlous flies, known as St. Mark’s
Ig Siblons. They are not poisonous, but
are very ugly, being over half an inch
long, with enormous heads, and feelers
like cockchafers. Nobody knows whero
they come from, and curiously enough,
the plague la confined to Paris and has
not reached the country.
India would seem to be a pleasant
land for minor poets, Bince the rajah
of Rantpur recently sent out invita
tions to all the poeta of India to a
gathering in hla state. About 200 poets
accepted the invitation, and some of
the poets recited their own composi
tions. His highness was too unwell
to be present.
Guanajuato holds the world's record
as a silver producer, having yielded
11,000,000,000 Mexican in the last three
and a half centurtea The actual re
sults from the mills in operation in
Guanajuato at the moment show that
they are producing silver at three times
the average rate as shown by the old
records.
EXPRESS AGENCIES
RECEDE FROM THEIR
DEFIANT POSITION!
Conclude That People Have i
Right to Know About Their
Salaried Officers.
Lincoln, Neb., July 6.—Three of th
express companies, which nave beei
stubbornly refusing to tell the stat
railway commission who are their offl
cers and what salaries they receive, <>i
the theory that It Is none of the pub
lie's business, have changed the!
minds.
The companies are the Adams, th
American and the United States am
because they omitted these details the;
laid themselves open to criminal prose
cutlon. They demurred in court on thi
ground that it was not a criminal of
fense, but the court held It was. Thet
the companies told the county attor
ney that if he would change it to :
civil action, they would plead guilty
pay the $500 fine—which Is the s.-ura
under the criminal as the civil statute—
and make their future reports corre
spond to the law's demands. This wat
agreed to and the matter was so ar
ranged In court today.
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4 Norfolk. Neb., July C.—Judge 4
4 Welch held a special term of 4
4 district court on the platform 4
4 of the junction depot yester- 4
4 day. 4
4 John Krueger, of Hadar, 4
4 sought lo secure an Injunction 4
4 against his neighbor, Fred 4
4 Oestrich, on issue arising from 4
4 high water and the attorneys 4
4 for both parties meeting Judge 4
4 Welch on the depot platform. 4
4 waiting for a train, asked for 4
4 an Immediate hearing and it 4
4 was granted. The attorneys 4
4 then made their pleas and the 4
4 Injunction was denied. 4
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WOUNDED RED DEER
FOUND IN FARM YARD
Norfolk, Neb., July 6.—A red deer,
sadly wounded from dogs and barb
wire, was found In a Madison county
.'arm yard, and though efforts were
pudo to save Its life, It died in a
short time. It has been many years
since a deer has been seen In eastern
Nebraska and It was a great curiosity,
it is surmised by many that It escaped
,’rom some museum.
AUTHORITIES CANNOT
PLEASE THE PRISONER
WITH TEMPORARY ABODE
Lincoln. Neb., July 6.—Thomas
O’Brien is a hard man to suit. Thomas
w In, the county jail awaiting trial be
fore the federal court on the charge of
circulating a lot of bogus hills. Some
Jime ago he sent word to the federal
authorities IhaL the county jail was In
oad sanitary condition, that It was ln
luriug his health and that being an
innocent man, when he got out, the
government must expect to be jolted
tor a neat sum as damages to his afore
said health.
The authorities decided that as a
measure of right his petition ought to
pc granted. They made arrangements
;o have him received at the state peni
tentiary. But when O’Brien heard this,
pe balked. He wanted some other place
designated. The officers think Thomas
pas a scheme to get transferred to some
place where he may have a chance of
fscape or where friends may eommuni
:ato withoift surveillance. Ills partner,
Axel Johnson, Indicted with him, for
feited a cash bond of $1,000 rather than
stand trial.
WOULD-BE MURDERER
IS CAUGHT BY POLICE
Chicago, July 6.—Hiding In the shad
ow of the church he had threatened to
dynamite after having been refused
money by the pastor, whom he had de
clared he would kill, Alessandro Al
berto, an Italian, was caught by de
tectives last night.
The prisoner, who Is said to be a
member of several Italian secret so
cieties, threatened the life of the Kev.
Faclflco Chemll, pastor of the Church
of the Holy Guardian Angels.
A few minutes before the police ar
rived Alberto was seen near the church.
Alberto, a short time before, had come
to the priest s door and had been re
fused admittance, having been with
him earlier In the day.
Alberto’s threats followed several un
successful attempts to get money from
the priest. Mr. Chemll told the police
lasl night that Alberto went to his
home, which adjoins the church, yester
day. and demanded $.80 In order that he
might go back to Italy,
The priest said that when he refused
to give the man the money he was
threatened with death and told that
his church would be dynamited.
two doses~oTpoisoi\i
AND SHOTGUN CHARGE
Huzelhursi, Miss., July ti.—Unable ic
decide which of three women he renllj
wanted to marry. Ell Hood. 17 years
old, a boarder at the farm house of El
Graves, eight miles from Huzelhurst
yesterday decided that the hesl way oui
of this difficulty was to commit sulcidt
ril such a way that each of the womer
would know that he had killed him
self for her.
For Miss Carrie Nelson. IS years old
he swallowed tin grains of morphine
for Mrs. Eva Spellman, aged S3, hi
drank four ounces of laudanum, am
for Miss Henrietta McDonald, aged IB
he put the muzzle of a shotgun In hi:
mouth and pulled the trigger with hi:
toe.
JJeside his body was found on a tabli
a paper wrapper that contained ih'
morphine. On It was scrawled: "Fo
Carrie,” The empty laudanum bottli
stood on a slip of pupc-r on which wa:
written: “For Eva." An empty envel
ope, on which a picture of a shotgut
had been drawn, was inscribed: "Hen
riettn."
DENVER WINS
ANOTHER CONVENTION:
THE TEACHERS
Cleveland, O.. July C.—Denver wa
recommended by the board of direct
ors of the National Educational asso
elation as the place for the next an
purl . emcrtlon of :Ue association
Filial a crier ^il! not to* taken until thi
next session of the beard in Decent
bin. D. nver won out over Atlanta
City. 'Tiic-tro and Seattle.
TREASURER RUYS
$500,000 RONDS
! WITH_STATE FUNDS
i Half Million of California
Securities Will Return In
come of 4 Per Cent.
> Lincoln, Neb., July G.—Deputy State
i Treasurer Lehr received a telegram
> from Lawson G. Brian, state treasurer,
- tills morning, stating that Mr. Brian
i lad purchased $500,000 of California
bonds at par that will net the state
• 4 per cent. Mr. Brian is now in Sacra
mento.
• The purchase will be completed at
1 once. With the funds on hand and the
• call money lying in state banks the
entire half million can be taken care of
■ at once. The report at the close of
business Jline 30 showed a balance of
446,205.72 on hand and $599,600.63 on de
posit in state banks.
Mr. Brian’s visit to California was
Kept quiet for the reason that he
drought It possible to secure better
:erms for the state if nothing was
mown about his arrival In Sacramento.
He left Lincoln early In the week.
The purchase is the largest single
block of bonds that the state has ever
secured. The rate of Interest, a flat
4 per cent, is better than that returned
by the average security held by the
state. The purchase, on the whole, is
regarded as a highly meritorious piece
of work and one of the things likely to
boost Mr. Brian’s stewardship of state
finances.
The bonds were Issued by the state
of California to cover the expense of
erecting sea walls along the coast.
4 HEROIC BRAKEMAN 4
4 SAVES CHILD’S LIFE. 4
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4 Hastings Neb., July 6.—Violet-. 4
4 ta, the 2-year-old daughter of Ed 4
4 Kirk, of the Kirk Carnival com- 4
4 pany, narrowly escaped death 4
4 under the wheels of a Burlington 4
4 train last night. 4
4 The child had wandered some 4
4 distance from her home and was 4
4 sitting between the rails as Bur- 4
4 llngton freight No. 76 came in. A 4
4 brakernan who was on the pilot 4
4 of the engine reached out and 4
4 caught the babe 'n one arm and 4
4 threw her from the tracks. Aside 4
♦ from a bruised arm the child es- 4
*■ caped uninjured. 4
New Head of
Women s Clubs
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I Mias, phillp n Mooree
Boston, Muss., July G.—With the In
troduction of the new officers, headed
by Mrs. Philip N. Moore, of St. Louis.
Mo., as president, to the assembled
delegates of the General Federation of
Women's clubs at Symphony hall, by
whom they were received with out
bursts of enthusiasm, the federation
brought to a final adjournment the
ninth biennial convention.
RICH WOMAN IN
DEBTOR’S COURT
f’hlcago, July 6,-An insatiate taste
for stunning gowns, the like of which
her husband and the firm from which
she purchased them had seldom seen,
submerged Mrs. William E. Phillips,
wife of the president of the Chicago,
Illinois & Western Railway company
and vice president of the Dolese &
Shepard company, in a sea of perplex
ities yesterday when she appeared in
the debtors court before Judge Hum',
to face a Judgment of $1,194 held by
Mme. Whiteney, dressmaker, fot
gowns purchased by Mrs. Phillips sev
eral months ago.
Some court pyrotechnics wound up in
a blaze with Judge Hume ordering
Mrs. Phillips within five days to turn
over to the bailiff of the court a $200
diamond bracelet she was wearing and
other Jewelry she had left at her home,
3219 Michigan ave. The cause of all
the trouble, the gowns, the number of
which Mrs. Phillips was not able to
recollect, but which she testified were
worth about $3,000. the Judge allowed
her to retain. In addition to these she
said she had a fur coat which the
Judge permitted her to keep. Except
for these articles she declared that she
was a pauper or something of the sort.
MAKES ONE PLANT BEAR
POTATOES AND TOMATOES
Worcester, Mass., July 6.—Alfred
i’odermnn is growing potatoes and to
matoes on the same vine at the state
: agricultural experiment station here
Above ground the plants are tomato
vines, loaded with tomatoes, while In
the ground are potatoes the size of an
egg.
A Hair Raising One.
From the Baltimore American,
1 Jinks told me he felt sometimes like
■ chastising his wife by pulling her
1 hair."
"Then he would get 'rats.' ”
MARCH ON PILL RATIONS.
Denver, July 6.—Returning from a
40-mile march, which occupied two
days, and being fed on nothing during
that time but two condensed meat pills
each, members of the third battalion
of the Twenty-first infantry, stationed
I at Fort Logan, seem to be in almost as
good londition as if they had had the
regular marching rations.
No Doubt of It.
From the New York Sun.
j Teacher. "Now, Johnny, what was
Washington’s farewell address?"
1 Johnny. "Heaven.”
SUIT FOR $250,000
OVER SEA BURIAL
Now York Man Wants Dam
ages Because Wife’s Body
Was Interred in Ocean.
New York. July 4.—A case just in
stituted In the United States circuit
court brings up the unsettled point
as to what rights steamship officers
have over the bodies of passengers
who die at sea. Chalmers Prentice Is
suing the North German-Lloyd Steam
ship company for $250,000 damages
for burying his wife at sea instead of
embalming the body and bringing it
to New York as the captain had prom
ised to do, Prentice alleges.
Attorneys for Mr. Prentice have filed
a complaint which narrates that Mrs.
Prentice, accompanied by her 16
year-old daughter and a nurse, sailed
on the North German-Lloyd steamer
Louise from Naples on April 19, and
that Mrs. Prentice died on April 27,
when the ship w'as 1,460 miles from
this port. It Is alleged that Mrs. Pren
tice had with her over $1,000 and the
daughter agreed to pay the expense
of embalming the body so that it
could be brought to New York. The
ship was supplied with the apparatus
necessary for embalming bodies, the
complaint alleges, and that It is cus
tomary to so treat the bodies of peo
ple who die In transit, particularly
the first class passengers.
After this agreement with Captain
H. Morgenstern the body was buried
at sea, despite the protests of the
daughter, the complaint says.
The attorneys for Mr. Prentice as
sert that Captain Morgenstern had the
body buried at sea because an Ital
ian medical officer, who was accom
panying some emigrants to America,
insisted that according to the Italian
law the body must be buried at sea.
Attorneys for the North German
Lloyd Steamship company have not
yet filed their answer to the com
plaint. It was said at their office
that Captain Morgenstern had not con
tracted to embalm the body and bring
it to New York so far as they knew,
and that without such a contract he
had the right to use his discretion as
to the burial of a passenger.
It Is not contended, however, that
Mrs. Prentice died of a contagious
disease.
DOWN THE TOBOGGAN,
MEETS DEATH SENTENCE
Lincoln, Neb., July 4.—Danny Meskill,
the town bad boy, has made good in
his ambition, that of being a bad man.
He is under sentence o^ death at Los
Angeles, and his mother's prayers have
thus far failed to save him. Danny
tried to rob a store in that city not long
ago, and when the police slipped up be
hind him, he killed one. He was sur
rounded later in a pool hall and fought
off the officers until a billiard ball that
hit him in the mouth brought him
down. When in Lincoln he was a tough
lad, fighting, drinking, idling. He read
nothing but stories of crime, and these
he committed to heart. He knew all
and several of the exploits of the James
boys, the Youngers and all other bad
men. His ambition was to be like them.
Driven from here he visited many other
cities, finally rounding up on the coast.
His father, a one-armed man, was a
hard drinker, a wife beater and eter
nally troublesome because of his temper
and habits. His son is a thorough de
generate, say the officers.
* BRYAN GAVE if
f CASH TO HOBO, f
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v Lincoln, Neb., July 4.—"I am -f
f broke, Mr. Bryan,” said a man f
f who looked the part and gave the f
f name of Miller of Cleveland, f
f claiming that he was on the re- f
f ception committee which received f
f 'the commoner on one of his visits f
f to that c-lty. -f
f "1 thought so,” was the reply, -f
f '‘Will this help you any?” he was f
f asked as a cart wheel represent- -f
f lug the vissitudes of the cam- f
f paign of 1896 was slipped into his f
f hand. f
f When Miller reached the tent f
f where the newspaper correspond- f
f ents stay, he said: "I told Mr. -f
f Brvan Just now that I was on -f
f the reception committee and sure f
f I was. for I drove the barouche f
f in which he was riding and when f
f he left 1 swiped the flag that f
f decorated it. He saw me, but f
f knew that I took it as a me- f
f mento. When I met him this f
f morning 1 said: 'I’m the man f
f who swiped the flag in Cleveland, f
f Do you remember me?’ He said f
f he did, and I’m not going to for- f
f get him after this.” f
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HAD FOUR TEETH PULLED;
DIES OF BLOOD POISON
Lincoln, Neb., July 4.-—Miss Emma
Edwards had trouble with her teeth.
She decided that she would go to Chi
cago and visit her brother and while
there would have them pulled and bet
ter ones Inserted. Last Tuesday she
departed. Thursday she had a Chicago
dentist remove four teeth. The next
day she was afflicted with blood poison
and died in a hospital Sunday night.
She was buried here today.
WARSHIP BUILDERS”
SWORN TO SECRECY
New York, July 4.—In an order which
is one of the most sweeping ever is
sued at the New York navy yard all
officers and men employed in the con
struction of the new 10,000 ton battle
ship whose keel will be laid within a
few weeks, are forbidden to give out
any information whatsoever to the
newspapers or the public. So strict is
the wording of the order that the offl
i ers in charge of the department of
construction and repair, to whom it is
particularly addressed, will not even
give the name of the author.
Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich,
commandant of the yard is in Wash
ington and It Is believed that the order
had Its origin there. One officer did
venture the information that the con
tents of the document would probably
be made public within a few days.
GOTHAM MARRIAGE
RECORD IS BROKEN
New York, July 4.—Last month broke
all records in the munici-al marriage
license bureau. Four thousand four
hundred and seventy-six permits were
issued, and of these 2,993 went to resi
lents of Manhattan and the Bronx;
1.263 to Brooklyn; 163 to Queens, and
51 to Staten Island. Altogether since
the beginning of the year 15,102 couples
have been licensed to wed within the
city.
ROADS EQUALIZE
FREIGHT TARIFFS
FOR_BIG CITIES
Transportation Companies
Withdraw Differential Be
tween Omaha and Lincoln.
Lincoln, Neb., July 3.—The an
nounced determination of the railroads
that serve both Omaha and Lincolr
from the South to equalize the rates
between the two cities and wipe out al!
of the old discrimination proves to be
due to a game of retaliation that the
railroads have engaged in, with Oma
ha as the object.
Over a year ago several big Omaha
shippers of grain began a boycott on
the ltock Island because it was claimed
that the road had let Kansas City buy
ers into what Omaha regarded as her
territory. The Burlington was drawn
into the fight by the Omaha lumber
men boycotting it for its refusal to
make the same rate to Omaha and to
Lincoln on eastbound lumber ship
ments, notwithstanding Lincoln pays a
differential on westbound shipments
and has for all the years that the
movement has been from the East.
The Burlington has announced that it
will withdraw from Omaha lumbermen
and material men the privilege it has
denied those of Lincoln to remove part
of cargoes at the Missouri river and
substituting other stuff taking the same
rate, allow the freight to go to points
of sale at carload rates.
Under the new arrangement, consent
ed to by all of the roads. Lincoln and
Omaha will be put on an absolute
equality, considering distance.
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SOME HAIL AND
HEAVY RAINFALL
Lincoln, Neb., July 3.-—Weekly
weather bulletin for week ending
June 29, 1908:
The week averaged, for the state as
a whole, just about normal for tem
perature, rainfall and cloudiness.
The daily mean temperature was be
tween 70 and 74 degrees in the central
and eastern counties, which Is just
about the seasonal average. It was
between 66 and 68 degrees in the west
ern counties, which is about three de
grees below the normal. Monday and
Saturday were generally the warmest
days, with maximum temperatures
near 90 degrees.
The rainfall was above normal in
most of the state. It exceeded one inch
in most of the central and eastern sec
tions, except in some northeastern
counties, where it was about one-half
an Inch. The rain fell mostly In heavy
showers Monday night, Friday and
Saturday. In a few localities the rain
was accompanied by hail. The total
rainfall from April 1 to date is de
cidedly above the normal, except in a
few western counties, where it is slight
ly below.
STARVING CRUSOES
FINALLY RESCUED
Victoria, B. C„ July 3—While send
ing a farewell message fastened to a
quill of an albatross’ neck, one of a
series of daily messages recounting the
story of the wreck on the Antipodes
Island 49.40 south. 187.43 east from the
French bark President Felix Faure,
22 starving French sailors were rescued
by the British warship Pagasus and
brought to Sydney shortly before the
sailing of the Marama, which arrived
yesterday.
The castaways, who lived a Crilsoe
life, fashioning their, utensils in the
same resourceful way as the marooned
Juan Fernandes, scrambled ashore on
Antipodes island, Southern New Zea
land, and near where the survivors of
the British bark Dundonald were res
cued months before, after their ves
sels were driven ashore during a fog in
March last, and had almost given up
hope of rescue when the British war
ship was sighted.
The men were ravenous w-hen res
cued, having been on short rations for
some time. They had needles made out
of blades of pocket knives, dinner
knives from an iron hoop torn from a
cask, washed from the wreck, hair
combs from bush thorns, fish hooks
from bent nails, spoons from shells,
etc,
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4 8HEATH SKIRT 4
4 ENRAGES CARRIE. 4
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4 Des Moines, la., July 3.—‘‘Tha! 4
4 just let me catch a woman wear- 4
4 ing one of those disgraceful 4
4 dresses on the street and I’ll tear 4
4 it off of her!" 4
4 With eyes beaming fiercely 4
4 over her glasses. Carrie Nation, 4
4 the Kansas whirlwind saloon 4
4 wrecker, denounced the diree- 4
4 toire gown over a plate of let- 4
4 tuce at the Victoria yesterday. 4
4 "That directoire dress Is im- 4
4 ported here by the harlots of 4
4 Paris,” said Mrs. Nation, brand- 4
4 ishing her knife in the air. “No 4
4 decent woman would wear one. 4
4 Those who put them on offer a 4
4 direct insult to American worn- 4
4 anhood and should be stripped 4
4 in public to teach them a les- 4
4 son.” 4
4 Although she is a small worn- 4
4 an, dressed inconspicuously, 4
4 Mrs. Nation has a loud and 4
compelling voice when she wants 4
4- to make herself heard. She was 4
♦ the center of attraction at the 4
-A- hotel. 4
JACOBSON FOR GOVERNOR.
St. Paul, July The republican
state convention today nominated J. F.
Jacobson for governor, by acclamation.
In placing Mr. Jacobson in nomina
tion. former Congressman Eddy said:
“The only reflection anyone has been
able to cast on our candidate is that
he eats pie with his knife. He is a
rough, rugged, natural man. We could
not have him any different if we would;
we would not if we could.”
All other aspirants withdrew in fa
vor of Jacobson.
Other nominations follow: Lieuten
ant governor, A. O. Eberhart; secretary
of state, Julius A. Schmahl: treasurer,
Clarence C. Dinehart; attorney general,
George T. Simpson.
PROUTY IN VERMONT.
Montpelier, Vt„ July 3.—Lieutenant
Governor George H. Prouty was nom
inated for governor today by the repub
lican state convention. The platform
extols the leadership of I-Ioosevelt and
indorses the platform of the republican
national convention.
Chicago, July 3—A Chinese hospital,
equipped with all modern appliances
and a staff of nurses and physicians
to rank with those in the first institu
tions of the country is planned by the
celestial merchants of Chicago. The
hospital probably will be in the heart
of Chlnatowu.
MISSOURI PACIFIC
ASKS COMMISSION
TO RESTORE RATES
insists That Earnings Do Not.
Meet Operating Expenses
and Remedy Must Be Had.
Lincoln, Neb., July 2.—In evident
despair at the delays of the law and
with a partial acknowledgement of the
ability of the present administration
to make the rate laws of the last
legislature “stick,” the Missouri Pa
cific has turned from the halls of the
judiciary to the rooms of the state
railway commission with on appeaL
to be allowed to put back into force
the old 3-cent passenger rate and
a sheet of freight rates that appear
to be about equal to the rate charged
before the Aldrich bill, cutting freight
rates 15 per cent, went into effect on
July 6, 1907.
The petition, signed by B. P. Wag
gener, general attorney for the road,,
recites the fact that the road has 380
miles of track in Nebraska which It
has endeavored to provide with the
best of equipment and maintain in the
best manner possible and that its earn
ings have not been sufficient to even
pay the operating expenses of the
road. In addition, the road inveighs*,
against financial conditions during
the last year, stating that it was un
able to borrow money with which to
carry on its unremunerative business
in Nebraska.
Hearing Will Be Granted.
The petition of the road will, of
course, be accorded a hearing. Mr.
Waggener prefers that the hearing be
held sometime between July 4 and July
18. The commission has not set a.
date, however.
♦ 4
4 MINDEN MURDERER 4
4 IS CAUGHT AGAIN? 4
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4 Lincoln. Neb., July 2.—Spe- 4
4 cial Agent Davenport, oi the 4
4 Burlington railroad, arrested 4
4 Joseph Morgan, who claims he 4
4 is from Davenport, Ia„ this 4
4 morning in the new Burlington 4
4 yards on suspicion that Morgan 4
4 is Bert Taylor, the fugitive 4
4 Minden murderer. Morgan is 4
4 being held pending an investi- 4
4 gation. 4
4 In weight, physical character- 4
4 istics and appearance, Morgan 4
4 absolutely coincides with the 4
4 printed circulars sent out short- 4
4 ly after the crime was commit- 4
4 ted. The officers are closely in- 4
4 inquiring into the details of the 4
4 suspect’s story and it is possible 4
4 that the sheriff of Kearney 4
4 county may be sent for to aid 4
4 in the identification. 4
4 4
GEORGE LAWSON SHELD01T
HAD NOT PLANNED TO
ENTERTAIN BRIDAL PAIR.
Lincoln, Neb., July 2.—Arthur S.
Raymond and Miss Dorrance Harwood
were the central figures in a society
wedding here last week. While the
weddlng reception was on, Mr. Ray
mond was called to the phone. A mes
sage signed by "George Lawson Shel
don," dated at Chicago, congratulating
them and inviting them to take dinner
with him at the Auditorium the next
day, was read to him. Mr. Raymond
did not reply until an hour later. When
Governor Sheldon, in Chicago, got the
message he was puzzled, but supposing
it was in reply to a congratulatory one
sent by his wife, dropped the matter.
The next day, shortly before noon. Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond met him in the Chi
cago hotel. They Were all ready to ac
cept his hospitality. The governor con
gratulated them, exenanged a few
words and walked away much to thelr
amazement. They ate dinner by them
selves.
The message was a bogus one. Two
Joking friends had it telephoned In the
hope that through the reply, which they
proposed intercepting, they could find
out what train the bridal party would
take and thus be able to do the usual
rice-throwing and trunk-decorating
stunt. The reply got past them, and
went to Sheldon, who did not know till
he got back home Just in what light his.
reception of the couple at Chicago
placed him.
RAILROADS MUST
COLLECT THE FULL
TARIFF SCHEDULES
Lincoln, Neb., July 2.—Under a
ruling Just made by the supreme court
t. shipper cannot enforce against a rail
road company a contract he makes for
the carriage of his goods if that rate
be a lower one than the regularly pub
lished tariff rate. The case in which
the decision was made was one of
Haurigan against the Northwestern
Railroad company, from Dodge county.
Haurigan had called up the agent of
the company and secured a rate on a
shipment of cattle. When he came to
pay the freight bill he found it to be
$22.50 higher. Then followed a suit.
The court says;
"Under the law ft contract between a
railroad company and a shipper to
transport merchandise for a less rate
than that usually and regularly
charged to others for similar and con
temporaneous services is void, even
though such rate was -agreed to by mis
take; and an action will not lie against
the carrier if it exacts the regular
rate.”
The court further declares that to
hold otherwise would open the way to
rebate-giving, since it could be urged in
each case that the rate was mistakenly
quoted. It will not hold a railroad com
pany to a contract of that character
since to do so would be compelling it to
do something forbidden under the penal
statutes. It says that a shipper is pre
sumed to know the regular rate, since
it is a published one and on file where
it may be conned.
CHRISTEN- KING’S SON.
La Granja, July 2.--The Christening
of the Infant son of King Alfonso, un
der the name of Jaime, took place yes
terday in the chapel house here.
CANDY TRUST SEEKS
TO STARVE SECRET
FROM LONELY “WILLY.”
Dos Moines, la., July 2.—George
Szpila, arrested this morning, was re
leased by Judge Sfewart in police court
upon producing letters showing that he
is the inventor of a candy making ma
chine and that a trust is after him
seeking to starve him into surrendering
the Idea. Szpila is en route from Chi
cago to Omaha and showed that vast
sums had been offered him for his
secrni, which he refused to selL
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