fHE O’NEILL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. KNEIU, N E D K ASK A Lady Sybil Gray recently accompa nied her father, Karl Gray, governor general of the dominion, on his trip to the Canadian arctic gold fields. Near Lawson City, the capital of the Klon dike, she pegged out a claim for her self with all the prescribed legal for malities and christened It the Sybil. Her first panning out produced $20 worth of gold, which she considered a very promising start. During the long arctic winter Lady Sybil Is working her claim by deputy, but she says she will return next summer to supervise operations and examine results in per son. Fifty years ago an American natural ist, Dana, discovered on the surface of the sea a little animal of so singular a character that he named It "mon strllla." It Is a small crustacean, nkln to the cyclops so common in ponds. But. While the latter are furnished with all that Is necessary to capture and digest their food, the monstrilla has neither apparatus for seizing prey nor any digestive tube. It Is richly pro vided with muscles, nervous system and organs of sense; It lacks only what Is necessary to prolong life by alimen tation. The monstrilla Is doomed, there fore, to natural death. Americans living In Beirut can re member when there was not a window pane in the city. Twenty-five years ago there were no carriages, women making their social calls on the backs of donkeys. The city now has 600 li censed victorias, besides the private vehicles, with automobiles and electric Btreet cars. There are complete postal and telegraphic services, newspapers, colleges and the palaces. In the far east Japan leads the way, but the Levant is following the lure of clviliza One of the hardest things in the world to buy, In the opinion of a man who recently tried it, is a watch key. The practical disappearance of the key wound watch hns made the key a rar ity. Even tho high grade Jewelry Bhops are apt to be without them, while the department stores, which seem to keep everything In the world, fall in this particular. It is the small shop in a cross street in Third, Sixth or Eighth avenue that is most likely to have watch keys. A system of forced ventilation Is to be tried on the street cars of Chicago. Several fresh air Intakes are cut through the floor under the scuts and at other convenient points, and before entering the car it passes over electric heaters, so that it is tempered or heat ed as desired. The vehicle is fitted with a double celling and the lower one has a number of outlets for the vitiated air, but all openings are arranged so that there Is no possibility of experi encing a draft in any part of the cars. Among the patients in a certain hos pital of Harrisburg there was recently one disposed to take a dark view of his chances for recovery. "Cheer up, old man!" admonished the youthful med ico attached to the ward wherein the patient lay. "Your symptoms are Iden tical with those of my own case four years ago. I was Just ns sick as you are. Look at me now!” The patient ran his eyes over the physician's stal wart frame. "What doctor did you have?" he finally asked feebly. Arthur Dupln, the "father of the Apaches," hns Just died in Paris. He was a feuilletonist, who wrote stories for tlie Paris press after the stylo of Fenlmore Cooper. One of his early con tributions, entitled “Los Apaches deus Belleville," made such an Impression on the criminal classes of that notorious Paris suburb that by common consent they adopted the name of the redskin tribe. Under New Hampshire's new law governing the use of automobiles on public highways, which went into effect January 1, the registration fee is In creased from $3 to $10, and the speed limit In compact portions of n town or city is increased from eight to It) miles an hour, while in the rural districts of the state the rate Is 26 miles an hour instead of only 20. The waiter's art Is a serious, clever, bright profession In Germany and France—seriously studied with appren tice years spent In Paris, Berlin, Lon don. Rome and New York, In the great hotels In the world's greatest resorts. This explains why so many of the suc cessful managers of hotels and restaur ants In London and New York are former German, French, Italian or Swiss waiters. The city of London proper which lies 'J1 the heart of Greater London, has a \ living population of but 36,000 by night ilthough 300,000 people do business there by day, while all of the currents of British life pass through Its portals. Here Is the bouI of the empire with Its population of 400,000,000, and Its area of 11.400.000 square miles, or more than one-tlfth of the population and urea of the globe. It Is said of the author of a recent volume of biography that his verdict on the great of his chosen period is much like that of the New Hampshire parson at the highly approved funeral of a par ishioner: "Brethren, we must agree that our deceased friend was mean in some things—but let us in Christian charity allow that he was meaner In others." It Is possible that the world's future supply of paper pulp will be derived from the bamboo forests of the tropics Instead of being drawn from the forests of the temperate zones. Successful ex periments have been made In Japan pointing in that direction. A company has obtained a perpetual lease of 8,000 acres of bamboo forest In Formosa, enough to provide 600 tons a month. Public Occurrences, one of the first newspapers ever published In America never got beyond Its Initial issue. It appeared in Boston, September 25, 1690. It contained a promise to publish in Its next Issue the names of all the liars In Boston, and the authorities, taking cog nizance of the threat, wisely forbade the publication. Since the czar gave out that his sub jects might have liberty of conscience about 250,000 are said to have gone over to the Roman Catholic church, 15,000 have become Lutherans, 50,000 were converted to Mohammedanism, 3.500 to Buddhism. 400 to Judaism and 150 Si berians have declared themselves pa gans. Mining has always been the tradi tional Industry of Mexico because of the rapidity with which fortunes were made. The recent depressions of this Industry have brought agriculture tc the fore. In Rotterdam, with a population of 400.000 fires are so Bcarce that the city has practically no fire department. The caribou of Alaska travel north every year In large herds. Some say that these droves number 1,000. DRUNKEN HUSBAND SHOOTS AT W1FF Hits Her in Hand and Creates Panic in Crowd of Citizens at Rosalie. Rosalie. Neb.. Keb. 7 -fiarfle.'d Waitft !3 in jail here accused of shooting his wife last evening when he went home in a drunken condition and engaged In a quarrel w ith her over some matter unknown to the public. He shot at her while film was In a company of people and created a temporary panic until he was caught and disarmed and it was learned that her wound v.as not serious, being only a flesh wound in the hand. During the night Waite broke out of the jail and made his escape, but this morning he was caught about a half mile from -town and brought back and will probably have to face the charge of attempting to murder his wife. They have had some previous trouble, thought to have been the outgrowth of his habit of drinking. Waite Is about 30 years old. has been married perhaps ten years, and works in the lumber yard owned by his father and brother. 4 4 4 FONDNESS FOR THE PIPE 4 4 CAUSES GRANDMA’S DEATH 4 4 4 4 DeWitt. Neb., Feb. 7.—Grand- 4 4 rna Bowdlsh’s fondness for the 4 4 pipe, the solace of her old age, 4 4 caused her death yesterdaj aft- 4 4 ernon Although SO years of age, 4 4 she has Insisted upon living by 4 4 herself in a two-room house on 4 4 tl.e same lot as her daughter. 4 4 the wife of Postmaster Frank 4 4 Wild. 4 4 Desiring to light her pipt aft- 4 4 er her dinner, while alone in the 4 4 house, she tottered Into the bed 4 4 room and struck a match. A 4 4 part of the* head set fire to the > 4 bedclothes, and when her son. 4 4 Homer Bowdish, came to her 4 4 aid and carried her out, she 4 4 was so badly burned that she 4 4 died within a few minutes. 4 4 Homer Bowdish was badly 4 4 burned nbout the face anu hands 4 and Inhaled some flame. His 4 4 condition Is reported critical. 4 4 4 444444444444444-444444444*4 NICARAGUAN REBELS CAPTURE A VILLAGE Three Hundred of Them De. scend Upon Government Troops and Conquer. Managua, Nicaragua. Feb. 7.—Three hundred Insurgents under command of General Muzio, captured Boace, a town 60 miles east of Managua, yesterday. The lighting lasted two hours but the casualties are not known here. The town was defended by 76 government soldiers, led by Colonel Barquerci. The latter were surrounded, but fought their way through the Insurgents' lines, the survivors reaching the main body of the government army at Toustepe. General Medina declares that the originals of Zelaya’s telegrams In structing 1dm to cause the executions of Groce and Cannon, the Americans, were surrendered to the former presi dent before his departure for Mexico. Medina is corroborated by the tele graph operator, who says that the orig inals were turned over by him at the request of Zelaya. WARRINER REVEALS WHOLESALE THEFTS Pillage of Big Four for Years Is Calmly Related on Wit ness Stand, Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 7.--A chain of embezzlements Involving three men ex tending over many years and finally culminating In the almost wholesale looting of the Big Four railway treas ury was the startling story told by Charles L. Warriner, defaulting local treasurer of the road. In his testimony yesterday In the trial of Mrs. Jeannette Stewart-Ford for blackmail. One of the most startling develop ments In the case came at the after noon session of the court wnen War rincr under rigid questioning admitted that he had handled funds placed with him for the payment of rebates; that he paid out comparatively large sums In rebates and that the simple auditing of his accounts at any time would have disclosed his shortage to the company. Warriner represented himself as a man pouring out gold with both hands and in. ever Increasing amounts to keep sealed the mouth of the woman, who, through her infatuation for one of the accused embezzlers, K. S. Cooke, had learned the secret. Frank Comstock, Warriner's predecessor as local treas urer. was declared to be the third man. According to the witness when he as sumed office as local treasurer In 1902 he learned that Cooke was short in his accounts $24,000. He also learned that his predecessor, Comstock, was short 510,000. He himself was defaulter, and to prevent his crime from being dis covered he agreed to conceal the thefts of the two former officials. In the story of the gigantic theft there Is one question which has never been definitely answered, and the at torneys for the defense today made an other futile effort to obtain its solution; "What became of the $643,000 which Warriner has confessed to have stolen?" The witness declared that he paid approximately $168,000 in blackmail and that $34,000 had been stolen by others than himself. The remainder of $441,000 is explained hv him as "having been lost in speculation." Although he knew exactly the amount embezzled and the approximate amount of "hush money" paid, to all questions as to his invest ments he replied that he could not re member how much monev he hud put into any particular enterprises. GALVESTON GETS PLAYER. Auburn. N. Y.. Feb 7 -The national board of the National Association of Baseball leagues rendered a decision to i'.a\ on the claims made by tile Galves ton. Tex., and Burlington, la., clubs to tile services of C. A. Baumgartner, of Cincinnati. The claims of the Burling; ton club were disallowed and Baum gartner was uwarded to Galveston. LARKDO, TEX.—Seventy-five per sons in ail lost their lives as a result of the mine explosion at Las Esperan tos Wednesday. There may be one or two deaths among those who are no\ In the hospitals. HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE AND FATHER On ha. Neb.. Fob. 5.—Sandie A. Morrison, a letter carrier, today shot and seriously wounded his wife and her father, J. A. Summer, and then killed himself. The shooting occurred on Capital avenue, near the postofflce. Morrison had been on the Omaha car riers' force for many years. Domestic trouble led to the tragedy. The physicians have not yet decided what chance Mrs. Morrison and her father have of recovery. MARRIED IN SIOUX CITY AND CAUGHT IN LINCOLN Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 5—White 16-year old Mable Sergept sobbed and refused food in a cell at police headquarters Tuesday noon, A. M. Hates, aged 21 years, declared that they had been married in Sioux City last Saturday and is awaiting a decision of the au thorities, who say that a warrant (Charging him with abduction has been sworn out at Osceola, their home town. According to Charles Sergent, her brother, who trailed the couple from Osceola to Lincoln, the youthful couple eloped from Osceola last Thursday. He and J. M. Sergent, a cousin of the girl, took up the hunt as soon as the disappearance had been learned in the home town, and they came to Lincoln Tuesday morning. While the couple were walking down P street near the postofflce at noon Tuesday the girl's relatives suddenly confronted the happy pair and one held their attention while the other went for the police. At the station the young man stout ly insisted that, although the girl is but 16 years old, they were married in Sioux City Saturday, two days fol lowing their secret departure from Os ceola. The police say that they have communicated with the county author ities of Polk county and learned that a warrant is being held against the boy, charging him with abduction. According to detectives who searched the effects of the alleged bride and groom, a marriage license showing that the wedding had taken place in Sioux City Saturday was found, and they say that this corroborates the state ment he made upon ids arrest. BOY DIES SUDDENLY. Lyons, Neb., Feb. 5.—Guy, the 16 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Holmes, died at their home north of here, yesterday. He was in school Monday and went home sick, appendi citis developed rapidly and a physician from Omaha was called to perform an operation, but on arriving here pro nounced it too late to save the boy's life. RANDOLPH HAS INITIATIVE. Randolph, Neb., Feb. 5.—The special election in Randolph yesterday resulted in adopting the initiative and referen dum plan of settling questions of city government. The vote was 159 for the plan to 28 against. The saloon question will be settled under the new plan. WYOMING BLIZZARD INVADES NEBRASKA Norfolk, Neb., Feb. 5.—The blizzard which last night swept northern Wyo ming is moving eastward today. Ac cording to reports received here heavy snow, driven by a northwest gale, drift ed badly, and it is snowing and blowing north and west of Chadron, Neb., to day _A » MAKES ONE POUND OF BUTTER WEIGH TWO Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 5.—The state board of health is being bombarded with inquiries from northern Nebraska about a preparation a Kansas City firm is trying to sell dairymen up there. It is guaranteed to make, a pound of but ter weigh nearly two pounds. The for mula given is to add a pound of water to the butter, then put in 10 or 12 drops of the liquid. These are supposed to hold the particles of butter and water together so that when the two are worked the Ingredients are in an in separable mixture. Four ounces of the stuff are sold for 25 cents. The state board will investigate to find out if the stuff is harmful or if it violates the pure food law before ad vising any action. COLERIDGE WOMAN DIES. Coleridge, Neb., Feb. 5.—Mrs. Ida Churchill was buried here Tuesday. She had been ill for some time without be ing able to secure relief. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Peck and was very popular in the eommu nitv. PACKING COMPANY ON ROCKS FOR MILLIONS New York. Feb. 5.—The Mexican Na tional Packing company, a New Jersey corporation, controlled by English in vestors and operating slaughter houses nnd packing houses In Mexico under con cessions from the Mexican government, failed yesterday, with liabilities. Includ ing stock, of 237.000,000. The assets were not given out, but it is announced that they are in excess of the liabilities. The company will continue to operate its plants as usual. Henry He Kay was appointed receiver by Judge Hanning, of the circuit court of New Jersey. The appointment of a receiver was not brought about by any condition in the live stock market, but by the tying up of a part of the company’s funds in the United States Banking com pany in Mexico City, which suspended recently. Among the concessions held by the com pany is an exclusive right to slaughter f the newspapers predict Paris will not inly escape contagion, but will emerge from tile flood cleaner than before In her history. The superintendent of sewers reports that from the examinations which lie lias been able to make, it is evident few Df the sewer mains burst, the ruptures occurring in the brunch pipes leading Into buildings. Foreign contributions to t lie relief fund totaled today about $700,000. WANTS TO DIVIDE SPOUSE’S ORGANS Monroe City, Mo., Feb. 7.—An autop ly was performed on the body of Pro fessor J. T. Vaughn this morning and a pathological examination will be made of the viscera. The autopsy pro ceeded only after a conference had been held to discuss a demand made by attorneys for Mrs. Vaughn that half of the stomach, liver and brain be given to her representatives. This demand w-as refused by Coroner Wilson, but a compromise was made whereby the examination of the organs will be made by two chemists, one se lected by the state, the other by Mrs. Vaughn's family. Dr. Harry Payne, of Paris, Mo., did the active work in the autopsy. Dr. George Still, of Kirksville, represented the brothers of Professor Vaughn, and Dr. C. H. Dixon, of Fulton, the widow. Dr. George Turner, of Monroe City, was present at the request of Prosecuting Attorney Fuller, of Monroe county, and Dr. J. W. Martin, of Kirksville, was there for Prosecutor Rieger, of Adair county, where Professor Vaughn died. Mrs. Vaughn's attorney in making the request for half of each organ removed from the body said the family was en titled to that by the state law. Prose cutor Fuller opposed the request. Even after the agreement that two chemists should be employed. Mrs. Vaughn's at torney declared his client’s rights were being overridden. BOSTON GOES AFTER HIGH COSHF FOOD District Attorney Starts Inves. tigation of Alleged Extor tionate Prices. Boston, Feb. 7.—An investigation into the high prices of meat has been be gun by District Attorney Joseph Pelle tier. of Suffolk county, and if sufficient •vidence is obtained, it is said action will be taken against certain packers. A circular issued by a packing firm last week instructing its agents to "get every cent possible" for meats, the pledging of a two weeks' abstention from meat by the members of the "No Meat" club, and other developments, ire believed to have influenced the dis trict attorney to make an investigation. New York, Feb. 7.—Meat was still on the rise in the local markets today. Re tailers In many sections of the city, especially the poorer quarters, reported i falling off of from one-third to one half in sales. Shipments, however, have been curtailed, tending to adjust the supply to the demand. Investigation aroused by the agita tion against high prices and the meat abstention movement continues. PLANNING TO REVISE RULES OF FOOTBALL New York, Feb. 7.—Football doctors met here today to diagnose the case of the American collegiate sport and de cide upon a means to cure the ills that are threatening its existence. When the national football rules com mittee met in the Murray Hill hotel, the prospects were that a prolonged session was ahead, as the need for drastic changes in the rules seemed to be gen erally recognized and every member of the committee had suggestions that called for discussion. NEW YEAR’S DEBAUCH CLOSES IN TRAGEDY Guilty Pair Found Suffocated in Apartments After a Whole Month. Philadelphia, Feb. 7.—Coal gas from a small stove is believed to have been the cause of the death of William Boh rer, a prosperous lapidary, and a wom an companion identified as Anita Ha bermehl, or Habermuhl, whose bodies were found yesterday afternoon in Boh rer's apartments here. The coroner says there is no evidence of foul play or sui cide. The man and woman were only part ly dressed, and scattered about the bed room were empty whisky bottles and the remnants of a lunch. Bohrer, who was about 50 years of age, and the woman, about 20 years younger, had evidently been dead for more than a month. On December 31 the woman told a friend that she ex pected to pass New Year's day with a wealthy friend. Bohrer was a widower, and the wom an had been an employe in the restau rant of a big department store. ONE VICTIM DIES. Chicago, Feb. 7.—Mary Servoss, who on January 20 was shot by her sonin law, Walter Barnes, an actor, died here today. The assailant, who shot his wife at the same time, has not yet beerx found. Mrs. Barnes is now in a hos pital, but her condition is not serious. The shooting was the culmination of domestic quarrels. EMERY, S. D.—New officers of the Tri-County Mutual Telephone com pany, with headquarters here, have been elected as follows: President, H. A. Ra&emacher; secretary, H. M Bleeker; treasurer, Fred Lit*. GREAT MEDIUM IS BRANDED A FAKER BY PSYCHOLOGIST Eminent Harvard Man Thinks She Is Possibly Unconscious of Deception. New York. Feb. 5.—Dr. Hugo Yon. Munsterberg, the Harvard psycholog ical authority, has published a study of one of the seances given by Eusapia Palladlno, the famous Italian clairvoy ant. Mme. Palladlno's performances have excited great wonder both In this country and abroad. Among those she Impressed was the late Caesare Lom broso, the eminent Italian criminolo gist. Professor Munsterberg asserts that all her "feats” are caused by trickery and physical devices. He qualifies the charge, however, by saying that he thinks she has a "spilt personality” and that in her every-day proper person is not conscious of the fact that she uses trickery in her trances. In describing a sitting at Lincoln arcade. Professor Munsterberg thus writes of the incident on which he bases his conclusions: "One week before Christmas, at the midnight hour, I sat again at Madame Palladlno's left side. A widely known scientist was on her right. We had her under strictest supervision. Her left hand grasped by hand. Her right hand was held by her right neighbor. Her left foot rested on my foot, while her tight was pressing the foot of her other neighbor. There Came a Gurgling Scream. "For an hour the regulation perform ance had gone one. We sat in the dark ened room in the highest expectancy. 'John’ was begged to touch my arm and then to lift the table in the cabinet be hind Palladino. 'John' really came. He touched me distinctly on my hip. and then on my arm, and at last he pulled my sleeve at the elbow. 1 plainly felt the thumb and the fingers. It was most uncanny. “And finally 'John' was to lift the table in the cabinet. We held both her hands. We felt both her feet, and yet the table, three feet behind her, began to stratch the floor and we expected it to be lifted. But instead there sud denly came a wild, gurgling scream. It was such a scrsam as I have never heard before in my life, not even in Sarah Bernhardt's most thrilling scenes. It was a scream as if a dagger had stabbed Eusapia right through the heart. Grasped Eusapia’s Unshod Foot. “What had happened? either she nor any of the others had the slightest idea that a man was lying flat on the floor and had succeeded in slipping noiselessly, like a snail, below the cur tain into the cabinet. I had told him that I expected wires stretched out from her body and he looked for them. What a surprise when he saw that she had simply freed her foot from her shoe and with an athletic backward movement of the leg was reaching out and fishing with her toes for the guitar and the table in the cabinetl And then, lying on the floor, he grasped her foot and caught her heel with firm hand. She responded with that wild scream which indicated that she knew that at last she was trapped and her glory shattered. "Her achievement was splendid. She had lifted her unshod foot to the height of my arm when she, as ‘John,’ had touched me under cover of the curtain. She did it without changing in the least the position of her body." EVIDENCE IN THE AULD COURT MARTIAL ALL IN Boston. Feb. 5,—There was no morn ing session today at the Charlstown navy yard of the court martial which is trying Paymaster George P. Auld, on charges uf assault on Dr. Edward S. Cowles at a “hop" last December. The evidence was concluded yesterday, and adjournment was taken until this afternoon, when Major Leonard, senior counsel for Auld, was to begin the argument. That unusual interest in the case is being shown at Washington was borne out in a degree by a request that a full transcript of the proceedings be sent to both Secretary of the Navy Meyer and Senator Lodge. The trial of Past Assistant Surgeon Ansey D. Robnett on charges similar to those against Paymaster Auld, will, it was unofficially stated, start next Monday. MINERS UNION GIVES MONEY TO THE BEREFT Indianapolis, Ind., Peb. 5.—Reports of committees occupied the attention of the United Mine Workers today. The leaders hoped to be able to complete their work and leave for Toledo to night. The convention voted $1,000 for the families of the men killed in the mine explosion at Drakesboro, Ky. Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 2.—At an executive session of the operators of the Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania mining dis tricts lasting until noon today, J. C. Kolsem, manager of the Jackson Hill Coal and Coke company, of Terre Haute, Ind., was agreed upon for chair man of the Joint wage conference with the miners. Another meeting will be held tonight. RAILROADS DENY WAGE INCREASE New York. Feb. 5.—Sixty railroads in the country have notified the represen tatives of 32,000 firemen of the rejec tion of their demands for a 20 to 25 per cent wage increase and other con cessions. News of the rejection was contained in a private dispatch from Chicago today. The roads express a willingness to arbitrate the question of wages, but flatly refused other demands. The demands of the firemen were made on railroads in the west and offi cials of the eastern lines said today that they did not know whether de mands would be made on their lines or not. LAYMEN *0 MEET. St. Louis, Feb. 5.—A four days’ con ference of the layman’s missionary movement will begin here tonight with a dinner to the 2,000 delegates. Ad dresses will be made by Dr. M. D. Eu bank, of China; E. W. Halford, of Washington, and J. Campbell White, of New York. BJORNSON NEAR DEATH. Paris, Feb. 5.—The death of Bjorn stjerne BJornson. the Norwegian poet and novelist, w as expected momentarily this afternoon. The members of the family were summoned early and re mained at the bedside.