Nebraska Newspapers

    The O'Neill Frontier
D. H. CRONIN, Publisher,
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
"The Favorite Daughters of the;
King of Slam” is the picture which fewj
tourists who visit Bangkok fall to
bring away from that city. It has been
burned Into porcelain ware, and as a
whole and In sections has been used
to decorate all sorts of articles, useful
and ornamental. The picture shows
seven girls, all ubout 14 years old; all
wearing white shirtwaists , black
knlckeibockers and white shoes and
stockings, and all with their long
black hair loose upon their backs.
They are grouped about an easel In
a drawing room furnished in modern
European style, louking exceedingly
conscious of ttieir garments. On the
postal cards which bear this picture
the title is: "Siamese Royal Beau
ties.”
Costa Rica, differing absolutely from
Nicaragua, has twice as many teachers
In its schools and colleges as soldiers
In its army. Elementary education of
both sexes Is bv constitutional man
dates compulsory and at the govern
ment’s expense. The capital, San
Jose, population 35,000, lias parks, elec
tric railway, electric ligthing, tele
phones, paved streets, orphan and in
sane buildings, hospitals, government
buildings, a national theater, palace
of Justin, university, mint, markets,
national palace, high schools, Episcopal
Salace, executive mansion and custom
ouse. 100 years ago Costa Rica was
described as the most benighted pro
vince in the Spanish empire.
Primitive methods are employed in
the exploitation of the gold mines dis
covered within the last few years In
the foothills of the Andavakoera moun
tains, in northern Madagascar. The
miners are all natives, employed by
the developing companies. The gold is
found in crystalized quartz, which oc
casionally contains one-third of its
weight in metal, hut the gold hearing
parts are irregular y scattered in chim
neys, and the chief difficulty Is to
locate the chimneys. Brought to the
surface, the quartz is sorted, and the
pieces which are starred with gold aro
broken up by pounding with a stone
hammer.
New Jersey has 290,000 acres of salt
marsh and 90 per cent of the mosquito
output Is credited to those depressions.
To stop their breeding long, straight
ditches are dug by machinery, drain
ing the ground sufficiently to receive
and retain water for the little fishes
with which they are stocked and which
eat the larvae with g>cat relish. Places
too spongy to drain are tilled with
•and. One small marsh near a popu
lar summer resort bred In a single sea
son 98,000,000 mosquitoes, according to
careful estimates. It was filled up at a
cost of $35, and the resort Is now more
Eopular than ever, for the pests are no
uiger known to it.
i-plders have a number of ingenious
ways of alluring and catching their
prey. A writer in Popular Science de
scribes an American spider which
haunts evergreen trees, and snares its
dinner by means of a kind of lasso.
The web of the spider is triangular in
form. Two corners of the triangle aro
attached to twigs, but the other corner,
which ends in a single thread, is held
by the spider, perched on a neighbor
ing twig. When a fly strikes the web
the spider loosens his hold and the
electric threads Instuntly entangle the
victim.
The sum of 1 halfpenny has just
been repaid to the Hull corporation
under curious circumstances. Five
years ago an old lady who lives in an
. out-of-the-way part of Yorkshire went
to Hull and tendered two halfpennies
for her fare on a tram car. One of the
coins fell, and the conductor refused
to take another, saying he would find
the one on the floor. When she re
turned to her country home the miss
ing halfpenny fell out of her umbrella,
and though it was five years before she
again visited Hull, her first care was
to call and repay the corporation.
Ten per cent of the. men open and
close their mouths without being aide
to utter a single word and 2 per cent
make their proposals while standing
on one foot. With regard to the women
on the other hand. 60 per cent sink
helpless into tile lover's arms, for
whose proposal they have been wait
ing: 20 per cent blush and hide their
faces, l per cent swoon away 4 per
cent are genuinely amazed. 14 per cent
gaze silently into the suitor's eyes and
1 per cent run away to tell a girl
friend.
The story is told that Judge Story
and Edward Everett were once the*
prominent personages at a public din-i
ner in Boston. The former, as a vol
untary toast, gave: "Fame follows
merit where Everett goes." The gentle
man thus delicately complimented at
once arose, and replied with tills equal
Jy felicitous impromptu: "To whatever
height judicial learning may attain In
this country, there will always be one
Story higher.
Interesting experiments have been
carried on by Dr. Warburg in the
schools of Cologne. Germany, on the
subject of distinguishing between dif
ferent colors. He found that the power
of telling one color or shade from an
other was much more strongly devel
fn,rVn.wrla.v,tha" in boys- He also
found that the more intelligent the
{iud S VVere‘ ^be b°H®r color sense they
i.use i'unnei, ut boston, recent
ly swam from Charlestown bridge to
Boston light, a distance ot nearly
12 miles. In a little less than seven
hours. Seven men who attempted the
feat had to give it up. Miss Pltonef
was aceompnined by five men in two
rowboats and her only rests were ob
tained by sw imming on her back She
Is just a little past 15.
Germany has 28,000 co-operate asso
ciations, with more than 4.000,000 mem
bers; with their families they repre
sent nearly one-third of the total pop
ulation of Germany. v y
Members of the Hingham (Norfolk
England) Rat and Sparrow club have
destroyed 13,365 Bparrows. 4 726 rata
and 3,304 sparrows' eggs In eight
months.
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Consul Maynard, of Vladivostok Si
beria, repeats the familiar charge 'that
American manufacturers lose foreign
markets because of their Indifference
We have In savings banks $3,500,000 -
000, in national banks $4,600.000 000
and in state banks $5,000,000,000_in nil'
$13,000,000,000.
In 1009 Japan exported earthenware
and porcelain to the value of $2 618 400
"J,;1'18 £>ie United States took
fl. 44 *.,0 41.
A machine has been invented fot
I printing, developing and fixing post
card photographs at a high rate of
•peed.
A recent es' mate placed the popu
lation of the ftorld at 1.467,000,000.
NEBRASKA CROPS ARE
WORTH $220,000,000
Corn, Oats and Spring Wheat
Show Substantial Increase
Over Last Year.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 4.—According to
Deputy Labor Commissioner W. M.
Maupin, who has just finishes com
piling crop statistics, the nine prin
cipal products of the farm In this state
total approximately $220,000,000 in
values.
The corn crop of this year Is esti
mated at 178.923,128 bushels. This Is
an increase of nearly 10,000,000 bushels
over last year. I
The winter wheat yield is placed at
40,617,635 bushels, a decrease of 5,827,
260 bushels from last year. The spring
wheat yield was 4,633,517 bushels, an
Increase of 664,652 bushels over last
year.
This was Nebraska’s banner oats
year. The total yield was 71,562,877
bushels. Last year the oats crop
amounted to a little less than 60,000,000
bushels.
FARMER PLAYS DETECTIVE
AND LANDS HIS QUARRY
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 4.—J. B. John
son, a farmer living near Blair, Neb.,
ployed the roll of a detective In real
Sherlock Holmes’ fashion yesterday.
He followed the man whom he sus
pected of having burglarized his house
and finally landed him at the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad station in
this city.
When Johnson found that his farm
house had been entered, he imme
Siately went to Blair, where he began
to keep a lookout for a man upon
whom he might fix suspicion. He fin-;
illy discovered a young fellow who
looked to him suspicious. When he’
saw the youth board a passenger train
bound for Fremont, lie also went.
The young man came on to Lincoln.
Johnson did likewise. By the time the
train arrived In Lincoln, Johnson had
satisfied himself that the stranger
was wearing a pair of shoes that be
longed to the farmer's household. When
the train stopped in this city, the
farmer took tho liberty, without an of
ficial star, to place his man under ar
rest, He led the youth lo the police
station, where the latter gave his name
is Ernest Stilllon and his age as 18.
The sheri: of Washington county
was called up over tho telephone and
irrangements were made for the re
turn of the captured lad. The farmer
igreed to take Stilllon as far as Fre
mont by himself.
Shoes, a razor, cuff buttons, a stick
pin, and other articles, wore found in
:he possession of Stilllon when he was1
lrrested. Mr. Johnson said ho could;
identify tho goods as his property.
“I’m certainly something of a Sher
lock Holmes,” said the farmer. "I,
luess I could make something of a
luccess of this business myself If X
fared to.”
HOTEL ROBBER SECURES
SAMPLES OF TOMBSTONES
Emerson, Nob., Nov. 4.—The Hotel
McDonald of this place was entered
Saturday night and robbed. The till!
was broken open and some silver
lhange amounting to about $2 taken.
\n overcoat and hat were also taken,
put the principal loss fell upon a trav
sllng man for a Plalnvlew tombstone;
iompany, who losta grip and a sam
narble, with many photographs of
tombstones. He is very anxious to
lave these returned, and since they
ire of no value to anyone else, ft
would seem he might have hopes.
Miss Hazel McDonald gave a Hal
owe’en party for the children of her
school of the eight grade Saturday
svenlng, which was a great success.
DMAHA IS LOSER IN
ANOTHER RATE CASF
Washington. Nov. 4.—The Commer
:lnl club of Omaha loses its tight for
the institution of through rates and
loint rates on butter, eggs and poul
try in carload lots from Omaha to
points in Central Freight association
ind Atlantic seaboard territories, under
t decision announced by the Interstate
Commerce commission today.
The case was instituted last May
with the Baltimore & Ohio and other*
•allroads as defendants.
SHALLENBERGER ^SCAPES
INJURY IN ACCIDENT
Pender, Neb., Nov. 4. — Governor
Shallenberger had a narrow escape
while coming to Pender yesterday aft
arnoon from Lyons. When two miles
put from the latter city in the large
touring car driven by Ed McMojnes. of
Lyons, one of the hind wheels of the
jar left the hub and ran into a plowed
Held some distance away. The car was
being driven at about 30 miles an hour
md it bumped along over the road BO
yards or more before it stopped, fortun
ately right side up.
"I was not frightened,” said the gov
srnor, "but the road seemed awful
rough. Mr. McMolnes immediately ran
to a farm house and telephoned to
Lyons for another car and got here on
time.
SHOOTS WOMAN FOR
REFUSING TO ELOPE
Kansas City, Nov. 4. — James M.
Bhearn today shot and seriously
wounded Mrs. Louise Sullivan and then
shot and killed himself- because the
woman refused to elope with him. The
shooting occurred in Mrs. Sullivan’s
apartments in this city. After shooting
Mrs. Sullivan twice in the head, Shearn1
fired two shot3 at the woman’s sister,
who escaped from the room without
Injury.
Mrs. Sullivan had been separated
from her husband but recently, they
became reconciled to each other. While
they were separated Shearn paid court
to Mrs. Sullivan and he has been'
Jealous since the Sullivans were re
united.
Mrs. Sullivan will recover.
BIG ATCHISON FIRE.
Atchison, Kan., Nov. 4.—Fire early
today destroyed the Blair Elevator
company’s elevator in this city causing
a loss of $126,000. The elevator con
tained 100.000 bushels of grain.
RUMORTOF TROUBLE IN
SPAIN ARE DISCREDITED
Madrid, Nov. 4—The rumors of revo
lutionary outbreaks in Spain, particu
larly in Barcelona, are without foun
dation. Calm Is reported throughout
the country.
The above dispatch from Madrid dis
poses of the report given currency last
night of a revolutionary outbreak in
Spain. A dispatch in Paris to the Lon
don Dally Telegraph stated thut a re
bellious movement bad Lees begun in
Madrid.
LAND FRAUD GASE
INVOLVES LEADING
MEN IN NEBRASKA
Federal Grand Jury at Omaha
Returns True Bills Against
Nine of the Accused
Ranchmen.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 5.—Indictment*
returned by the federal grand jury
Wednesday against nine ranchmen of
western Nebraska were made public
today. The indictments charge con
spiracy to drive from their claims at,
the points of guns homesteaders who
took sections of semi-arid land under,
the Klnkead homestead law by the de
fendants.
Those Indicted are Perry S. Yeast,
of Hyannis, Neb.; his son, Frank W.
Yeast, Leslie E. Ballinger, M. C. Hu
bei), Emil Anderson, Wilmot Z. Emer
son, Harry Sutton, Boone D. Haw
thorne and Dr. Harry H. Huff. Dr
Huff, who is a prominent physician,
and Sutton, who is county attorney/
are both members of the county insan
ity board.
There are four counts in the indict
ments and the specific overt acts men-;
tioned indicate an unusual frontier!
condition. !
According to the charges made in the
indictment Yeast and his associates
carried their efforts so far as to secure
the incarceration In the insane asylum
at Hastings, Neb., of one of their al
leged victims.
Wanted Feeding Ground.
When the Kinkaid homestead law
was passed many persons went to
Grant, Banner, Garden, Ch<*rry an<^
other western Nebraska counties and
took up sections. The land Is in
the Sandhills country, but contains
many fertile valleys. The homestead
ers generally lived in tents and de
pended on the valley land for their liv
ing. Several big ranchers, among them
Yeast and his associates, have hereto
fore depended on this valley land for
their hay for winter feeding and the
settling of homesteaders was resented.
The indictment charges that a band,
of about 30 persons, headed by Yeast,
went to the homes of many of these
homesteaders, among them Cashier J.
Davasher, George Carpenter, Golba D.
Graves, George Babcock, Henry S.
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tion and threats of taking their lives
and those of their families forced them
to leave their claims.
The specific case of Davasher is
mentioned in detail. It is charged that
Yeast and the other defendants, ac
companied by a band of cowboys, vis-,
ited Davasher’s home and after threat
ening himself and family with death if
they did not leave the country, de-| 1
atroyed liis home, broke up his ma-j ,
chinery, cut his harness to pieces andj !
in other ways mistreated him.
Later, according to the indictment, !
Davasher declared if the men returned,
he would meet them with, a gun. Yeast,
it is charged, because of this remark;
swore out a warrant for Davasher and, I
had him brought into court. When I
the Judge declined to do more than put
Davasher under bonds to keep the
peace, the indictment states, Yeast
conspired with members of the county
Insanity board and secured Davasher’s
IncarcergJiQP jn the asylum.
Mock Insanity l-feaPiyig. I
This latter act, according to the in
dictment, was committed in a high
handed manner. On announcement of
the court that Davasher had commit
ted no act which would justify a jail
sentence. Yeast and his attorney se
cured the presence of the insanity com
missioners who, it is alleged, went J
through a mock examination, declared I
Davasher insane and issued a warrant 1
for his arrest. This was served on tho :
spot and within an hour he was rushed !
off to the asylum without being per- i
mitted to have counsel or secure a 1
hearing. ,
Davasher's case was brought to tho 1
attention of the superintendent 'of tho 1
institution, who was not there when,
Davasher arrived. The superintendent; ,<
however, in looking over the commit-! <
ment papers became suspicious, and i
called In an expert and conducted an, <
examination into the case. He at once i
decided Davasher was not insane, and i
advised the latter to institute habeas i
corpus proceedings. This was donq '
and the asylum officials appeared in i
Davasher's behalf, his release following
a short time ago.
According to an official of the in
terior department the present indict
ment covers one of the most remark
able attempts at land grabbing which
has recently been brought to the at
tention of the department. A letter
written by one of the victims to Pres
ident Taft is said to have caused the :
investigation which resulted in the in
dictments being returned. Special
Agents Harry B. Durham and William
Neff have been working on the cases
for several months. A special grand
jury was summoned to consider the
evidence.
District Attorney Howell received an
unsolicited letter a few months ago
from a surveyor named Willard W. Alt
living in Garden county, who declared
the land in question was owned by the
defendants. The government sent a
surveyor into the territory, and had it
resurveyed, with the result that, it is
stated, the homesteaders were found to
be legally on the land.
Many thousand acres of grazing land
Is contained in the tracts in question.
STAR YALE FOOTBALL
PLAYER IS LAID UP
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 5.—In a
scrimmage between the Yale versity
and the freshmen football teams yes
terday, John Reed Kilpatrick, right end
of the varsity, and an all-American
end, was struck on the abdomen and
side and removed from the Held In an
automobile. The coaches last night
were unable to give the extent of his
Injuries or how long he would be out
of the game.
In the scrimmage four touchdowns
were made by the varsity and two by
the freshmen.
In the face of persistent rumors that
there was friction between the coaches,
Walter Camp, graduate advisory coach,
and Head Coach Coy gave out state
ments in which they denied there was
any split in the coaching force, saying
that all was harmonious.
OAKLAND ATHLETIC CLUB
GOES TO BANKRUPTCY
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 3.—With
liabilities placed at $13,000 and assets
of $2,600, the Reliance Athletic club,
of Oakland, through its president, Wal
ter B. Fawcett, presented a petition in
bankruptcy yesterday. The liabilities
consist chiefly of numerous small ac
counts with Oakland firms. The Reli
ance club was for many years one of
the foremost athletic organizations on
the Pacific coast.
COLERIDGE MAN IS
SHOT AND KILLED BY
REVENGEFUL WOMAN
Maggie Davis Puts Four Bullets
Into Ira Churchill While He
Is Milking.
Coleridge, Neb., Nov. 6.—Ira Church
ill, aged 2$ years, was shot and killed
last evening while milking in the barn
on his farm five miles northeast of
this place, by his former housekeeper,
Mrs. Maggie Davis. Four shots were
discharged at the man, three striking
him in the head and one entering his
left breast. Churchill’s wife, a bride
of a month, heard the shots and went
to his assistance, but within a few min
utes he died in her arms. When Mrs.;
Churchill reached the place where hen
husband lay, Mrs. Davis was standing
over him with the revolver still in her
hand, and after a defiant look at the
wife of her victim, left the scene and;
pvent to the home of Clint Boucher, a
short distance away, where she await
pd the officers and willingly went withi
them, submitting to being handcuffed
and showing little interest In the pro
ceedings. 1
Cause of the Crime.
“Churchill promised to marry me
while I was working as his house
keeper, and then he went and married
another woman,” was the brief state
ment of Mrs. Davis who Is a married,
woman, but had applied for a divorce
from her husband, who is said to live
In southern Indiana. Coroner Riferd
at once held an inquest where the evi
dence warranted a decision to the effect
that Churchill came to his death at'
the hands of the accused woman. She
tvas taken to Hartington, where she is
tield in Jail without bail.
The Davis woman is a sister of Mrs.
Charles Joslyn, who Is of highly re
spected family connection and living
in the neighborhood where the tragedy
jcourred.
A Deliberate Act.
-1- onvis, wno is a woman about
15 years old, kept house for Ira Chureh
11 about three years, discontinuing last
spring and going to the home of Fred
Moss, near Laurel, where she had'
served in like capacity until a short!
:ime ago. Recently she had been work-:
ng for the family of Clint Boucher,’
.vhere she was arrested after her crime.
Mrs. Davis is a woman of quiet man-!
ter, not given to outbursts of temper,
ind her act was evidently premeditat-!
;d, as she had made the statement de-'
iberately to friends previous to,
Churchill’s marriage that he was to
narry her and that if he married an-'
)ther she would kill him.
Ira Churchill was married October
: to Miss Clara Rawles. of Shelby,1
Ueb., the ceremony being performed’
it Sioux City. He was well to do and
tlghly respected in this locality.
SUANTANAMO IS SITE
FOR A NAVAL STATION
Secretary Meyer Says It Is
Logical Defense Point of
Panama Canal.
Calmanera, Cuba, Nov. 5.--Geo. Von
a. Meyer, the American secretary of
he navy, is homeward bound today,
laving completed a 1,000 mile tour of
he Pacific and gulf naval stations.
Ie plans to be at Hamilton, Mass., in
lme to vote next Tuesday. The see
etary sailed last evening on the Unit
id States dispatch boat Dolphin after
naking an inspection of the naval sta
ion at Guantanamo.
Mr. Meyer is convinced as a results
if his observations that Guantanamo;
iccupies the only commanding site as a
laval base essentially auxiliary to the
lefense of the Panama canal. The bay
s perfectly defensible, capable of con
aining a fleet of any size, and pos
:esses all the requirements of a first
•lass naval base that might bo estab
ished without great expense.
The secretary found the first step
tecessary is the consolidation of the
various departments existing at the
itation, which at present are too scat-,
ered for effective co-operation. He
nspected the dry dock, the construction,
>f which was begun some time ago and
s uncertain whether it would be advis
able to transfer the dry'dock to a new!
iite which is better protected and near
vhieh it would be practical to place In
idditlon two floating docks now in thq
jossession of the government with but;
small expenses for dredging.
Secretary Meyer said he was firmly
convinced that only one naval base was
-.ecessary to secure control of the Car
bbean sea and the gulf of Mexico, with
i minor auxiliary station at some point
:o be determined in the future.
EXPRESS STRIKE NOW
NEAR A SETTLEMENT
Representatives of Companies
and of the Men Holding
Conference Today.
New York, Nov. 5.—The movement
for a settlement of the strike of tho
express company drivers and helpers,
which has practically tied up express
business In and around New York city
for a week, took more definite form to-'
day with the announcement that rep
resentatives of the company would
meet representatives of the men thi^
afternoon.
Indications were that each side would
enter the conference with a wllling-i
ness to concede something and pros
pects for a settlement, possibly before
nightfall looked bright.
Pending the proposed meeting this
afternoon, no developments were looked
for in the arbitration proposition made
by the men through the National Civic
federation and Mayor Gaynor.
SNOW IN CHICAGO.
Chicago, Nov. 6.—A little advance
"Thanksgiving” weather came today,
when a steady old time snow storm,
beginning early, lasted for several hours
In defiance of the forecaster’s predic
tion of warmer weather. Today’s fall
was the first this year of sufficient vol
ume to coat the ground.
ROUNDHOUSE. MEN STRIKE.
Mason City, la., Nov. 5.—The move
ment of engines was tied up here
yesterday on the Iowa Central by a
strike of employes of the roundhouse
for higher wages. The railway com
pany is attempting to hire other men.
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WOMAN WHO TOOK
CHURCHILL’S LIFE
ENGAGES COUNSEL
Mrs. Maggie Davis Breaks
Down In Jail When She Re
alizes Nature of Crime.
Hartington, Neb., Nov. 8.—Shortly
after engaging R. J. Millard, of this
place, to defend her on the charge of
murdering Ira Churchill near Cole
ridge, Wednesday night, Mrs. Maggie
Davis last evening broke down and
wept for the first time since the crime
was committed. The engagement of
counsel seemed to impress upon the
woman’s mind the serious condition in
which she is placed, mingled with re
gret over the death of the man whom
she really expected to become her hus
band.
Mrs. Davis has not asked to see her
10-year-old girl, who is with her sister,
Mrs. Charles Joslyn, in the neighbor
hood where the crime was committed.
This child is the fruit of a union with
the man from whom Mrs. Davis has
within a year sought separation. It is
not understood that she had secured a
divorce and consequently was not in
position to contract marriage even if
Churchill had been disposed to take
up with her permanently. It is a
matter of general knowledge that Mrs.
Davis had been enraged at Churchill
since his marriage to Miss Rawles a
month ago and had made threats
against him. It is thought by some
that the woman was temporarily in
sane at the time she shot Churchill.
The hearing begins Monday at 10
o’clock a. m., and will be conducted at
Coleridge.
UNIQUE TRIBUTE PAID
TO DEAD AUT0M0BILIST
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 8.—A drama new
to American automobile racing was en
acted on the speedway just before the
start of the 100-mile race yesterday.
With the strains of “Nearer, My God,
to Thee," floating from the grandstand
band, nine big ears lined up at the
starting wire, their engines stilled for
15 minutes, while their drivers, with
bared heads, waited for the last prayer
to be said in another part of the city
at the funeral of A1 Livingstone, who
was to have started in the 100-mile
race, but who was killed in practice
here two days ago. After the hymn
there was a long silence, respected by
all the thousands in the inclosure.
Suddenly the band started a two
step, the racing engines coughed and
Livingstone, “the king of the dirt
track,” had passed forever from speed
way events. New speed kings were
throwing the clutches into position and
the big race was on.
WOMAN IS CONVICTED
OF KILLINd HUSBAND
Widow of Texas Newspaper
Man Guilty of Murder In
First Degree.
Waco, Tex., Nov. 8.— Mrs. Minnie Lee
Streight. charged with the murder of
her husband, T. E. Streight. at Mc
Gregor, Tex., June 18 last, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
here today. Her punishment was fixed
at life imprisonment.
The defendant, who was lying on a
cot which she has occupied for several
weeks, sobbed convulsively when the
verdict was announced, but did not
speak.
Mr. Streight, one of the best-known
newspaper men in the state, was shot
in the forehead with a pistol and
killed about midnight. Juno IS. His
wife admitted the killing, but asserted
Streight, as a result of domestic trou
bles. bad attempted to cut her with a
razor. The state claimed Streight was
asleep when shot.
PREMIER BRIAND NAMES
NEW CABINET MINISTERS
Paris, Nov. 8.—M. Briand has or
ganized the new French cabinet as fol
lows :
Premier and Minister of the Interior
—Aristide Briand.
Minister of Justice—Theodore Girard.
Minister of Foreign Affairs—Stephen
Pichon.
Minister of Wnr—General Brun.
Minister of Marine—Boue de Lapey
rere.
Minister of Public Instruction—Mau
rice Faure.
Minister of Finance—M. Klotz.
Minister of Commerce—Jean Dtipuy.
Minister of Agriculture—Maurice
Raynaud.
' Minister of Colonies—M. Morel.
Minister of Labor—Louis Laferre.
Minister of Public Works—M. Pureh.
Under secretaries have been appoint
ed as follows:
Marine. M. Gishau; finance, Andre
Lafevre; war, M. Noulens; fine arts,
M. Dujardln-Beaumetz.
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4 WI-^ONSI N COW GETS 4
4 SAFELY TO WHITE HOUSE 4
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4 Washington, Nov. 8.—Pauline 4
4 Wayne III., the much talked of 4
4 new White House cow, has at 4
4 last reached Washington and 4
4 taken up her domestic duties as 4
4 provider of milk and butter for 4
4 President Taft’s household. 4
4 Pauline is a Holstein-Fresian 4
4 cow of registered stock, her 4
4 number in the bovine blue book 4
4 being 115580. She came from 4
4 the stock farm of Senator Isaac 4
4 Stephenson, of Wisconsin, and 4
4 was on the road from Kenosha 4
4 just two days. 4
4 At present she yields V/x gal- 4
4 Ions of milk a day. 4'
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SHOOTS UP FAMILY.
Cedarburg, Wia., Nov. 8.—Louis
Hoffman, a butcher, while laboring
under an attack of insanity early to
day, shot and killed his 12-year-old
son, Carl; wounded his brother, Ernest,
and Ernest’s son, Walter. Hoffman
was arrested and taken to the Port
Washington Jail.
Scotland Yard has more than 100,000
finger prints of convicted criminals,
and so perfect is the system that the
linger print of any convict who Is
passed through the department can be
Identified within three minutes.
THREE NEBRASKA
BOYS LOSE LIVES
IN A HOLOCAUST
Flames Beat Back Youthful
Rescuers and Little Tots Burn
to Death in Doomed
House.
♦ LIST OF DEAD.
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♦ Ernest Peterson, aged three
years.
+ Clarence Peterson, aged five
+ five years.
♦ Leo Peterson, aged 14 years.
♦ INJURED.
♦ Alvin Peterson, aged seven,
ff painfully burned.
Hartington, Neb., Not. S.—Burned al
most beyond recognition, the bodies of
three boys, Ernest Peterson, aged 3
years; Clarence, aged 5. and Leo, aged.
14, were today recovered from the
aslies of the home of Peter A. Peter
son, who lives three miles northwest
of this place on the farm of his father
inlaw, Stephen Seim. Alvin Peterson,,
aged 7, was also seriously burned, hut
is expected to recover.
No more heart rending tragedy has
ever occurred in northeast Nebraska,
than that which early this morning
blotted out three young lives and for a
time threatened the lives of four oth
ers who last night were their happy
and joyful companions.
Father In Hospital.
Peter A. Peterson, father of two of
the victims, was taken to a Sioux City
hospital yesterday for treatment. Mrs,
Peterson, the wife, anxious over the
condition of her husband, came to Har
tington last evening to take an early
morning train to visit and cheer her
companion. This morning as she stood
on the platform of the station awaiting
the arrival of the train, a messenger
rushed up to her and guardedly in
formed her that misfortune had come
to her home. And the awful details of
tlie rending of a happy family and the
appalling loss of life, came from the
lips of the messenger in answer to
questions showing the extreme of par
ental anxiety, fear n.d grief.
Lnnctren Had company.
Last night the Peterson children, Er
nest, Clarence and Alvin, had for their
companions in the absence of their
parents, their cousins, Leo and Freddie.
Peterson, children of Sivert Peterson,
the latter an uncle living hut a mil©
away, also Oliver and Alma Seim, aged
18 and 16 years, uncle and aunt of the
Peter Peterson children. The evening
was pleasantly spent in the simple ways
of children of tender age and by 10:3d
all were in bed, the girl with the three
small children of Peter Peterson in
the two rooms on the first floor, the
Seim boy and the two children of
Severt Peterson upstairs.
Awake In Flames.
Between 3 and 4 o'clock this morn
ing Alma Seim awoke to find the bed
room full of smoke so dense that she
could not see and the house enveloped
in flames. She gave a shriek which
awakened the boys upstairs and then
grabbed Alvin Peterson, who was in
the bed with her, and made her es
cape. hut not until the boy had been
painfully burned. The boys in the
chamber, aroused suddenly from sleep,
sought to make their escape, and all
made their way as far ns the top of
the stair landing, but when two of
them had descended it was found that,
Leo Peterson had not followed them.
He had evidently suffocated before he.
could make his way down the stairs
and out through the burning rooms..
Leaving Alvin outside of the blazing
house, Alma Peterson returned to res
cue the other two children, but neither,
she nor the boys could get inside thef
structure, which had by this time be
come so honeycombed by the tongues
of flame that it was liable to topple
into the basement at any moment.
An attempt was made to reach the
children through the window of the
sleeping room, but the fierce flames
drove the heroic young rescuefs back
and they were forced to stand, awe
struck and frightened witnesses of the
awful tragedy which was being enacted
before them, with the lurid flames
lighting up the landscape in every di
rection. Neighboring farmers asleep
knew nothing of the tragic event until
after the house had fallen and nothing
remained but the charred bodies of
the victims among the remnants of
such household utensils as were non
combustible.
Those of the children who escaped
had scarcely any clothing except their
night garments and were forced to
gether close to the fire, which had
proven their enemy, to protect them
selves from the chill night air. An
hour after the holocaust had com
pleted its work of destruction, they
were rescued from their pitiable sur
roundings and taken to the homes of
neighbors, where they were cared for,
and a messenger was sent to tell the
mother that two of the youngest and
tenderest of her babes were lifeless,
charred and disfigured almost beyond
recognition.
The light from the burning structure
was seen from Hartington, but as it is
the season for burning strawstacks,
there was little thought of it, and no
intimation of the awful calamity was
had until the messenger imparted it
to the stricken mother, who is pros
trated over the blotting out of these
young lives.
Tilirofomt onvnlfmpti miiiqp rtf tin.
burning of tlie house, but as there were
no lights left burning ana then- was a
lire in the stove when the children re
tired. it :0*eMeved that there was a,
defective tlue in the chimney anil that?
the fire found its way through to a
partition below the second floor and waif
thus able to make considerable head
way before the occupants of the upper
part of the house were made aware of
it imminence.
AMNESTY GRANTED.
Lisbon. Nov. 8.—The republic of
Portugal was proclaimed one month
ago and to commemorate the date a
decree was published in the official
Journal today granting amnesty to
political offenders and reducing the
prison sentences of all criminals one
third. _ _ _
NEBRASKAN INDICTED
IN LAND FRAUD CASE
Washington, Nov. 8.—Word was re
ceived at the interior department to
day of the Indictment of Everett El
dred, at Omaha. Neb., several days ago,
for conspiracy to acquire title to gov
ernment land by “procured or dummy"
entries. The ease Involves 10.000 acres
of land in Garden county. Nebraska.
This indictment has no connection
with those handed down at Omaha
about the same time iri which nine
ranchmen were charged with conspir
acy to drive homesteaders from their
claims at goints of guns.