Nebraska Newspapers

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The O’Neill Frontier
D. H. CRONIN, Publisher,
O’NEILL, NEBRA8KA
Peking, the only capital In the world
Without a street car system, soon is tc
have an electric line,
Philadelphia Is to have a new con
vention hall. It Is to cost <4.000,000,
and, together with Its gardens, will
cover four acres of ground.
During the last 50 years the light
house service of the United States ha*
Cost a total of <150,000,000.
Paris bakers have formed a syndi
cate to maintain a laboratory In which
all their flour Is scientifically tested.
Berlin employs more than 100 stor
age battery driven electrical machines
literally to scrub Its well kept streets.
All of Berlin's sowago Is pumped
out of the city to disposal farms which
have a total area of about 40,000 acres
Desertions In the United States army
in l#ll amounted to only 2.8S per cent
—a lower rate than In any other year
for 90 years, excopt In 1898.
A storage battery Illuminated elec
tric sign has been Invented to be worn
on the arm of a person selling refresh
ments In theaters or other public
places.
There are no blizzards In the Yukon
valley In winter, and there Is little
wind. Snow about two feet deep cov
ers everything from early October till
spring.
Aspen wood Is used almost exclusive
ly In the manufacture of matches In
Sweden, as It Is easily cut and porous
enough to be easly Impregnated with
sulphur and paraffin.
It Is suggested ttiat the bustard, a
kind of bird in China, bo domesticated
in America. It weighs from 14 to 18
pounds and the fleeh Is well flavored.
The extra loavoe of an extension ta
ble Invented by a Pennsylvanian are
'Tarried beneath the top when not In
use and raised Into place and fastened
there by turning a pair of thumb
screws.
A hog's habit of scratching Itself
against a post has led to the Invention
of an automatic disinfector for ani
mals, which are sprayed with a fluid
as they rub against a supporting col
umn. »
A petition has been placed before the
Argentine national senate for a conces
sion to cnstruct and operate for a pe
riod of 60 years cable railways In va
rious parts of the Argentine republic.
London Is plagued with a multiplicity
of councillors. Despite tho abolition of
tho old vestries and tho creation of
borough councils, London has 144 gov
erning bodies, some of which, of course,
are quite small and lukewarm to the
mass of the people.
A collection of 150,000 valentines
made by an Islington stationer named
King has been offered by hint to tho
British museum. Some of the valen
tines are elaborate, comprising 750
parts, with prices at 650 and higher.
All these valentines were printed prior
to the beginning of the present cen
tury.
Minnesota Is to add to Its delectable
resources the brook trout. The first
consignment of eggs from the New
England hatcheries Is due to arrive
this week. Eggs from Pacific coast
salmon are also to be distributed In
the lakes about the Twin cities. Thus
will the east and west meet In the
basket of the fisherman.
George Eliot’s connection with
Coventry, where she lived when she
translated Strauss' "Life of Jesus," Is
to be commemorated In changing the
name of Uppingham road to George
Eliot road. The town council Is also
to place a tablet on the house In which
the "Life of Jesus" was translated.
She lived there between 1641 and 1849.
That the world on the other side of
the globe Is, to a Caucasian, upside
down In standards as well as geo
graphically Is apparent from this
newspaper Item: "A Japanese con
victed of murder pleaded yesterday In
a Colorado court to be sent to the
gallows rather than to prison, as the
Japanese consider Imprisonment more
dishonorable than death. Tho court
Ignored tho plea."
i miuiauup or saimon nave been
caught In streams and examined and
their stomachs and Insides were empty.
But It Is not uncommon to catch them
Jn the sea and And In them half a
doaen herring. After the snlmon has
been in a river for a time the lining
of the stomach beoomes all drawn up
and wrinkled. Just why the salmon
avoids feeding In fresh water no one
knows.
A luscious, ripe watermelon, It
seems, furnishes too great a tempta
tion for the average man who Is con
fronted with It and has the chance to
get away with the melon. So the ag
gregate loss In shipping melons is large,
according to a speaker at tho recent
meeting of the Western Fruit Jobbers’
association, at St. Fouls. A commit
tee was appointed to try to lessen the
temptutlon and save the melons.
A magnificent moonstone, through
the center of which extends a perfect
era moss leaf beautifully colored, was
found on the beach by J. F. Tavlor, a
local boatman, after tho high tides
had receded. He ventured out almost
Into the storm pitched breakers a sec
ond time to search the pebbles and
was rewarded with another remarkably
white round moonstone In the exact
center of which Is a drop of water that
moveB as the gem Is turned. Each ol
the stonea la as large as a thimble.
The new receipt for attaining longev
ity Is, give away your fortune. D. D.
K. Pearsons, who donated $1,000,000 In
philanthropic objects, is a notable ex
ample of success In this line. Ho is
»2 and remarked recently that he felt
•o well that he feared he hnd not kept
enough of his fortune to provide for
himself during the many mors years
that he expects to live. If he ' gets
••short" Dr. Pearsons will doubtless bo
privileged to recall a portion of his
gifts without being called an “Indian
giver.”
Among curious clock novelties is the
Shadow boudoir clock. With It there
Is no need of getting up to strike a
light or turn on the bulb. All tlial Is
necessary Is to touch a button and
tho time la flashed on the wall, after
the same fashion that signs are flashed
on the sidewalk. When the owner of
the clock retiree ho turns a night dial
to the celling and when he presses a
bulb the electric light reflects from the
dial through the lens and appears, giv
ing tho correct time in. shadow on the
•oiling.
EX-CONVICT SAYS HIS
ACCUSER IS JEALOUS
AT HIS INDIFFERENCE
Woman Acquainted With All oi
Lincoln Prison Murderers
Tells Story.
Lincoln, Neb., March 25.—Mrs. Llllh
Owen, of Omaha, was the chief wltnesi
against Hartford Reed, charged with
having supplied Albert Prince with the
knife with which he killed Deputy
Warden Davis. Mrs. Owen said that
Reed told her he had not only fur
nished the knife to Prince, but that he
had also helped to get to ‘‘Shorty"
Gray the explosives and one of the
guns v/lth which the three men who
k I led the three prison officials and
broke out were equipped.
Mrs. Owen also swore that she knew
al of the men. Prince, Gray, Dowd and
Morloy, and that they had been fre
quent visitors at her home. She said
that Reed had told her seven days be
fore the warden was murdered he had
told a woman prison worker that with
in a week Delahunty would be a dead
man. She claimed to have worked for
a long time with tbe Omaha police In
turning up convicts.
Reed declares that the woman had a
grudge against him because of his fail
ure to properly appreciate her personal
charms, and his attorney, In cross-ex
nraination Intimated that It was be
cause of Gray's attention to her that
her husband got a divorce.
(Jovernor and Mrs. Aldrich went to
the penitentiary last evening to make
an Investigation of the roprt that Mor
lcy and Prince, the two murderous con
victs, were being cruelly treated. The
men are being confined In what la
known as tho dark cells, but that la
a misnomer, according to the gov
ernor as ho found tho cells were par
tially lighted, heated and kept cleanly.
While he was there the two men were
taken out for exercise.
A new Information will be sworn out
against Morley, charging him with the
murder of tho three prison officials.
The county attorney Is understood to
be delaying action pending the conclu
sion of tho trial of Reed, who may be
charged with being accessory to the
crime.
Appropriation for Widow.
A liberal appropriation for the benefit
of Mrs. Roy Hlunt, widow of the victim
of the posse In Sarpy county, will be
recommended by Governor Aldrich. The
governor takes the position that tho
fact that tho young man lost his life
under the circumstances confers an ob
ligation upon tho state to assist his
widow In the only way possible, which
Is financially.
The governor In a statement says
that he cannot control in any way the
disposition of the $2,100 reward money
offered by tho stato for tho capture,
dead or alive, of tho three convict
murderers. Tho courts can determine
who of various claimants are entitled
to share In this reward, but no other
branch of tho government has anything
to do with It save to pay It out when
legal proof Is furnished as to the
Identity of tho person entitled to It.
So far as three of the officers are
concerned they have stated that they
aro willing to waive any right to It,
but t here are so many persons who
have at least a basis of a claim that
It may not be possible to transfer it
to Mrs. Blunt. In fact, she has a Btrong
claim for a portion of the reward, ns
she ran half a mile to a nelghbors’a
house to telephone the Springfield cen
tral so that the posse might know
the men were then at her house.
NEBRASKA NEWS BRIEFS.
LINCOLN—On receipt of a letter from
Governor Hadley requesting that the pe
tition placing him in nomination for vice
president on tho republican ticket be
withdrawn, his name was stricken from
the list of candidates by the secretary of
state.
FONTANELLE—Gustave Kruger is con
fined to him home on account of an in
jury sustained when a cow turning quick
ly In her stall gashed his cheek with her
horn. Complications have set in and Mr.
Kruger is being attended by an Omaha
physician and trained nurse.
FREMONT—Harold Hinton, a brother
of Mrs. Alice Records and Miss Jessie
Hinton, dropped dead from heart trouble
St. Louis. Tho two ladles left for St.
uls at once. A telegram announces that
,s wife who is in a precarious condition
will probably not recover from tho shock
of his death.
LINCOLN—Tho state of Nebraska will
spend $200 for the purpose of sending an
i officer to Oregon with a requisition to get
. hold of 11. C. Declous, whose offense is,
i as the information charges, that before
! departing from Custer county, he sold a
» mortgaged cook stove. The value of the
1 stove is less than $10.
FREMONT—At a meeting last evening
tho members of the county board of su
; pervisors voted in favor of Installing a
Bertillon system of keeping track of
Dodge county criminals and in favor of an
> appropriation of half the necessary $400
for its installation. The city of Fremont
, will bear the other half of the cost.
1 FREMONT—Another proof of the fickle
ness of Nebraska weather may be found
> in a comparison of temperatures. A year
ago yesterday the mercury at the gov
ernment station in Fremont showed a
i maximum of 89 and a minimum of $2.
; Yesterday morning the mercury dipped to
i 6 below zero and tho maximum recorded
k for the day was two points above freezing.
| LINCOLN—The state railway commls
| sion has given permission to the Cuming
j County Independent Telephone company
, to issue $2,550 of stock to be used for the
purpose of the Eastern Nebraska Tele
phone company. The latter company is
! a portion of a toll line connecting the
Cuming county telephone lines with other
Independent companies. The present value
of the Cuming County Telephone com
pany's plant is $13,812.
FREMONT—No action was taken by the
county board on the imposition set forth
by Washington county for settling the
Magen&u bridge controversy and the
meaning of this failure to reply is that
County Attorney Cook will go ahead with
legal proceedings unless Washington
county submits another proposition. It is
known that a majority of the members
of the Dodge county board are favorable
to forcing Washington county to help keep
up the bridge, regardless of what agree
ment might be submitted.
% LINCOLN—Word has been received here
that Mrs. Roy Blunt, widow of the farm
1 er killed in l ist Monday’s convict hunt,
i may sue for damages. The Blunt and An
I derson families have engaged the services
p Judge Begley, of Papililon, to represent
j them at the Inquest next Tuesday. Mrs.
Blunt s maiden name was Anderson. Cor
oner Mathews. In charge of the bodies
• of Dowd and Gray, has announced that
i they w'll be turned over to a medical
> school unless claimed by the relutives
within a couple of days.
* NORFOLK—The Garni hotel was de
stroyed by fire. It was tho second tire m
Ui»s same building this week. The lusa
was $7,0W, well insured.
| NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES j
LINCOLN—Victor Rosewater, who es
sayed to keep Congressman Charles Lo
beck off the populist ticket in the Second
district, has been officially notified by
Secretary Wait that he was too late to
do any good, and that the protest, would
be ruled out. Determination to follow that
course was announced here yesterday aft
er the secretary of state had conferred
with Attorney General Martin. The law
prescribes that protests must be filed
within three days after the original peti
tions are sent in to the secretary of state.
Rosewater let the matter go a day too
long, having sent in his petition the fourth
day after the filing of the Lobeck populist
petition.
LINCOLN—The big drop in the ther
mometer has put a temporary quietus on
flood troubles in this vicinity, but it was
more than made up today when the addi
tional snow, with the balance which has
fallen for the past two weeks, began to
melt under the rays of the sun. A contin
uance of warm weather is looked to bring
on a myriad of troubles both among the
residents of the low places and the rail
roads. Salt and Antelope creeks have
been over their banks within the past
three days and the further melting is ex
pected to make up for the temporary alle
viation of the trouble.
HASTINGS—Woodman "insurgents" ad
journed their mass meeting by adopting a
lengthy set of resolutions covering many
phases of the matter of the raise in rates
at the Chicago meeting. The "Chicago
plan" was denounced in no uncertain
language. A plan of campaign was out
lined and it was unanimously decided to
work in harmony with the meeting held
Monday at Columbus. One of the points
in demand Is to hoid back the operation
of the raise in rates until it has been de
cided upon by a referendum vote.
KEARNEY—In a last desperate attempt
to gain their freedom Harry Wycoff and
Eugene Palmer, two escaped and captured
industrial school boys guilty of burglary
at Elm Creek, made an unsuccessful at
tempt at Jail breaking. The Palmer boy
has made several successful "getaways"
frdm the Industrial school, and has only
been recaptured after each by the com
mission of a new crime. He was sentenced
to the penitentiary for a term of from one
to 10 years and the Wycoff boy was re
turned to the school.
BEAVER CITY—Philip W. Harlan, sr.,
who Is under arrest at Cairo, 111., charged
with killing S. F. George, a hotel pro
prietor there,* has lived in Furnas county
since 1881. He homesteaded in Weaver
precinct and now owns a large farm. His
only son, Phillip W. Harlan, Jr., resides
near the old homestead and is a promi
nent and Influential citizen. Harlan left
here a month ago to visit with relatives
at McClure, 111. Mrs. Harlan died about
three years ago and Harlan has wandered
about since her death, coming home at
intervals.
M’COOK—A brief session of federal dis
trict court was held In McCook, presided
over by Judge T. C. Munger, assisted by
Clerk R. C. Hoyt and United States Mar
shal W. P. Warner. The informal session
was featured by the fining of L. H. Law
ton, of Palisade, for contempt of court*
Lawton regarded some questions as strict
ly personal and questioned the right of
the court to such an extent that a fine of
$25 was imposed. Lawton paid after some
hesitation.
FREMONT — Congressman Dan V.
Stephens has mailed out letters to his con
stituency In the Third congressional dis
trict asking support for Champ Clark.
Mr. Stephens’ Fremont friends are rather
surprised that he should take such a
strong stand for Clark, though they knew
that, in view of Mr. Clark’s coming to
the district in Mr. Stephens’ behalf last
fall, It would be more than likely the
Third district congressman would support
him.
LINCOLN—For disposing of a mort
gaged cook stove without asking the con
sent of the man who sold It to him, H. C.
Declous of Custer county will be brought
back to this state from Oregon, where he
is at present being held. The expense of
the trip to be taken there and back by
an agent of the state will exceed several
times the value of the stove, but no other
alternative than to bring the man back is
offered the officials.
OMAHA—At the closing session of the
Nebraska Laundrymen’s association, Fre
mont was selected as the place for hold
ing the October meeting and officers were
elected as follows: President, C. C. Quig
gle, Lincoln; vice president, J. A. Rich
ardson, Nebraska City; secretary-treas
urer, IT. A. Jacobberger, Omaha; execu
tive committee, Dan McLean, South Oma
ha; L. B. Hoagland, Hastings, and J. A.
Westling.
CRAWFORD—W. L. Davis, president of
the Ranchers’ Commercial club, of Moor
croft, Wyo., is In Crawford purchasing
several carloads of seed for his section.
Mr. Davis has already purchased seven
carloads, consisting of alfalfa seed, llax
seed, spring wheat, oats, barley, rye and
spelts, and has contracted for three cars
of seed potatoes.
FREMONT—People through this section
and In Saunders county are wrought up
over the slaying of Roy Blunt, the young
farmer, by the officers who were pur
suing the convicts. Words of condemna
tion are being heaped upon the officers
who shot at the convicts while Blunt was
In the wagon.
NORTH BEND—At a meeting of the
school board Miss Martha Coulson, of
CentervilW, la., was elected teacher of
the third and fourth grade rooms. Super
intendent F. L. McNoun was re-elected to
his position.
FREMONT—The snow melt of the past
few days has raised all rivers and has
done some damage to the railroads. The
Northwestern lias suffered delays on ac
count of a washout between Octavia and
Eldorado. The passenger train from Lin
wood yesterday afternoon was tied up for
10 hours owing to the condition of the
roadbed.
WASHINGTON—Representative Da
vid J. Foster, of Vermont, died here
lust night after an illness of threo
weeks. Mr. Foster was first stricken
with grip, which today developed into
pneumonia and terminated fatally in
a few hours. He was 54 years old.
NICW YORK—Mr. and Mrs. Edward
lavish, of Birmingham, Ala. will get
$1,500 damages each for the humilia
tion incident to being ejected from the
Hotel As tor here last year. This com
promise verdict was ugreed upon by
counsel yesterday afternoon after an
indiscreet Juror had caused a mistrial
by asking a witness for the defendant
"\\ hat would happen if 1 held up the
cast?"
COLUMBUS, OHIO--Counsel for
State Senator Isaac K Huffman, on
trial churged with having accented i
j::00 bribe for his senatorial vote yes
terday offered an alibi to offset the
telephonic device evidence given bv
witnesses for the state ami upon which
the state rested its case.
BOSTON—Efforts to save Clarence
V. T. Richeson, the confessed murderer
of Avis I.innell. from death in the elec
trie chair began yesterday when his
counsel. William A. Morse, conferred
with Governor iTos*.
HOT INDIGNATION AT
MURDER GF BLUNT IS
SENSE OF NEIGHBORS
Funeral of Young Man Killed
By Officers While Hostage
of the Convicts.
Springfield, Neb., March 23.—Tha
body of Roy Blunt was laid to rest in
the Springfield cemetery here yester
day afternoon.
On what had been heralded as tha
first day of spring, the body of tha
young farmer, the innocent victim oi
the man hunt, which ended in the death
of two convict murderers and the cap
ture of a third in a pitched battle with
sheriffs’ officers Monday, was brought
to this city shortly after noon in a
small sleigh from his father's farm,
about six miles from here, following
brief services at the Plattford church.
In cutters, bobsleds and wheeled ve
hicles of every description, some 200
mourners, .farmers of Sarpy county and
residents of Springfield and nearby
towns, braved the biting north wind
and followed the improvised hearse
through the well nigh impassable roads
of Sarpy county to its destination. Res
idents of Springfield say it was the
most impressive funeral cortege the
town has known.
Long before the hour set for the be
ginning of the services, farmers and
the older members of their families had
begun to congregate around the little
white frame church which overlooks
the township of Plattford from a wind
swept hill. They came from Spring
field, Gretna, Louisville and the farms
between. They came singly and by
households, in wagons, bobs, cutters and
top buggies. They came early and
waited patiently, discussing the while
the incidents that led up to the untime
ly death of the young farmer. And
the feeling was not friendly toward
those whom the community holds re
sponsible. It would have been hard to
decide which sentiment was dominant
in the minds of most, sympathy for
the bereaved parents and the 3-months’
bride of the young farmer, or indigna
tion against those who caused his
death.
In his funeral* sermon, Mr. Warne
touched on the youth of the dead man,
his great popularity in the community
in which he had passed his entire life,
and the sympathy which all extended
to his bereaved family. He touched
lightly on the incidents leading up to
young Blunt’s death, and spoke of the
apparently needless sacriflc. The serv
ices were brief.
At tha conclusion of the services the
flower-laden casket was carried again
to the sleigh, the mourners untied their
teams and, dropping in behind the ve
hicles in which were the members of the
family, began the long, difficult trip to
Springfield, six miles distant.
Among the many floral tributes
which covered the white casket in the
church wero a broken column from
the Modern Woodmen of America lodge
of Springfield, a beautiful wreath from
friends in Gretna and Springfield, and
remembrances from former school
mates of Roy Blunt at York business
college.
. For several hours after services at
the grave had been concluded, Spring
field was filled with groups of friends
of the Blunt and Anderson families, dis
cussing the case. Bitterness against
the officers responsible for the death
of Roy Blunt its was evident from the
conversations overheard, is increasing
rather than diminishing.
Mrs. Roy Blunt today received a let
ter from Governor Aldrich.
A prominent Sarpy county attorney
at law had a long conference today
with the Blunt and Anderson fami
lies.
SOUTH DAKOTA WINS
LAURELS IN ORATORY
Omaha, March 23.—A good sized and
very enthusiastic audience listened to
the arguments in the debate, the Uni
versity of South Dakota against the
Creighton university, last night at the
Creighton university auditorium. The
question for debate was “Resolved,
That the principles of the recall of
judges should be extended so as to in
clude all except those of the United
States supreme court." South Dakota
took tho affirmative and Creighton the
negative. South Dakota won by the
decision of two out of the judges, who
were Prof. C. E. Persinger. of the Uni
versity of Nebraska; Charles G. Saun
ders, of Council Bluffs, and Prof. A. H.
Waterhouse, of Fremont.
George A. Rice, A. H. Hasche and C.
J. Jesperson, first, second and third
affirmatives respectively, made i> the
Soutli Dakota team, and P. H. Iforan,
John W. Delehant and Francis P. Mat
thews, first, second and third negatives
respectively, made up the Creighton
team. Henry Monsky, alternate of the
Creighton team, was officer.
Mr. Monsky made the request that
the audience refrain from applauding,
hut the debaters received much ap
plause, which seemed to be more for
the visiting team than Creighton, and
when it was announced that South Da
kota had won the debate the stillness
of the auditorium was broken by great
outbursts of cheers for the visiting
team.
Creighton university orchestra and
the Creighton Glee club furnished the
music for the evening.
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SPIRITED CITY CONTEST
PROMISED AT CRAWFORD
Crawford, Neb., March 23.—The peo
ple’s party, which last spring won out
by the largest majority ever given in
this city, when Justin E. Porter was
elected mayor, Arah I*. Hungerford and
Chas. I.. Ijeithoff were elected council
men of the First ward, and Frank L.
Hall and Wm. T. Forbes councllmen of
the Second ward, has renominated the
old ticket.
At a meeting of the citizen’s party,
Brick McKelvey was chosen to make
the race against Mayor Porter; Geo.
Uhl against Chas. DeithofT, W, L. Judson
against Frank Hall, Walton Mee against
Page Francis, but the people’s party
nominees for treasurer and clerk were
also chosen for the citizen’s ticket.
A few of the many things accom
plished by the administration during
the past year are the new seven-mile
pipe line water system, the new Tungs
tun system of street lighting, whereby
the entire city is lighted with a 200
candle power Tungstun lamp on every
corner, the new viaducts connecting the
east with the west side, and the new
sanitary sewer system covering the en
tire city.
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BRYAN WILL RESIGN IF
HARMON GETS THE SLATE
Kearney, Neb., March 23.—In his
speech at the democratic banquet here
last night. W. J. Bryan said if the
preferential presidential vote at the
coming primary in Nebraska is for
Governor Harmon and he (Bryan) is
elected one of the delegates at large,
he will file his resignation at once. He
said he would not go to the national
convention at Baltimore to vote for
Harmon, whom he charged was backed
by the Morgan aifd Hill interests. Mr.
Bryan praised Ba Follette and criti
cized Taft and RuosevelL
—a—iw——
j NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES J
BROKEN BOW—Albert Baker, a son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Baker, of this place,
who was reported lost in a storm near
Lander, Wyo.. several weeks ago, has
written to his parents that he is alive and
well. Baker says he was In ignorance of
the anxiety caused over his disappear
ance, having been on a Wyoming ranch 40
miles from a railroad and being unable to
communicate with the outer world. He
further stated in the letter that the re
port coming from Lander was mainly cor
rect, as there was another man bearing
the same name as his own lost in the
storm, and up to the present time no
traces of him have been discovered.
FREMONT—Following Is a list of the
filings for office in Dodge county: Repub
lican: For congress, J. C. Cook; for state
senator, George F. Wolz; representative.
Charles Rogers, W. D. Holbrook, E. W.
Montgomery and F. E. Liston; county as
sessor, C. B. Nlcodemus, E. Olson: coun
ty attorney, Nye Morehouse and H. M.
Kidder. Democratic: For congress, Dan
V. Stephens; state senator, H. D. Schoett
ger; representatives, G. W. Losey, Henry
Obernmn, M. E. Shipley; county assessor,
M. E. Shipley, H. F. Meyer; county attor
ney, F. W. Button. Socialist: State sena
tor, James Christopherson; representatives
A. P. Anderson and C. Jensen.
LINCOLN, NEB—Governor Aldrich has
appointed S. M. Melick warden of the pen
itentiary, vice James Delahunty, mur
dered. Mr. Melick proceeded to the prison
at once and took charge. The appointment
of Melick has brought to the surface
again the old controversy which was
waged when he was chief of police in
Lincoln. Those who stood ,by him then
are doing so now and saying the ap
pointment is an admirable one, and his
opponents of those days are criticising
it. It is reasonably certain, however, that
any objections made at this date will be
too late to be of any effect.
BEATRICE, NEB.—N. F. Howell, an
electrician of this city, who came from
Cameron, Mo., a few years ago, shot
three times at Vern Ayers, a high school
student, because Ayers accompanied his
daughter, Helen, home from church. The
shots went wild, the young man escap
ing by dodging behind a tree. Recently
Ayers came to the Howell home, and
was ordered away by the irate father.
He struck Howell and knocked him down.
Howell watched for Ayers and when he
stepped Into the yard he opened fire on
him with a revolver.
GRAND ISLAND—The proposition to
adopt the commission form of govern
ment in this city was badly defeated, the
opposition led and conducted largely by
Councilman Heyde effectively using the
argument that it would mean a curtail
ment of, or at least endanger, personal
liberty, and that ulterior motives, with
reference to real estate movements,
prompted the submission. The promotion
of the plan was largely In the hands of a
committee of the Commercial dab. The
total vote was 325 for and against.
PENDER—1The following filings have
been made In Thurston county for the
primary to be held April 19: Socialists,
congress, N. H. Nye; state senator, Garri
son Bare; representative, D. Blankmeyer,
all of Pender. Republican, senator, H. P.
Shumway, of Wakefield; representative,
Sevan Olson, of Walthlll; Mr. Helkes, of
Dakota City, county commissioner; J. D.
Claussen and Chas. Rutledge. Democra
tic, representative, T. L. Sloan, Pender;
county assessor, Henry Rlxen, Pender;
county attorney, Howard Saxton. Filings
close March 19.
SPRAGUE—Citizens or Sprague ana vi
cinity celebrated the reconstruction of the
town after the recent disastrous Ore by
dedicating the new M. W\ A. hail and op
era house. Despite the weather, scoreB
of residents of Martell, Germantown and
the countryside were present as guests
of the Sprague Commercial club and citi
zens. The new building Is a concrete
structure two stories In height, built by
F. J. Sle'ck, of Lincoln. The ground floor
is to be used as a general store and the
second floor for lodge purposes. A com
pletely equipped stage provides opera
house facilities.
OMAHA—Fifty thousand dollars is the
estimate made by the house committee of
the Commercial club of the cost of fur
nishing the club rooms In the new Wood
men of the World building. Much of the
furniture will be Circassian walnut. There
will be new rugs, new curtains, new bill- j
iard and pool tables and kitchen and table
equipment, sufficient to take care of 1,000
diners. The dining room will seat GOO at
one time.
LINCOLN—Sheriff Hyers, the man j
whom Convict Moriey claims shot Gray
in the battle with the trio of escaped con
victs, sent a letter to Governor Aldrich, .
in which he recommend that tho next ses- !
slon of the state legislature appropriate
$5,000 for Mrs. Roy Blunt, the three
months bride of the farmer boy who was
killed while forced to drive the convicts.
ALLIANCE—Owing to the fast melt
ing snow, the Cheyenne river is at flood.
A washout 60 feel long is reported two
miles west of Edgemont, on the Burling- '
ton rood. Gangs of men and pile drivers i
are being rushed to the scene. Burling
ton officials here think they will control
i the situation unless the water rises ma
terially.
NEW YORK—The chairmanship of the
republican national committee, made va
cant by the death of John Fremont Hill,
former governor of Maine, will bo filled,
up to the time of the national convention.
! at least, by Vice Chairman Victor Rose
water, editor of the Bee, of Omaha.
PENDER—Terry Bros., of Onawa, have
purchased the local moving picture show.
DAKOTA CITY—J. Spellman, of Omaha,
has formed a partnership with A. Boyn
ton of Sioux City, la., and will build a
number of houses in South Sioux City,
Neb., on land owned there by them.
FREMONT—A telegram received from
Bason, Wyo„ by 8 S. Sldner announced
the death of Frank Pulslfer, a well known ;
resident of Crowell, from a sudden attack
of heart trouble.
KANSAS CITY, MO.—August T. j
Moreaux, a land dealer, was arrested j
here yesterday charged with defrauding
Mrs. Rodella G. Dwight, a wealthy res- I
ident here, of $60,000 in the sale of 825 I
acres of land in the Bitter Root valley |
in Montana. Moreaux’s bond was fixed j
at $20,000, which he was unable to se
cure today and be was taken to jail.
He denied that he was guilty of the
charge and said he would establish his
innocence. _
DETROIT. MICH.—Floods resulting
from sudden and rapid melting of the
heavy snow which fell lost week have
caused damage estimated at $75,000 in
the eastern part of Detroit. Large areas
ore inundated to a depth of five feet |
and street car service is suspended in .
flooded sections. _ _
♦ OPENING CONTEST IS ♦
+ POSTPONED A WEEK ♦
4- St. Louis, Maroh 21.—Tho 4
4 opening game of the sories of 4
4 games between the St. Louis 4
4 American league and the Na- 4
4- tional league teams which was 4
-0- sch-duled for Saturday, was 4
4 postponed today until March 30. 4
4 Cold v ©ather ?nd the frozen 4
♦ baseball grounds caused the 4
4 postponement. The teams will 4
4 continue to condition in the 4
4 south for ..nether week. 4
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FAULTS OF PRISON AS
PASSED IN REVIEW BY
NEBRASKA’S GOVERNOR
Aldrich Tells the Prison Reform
ers the Shortcomings of
the Lincoln Pen.
Lincoln, Neb., March 22.—In a state
ment, accompanied by a long and
comprehensive set of question on tha
conduct of the Anamosa, la., reforma
tory, Governor Aldrich takes a decided
slap at the reform prison men of the
state and sets out some excuses for
the recent laxity of state penitentiary
administration. He says in part:
“What Nebraska Is entitled to have
in its prison management, of course, is
a man like McClaughry. at Anamosa,
la., or his brother, who handles the
federal prison at Fort Leavenworth.
"But does anyone expect to get s.ucli
a man for $125 a month? Does any
one expect to have modern conditions
and modern rules enforced and carried
out according to modern lines with
nothing but an old rookery In which
to keep desperate men? Can modern
ideas of reform be carried out by being
obliged to have work side by side a
young man who is in for the first time
for a short term, in company With men
like “Shorty” Gray and Morley and
Dowd? There are many more just such
criminals today in the Nebraska peni
tentiary.
An “impossibility.”
"Absolutely, it is impossible to con
duct a reformatory and a penitentiary
under one roof. If you have a refor
matory, you must have an equipment
such as buildings, grounds, etc., oc
cupied by first term prisoners—men
who must be punished and punished
according to their crimes. It is repug
nant to the idea of a reformatory or an
intermediate penitentiary to have with
in its wall3 the ordinary man or the
man who has committed his first indis
cretion or who Is incarcerated for his
first commission of crime, housed with
hardened criminals, absolute moral de
generates, with not a single spark of
virtue to redeem them from their vices.
“I simply mention these things in
order that the pubiic may understand
the difficulties under which I am
laboring. Some good people think that
the Nebraska penitentiary down here
should be run in the same way that an
ideal reformatory could be run, when
it is impossible to do so. Criminals
like the three desperadoes who broke
prison the other day should be im
prisoned, not so much for purposes of
reform as for the protection of society.
Sunday School Leaders.
"These human devils, Gray, Morley
and Dowd, were leaders in the Sunday
school class. Gray was on the roll of
honor, had his name as star in the
Baraca class. Their subsequent con
duct, in fact, shows how they had suc
ceeded in hypnotizing many good peo
ple.
“The difficult thing for the warden
to contend with at this institution is
how to give the proper treatment to
the good prisoners down here and at
the same time make it safe for life in
handling the desperate class, hardened
highwaymen or murderers.
"A system of rules and regulations
that would be adaptable to first-term
men or slight criminals would be ab
solutely impracticable in handling or
regulating hardened criminals.
"But suffice it to say that I am get
ting sufficient data together that will
enable the warden to handle this dif
ficult matter with the best possible re
sults to be obtained under the cir
cumstances. I simply want to give out
Warden McClaughry’s statement so
that the public may have some facts
and data from the hands of one of tha
most brilliant and successful prison
managers in the entire country and
also to have them know how practical
ly Impossible it is for the warden of
the Nebraska penitentiary to do
things that are being done at the
Anamosa reformatory.”
WOODMEN AT HASTINGS
INDULGE IN PROTEST
Hastings, Nel)., March 22.—Delegates
to the number of 379 are In attendance
here at a meeting of Modern Wood
i men, gathered In a protest convention
against the rates adopted at the Chi
cago convention. There are 225 camps
• of Woodmen represented at the meet
i ing. Mayor Miles, of Hastings, gave an
! address of welcome and a number of
! other prominent individuals adrossed
the meeting. Mr. Hall, of Franklin,
came to the platform and stated that
it was the sense of the Columbus meet
ing of last Monday to harmonize action
with the Hastings meeting. Ho asked
that Edgar Howard he called to read
the resolutions adopted at that conven
tion. The Columbus resolutions carried
these ideas:
“That the action of the Chicago
meeting in raising the rates was cen
sured by every Woodman in Nebraska
who was not on the head office payroll;
that condemnation was due Head Con
sul Talbot for withholding the oppor
tunity from the camps to be heard in
the matter of rates and trying to ‘in
timidate’ them by threatening to take
away their charters; that they ask
every camp in convention assembled to
plead with Talbot to allow the matter
of rates to be referred to' a referendum
vote of all the lodges and then call a
special meeting of the head camp to
reconsider the Chicago action: that
they resolve against the expenditure of
their money by the head officials to try
and buy harmony.”
The meeting will be continued in ses
sion this morning.
INDEPENDENT COMPANIES
FIGHT AGAINST MERGER
Fremont, Neb., March 22.—Independ
ent telephone companies of Dodge,
Washington and Saunders counties will,
support a bill providing for physical
connection of telephone lines, but will
put up a determined fight against a
merger. The co-operation of all the
independent companies of the state is
expected.
A meeting was held in Fremont of
representatives of the telephone compa
nies at Blair, Arlington, Hooper, Po
hocco and the Farmers’ Independent
of Dodge county. The telephone situa
tion was gone over, particularly with
regard to the proposed split of terri
tory between the big Independent and
the Bell. The 25 men present decided
that another meeting should be held
for the further consideration of the
subject.
BRIGGS TURNS OVER
HIS REWARD TO WIDOW
Omaha, Neb.. March 22.—Chief of Po
lice John E. Briggs, of South Omaha,
who took a leading part in the battle
near Chaleo. Neb., last Monday which
resulted in the death of two convicts,
fha capture of the third and the killing
of Roy Blunt, the young farmer who
had been forced to drive for the out
laws. wired today from Chicago offer
ing to turn over lira share of the reward
to Mrs. Blunt, the widow of the inno
cent victim of the affair. Briggs is at
t.-ndimr the bowling tournament at
I Chicago.