The O’Neill Frontier
D. H. CRONIN, Publisher,
O'NEILL, NEBRASKA
Among foods, raisins, dates and fig*
•re about equal as energy producers.
Italy consumes less tobacco per cap
ita than any other country In the
World.
The United States and Russia to
gether own about half the horses In the
World.
The area expropriated In India for
tho new city at Delphi Is 125 square
Biles.
Peking, the only capital In the world
without a street car system, soon Is to
have an electric line.
In 27 tobacco establishments In Ken
tucky 3,045 women are employed, at
•n average weekly wage of 14.62.
The world's largest bird of prey Is
the bearded vulture. From tip to tip
of wing It measures nine or 10 feet.
Tho 20Ctli anniversary of the founda
tion of the Royal society of London
Will be celebruted July 10 to 18, 1912.
Cement coffins for dogB are the lat
est "Innovation in the use of cement,"
■hown at the cement exhibit In Chl
A blue fox farm Is to be started on
Kargarln Island, Kamchatka, and to
he managed like similar farms in North
America.
Emperor William has offered a prize
of 112,000 from his private funds to
encourage building of motors for aero
planes In Germany.
Desertions In the United States army
In 1911 amounted to only 2.88 per cent.,
• lower rates than In any other year
for 90 years, except In 1898.
Cape Colony now sends more than
10,000 boxes of fruit weekly to the
Covent Garden market—the outgrowth
of a consignment of a few boxes of
pears In 1886.
A society called the Loan of Honor
has been established at Lyons, France,
to loan money without security to per
sons in need and judged worthy of
relief.
Petroleum fields covering cast areas
In Turkestan, extending to the Chinese
frontier, have recently been surveyed
by Professor Hjalmer SJorgen, of
Stockholm.
A bit of wood cut from the apple tree
In Sir Isaac Nowton's garden which
gave the world the theory of gravita
tion has been presented to thu Royal
Astronomical society.
Because few typewriter Inks are In
delible or unalterable, the Venzuelan
government has forbidden the official
registration or authentication of type
written documents.
Gifford Plnchot, of the National Irri
gation congress, declares that there
su-e 77,000,000 acres of swamp and over
flow lands* In the Mississippi valley
that can be made Into farm land at a
cost of $0 to J7 on acre. It costs from
•20 to 140 to claim land by Irrigation,
The Vienna electric plant Is making
arrangements with the bakers’ syndi
cate to have electric ovens adopted
widely throughout the city and to sup
ply the current at special reduced
prices. Use of electric ovens for bread
baking Is being promoted In other Eu
ropean cities also.
Cotton stalks, It Is thought, may be
used for the manufacture of paper. A
machine has been patented which will
separate the brown bark from the In
ner pith, and It Is claimed that excel
lent paper pulp may be made from the
latter. From the bark a substitute for
•xcelslor Is manufactured.
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Red rains are very rare, but In vol
canic regions gray rain Is compara
tively common. Sicily has hud many
•howers of this shade. They are caused
by the upper atmosphere being full of
•sh colored volcanic dust from Etna
This dust Is Infinitesimally fine and
colors the rain as It falls.
General Baden-Powell, originator of
the Boy Scout movement, has had a
watch made which ho can read in the
dark. Instead of the thin hands usual
In watches they are very thick, while
the Quarter hours are also denoted by
heavy marks. Thus the watch can be
Men almost In the Inky darkness.
Experiments made In Germany as to
the value of different foods for fatten
ing hogs disclosed that 100 kilos (220
pounds) of barley brought an Increase
ot 62.8 pounds; 100 kilos of hominy,
•0.6 pounds; 100 kilos of mixed corn,
•8.2 pounds, and 50 kilos each of bar
ley and grulten feed. 70.4 pounds.
Snow melters have been provided
outside the new passenger station of
the Chicago & Northwestern, at Chi
cago. They ore steel pans with semi
circular bottoms and contain steam
colls. They are sot In the track and the
melted snow is carried oft by drain
pipes to sewers. Snow Is shoveled to
the pans and there melted.
Some of the fastest trains In the
world are to be found In England and
France. England has eight regular dally
trains with speeds of 66.1 to 69.2 miles
•n hour, whose stop-to-stop runs are
£rom 72 to 118 % miles In length. The
French roads run four dally trains over
• distance of 77fc to 170H miles, at
•peed* from 66.2 to 61.8 miles on hour.
Under Polk, four ex-presidents were
Bvlnr—Adams, Jackson, Von Buren
•nd Tyler. Under Buchanan were Van
Buren, Tyler. Fillmore and Pierce.
Lincoln's firat term saw Van Buren
Fyler, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan
•till alive, and out of office. Since
Grant'* Unit term there have never
Been more than two former president's
Bring. And now there Is only Theo
dore Roosevelt.
Immigrants Into Canada last year
totaled 360,000, an Increase of 40.000
•ver 1910. A few years ago one-third
•C the immigration was from Great
Britain, one-third from continental
■urope, and one-third from the United
•Utes; but in 1811 over 40 per cent
•urn from the mother country, lm
Mlgrants from the United States num
Wred 126.400, an Increase of 4.000 over
MW. ___
The falling off In the value of exports
goo the Dresden district to the United
States has caused surprise The de
grease was nearly 31,000.000 In 1910 and
LLSOO.OOO In the year following.
Codeine, a very largely used narcotic.
1* more than twice Its normal value,
Crlng to the scarcity of opium, car
lie acid continues to advance in
•rice, and It to not at all unlikely that
E« cost of household disinfectants may
B* Increased. The most noteworthy of
Ke few articles which have declined In
•alue Is glycerin, which, after a long
r-iod of nigh value, now shows signs
coming down In price. -
FORMER CHAPLAIN OF
I LINCOLN PEN STATES
WHY HEJJUjT THE JOB
Changes and Reforms That He
Sought in Prison — Dope
Not Prom Visitors.
Tecuinsch, Neb., April 8.—The Rev.
P. C. Johnson, of this *clty, the former
chaplain of the Nebraska penitentiary,
who resigned shortly after Deputy
Warden Davis was stabbed to death by
the negro, Prince, and before the mu
tiny at the prison, In which Warden
Delahunty and Usher Heilman were
killed, has given out the following
statement:
"Somewhat reluctantly I appear In
public print. Of many things that I
hate, a newspaper controversy Is not
the least. My experience of the past
few weeks only confirms this dislike.
But simple justice to myself requires a
few corrections, and a few brief state
ments.
Some papers say, "It Is understood
about Lincoln that the chaplain had It
suggested to him that his resignation
would be accepted:' others, that 'It was
demanded,’ etc. Allow me to say there
Is absolucly no truth in any of these
statements, nor in anything approxi
mating them. Tho resignation was
wholly an act of my own.
“Further reference is made to some
quarrel. Ix-t me say I quarreeled with
no one. I preserved my self-poise when
I called upon the governor to resign. I
was not angry and spoke respectfully
and retired quietly when so ordered to
do. Neither did f make any complaint
ugalnst anybody, nor did I Intend to.
My only Intent was to resign the chap
laincy of the Nebraska penitentiary.
"Concerning the Interview, there are
other points that I might touch, but
these suffice, and I can prove these, and
more, by Mr. Cordner, of the firm of
Wood & Cordner, who was with me at
the time.
Could No Longer Fit In.
"My reasons for resigning arc wholly
my own, and really concern no one
else. How little did I think that the
event would have given to It the Im
portance that has been given It. I had
no personal difficulty with the prison
administration, hut I saw, heard and
felt that which made It impossible for
me to work there any longer. What
all this was I can tell to any one whose
business to know' Is admitted.
"Any one that can read intelligently
what has appeared In the papers for
Eovcrut weeks past, the statements
made, the ‘reforms’ proposed, the
changes suggested and comment made
will see what I and others have, In
some form or other, contended for for
from five to seven years. Tho thing
that Is more than merely amusing Is
the now found zeal for reform, reform
that lias been asked for by the real
friends Af the prison and Its Inmates
for years past, I can show in printed
reports and addresses most. If not all,
of the loudly called for reforms by
these new converts lo the cause of re
form And, although they may have
to he counted In with the ‘cranks,’
‘sentimentalists,’ kickers' and others
who are a trouble to politicians and
others of the snme Ilk, yet they are to
be congratulated upon their conversion,
even at this late date. 'While the light
holds out to burn,’ etc. May I not sug
gest, modestly, that It would have paid
had this need of reform, and Us de
mand, been heeded years ago?
Visitors Don’t Bring in Dope.
"Concerning 'dope,' Just a word: It
Is undoubtedly a hard thing to control.
But I deny that 'visitors.' In the ordi
nary sense of that term, bring In dope.
Some years ago a guard was found
with a paper sack which had 11 bottles
of the drug In it. Of course, he was
discharged lnstanter. The visitors'
have maintained the Sunday school In
the prison In this great state at a cost
of more than $200 per year, as I hap
pen to know, and not one cent of this
has come from the state. Yet the state
spends from $1,500 to $1,700 a year for
tobacco for the Inmates. I am not
moralising about tobacco, for I do not
care a cent about It (though If the state
did not furnish It many a young fellow
would he helped to quit the habit). Yet
when I wanted money for some small
Items 1 would bo met, In some way,
with a denial of some kind.
"Concerning the article in the Appeal
to Reason, which was largely quoted.
It was not written at my dictation, nor
was the exact language mine. How
ever, In substance, It expressed my
feelings. In one place I would not
have used the word "murder," though
It seems that It has required tragedy
to arouse public notice to some very
Important state maters."
FREMONT’S FLOOD EXPERIENCE
MINIMIZED BY LEVY SYSTEM
Fremont, Neb., April 8— Hiver experts
declare that Fremont was saved from a
disastrous flood In the business and
residence section of the city only by
the fact that the dyke district con
structed heavy works southwest of the
city and that the Burlington railroad
narrowed the channel Immediately
south. At tills place the water meas
ured 52 feet deep and the current was
so powerful that It uld not permit the
Ice to gorge While portions of Fre
mont were Inundated, the water did
not rise to four and five feet deep In
the houses as It did in Waterloo and
Valley. Fremont got off easier than
any other town along tile valley. The
demonstration given by the dyke con
firms the belief of many student of the
1’lutte river problem that the solution
lies in confining the river to a nar
row stream, say 800 feet in width. As
It Is it spreads over a mile or so and
1s so shallow that when Ice breaks up,
It gradually accumulates till It forms
the gorges which dam up the riverway
and sends the flow of water out across
the adjoining lowlands.
Reports from Waterloo indicate that
the town is still stnding In three feet
of water. Business Is being carried on
by means of boats. Waterloo lies in
a swale that has no outlet and It will
take many days for the water to dis
appear. Conditions at Valley are im
proving steadily. It will take $10,000
to repair the damage done to streets
end suroundlng roads there.
Thousands of acres of valuable hay
and grazing land along the Platte hot
toms have been covered by sand from
a foot to three feet deep and have been
rendered worthless
IMPLEMENT PLANT BURNS
INVOLVING ONE FATALITY
Omaha. Neb.. April s -One work
man. John Lauzterrc, was burned to
death and $200,000 monetary less was
sustained by a tire which late yester
day afternoon dent roved tie implement
manufacturing plum of T. F. Stroud
& Co. at Twentieth and Vines avenue
This concern carried hut $5,000 in
surance.
I .a msterre was a woodworker, 55
years old After the fire broke out he
rushed Into the paint room to secure
his tools and was overcome by the
heat und lumes.
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
LINCOLN—Although the wholesale
price of cement has remained steady for
the past month, a sharp increase is looked
for by local dealers within a short time.
The reason assigned is the combination
of the millers of the product which has
been pending for the past four months
and which only a little over a week ago
went into effect. This coupled with the
opening of the season, and what is the
heaviest demand in years, will boost the
market.
LINCOLN—Graham Taylor, a Chicago
man and religion forward worker and a
member of the National Prison assocla
tion, visited the Nebraska state prison
yesterday and, in the presence of .several
newspaper men, got a lengthy Interview
from Charles Morley, the surviving con
vict of the trio which recently escaped
from the institution. To the prison work
er Morley stated that one of the first
four or five shots fired from the buggy
leading the chase against them killed their
hostage, Roy Blunt.
OMAHA—William J. Morris, expert ac
countant, In tho service of the city of
Omaha, in connection with the fight for
dollar gas, has notified the city gas de
partment that the Omaha gas company
was delaying unreasonably the Informa
tion necessary for a physical valuation of
the plant.
OMAHA—Geo. CX Cockrell, after many
years’ residence In Omaha, and a well
known man in legal circles, died suddenly '
at his home at the Merriam hotel at 5 j
o'clock yesterday afternoon of apoplexy.
Judgo Cockrell came home complaining j
that he did not feel very well and the !
landlady assisted him to his room. Judge
Cockrell was 76 years old and was one of
the oldest justices of the peace In Omaha.
He was a Mason and an Elk and promi
nent In the work of the Grand Army. In
religious work he was Identified with the
First Church of Christ, Christian Science.
BROKEN BOW—Frank Bayers, the
young man who shot and killed Joseph
Teahon last week near Anselmo, waived
examination before County Judge Hol
comb on a charge of murder in the first
degree and was bound over in the sum
of $1,000. Several prominent people in tho
neighborhood of Anselmo signed the bond
and Bayers was released pending his ap
pearance before Judge Hostetler at the
coming term of district court
LINCOLN—Elton Fulmer, chemist for
the state of Washington and graduate of
tho University of Nebraska, is being
“boomed" for the office of head of the
United Btates bureau of chemistry, made
vacant by the resignation of Dr. Wiley.
Chancellor Avery and other alumni of the
university have strongly indorsed Fulmer
for the position, and the Nebraska con
gressional delegation has been asked to
take up the matter with President Taft
and Secretary Wilson. Tho object of the
boom is a brother of Chancellor Fulmer,
of Nebraska Wesleyan university.
PENDER—Tho body of Oscar Hamlin,
who was drowned here in & railroad ditch,
was found out on the prairie 600 feet back
from the ditch, where it had washed. The
funeral was held here yesterday.
BLOOMFIELD—The Bloomfield Com
mercial club held its annual meeting for
the election of officers. The following
officers and executive committee were
elected for the ensuing year: President, J.
J. MoCourt; Wee president, L. M. Caya;
secretary-treasurer, H. F. Friedrichs.
Executive committee, P. A. Tulleys, W.
R. Ellis, P. B. Neff, E. M. Bloodhart, H.
A. Dahl, H. F. Cunningham and L. C.
Bleick.
TEKAMAH—The Third congressional
district women's club delegate conten
tion will open here April 16 for a two
day session. Over 100 delegates are ex
pected and preparations aro ubout com
plete for their entertainment. A splen
did program has been prepared and a
great meeting Is anticipated.
SUPERIOR—Evangelist Bromley and a
corps of workers have been holding suc
cessful revival meetings for the last five
weeks in the tabernacle and despite tho
bad weather has had 300 conversions. A
collection was taken for Mr. Bromley and
his four helpers at tho close of the meet*
ings.
LEAP YEAR PROMISE
RROKEN, IS CHARGE
Woman, Who Says She Popped
the Question, Asks $10,000
Heart Balm From Lover.
Denver, April 5.—Abner James Da
vis, son of a wealthy Iowa farmer, Is
defendant In a suit brought by Mrs.
pearl Philips, a young widow, who
charges him with breach of premise to
marry after -he had proposed and been
accepted. Mrs. Philips, the mother of
two small children, asks for $10,000
damages for her injured feelings and
the disappointment occasioned by Da
vis's alleged abrogation of his agree
ment to wi d her.
llavls and Mrs. Philips met i.nrly In
February as a result of the former's
request for a Colorado wife, published
In a newspaper advertisement, and in
matrimonial agencies. He represented
himself to be well off financially and
declared he wished a "loving, home
like woman for a mate."
Mrs. Philips, clerk in a largo depart
ment store, saw the advertisement and
answered It. She entertained Davis at
her home on several occasions and ac
cording to her they were satisfied with
each other.
"This Is leap year,” Davis said, ac
cording to Mrs. Philips, "so 1 guess it's
up to you to pop the question.”
This Mrs. Philips did, she says, and
it was agreed that the wedding should
take place in a few days. Later Davis
told her that he would not marry her,
she asserts. He gave no reason for Ids
refusal.
CLARK WITHDRAWS HIS
NAME FROM N. J. BALLOT
Trenton, M. J., April -.-—In a letter
received today by Secretary of Statu
Crater, speaker Champ Clark with
draws his name, from use on the bal
lot In the New Jersey primary election
to choose delegates t<> the democratic
national convention. Mr. Clark (lies
not give any reason for Ids action, but
It Is believed lure Ills move was taken
as a courtesy to Oovernor Wilson.
THROUGH COAL RATES TO
STAND UNTIL AUGUST
Washington. April r«.—Through
rates on coal from Illinois mines, by
way of the Chicago & Alton and thn
Chicago, Burlington t'fc Quincy rail
ways. cannot be cancelled prior to Aug
ust 3. The action of rati roads which
was to have boon ^ftective April
6. was ordered suspended today by
the Interstate Common'" commission
until the later date. The wiihdruv.nl
of through rates would have resulted
In an advance of 12*160 a ton in th«
rate on steam coal.
DOMESTIC INFELICITY
CAUSES DOUBLE CRIME
OF FORMER IOWA MAN
Louis Byour Turns Gun On Wife
and Completes Tragedy
With His Own Life.
Wahoo, Nob., April 6.—Louis Byour,
of this city, last night shot and killed
his wife, and turning the pistol on
himself he followed her into eternity.
The tragedy occurred at 8:30 o’clock
in front of the Byour home, tho only
Eearby witness being a nephew of the
ead woman.
Two weeks ago the couple had some
domestic trouble, the wife going to the
home of a sister, who resides on a farm
near here. Last evening Mrs. Byour
came to town with a nephew to get
some of her household effects.
She went to her home and finding It
locked, went up town after her hus
band. They met apparently in amiable
spirits and went home together to pack
up. They put some things in a lumber
wagon and carried out tho sewing ma
chine and while her nephew was tying
It in place, Byour said to his wife:
“You’d better get your sheets and pil
low slips.”
Mrs. Byour was returning to the
house for tho bed clothes as suggested
by her husband, when he pulled a re
volver and shot his wife at a distance
of but a few feet, the ball entering one
of her eyes, killing her instantly. By
our then placed the revolver behind hi3
right ear and pulled the trigger. His
death was instantaneous.
Hearing the shots, the young man
tying the machine, rushed to town and
turned in an alarm. The coroner, sher
iff and city marshal Immediately re
sponded and took charge of the house
and the bodies of Byour and his wife.
April 2 Byour went to the bank and
drew $3,000 in cash, all ho had, pre
paratory to going to his parents in
Iowa.
The coroner found but $1,600 in cash
on Byour’s person, the remainder not
being accounted for.
Search of the Byour premises has
failed to account for the $1,400 Byour
is supposed to havo had.
A
GREAT DAY FOR ARNOLD WHEN
THE CHOO-CHOO CARS ARRIVE
Arnold, Neb., April 6.—Wednesday
was a day which perhaps brought more
solid Joy to every citizen, old and young,
than any other in the town's history.
That day the oldest settlers saw the
realization of hopes for which many of
them have patiently waited 30 or more
years—the coming of a railroad to place
them in rapid transit connection with
the rest of the world. The steel train
and crew reached the heart of Arnold
by noon and was greeted by Hardin’s
band, a great throng of citizens of the
town and vicinity and a liberal supply
of cigars. The event was of too great
importance to satisfy the Joy and cu
riosity of the people In an hour or two,
and throughout the day a great crowd
accompanied the construction train and
workmen watching the work of build
ing a railroad. The school children
were on the scene as soon as school
was dismissed for noon, and without
diners Joined the throng. The excite
ment was too great for the children to
interest themselves with studies any
more that day, and school was dis
missed.
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CONVICTS ARRAIGNED
AND PLEAD NOT GUILTY
Lincoln, Neb., April 6.—Charles Mor
ley and Hartford Reed were arraigned
In district court yesterday afternoon.
Morley was called upon to plead to the
charge of being an accessory to the
murder of Usher Heilman and of being
the murderer of Warden Delahunty of
the state prison, deaths which occurred
during the outbreak of three weeks ago
today. He pleaded not guilty to both
charges. The county attorney stated
that he would probably be placed on
trial on April 30. Reed, who is charged
with furnishing Convict Albert Prince
with the knife with which ho killed
Deputy Warden Davis on February 11,
refused to plead and the court entered
a plea of not guilty for him.
WETS MAKE SLIGHT GAINS
IN LATE CITY ELECTIONS
Lincoln, Neb., April 6.—As a result of
the municipal elections the wet towns
of the state have been allghtiy in
creased. Of those reported 64 took their
place for saloons, of which number nine
switched from dry to wet, as follows;
Auburn, Beatrice, Bellwood, Clarks,
DoWltt, Dorchester, Herman, Orleans
and Wilcox. The following towns voted
out saloons; Geneva. Gothenburg,
Loup City and Upland, The number of
wet towns In the state is 64; dry, 42.
INSURGENT WOODMEN
DECLARE ULTIMATUM
Lincoln, Neb., April 6.—The officers
of the Nebraska Insurgent Woodmen
association, at a meeting here, adopted
resolutions protesting against the ad
vance in insurance rates which the so
ciety recently ordered. The demands
upon the head officers were presented
to Head Consul A. U. Talbot. They
ask that the question of an inc rease be
submitted to a vote of the entire mem- i
bership of the order, and that Mr. Tal- |
hot call a special and newly-elected |
head camp to reconsider the rate enact
ment.
An answer to these demands is re
quested not later than April 15.
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NEBRASKA NEWS BRIEFS.
HOOPER—County Surveyor William
Sanders and Addle Muir started to cross
the swollen Maple creek yesterday, in
tending to hunt duck In the lake country
to the northwest. Their boat was swept
against a fence post and upset, spilling
them out In the current. The men saved
their lives, but lost their boat, their guns,
and their ammunition.
PONCA—The second trial of William
Flege on change of venue from Dixon
county will have a hearing in the district
court here April 16.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The president
has nominated Henry C. M. Burgess for
reappointment as surveyor of customs at
Lincoln, Neb.
LINCOLN—Major Howard H. Antics of
the Nebraska National guard has been
appointed deputy warden of the state pen
itentiary. The announcement of the ap
pointment was made early today from the
executive office®. The appointee has had
experience as a soldier in the Spanlsh
Amerlcan war as a member of the Third
Nebraska, which did police duty in Ha
vana tn 18i*8.
OMAHA—Senator Robert M. La Follette,
of Wisconsin, candidate for nomination
for president on the republican ticket, will
speak ut the Omaha Auditorium Saturday
evening of this week.
WINNIPEG—At Edmonton, capital of
Alberta province, Harvey Philamal, of Al
bion. Neb . is under arrest, charged with
ombleazlornent. He was arrested on de
scription and photograph in a circular
sent over western Canada by Nebraska
authorities. He has money and has taken
out habeas corpus papers In the supremo
court. In the meantime he is In the
mounted police jail. Lincoln authorities
have wired that an officer with requlsi*
lion papers is en route.
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES |
WASHINGTON—The house has passed
the Borah bill reducing the required resi
dence on homesteads from five to three
years, changing only the period of ab
sence permitted each year. This is re
duced from six to five months each year.
The Senate will accept the change. The
act is retroactive and homesteaders who
under the old law have resided three
years upon their land may proceed to pat
ent as soon as the bill Is Blgned by the
president. The bill reflects primarily the
demands of the far west, but has had the
strong support of Nebraska homestead
ers.
CENTRAL CITY—Plans are being laid
for tho holding of the Nebraska Inter
collegiate Prohibition association conven
tion and state oratorical contest here next
week. This association embraces the fol
lowing colleges: Grand Island Baptist
Wesleyan university, Cotner, Doane, Or
leans seminary; Union college, York col
lege, Nebraska Central, Bellevue and the
state university. Of these colleges Doane,
Union, York and Bellevlue will not have
representatives in the contest this year.
The contest will be held In the opera
house Tuesday evening. April 2.
LOUISVILLE—Three bents were taken
out of the Rock Island bridge by the Ice
yesterday. The ice is gorging in many
places and when these break it is feared
that much damage will be done. The wra
ter is higher than at any time this year.
The bridge at this place has stood the test
so far and is not damaged. The Rock
Island has pile drivers »t the bridge but
they cannot work, owing to the heavy Ice.
NEBRASKA CITY—William “Ducky”
Holmes, former owner of the Lincoln and
Sioux City Western league ball clubs, has
been engaged to act as manager of the
local club next season. The city will have
a club in the new league to be organized
in southeastern Nebraska. The members
of this league will meet at Falls City some
time this week to draft a constitution and
elect officers.
WYMORE—Fred Rainey, firemen on
train No. 14, wrecked near Bostwick, who
received serious injuries and was brought
here on a special train, died at his home.
Mr. Rainey had been married about two
years and leaves a wife and infant child.
The remains of Engineer Paul Temple,
who was killed in the wreck, W'ere brought
to Wymore on a special train for inter
ment.
BOSTWICK - Engineer Hall Temple,
who was killed when his train went into
a washout near this place, was about to
retire from the service, and railroad men
who were working on the wreckage here
say that this was planned to be his last
trip in fhe service. He never reached the
terminal alive. He was 65 years of age.
He was in the wreck recently near Endi
cott.
OMAHA—Romping about the kitchen
floor while his mother was engaged with
the family washing, Howard, the 2-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Krause,
fell headlong into a tub of boiling water
and died without having regained con
sciousness. The child stumbled into the i
tub before Mrs. Krause, who was within j
a few feet of him, could prevent the acci- j
dent. Her own hands were badly scalded, j
NEBRASKA CITY—The farmer and !
cattle raisers hereabouts are becoming
alarmed over the shortage of hay. Many
of the stock feeders will have to ship their
1 stock to market because it is almost im
possible to get hay at almost any price
near their homes. One man who has 25
tons of timothy hay was offered $25 a
ton and refused to sell, saying he w'as go
ing to feed it to his own stock.
NICKERSON—While hunting birds j'es
terday Allen Johnson, 15-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Nels Johnson, shot away
a portion of his hand wdth a small rifle.
Young Johnson attempted to climb a tree
dragging the gun behind him, when it
was discharged. Amputation of his thumb
and a portion of the hand was necessary.
NELIGH—Sheriff L. Bennett has ap
pointed Harry C. Frady, of this city, as
his deputy, and the bond was approved
last w'eek by the county board of super
visors. The appointment is a worthy one
and the general sentiment sanction the
actions of Mr. Bennett
FREMONT—Allen Johnson, a well
known Fremont attorney, has been ap
pointed by the government to assist in
prosecuting land fraud cases at Chey
enne, Wyo., and is preparing to remove
to Cheyenne.
BROKEN BOW—Joseph Tehon, a farm
er 40 years old, was shot and killed near
the town of Anselmo by Frank Bayers,
aged 20, a son of Mrs. Mary Bayers.
Young Bayers, who came here and gave
himself up, says Tehon attacked his moth
er and it w'as in defense of i her that lie
shot. Tehon formerly lived at the Bayers
home. The sheriff and coroner have gone
to Anselmo to investigate.
WOONSOCKET — Postmaster Richard
son has been instructed to add a postal
Bavlngs department to the local postoffice
on April 11.
SEWARD—Friends of S. H. Beaver, of
Seward, learned within the last few days
of his marriage in April last year to Mrs.
Emma Agle at Palm Beach, Fla. Mrs.
Beaver Is now conducting a hotel at Deer
field, Fla. Mr. Beaver was in the south
last spring but returned to Seward soon
after his marriage and resumed his duties
as mail carrier on route No. 4 from Se
w'ard. He is the proprietor of the Sewrard
green house and kept the secret of his
marriage until some of his fellow towns
men happened to be covering the ground
in the south that he had and learned of
his matrimonial venture.
YOUNG MEN SENTENCED
FOR ROBBING HOOSIER
Watertown, S. D., March 30.—Judge
C. X. Seward yesterday morning sen
tenced Clarence Middleton, aged 24
years, to serve a term of four years
and six months at hard labor in the
penitentiary and Harry Cambern aged
22 years to a term of three years and
one day at hard labor, having been con
victed of assaulting and robbing E. D.
Wilson, of Noblesville, Ind., on the
night of March 13 at the Northwestern
depot in this city.
Before sentencing the two young men
in the presence of a crowd of specta
tors that more tha» taxed the capacity
of the large court room, the judge de
livered a very impressive lecture to the
young men, and in a feeling way ex
pressed his regret at his unpleasant
duty In sentencing two young men who
had grown up In the same town with
him and had the advantage of making
useful and upright citizens of them
selves and failed to do so.
They were taken to the penitent In rv
this morning to commence serving their
sentences.
WM. A. BROWN DEAD.
St. Joseph, Mo., March 30.—William
A. Brown, secretary of the American
Association of Passenger and Baggage
Transfer Companies, died at his home
here today, aged 40 years.
WM. SHEPPARD DEAD.
Richmond. Va„ March 30.—William
Ludwell Sheppard, conteiieraie vt‘uia»i
and widely known as an illustrator
und designer of sculpture, is dead here.
His most notable works were the Sol
diers’ and Sailors' monument, the Gen.
A. I*. Hill statue and the Howitzer me
morial, all in Richmond.
INSURANCE EXAMINER
DRAWS MORE PAYTHAN
THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
New Law Assessing Companies
For Inspection Fund Grants
Liberal Fees.
Lincoln, Neb., April 6.-—Prosperity
In abundance has come to John M. Gil
christ, insurance examiner of the stato.
The records in the auditor's office -how
that in the last seven months Gilchrist
has drawn $6,600 for his work in look
ing into the Insurance companies that
do business in Nebraska. Some of
these vouchers are in his own name
and some In the name of himself and
assistants. H. S. Wiggins, the other
state insurance examiner, has drawn
$776 in the same time.
Auditor Barton says that the law
gives the examiners $10 a day and ex
penses. None of Gilchrist’s vouchers
or bills are itemized and there is no
showing as to how much he paid hi3
assistants. The auditor says that Gil
christ has been drawing the money in
his own name and paying his men out
of the proceeds of his warrant.
The money thus drawn had all been
previously paid into the state treasury
by the insurance companies that Gil
christ examined, this being done under
the provisions of a new law passed at
the last session. The insurance men
are sharply criticising the showing and
the methods. They point out that there
is no limit placed in the law on the
number of examinations that the au
ditor may order, and that many of
state examinations of one company fol
low one another. They also say that
the law leaves it wide open for an
auditor and an examiner to make a
good thing put of the business of ex
amining.
No charge is made that the money
has not been lawfully obtained or that
there is any fraud or corruption in con
nection with it, but the objection is
that as the law stands, the gate is wide
open for the doing of this. Gilchrist
is a democrat and an accountant of
standing. The records apparently show
that he has been drawing several times
as much for his work as the auditor,
who appointed him, or as the governor
of the state draws.
A
PLATTE AT HIGH TIDE
FLOWS 22 MILES PER HOUR
Lincoln, Neb., April 5.—Engineers
for the state board of irrigation started
to make some experiments on the
flowage of the Platte during the height
of the flood and were getting along
finely until the strong current washed
away their current meter.
The farthest out the test was made
was about half way to the main chan- '
nel and the current there indicated
about 12 miles per hour. From that
they estimated it was at least 15 miles
an hour In the center or the channel.
Burlington engineers who made tests
estimated it at 22 miles per hour In
the channel.
The average current of the liver is
about two and a half miles per hour
and when to the speed during the flood
is added the immense ice floes, some
Idea can be rurmed of the tremendous
pressure on the bridges which span the
stream. The average flow of the Platte
river is about 3,500 cubic feet per sec
ond and the state engineers estimate
that at the height of the flood it was
carrying 30,000 cubic feet per second.
Professor Stout, of the University of
Nebraska, who has large experience in
measurement of the Platte and other
rivers of the state corroborates the
estimates of the state engineers.
FIDELITY LAUNDRY
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Fremont, Neb., April 5.—A fire this
morning gutted the Fidelity h,undry,
causing a loss of $5,000 to Hamilton &
Smith, proprietors, and Mr. Townsend,
of Crete, the owner of the building.
The loss is covered by insurance.
MAROONED ON PLATTE
ISLAND NEARLY WEEK
Fremont, Neb., April 5.—John Strit
bling. who has been marooned on an
island below the Burlington bridge,
came back to the city last evening. He
had been on the island since last Fri
day, but suffered little, being well sup
plied with food. While the water cov
ered the whole island, Mr. Stribbling
was able at all times to gain access to
his house, which stands on a ridge. The
water on the floor was only a foot deep.
He might have slept in a high bed, but
chose to stay on a platform in a tall
tree because he was afraid the house
might be carried away. Mr. Stribbling
saved his flock of 1,000 chickens by
placing them in several boats.
ESCAPE OF PRISONERS
NIPPED IN THE BUD
Omaha, Neb., April 5.—Led by Wil
fred Coyne, Jack Lorraine and Bill
Kearns, eight, prisoners confined in a
cell room at the Douglas county jail,
attempted to saw their way to freedom
last Friday night. They would have
succeeded but for a meager signal of
ton waring unconsciously communicat
ed to the jail authorities by the pris
oners themselves. The facts have just
come to light.
The juvenile cell room is situated on
the third floor of the jail structure. A
heavily screened and barred window in
one end of it was the avonu<- of the
planned escape. The steel lock on the
screen had been ripped from its fasten
ings, allowing access to tht bars of the
window. One of these had been com
pletely filed in two and another par
tially. When twisted apart an aperture
thus made would easily allow the pass
age of a human body.
In their work of sawing through the
bars the prisoners had taken care to
make as much noise as possible with
out arousing suspicion, and this they
did, scraping their feet, whistling and
talking among themselves. But they
failed to notice as they worked that
iheir files occasionally struck an iron
pipe within a few inches of the win
dow. This pipe runs straight down
ward through three floors and into the
jail office where sat Guards Lambert
and Wright. The noticed the frequent
taps on the pipe and investigated.
DECISION TO CLABBY.
Sydney, Australia, April 5.—Jimmy
Clabby, the American boxer, and Aus
tralian middleweight champion, yester
day defeated Mehegan. who holds the
light championship, on points in a 20
round contest for the welterweight
championship in the stadium here.
WILSON GIVEN WELCOME
BY WASHINGTON FRIENDS
Washington, April 5.—Gov. Woodrow
Wilson stopped over here for some
hours today enroute to Illinois where
he will make a number of speeches be
fore the primary. He was given an en
thusiastic reception by many demo
cratic senators and representatives. He
was congratulated on the strong show
ing made in Wisconsin as the result of
which Wilson stock has perceptibly
risen.