The O'Neill Frontier
D. H. CRONIN, Publisher,
O’NEILL,_ NEBRASKA
The temporary lose of some Impor
tant papers once cost this country
nearly Jl,000,000. This was In connec
tion with the famous Alabama Inci
dent during the American civil war.
The vessel was quietly constructed at
Birkenhead and launched on May 16,
1862. Then, and not till then, suspicion
of her true character was aroused, and
a case was prepared for the law of
ficers’ opinion. But the messenger en
trusted with the papers pat them In
the wrong letter box. Two days passed
before the mistake was discovered, and
when orders were telegraphed to stop
the vessel the Alabama had steamed
from the Mersey on a voyage of des
truction for which we had to pay some
thing more than the price of a tele
gram.
American Medicine makes a strong
plea In behalf of revacclnatlon. It says
that the “perfect protective power of
revacclnatlon does not seem to be as
widely known as it should bo and there
Is urgent need of more publicity of the
facts, now that there Is a recrudescence
of the antl-vaccinatlon delusion." And,
adds this standard American medical
Journal, "a primary vaccination causes
only an evanescent Immunity In many
cases, and It Is this fact which has
been used so effectively by anti-vac
cinationlsts to convince the unreason
ing that there Is no Immunity at all."
One portion of the British Isles Is
not likely to take much Interest In the
bill for reforming the calendar, which
Is to be Introduced Into parliament.
The act enforcing tho Gregorian cal
endar was passed 161 years ago, but It
Is still Ignored In Shetland. Almost
all through the group of Islands the old
style of reckoning time Is still followed.
What we call January 13 Is New Year’s
day among the Shetlanders and cele
brated by them with all manner of old
observ;#ices, Including the solemn
drinking of the national toast—“Health
to man and death to the gray Ash."
How many golfers would care to send
a ball over the weathercock of St.
Giles', Edinburgh? It has been done,
however. In virtue of a bet In 1798,
Mr. Scales, of Leith, and Mr. Smelle,
a printer, were selected to perform the
curious feat of driving a ball from the
southeast corner of parliament square
over the weathercock of the famous
church (161 feet from the base of tho
building). They were allowed the uso
of six bolls each. These all went con
siderably higher than the vane and
were found In the advocate's close, on
the north side of the High street.
The offer by students of hand-woven
bed coverlets as payment for their tui
tion led the president of Berea college
to establish tho Berea fireside Indus
tries. “Repair that loom” became a
slogan which awakened Interest In the
remotest cabins. The fireside Industries
now Include chairs, saddles, ax handles,
wooden plates, forks, spoons and bas
kets, In addition to blanketB, linen
towel covers, ramie towels and rag
rugs of many colors and designs. The
mountaineers often come a day’s
Journey on horseback to the fairs or
to get detailed Instruction.
The Introduction, as an experiment,
of automatic machines for Btamplng
letters by the London postofflce, has
excited much Interest In Austria, and
the chamber of commerce at Brunn has
Jietttloned the minister of commerce to
ntroduco the system Into Austria.
Stamp collectors, however, are alarmed
as they fear that If this method of
■tamping letters Is universally adopted
and postage stamps consequently be
come obsolote, the public will no longer
take an Interest In old postage stamps
and existing collections will lose much
of their value.
Mrs. Clark Fisher, of East Hanover
street, Trenton, principal owner of the
JWsher & Norris anvil works, who Is
known far and wide throughout the
country, conducted the fight for tho
anti-suffragists of New Jersey against
the equal suffrage bill. She appeared
at the hearing to bo held In the state
house, and with aids, offered arguments
against votes being given to women
in that state. Mrs. Fisher was naked
to take up the fight there by the New
York Anti-Suffrage league.
According to newspaper accounts the
administration of tho Amur railway
haB decided to purchase and rent a
number of river steamers belonging to
the Chinese Eastern railway, for trans
porting railway frieght. It Is believed
that upon tho completion of the Amur
railway all the steamers of tho Chin
ese Eastern railway will be transferred
to the former and the latter will close
its navigation department, retaining
only sufficient steamers for military
purposes.
In Hutchinson, Kan., a Jury com
posed entirely of colored men has been
trying a case. Charles Fulton, deputy
probate Judge, remarked that he never
Baw a finer set of men on a Jury than
those six colored men, one of them
a doctor, another a minister, and a
third a law student, and all of them
men who have good education and
character. It attracted a lot of atten
tion, being a very unusual occurrence
In Kansas legal circles.
A Russian lady, Mme. Kalssavow,
who died 10 years ago In St. Peters
burg, would not allow any book writ
ten by a man to enter her house. She
was, however, a voracious reader and
wealthy enough to satisfy her cravings
In this direction. On her death her
library was found to contain nearly
18,000 volumes—all written by women.
This was said at the time to be the
most extensive collection of this kind
ever formed.
An Interesting discovery has been
made on a siding of the Great Western
railroad at Maidenhead station. A train
of some 70 coal trucks has, during the
strike, stood In the siding, and this
morning, In the wheels of five success
ive trucks, shielded by a bank, 11
thrushes’ nests were discovered. In one
the hen bird is'sitting on four eggs.
The nests are In successive wheels, and
all face the south.
Canadian Iron production In 1911 was
the largest ever reported, approaching
nearly 860,000 tons. Nova Scotia and
Ontario both contributed to tho In
crease. The production Is largely of
basic Iron, and the open hearth fur
nace Is the chief steel producer of the
Dominion.
Ever since the battle of Waterloo the
Rothschilds have been the actual rulers
of Europe, and the European nations
are so In debt to them that It would be
Imposslbe ever to pay them off, said
David Starr Jordan, president of Stan
ford university. In a recent address to
the student body.
Vandals have damaged tfc* bronee
statue of Farragut, by Salnt-Gnudens.
In Madison square. New York city, hy
breaking off the sword straps. Tnls
statue Is regarded as one of the sculp
tor's finest works, and the parts stolen,
though small, will be difficult to re
place.
IMPROPER CARTOONS
RECALL AN EDITION
OF COUEGE ANNUAL
Pictures Of Trifling Feminitj
and Revels Not Appropriate
To Publication.
Lincoln. Neb.. June 10.—State univer
stty authorities have been running
round In circles the Dast 36 hours try
ing to decide what Is best to do is
suppressing the Issue of the Com
husker, the anual student publication.
A good many of the purchasers hadn't
discovered the objectionable cartoons,
or at least hadn't appreciated how raw
they were until the first letter of the
chancellor making an emphatic request
of students for a return of their copies,
and when they saw what rare art
treasures they possessed they didn't
rush In to have the pages with the
naughty pictures on torn out and an
expurgated edition returned to them.
Then the chancellor reinforced his re
quest with the announcement that if,
after a consultation with his logul ad
visers, he found he had the authority
to do so he would refuse credits for the
last semester to every student who de
clined to give up his copy. Later he
decided that he would make an appeal
to the honor and loyalty of the stud
ents, and If that failed, he would write
a letter to the parents of the student
whom the records showed had pur
chased a copy and ask their aid In se
curing a returner the book.
Editor Van uusen and Cartoonist
Anderson stand a good chance of losing
the degrees for which the committee
has recommended them, because of
their connection with the publication.
The cartoons to which exceptions are
most seriously taken are three in num
ber. One Is labeled “The Engineers at
the Orpheum," and depicts them with
levels pointed at a high kicking and
and scantily clad dancing girl. An
other seeks to portray what happened
on the same train coming from Ames
to a number of members of the band
On the same train was a musical com
edy company and the feminine mem
bers had a lovely time of It w-lth the
band boys. In the cartoon several
members of the band are depicted as
embracing each a girl. Several others
emphasize the airiness of feminine cos
tumes and the admiration of students
therefor.
The objections of the chancellor and
other university authorities Is to the
fact that the book tends to give the
impression that booze, the theater and
frivolous feminity are leading pursuits
at the college. The book lias been out
two weeks, and nobody at the univer
sity, although there Is a student pub
lication board composed In the main
of faculty members to oversee such
matters, had discovered the objection
able matter until letters began pour
ing In.
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TRYING ORDEAL FOR
MOURNER OF MOTHER
Lincoln. Neb.. June 10.—While the
body of her mother lay In Its casket
at the home of her sister in this city.
Miss Verna Coleman, a senior at Ne
braska university, carried with marked
Buccess a leading part In the annual
class rday, "Midsummer Night’s
Dream,” last night.
Her mother died suddenly Thursday
night. It was too late for a substitute
to be provided for Miss Coleman, and
friends prevailed upon her to continue
In the part.
When the play ended, the young
woman’s fortitude gave way, while be
hind the scenes In the playhouse a
score of her classmates sobbed their
sympathy.
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HALF OF BROKEN BUTTON
INDICATES THE BURGLAR
Fremont, Neb„ June 19.—Half of a
broken cout button furnished the clue
by which Holmes Karn has been
charged with burglarizing the North
western depot ut Wahho last Saturday
night. Karn and Chas. Sampter broko
Into the Northwestern depot at Nick
erson yesterday and were caught be
fore they liuil stolen anything. Bur
glars secured all the money In the
depot cash drawer at Wahoo Saturday
by a similar robbery.
Today Sheriff Daly came over jvith
half a coat button which one of the
burglars broke off In getting through
the depot window. The other half was
on Kurn's coat.
NEBR<-i-KA NEWS NOTES.
FREMONT—After many delays, It Is
believed that work on temporary
bridges connecting Dodge and Saun
ders counties will be got under way
soon. Saunders county, owing to the
trade advantages it gains through the
bridges being out. has not shown haste
in the various phases of the proceed
ings. The cost of the two bridges has
been reduced from approximately $120..
000 to $100,000 by decision to leavg^ the
present steel spans of the bridge soutti
of Fremont as they are.
NIOBRARA—Mr.' and Mrs. Emil
Kacer, Anton Tichy. Frank Petra and
Richard Uhltr left Niobrara this week
on a trip to Bohemia. They will sail
from New York June 31. on the Am
sterdam, for Prague. With one ex
ception, these people are pioneer resi
dents of Knox county and retired
farmers living In Niobrara.
OMAHA.—War has been declared on
the commission men who obstruct side
walks with barrels and eases of vege
tables and fruits, who allow refuse and
rotten fruit to collect along the curb
ings, and on the sidewalks and who Ig
nore warnings to clean up. Three
commission men were arrested yester
day and all were fined.
ALBION—Roy Burt, electrlclnn for
the Albion Electric Light company,
was badly hurt at the Alblon-St. Ed
ward hall game. In an attempt to
slide and steal home he fractured his
right upper arm. Richard Everett
sustained a broken finger during the
same game.
WEI,LESLEY, Mass.—Three Nebras
ka girls are among those who will re
ceive ttie bachelor of arts degree with
honors at Wellesley college commence
ment. June 25. They are Miss Nell B.
Carpenter and Miss Oorinne Searle of
Omaha and Miss A. Stuart of Lincoln.
BLAIR—With a parade In which the
450 Omaha cadets camped here par
ticipated and with tho ritualistic cere
monies of the Grand Lodge of Masons
the cornerstone was laid yesterday aft
ernoon fur Blair's new city hall. ’
BLAIR.—One of the most important
events in the history of the city of Blair
transpired today when the cornerstone
Of Blair's new city hall and auditorium
was laid. The services were conducted
by the grand officers of the Nebraska
Masonic order. Grand Master James
H. Cain of Stella, having charge of the
ceremonies.
ALBION—Deputy .Sheriff Galijian
Is in search of thieves who stole three
horses, a set of harness and three
bridles from the farm of J. l-\ Porter
just south of Albion. The horses were
taken from the pasture, the fence be
ing cut and replaced. No trace of the
thieves have Loen found.
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
LINCOLN—Authorities of the Uni
versity of Nebraska have ordered the
recall of the annual publication, "The
Cornhusker," issued by the upper class
men. Chancellor Avery, In ordering the
recall of the publication, which Is a
book of several hundred pages, said
certain features were not up to the
ideal at which students should aim.
The purpose of the authorities is, when
the books have been returned, to ex
punge some objectionable cartoons,
have the volumes rebound and again
Issued.
LINCOLN—Auditor Barton has dis
covered that some speculatively-in
clined gentlemen in Lincoln have or
ganized a company for the purpose of
buying up claims in the Fanners’ &
Merchants’ Insurance company of Lin
coln, which is in the hands of a re
ceiver. The company is offering to buy
all approved clams at 20 per cent of
their face value. The scheme is con
sidered a good one, as the receiver is
Just about ready to declare a 25 per
cent dividend.
OMAHA—Roy Parsons committed
highway robbery when he held up and
robbed a street car conductor several
weeks ago, according to a verdict re
turned by a Jury in district coui l. De
spite the testimony of alienists, the
Jurors apparently believed Parsons
sane and in his right mind when he
"stuck up" the conductor and relieved
him of $15. Parsons has not yet been
sentenced.
LAUREL—Laurel shut out Norfolk's
all-salaried ball team here on a score
of 2 to 0. Batteries: Laurel—Williford
and Wyman; Norfolk—Denton, Ander
son and Hoffman. Williford struck out
10 men and allowed no hits; only 28
men facing him in the nine innings.
Denton struck out four, passed three
and allowed four hits, and Anderson
struck out one and passed two. Umpire
Hayes. Time, one hour and 30 min
utes.
UEHLING. — A new automobile
owned by Herman Meyer, skidded off
a bridge and turned turtle into a creek
bed a mile west of town. Mr. Meyer
was pinned under the machine, but
luckily escaped with his life. His fam
ily, who were occupying the car with
him, fell clear of the automobile. Mr.
Meyer was starting for Wisner to
visit relatives there when the accident
occurred.
BALTIMORE. MD.—Harrison An
thony Trexler, of Omaha, has been
made a university fellow of the Johns
Hopkins university. The fellowships
are considered the highest honors that
the Institution can confer and are
awarded solely on a basis of merit.
Trexler graduated from Bellevue col
lege in 1906 and has made a record for
himself at Hopkins.
NORTH BEND—At a meeting of the
congregation of the North Bend Metho
dist Episcopal church yesterday it was
decided to make extensive improve
ments. Whether these will extend to
the erection of an entire new building
remains to be determined upon the re
port of an architect. Possibly the pres
ent building will be remodeled and en
larged.
AUBURN—Three young ladies of
Auburn were injured last night when
the buggy In which they were driving
was upset. Miss Anna Walsh, and Miss
Evelyn Johnson were badly bruised
and both are suffering from nervous
shock. Miss Emma Shoemaker had her
collar bone broken and is badly in
jured about the head.
FALLS CITY—During a rain storm
lightning struck the heavy copper
glided cross on the tall spire of the new
Catholic church and did damage to the
amount of about $400. A large number
of the tiling were torn from the roof.
There was not much rain with the
storm but a great deal of lightning.
FREMONT—Will Post suffered se
rious abdominal injuries and his uncle,
Fred Post, was badly bruised about
the limbs when a traction engine they
were driving crashed through bridge
over Brown creek, two mile seast of
Fontenelle and landed In a heap In
the creek bottom 10 feet below.
LINCOLN—The Nebraska Press as
sociation yesterday elected officers for
the coming year as follows: President,
H. G. Taylor. Central City; vice presi
dent, C. W. Pool, Tecumseh; secretary
treasurer, C. C. Johns, Grand Island;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. M. A.
Hitchcock, Lincoln.
PENDER—Bert Cox, who shot and
killed Jeremiah Parker, an Indian, at
Walthtll, was brought here by Sheriff
Dorcey, having been arrested at the
residence of George Summers. His side
of the affair is that the Indian at
tacked him and that the killing was
in self defense.
LINCOLN—Chief Game Warden
Henry T. Miller, on investigation, has
decided that Seymour lake, near South
Omaha, now leased by a gun club, is
a private lake, and the public can be
excluded from entering upon it to fish
and hunt.
AINSWORTH—Some years ago
school district No BO, In Brown county,
built a echoolhouse on a tract of gov
ernment land. A couple of months age
a man homesteaded the land and moved
into the schoolhouse. which he refused
to vacate.
WAHOO—A Joint session of the
Dodge and Saunders county supervisors
and the state engineer is being held
here today for tho purpose of letting a
$120,000 contract for the reconstruction
of the Fremont and North Bend wagon
bridges.
CRETE—Crete mills “A." known as
the upper mill, burned to the ground
at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. H
was built early in the 80's and was
used' as an elevator and corn mill
Cause of the fire is unknown. The loss
was $50,000.
MADISON—"Grandmother” Moran
as she is familiarly known, died al
the home ol^ her daughters in this city
at the age of 91 years. Mrs. Moran at
the time of her death was the oldest
person in Madison county.
LINCOLN—Dr. H. W. Cobble, oi
Fremont has been reappointed a mem
ber of the examining board for osteo
paths. His term will date from July
1 und will extend for five years.
NICKERSON—Carl Radloff -had bis
body painfully crushed under a trac
tion engine. In some manner he fell it
front of the machine and It passed ovei
him. Physicians say he will recover.
OMAP.A—John H. Savage, for many
years < hlef of the Omaha detective de
partment and widely known In his pro
fession. died early today, after a year'!
Illness with Bright's disease.
OMAHA—George H. Brewer, of this
city, has been appointed a member ol
the state board of health. His duties
will begin July 3.
ALLEGED ICE COMBINE.
St. Joseph. Mo., June 5.—Judge
I'homas F. Ryan, of the- criminal court
today empanneled a special grand JurS
to investigate the local ice situation
It is alleged that the manufacturers ol
Ice have entered into a combination in
restraint of trade by keeping up price!
and by refusing to sell ice to retailers
who do not maintain a schedule o]
prices fixed by the manufacturers.
BRISTOW’S STAND MAY
BLOCK FOR TERM BILL
TO DEFEATU. P. GRAB
Delays Occasioned By Kansan’s
Effort To Amend Measure
In Senate Committee.
Washington, June 8.—If Senator
Bristow, of Kansas, persists in his pres
ent attitude, there may be no final
action on the Union Pacific right of
way bill this session, unless it is pro
longed into midsummer.
This bill is now before the Senate
Judiciary committee and remains as it
passed the House, validating titles to
land up to 100 feet on either side of
the road. Now Senator Bristow has
found that in Pottawatamie county,
Kansas, a number of persons are using
land up to within BO feet of the road.
He says also that these Pottawatamie
county citizens ar* climbing his frame
daily and that unless they are taken
care of in the bill he may be affected
politically.
The senator found out about these
exceptional cases a week ago. In the
meantime he has not offered an amend
ment to the Judiciary sub-committee
and has not indicated just what he ex
pects to do.
If the bill is amended it must go
back to the House and a conference,
which means further delay, would re
sult. Friends of the bill will urge the
Kansan to provide for his exceptional
cases in a separate bill which, they as
sert, wonid pass congress read!!!-- -q
soon as the first bill is out of the way.
There has already been much delay
on the measure since it reached the
Senate. The bill was to be considered
May 26. N. H. Loomis, of the Union
Pacific, wired that he could not reach
Washington by that time. The consid
eration of the bill was postponed one
week. When June 3 arrived Senator
Cummins was in Iowa and Senator
O’Gorman had other business. Both of
these senators are members of the sub
committee directly in charge of the
bill. Consequently the bill will not be
considered again until June 10.
Loomis’ new proposal appears to be
a frank admission that the Norris bill,
as it passed the House, will completely
validate the titles involved in the $1,
000,000 dispute. He gives as a reason
for suggesting an amended bill that the
courts have held that the validation of
titles in a similar previous case in
cluded not only title by deed but also
title by adverse possession.
He now proposes, in non-technical
language, that the Union Pacific agree
to validate titles to deeded property and
fulfill only its "moral obligations" re
specting other titles. Congressman
Norris and the several citizens of Colo
rado who are in Washington in the in
terests of the measure as it passed the
House are completely opposed to Loo
mis’ proposition.
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DESERTED WIFE AND FARM
AFTER 30 YEARS MARRIED
Fremont, Neb., June 8.—Mrs. Mathil
da Eilts commenced two suits in the
district court against her husband,
Tonjes Eilts. In one she asks for a
divorce and in the other she asks that
title be quieted to a quarter section
of Dodge county land in her favor.
Mrs. Eilts says that after 30 years of
married life Eilts deserted her and re
turned to Germany. That was three
years ago. He never came back.
FLAW IN FORCLOSURE
TITLE MAY LOSE FARM
Lincoln, Neb., June 8.—For the fifth
time the supreme court is hearing the
case of Currier vs. Teske, a contest
over the possession of a valuable Madi
son county farm. For 31 years the
Teske family have been in possession
of the land, having secured it by pur
chase at foreclosure procedings against
Currier’s father in 1881. The lawyers
who engineered the foreclosure ne
glected to include Currier’s son as a
party defendant. Title was in Cur
rier’s mother, who had died before the
mortgage was foreclosed.
Currier was a lad at the time, and it
was not until he was 30 years old that
he brought the suit. Five years ago he
was prospecting in the mountains in
Nevada, and in camp one night he told
his companions about the valuable
farm back in Nebraska that he might
have been owning then if his father
had held onto it. One of the party
was a lawyer, and when he found out
from Currier that he was never served
in the case, he secured authority to
take the matter up. Previous decisions
of the court have been favorable to
Currier.
The lawyer for the Teskes told the
court that it was a most unjust and
inequitable claim, taken by attorneys
on a contingent fee, and that the only
right Currier possessed, that to redeem
has been lost by the lapse of years.
RETAIL MEN PLAN CAMPAIGN
AGAINST (VIAIL ORDER HOUSES
Omaha, Neb.. June 8.—Executive
sessions of the Nebraska Federation ol
Retail Grocers were concluded It
Omaha after plans had been outlined tc
make a fight against the mail ordei
houses. The committee reviewed th<
establishment of the new co-operativt
insurance organization, which is allied
with their federation. It was reported
that enough money has been subscribed
for the insurance organization to ge|
its charter and that co-operative in
surance will be put In effect soon.
Much of the business of the com
mittee was continued until the next
meeting, which is scheduled to be held
In Omaha July 9.
AT DATE OF ALLEGED CRIME
PRINCIPAL WAS IN ILLINOIS
Lincoln, Neb., June 7.—Fred Kanert
a prominent merchant of Grand Island
submitted his appeal to the supretm
court today from a conviction of i
charge of statutory assault. He was
sentenced to seven years.
The girl in the case is but 15. Hei
story was that Kanert, whose wife
was away from the city at the time,
lured her into the rear of his store by
the promise of a pair of skates, and
that on five other occasions he was
guilty of Illicit relations with her. La
ter the girl gave birth to a child.
Kanert’s attorneys, in a brief on
file, make a strenuous protest against
what they term an attempt to make
him a victim of some other man's guilt,
and Insist that the story of the girl
is utterly improbable. They also point
out that at the date fixed first by the
girl as that of the assault he was in
Illinois.
GRADUATION AT SCRIBNER.
Scribner, Neb., June 7.—The annual
commencement exercises of the Scrib
ner high school were held at Soil's
opera house. The class of 15 members
was the largest ever graduated here.
State Superintendent James E. Delzel.
delivered the commencement address.
The giaduates are: Carl Henatsch,
Etta Koplln, Asa Lane. Esther l-Ileben
thal. Chris Marquardt, Mamin Godel,
Harry Beaver, Fern Griffith, Alfons
Pllug, Martha Scomshor, Walter
Elder:, Ida Worth, .Sdw n Ehlers,
Coxrye Wiley, Emma Kellner.
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LINCOLN—Dr. H. B. Cummins, who
was endorsed by the state society of
eclectic physicians at Hasting on
Wednesday for reappointment as one
of the secreterles of the state board of
health, will undoubtedly be named by
Governor Aldrich to succeed himself.
With Cummins remaining on the
board of secreterles, and the state
board of health Inclined to recognize
himself and Secretary Carr as the con
trolling element. It Is considered likely
that the two "regular” secretaries, Pall
and Dodson, will not make any further
attempt to shut out the state eclectic
school. Cotner university medical col
lege, from the list of accredited Insti
tutions.
PONCA—P. W. Barker and Geo.
Searing have rented a building at Mar
tinsburg and are fitting the place up to
use for a general merchandise business.
The place has been without a satis
factory general store since John Shult
sold out there over a year ago, and the
people heartily welcome these men to
their town. Mr. Barker has been suc
cessful as a general merchant here In
Ponca and Mr. Searing has been in
business here and at Hartlngton and
has had marked success.
OMAHA—Balloon No. 11, of the war
department, which ascended at Port
Omaha Wednesday for a short flight,
landed safely near Burlington Junction.
Mo., about 80 miles from the place of
ascent. The balloon was piloted by
W. S. Assman, of St. Louis, and
carried Lieut. Karl Truesdale, C. A.
Dravo, Alfred Bowen and D. R. Ros
coe. The small basket was consider
ably crowded and it was not expected
the party would stav aloft more than
two or three hours.'
OMAHA—Elshop John Louis Nuel
sen has just returned from the gen
eral conference at Minneapolis, from
which he was excused that he might
hasten to hls new field In Europe.
Bishop Nuelson will cover the entire
European continent In the performance
of his new duties. He will leave Oma
ha Friday evening and will sail on
Saturday of next week on the Presi
dent Lincoln, with hls family. He will
make hls home In Zurich, Switzerland,
his birthplace.
PONCA—Rev. Dr. Joseph Cherry,
who lately resigned hls pastorate here
after a four years’ pastorate at this
place, has accepted a call from the
Presbyterian church at O’Neill, Neb.
He has accepted to begin at once and
will move his family there as soon as
the parsonage Is vacated. Dr. Cherry
has held good pastorates In both Oma
ha and Chicago and Is a pulpit orator
of note an 1 e devoted Christian worker.
OMAHA—The long legal contest over
the posesslon of the Omaha water works
will close, by a compromise between the
city and the water company, by which
the plant passes Into the hands of the city
July 1 next. The fight, which has lasted
for 12 years, has Involved four referendum
bond votes, numerous trials In federal
courts from the lowest to the highest
and several legislative enactments. The
price paid Is 86,392,720.17.
LINCOLN—The state railway com
mission held this morning that the
Lincoln Traction company had made
it sufficiently clear why it asked for a
5-cent fare to Havelock, College View
and University Place, and turned down
the motion of the complainants to re
quire the respondent to make its ap
plication for an increase In fares upon
suburban lines more definite and cer
tain.
EL PASO, TEX.—Suspended by an
ash cord tide around hls neck and at
tached to the head of his bed, J. M.
Heines, aged 65 years, was found in
his room. Heines hailed from Red Wil
low, Neb., and had been in El Paso
five days. Written on the first page
of the notebook found in one of his
pockets, was the request to notify B.
P. Heines. Red Willow. Neb., in case of
uceident.
FONTANELLE—During a wind and
electrical storm Monday night lightning
struck in several places a/round here. A
large tree In the yard of August Nlerder
deppe was knocked down and occupants
of the house felt the shock. Lightning
hit a telephone pole near Carl Meir
henry’s place. The bolt came Into tho
bouse on the telephone wires and burned
two holes In the wall.
OMAHA-—Elmer G. Miller, for two
years supervisor of writing of the
Omaha public schools, was elected su
pervisor of writing of the Pittsburgh
public schools by the Pittsburgh board
of education. He will be employed at
a salary of $3,500 a year, an Increase
of $1,000 over his salary In Omaha.
Mr. Miller will retain his present po
sition until the end of the school year.
LYONS—Five thousand people
joined in the observance of Decoration
day here yesterday. The parade formed
at 11 a. m. and marched to the Lyons
cemetery, headed by the Lyons band.'
The afternoon exercises were held'Et
the Methodist church, with tije Hgn.
Willis E. Reed as ^rator of the day."
His stirring addTess 'was one of the
best ever delivered In Lyons.
FREMONT—John Petro, a wealthy
Fremont Greek, returned from Athens
today after a 10 months' absence. He
stated that while visiting there for the
first time in 20 years, he was seized
and forced to serve four months In the
Greek army, despite the fact that he
had American papers. Petro has stores
in several Nebraska cities and operates
a large cigar factory.
BROKEN BOW—There is still no
clue, to the whereabouts of John J.
Hoffman, the safe robber, who broke
Jail here last Saturday night and is
now at large The man who was seen
ranging about Rhyno Table, 15 miles
west of here, Is now thought to be
T. Correy, a dipsomaniac, who escaped
from a local hotel on the night Hoff
man broke jail.
FREMONT—A search by the police for
Mrs. Burt Mott, who is charged in Oma
ha with having endangered the life of her
baby by throwing it to the floor, has
failed to locate the woman in Fremont.
Mrs. Mott came to Fremont two years
ago shortly after she shot and killed
Fred Heddy, a waiter. She has relatives
here.
LINCOLN—Joseph H. Edmonson, tho
Aurora attorney, who has been serv
ing a term in the penitentiary for em
bezzlement, and who was pardoned by
tho governor, left for Omaha and ex
pects to return to Aurora. He served
In the state legislature one term and
had been attorney of Hamilton coun
ty.
HOOPER—Petitions are being circu
lated here asking the state railway
commission not to grant the request of
the Albion Commercial club to make
the Bohemian express a through train
to KTetnont from Scribner. A similar
petition will be circulated at Nickerson.
Hooper patrons of the railroad say that
the Bohemian express Is the best train
for county seat service and to deprive
them of its use would he a hardship.
BELL WOOD—Thomas Haynes and
family narrowly missed death here yes
terday when their motor car skidded ;
and crashed through the frail railing I
on a bridge northeast of town. Hayne s
mother is not expected to live.
WAS LARSON INSANE
WHEN HE TOOK LIFE
OF FALSE BROTHER?
Supreme Court Will Review the
Jury’s Finding In the Burt
County Case.
Lincoln, Neb., June 7.—Late yester
day afternoon the appeal of Frank V.
Larson, a wealthy Burt county farmer,
from a conviction and sentence for life
for the murder of his brother, was sub
mitted to the supreme court. Larson’s
attorneys urged that the evidence
clearly demonstrated that at the time of
the killing Larson was insane from
brooding over the liaison that he had
discovered existed between his wife and
his brother, and that with respect to
this act he was not legally culpable.
Objections were made to the admission
of the testimony of a former family
physician, who swore that Larson was
normal, on the ground that what he
learned was confidential.
For the state it was argued that Lar
son was sane, and that he had planneil
to entrap his brother. He had been
suspicious for some time that the re
lations between the wife and his broth
er were too intimate, and he secured a
confession from Mrs. Larson by pre
tending that Charles had admitted his
guilt. He sent a postal card asking
Charles to come over and help with
some farm work. Then he took his
shotgun out to the barn and hid it,
with several extra shells. When Charles
came he pulled the gun on him, and
telling him that his wife had con
fessed, demanded that he leave the
country. Charles refused, but prom
ised he would never come on Frank’s
place again. Mrs. Larson came into
the controversy at this point, and, ac
cording to the story first told by Lar
son, but afterwards denied by him, he
accepted her proposal to take $10,000.
Thereupon Charles sneeringly re
marked: “I thought you got me over
here to kill me, not to hold me up.”
When he repeated the remark, with a
dare to shoot, Larson killed him,
SUIT TO CONFISCATE
WAYNE FAIR PROPERTY
Lincoln, Neb., June 7.—The Wayne
County Agricultural association was
represented in supreme court today by
attorneys, who were defending it from
young man who was seriously injured
several days ago by falling from a
a suit brought by the county commis
sioners to confiscate its grounds be
cause it no longer uses them for fair
purposes. There is a law that pro
vides that where counties give aid to
local agricultural societies they may
take over their lands if they cease to
hold fairs after two years.
The association has two defenses.
One is that it was organized before the
law was passed, and that anyway the
legislature had no right to pass such
a law. The ground was bought from
the proceeds of the sale of stock in the
association, and the point is made that
any law which would take away from
the investors the value of their invest
ments is in contravention of the consti
tution which provides that no one may
be deprived of his property without due
proces of law or without compensa
tion.
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BRILLIANT YOUNG WOMAN
LIES AT POINT OF DEATH
Lincoln, Neb., June 7.—Miss Fay
Hartley, the young Lincoln woman who
created a sensation at the recent meet
ing of the American Academy of Sci
ence in Philadelphia, by a 10-minute
speech, is near death's door at her home
in this city. A leaky fixture in her
room allowed enough gas to esacpe to
almost cause asphyxiation before she
was discovered.
Miss Hartley is a daughter of a for
mer superintendent of Lincoln city
schools, and a brilliant young woman.
Her speech, in which she told the sci
entists that they were dealing with dry
as dust problems when questions of
vital human interest, purely scientific
in character, were being neglected by
them. She particularly mentioned ag
riculture. Her talk was the sensation
of the meeting.
FALLS FROM “HORSE”
ON CAROUSAL; HURT
Broken Bow, Neb., June 7.—As Will
iam Coon, aged resident of this county,
was trying to do “fancy stunts” on a
wooden horse attached to a merry-go
round, his hold gave way and he was
thrown to the ground, severely injuring
his head. Coon has been acting in a
peculiar manner of late, and on more
than one occasion has ridden the mer
ry-go-round, seemingly under the im
pression that he was doing an act in a
’circus. An insanity commission has
passed upon the mental condition of Mr.
Coon and has decided to send him to
the asylum at Engleslde.
SON OF WEALTHY FATHER
MARRIES STENOGRAPHER
Fremont, Neb., June 7.—Merchants of
that started over a typewriter culmin
ated here yesterday afternoon in the
marriage of Dave Buck, aged 23, to
Miss Lydia Wissler, aged 19, of Hum
boldt. The groom’s father is a wealthy
real estate dealer in Omaha. The bride
is the latter’s stenographer. Whether
there was full approval of the union
was not known here, but the employes
at the court house had their "sus
picions.”
STORES REMAIN OPEN
ON PUBLIC OCCASIONS
Fremont, Neb., June 7.—A romance
Fremont at a mass meeting yesterday
decided to taboo the old plan of clos
ing up for baseball openings and other
occasions of celebration. The mer
chants decided that it was unfair to
their customers who might drive in
from a distance, only to find they were
unable to do trading. The real mo
tive, however, was to do away with
controversies which frequently arise
over the closing agreements. Certain
merchants who sign the petitions keep
their stores running in breach of it. so
it is charged.
FREMONT—The Burlington lias re
sumed the job undertaken last year of
relaying the Ashland line with 85
pound steel.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Representa
tive Stevens has introduced a bill for
an appropriation of $65,000 for a site
and erection thereon of a public build
ing in Central City.
PIERCE—The new bridge over the
north fork of the Elkhorn at Pierce Is
113 feet long, not counting approaches
of over 100 feet on each side. The
bridge Is of steel and concrete and one
of the finest in this part of Nebraska.
Much of the credit is said to be due to
former County Commissioner N. M.
Nelson.
LTEHLING—The graduating exer
cises for the Uehling high school were
held at Larson’s hall, which was filled
with admiring relatives and friends.
The following participated in the pro
gram: Miss Matilda Peterson, Harry
Peterson, Carroll Frost, Katherine
Laugbehn and Hazel Honey.