jfhe_O’Neill Frcjraer^
W*~ D. h” CRONIN, Publ! Mr.
|frWEU.L, ... JIbRASKA
West African ant hill'ALre veritable
giants, frequently str Bing 40 feet
Sigh. These ant hills e Bshapod some
thing like a sugar 'Ml and are di
vided Inside into h Ad reds of tiny
rooms. They have Aeedless to say,
gj myriads of Inhabit-As, and these are
edl busily makln f roads, gathering
good and watchlrA>ver the eggs and
youngsters. The Atlves are afraid to
touch these hi!’rfj> except from a dis
, tance with flr> Mns. The ants often
make their «t |Kgholds around trees
and they are MhlW very solidly, with
| aides someth M 20 Inches thick The
j alnslde ts b' ■« and at the top there
^3 Is a sort < Battle. The “royal cell,"
gj where the Aieen ant lives, Is always
■ found on gfa ground floor. This good
H lady Is » Jfrlsoner, but Is carefully fed
■ by her jpisy subjects, the eggs she
jg:j lays be iA Immediately carried away
El gnd de Ad ted In "rooms'’ set apart for
■ the P jjfroac.—Wide World.
■ W jpess telegraphy Is being surcess
m run/ made use of In surveying such
■ !#0i Arles as the Belgian Kongo. Sudan
Bfc>HTA similar Inaccessible places. It Is
■fhAwn known that a very exact result
S can thus bo obtained for the difference
gf In longitude between any two points
B as shown by the difference In their re
B apective times. Previous experiments
,35 grove that this latter is readily shown
B by sending wireless signals between
3 'the two points. The method Is likely
HI -to prove a valuable one in colonial re-,
gsJ gions, where there are no telegraph
B lines, as portable wireless posts can be
In ,«et up with little trouble. In Belgium
B 'It Is thought that a map of the Kongo
B which would take ten years to draw up
||| can now be made In two years.
H A church Is successfully heated In
B 'Numremburg by a large number of
iiSj Small units. A long tube heater Is
C 'Placed near the floor In front of the
31 beat and along the back of the fol
ia lowing pew, which acts as a foot
B warmer. The electric heating tube is
gl a three-inch Iron pipe which contains
3 i«4 smaller tube wound with resistance
fli (Wire. At each pew Is a switch for
g cutting out the heater, and all the
B separate wires from the heaters run
l§ to connection boxes placed at differ
B cut points under the floor. A per
il forated Iron foot rest runs along above
Zj ieach heater. The church has a seat
11 ilng capacity of 1,200 and the length of
gj 2>»w» i» 1.760 feet In all.
p Literature In Turkey has responded
B to the liberty that followed the revolu
« tlon. Largo numbers of translations
gj and adaptations of European scientific
H and literary works and books of a pop
11 ular nature are now available. Text
ig books for use In Turkish schools are
H prepared to meet the needs of a mod
:jj bruised curriculum. Standard works
B Of Europeun literature ure being trans
B lated Into Turkish, and modern pop
B tilar novels, principally French, have a
B large sale. American detective stories
B are finding great favor among Turk
|5f ftsh youth. There is also a growing
B modern Turkish literature which alms
|m foster Turkish patriotism and love
■ for the language.
H «.*J*f* books to the value of nearly
■ #1,000,000 changed hands during the last
Bi Poar. Those In groat demand seem to
B> be works printed by old craftsmen. A
pew feature of an English periodical.
B however, called "The Bargain Col
W junn,” Is visible evidence of Interest
B In a very different sort of article. It
■ records the luck of a visitor to a Suf
B : JOlk inn, who found that a glass on
E the washstand was a Jacobite drinking
■ glass, with a portrait of the pretender
L' | engraved on It. Such a glass has
■ {brought as much as 1500. And who
|H ;W“1 »ay that the motive pf Its col
K I lector was In any degree lower than
W that of many a seeker of rare editions?
|H —New York Evening Post.
H - Th®r® 18 ,‘n experimental use on a
■ Swedish railroad a car holding 40 pas
9 by a combination of elec
M oil. The electrical equip
B ment Is driven by a Delsel engine, eon
21 fauining crude oil and Is said to show
S M high efficiency as gasoline engines.
9 ‘ Z?*.,1-*1 ,roild llne 1® a short section
■ j**.,28 miles, and a good speed of 45
■ ^5* hour 18 obtained. As usual,
jg| | the engine drives a dynamo, so as to
B ' J*ve current for the car inotors. The
■ ™«1 consumption Is 22 pounds of oil,
B Jgainst five-tenths to one ton of eoai
A *or a eteans locomotive, and a small
B amount of water Is used.
*.T!i#uUil,vor8lty of California has es
tablished a motor car course, placing
i It on an equal footing with the build
ing of bridges railroads, tunnels and
chemistry In other sciences. The new
; course is for the benefit of automobile
engineers and designers,
,snd the first professor of automobllo
science Is Stanley Smith, C. E. who
fce«n appointed to the'chair.
While he will deliver lectures on the
various subjects properly belonging to
automobile science, he will specialise
, 1 cn motors and their efficiency, sliding
■ poppet and rotary valve types, etc. '
After a dinner given by Stephen
Price, of Drury Lane theater, London,
°f quests but Theodore Hook
VftPr Rev. Edward Camion retired,
grica was sufferine from *out. but as
tow disregarded his hints to retire he
IJ5?1 » f”d.,eft Clem in high talk.
12r „follo'v‘n* morning he inquired
g.h!t torvant: “Pray, at what time
is? those gentlemen go last night?"
‘ III r,ei>Hetlv.j0hn “Thye're not
coffee >• ’ they have ^U8t ruu* for
Concrete tables have been built as
Standards for laboratory balances at the
Butte School of Mines, and the lnnova
: won Is said to have been seuocessful
* to eliminating all vibrations. The bal
.Mices are ulaced on the tops of solid pil
itor* of concrete which have been carried
sown to the solid ground through the
.floors, and for the convenience of th“
laboratory workers a wooden table has
boon built around this column, but vet
sstirely free from it.
In English slaughter houses animals
•re killed by a new and humane meth
od. The Instrument employed Is a
spring operated pistol that projects a
Sharp blade Into the animal's head.
It Is estimated *7,240,000 will be re
quired to start the new parcels post
service and that the entire postal ser
vice for 1>13 will require *282,805,760.
John Gustafson, Dalhart, Tex.,
dolma to have been cured of insomnia
PJT the bite of a rattlesnake.
Buyers of antique furniture are ad
V vised by House and Garden that it is
sow almost Impossible to pick up"
genuine antiques In this country.
In the last year the New York Bible
society has distributed 263,712 bibles,
K Ct which number 24,600 went to en
11 Hated men of the United States navy.
A palm tree on Temple street, Los
Angelea, over 100 years old has been
cut down to make way for a business
structure. *
The earliest mention of coal is said
to have been made^by Theophratus.
IMMEDIATE STEPS TO
BRING INTO SERVICE
LOUP-PLATTE SCHEME
Plan3 to Harmonize Conflicting
Interests and Start Work
Soon.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 30.—J. M. Bram
lett. business agent of the Moore
financial syndicate, which has been
given a right to construct a power
project on the Loup and Platte rivers1
and which shares with the Kountze,
Interests and the Dohertys the use of
the water of these two rivers, has gone*
east to arrange for the Immediate
sending of a surveying party to this
state. According to Mr. Bramlett the
surveys on the Moore projects, which
is based on the filing made by C. T.
Boggs of this city, will be started
within 10 days and will be finished
by early spring so that construction
work can start Just us soon as the
spring tliaw Is over.
The Moore representative was well
pleased with the ruling of the state
Irrigation board. He declared that he
believes ultimately only one company
will complete its project and that will
be the company which has the mar
ket for Its power. This, he indicated,
eliminates the Gountze and Doherty
projects and leaves the Yield to the
Interests backed by the Moore, Sharp
and Halner combine of this city. This
company Is organized In the name of
the Commonwealth Power company
and Its officials assert that they have
enough of a market already spoken
for to assure them of the success of
their project. Tims far they have not
taken tho Omaha company Into ac
count, but It is said that there will
be ample provision made for this when
the Kountze and Moore representa
tives get together. It Is stated here,
unuuthorltatlvely, that a tie-up will
be made between these concerns or a
complete sale may be effected of the
Kountze rights to the Commonwealth.
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FEDERAL ROAD FUND
EXPENDED NEAR HALSEY
Lincoln, Neb.. Nov. 30.—Information
has reached Governor Aldrich from W.
L. Moore, acting secretary of agricul
ture, that a limited amount of road
construction will be undertaken In Ne
braska. through the forest reserve,
near Halsey, Thomas county. The con
gressional appropriation does not per
mit of co-operation with state or local
authorities for Improving roads ex
tensively used by the public, as the
money must all be spent within the
forest reserve.
The letter from Acting Secretary
Moore says,that a few miles of govern
ment road will be constructed where
It will be used considerably by settlers
and by the administering officers of
the natlonnl forest. The sum of $1.
312.60 is available for a complete road
system In what Is known as the Halsey
nursery. Besides this, $242.86 will be
spent for a road Into the plantation
along the Dismal river and $76 for one
connecting the Halsey nursery with the
plantations.
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PRINCE LITTLE CONCERNED
OVER SENTENCE TO DEATH
Lincoln. Neb., Nov, 30.—Albert
Prince, the convict whom the supreme
court says must die on March 21. ap
parently cares very little whether he
lives. When Warden Mellclt conveyed
the news to him yesterday he acted as
unconcerned as though that official
had told him what he was to have for
his next meal. Ho said he had no com
ments to make. Ever since his convic
tion he has seemingly held to himself
no hope of any other end than on the
scaffold, and has devoted his leisure
time to reading the Bible and some of
the better class of books from the
prison library.
Davis’ murder was a brutal and un
necessary slaughter.
Prince admitted that Davis person
ally had never done anything to him.
but other officers of the prison had
treated him unjustly, punished him
cruelly and made life so unbearable
that he struck the tirst officer at the
first opportunity.
RISKS LIFE FOR CHILD
IN BURNING BUILDING
York, Neb., Nov. 30.—Hearing the
cries of a child in a burning barn,
Miss Margaret Green, a schooler teach
er, risked her life yesterday to rescue
8-year-old Josephine Samuelson.
Miss Green chanced to be driving by
the country home of the child’s par
ents. The barn, a large structure, was
In flumes. Mr. Snmuelson and his help
were in a field husking corn. The
child's mother did not know her
daughter was In the barn and busied
herself In summoning aid.
Miss Green was forced to run to
the rear of the structure because of
the flames. She found the child cry
ing In a stall. Leaping over the man
ger, she carried It to safety. As she
left the burning building the timbers
crashed to the ground. A horse, sev
eral- tons of hay and grain were de
stroyed.
CHIEF JUSTICE DECRIES
ACTIONS OF THE CRONKS
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 30.—George P.
Cronk. former grand exalted ruler of
the Elks, is entitled to a divorce from
his wife, says the supreme court.
Cronk Is an Omaha man. wealthy and
influential. The wife from whom he
desired freedom was his second, and he
said that she made life Intolerable to
hlin by reason of her espionage, jeal
ousy and criticisms of him. He also
charged her with infidelity.
Chief Justice Reese took the ground
that neither ought to have a divorce.
He said: "To my mind it is as clear
as the noonday sun, that this divorce
should be granted to neither party. If
they do not desire to be united they
can remain separate, but should never
be permitted to contaminate other lives
under the guise of holy matrimony.”
NEW METHOD IN BURGLARY.
Council Bluffs, la., Nov. 30.—Bur
glars w ho entered the butchershop of
S. M. Frohm here early today tore
the bottom out of a safe and escaped
with *500. The robbers rolled the safe
into al urge sound proof Icebox and
turning it ond end cut the bottom out
with chisels.
REPRESENTATIVE- ELECT
IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
Alliance, Neb,, Nov, 30.—Earl D. Mal
lory, state representative-elect from
this district, had a very narrow escape
here last evening when his automobile
which he was driving through the
country, struck a bad spot In the road
nnd turned turtle, pinning Mallery un
derneuth.
HU plight was seen by a farmer,
who summoned help and h? was re
leased and brought to a local hospital,
where examination by physicians dis
closed no broken hones, although he is
severely bruised about the body and
arms. He will be out In a few days.
..
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES j
MADISON—The preliminary hearing of
J. W. Dozier, traveling collector of the
Rot-Iron Range company, charged with
stabbing Herman Kurpgewelt in the head
and left arm at the Kurpgewelt farm
north of Meadow Orove Thursday, was
heard before County Judge McDuffee. The
trouble grew out of an attempt on the
part of Dozier to collect a note given by
Kurpgewelt to the Rot-Iron Range com
pany. Dozier was bound over to the dis
trict court and bail fixed at 1600.
BEATRICE—The high school leaders’
conference will be held in Beatrice, De
cember 7 and 8. It is expected that 260
boys and members of the high school
faculties from the South Platte country
will be in attendance. Among those who
will address the conference are Rev. L. D.
Young, of Beatrice. Dr. Doncon and
Coach Btiehm, of Lincoln; E. F. Dennison,
secretary of the Omaha Young Men's
Christian association, and N. A. Elliott,
of New York city.
WINSLOW—It is believed by citizens of
this place that Winslow will experience
a building boom next season. No lees
than a dozen men have promised the erec
tion of new business houses or dwellings.
At present there is not a single vacant
room of any kind In Winslow, and three
families are residing in Hooper, tempor
arily, because of the crowded condition
here. Hooper Is two miles away.
LINCOLN—Another carload of potatoes
raised at Hemingford, Box Butte county,
has been bought by the state board of
purchase and supplies, to be delivered at
the Beatrice institute for feeble minded.
The price is 47 cents, f. o. b., Beatrice.
Two carloads were recently bought for
state penitentiary use at 46 cents a bush
el. The difference in price is attributed to
the difference In cost of transportation.
NORFOLK—City Clerk Ed Harter will
go to the hospital tomorrow for his 14th
serious surgical operation. An ulcer of
the stomach is believed to be the trou
ble. He has had nine operations on one
leg, which was amputated 20 years ago,
when a friend accidentally shot him. He
has had part of his stomach removed,
his appendix removed, and an operation
for hernia.
FREMONT—Three thousand banners
bearing the name, “Made in Fremont,”
will be the feature of the decoration at
Fremont’s industrial fair, under the aus
pices of the Ad club at Masonic hall and
adjacent rooms starting December 6. The
affair will assume large proportions.
Twenty-eight manufacturers of Fremont
made goods have already entered.
LINCOLN—The privilege of operating a
cigar stand in the corridors of the state
house has been given by the board of
public lands and buildings to Henry Miller,
chief game warden. Miller expects to get
the ax from Governor Morehead about the
first of the year and ‘when that event
takes place he will be free to devote his
time to the cigar stand privilege.
OMAHA—Because her nearest friend
had committed suicide by swallowing car
bolic acid, Nellie Solomon, aged about 38,
followed suit In the same manner and was
dead by the time police surgeons arrived.
She left no word as to her motive, but re
porters who went with the police last
night recognized her as the woman who
was present on the night of the friend's
suicide.
LYONS—Raymond McDowell, of this
place, and Miss Lillian Gatzmeyer, of
Bancroft, were married at the home of
the bride's sister, Mrs. Mundorff, north
west of this place, at 9 o’clock yesterday
morning, Rfev. Father O’Donoghue offi
ciating. The groom is a son of S. A.
McDowell, one of the earliest pioneer set
tlers of Burt county.
GRAND ISLAND—“There is not a rec
ord anywhere near like It in Nebraska
and so far as I can recollect there is noth
ing that beats it in the country,” said
Secretary Bailey of the Nebraska Young
Men’s Christian association In commenting
on the campaign for a 166,000 building for
the association in this city. Over 970,000
subscriptions were totaled last night.
OMAHA—There will be no holiday rates
this year for those who desire to go back
to the old home to spend Christmas. This
has been settled by the railroad passenger
traffic men, who took the view that with
a regular 2-cent per mile rate in effect
there would be just as much travel as
there would be if one-half cent reduction
was made.
BROCK—The Ladies’ Aid societies of
the Methodist. Baptist and Christian
churches in Brock each earned a goodly
sum of money by going to the country
and picking apples. Ten women and three
children of the Baptist aid picked 424 bush
els. The Baptist Aid society for this day’s
work added $51.20 to thelf treasury.
ST. PAUL—Frances Pyscxynski, the 4
Vear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.
Pysczynski. whose farm adjoins St. Paul,
was burned so badly that she died. She
was left alone in the house for a short
time and in some manner her clothes
Caught fire from the kitchen stove.
WEST POINT—The work on the exten
sion of the sewer system of the city began
last Monday morning and will continue
until completed. A beginning was made at
the river bank in the southwest portion of
the city. A digging machine has been in
stalled and is now at wrork.
UEHUNG—The ravages of cholera
around Uehllng has killed thousands of
hogs. Many fanners are marketing all
t>f their swine as a means of protecting
themselves against visitations of the fatal
disease. Cases in 10 new herds have been
reported east of town.
WAHOO—Charles W. Sanford, through
nis attorney, has paid to the clerk of the
district court of Saunders county the sum
of $1,544 as inheritance tax on the estate
>f Whitfield Sanford, his father. The
Vounty recently won this suit In the
courts.
ARLINGTON—George Marshall, J. Kru
ger and Editor Fassett participated in a
?oon hunt on the Elkhorn river last week,
two hounds were used and the hunt was
(mdertaken near midnight. One raccoon
Weighing 22 pounds w’as “treed” and
Caught.
PONCA—The smallpox epidemic in Pon
ca is spreading. Thirty cases have been
Reported to the health authorities. There
lave been no deaths. If the epidemic is
lot checked, it is probable that the town
wrill be placed under quarantine.
BEATRICE—The farmers Elevator com
pany at Plckrell expebts to finish its 28.000
oushels capacity elevator this week. The
building cost approximately $10,000, and
vlll be one of the best grain elevators in
his section of the state.
MORSE BLUFF—The drainage district
>oard decided to hold up the contract in
volving the settlement of the river over
low' controversy, pending definite informa
tion on certain clouded points.
NORTH BEND—Fred Kern, a well
known North Bend boy. is in a critical
condition in a hospital at Omaha on ac
count of a bone disease of one of his
limbs. He is a son of Solly Kern.
NORFOLK- Gllmore Neligh, aged 12. be
rause he was whipped by his mother yes
today. for running away from school,
hanged himself In the city park where his
body was found this morning
ALDRICH OBJECTS TO
GRANTING FRANCHISE
TO PROMOTjON PLANS
Dissents to Majority Actios
of State Board of Ir
rigation.
Lincoln. Nov.;28.—In a written opin
ion tonight the irrigation board, com
prising Governor Aldrich, Commis
sioner Cowles and Attorney General
Martin, recognized the rights of the
Babcock-Doherty syndicate to water
power on the Loup above Columbus, of
the Commonwealth company from Co
lumbus to Schuyler and of the Kountze
interests from Schuyler.
Governor Aldrich presented a dis
senting opinion in which he asserts
that ever since 1899 the Babcock peo
ple have failed to develop their hold
ings. He criticises the irrigation board
for granting further rights to the Bab
cock syndicate, saying that the time
has come to call a halt on the grant
ing of water rights for speculative pur
poses.
The governor indicates in his opinion
that it is now time to let some com
pany showing actual intention of de
veloping the water power of the state
to have the rights along the Loup.
FULL OFFICIAL FIGURES
ON NEBRASKA RESULTS
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 28.—The official
vote of Nebraska gives Woodrow Wil
son a plurality over Roosevelt of 36,
333. The vote on the principal officers
is as follows:
President—Wilson. 109.109; Roose
velt. 72, 776; Taft, 54,348; Debs, 10,219;
Chafln, 3,419.
United States Senator—Norris, 126,
081; Shallenberger, 111,937; Chase, so
cialist, 9,177; Gilbert, prohibitionist,
2,727; Ferguson, independent, 699.
Governor—Aldrich, 113,076; More
head. 124,000; Wright, socialist, 9,959;
Wilson, prohibitionist, 3,682.
Lieutenant Governor—McKelvie, re
publican, 123,837; Diers, democrat,
109.186.
Secretary of State—Wait, republican,
126,210; Kelly, democrat, 108,313.
Auditor—Howard, republican. 123,
930: Richmond, democrat, 108,699.
Treasurer—George, republican, 124,
910; Hall, democrat. 109,630
Superintendent—Delzell, republican,
127,179; Clark, democrat. 108.654.
Land Commissioner—Beckmann, re
publican, 124,823; Eastham, democrat,
107.669.
Attorney General—Martin, republic
an, 127,146; Morrissey, democrat, 105,
613.
Railroad Commissioner—Taylor, re
publican, 121,389; Harman, democrat,
111,668.
WANTS WINNEBAGO GIRL
AND APPEALS FOR HELP
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 28.—Mary Brown
Dog. Sarah Cloud and Josie Kemp,
three Winnebago Indian girls, who a
few months ago. expressed their de
sire through an Omaha newspaper for
white husbands, have received a near
proposal of marriage. They expressed
a preference for policemen or firemen,
Phillip A. McAnerney. who gives his
residence as 129 Maultrie street, Pitts
tmVgh, Pa., ha* written to the United
States marshal, the matrimonial agency
through which the dusky maidens
made their appeal, to open negotiations
i with a view to marriage.
"Please don’t regard this missive in
a joking light,” writes McAnerney,
"for, honor bright, I mean every word
of it. It would fill me with delight if
you would put me in touch with one
of these girls seeking a paleface hus
band."
McAnerney says he is a city fire
man and “a lover of adventure,” clos
ing his plea with, “Mr. Warner, (the
marshal), in the name of goodness I
ask you to help me/’
FORCED TO GO HOME WITH
SLAVE DRIVING HUSBAND
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 28.—Mrs. Charles
Porter, of Vlllisca, la., started west
yesterday to visit her sister at Mina
tare. Neb., bringing her four little
children. She was halted at Lincoln
by a police officer, who had a telegram
from her husband, charging her with
forgery. The husband and a constable
came after them, and they were taken
back to Vlllisca. In view of the fact
that it was her husband’s name she
signed to the check, no prosecution
will follow.
Mrs. Porter told the police matron
that she had left home because her
husband did not treat hef> well. She
says he owns a coal mine and a store
at Vlllisca, and that he has been
abusive towards her because she could
not complete her domestic arrange
ments in time to open the mercantile
establishment at 7 o'clock each raorn
ilng.
THREE IN THE FIELD FOR
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 28.—Three can
didates are In the field for Bpeaker of
the Nebraska house: J. W. McKls
sick, of Gaga, and G. W. Potts, of Paw
nee, old members, and W. C. Palmer, of
Clay Center, a lawyer, who has had no
legislative experience. W. Z. Taylor,
of Culbertson, who has been re-elected
for the fourth term, has announced his
candidacy, but he is seriously 111 at his
home, and if he recovers, a matter
which Is In doubt, he will be physically
unable to stand the strain.
For the Job of secretary of the sen
ate, three republicans are In the con
test, J. Reid Green, of Lincoln; John
M. Jones, of Clay county, and Clyde
Barnard, of Table Rock.
8TATE FIRE MARSHAL
IN BAD AT FREMONT
Fremont, Neb., Nov. 28.—Vigorous
complaint is being made by Fire Chief
Hauser and others, of Fremont, to the
effect that State Fire Warden Randall
Is Interfering with the efforts of Fre
mont officials to rid the business dis
trict of Fremont of flretraps. It Is
charged that Mr. Randall in two re
cent Instances has reversed the orders
of the Fremont fire chief, when he has
condemned partially destroyed frame
buildings In the business section of the
city. The result has been that the
“flretraps” have been rebuilt against
local orders.
VICTIM OF BULLET IS
NOT KNOWN AT LINCOLN
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 28.—Nobody in
Lincoln appears to know who M. S
Moore is. Moore was shot and killed
■by the acting marshal at Gowrle. la„
Thursday night, while resisting arrest
The chief of police and sheriff have
been endeavoring to get hold of som*
one who knows Moore, but they have
been unsuccessful. His name does not
appear in the list of persons receiving
mall at the Lincoln postofflce. It Is
supposed that he came from some small
town in the vicinity of Lincoln, If he
Is a Ncbraske ~
JURY HEARS TALE
OF DEATH THREAT
Woman Says Alleged Dyna
miter Warned Her to Keep
Their Secret.
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 2.—Threat!
*f death for telling about explosions
were related by Mrs. Alta M. Hawkins
at the “dynamite conspiracy" trial Sat
urday.
Mrs. Hawkins, attended by a nurse,
and suffering from injuries received
In a recent shooting, was carried into
court on a cot.
Mrs. Hawkins testified that a few
days before explosions caused a loss
of $16,000 on the property of Albert
Von Spreckelsen, in Indianapolis, in
1909, she was told by Ernest G. Bassy,
an iron workers’ union official, "that
something was going to happen on
Jobs where nonunion workers were
employed. He told me to look in the
newspapers the next day and read
about it.” said Mrs. Hawkins.
“In the papers I saw nothing. Then
he told me it did not come off that
night, but to watch the next day. I
did and about midnight heard the ex
plosion.
"Bassy called me up on the telephone
and told me I must keep my mouth
shut. He said if I didn't I would be
killed.”
The witness said she was shot sev
eral weeks ago while hunting.
Questions why James B. McNamara,
dynamiter of the Los Angeles Times
building, was not arrested until five
months after his identity became known
were put by attorneys for the defense
at the “dynamite consipracy" trial to
day to Raymond J. Burns, son of the
detective, who managed the arrest.
Wanted "Higher-Ups.”
Raymond Burns had testified that
he had learned of McNamara’s guilt
on November 2, 1910, one month and
one day after 21 persons -were killed
at Los Angeles, and that on November
6, his operatives got in personal touch
with the dynamiter, afterwards "shad
owing” him for a month In the Wis
consin woods. The arrest followed on
April 12. 1911.
"You say you knew early in Novem
ber that the man in the Wisconsin
woods, shadowed by your men, was the
dynamiter of the Times building. Why
did not you arrest McNamara right
there and then?” asked Attorney Will
iam N. Harding.
"Because we were trying to get the
men really responsible for the explo
sion.” answered the witness.
"You mean men higher up in the
union?”
"Yes sir.”
“You say you knew at the time that
Ortie E. McManigal caused explosions
at Peoria. Why didn’t you arrest Mc
Manigal?”
"For the same reason. We were after
the men higher up.”
LUCILE CAMERON IS
STRANGELY MISSING
Jack Johnson’s White Sweet
heart Has Disappeared—
Police Start Search.
Chicago, Dec. 2.—Lucile Cameron,
former sweetheart of Jack Johnson,
negro pugilist, has disappeared. Her
mother, Mrs. F. Cameron-Falconnet,
into whose custody the girl was given
by the federal court, has returned to
her home in Minneapolis, grieving for
her daughter.
The girl is believed to be hiding in
Chicago, but so far no trace has been
found of her. She was last seen Wed
nesday night at a downtown hotel,
where she and her mother had been
living very quietly since Lucile was
released on bond from the Rockford
county Jail, where she had been held as
a witness.
Upon her release, the girl was under
stood to have said she would never
return to Johnson, and her mother be
lieved her.
"I am through: I have given up,”
cried the mother, as she left for Min
neapolis. "I would have given my life
to save the girl from the negro, and I
have fought and fought to save her,
but it is too late now.”
The federal department of Justice
will begin today an investigation to
find out whether Johnson or any of his
friends have hidden the girl. Some of
the ollce believe she may have been
slain.
WIFE WEDS AGAIN, HE
WOULD BREAK DIVORCE
Baltimore. Md., Dec. 2.—John Lit
tleton Dawson Speer, of Pittsburgh,
well known in society here and in prac
tically all the large eastern cities, has
begun suit to have annulled the de
cree of divorce granted his wife, Mar
garet Taylor Speer, in this city last
October.
Mr. Speer charges collusion. The ac
tion was taken last Saturday. On the
same day, Mrs. Speer was married in
New York to Theodore K. Miller, a
prominent business man of Baltimore.
Mrs. Speer says that by agreement she
did not appear in the divorce case and
there was a decree pro confesso. It is
because of this that he charges collu
sion.
The Taylor-Speer wedding was one
of the big social events here in 1892.
GRAY HAIRED WOMEN
HELD FOR GAMBLING
Chicago. Dec. 2.—Information given
by an angry husband, whose wife spent
her time and his money in an alleged
gamblng resort, led to a raid on a
handbook on the South Side. The
keeper of the place and eight women,
five of them gray haired, were arrested.
One of the women offered to bribe the
detectives to allow her to go.
BARON DECIES BECOMES A PEER.
London. Dec. 2.—The Official Ga
zette announces the election of Baron
Decies, who married Miss Vivien
Gould, as an Irish representative peer
in place of the late Lord Crofton.
ELEVEN MUTINEERS
ARE SHOT TO DEATH
St. Petersburg, Dec. 2.—Eleven men
of the Black sea fleet, recently con
demned to death for inciting mutiny,
were shot at Sebastopol by firing par
ties from the warships.
DAKOTA BANK ROBBED.
Fargo. N. D„ Dec. 2.—One of the
banks of Noonan. N. D.. was robbed
yesterday of 11.100, after which one of
the robbers was captured in an exciting
chase.
TO TUNNEL UNDER CHANNEL
Long-Delayed Franeo-English Project
la Once More Being Put
Forward.
A tunnel between England and
France beneath the English channel
was first proposed at the beginning
of the nineteenth century by Mathieu.
a French mining engineer, says the
Argonaut. Fifty years later the
scheme was financed, but It was not
until 1867 that it seemed that the
project would be actually attempted.
At that time there were a dozen or
more plans for rail communication
between the two countries. The ac
cepted scheme was that of a tunnel
bored beneath the bed of the channel.
The estimated cost of the undertak
ing was about £10,000,000. Prelimi
nary boring had been made, when the
work was interrupted by the Franco
Pmssian war. In 1874 the French
and English governments resumed ne
gotiations concerning the tunnel,
leaving the matter in the hands of a
joint commission. Failure on the
part of the English company holding
the contract for the work to receive
sufficient funds resulted in the fail
ure of the enterprise In 1880. Now
the project is receiving some atten
tion, a better feeling having been es
tablished between the people of the
two countries.
HAIR CAME OUT IN BUNCHES
813 E. Second St, Muncie, Ind.—“My
little girl had a bad breaking out on
the scalp. It was little white lumps.
The pimples would break out as large
as a common pinhead all over her
head. They would break and run yel
low matter. She suffered nearly a year
with Itching and burning. It was sore
and itched all the time. The matter
that ran from her head was very thick.
I did not comb her hair very often, her
head was too sore to comb it, and
when I did comb, it came out in
bunches. Some nights her head itched
so bad she could not sleep.
“I tried several different soaps and
ointments, also patent medicine, but
nothing could I get to stop it I began
using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment this summer after I sent for
the free samples. I used them and
they did so much good I bought a cake
of Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. I washed her head with
Cuticura Soap and rubbed the Cuticura
Ointment in the scalp every two
weeks. A week after I had washed her
head three times you could not tell she
ever had a breaking out on her head.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment also made
the hair grow beautifully.” (Signed)
Mrs. Emma Patterson, Dec. 22, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
post-card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”
Adv.
Perils of Overdeiicacy.
A bridegroom gave his best man an
envelope.
“Hand it to the parson after the
ceremony," he said, “but don’t do It
ostentatiously."
The best man followed instructions,
but it seems that he performed his
task too covertly, for the father of
the bridegroom, after the pair had
departed, believed that an omission
had occurred and quietly pressed a
banknote into the minister's hand.
But he also was too secretive about it,
and before the party broke up the
bride's brother felt called upon to
draw the minister aside and thrust a
JlO-bill upon him.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of (
In TJse For Over 30"Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
He Answered Truly.
Father—How is it that I find you
kissing my daughter? Answer me,
sir! How is it?
Young Man—Fine, sir; fine!—Sa
tire.
Constipation causes and seriously aggra
vates many diseases. It is thoroughly cured
by Dr. Pieroe’s Pellets. Tiny sugar-coated
granules. Adv.
Selecting Recruits.
‘‘That’s my idea of a pleasant job.”
‘‘What’s that?”
“Scouting for a comic opera cons
pany.”
Mighty Hard to Eeat.
"So you make all kinds of pie?"
“Yes; all except humble.”
TIRED BLOOD
STARVES THE TISSUES
(Copyright 1912 by the Tonitives Co.)
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Debility, Dark Rings around the
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viving the blood stream. Tonitives, the
Great Blood Fer
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TIRED BLOOD absorb nourish
ment from the food and convert it
into strong living tissues, composing
Brain, Nerve, Muscle, Bone and
Sinew. To those who are suffering
from the effects of over-work, Toni
tives are especially recommended.
76c. per box of dealers or by mail.
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