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The O^Neill Frontier
a H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O'NEILL,_NEBRASKA
An Interesting report concerning Ir
rigation by sun power made by the
British consul ajPJ&Sxandrla, who com
ments on GjS^rrival from Philadelphia
of. ‘ne Shuman sun heat absorber.
-'.r-^Chlch, he says, was tested andfcuMP**
to be satisfactory. The plaaUiP'dlPms
erected at Meadl, near. agSWr and will
be used to pumujawfirom the Nile
te Irrigate th&jjiSWfToundlng land. Sev
«X eral ImnaaiPTOenta have been added to
T*r<”2«srfWne cost of working. In Egypt
^•ffhcoal and other kinds of fuel are
expensive, says the consul, but plenty
tof sunshine can be relied upon at al.
times of the year, so that the experi
ments with this practical sun power
plant will be of much Interest to agri
cultural enterprise. _
Boston has two foreign born students
to whom a writer refers as ' the old
and the young of It.” Jacob Oolgolls ts
a Bohemian, 47 years old, the father
of four children, who Is a regular at
tendant at one of the schools “after
business hours.” The other Is Jacob K.
Shohan, who was bom In Russia In
1S97, and arrived In Boston when he
was 9 years old. In two years he
passed through the seven grades of the
Phillips Brooks school and was grad
uated from the high school In 1911. He
Is now at Harvard, making good prog
ress at the ago of 1J>._
M. Ernest Davisse has turned aside
from his historical labors to relate a
bon mot by his friend Massenet. It
was at a time when the musician was
changing apartments and the historian
Inquired the motive of the change. "I
was too well known there," Massenet
replied. "Everybody was too oppres
sively polite. Only the other day I
happened to buy a penny stamp In a
tobacconist's shop. ‘Pray do not trou
ble to carry It,’ said the tobacconist, It
will give us the greatest pleasure to
send It round to you.’ "■—Westminster
Oazette. _ _
Mark Twain was naturally, accord
ing to his own confession as related In
hts recently published biography, of an
Indolent disposition. In an old volume
of Suetonius, adjoining a reference to
“Flavius Clemens” as a man distin
guished "for his want of energy,” the
later Clemens made this annotation:
"I guess this Is where our line starts.”
Yet, as printer, pilot, reporter, lec
turer, traveler and author, fate con
trived to get a great deal of work out
of Mark Twain, _
A portrait of a young woman has
hung for years In the drawing room
of a private school In a small town In
New York. Now it has been discov
ered, so a newspaper article avers,
that the picture was painted by Gains
borough and Is worth *70,000. Experts
ore often called upon for opinions as
to the authenticity or value of sup
posed "old masters,” and this Is one
of the few pieces In which they have
found such a picture to be of real
value. ^_
Milwaukee, In the opinion of Mr.
Andreas Dlppel, Is the one city In the
United States which properly supports
a German theater. And this though
New York city has a larger German
population than most of the cities of
Germany! Still, the Deutsches theater
In New York is not yet discouraged,
and during the coming winter it plans
to present many famous German plays
“with a cast hardly to be surpassed,
oven In Europe." _
Is there any town In the United
States that Isn't a "world beater” In
something? Fresh discoveries along
this line are constantly being made. A
“boosting” circular about Hamilton,
O., for Instance, contains the Informa
tion, which we think will be new to
most readers, that 8 per cent of the
world's safes are made there and that
It "has the largest machine tool works
•ttd coated paper mill In existence.”
That high power Hertzian waves
emitted by modern wireless telegraph
stations are capable of setting up high
electro-motive forces In inetal struc
tures In the Immediate vicinity of the
stations was recently shown In Paris.
Borne workmen on a section of tele
graph line experienced severe shocks
when they touched the wires. Inves
tigation showed that the source was the
great Eiffel tower wireless station.
With the exception of the old Great
Eastern, the largest side wheel steam
er ever constructed Is the City of De
troit III, which has been recently put
Into commission on the Great lakes.
This boat Is BOO feet In length. 56 feet
broad. 100 feet over the guards and
has a molded depth of 22 feet. The
craft Is entirely dependent on her side
wheels, while the Great Eastern was
also equipped with a propeller.
Ductile metallic tungsten Is now pro*
duced in the electric furnace. Tung
sten particles have been hitherto weld
ed Into a continuous filament by pass
ing an electric current through a bind
ing material containing the metallic
principles and driven off by the high
neat. By this new method, the metallic
tungsten can be drawn Into fine wire
much stronger and more rugged.
In view of the fact that the number
erf persons who want to go abroad eith
er for education or for Investigation Is
Increasing every day. the chief of the
bureau of foreign uffalrs In Hupeh and
others are planning for a school to sup
ply courses of study and Information
necessary to those who wish to seek
further education or experience abroad.
—Peking Daily News.
The popular belief that the Panama
railroad was constructed at a cost of
one life for every railroad tie Is n
gross exaggeration. There are 140,000
ties, and In the five years or Its con
struction a total of 7,000 laborers were
employed.
Parties sent out by the French gov
ernment to explore the Sahara desert
have reported that the obstacles In
the way of building a railroad across
the waste of sand are not bo great
as was supposed. .
In the last few years Moscow has
been Increasing In population more
raptdly than at nny time In a century
and If the present rate be continued
It will have more than 2,000,000 resi
dents In 1918, _
Betrothed by mall after Introduction
by mall. Miss Minnie Hankln. of
Brooklyn. N. Y.. has gone to Calcutta.
India, and married J. F. Slee.
Nashville street railways are re.
placing horse-drawn emergency repaP
wagons by motor trucks.
There ere 10.010.S04 depositor* Ir
United States saving banks, averaglm
•444 each._ _
Porto Bioans are displacing h""
drawn carts on great estates by au'e
mobiles.
.The value of 1»1» rro-« re
states Is estimated *o *0 '•00.000 (
The New York last fine
jytar sold }7,1$9 iiek«t» 4u.!y.
YOST ASSUMES RIGHT
TO HANDLE ALL GOAL
OVER HjS TERRITORY
Lavqr*,* finerrupts When Mag
r:^tSte Starts to Explain the
Coal Situation.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 16.—J. H. Yost,
die wealthy coal dealer of Harvard,
who Is sued for $96,000, along with two
others, on the charge of conspiring to
put out of business the Lincoln mall
order coal house of the Marsh-Burke
company, was the star witness for the
defense. Tost denied that he had taken
part In any conspiracy. He said that
when he found out that the Lincoln
company was selling in hls territory,
he came here and notified the Lincoln
dealers that If they didn't call Burke
off he would Inaugurate a price war In
Lincoln.
Asked why he had taken this step,
he replied:
''Well, thought as long as those Lin
coln dealers were peaceable and get
ting a good, long profit on their busi
ness—” but he got no further, hls at
torney Interrupting to prevent the giv
ing of information about a local coal
combine. In answer to another ques
tion, Tost declared that ho considered
that he had territorial rights that oth
er dealers had to respect.
Tears ago, Tost, who Is a German
Russlan, worked on the section in Har
vard. He got together a little money
and was made manager of the local
coal yard. Here he prospered, and to
day owns 26 yards In as many different
towns In the state.
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GOVERNOR-ELECT MOREHEAD
BESET BY OFFICE SEEKERS
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 16.—Governor
elect Morehead was In Lincoln yester
day for a few hours and had to leave
hastily to avoid the rush of office seek
ers. Leo Matthews, who was In the
governor’s chair under Governor Shell
enberger, Is understood to be slated for
the position of private secretary. Mr.
Morehead said that he had not decided
upon anybody for any office and would
not make any announcements until he
came here to take hold.
The governor Is between two fires
that keep getting hotter. The Bryan
men tell him they have no candidates
to suggest for any of the places, but
that he must not pick out any of those
who have been conspicuous In the fight
upon Bryan for the more Important
places at hls disposal. The private
secretaryship Is one of these, and
Matthews has been a rampant critic of
Bryan. The anti-Bryan men put It
up to Morehead that he owes hls nom
ination to them and that If the Bryan
men had their way Metcalfe would
have been named. Therefore, they
think that the Bryan test should not
be applied in any case.
WANTS HUSBAND FREED
TO LIGHTEN HER BURDEN
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 16.—Mrs. Mary
Hamman, for the second time within a
year, has Journeyed all the way from
Cheyenne county to beg the governor
to free her husband, who is serving a
term In prison for criminal conduct
with a young girl. On her first Journey
she sold her little crop of potatoes to
pay expenses. This time she secured
the help of some kindly disposed
neighbors, and while here her expenses
are being paid by some of the state
employes. The woman Bpeaks very
broken English. She has nothing to
urge In mitigation of her husband's of
fense, but bases her plea entirely on
the fact that she and her children are
unable to make a living on their little
farm, and that she wants her husband
released so that he may take up the
burden that is too heavy for their
shoulders.
GREAT STREAK OF LUCK
FOR FRIDAY, THE 13TH
Kansas City, Mo.. Dec. 16.—L. P.
Marrnon, a farmer living near Colum
bus, Neb., who was stricken blind by
a bolt of lightning 18 months ago, re
covered his sight In the union depot
here yesterday. Three months ago the
man went to St. Louis and underwent
an operation. Apparently It failed, and
with his wife he left St. Louis for home
yesterday. While waiting for his train
to Nebraska, Marrnon rested In the de
pot waiting room.
"Mary, Mary," he suddenly called out,
"the light!—what has happened?"
Nothing had happened to the lights.
There was a dim. vague outline of the
electrics and a glow that could only
mean returning light. His wife was
quick to the emergency. “Louis,” she
said, "you can see. We must go back
to the doctor, so you can get entirely
well."
They boarded a St. Louis train in
stead of going to Nebraska.
GOVERNOR ALDRICH
BLOCKS AN ESCAPE
Lincoln. Neb.. Dec. 16.—Gov. C. H.
Aldrich this morning blocked the es
cape of Convict C. D. Romero, just dis
charged from the Nebraska peniten
tiary, when he attempted to get away
from Sheriff Judd, of Provo. Utah, who
had secured a requisition to take him
into Utah to answer to a charge of
forgery. Romero, who had asked for
a hearing before the governor on the
requisition, demanded that the war
rant be read by the Utah sheriff, and
when he did so the convict declared:
"You can't serve that warrant on me
in Nebraska.” and started from the
room. Governor Aldrich, who was in
the outer office, blocked his progress
and turned him over to the officers.
NEBRASKA UNIVERSITY
DEBATERS BEAT “ILINI’’
Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 16.—Arguing the
affirmative side of the proposition that
corporations doing an Interstate busi
ness shall he compelled to take out
federal charters, three debaters repre
senting Nebraska university were giv
en the unanimous decision of the
judges over the representatives of
Illinois here last night. Nebraska’s de
livery was regarded as superior.
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ASHLAND—Seated on thq floor of
the bedroom, adjoining the office of the
Mahurg hotel, of which lie was pro
prietor. Asa Maharg fired one shot from
a .33 caliber revolver into hts right
temple, causing almost Instant death.
Despondency over financial troubles is
supposed to be the cause.
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SOUTM OMAHA CHIEF
IS FOUND NOT GUILTY
Walioo, Neb., Dec. 16.—After deliber
ating 30*minute», the jury In the trial
of t’hiet of l-ullco John Briggs, of
South Omaha, charged with the mur
der of Roy Blunt, returned a verdict
of not guilty. Blunt, a young farmer,
was hostage of three escaped convicts
for whom officers' posses were search
ing, and in the battle which followed
their meeting young Blunt was killed.
The indictment of Sheriffs ChaHe and
il)K'3, heading t*v- nosso, followed.
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SOtJT^PrOMAHA—Frank A. Agnew,
<0(S^gouth Omaha, has received word
rrom General Morton, of the United
States army, now stationed In Wash
ington, D. C., conveying the Informa
tion that a cousin of Mr. Agnew s
great grandfather was a signer of the
Declaration of Independence. Mr. Ag
new claims among his ancestors, a
chief Justice of Massachusetts, a gov
ernor of Indiana, and says the line
goes directly back to a brother of Wil
liam the Conqueror.
LINCOLN—Harry C. Lindsay, clerk
of the supreme court, In his report
filed with the governor, recommends
the passing of a bill by the legislature
calling for a %-mlll levy for two years
to raise money to build a state library
on the grounds of the Historical so
ciety. This would raise $650,000, and
would be sufficient for the building of
a structure which would house the su
preme court, the state library and the
Historical society.
AUBURN—Dr. Hodges, of the Smith
sonian institute of Washington. D. C.,
has made inquiries Into the evidence
joncernlng the original occupancy of
Nemaha county, and will incorporate
the evidence furnished him in a new
work now in course of preparation by
the bureau of ethnology. This is said
to be the first time in the history of
the country that eastern Nebraska has
been recognized by the department at
Washington.
LINCOLN—Governor Aldrich, In his
forthcoming message to the legislature,
will recommend the enactment of a law
to prevent the marriage of the physic
ally or mentally unsound. He has not
outlined fully his plan, but It will prob
ably be similar to the laws in other
states where registration Is required,
and If the applicant Is not considered
eligible from a physical or mental
standpoint, the license would. be re
fused.
OMAHA—Word has been received in
Omaha to the effect that the Order of
Railway Telegraphers and the manage
ment of the Burlington had reached a
wage agreement. The telegraphers had
demanded a 10 per cent Increase with a
threat of a strike to back up the demand.
The Burlington, It is said, has offered an
Increase of $4u.u(J0 a year, the raise to be
applied as the officials of the telegraphers
see fit. This, it Is said has been accepted.
OMAHA—After risking his life to escape
from the Greendale, Ky., state reforma
tory, Everett White, aged 17 years, came
to Omana and gave himself into the cus
tody of the law. Young White says he
killed a jockey In a drunken brawl In
Catholtcsburg. Ky., last January and was
sentenced to the reform school until he
came of age. Then he was to spend the
rest of his life In the state penitentiary at
Frankfort, Ky.
WEST POINT—Hans A. Thompson, a
business man of West Point, and his
nephew amt nlccc, William Laurldson
and Miss Christian Laurldson. have left
for a three months' visit to Denmark and
Germany. The party are all members
of the West Point Llederkranz society,
who tendered them a farewell supper and
dance which was largely attended. They
will sail from New York today for Copen
hagen.
FREMONT—Assured that they will
be equipped soon with new wagons,
two teams of horses and camp para
phernalia, the members of the Fremont
signal corps have leased the third floor
of the Erugh block for drill purposes
and will turn the present armory into
a barn and store house. At the same
time a move is under way to increase
the membership to 100.
WEST POINT—Eighty orphan children
from New York city arrived here today
on the Northwestern. Homes for them
have been arranged for In and near West
Point, Albion. Petersburg, Elgin, Plain
view, Clearwater, Ewing and O’Neill. The
prospective foster-parents will be at tbs
Northwestern stations as the train pro
ceeds up the line and the children will
be handed to them.
FREMONT—M. E. Arnold, (raveling
salesman for the Armour Packing com
pany, who sustained Injuries by being run
down by a motorcycle in the streets of
Norfolk last Wednesday, was taken from
his home In Fremont to Omaha for an
operation. He declares that there were no
lights burning In the Norfolk streets and
that the motorcycle that struck him car
ried no lamp.
STELLA—Casner Barnes, a farmer eight
miles north of Stella, is arranging to drill
another test hole at his farm in an at
tempt to reach gold bearing quartz of
paying quality. A hole several hundred
feet deep was ruined when the drill broke
off and could not be recovered. It was
while drilling a well' last summer that
gold ore was struck.
FREMONT—The dyke district this
morning launched the undertaking of
throwing up an embankment between
Fematery ridge and the Union Pacific
railroad tracks, one of the comprehen
sive and important features of the riv
er protection work. It is believed now
that it will be impossible to compiete
the job this season.
LINCOLN—Andrew P. Madsen, of Cher
ry county, is another man who complains
to the state game warden that beaver are
cutting down trees on hia land and asks
for a permit to destroy the animals. Ac
cording to reports of thlB nature coming
In the beaver this year must be working
harder than formerly or are getting more
plentiful.
WEST POINT—Word has reached the
city that former congressman, E. K. Val
entine. an old West Point resident, is ly
ing dangerously ill at his present home
In Chicago, from an attack of paralysis.
Judge Valentine was one of the earliest
settlers in West Point and did much to
build up this county and state.
YORK—Mrs. Pcrmeiia Oraham as guar
dian of Benjamin Graham, has filed a
damage suit in district court against Ohos.
Smith for $5,250. Mrs. Graham alleges
;hat her son was r.ot given room to pass
the defendant on the state road near this
city when an automobile collision occurred
about 10 days ago.
YORK—Mrs. Permelia Graham as guar
dian of Benjamin Graham has filed a dam
age Ruit in district court against Charles
Smith for $6,260. Mrs. Graham alleges
that her son was not given room to pass
the defendant on the state road near this
city when an automobile collision occurred
. about 10 days.
MORSE BLUFF—E. E. Wolf, the
banker, is contemplating the erection
of the largest and most costly resi
dence in Morse Bluff. It has 20 rooms,
all modern equipment and the wood
work throughout for interior finish is
oak. It is the pride of Morse Bluff.
OMAHA—It has been decided by the
trustees of the University of Omaha to
appeal to the stute supreme court the
case in which O. C. Redick was granted
the right to foreclose his mortgage on
the university campus property.
FREMONT—Seven committees rep
resenting seven Protestant churches of
Fremont have been appointed to un
dertake a religious census of Fremont
preliminary to the launchment of a for
ward movement early In the year.
WASHINGTON—Miss Frankie Stout,
of Collegeview. Neb., left Washington
last night with a party of six Seventh
Day Adventist missionaries for South
America.
HIS HATRED OF FATHER
LEADS BOY TO MURDER
Los Angeles, Cal.. Dee. 14.—"I have
hated my father for a long time.” This
was the excuse given by 14-year-old
Martin Rickart, arrested today for de
liberately killing his 57-year-old father.
A single shot from a rifle, fired from
the bath room window by the boy,
killed the father, Daniel H. Rickart,
formerly of Norfolk, Neb., who was
working in the barn, 35 feet away. The
mother, until she heard the boy’s ad
mission from his-own lips in the pres
ence of detectives this afternoon, ad
hered very strongly to the story that
the shooting had been accidental.
After ' ohooting his father the
boy told his mother what he
had done. The boy told the detec
tives that his father had never beaten
or grossly mistreated him or his moth
er, but that he had been mean to him
in small ways. "I hated my father
more than I ever hated anyone," he
said.
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC SHOWS
NO SIGN OF ABATEMENT
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 14.—That hog
cholera, which has been severe in var
ious sections of the state for some time,
is still raging with undiminished en
ergy was the assertion made today by
I>r. J. H. Gain, of the department of
animal pathology of the state school of
agriculture. The demand for serum
has multiplied several times over the
demand of a year ago, according to Dr.
Gain.
Dr. Gain has much faith in the se
rum. He said that several years ago
the scourge broke out at the state farm
and threatened to destroy a fine lot of
animals, but the prompt application of
the serum soon stamped it out. Since
then there has been no cholera in the
drove.
State Veterinarian Bostrom was un
able to give information which would
show how many porkers had died from
the plague. Dr. Bostrom said that in
Lancaster county it had not been so
severe as in the southeastern end of
the state.
He has received complaints that
farmers and stock growers are not
burying or burning the carcasses of the
dead or animals as required by law.
Reports have reached him also that
hogs affected with cholera have been
shipped to St. Joseph, Mo., to the pack
ing establishments ^located there.
SHERIFF IN BLUNT MURDER
TAKES THE WITNESS STAND
Wahoo, Neb., Dec. 14.—Chief of Po
lice John Briggs and his deputy, John
Trouton, were witnesses yesterday in
the trial of Briggs for the murder of
Roy Blunt, the young farmer victim
of a battle between convict bandits and
officers of the law near Springfield,
last March. With their testimony, the
defense concluded and arguments to
the Jury were prepared pending the
ruling of the court on a motion by the
defense to take the case from the jury.
Briggs retold his remarkable story of
the battle. He declared he began
shooting only when his own life was
endangered.
“I certainly was as anxious to save
Blunt's life as was any other person,”
testified the police chief. “His life
was never in greater danger than my
own and the lives of others of our
party. If the convicts had used rifles
Instead of shotguns and revolvers, sev
eral of us doubtless would have been
killed.”
Should the court overrule the mo
tion of Briggs’ attorney, the case will
be given to the jury this afternoon.
BLOOD SPOT INCIDENT
DISMISSED BY COURT
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 14.—Attorneys
for both sides, are claiming a victory
in the order entered by the supreme
court holding that the old satchel,
which has become the center of fire in
the Rogers murder case, is no part of
the bill of exceptions. County Attor
ney Cook declares that he contended
before the supreme court that the
satchel should hot be considered a part
of the record and that the charge that
blood spots were placed in it for the
purpose of deceiving the supreme tri
bunal should be considered separately.
Attorney Button, who is county at
torney-elect says the order amounts to
dismissal of the whole proceedings, so
far as misconduct on the part of at
torneys or court officers is conceited.
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KOUNTZE INTERESTS GO
IN WITH ACTUAL MONEY
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 14.—Fremonters
who are familiar with the negotiations
that have been in progress by the
Kountze interests looking to the devel
opment of the Fremont power canal
■’ believe that the deal is going through
this time. It is known that several
thousand dollars in actual money have
gone into it, a sign that is regarded
better than any previous sign in the
many developments of the canal on pa
per. ’’I believe that nothing short of
a war or a panic will stop it this time,”
declared a well known Fremonter to
day.
FARMERS ORGANIZE
SECRET TRADE ORDER
Glencoe, Neb., Dec. 14.—The farmers
tf this vicinity have organized a
Farmers’ union, a secret society, In
tended to enable members to buy va
rious farm and household goods most
advantageously in large lots at low
prices. Co-operative methods will be
employed, also, in the marketing of
stock and grain. Arrangements have
been made for weekly meetings.
QUARREL OVER FALSE HAIR
LEADS TO FATAL SHOOTING
Omaha. Neb., Dec. 14.—Because she
insinuated to a group of friends that
Miss Minnie Tolies wore a wig, Mrs.
Beatrice Woods is dead today from
bullet wounds and the woman about
whom she gossiped is being trailed by
police. The shooting occurred at a
social gathering. Mrs. Woods, accord
ing to stories told the police by wit
nesses. persisted in turning the con
versation into channels which so an
gered Miss Tolies that she flrel two
revolver shots at her tormentor and
then fled. The parties were all black.
OIL TO REPLACE COAL ON
NORTHWESTERN IN WEST
Norfolk, Neb.. Dec. 14.—OH will re
place coal as fuel on all the Chicago
& Northwestern Railway company's
locomotives west of the Missouri riv
er. according to an announcement made
here today by General Superintendent
S. M. Braden. The change takes ef
fect immediately.
PARIS—Charles Wells, alias Luclen
Rivere, James Burns and Deville and
known also as "the man who broke the
bank at Monte Carlo," was sentenced
yesterday in the correctional court to
a term of five years in prison and to
pay a fine of $600 for fraud.
KANSAS CITY—The lure of a
chance, no matter how slight, to share
In the $1,000,000 left by the late J. K.
Zimmerman, a stockman of this city,
who died intestate on October 6, Is
prompting scores of persons to write J.
E. Guinotte. probate judge, for par
ticulars. The fortune hunters live In
all parts of the country.
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
LINCOLN—The Citizens’ Interurban
company, which has asked for a permit
to construct a line from Havelock io
Omaha and which will connect at the for
mer place with the Lincoln Traction
company, will invest approximately $2,
000,000, according to a statement made here
by W. E. Sharp, head of the projected
line. The power used will come from the
Loup and Platte rivers and will be sold
to the Interurban by the Commonwealth
Power company, a concern which ia
financed by the Sharp-Moore interests.
NORFOLK—Approximately 100 defend
ants will be involved in a case which is
to be filed in district court at Madison by
local attorneys within a few weeks. The
case is that of N. P. Dodge & Co., of
Omaha, in an effort to quiet title on ac
count of various defects in the title of
the Homestead addition in South Norfolk,
once known as Sunny Side addition, and
the Rome Miller farm. About 20 closely
typewritten pages will be included in the
filed papers which are now being pre
pared in Norfolk.
FALLS CITY—Spring steer calves
brought $21.75 and spring heifer calves
$17.72 at August Edner’s farm sale this
week. Auctioneer Whitaker says this is
the highest price ever paid at a sale he
has cried, and he has been at the business
for years. Corn sold at 38% cents, prairie
hay at $14 a ton and other things in pro
portion. In Falls City a dealer is paying
33 cents for butter fat, 10% cents for hens,
springers and ducks, and 9 cents for
geese.
TABLE ROCK-Fred Broder, aged 44
years, died at his home here after a
serious illness of several weeks. He was
the father of Theodore Broder, who was
killed some 10 weeks since by being caught
in the machinery of the coal chute at
this place. Since the son’s death Mr.
Broder walked around, paying little atten
tion to anything, refusing to eat and tak
ing his son’s death very much at heart.
He is survived by three sons and two
daughters.
JIOWE—A party of Humboldt geologists
3 amateur scientists are expected here
to make a reconnaissance of the ancient
ruins north of town. These have recently
attracted the attention of the Smithsonian
institution at Washington, and Professor
Hodge of the bureau of enthnology has re
quested full data concerning them. Bone
and finely made stone implements have
been found in profusion, and many large
sherds of a very fine grade of ceramic
ware.
LINCOLN-The indebtedness of the
state of Nebraska due to outstanding
warrants has decreased during the last
six months. According to a report by
State Auditor Barton filed with the gover
nor June 1, th^ warrant indebtedness was
$682,707.30. November 30 it had dropped to
$374,402.46. This is the only debt of the
state. During the six months warrants
were issued in the amount of $1,662,041.43,
and the amount of $1,970,346.27 were paid.
BEATRICE—Harold Dobbs, the 20-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dobbs, of
Virginia, was found dead in the bath room
of his home yesterday afternoon. Death
is supposed to have been caused by apo
plexy. He has been in poor health for
some time. The young man entered the
bath room and a short time later his
mother heard a noise as of some one fall
ing, and upon entering the room found
him lying on the floor.
LINCOLN—Capt. Allen O. Fisher, of
Chadron, was at the state house and will
appear before the district court of Doug
las county in habeas corpus proceedings
to secure the release of Lee McCoy, sent
up from Sheridan county for horse steal
ing, and given an indeterminate sentence
on the plea of guilty. Captain Fisher de
clares that the grand jury which indicted
McCoy was not legally called and there
fore the trial was illegal.
GRAND ISLAND—Jerry Tupper, mail
carrier at St. Libory, north of this place
and a former station agent there, was ac
cidentally shot yesterday morning as he
placed a rifle in his mail wagon prepara
tory to starting on his route. The gun
was discharged and the bullet entered the
body near the heart. Hopes are enter
tained for his recovery. He is 32 years of
age and has a wife and two1 children.
TEKAMAH—Emery Latta, a son of
George Latta, of Tekemah, met a serious
automobile accident while attempting to
make the first turn into Calhoun at a
speed of about 40 miles an hour. He w as
driving a Cole car and was accompanied
by the machinist at Cappis & Latta’s gar
age. Both boys were shot out through
the windshield and Latta was consider
ably cut up and bruised.
FALLS CITY—W. W. Gentry, on his
bottom land near Salem, raised corn that
made 60 bushels to the acre and oats that
made 65 bushels. It was the bottom land
along the Nemaha in Mr. Gentry’s locality
that led some citizens to go from Falls
City last spring to meet with the state
board of equalization at Lincoln to have
the land assessment reduced.
PLATTSMOUTH — The Platte river
bridge suit brought by Cass county sev
eral years ago against Sarpy county to
compel the commissioners of Sapry coun
ty to pay their share of the costs for re
pairs to the Louisville bridge, which was
partly washed out by floods, has Anally
been settled and Sarpy county is to pay
$3,000 as Its share.
COLUMBIA—Colleges In the Missouri
valley conference have selected Lincoln,
Neb., for the annual cross country run
next year. The members of the confer
ence before adjourning put a ban on
rough basketball. The coaches agreed to
see that the rules were Interpreted so
there would be more playing the ball than
playing the man.
OMAHA—The police of Omaha have
been asked to locate Hazel Goldsberry,
the 14-year-old niece of Earl Mason, of
that city. The little girl, whsoe parents
are dead, and who has been living with
her uncle, left the house at 7 o'clock Tues
day morning without a hat or coat and
she has not returned.
LINCOLN—Dr. Robert Gold Thwaites,
of Madison, Wis., head of the Mississippi
Valley Historical society and one of the
best known historians of the country, will
be the leading speaker at the coming an
nual meeting of the Nebraska State His
torical society. The gathering will be held
in January 14, 15 and 16.
LINCOLN—Removal of dipsomaniacs,
which class includes drunkards and dope
fiends, from the state hospital for insane
at Lincoln and their treatment in » sep
arate state institution are recommended
by the biennial report which Superin
tendent B. F. Williams has filed with the
governor.
SOUTH OMAHA—Cattle are to be killed
at Armour’s South Omaha plant by air
pressure if experiments now' being tried
justify it. The hammer strikes a tw'o-ton
blow and is sure and instant death. The
air chamber is placed on the animal’s
head between the eyes, and thus no mis
takes are made.
OMAHA—Charging that City Commis
sioner John J. Ryder, head of the public
safety department, ran him dow’n while
riding in an automobile in violation of the
speed laws, Henry C. Behrens, head of
the Omaha Dye works, sued the city for
$26,000 damages in district court yester
day.
GAY ADVENTURESS
SEEKS TO MURDER
Spurned In Love, Shoots Waite*
Munn, a Noted French
Sportsman.
Paris, Dec. 16.—Further complica
tions have developed in the sensational
Bhootlng affairs of Thursday night in
which Mrs. Barnes, an American wom
an, and Walter Mumm. the wet! known
French sportsman, were the principals.
Mrs. Barnes, it now turns out. was shot
twice by Mumm before she s'.iot him.
She brought her revolver into action
only after she had been badly wounded.
Every effort had been made by the
Mumm family to suppress information
In connection with the scandal.
Mrs. Barnes, it Is said, has not left
France, as was at first stated, but is
In a private hospital, where she is re
ported to be in a dangerous condition.
Spurned, She Shoots.
According to one version given in the
newspapers today, Mumm and Mtr.
Barnes went about together every
where during the last year and Mrs.
Barnes believed Mumm was about to
marry her. Differences, however, arose
and Mumm declared his intention of
breaking off his acquaintance with her.
This was on Thursday night, and the
tragic shooting scene followed imme
diately after. Mumm. in spite of his
wounds, was able to leave the house
without assistance. He asked to be
driven to a hospital and on his arrival
sent for his brother, to whom he re
lated the details of the tragedy, but
refused to call in the police. The
brother, however, went to police head
quarters and requested that Mrs.
Barnes be expelled from France.
Warrant Is Issued.
It is understood a warrant has been
issued for her arrest, but unless
Mumm’s condition becomes worse the
warrant will not be put into effect.
Henri Mumm, a brother of the
wounded man, in response to a request
for a statement, said:
“In a fit of jealousy, the lady shot
Walter with a revolver, breaking his
collar bone. His condition is not
grave. Don’t ask me anything more.”
Walter Mumm, It appears from the.
police commissioner’s report, attacked,
the woman during a violent quarrel:
and kicked her In the face and neck.
Whether he fired at her has not yet:
been established, but she was so badly1
injured that four doctors were called'
by the servants in the house and they
attended her for an hour after Mumm’s
departure.
Within a short time after the phy
sicians had left, a man called at the
flat and with the cook, who was the
sole witness of the shooting, helped
Mrs. Barnes down the servants’ stair
way into an automobile.
Can’t Find Mrs. Barnes.
Mrs. Barnes, the man and her cook
then drove off and no trace of them
has since been found by the police,
who believe she was driven to a san
atarium in Paris. They are searching
all these establishments systematically.
The antecedents of Mrs. Barnes have
not yet been definitely established by
Police Commissary Landel, who was
in charge of the situation. She was
not registered at the United States con
sulate and she seemingly had no ac
quaintances in the American colony
here.
She described herself to trades peo
ple in the vicinity of Passy, where she
lived, as an American, and Waiter
Mumm’s acquaintances who had met
her were told that she was from the
United States.
Mrs. Barnes’ departure from her flat:
took place at about 9 o’clock on 'Fri
day morning. Dwellers in the same
apartment which is situated in the
aristocratic quarter near the Avenue
Du Bois De Boulogne, were awakened
at 7 o’clock In the morning by a fright
ful uproar in the Barnes' apartment.
Excited shouting, the smashing of fur
niture and wild cries were succeeded
by three revolver shots. Then the
janitor saw Mumm leave the house and
shortly afterwards Mrs. Barnes’ serv
ants summoned several doctors from
the neighborhood.
Mrs. Barnes, it is said, was often
with Mumm at the races where she at
'racted attention by her beautiful toil
ettes.
ILL FATE PURSUES ALL
' OF “DEATH FILM” PARTY
St. I.ouis. Mo., Dec. 16.—The shoot
ing of Walter Mutnm in Paris, France,
marks the eighth tragedy centering
around airmen who participated in
1910 in the aviation and balloon meet
held In St. Louis. A motion picture
was at that time taken of the promi
nent men at the meet. Mumm was
in the picture, as were several other
balloonists and aviators who have
since been killed- Col. Theodore Roose
velt also occupied a prominent place
in the film, which has been termed
the “death film.”
Mumm was aid to Alfred Lablane
in the international balloon race, which
started In St. Louis in November two
years ago.
The other airmen who have been
killed are: Ralph Johnstone, Tony
Von Phul, Jacques Faquer, L. Welch.
Arch Hoxsey, Lieut. Hans Gericke and
Theodore Schaeck.
NEAR MURDERESS HAS
HAD TANGLED CAREER
New York, Dec. 16.—Mrs. Marie
Barnes. Involved in the Mumm shoot
ing affair in Paris, is a native of Penn
sylvania. and In 1910 married George
H. Creel, a millionaire Chilean. She
instituted divorce proceedings against
him in France last year, but there is no
record here that the divorce was
granted.
The woman's first husband was
Henry David Barnes, of Baltimore,
whom she married at 15. Three years
later she obtained a divorce with lib
eral alimony, and took up her resi
dence In Europe. Her maiden name'
was Van Rensimer.
DUS MOINES PLAN FOR
DISTRICTJJF COLUMBIA
Washington. D. C.. Dee. 16.—Repre
sentative Prouty will introduce a hill
next session to apply" a modified form
of the Des Moines plan of govern
ment to Washington end the District
of Columbia. He wouij give the resi
dents of the district the right of suf
frage and Invest them with the initia
tive. referendum and recall. Four
commissioners and a mayor, elected by
the people wSuld govern the city, but
conrjcess would have right of veto.
BOY SHOOTS FATHER
WHO BEAT BROTHER
l-oe Angeles, Cal.. Dec. 16.—Daniel H.
Rickert was shot and killed today by
Martin, his 13-year-old son. while
w hipping an older son.
The boy confessed, saying his father
had been habitually brutal to the
mother. The shooting, he said, fol
lowed a family quarrel in which their ,
mother took the boy’s part when the f
father sooght to chastise one of them m
for nnt having obeyed orders to bring
In fir-wood.
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