Nebraska Newspapers

    The O’Neill Frontier
D. H. CRONIN, Publisher._
OKEIU-_ NEBRASKA
Professor Hugo Muensterberg writes
that the women of Germany once oc
cupied a much higher status than they
do now, and that the feminist move
ment In Germany Is an efTort to re
cover ground. In mediaeval Germany
•very cultural Interest was left to the
women and to the church and men re
garded It as unmanly to learn anything
from books. In the 16th century the
German woman was regarded as decid
edly the equal of man and not until
the 17th century did she begin to lose
ground before the educational rivalry
of the other sex.
"Vaudeville,” says E. A. Woolf. In the
Dramatic Mirror, "now demands that the
material In a playlet must be weighted
with an idea; It must be free from
horseplay; It must bo developed In
consistent character drawing; It must
bo along new lines; and, above all, it
must be clean.” Mr. Woolf writes thus
encouragingly with the authority of
ono whose name last season "appeared
upon more theatrical productions than
that of any other author in the United
States,” according to the editor of the
mirror.
It was held by the duke of Welling
ton that the true story of the battle of
"Waterloo has never been written. A
contemporary relates how he once sat
tn a carriage with the duke nnd
“watched him read a ponderous quarto
recital of the battle of Waterloo.
Against paragraph after paragraph he
traced the letters X,’ or 'D. L.’ with a
groat blunt ended pencil. I ventured
to ask what these mystic letters meant.
Tho pithy reply w-as ' "Lie,” and
Damned I,le,” to be sure.1 ”
Cheesecloth coverings for plants, a
termer tells us In an agricultural pa
per, are superior to glass, for they let
the moisture through. The white shel
ter has a forcing effect, and also keeps
cut Insects. Cucumbers from vines
thus sheltered were gathered two
weeks earlier than usual this season,
and the enthusiastic experimenter Is
planning for large results next year
through the use of these cheesecloth
protectors.
A scheme has been prepared by %
Hamburg engineer for the utilization of
power purposes of the ebb and flow of
the tide at Husum, In the North sea.
As doubts have been entertained In
various quarters as to the practicabil
ity and economy of the project, a water
power Installation company has been
formed at Hamburg to erect an experi
ment plant at Husum, of 10 horse
power, to test the merits of tho sys
Itm.
A curious bid to bargain hunters Is
found In an advertisement of one of
the great department stores of New
Tork city: “It Is often possible to give
better values In Kurdlstana than In any
ether rug,” says the announcement,
after speaking of the Kurds at, a
"robber tribe,” "Inasmuch as the Kurds
•teal from the seml-wlld herds of
•beep a large proportion of the wool
that goes Into these rugs.”
Dean Stone, of the Columbia uni
versity law school, crltlcsles the meth
ods of conducting examinations for ad
mission to the bar In New York. They
tevor the man of photographic memory,
be says, but keep out the more cap
able man who has reasoning ability.
This obsolete system of examination,
the dean asserts, exists In no other
state In the union.
An Illiterate, In the eyes of the
United States census bureau. Is a per
son of 10 years or over who can not
write, regardless of his or her ability
to read. Judged by the etandard, llllt
•racy In this country has decreased In
the last decade from 10.7 to 7.5 per
oent. Among children a fraction above
four to the hundred are now Illiterate.
Our American dust Is certainly
brought nigh to European grandeur
when the highest bidder at a New York
•lty auction sale can become the own
«r of a real letter of Catherine de De
dlco, written entirely by her own fair
band. Such links to royalty come high,
however, $1,850 was the price paid for
tbs letter at the recent Hoe sale.
Among anniversary celebrations this
year Is that of Liechtenstein, a tiny
principality on the Rhine, established
in 1711. Its population of 10.000 are In
many respects Ideally situated, for
they have a beautiful, productive coun
try, they pay no taxes, have no public
debt, and are free from liability to mili
tary service.
A laborer In a Connecticut town re
cently dug up an Iron pot full of
“pieces of eight,” or Spanish dollars of
the Eighteenth Century. Doubtless
there are many treasure-troves like
this In various parts of the country, for
In troubled times our ancestors liked
to put their dollars In Mother Earth’s
safekeeping.
Capt. W. I. Chambers' Invention of
a catapult device to launch hydro-aero
planes from warships Is characterized
by Glenn H. Curtiss as "the most Im
portant achievement since wheels were
put on land machines. The device,
only SO feet long, enables the aeroplane
to fly Immediately after leaving the
■hip’s deck.
Martha R. Hunt, who died recently
In Somerville. Mass., had a great hor
ror of cruelty either to man or beust.
and in her will left about 11,000.000
to the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children and
ether organizations of the kind.
Andrew D. White's 80th birthday,
celebrated recently, was marked by
messages of congratulation from nil
parts of the world. Among them was
one from the German emperor, who
formed a strong attachment for Dr.
White when he was the American ar
baaaador at Berlin.
Gas mantles that have become black
may be cleaned, a Scientific American
note states, by sprinkling salt upon
them while burning. Caution, of
course, must be used In this experi
ment, or the experimenter will lose
both salt and mantle, for the latter
la a most fragile article.
A. E. Shoemaker, attorney for the
Anti-saloon league, whose home Is In
Washington, says that the women of
tha present day drink more Intoxicat
ing drinks each year.
An English firm hns brought out n
new luminous varnish for automobiles,
which is said to render a car without
being fitted with lamps, visible for a
long distance on a dark night.
Judge Woodmansi Cincinnati. I*
Imposing the limit of the ia\ to ,uih
wife beaters. ,P||e,
Bristol, Term., has a blble class of
114 members, with an average attend
ance of 640.
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Kansas City (Kan.)1 has b< gun th<
operation of Its new municipal tlectrb
tii|ht plant.
INDIANS ASK REFORM
ADMINISTRATION AND
REVIEW OF ACCOUNTS
Winnebagoes and Omahas Sun
Up Grievances and Appeal to
Washington.
Winnebago, Neb., Dec. 30.—A grea
council of the Winnebagoes was hel<
at this village Monday to organize foi
closer relations with the government
In the matter of their claims and the
payment of the money due them with
out red tape, delay and expense, that
they have had to contend with in the
past. Forty representative tribesmen
took part In the council, and a petition
was drawn up asking the interior de
partment to send a bonded man to dis
pense the head funds to the proper
claimants. These funds amount to
about 32,500 each, and up to this time
have been held in trust by the govern
ment. the interest being distributed
through the resident agency. The In
dians now want their principal, and
they also want an Investigation of the
books of Agent Neal, whose admin
istration of their financial affairs, they
assert, should be reviewed by a com
petent authority.
The Omahas have also been In con
ference during the last couple of
weeks. The Winnebago agent has
Jurisdiction over their reservation also,
and this they wish to have ended. A
petition has been drawn up asking that
they be given an agent of their own,
and that the books of Agent Neal In
hts dealings with them also be over
hauled by an expert accountant.
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DYING GIRL REFUSES TO
NAME HER BETRAYER
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. ,10.—Although de
serted iri her hour of need by the man
who had wronged her, Marie Sauer
milch, a young German girl, went to
her death refusing absolutely to name
him to the doctors who surrounded her
bedside. She died on Friday, December
13, at a local hospital. At her room
ing house she had refused medical aid
until her condition became critical.
Then It was too late.
The girl made a dying statement,
which was placed In evidence, In which
she said that Dr. Willis, of Omaha, had
performed an operation upon her. Wit
nesses at the Inquest held yesterday
said that she had written or told them
of having been to Omaha and having
submitted to such an operation. Ona
witness said she had told him she
was going to Omaha to marry a man
named O’Neil. A letter in her room
gave the name of a woman at Omaha
where she had roomed and who, sha
told the doctors .attended her al
the hospital, was present when tha
Omaha physician operated upon her.
The Jury returned a verdict to th«
effect that she came to death as th«
result of a criminal operation per
formed by some person or persons un
known. The girl had an aunt at Law
rence, Neb., but none of her relative!
responded to a summons to her fute
eral. The girl was 21 years old. o:
more than usual comeliness, and was i
traveling collector and saleswoman fo;
piano houses.
CITY OFFICIALS MEET TO
CONSIDER PHONE PROBLEM
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 30.—A commit
tee nf five, composed of Mayors Mlelena
of Wuhoo; Keullng, of Wymore. ant
t 'alder, of Seward, and Councllmei
Whitmore, of Lincoln, and t’olson. ol
Fremont, are here formulating a rep on
to be made at the stale convention oi
municipalities next month upon tip
telephone rate situation.
Every few days some phone company
nukes application for a readjustment
-r raise of rates, and the cities anc
owns desire to find some method o
norc effectively combatting the tendon
y toward higher rales and consolidu
lOlt. The committee hart a plan where
i_y the towns affected will be able tc
'a- adequately represented at the hear
ngs Viefore the commission. At tin
ommlssion's office it Is stated tha
yo-operatlon with the board on the pari
if towns and cities will be welcomed
mil that the mass of data prepared by
he board's experts will be placed al
he call of each.
IAS COMPANY REFERENDUM
OVERWHELMINGLY DEFEATEC
Lincoln, Neb.. Deo. 30.—The gas coin*
■any's com prom Iso offered to the pen
ile yesterday In a referendum election
,vas defeated by a vote of 3,831 against
uid 1,000 for. Litigation, started flvt
vears ago between the city and th*
company, will be continued as a result
Efforts to obtain municipal ownershil
of the gas plant will be Instituted at
once.
Voting whs heavy during the day am!
much Interest was taken In the settle
ment of the question. The submission
of the question followed action taken
some time ago by the city council, the
principal propositions concerned being:
The settlement of the suit pertaining
to the occupation taxes due the city
from the gas company. The settlement
of the dollar gas litigation instituted In
1907. The dismissal of these suits to be
followed by dollar gas at once and a
refund on that basis on all accounts
Since January 1, 1910. Ninety-five cent
gas after January 1, 1914. The com
pany to receive a 59-year franchise
with power to contest if public own
ership of Its plant Is undertaken at
any time In that period.
BIRTH AND DEATH RATE
LOWER; MORE DIVORCES
Lincoln. Neb., Dee. 30.—According to
the report of State Health Inspector
Wilson, there were fewer births, fewer
deaths and more divorce suits In 1912
than there were in 1911. The deaths
for 1912 were 10,402, us opposed to 11.
499 In 1911. The births were 26,897
In 1912 and 26.819 In 1911. During the
year closing December 1, there were
11,400 marriages and 1,861 divorce ap
plications. Of the latter. 1,352 were act
ed upon favorably. Outside of Lan
caster and Douglas counties the num
ber of divorces asked for was 839. Of
the divorces. 640 were granted In cases
where the marriage tie had existed for
less than two years, 493 between two
and five years, 487 between five and 10
years, 163 between 10 and 25 years, 23
between 25 and 40, and 45 between 40
and 45. t'auses: Cruelty, 821; drunk
enness, 169; non-support, 361; deser
tion. 367; adultery, 153.
Of the births, 13,783 were males: 12.
914 were females and only 134 were to
colored parents.
FOUND UNDER MACHINE
CRUSHED TO DEATH
Madison. Neb.. Dec. 30.—J. B, Fitcher
was found dead under his.Automobile
near a bridge 11 miles west of this
city by a person who was passing by
How the accident occurred is nol
known, as Fitcher was alehe. The
automobile had turned turtle and lit
was crushed to death beneath it. Th#
deceased was well and favorably known
In this i ovmty. He owned a fine farm
six miles south of Meadow Grove
where hi resided. He leaves a wife
and sev*i children. F was a mem
ber ct toe Royal Hitt adders, of this
city. I „ \ . , „ »**
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
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HASTINGS-St. Cecelia's new Catholic
church here, declared to be the finest In
the diocese of Lincoln and unsurpassed in
either beauty or size by any Catholic edi
fice between Omaha and Denver, was ded
icated Sunday. The dedication mass was'
celebrated by Rev. J. Henry Tlhen, bishop
of Lincoln, and the dedication program
was preached by Archbishop Keane, of
Dubuque. Over a score of priests from
Lincoln and Omaha participated and there
were many visitors from the state.
LINCOLN—Beer that is said to test 4.12
per cent alcohol is being sold in tem
perance towns In Nebraska, according to
State Food Commissioner Hansen. Under
the state law liquor containing 3.7 per
cent alcohol Is considered an Intoxicating
beverage, and the sellers are liable to
prosecution In dry towns. Commissioner
Hansen has announced that he Intends to
carry on an active campaign against li
quor law violators.
LINCOLN—Dates for the sectional gath
erings of schoolma'ams and schoolmasters
of the state have been announced as fol
lows; Central Nebraska, March 27, 28 and
29, at Grand Island; East Central, March
27, 28 and 29, at Fremont; North Nebras
ka, March 27, 28 and 29, at Norfolk; North
west, March 28 and 29, at Chadron; South
eastern, March 26. 27 and 28, at Beatrice;
Southwestern, April 2, 3 and 4, at Hol
drege.
ROYAL—Royal’s new public school
building is almost completed and school
will open In It January 6. The structure is
of brick and will cost about $10,000. a
creditable enterprise for a town of 200. The
building will be dedicated on January 3.
Exercises will be held both forenoon and
afternoon. A good program has been ar
ranged. State Superintendent Jas. E. Del
zell will be one of the speakers,
OMAHA—Francis Marlon Castetter, one
of the best known bankers In eastern Ne
braska and a large land owner In Wash
ington county, died at Clarkson hospital
Saturday from heart trouble. Mr. Castet
ter was born in Desota, Neb., In 1858. The
bank of which he was president was es
tablished in Blair In 1869 by his father, A.
Castetter, who died In 1900, when his son
succeeded him as president.
PENDER—Amos Gillers, 24 years old,
an Omaha contractor, was struck by an
Omaha passenger train while crossing the
tracks here on his motorcycle. Gillers
suffered a broken leg. His body also was
badly bruised. He was taken to his home
In Omaha for treatment. Joe Newell, of
Pender, who was riding on the motorcycle
with Gillers, jumped from the machine
and was uninjured.
LINCOLN—The executive committee of
the teachers’ association has decided to
send ballots for the referendum vote on
the location of the next meeting to teach
ers qualified to vote, on January 15, to re
quire that they be returned by February
3 and to canvass them in this city on Feb
ruary 9. No ballots postmarked after Feb
ruary 3 will be counted, according to the
committee's ruling.
FREMONT—Twins born at Dodge won
a prize of $25 hung up by a Fremont firm
for the first baby born Christmas day In
Dodge county. At 6:30 a. m. Joseph
Blrchem telephoned from Dodge that ho
was the father of a boy. An hour later
he phoned that a girl had arrived. Four
other babies were recorded during the
day, but the prize went to the twins at
Dodge.
ruAi iDMuuin—xne nome or william
Sales, who was killed about a year ago
by Henry Burroughs, for which the latter
Is serving a life term, was sold the second
time recently. The first time It was pur
chased by the administratrix, Mrs.
Georgia Rychart, who In turn sold it to
August Weins, who owns a farm adjoin
ing it. This small piece of land brought
$2,700.
‘ORD—Roy Hamilton and Arthur Burger
saved 6-year-old Sadie Houska from
drowning In the swift current of the North
Loup river. The boys were skating when
they saw the little one, who was sliding
on the Ice near the wagon bridge, go
through a hole. They hurried to the res
cue, and while one boy held to the pier of
the bridge the other grasped Ills skate and
BLAIR—The Martin & Nurre Canning
company’s plant at this point was de
stroyed by fire, with a loss of fully $100,000,
40 per cent of which Is covered by Insur
ance. The buildings covered nearly a
half block and only the office building was
saved. Nearly the entire pack of sweet
corn of last fall was on hand and the loss
on that alone will be fully $40,000.
OMAHA—The Zeta Theta Pt opened a
three days' national convention In this
city yesterday. The middle and western
states are represented by 60 delegates, who
were guests of members of the local so
rority. Miss Edna Hadra. president of
the organisation, who resides here, enter
tained the delegates last night, following
an afternoon business meeting.
LINCOLN—The Nebraska League of
Municipalities will hold a meeting In this
city January 16, 16 and 17, at which public
service problems will come up for pro
tracted. discussion. Much attention will be
given to the commission form of govern
ment and the making of city charters un
der the amendment adopted by the people
of the state at the late election.
FREMONT—The Nimrod club, composed
of residents of Grand Island, Omaha, Lin
coln and Fremont, has Incorporated and
purchased 660 acres of land fronting on
Red Deer lake in Cherry county. The club
will establish a resort for fishing and
hunting. Geese, ducks and chickens
abound In the region and the lake Is well
stocked with bass.
DODG15—Anton Stecher of this place
who lost a wrestling match at Harlan,
la., to Peter Fromm, declares that In
juries were responsible for his defeat,
I which came after over an hour of fierce
I work. He declares that he can beat
: Fromm, who is an older and more experi
enced man.
FREMONT—R. H. Livingstone, who has
Just returned from Hawaii with the Bos
ton Bloomer baseball team, has leased
the Lyric theater In Fremont and will
run. It. Uvlngstone has been running
the Boston Bloomer Girls for eight years.
He says he has been looking for a nice
little place to settle down *and Fremont
la It.
SCHUYLER—A piling cap weighing
about a ton fell on Fred Loth, of Wa
terloo. at Schuyler, breaking two bones In
the left leg.. Loth Is a member of the
Burlington bridge construction crew. Dr.
Hart, the company physician, attended
him and he was taken to an Omaha hos
pital.
NORTH BEND — A move has been
launched here to convert the public school
building Into a Y. M. C. A. reading room
and gymnasium.
LINCOLN—A report of the condition of
the 691 state banks of the state of Ne
braska reporting at the close of business
November 26, shown the number of de
positors to he 266.669 and the average re
serve 23 2-5 per cent. Deposits show an
Increase of $3,637,331.
HUBBARD—Patrick Jones has reopened
the Jpnes hotel, which has befcn closed for
the past five months. Mr. Jones is an old
resident of Hubbard and enjoys a wide
acquaintance.
OMAHA—Edgar A Allen, for years a
member of an Omaha wholesale grocery
firm died here lust night after an illness
'Of five week;.
DEATH OF CHILD FROM
FREE2INC BRUTAL AND
INEXCUSABLE OFFENSE
State Will Resist Appeal oi
Madison County Man Now ‘
In the Pen.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 27.—That Henry
fitehr, of Maili^on county, was right
fully convicted of the death of hi3
stepson, four years of age, is the con
clusion of Attorney Genera! Martin,
expressed in a brief filed today in the
appeal of Stehr, now pending before
the state supreme court.
"The story told in this record." says
Mr. Martin, “is one that incites both
pity and indignation. It is a tragedy
in which poverty and ignorance are
united with the harshness of a step
father to bring about the death of a
helpless child.”
The child was the son of Mrs. Minnie
Stehr, wife of the defendant, born two
years before their marriage as a result
of a liaison with a German officer.
Stehr got in trouble in Germany be
cause of his cruelty to this child, and
came to America, settling in Norfolk.
It was his intention that the child
shotdd be left behind when his wife
joined him, but she feared the loss of
a pension she was receiving from the
government, and so she brought him
along.
The evidence, upon which the state
relies is that during the winter of 1910
11 the only bed Stehr furnished the
child was constructed of rough lum
ber, with sacking nailed across, upon
which there was a little tick filled with
hay. On the night of December 31 the
boy's feet were badly frozen. No
medical attendance was furnished for
several weeks. The doctors then call
ed found the feet were rotting with
gangrene and one was almost ready
to fall off. They were amputated, but
the child died three days later. All the
Stehrs did for the child was to fol
low' some directions in a German doctor
book. He was sentenced to from one to
ten years for manslaughter, under the
statute holding a man responsible for
criminal carelessness. The attorney
general says Stehr's own testimony
shows that for ten days he saw the
feet turn from red and blue to a livid
color with the skin and flesh dropping
away and the odor from them terrible
before he called in a doctor.
REWARD MAY EE PUT
UP TO LEGISLATURE
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 27.—The legisla
ture may have to decide which of four
or five different men are entitled to the
*1,800 reward which the state owes to
the person or persons who captured the
three convicts who shot their way out
of the state penitentiary last March.
Chief Briggs, of South Omaha, recently
acquitted of a charge of having killed
Hoy Blunt, held as hostage by the flee
ing convicts, is the first claimant. He
would have beaten all the others to
it if it had not been that there was no
balance in the fund from which such
rewards are paid. He had already se
cured the approval of Governor Aid
rich, much to the astonishment and an
ger of the other claimants.
These claimants are Sheriff Chase,
of Sarpy county; Sheriff Hyrrs, of
Lancaster; Deputy Sheriff Trouton. of
Douglas, and Deputy Sheriff Eiken
barry, of Lancaster. Ail of these were
members of the posse that exchange
shots with the convicts-. rt was tr
Klkenbarry that Morely surrendered
aid the man who can prove that 1.
killed Dowd and Gray has t!v- her
chance for getting the money. Dowd .*
body, now in the dissecting to m of tin
university medical school, shows that
he was hit several times, but drat!
came to him only when he turned hi
gun upon himself.
GOVERNOR ALDRICH
PARDONS IOWA MAN
Lincoln. Neb.. Dec. -7.—That dess.
Tooman, late life murderer, was able
to spend Christmas with his wife and
children at Muscatine, la., was due en
tirely to the fact that the wife of Gov
ernor Aldrich was a more powerful
advocate with her husband than was
the state board of pardons, which
unanimously dcr'ined to recommend a
pardon.
Tooman murdered an old and inof
fensive recluse out in Franklin county,
and served 14 years in prison. He has
been the prison butcher for several
years. . and has been regarded as a
model prisoner Along with Tooman
a man named Will Cole was tried, but
the latter was acquitted. He later
married Tooman's daughter. In tlv
trial Tooman shielded him. The board
of pardons refused to interfere because
they found the murder premeditated,
without any redeeming feature, having
been committed solely for gain.
IOWA MAN ROBBED OF
LAST CENT AT FREMONT
Fremont, Neb., Dec. 27.—Joseph
Dodd of Modalc. Ia., was robbed of
$18 and his railroad ticket at the
union passenger station yesterday aft
ernoon. Dodd was a transfer passen
ger through Fremont. Sheriff Condit
and Chief of Police Peterson were
summoned and made a search of the
depot vicinity for three strangers de
scribed by the Iowan, but without re
sult. Dodd declared that the men
jostled him in the crowd as he was
trying to board the train. Being left
penniless by the operation of the pick
pockets. Dodd was in a quandary until
Passenger Director Penninger, with
whom he was acquainted, happened to
appear on the scene. Penninger loaned
Dodd enough money to continue his
journey home.
AUTO COLLIDES WITH
AUDITOR BARTON’S CAR
Lincoln. Neb.. Dec. 27.—An automo
bile driven by State Auditor Silas R.
Barton, congressman-elect from the
Fifth Nebraska district, was in colli
sion lust evening with another ma
chine. and W. C. Heaton, of Omaha,
riding with Barton, was badly injured.
In the Barton automobile were mem
bers of the family of Richard L. Met
calfe. whose Christmas guest Mr
Heaton was. The escape of other
members of the party was almost
miraculous. The colliding machine
running at terrific speed, struck the
Marton car squarely in the middle, al
most demolishing it. Mr. Heaton was
rendered unconscious, but his condition
la not regarded critical.
POULTRY ASSOCIATION
FINDS TREASURY LOW
Fremont. Neb., Dec. 27.—After all
their lamenting, the Fremont Poultry
association members, when they held
their annual meeting yesterday, found
that $50 remains in the treasury. It
was feared by the club members that
owing to the poor attendance at the
recent show, that the treasury would be
depleted and talk of disbanding was
Indulged in. The club decided to hav*
another show next year.
GIVES SELF UP TO
EASE CONSCIENCE
Fugitive Says He Could Not
Face His Mother With Guilty
Knowledge.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 28.—Unwill
ing. he said, to return to Indianapolis
to spend the holidays with his aged
mother while a fugitive from justice,
William B. Adams, of that city, con
fessed to Chief of Police Griffin here
that five years ago he had broken
parole in East St. Louis after perjur
ing himself to save a younger brother
from the penitentiary. Today in the po
lice hold-over he awaited the arrival of
officers from the Illinois city.'
"I lied, chief, to establish an alibi
for my brother. wrho was tried on a
larceny charge,” he said. “The lawyers
tripped me up and not only my brother
went to prison, but the judge sentenced
me to one to 14 years for perjury. He
paroled me, but when it became known
around the railroad office where I
worked as clerk, that I had to report
to the court every week. I could not
stand It and fled. I have since worked
steadily in San Francisco and other
Pacific coast cities and had written my
mother in Indianapolis I would return
for New Year's. I have fought my
conscience away from home, but I
couldn’t face my mother.”
Adams is 28 years old. He was
scrupulously dressed. Chief Griffin,
impressed by his story, said he would
make a personal appeal to East St.
Louis officers. Adams said his mother
lived at 2005 Ruckel street, Indian
apolis.
KING GEORGE READY
TO PASSJUT HONORS
Not Known At London Who Will
Be Recognized—Actor to
Become Knight.
London. Dec. 28.—The honors to ha
conferred by King George on New
Year's day have given rise to soma
interesting rumors.
The vacancy roll of the Order of
Merit naturally creates the most spec
ulation. The name of Mrs. Humphry
Ward, the writer, has been mentioned
in this connection, but it is likely that
while she will receive some recognition,
this honor will go to some member of
the British academy. Many people
would like to see Sir Aston Webb, the
architect, become the successor to the
late Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, as a
member of this order. It is said that
John S. Sargent, the American artist,
would have received it had he become
a British subject.
Johnston Forbes Robertson, the
actor, it is said, will on this occasion
be dubbed a knight.
Prince Arthur of Connaught, the son
of the Duke of Connaught, governor
general of Canada, is due to receive a
dukedom, probably that of Kent, but
this may be postponed until the king’s
birthday.
New peerages will be few and all of
them outside of parliament.
NOTED JAIL BREAKER
HELD IN CALIFORNIA
In Purported Confession Billy
Green Tells of Escape From
Sing Sing.
I.os Angeles. Cal.. Dee. 28.—Arrested
as a vagrant, a man believed to be
Billy Green, the notorious Sing Sing
convict, who engineered a successful
jail delivery at the New York prison
in October, 11* 10, is a prisoner in the
city jail here. In a purported con
fession Green described in detail the
events of the night on which he, with
five others escaped by overpowering
and gagging two guards and making a
hazardous descent from an upper story
of the prison to the ground.
According to the prisoner’s story the
convicts escaped from the premises
by swimming the Hudson and a few
days Inter embarked from Boston on a
cattle boat bound for London. He as
serted that he had been in Los Angeles
for about a year and had, until recently
been employed as a deep sea diver.
MALE TEACHERS ARE
SCARCE IN NEW YORK
New York. Dec. 2S.—Equal pay for
New York school teachers, that is no
discrimination so far as sex is con
cerned has resulted in feuch a falling
off in the enrollment of male teachers
that President Egerton L. Winthrop, jr.,
of the board of education, seriously
deplores the loss in his annual report
made public today. The new equal
pay law only went into effect this year,
anil while President Winthrop considers
it too early to forecast the result he
finds that already there is a regrettable
loss of men applicants for teaching po
sitions. He regrets this because the in
tluence of men. especially upon boys
in the upper grades is regarded as most
advantageous. In other respects he be
lieves the equal pay law has bene
fited the school system.
♦ Laporte, Ind.,Dec.82.—Kather- ♦
♦ ine Barker, daughter and sole -t
♦ heir of John H. Barker, late of ♦
•f the Haskell-Barker Gar com- ♦
♦ panv. of Michigan City, Ind., ♦
♦ vesterday came into possession ♦
♦ of her father's estate, estimated ♦
♦- to be worth $20,000,000, by the ♦
♦ action of the Laporte circuit >■
> court. ♦
WATCHMAN IS SHOT IN
FIGHT WITH BURGLARS
Chicago. Dec. 2S.—Burglars caught
irying to dynamite the safe of the Mor
,..ta Construction company early to
ay twice shot Charles Hines, a watch
man. in making their escape. Both bul
ges lodged in Hines' arm. He returned
'..a fire and wounded one of the men,
ho was trailed several hundred yards
. bit,oil w.iieh had dripped from hi»
ound.
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PREPARING FOR
NEW SETTLERS
EXTENDING THE AGRICULTURAL
AREA IN WESTERN CANADA.
For sometime past the Canadian
government has had surveyors at
work platting new areas for the ao
commodation of the largely increas
ing number of settlers coming in to
occupy the agricultural districts of
the three prairie provinces. There
were those connected with the work
of securing settlers for western Can
ada who last spring prophesied that
there would be as many as 175,000
new settlers from the United States
to Canada during the present year,
and there were those who doubted
that the previous year’s figures of
132,000 could be Increased. Recent
computation made by the officials of
the immigration branch at Ottawa
show that the largest estimates made
by officials will be beaten and that
the 200,000 mark from the United
States will be reached. As great an
increase will be shown in the figures
of those who will reach Canada from
other countries this year. The re
sults of the year’s work in Canadian
immigration will give upward of a
total of 400,000 souls.
But this is not to be wondered at
when It is realized what is offering in
the three prairie provinces and also
in the coast province of British Co
lumbia, which is also bidding strong
ly and successfully, too, for a certain
class of settler, the settler who
wishes to go into mixed farming or
fruit raising. When the central por
tion of this province is opened up by ,
the railway now being constructed
there will be large areas of splendid
land available for the settler.
Reference has frequently been made
of late by those Interested in develop
ing the American west to the large
numbers who are going to Canada,
high officials in some of the railways
being amongst the number to give
voice to the fact. The more these
facts become known the more will
people seek the reasons and these
are best given when one reads what
prominent people say of it. What the
farmer thinks of it and what his
friends say of it. James A. Flaherty,
supreme knight of the Knights of Co
lumbus, was in western Canada a
short time ago. He says:
"If I were a young man I would
sell out my interests in less than two
months and come right to the Cana
dian Northwest, where so many op
portunities abound.”—Advertisement
SEEING IS BELIEVING.
Stella Lite—Do you believe in the
supernatural?
Irvington Boothlette—No; I never
■aw a super natural.
Obliging Landlord.
It was getting very late and Dub
bleigh’s gasoline has given out.
“Anybody around here got any gas
oline?” he asked, drawing up at &
small hotel by the roadside.
“Nobody but me,” said the landlord.
“Good!" said Dubbleigh. “How
much do you want for it?”
"Couldn't-sell it to ye today,” said
the landlord. “It’s Sunday.”
“But, see here, my friend," protest
ed Dubbleigh. “What can I do? I—”
“Ye might put up here for the
night,” said the landlord indifferent
ly. “I got a nice room I can let ye
have for $7.”—Harper’s Weekly.
Stole Ten Thousand Nickels.
After saving up nickels since 18SS.
Mrs. Emily Kuhn of New York lost
the entire bagful, 10,000 in a'll, to a
burglar. A collection of German coins
was not touched. Besides the nickels
a quantity of valuable jewelry was
taken.
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