The O'Neill Frontier
a H. CRONIN, Publisher.
OT4EILU_ NEBRASKA
Prof. Willis Moore, frequently men
tioned of late as a probable successor
to Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, has
been at the head of the government
weather bureau since 1895. He owns
and operates a large farm In Maryland
and Is recognised as one of the leading
meteorologists In the world. His acien
Uflc foundation was obtained partly
by disciplinary study while a composi
tor In the weather bureau printing of
fice, In which he was aided by su
periors and partly by private tutoring.
His rise was speedy.
In the Borough of Manhattan In 1912
permits were Issued for 767 new build
ings. The estimated cost of these
buildings was $116,325,135. The aver
age building, therefore, cost more than
$150,000. “It is becoming apparent that
a man must be something more than a
gtllllonaire to own and maintain a
orae In Manhattan,” the Baltimore
Bun comments, and adds: “New York,
with all Its population and prestige
and wealth, can never rob Baltimore of
one of the proudest of Its titles—the
city of homes.”
Probaby one reason why no echo of
the high cost of living alarm has
reached this country from Australia
may be found In a paragraph printed In
a produo Journal which says: "A
traveler says that in China eggs can
bs purchased all year round at from
1 to 3 cents a dozen. The bulk of the
Sipply Is sent to Australia. Packing at
ong Kong costs about 34 and the
freight to Sidney Is $4 a ton. These
agga are sold at 6 to 7 cents a dozen,
which allows a good profit"
If there is a limit to the life of a
motor truck It has not as yet been
determined. A large department store
in London Is operating 22 motor ve
hicles, which have traveled a total
of 1410,000 miles, or an average of 50,
000 miles for each vehicle. One of these
vehicles has averaged close to 12,000
miles a year for eight years and Its
owners state that it la giving Just as
good service today aa it did at the
beginning.
Lord Lawrence, who was once gov
ernor general of India, was so absent
minded In matters of external display
that when the Koh-l-noor diamond,
now among the crown Jewels, came
Into his bands for transmission to
Queen Victoria after the annexation
of the Punjab in 1849, he kept it for
■lx weeks In his waistcoat pocket, hav
ing forgotten all about it and only
discovered it there by accident.
Sir Thomas Upton, at a dinner given
to him In New York city recently, paid
a line tribute to his American rivals
and victors In the International yacht
races. “The best sportsmen on God's
earth are found In America,” he said.
“I lost In each race In which I took
part because the other was The better
boat.” Sir Thomas announced his ln
tentlon of trying for the cup again
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Mme. Bernhardt, who Is now en tour
In this country, always travels with a
dog. It Is easy enough for her to get
one of her dogs through the customs
here, but when she goes to England
the barriers always remain closed
against the dog companion. But ma
dame can not live without a dog.
What a to be stone? Madame buys a
dog every time Bhe goes to England.
Chicago's City club, an unofficial or
ganization, has asked architects, en
gineers and sociologists to submit
plans for the development of 180 acres
of Chicago suburbs so as to accom
modate not more than 1,280 families.
This would give each family one-eighth
of an acre of ground, a portion of which
wou d be a building lot and a portion
would be In streets and parks.
If It Is found possible the United
States navy department will recover
the cannon, bronge ornaments and oth
ST .r®3,*c,a Jt* llI5 oId American frigate
Philadelphia, the bulk of which has
tt2d-/.ott?.d ,ln tho mud of the
harbor of Tripoli since 1804. when she
w«* »t on Are and sunk by Lieuten
ant Decatur to prevent her use by the
Pirates who had captured her.
, Tbs new French Schneider ambu
lance is a veritable portable hospital,
being a truck, probably the largest size
y*t constructed and having an operat
ing room In the middle part, with two
smaller rooms at the ends. It contains
«1*ctrlc Plant which Is used for
lighting, water pumping and sterlllz
ln* and for surgical motors.
me Carnegie Institute of Technol
tST’-KS.0?® others activities and
t-°«ray* in which It Is becoming wide
ly ia^CUMed ln th® Bclentlflc world. Is
metallurgical
tobwhn?hyJ" <the Pittsburgh dlptrlct
in which pig Iron and pig steel have
been made ln an electric furnace.
„ jPh® ,a*f® Increase ln the importa
I'°n °t.’lld*8 tlPd shins Into our coun
*hU® du® ‘n Part to the increased
activity among manufacturers. Is also
«u>^U>fi,deKre*l.th® reBllIt of a reduc
in''the ‘^^^cattloslaughtered
. *■ to have a hobo hotel,
built by the organization of
frnmP^„f?rfre?. by JamfS Ead8 How
from contributions solicited from the
PUDllC.
».iL12J?i*0.ver 8>00° miles of railroad
b\?il~ ln,,the southern states, of
which 348 miles were in Texas. In
1813 some 947 miles are to be built in
T6X8J,
The municipal authorities of Berlin
ha.ve forbidden men to smoke while
f^m,I?.aUuOnl0lilk,,' ru!in»f ‘hat many
accidents haV* b8en dUe to tha prac
Queen Mary, of England. Is enthus
iastically supporting a project started
by Lady Esher to provide free cooking
classes for the poor of London.
ao^lr,Lt^:m,?arelta McKinlay. of T.ans
oale. Pa. has bequeathed $100.000 to
be used in educating wards of the
Juvenile courts of Montgomery county.
The oldest submarine cable in active
•peratlon In North America is said to
a? i » acros* Northumberland strait.
It dates back to 1363.
^Mrs. H. B. Phillips, dead at 77 ln
• Denver, had adopted and reared 17
orphan boys and girls.
,12.a ,we*k for a *lr> to live
to Chicago, 39 ln Boston and 310 ln
New York.
.. U c°8‘* *1.000,000 a year to maintain
the national pure food bureau In Wash
ington.
Baltimore's new regulation* will ex
UmU 1,500 “ew8lx,yi81 now under age
Char lee Tletge. of New York, 14
year* old, 1* etx feet tall.
Richmond. Va., 1* to have a confed
erate memorial Institute.
'MADE IN NEBRASKA'
SHOW REPLETE W H
UNUSUAL FEATU ES
Gas and Electric Demonstra
tions and Modern Refrigera
tion Methods.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 10.—There will be
considerable rivalry between the Elec
tric Light company and the gas com
pany at the "Made in Nebraska”
show, which will be held in the Audi
torium March 5 to 15. in that each will
demonstrate the full use of its best
forms of illumination. Both have taken
space in the show for exhibit purposes
and will put in miniature plants show
ing the everyday 20th century appli
ance of their products in carrying on
business.
Another very attractive and especial
ly educational exhibit will be that of
refrigeration, as applied to butchers,
grocers and general store uses where
meats, dairy products, etc., are to be
kept fresh and in a thoroughly sanitary
condition. This exhibit is to be made
by a local ice company. Some 20 or
30 operating plants in stores of this
city and many more throughout the
state of Nebraska. The retail grocer
and butcher will be particularly inter
ested In this display of machines in
operation.
Because Governor Morehead is to be
in Washing to witness the inaugura
tion of President Wilson, he will not be
present on the night of the opening
of the "Made in Nebraska” show. He
will send a representative, however,
and on his return, March 7 or 8,
arrangements will be perfected for a
Nebraska executive night, and invita
tions will be extended to the state leg
islators and state officials, the gov
ernor and others, to be present on this
occasion. If this is.accepted, as it was
at the time of the first land show,
given in the Omaha Auditorium, spe
cial efforts of entertaining them and
giving them a chance to realize the
Importance of Nebraska's industries
will be made by the management and
perhaps by the Commercial club.
Many Anns who manufacture heavy
machinery and articles that are too big
for the smaller spaces on the main floor
in the Auditorium are contracting to
put displays in the machinery hall an-,
nex. There are 4,000 square feet of
space here to be utilized and the lec
ture rooms are also to be located in
this part of the hall. Power will be
furnished to operate machinery, and
this illustration of Nebraska products
will bo well received and patronized.
With the exception of five spaces, all
the main floor booths have been sold.
This is a very remarkable showing
and has seldom been equaled by any
other Indoor exposition.
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INDIANS SUE
FOR LAND ALLOTMENTS
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 10.—Twenty In
dians of the Omaha Indian reservation
are filing suits against the United
States in the Omaha division of the
federal court asking that they be al
lotted portions of land as other mem
bers of their tribe in the past. John
Leo Webster is attorney for the In
dians. He takes the position that the
reservation belongs to the Indians and
for that reason no one of the Indians
belonging to that tribe can be denied
his allotment of the land.
The case hinges on successive In
dian legislation in congress, and, in
the course of which, former acts were
not repealed. In 1882 congress passed
a law providing for the allotment of
lands to each Indian of the tribe. An
agent was sent to tho reservation to
make the allotments to Indians then
living. After making distributions to
a considerable number the agent left,
without, however, giving some of the
tribesmen their portion.
Then in 1893 congress provided for
more allotments. But under the pew
act they were to be made only to In
dians born since the act of 1882 and
alive at the time of the enactment of
the law of 1893. The law of 1882 stip
ulated that the former allotment was
not repealed. So when the agent went
to the reservation to make allotments
under the act of 1893 he made them
only to Indians bom since 1882 and
alive in 1893. Since then the depart
ment has held this same position.
It is largely the young Indians bom
Blnce tho date of 1893 that are now
asking for allotments. There are also
some Indians who had a right under
the act of 1882, but never took ad
vantage of that right and some of these
are now making their claims. Under
the act of congress providing that the
United States may sue and be sued
tn Indian affairs, this action is being
brought in the nature of a suit against
the United States.
CITY PR08ECUT0R 18
UNDER INVESTIGATION
Omaha, Feb. 10.—Fred W. Anheuser.
city prosecutor, was asked to answer
to charges that he was guilty of con
duct not consistent with his duties as
a city official when the city commis
sion convened In special session Sat
urday morning at 10 o’clock to hear
witnesses on the charge that Anheuser
introduced a girl, who had not pre
vlusly been In bad company. Into a
resort In which he owned part interest
and left her there.
Anheuser asked for an Investigation
to be held this week, following Ills re
quest Beveral days ago to have Inves
tigation postponed until he could gath
er evidence.
"I don’t know Just what will be
done,’’ said Mayor Dahlman. ‘1 sup
pose witnesses will be examined and
hearings had until the council has
learned all the facts of the case, and
then some recommendation will' be
made.”
Anheuser has promised that If
pressed for ’’evidence” he will Implicate
at least "one person" In some unsavory
performances. He sayB he has nil the
necessary material to prove his own
innocence and to show the girl who
charged him with the ofTense for w'hlch
he will be Investigated was not of
good character when she came to
Omaha.
OLD RIVER MAN DIES.
Leavenworth, Kan., Feb. 10.—Virgil
Dresser, 75 years old. one of the last
of the steamboat men of the Missouri
river, and known as "Admiral'’ Dresser,
died here last night. He came to Leav
enworth In 1856. Dresser was one of
the few survivors of the civil war
campaign of General Price In 1864.
SLAYER OF NEBRASKA MAN
GIVEN TWENTY YEARS
Broken Bow. Neb., Feb. 10.—Judge H.
M. Sullivan, of this city, has returned
from Akron. Colo., where he was sent
to assist in the prosecution of George
VV. Terry, the ranchman who shot and
■‘.Wed Stewart Lantermun. a 'former
well-known resident of Broken Bow,
ust October. Terry was allowed to
dead guilty to murder in the second
legrec and was sentenced by Judge
turke to serve a term of 70 years in
he penitentiary in Canon City. Colo.
\s Terry is nearly 50 years of age,
die sentence virtually means a life term
for him.
LEGISLATURE^ DOINGS
SUPERVISORY POWER
OVER STORAGE PLANTS
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 7.—The senate
has passed a bill giving the state food
commissioner supervlsiory power over
cold storage plants so as to prevent
the storing of any food products over
one year. It is also made unlawful to
sell cold storage food as fresh food.
Another bill that passed that body
provides that appealed Injunction cases
shall have the right of way In the su
preme court, where the Judgment be
low has been superseded by bond.
The Sunday baseball bill, as it passed
the senate, and will go to the house,
recites the present law with respect
to Sunday observance, with the excep
tion of the word "sports,” which the
supreme court has construed to include
baseball, and adds this proviso: "Pro
vided that nothing herein shall be con
strued to prevent or prohibit the play
ing of lawn tennis, golf or baseball be
tween the hours of 1 and 6 p. m. .on
Sunday. Provided, however, that noth
ing herein contained shall be construed
as preventing any village, town or city
from controlling, regulating or pro
hibiting the playing of baseball within
Its coporate limits or preventing coun
ty boards from controlling, regulating
or prohibiting the playing of baseball
outside the corporate limits of
towns, villages or cities.”
Exemption Bill In House.
The house, on a close vote, passed
the Knudson bill changing the lav/ of
Exemptions with respect to mechanics’
wages. It was backed by the retailers’
association of the state, and It was
charged by its opponents that Its real
object Is to subject to the attach
ment of every creditor 10 per cent of
a man’s wages. The present law per
mits all creditors only 10 per cent of
the total as not exempt.
The house Indefinitely postponed bills
making the maximum width of public
roads 54 feet, reducing the legal in
terest rate' from 7 to 5 per cent, and
requiring fences around all rural school
houses.
Cronin, of Holt, wants to protect
women workers in cities of over 25,000
by providing that 60 hours a week shall
be a limit for work, except In the case
of domestics. There are also hills cre
ating an unpaid state commission to
Investigate the forestratlon of school
lands 4n the sand hills; requiring all
public moneys to be deposited In state
banks; prohibiting misrepresentation
by firms and corporations of matters
concerning their business or profession;
prohibiting savings banks and trust
companies from loaning their deposits
to any bank not under the state guar
antee law; prohibiting any false or
misleading statements in newspapers
or on labels of any patent medicine,
drug or stock food; providing for nom
ination of supreme judges by districts;
suspending the operation of the 8
o’clock saloon closing law and the Al
bert anti-assignation house law In cit
ies making their own charters.
uaie oenaio dims.
The senators find it Impossible to
Introduce more than half as many bills
as the house members. Here are some
of their late bills: Constitutional
amendment applying the recall to all
elective officials; providing that trust
companies may not contract to pay
more than 6 per cent for deposits; ex
cluding fcoing value in appraisal of
public utilities; abolishing 90 per cent
wage exemptions; permitting women
to work till midnight instead of 10 p.
m,, as the law now is; providing that
a course in a state normal entitles per
son taking it to two years’ credit on
a college course.
Additional bills provide for abolish
ing the state board of pardons; for
penalizing manufacturers who put coal
tar or parafln in candy of any kind;
for a paid commission, with an appro
priation of $10,000, to renovate and
bring up to date the state revenue
laws; for the repeal of the law which
permits the governor to remove of
ficials who do not enforce existing
laws, applying only to cites over 5,000
population; for the examination and
registration of barbers and supervision
of barber shops to secure sanitary con
ditions; for a new office to be known
as state surveyor, with a salary of
$1,200 a year; for permitting other mer
chants than druggists from selling fly
paper, and for a $3 land tax on every
quarter section to go into the road
fund.
Final Offerings.
Among the final list of bills pre
sented were the following: Permit
ting divorce after five years’ insanity
on the part of one person to the mar
riage contract; authorizing the state
board of education to make a three
fourths mill levy for the support of
state normals; requiring real estate
agents to take out licenses; requiring
county license for grain elevators; for
an open primary; appropriating $10,
000 to build an experimental highway
in conjunction with the federal gov
ernment; giving a bounty of $1 on wild
cats, wolves and coyotes; provides
equal responsibility on the part of hus
band and wife for accounts run at
stores; providing for the payment of
half of what convicts earn to their
dependents, or if none, to be retained
until their service ends: permitting in
surance against loss of employment.
One bill by Bollen appropriates $1,
500 to reimburse members of the
workmen’s liability commission for ex
penses paid; providing that supreme
court may write opinions only in those
cases where it sees fit to give its rea
sons outside of first degree murder
eases; for compulsory medical exam
ination of ail school children; requir
ing state bunks to deposit all reserves
in banks under the guarantee law; ap
propriating $5,000 for game and fishing
licenses in Dakota county to the de
velopment of Crystal lake as a pleas
ure resort; making owners of irriga
tion canals liable for all dumugs by
breakage and leakage.
Two members join in a bill requir
ing that all stamps used by state and
county officials for public business be
perforated “Neb.” in order to provide
against improper use. There are bills
preventing fire or tornado insurance
companies from making lower rates
In one part of the state than in an
other: permitting majority of voters
to establish new counties; permitting
municipalities to establish public, mar
kets; providing a Hat rate of not to
exceed 10 mills being levied by coun
ties to be distributed among all schools
on the basis of number of pupils in at
tendance: creating a commission to es
tablish the lowa-Nebraska boundary
between Douglas and Sarpy counties
In Nebraska Rnd Pottawattamie coun
ty, Iowa: appropriating $5,000 for an
Investigation by state board of health
of criminal operations performed by
doctors in state.
LOAN TO FARMERS
AT FOUR PER CENT
Lincoln. Xeb.. Feb. 7—An appropria
tion of $.700,000 to create a fund for the
loaning of money to farmers at 4 pet
cent to aid in the construction oi
silos, is proposed in a bill offered by
Representative I'ronln. The measure
provides that such loans shall be made
through the state treasurer.
The railroad committee of the house
decided toduy to recommend that Rep
resentative Anderson’s bill to rcqutJv
ruilroad companies to line freight cars
BILLS CALL FOR SUMS
ABOVE STATE’S INCOME
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 7.—Already the
seekers for the money of the state are
legion and the end is not yet.
When the house finished business for
the week the total appropriations aake^
for in bills introduced or in estimates
of the big general bills was $10,253,603.
The total income of the state, ac
cording to the auditor’s estimate for
1913-15 will be $6,633,371. Three big
bills in the present session call for their
own special tax levies, amounting in all
to $1,200,000, but nevertheless there
would be a gap of over $2,000,000 left
should the legislature try to meet all
the demands made upon It. And there
are still three days for the Introduction
of more bills.
As a matter of fact, the situation is
not quite so bad as it seems, for some
appropriations are for duplicate pur
poses and if one is favored the other
will be eliminated. Such are the two
proposals for the state university, one
for $800,000 for removal and one for
$430,000 for extension of the city camp
us. If one goes through the other fails.
But the total is big, bigger than two
years ago bv several hundreds of thou
sands, and the house is already whet
lng the knife.
It will be a big job. Admitting that
the university removal question may
be submitted to a referendum and so
be removed from the finances for this
session, the house must still eliminate
over $2,000,000 in bids for feed at the
public crib if it doesn’t want to in
crease the state levy—and the $2,000,
000 will grow with each day of the
coming week.
Ponsion for Doody.
The house committee on claims has
joined in a recommendation that the state
pay $6,000 to Thomas J. Doody, the guard
at the penitentiary who engaged the es
caping convicts, Gray, Dowd and Morley,
In a duel in the prison chapel. The three
men had just finished killing Deputy
Warden Wagner, whose office was Just
off the chapel, and werq working at the
door leading to where the warden was,
when Doody rushed in from the outside.
Doody fell wounded, and then rolled out
of the door by which ho had entered.
Convict Morley said they had no fear of
Doody and let him alone while they dyna
mited the cage door. The prison doctor
told the committee that Doody would be
lamed for life, if he did not lose a leg.
Gustln Is the father of a bill that he
says was handed him by a friend of Fish
Commissioner O’Brien. The bill repeals
all of the present law with respect to
game and fish, and in the re-enactment
leaves out several clauses that have
proved the most effective in prosecuting
violators. It also increases Mr. O’Brien’s
salary the modest sum of $300 a year.
Railroad Petition Nuisance.
The house has tired of being bombarded
by petitions -with respect to pending rail
road legislation. The trainmen have a
bill limiting trains to 60 cars, and the
companies have been circulating petitions
among other branches of the service.
Some 06 of these were ready to be sub
mitted at the afternoon session yesterday,
when an order was made that hereafter
all petitions be referred by the speaker
to the proper committees without their
being read.
Senator Hoagland, of Lincoln county,
has a bill that makes it unlawful for any
body to lobby in Lincoln. It provides that
anyone who asks a legislator to use his
vote or influence for or against a bill in
the state capital other than by petition,
shall be subject to a tine and imprison
ment. The bill was drawn m response to
a petition signed by a large number of
Hoagland’s constituents, who wanted the
fine made $10,000 and the imprisonment
fixed at five years in the penitentiary.
For a second offense, they asked that the
violator be deprived of the right to vote
or to hold office.
Sunday Baseball Passes.
The senate this morning referred to
the judiciary committee for burial the
resolution to submit the question of
university removal to a popular refer
endum.
The bill legalizing Sunday baseball,
but prodivlng that the law may be sus
pended in communities where It is not
desired, passed the senate by a vote of
24 to 8. Twenty-two votes were neces
sary to carry it with the emergency
clause.
Appointments.
Governor Morehead this morning ap
pointed Dr. M. WV Baxter as superin
tendent and N. O’Mera as stewart of the
state Insane hospital at Hastings. Bax
ter was superintendent and O’Mera,
farmer at the institution under the
Shallenberger administration.
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VOTING BY MAIL FOR
TRAVELERS’ CONVENIENCE
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 7.—The senate
has recommended for passage the
Bartling bill permitting voting by mail.
It provides that traveling salesmen,
railroad employes and others whose
business takes them away from home,
may cast their ballots at any place
where they may be in the state and
have the same sent to their home pre
cinct for inclusion in the official count.
The senate also recommended for
passage the Smith bill, which is aimed
at the bridge trust. It provides that
all county boards must obtain the plans
for all bridges from the state engineer,
that these plans must be uniform and
that all bids must be asked on these.
A bill by Dodge of Douglas providing
that no person under 21 years of age
shall work in distilleries, breweries, sa
loons or barrooms or be employed as
night messengers between 10 p. m. and
5 a. m. was recommended for passage
after reference to distilleries and brew
eries was eliminated.
The county telephone bill came up
before the house during the afternoon
session yesterday upon motion of
Mockett to recommit for specific
amendment. He wanted the bill
amended so as to provide that where a
county elects to go into the telephone
business a fair method of taking over
existing plants may be devised, in or
der to prevent duplication. Mockett
mustered 46 votes for it to 44 against,
but as it required 51 to carrv his mo
tion it was lost and the bill went to
third reading.
Simple Life for Teachers.
School teachers in Nebraska will
have to walk the straight and narrow
path if the bill Introduced by Senator
Hummel, a Webster county farmer, is
passed. His bill declares that any
school teacher who uses profane lan
guage, smoke cigarets. drinks beer,
whisky or wine, or uses cocaine, mor
phine, opium or other opiate, may have
his license to teach taken away from
him.
Senator McFarland introduced a bill
providing that any hotel or restaurant
keeper may serve liquor with a 50-cent
meal. This is for the benefit of the
meal dealers of Omaha who chafe un
der the present restrictions of the
statutes.
for grain shipments at their own ex
pense be indefinitely postponed. A fight
is expected on the measure.
The state board of health is asking
the legislature for power to regulate
the sanitary conditions of city water
works. Two years ago. when Lincoln
had a typhoid epidemic the secretaries
of the board were much peeved because
the council did not ask their aid. While
they sat around nursing their wounded
dignity, the city council hired an ex
pert. who found the source of trouble
and cleared it up.
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES j
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MADISON—Mrs. Sadie M. Nix. wife of
James A. Nix, has filed divorce proceed
ings In the district court of Madl9on coun
ty against her husband. Mrs. Nix alleges
in her petition that her husband has de
serted her and that notwithstanding he
received a salary of $160 a month as con
ductor on the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad he has refused to furnish her sup
port. She prays for the restoration of her
former name of Sadie M. Beymer.
SCHUYLER—One hundred and twenty
representative Colfax county farmers in
mass convention in the city hall here or
ganized a co-operative elevator company
Sixty-eight have already become share
holders and they have elected these direc
tors. Frank Krejci, Joseph Mates, J. H.
Costello, William Shoultz, Joseph Jonan.
The company will immediately erect an
elevator in Schuyler and deal in grain,
bogs and later coal.
GRAND ISLAND—At the coming elec
tion the voters will pass on the question
of selling the municipal electric light and
power plant to the privately owned plant.
E. B. Sunny, of Chicago, owns the latter
and has offered the city $26,000 to go out
of competition. Ten years ago the city
started its service and cut the rate. Sun
ny met the reduction and has gone one
cent better on his service with every
change by the city.
FREMONT—Mrs. Charles West, who
has conducted a boarding house at Fre
mont college for many years, was found
dead on the floor in the kitchen at her
home by Mr. West, upon his return from
a trip uptown. When Mr. West left an
hour earlier, his wife seemed to be in the
best of health. Funeral services were
held under the auspices of the Congrega
tional church at 2 o’clock this afternoon.
AURORA—Word has been received here
of a $400 theft of automobile tires, two fur
overcoats and other automobile supplies
from the John Butler garage at Hampton,
eight miles east of here. Marshal Gulick
has had his bloodhounds on the trail, but
with no results. Deputy Sheriff Powell
has been working on the case and all tho
surrounding towns have been notified, but
no trace of the thieves has been found.
OMAHA—Because his sweetheart re
fused to have.anything further to do with
him, Carl Nielsen shot himself over the
heart and Is dying at St. Joseph’s hos
pital. Nielson had been very attentive to
Miss Myrtle Carpenter, who lives in the
same neighborhood. Nielson told Police
Surgeon Foltz, who attended him, that it
was because of the coldness of the girl
that he attempted his life.
WAYNE-The Wayne District Dental
society held Its annual meeting at Wake
field last Wednesday. No regular program
was given, but matters of Interest were
discussed in an informal manner. It was
decided at the next meeting to have a reg
ular program Including clinics. A dozen
dentists from Crofton, Emerson, Laurel,
Wakefield, Wausa, Wayne and Pender
were present.
WAUSA—On the Butterfield ranches
near Osmond and Wausa, two immense
stave silos have been constructed, the in
vention of George D, Butterfield, of Nor
folic. Notwithstanding the fact that these
silos are constructed of ordinary stave
material, their first year’s service has
proved them In every way one of the best
containers of sjlage in the vicinity.
LINCOLN—W. L. Miner, deputy state
auditor who has been attempting for sev
eral weeks past to obtain a successor as
postmaster at Morrill, has notified the
postoffice department that he would turn
the office over on February 8. If no suc
cessor Is chosen by that time, the office
will have to be conducted by a representa
tive of the postoffice department.
CLAY CENTER-Miss Pearl Leopold,
of this place, met with a serious accident
Monday morning while driving into the
country, where she was teaching. An
automobile driven by a garage man of this
place passed her on the road, scaring her
horse. Miss Leopold was thrown out and
received several bruises. The buggy was
badly damaged.
OMAHA—The House of Hope, under the
management of Rev. Charles W. Savidge,
has closed Its accounts for last year. All
bills have been met and the records show
that 85,014.24 was paid out during 1912.
This Includes all expenses for fuel, food
and light; In fact, everything attached to
the institution. Thirty persons were cared
foe.
LYONS—The Willard Robbins auction
sale of Duroc bred sows was a success,
the average price being the highest of any
sale in the state this season. Thirty-six
brood sows averaged 841 a head, the high
est selling for 860. A number of choice
milch cows averaged 863 a head, the high
est bringing 892.60.
UEHLING—The little son of Mr. and
Mra Harvey Ijirson was dangerously
scalded by pulling the plug from a wash
ing machine containing boiling 'water. The
water ran over the child's body. A trained
nurse lias been attending the unfortunate
little one and two physicians have been
handling the case.
NORFOLK—Henry Benner, aged 18, was
shot In the head with a .22-caliber rifle
by his 9-year-old brother Fred at Elgin
Neb. The boys were playing soldier with
a rifle they believed was not loaded. Fred
undertook to demonstrate how they do It
In the Balkans. Hejiry was hurried to an
Omaha hospital.
FREMONT—The Fremont Turnverin
will send a team to the Turnerbund in
Denver next June and preparations are
now going forward for the trip. Fremont
has one of the oldest and best Turnverin
organizations in the west and has carried
off honors at meets In Kansas City and
St. Joseph.
OGALALLA—A fatal outbreak of what
veterinarians say they believe to be an
apopletic form of anthrax Is killing cattle
by scores in western Nebraska. Andrew
Tuckman, a ranchman, living 25 miles
north of here, between Wednesday and
Saturday, has lost 62 head of his herd of
300.
CRETE—A coroner's jury in the case of
Mrs. J. Bemls, who was killed by an au
tomobile driven by Clements Seldhoff
found the death an accident. It is likely
the case will be settled by payment of
damages to the family. Seldhoff has been
prostrated since the accident.
FONTANELLE—Four hundred farmers
participated in a big coyote hunt north
of this place. Six coyotes were "rounded
up” but the south line proved weak and
all but one of the animals broke through.
The one was killed.
NORTH BEND—The congregation of the
First Christian church at its annual meet
ing extended an invitation for Rev. E. O.
Sweaney to remain another year. Rev.
Mr. Sweaney accepted the call.
SEWARD—In a suit by the heirs of Jane
E. Douglas to set aside a legacy of stock
in the First National bank of this city and
a small tract of land to the Congrega
tional church. Judge Good decided that
the bequest should st^nd as long as the
church carries out the conditions of the
will.
ST. PAUL—Richard Ixtrenz. a mem
ber of the German consulate in St.
Paul, has received a golden cross from
Emperor William IL, of Germany, in
token of his elevation to membership
In the Knights of the Older of the
Pruss' "
UNION PACIFIC AGENT '
MURDERED BY BULLET
SHOTTHROUGH WINDOW
Railroad Detective Believes
Crime Was Commited to
Wipe Out Grudge.
Kearney. Neb., Feb. 7.—George A.
Hood, Union Pacific agent at Miller,
Neb., was shot and almost instantly
killed some time Tuesday night by ar.
unknown assassin. Hood was working
over his books at his desk some time
before 10 o'clock on the night of the
killing when some one fired a shot
from a .32-caliber pistol through a
window, the bullet striking the agent
in the neck, severing the jugular vein
and taking an upward course, lodged
in the left side of the neck. The badly
wounded agent managed to drag him
self to the door of the station and
about 100 feet beyond, where he fell
in the street and expired. He was
found by H. G. Buel and E. Fairchild
In the early morning. The body was fp
partially covered with snow which had
fallen after the crime was committed.
No apparent cause for the crime
could be determined by officers who
took charge of the case immediately.
No attempt had been made to enter
the station after the agent was shot
and his clothes had not been rifled. It
is the assumption that the assassin
bore the man a grudge, and that such
will be found to be the only motive
when the murderer has been appre
hended.
Hood was a single man and bore a
good reputation among Union Pacific
employes. He had been connected with
the line for several years as agent on
different branches of the western divi
sion.
The police were as much at sea after
the post mortem held in the afternoon,
no new facts being gleaned that might
clear the mystery. A reward will bo
pffered for the apprehension of the
murderer and the county officers
working in conjunction with Union
Pacific detectives will follow every
available clew.
Young Hood was engaged to be mar
ried to Miss Morcross, of Miller, but a
possible difficulty in the matter of love
was proven out of the question at the
inquest.
Ir. the opinion of John C. Vizzard of
Omaha, Union Pacific chief special
agent, who is conducting a search for
the slayer, robbery was not the motive
that prompted the killing.
Mr. Vizzard was loth to even hazard
an opinion as to the probable cause
for the murder, but he did admit that
he expected to disclose where a grudge
was wiped out with the shot that killed
Hood. Mr. Vizzard would not mention
any names In connection with the
crime.
Asked whether he believed a woman
might be mixed in the case. Mr. Viz
zard said he was not in a position just
yet to say.
r IGH riNG FUR SHAHt
OF $25,000 REWARD
Omaha, Neb., Peb. 7.—Judge T. C.
Munger has taken up the trial of the
Union Pacific train robbery reward
rase in federal court, and is refereeing
the efforts of some 25 lawyers who are
representing about 40 claimants for
various portions of the $25,000 reward.
The plaintiffs include the bunch of
South Omaha police officers who ac
tually made the arrests, the Brown
Park school principal who notified
them, the school children who found
the disguises and weapons hidden by
the bandits, and practically every im
portant witness who was called at the
trial to testify against the robbers.
It was announced by the court that,
the first question to be decided was
with reference to the standing of the
police officers who made the arrest, or
were closely identified with It, as to
whether this was not a part of their
official duties and did not put them en
tirely outside the reward, or whether
the arrest brought them in for all of
it. That matter will first be settled, N
and after that the relative claims of
the other plaintiffs will be considered.
That the problem is a rather complex
one is admitted by all the contending
attorneys, and they are unable to figure
out whether the case is liable to take A
a couple of days or a couple of weeks. f
The Union Pacific is now only cas
ually interested in the outcome, as it
succeeded in bringing into court in a
suit of interpleader about every indi
vidual who could possibly conjure up
a claim to any part of the reward, and
then washed its hands of the whole af
fair by paying the $25,000 into court,
and telling the various claimants to
"go to it."
PERISHED IN RIGGING
OF "FORTUNE” AT SEA
Humphrey, Neb., Feb. 7.—Mrs. J. C.
Graves of Humphrey wired Congress
man Dan Stephens at Washington re
garding a report of the loss of the
ship "Fortune” on which her brother
was an officer. She received yester
day'' the following wire from Mr.
Stephens:
“Deeply regret to report that John
son and Winsote authorize the state
ment that C. E. Matzky died from ex
posure in the rigging of the lost
steamer. Body was not recovered.
Letters follow from Johnson and Win
sote giving all available particulars.
Please accept my sincere sympathy."
Mr. Matzky was an officer on the
ship which sailed from Tampa, Fla.,
on December 26 for New York. He had
been married but a few weeks before
to a Spanish woman in Havana, Cuba,
and was expected on his return south
to come west to visit relatives.
ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT
OF NEBRASKA G. A. R.
Fremont. Neb,, Feb. 6.—The annual
encampment of the G. A. R. of Ne
braska will be held in Fremont May
21 and 22. At a meeting of local G.
A. R. members with the W. R. C.
and Ladies of the G. A. R. and Fre
mont Commercial club, preliminary
plans were laid for entertaining 1,200
persons. Owing to Fremont’s limited
hotel cnpaeity, it will be necessary to
secure rooms for many of the visitors
in Fremont homes. The Larson the
ater, Wail theater and possibly one or
more of the churches will be used *or
the several sessions. Department Com
mander N. W. King, of Geneva, of
the G. A. R.; Mrs. Ellen Ackerman,
head of the W. R. C.. and Mrs. Corn
Kidder, president of the Ladies of the
G. A. R., were present to offer sug
gestions.
2REELEY COUNTY LETS
COURT HOUSE CONTRACT
Greeley Center, Neb., p’eb. 6.—The
loard of county commissioners today
iwarded the contract to build the new
165,000 court house for which bonds
were voted last fall. Olson & Son, of
,oup City, were the successful bidders
for the general contract. Kelley & Cole.
•>[ Grand Island, were awarded the
contract for plumbing. The awarding
if the other contracts will be post- «
aor.ed until later date. Home 50 or 1
•nore contractors representing various '
firms were present at the bidding. Work
will be, commenced on the building at
’an early date